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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 4h

Oh yeah that's a good one too :D

dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 4h

Filmspotting podcast was talking about Josh O'Connor's versatility as an actor and one of them referred to 'the dim American womanizer he played in CHALLENGERS' so I have changed my display name in honor of Patrick Zweig

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 4h

The Vincent Price one?

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 4h

never did i imagine that the great intellectual challenge of our time would be answering the question "who was president on January 6, 2021"

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 4h

'King Salmon'

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12h

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

What an incredible experience, getting to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I left feeling grateful and humbled by his majesty's generosity. I'll never forget this memorial experience and all the fun we had. Hope to do it again soon.

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 4h

(The original premise of BC was 'Discussing The Phantom Menace as though they didn't know other Star Wars movies existed')

dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 5h

He better have gotten to meet Roger!

tennis news robot @tennisnewsrobot.bsky.social · 5h

Valentin Vacherot: First-time winner spotlight - ATP

Valentin Vacherot: First-time winner spotlight | ATP Tour | Tennis

Valentin Vacherot discusses the significance of his title run, journey to this point and much more after winning Shanghai...

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 5h

Ben Shapiro is SO CLOSE to getting it.

“It has the subtlety of a brick … The basic suggestion is a conspiracy theory in which the United States is run by white supremacist Christian nationalists and all people of color and a few nice incompetent fellow travelers like [DiCaprio’s character] are going to take on that entire system. And that system must be taken on at the cost of family, at the cost of friendship, at the cost of decency, at the cost of basic human capacity for success. It is better, in other words, to be a complete loser who wastes your life bombing things randomly in order to free illegal immigrants to run willy-nilly across the border than to be a productive citizen.”

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 5h

Putting on the Maron episode of Blank Check.

Griffin: when we started this podcast we had a different premise.

Maron: same here

Griffin continues, must be SO GLAD MM didn't ask what the original premise was

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 5h

I'm gonna say this again, I haven't heard anyone on the left (much less a 'liberal') use antifa unironically since about 2017, IF then, so I don't feel like liberals walked into a trap, the right effectively did this on their own and we're acting like 'liberals' caused the problem

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 17h

To this day no one has been able to convince me that the phrase ANTIFA wasn’t coined by a right wing think tank to make liberal activists sound like a terror group and that liberals walked right into the trap and gave the right the villains it needed for their narrative.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 20h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 6h

it’s because America is like 5 seconds from calling them freedom fries, the Francophones have the mandate of heaven

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 6h

Such depth at the top of WTA right now.

Tennis Updates @tennisupdates.bsky.social · 7h

This Years WTA 1000 Champions:

Doha: Amanda Anisimova
Dubai: Mirra Andreeva
Indian Wells: Mirra Andreeva
Miami: Aryna Sabalenka
Madrid: Aryna Sabalenka
Rome: Jasmine Paolini
Canada: Victoria Mboko
Cincy: Iga Swiatek
Beijing: Amanda Anisimova
Wuhan: Coco Gauff

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 6h

For most of the year, the story around Coco Gauff has been her struggles with her serve, her confidence, her forehand, etc., and yet her she is, winning the Wuhan 1000, holding the Roland Garros title, ranked a strong no. 3. If this is "struggling Coco," "locked-in Coco" will be unstoppable.

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 6h

Atmane, too. Something going on with the Francophones

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, we should for sure be mindful of language but there's no perfect that's going to work on people who are fundamentally fine with racism and fascism.

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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 20h

Nothing more Harvard than for these professors to think the solution is “inform the New York Times” rather than “give the students lower grades.”

NYT push alert reading: Harvard's Campus Culture
Students who skip class and fail to do the reading still get high grades, a group of professors say. Now, they are trying to change the culture.

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 19h

People specifically will say they dislike the phrase 'antiracism' though

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 19h

Real question, have people been calling themselves antifa in the last 5 years?

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 20h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 23h

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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R. Wm. "Ruedii" 🦊🐧 🥖 @rwruedii.bsky.social · 1d

If someone is suffering from an drug overdose you shouldn't throw them in a jail cell either.

WTF is wrong with these police?!

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 20h

Right? If he was having a drug reaction he still needed medical attention!

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

just in case it wasn’t clear: when you stigmatize drug use you not only dehumanize people, but *also* make it harder for ppl to get medical attention for things that are not drugs

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 3d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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dim american womanizer @carriempruett.bsky.social · 1d

The way Roger Federer has an instagram that's just like 50 percent advertisements for the concept of Roger Federer

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Ground Pass Podcast - A Tennis Podcast @groundpass.bsky.social · 1d

Valentin Vacherot just gave a masterclass on how you handle pressure and you play a man and not a reputation. FINALLY, this season someone has done it! If the rest of the ATP is not watching they better be.
#RolexShanghaiMasters 🎾

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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