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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

If Last Week Tonight did a 34-minute segment on me, I would simply go into hiding and never return.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 1d

Thomas Pynchon is truly one of the great literary prophets newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified

Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

Why do people keep bringing a spork to a gunfight

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
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i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 22h

Besides the obvious (Cicero, Lucretius, Tacitus, Petrarca, Dante, Galileo, Da Vinci, Botticelli, Beccaria, Fibonacci, Bruno, Verdi, Vivaldi, Puccini, Torricelli, Malpighi, Volta, Avogadro, Golgi, Peano, Pareto, Fermi, Calvino, Eco, Montessori, Pigliucci), how about Aldo Capitini?

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 23h

You thought the Not HBO/Yes HBO Max rebrand-and-retro-re-rebrand was pointless, and Apple said, "I want in, too!"

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about how desperate Trump and his people are trying to depict America as a hellish wasteland, and how that ties into his larger desire to be both creator and audience of violent content.

The Gorilla Channel: Rewriting Reality for Trump

How the Trump Administration seeks to rewrite reality for an audience of one.

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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 23h

Didn't the Falcon & Winter Soldier show vaguely gesture at going through the motions of pretending to maybe hint at something like therapy?

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Jupiter ♃ @tempestarubida.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I'm just calmly stating my opinion that TERFs shouldn't be allowed to participate in civil society.

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

It was not very long ago that I learned this (not that I was excused what he did, I was more than fine judging him on the morals of today), so I think it bears repeating often:

Even in his day Christopher Columbus was considered a bloodthirsty and cruel monster.

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Did all these jabronis hop in a group chat and agree that their critics can't tell the difference between the Saudi people and the Saudi government?

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 1d

Cummings accused those upset with her participation in the Saudi Arabian event of ignorance and hypocrisy.

www.avclub.com/whitney-cumm...

Whitney Cummings calls critics of Riyadh Comedy Festival "racist"

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 1d

“It’s like Orson Welles said: the worst thing that ever happened to filmmaking was the homage… I want to see something that’s new when I walk into a movie theater.”

A sharp talk between Mary Bronstein and @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social on IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU.

Discomfort Watch: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You writer-director Mary Bronstein on existential breakdowns and hamster horror shows • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

As her psychological dramedy If I Had Legs I’d Kick You hits theaters, writer-director Mary Bronstein chats with Marya E. Gates about embracing chaos, rejecting comfort and the resilience of rodents (...

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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 23h

Cue obligatory Middle-Uranus joke.

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Witney Seibold: Shock and Terror @witneyseibold.bsky.social · 1d

If there's a Middle-Earth, are there Middle other planets? Could Middle-Earth be invaded by aliens from Middle-Mars?

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 23h

truly upsetting how much time and effort goes into distilling an idea into a single sentence. but that’s also why writing rules.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

Seattle's dreadful mayor just suggested we make a computer-generated Dr. Martin Luther King, and of any question he could ask it, THIS was the first thing that came to mind:

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

"And you could say, Well, Dr. Martin Luther King, I've always wanted to meet you. What was your day like today? What did you have for breakfast? And he comes back and he talks to you. How cool would that be if we have a series of historical figures that we all could agree on, that we respect?"

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Phil Edwards - Live for Films @liveforfilms.bsky.social · 2d

A conversation with John Higgs, author of the book Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who at the Liverpool Literary Festival.

www.liverpool.ac.uk/literary-fes...

Use the code FESTIVALFRIEND for 10% discount

#DoctorWho #JohnHiggs #book #Liverpool #festival

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Danny Bowes @dannybowes.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the news, deeply resenting every script note I've ever gotten about something being "over the top," "lacking subtlety," "villains with unrealistic motivations," etc

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

A great thread that helps explain why I felt automatic revulsion at the latest Star Trek show looking like this:

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 2d

Grandpa: I sent your grandma 57 handwritten love letters from the western front and she finally agreed to marry me when I returned from the war

Me: the computer told me to say "I had a good time last night" to this girl but it didn't work for some reason

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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José Pablo Iriarte @labyrinthrat.bsky.social · 2d

Usman: It's crazy to think about all these great authors like Poe and Melville who died in poverty.

Me: Well to be fair, so will we.

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Why I don't get invited to more parties.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

I am once again begging filmmakers to start lighting their night scenes again. Moonlight and starlight are both available, as are torches, campfires, and any number of plausible light sources! What I'm watching right now may as well be a podcast

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll take a flawed work that comes from an artists true passion (which Gunn so clearly has for Peacemaker and the DCU in general) then whatever the hell Marvel has been doing the last half decade every single time.

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

2025 Winner of the Community Award: Authors Against Book Bans

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d

The Ember Award for Unsung Contributions to Genre goes to @soniasulaiman.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

2025 Winner The Ember Award: Sonia Sulaiman

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Eugen Bacon

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