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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 3h

FYI.

And if you haven't seen it, you should. It's a good'un, as we used to say back on the farm.

Kate Reilly @katereilly.bsky.social · 4h

Our film, Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down 夜香・鴛鴦・深水埗, will leave Hong Kong Netflix on October 27! If you've been meaning to watch it as part of an all-you-can-eat experience, and don't need English subtitles, this is your last chance. If you do need English subtitles ...

The final poster for Hong Kong film Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down 夜香・鴛鴦・深水埗

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Anne C. Serling @anneserling.bsky.social · 6h

www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

Remembering 'The Twilight Zone' creator Rod Serling

It's been 50 years since the Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer died. But watching reruns of The Twilight Zone confirms that the themes Serling tackled remain relevant.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 12h

'"Too pop to be experimental? too quirky for ’80s pop?…they probably make a lot more sense now than they did then’".

R.I.P. Véronique Vincent of Aksak Maboul and The Honeymoon Killers

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Véronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul
Ex-Futur Album [The Unfinished Avant-Pop Album/1980-1983] cover.

The Honeymoon Killers – Les Tueurs De La Lune De Miel album cover.

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 11h

Note: that should be "frog suit", not "frig suit", which is an entirely different kind of suit, and requires a very different strategy for mace penetration. If you see what I'm saying. And I think you do.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

It's long been clear that Hamas offered to release all the Israeli hostages that it took 48 hours after the events of Oct 7, if Israel would agree not to invade Gaza. Netanyahu responded "no." He also decided that the Israeli people didn't need to know the substance of his discussions with Hamas.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 17h

Also those are bagels

Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

This photo is not from recent anti-deportation protests in Portland, Oregon. The image is more than a decade old and can be geolocated to Toronto, Canada. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 17h

This is delightfully surreal -- not least because it looks like the cops actually did some recon to figure out how to mace a dude in an inflatable frog suit. Or maybe they've always known that. Imagine the training session. "How to mace a guy in a frig suit" and the cadets are like GTFO.

Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 18h

'Frog' protester recounts being pepper-sprayed at protest outside Portland ICE facility youtube.com/shorts/g0kt6...

'Frog' protester recounts being pepper-sprayed at protest outside Portland ICE facility

YouTube video by KATU News

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.

Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
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Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia.
He cannot be deported to Ghana.
This has been directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities.
In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded.
Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

@eff.org confirms a Tx LEO used license plate surveillance to look for a woman whose "romantic partner" (later charged w/DV against her) reported self-managed abortion.

The concerned sheriff is currently indicted on (unrelated, technically) sexual harassment charges.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Johnson County Sheriff Adam King repeatedly denied the automated license plate reader (ALPR) search was related to enforcing Texas's abortion ban, and Flock Safety called media accounts "false," "misleading" and "clickbait." However, according to a sworn affidavit by the lead detective, the case was in fact a death investigation in response to a report of an abortion, and deputies collected documentation of the abortion from the "reporting person," her alleged romantic partner. The death investigation remained open for weeks, with detectives interviewing the woman and reviewing her text messages about the abortion.

That sheriff has since been arrested and indicted on felony counts in an unrelated sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation case. He has also been charged with aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury. EFF filed public records requests with Johnson County to obtain a more definitive account of events.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Immigration raids in Nashville have made crime victims afraid to cooperate with police and seek counseling.

tennesseelookout.com/2025/10/08/i...

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 18h

The first time I read this, I liked it, but felt it was too dated. I thought Windrip only got away with as much as he did because there was no TV or internet then. I thought the visual impact of both technologies would make his takeover harder.

Boy was I wrong.

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

"It Can't Happen Here" is a 1935 dystopian novel by Sinclair Lewis that explores the rise of a fascist leader, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, in a fictionalized version of the United States. The story serves as a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and the potential for authoritarianism to take hold in America.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 22h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Framed - One Frame Challenge #312
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Not a bad film, but not as good as everyone says. If indeed anyone says that.

Framed - One Frame Challenge

Guess the movie from a single frame. Every guess reveals more of the frame. Come back each day to see if you can guess the movie!

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Framed #1309
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Not a good film, but not as bad as everyone says.

Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

“In the past year, Miss Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite serious threats against her life, she has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions. When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.”

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Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just the US that is shutting down foreign language programs and funding. We are dismantling the tower of babel with our own hands and replacing it with the broken toaster of automatic translation.

Chinese Universities Abandon English Departments Amid Policy Changes and AI Disruption – Chinascope

English departments, once among the most popular programs at Chinese universities, are facing widespread closures across the country. Multiple factors including government policies, AI advancement, an...

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

"Build consensus" is a term which here means "report only public opinions that support us to make it look like no one disagrees with us".

But yeah, this has been the vision for some time – the role of HK media is to support everything the govt says, and vehemently denounce anyone who doesn't.

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 1d

Zhou Ji, head of Beijing’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong outlined 3 “key hopes” for local media:
• focus on national development
• reflect public opinions & build consensus
• promote a positive image of China to the world,

i.e., become a propaganda arm for Beijing

www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Beijing’s liaison office chief in Hong Kong lays out 3 hopes for local media

Director Zhou Ji also encourages media professionals to convey public’s views while helping to build social consensus.

www.scmp.com

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. A lot will depend on the IT load capacity of the data centre (which DSD doesn't mention), which isn't always proportionate to sq metres. Some DC projects in Asia are being paired with renewable energy deployments to make them sustainable. Whether HK will do that is an open question.

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 1d

I took the challenge and asked AI how much power this data centre in the Northern Metropolis might use - given Hong Kong is sweating through a record-breaking Autumn, it's going to need a lot of air con... and how much water will it be sourcing?

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

All of these are more likely than him winning.

I've heard some suggestions that the Nobel committee will give it to him just to shut him up. Even if they do, I don't think that would work. He'll complain that it took them so long, and then he'll expect one every year.

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 1d

The forecast is for tantrum... the online cabal of digital news folk worldwide are placing bets on how it will manifest. A thousand words of complaint on TruthSocial? Special tariffs for Norway? I'm backing the dark horse - Fox News campaigns with Turning Point USA to create their OWN peace prize

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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