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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2h

I sometimes joke that I was trained by the jesuits.
As a punk rock dropout I met the bad-assed Michael Czerny who advised us about political organizing. He faced down death squads in El Salvador.
He married my wife and I.
He is the pope's right hand.
www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/meet-the-j...

Meet the Jesuit Cardinal Behind Pope Leo’s Social Justice Revolution

From drafting Leo's first apostolic exhortation to championing migrants and the planet, Cardinal Michael Czerny is shaping the moral heart of this papacy.

www.thelettersfromleo.com

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 25m

And then immediately lapse.

Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 26m

Just sitting her thinking how amazing it would be if he flew to Chicago without telling anyone and walked to the ICE facility with the cameras rolling.

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 30m

Speaking as an atheist: new favourite pope just dropped.

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 4h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 1h

These people are deeply unserious lmao

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 4h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 42m

I had just read his obit on FB. Her story and her attitude were quite something.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, who went viral on the "Humans of New York" account by sharing stories about her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970s, has died

A photo of Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, sitting down, holding a photo of herself

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Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 2h

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 57m

I did know all of this, but sometimes it's hard to remember everything. And of course there are people who don't know at all.

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 1h

This sort of thing needs to be printed and put in a wallet or pocket for the moment the mic is stuck in your face.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 12h

Blueprint

4 frame comic. an woman with grey hair and a yellow scarf is getting interviewed on the street. the interviewer asks : ma'am! what do you
think of the radical left
fearmongering that
we could someday see
fascism in the u.s.?
she replies :
dear
boy, the u.s. has
been a blueprint
for fascism all
along.
hitler specifically cited
jim crow, u.s. anti-miscege-
nation and white-only immi-
gration laws as inspiration
for his eugenics policies.
germany sent people to study
what was being done in the
u.s. to export it over there.
in the 30s, tens of thousands
of americans attended massive
rallies by fascist groups such as
the friends of new germany or
the german american bund.

then in the 40s, two dozen
congresspeople were charged with
sedition for planning a fascist
overthrow of the government.
and since wwII, the
amount of fascist groups
and militias has been
exponential.
not only can
fascism come to
the u.s., it has
always been an
inherent part
of american
society.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4h

Utterly disgusting and sadly very indicative of this shameful, current moment in our history.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 12h

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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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 12h

85% drop of American liquor sales to Canada.
We were their biggest market.
Now we're done.
Bye bye mon cowboy.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

www.cbc.ca

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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 12h

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds
🧪 #Scicomm #Nature
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds

Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones

knowablemagazine.org

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 5h

When Rod Phillips still did Edmonton Oilers games on the radio his reaction whenever the Oilers scored was often referred to as an Oilersgasm and I would not have had it any other way.

Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 5h

"Decades of mould exposure" is shorthand for "don't hire Witch and Demon Cleaning Services."

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 7h

Domino toppling meme; the tiny one at the beginning says “accidentally only studying captive wolves” and the end one says “grown men losing their shit about eating soy”

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 6h

Hoax, which I’m not sure is a shame or not. So many great lines.

Squats. “I only have eyes for you.”

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 7h

And weirdly, a sequel to a movie from when I was 19 might be thought of as something that should at least partly speak to me. But Disney doesn't think so.

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 7h

People in our age range tend to be the ones with nice home theatre setups. The younger crowd is satisfied, it seems, with laptops, phones, or in Brennan's case, a halfway-decent projector and computer speakers. But we're not the ones being targeted.

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 7h

I imagine the cost of tickets has something to do with it. And worse, if you’re visiting. New York is becoming something like a theme park for many families.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 13h

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 7h

...original movies, not based on earlier filmed IP or comic books. I mean, I enjoyed Superman and Thunderbolts and (kinda) Fantastic Four, thought the new Captain America was a dog's breakfast after regurgitation. But this year has felt sparkling and original, or had until Tron: Ares was released.

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 7h

I'm so tired of this insistence on going back to the well, again and again and again. Disney is especially guilty of it, and as of late so very badly. Give me some originality, make it well, push it the right way. 2025 is going to be a fave year for me because there have been so many excellent...

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Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social · 7h

I was 19 when Tron came out, saw it on the big screen and yeah, it was fun. But you know what else I saw in '82? ET, My Favorite Year, The Verdict, Tootsie, An Officer and a Gentleman, Diner, and a whole lot more, including some that spawned sequels (Blade Runner).

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

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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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 13h

Every year in Whitehorse they haul the floatplanes (the ones without wheels) out of the lakes etc and park them at the airport for winter.
Photos by Simon Blakesley Photography.

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