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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 2h

For some reason my brain keeps playing the opening strings of "The Barber of Seville" and then segueing immediately into "... and if our good fortune never comes, here's to whatever comes..." from Fiddler on the Roof. I mean, it's a solid transition, but why did my brain make it?

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Skai 🎃 🔜 NFC @skiaskai.bsky.social · 10h

Her.

Blondie Collie smiling with her hair up, wearing a maroon top with a diamond cut in the middle

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 2h

It occurs to me that one of the reasons the Republican Administration is so desperate to dismantle America's school system is that for every Democratic politician there are 25 Republican politicians who are forbidden by law to be within 500 feet of one.

Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 11h

I'll not even consider paying attention to anything Farage has to say about what happens in primary schools until *every* member of his party is legally allowed to be within 50ft of one

Nigel Farage says Britain's
eachers 'poisoning our kids' and
predicts a teachers' strike as PM
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 3h

The Bettys were a great example of this: Buck thought that leaning into Trek's sexism, its skimpy uniforms and so on, was funny. But Trek's sexism was already tired, and Trek itself had already tried to address it, so Buck was running that joke on thin fumes already.

Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 3h

I think it shows that Henry loved spy movies; he understood what made them tick, and what absurdities and weaknesses could be exploited for humor. But he didn't get Star Trek, wasn't steeped in SF's tropes, and couldn't judge good scenes from bad.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 3h

This was in a conversation about how the new shorts coming out of Warner Brothers don't understand what the originals were about. They're shallow and mean-spirited. Quark was, too. Quark's showrunner, Buck Henry, had previously been showrunner for Get Smart.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 3h

Omaha apparently has never seen Quark. She didn't remember it at all. I would be a cursed husband to sully her imagination with a watch of it, wouldn't I?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(...

Quark (TV series) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 3h

At the symphony tonight, after the finale and the applause, someone in the back shouted loudly, "IT'S OVER AND THE MARINERS WON!" And there was much rejoicing!

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 3h

The toilet-paper flimsy barrier stopping large corporations from steamrolling every brilliant student into surrendering their intellectual property just flashed into ash.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 3h

"There are seven working defenses from this position. Three of them disarm with minimal contact, three of them kill, one of them...

...hurts."

Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 4h

Mariners and Tigers in the 14th inning

Grizzled, beaten-up older Batman from The Dark Knight Returns; illustrated by Frank Miller, colored by Lynn Varley

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

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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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 3h

He didn't have to add "... a projectile." Just say "Your agents shot a priest." People have lost eyes, limbs, and lives from "rubber bullets."

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 6h

Did you know that the federal court system is hacked by the Russians? To the point that the courts are afraid to put documents into their own computer systems.

Exclusive: Chief Justice “Stonewalls Congress" on PACER Hack, Senator Says

The Courts sidestep a congressional request for independent review. Post-hack procedures have significantly reduced transparency in the judicial system.

www.courtwatch.news

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 5h

The original cartoons set up conflicts based on some real conflicts: Hunters hunt. Coyotes are hungry. Men are greedy. Rich people feel entitled.

Bugs exacted justice with his revenge. Daffy got comeuppance for hubris, not just mischief.

None of that was present in this short.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 5h

But it's genuinely ill-spirited from the beginning, as if informed by John Krickfalusi's work. It assumes Daffy and Porky hate each other and the audience already knows this.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 5h

"Wet Cement" is a series of visual gags in a bottle: the background never changes. Porky is laying some cement to repair a sidewalk and Daffy decides to leave a footprint. This escalates in ways you would expect.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 5h

I'm at the Seattle Symphony Pops, "Bugs Bunny in Concert." One thing they showed was a new cartoon, "Wet Cement." It shows that the writers now fundamentally misunderstand what made Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, and Friz Freleng great.

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 8h

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 6h

Today I learned about The Wabbit: bourbon, sweet vermouth, and raspberry syrup. Warner Brothers approved, even.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 6h

"We have strength, common sense and intelligence. ... We’re not going to take your child away and change the sex of your child."

That's the kind of bullshit the addled coot at the far end of the bar says after the way the world has changed unmoors him from reality.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 9h

During a meeting in the Oval Office, Donald Trump appeared to mock trans people in remarks made in front of Canadian PM Mark Carney, whose child is non-binary.
Read more: https://bit.ly/48VnfVV

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 10h

Anne Frank 2025

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 8h

My Little Pony is Dune fanfic?

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Mar 27

If you think about it, Paul's story in Dune just mirrors that of Twilight Sparkle as she discovers she's an Alicorn and becomes a reluctant princess.

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𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔟𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥 🩸 @trannieoakley.meangirls.online · 1d

the existence of one detrans mass shooter proves chloe cole is a terrorist

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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