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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1h

wife’s great-grandmother made the paper in the best way

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 18h

Dave does great work.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: Is it good if your boss asks you to let them know if you get fired?

My latest from inside NOAA, EPA, elsewhere. Please sign up and subscribe to the new very reasonable paid tiers.

Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired

Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 18h

is this your living room

Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 18h

am I wrong in being a little annoyed by people talking about dumper’s 61st home run when it came during the playoffs and thus should be counted separately from the regular season ones

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 19h

hey: The Onion’s Jeff Epstein thing is funny

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 20h

oh The Chair Company embargo is up? cool. it rocks. Robinson, Kanin and DeYoung absolutely sustain the tension and absurdity of a ITYSL sketch for at least the first six episodes—the only ones I’ve watched so far. a deeper, richer, weirder work than the (also excellent) Friendship.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 20h

people love slideshows that are just walls of text, right?

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 23h

what are some songs with real dogs on them

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 23h

jesuisfrance.bandcamp.com/track/get-li...

Get Liberal, by Je Suis France

from the album Lets Give 'Em Something To Talk About

jesuisfrance.bandcamp.com

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Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 1d

Black and White: Tough Love At The Office looks at how male-dominated workplaces pit women against each other. Read @mads.haus on Sal Jiang's "toxic yuri" manga. www.endlessmode.com/article/in-t...

In ‘Toxic Yuri’ Manga Black and White, A Co-Worker’s Fist Feels Like A Kiss

Black and White: Tough Love At The Office looks at how male-dominated workplaces pit women against each other.

www.endlessmode.com

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

with apologies to Lex, OC is the true total package

Tom. @notthattomgreen.is.tired.fyi · 1d

Why ORANGE CASSIDY rules!

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

happy birthday friend

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

the too common “remake with one human and the muppets” prompt post is annoying but uh TCM is a solid answer to it

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

I try to keep things respectable around here but uh Karen Allen is the GOAT

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

how many movies use an un- (or barely) seen Dylan Folk City performance as a climactic metaphor for change (because The Wanderers does that shit)

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

about to do either this lumines arise demo or the new pac-man platformer (pac-former?)

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

also: both The Wanderers and John Sayles’ Baby It’s You, which I watched a few nights ago, use “Shout” and “Stand by Me”

Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Dolph Sweet is also in tonight’s movie, Philip Kaufman’s The Wanderers. turns out the Gimme a Break dad was a real good tough guy actor.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

New show on the Paramount Plus Channel imagines an alternate history where the Fabulous Thunderbirds achieved Taylor Swift levels of cultural heft. Starring the Fabulous Thunderbirds as themselves.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

can’t wait to watch Tuff Enuff

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

the one genuinely great thing about Tron is the Tron: Legacy pinball machine

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

people have some nostalgia for the original arcade game and the whole Tron aesthetics, the light cycle and disc stuff is cool, and young Jeff Bridges is charisma incarnate. they have parlayed that meager amount of goodwill into three failed movies and I dunno a cartoon or something? it’s nuts.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

it is not. it is the kind of bad story often turned into bad movies though.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

when is Kenan Thompson gonna play Donnie Moore in a movie

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1d

at least one of them lost

Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 4d

Dodgers vs. Phillies might be the most “can both teams lose” series ever

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