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Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 13h

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix have announced plans to form a new stop motion studio that will be both a studio and a school to push the medium forward and will develop plans to make Del Toro's next stop motion project after Pinocchio. I'm very hyped to see what this leads to!

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Eric Ansley Díaz @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 5h

I saw this at SDCC, but now it’s on YouTube. I can’t get over how perfect the music is. Lestat has just enough Bowie/Hedwig/T.Rex to sound how I always imagined. And not like fucking Korn. Also since the SDCC version they’ve added Lestat’s maker Magnus #TheVampireLestat youtu.be/dr0q5FHUO1E

Extended First Look at The Vampire Lestat ft. Sam Reid | Premieres 2026 | AMC+

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h

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.

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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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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14h

I'm surprised no one has invented hostess clubs in the West because that is essentially the same model

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 19h

The latest from Young Men Research Initiative: Young men are increasingly using OnlyFans to have someone to talk to

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Young Men Use OnlyFans for More than Just Porn

How the pay-per-view site is becoming an emotional support system

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1d

Frogtifa

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 14h

The frogs have landed in Chicago! (2025)

YOU ARE NOT

ALONE IN THIS

ABYSSAL DARKNESS.

I AM HERE, AND WE

SHALL FACE THE

CHASM AS

BROTHERS.

Here comes that fellow
"My goodness, how do you do?"

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 23h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 17h

masked state paramilitaries arresting journalists in broad daylight but the front page is for Musk's new robot or some other fucking bullshit

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 17h

What’s the difference between violence and “ultraviolence”?

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 17h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 17h

Favorite gialli:
The House with Laughing Windows
The Psychic/Seven Notes in Black
Deep Red
Don't Torture a Duckling
A Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Blood and Black Lace
Autopsy
Five Dolls for an August Moon
A Blade in the Dark
The Killer is Still Among Us

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

One answer is to look at the data. After the launch of GPT-5 in August, some thought that A.I. had hit a plateau. Expert analysis suggests this isn’t true. GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch.

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 18h

Taking a 4 day weekend while Trump invades peaceful cities with deadly force 👇👇👇

Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 18h

Instead of working with Democrats to protect health care and reopen the government, Republicans are continuing to double down on their strategy of inflicting maximum pain on the American people.

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White House Starts Mass Layoffs of Government Workers

OMB chief Russell Vought made the announcement on social media as the shutdown continued.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 18h

Looking forward to you reading it!:)

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Philby Bear @philbybear.bsky.social · 18h

4. Photographing Fairies (dir. Nick Willing, 1997).

I want to thank @gemmafiles.bsky.social for even informing me of this film's existence. I don't think I would have caught it, otherwise, because I think bloody everyone slept on this.

It's a wonderfully strange fantasy of obsession.

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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 21h

When God closes a door He opens a window. This drives me NUTS. Terrible roommate. The electric bill is outrageous. There's a bird's nest in the bathroom

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Maisaa & Fam 💗 @lona90.bsky.social · 1d

We have reached this moment, when the ceasefire is about to be announced. The war will soon end, and we will begin a new good life. This will only be achieved with your support for our new fundraiser
Please support us to pay for food, drink, and winter clothes 🙏🫂
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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · Jun 17

What strikes me most upon every rewatch of Fulci's singular gothic nightmare CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980) is the acute fear that death might not be permanent, that life like the past is a state of recurrence, of suppressed resurface that can be cruel, bestial & anything but peaceful.

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · Jun 16

#Junesploitation DAY 16: 80s COMEDY

ENCOUNTER OF THE SPOOKY KIND (1980), Sammo Hung

Hung spoofs the night fantastic as "Big Guts," a Scooby-Who hoodwinked into a series of supernatural showdowns, the last of which he completes in a halter top before punching his wife so hard she takes flight.

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 20h

Thinking about Giallo.

My top 5:

Deep Red
The House With Laughing Windows
Bird With The Crystal Plumage
The Psychic
Torso

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sama'a needs our help to feed and clothe her small children, who depend on her for everything. Please give what you can

Samaa🍉🍉🍉 @samaa1329.bsky.social · 1d

Little Talia was only two weeks old when we moved into the tents The sun was burning her skin and she٥٥ had been crying since morningYour donations will help Talia and my family get food,water and medical treatment Thank you Donate and help spread the word
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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 20h

love to be uncovering a long hidden child's drawing or fresco portraying a mysterious atrocity in a decrepit and abandoned manor by candlelight while furtive sounds of movement get closer and closer to my position

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 20h

Fascism demands to be taken seriously and to be feared. That makes mockery a powerful tool. Is it how you "beat" fascism? I wouldn't go that far. But inflatable Reptar has surely poked a clearer hole in the story the White House is telling that the Democratic Party's multimillion dollar comms shops.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 20h

Heba needs a tent and would be grateful to anyone who can help out even a little bit

gofund.me/8c5ac445b

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22h

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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