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Goofrider

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Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · Nov 10

A collection of starter packs for film nerds 🧵

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Nov 8

Welcome twitter exiles! It can be confusing here at first (but sooo much better). First thing is to find some of your old pals! We put together a starter pack last month of film critics, writers, creators and obsessives to help you get started. Add it and then go from there :) go.bsky.app/CsvD994

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Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · 51m

Lol

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Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · 1h

So is this

Framed - One Frame Challenge #314
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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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Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · 1h

This one is way too easy

Framed #1311
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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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Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · 5h

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9h

Estonia has closed the Saatse border crossing with Russia due to an unusually large Russian military presence on the other side. The Estonian Police and Border Guard (PPA) noted increased patrols and military movements that were much higher than normal, which were deemed beyond routine activities.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 10h

Keeennnnyyyyy got married!!!! www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

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Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · 8h

Was curious what else they have and… cabrón, ¡lo necesito ahorita!

An inflatable costume of the sad heart character from the cover of Bad Bunny's album Un Verano Sin Ti

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 12h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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Jane N @jdopinkie.bsky.social · 9h

We are amphifa

Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 12h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

“This immigration issue is a remnant of Subu’s original case. Since that wrongful conviction has now been officially vacated and all charges against Subu have been dismissed, we have asked the immigration court to reopen the case and consider the fact that Subu has been exonerated.”

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27909.bsky.social @27909.bsky.social · 14h

The silver lining for MAGA of the failed 2020/21 coup was that it revealed all the points in the system that prevented them from succeeding, and they and their allies have spent the last 5 years slowly buying, winning, or destroying each and every one of them

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Great Bloomberg coverage of the massive squeeze in silver
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(Bloomberg) -- The London silver market has been thrown into turmoil by a massive short squeeze, driving prices above $50 an ounce for only the second time in history and stirring memories of the billionaire Hunt brothers' notorious attempt to corner the market in 1980.
Benchmark prices in London have soared to near-unprecedented levels over New York. Traders described a market where liquidity has almost entirely dried up, leaving anyone short spot silver struggling to source metal and forced to pay crippling borrowing costs to roll their positions to a later date.
And the squeeze has become so dramatic that some traders have rushed to book slots in the cargo holds of transatlantic flights for bulky silver bars - an expensive mode of transport typically reserved for more valuable gold - to profit off the massive premiums in London.

Chart showing London silver bullion inventory

Chart of New York vs London silver futures

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Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · 1d

Framed #1310
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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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Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · 1d

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 1d

To Hong Kong where the impact of the film censorship laws implemented in 2021 can be seen. 13 films have been barred on national security ground (of 15 barred) vs zero under old rules and 104 required cuts to be allowed to be shown. Grim.
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HK bars 13 films from screening on nat. sec grounds since 2021 censorship law

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according t...

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 1d

To Thailand two pieces highlight Thai state complicity in transnational repression. One about Chinese political exile Zhou Junyi & Tan Yixiang a Uyghur/Tibetian advocate:
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Also a Australian was arrested on the behest of Malaysian gov't.
Really worrying cases.
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Thai authorities arrest Australian journalist over defamation allegations in Malaysia

The arrest of Murray Hunter in Bangkok over a Malaysian defamation case underscores Southeast Asia’s growing trend of cross-border political crackdowns.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Doing comms work for billionaires slowly melting their brains must be quite a job.

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · 1d

The only logical next step for them is to get a bouncy castle as their insurgency headquarters

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 1d

In just one day, @thebulwark.com posted pieces on both Charles Beaumont and Ramsey Campbell. I didn’t think that would be the publication that gave me my day’s readings in the uncanny, but color me pleasantly surprised. @fangoria.bsky.social and @ruemorguemag.bsky.social better watch their backs.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

An executive who cannot be removed but whose power is fenced in is one thing. An invulnerable executive whose power has expanded to encompass nearly all of daily life begins to look like a monarch with a defined term. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-wh...

Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like?

What if the Constitution *is* a suicide pact?

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