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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 4h

We’ll see how it plays out. Publishers will get a windfall too, so they may just pay some of it out to stave off trouble.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve legit jumped at every scarecrow I’ve seen this year. They are way too realistic and human effigy-esque in this timeline. (Not to go JCO on Halloween about it.)

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 4h

Scarecrows are more frightening than clowns. Except for the one in the wizard of Oz. I don’t make the rules.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah. Only three of mine were (that were in the data set).

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 5h

This is the coolest thing I have ever heard

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 8h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 13h

"Wear a cool, interesting outfit. Black and white. Take a cool picture and just live your dream. Be your unique, interesting self. I think Diane would be really happy."

😭😭😭😭

don't forget the hat. 🥹

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Reese Witherspoon on Diane Keaton hiring her as a fresh-faced girl from Nashville. #RIP

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 19h

Awwww!

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Is Sally especially radiant or did she just get a new squeaky tennis ball?

Border collie long stride with blue tennis ball

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton is the reason my fourth grade school photo featured me wearing a sweater vest and one of my dad’s ties. Rest in peace, legend.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

As a former public health girl (communications), I feel this.

Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 1d

Desperately trying to distract myself but the shuttering of the CDC makes me feel like our collective chances of surviving this administration are evaporating. I *really* need governors to step up whatever state powers can be scraped together. Hell is coming. Hell is here.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

This -- seeing the books that are being targeted most NOW really makes what is being done hit harder. It actually undercuts the real threat to show books that are famous and still selling fine.

Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

A call to bookshops when setting up banned books displays. Feature alive authors who could be struggling due to this. Yes, Stephen King gets banned but he's doing ok financially. So many others are not.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Great news -- congrats, @jasonsanford.bsky.social!

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

(Obviously I was like NOT ONLY must I confirm this, but find proof ;)

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Not related, but tangential -- I recently wanted to watch an old courtroom drama and picked Runaway Jury and there's a random Beetlejuice nod to Winona Ryder's character

Runaway Jury Winona Ryder Lydia Deetz/Deets reference

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 3d

"Actually, too much direct sunlight will kill anyone. Ask a dermatologist."

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 6d

"I am not pro-vampire and I am not anti-vampire. I am just trying to have an objective discussion here without using loaded words like 'kill.'"

I Am Just Trying to Have a Civil Online Conversation About Vampires

Whoa there! That’s a pretty extreme claim. Surely you don’t mean to call ALL vampires “blood-sucking ghouls?” Have you ever donated to a blood bank...

buff.ly

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 2d

@ryannorth.ca I think Chompsky has a fan.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 2d

The thing that most people don't realize is that the deportation machine was already operating at capacity. No one, ever, was just allowing millions of undocumented immigrants into the country willy-nilly. That was mythology. The process to get legal status in this country is already a very high bar

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 2d

The first numbers in this blew my mind.

ICE made 100k arrests from January to June, which was double the same period last year. The shocking part to me is that it was only double, though. I certainly didn’t know they arrested so many people under Biden.

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 3d

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

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Ashley and her Existential Panic @truestorydesu.bsky.social · 2d

I heard Lazlo won a Nobel prize for literature and my brain immediately thought "...wait, they gave Lazlo Cravensworth a Nobel?"

Clearly I don't read enough Nobel-worthy stuff...

a man in a suit and tie says i am just a regular human guy ..

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says i am just a regular human guy ..

media.tenor.com

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Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social · 3d

We just made a donation to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. Find out more here:
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

We invite everyone to join us in working for positive change, in the manner they deem fit.

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 3d

On that day, you will just not look at any news NONE

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