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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

If only there were some way to not put these people in charge of everything.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

Activating Presence and STILL name-dropping the Prince for clout

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, petition to go back and replace Morrissey with Rick Astley in the entire Smiths catalog.
youtu.be/XluAp8yEhZ8

Blossoms and Rick Astley • The Smiths - This Charming Man

YouTube video by AINHAINS

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

He had one but a Toreador pushed him down and took it.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Walker? Never heard of him. Scott Walker, though.
youtu.be/AB8kyv0GWg8

Cossacks Are

YouTube video by Scott Walker - Topic

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

Don't sass me, I love this song and I also love "Together Forever."

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

Rick Astley looking like some kind of Ventrue nerd, just hella bullied by every other member of the clan.

Rick Astley from the "Never Gonna Give You Up" video wearing a tan raincoat and dark sweater, standing in front of some arches bathed in an oversaturated blue light.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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phylan @phylan.website · 2d

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 2d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 2d

Midge Ure, who was with "The Boys Are Back In Town" Thin Lizzy, "Fade to Grey" Visage, and "Vienna" Ultravox, turned down the Sex Pistols' lead singer spot and also co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas" for Band Aid.

🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · Apr 13

Doing not much but thinking about music this Sunday morning and how you occasionally get performers who surpass their origins. People like Belinda Carlisle, who has been making music for like 50 years now but you never really associate her with her throwing up, fighting, scabby start with the Germs.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 2d

BEHOLD! Culture.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 2d

Insufferable, admittedly, but part of the holistic work that genslop of a plasticky duck with a Yoda head couldn't approach.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 2d

I held my own art project hostage until my teacher agreed to pay me $20K, which she didn't, but she acknowledged that my "performance" was part of the piece. It was a block of wood upon which I had painted the words "ART PROJECT." GenAI could never.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

― L.M. Montgomery

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 2d

An embarrassment of Riches.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 4d

It's sailing toward a Cherry-Coloured Funk

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 6d

~authenticity~

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 7d

He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a spider drink
He sings a song that reminds him of the knife crimes
He is knocked immediately to the floor

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 9d

Honestly, a great idea.

🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 10d

I love autumn and early winter. I love October-November-December. It is my most creative time of the year.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 13d

What does this even mean?

A corny, chunky, leatherette-looking sneaker with the caption “this shoe was designed for people who win.”

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 14d

It’s out of my system now.

🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 14d

"Magneto!" he shouted in challenge to the stormy night. "I'll see your blood in payment for your betrayal at Endor!"

In distant Ripon, one of an army of brass ED-209s shuddered to life.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 14d

Rain fell on a bleak night, with wan moonlight fighting its way through pendulous clouds to cast long shadows across the grounds. Lord Grantham perched in front of Downton, tweed-clad legs tensed with the will to spring toward his foe, a rain-spattered, moon-dappled katana unsheathed at the ready.

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