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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 5h

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 5h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Drewcifer DIEtsch 🎃 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 5h

It's 1982. Disney hopes TRON will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

It's 2010. Disney hopes TRON: LEGACY will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

It's 2025. Disney hopes TRON: ARES will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 5h

Making people afraid of marginalized strangers, and avoiding cultivation of skepticism of state power essential to any meaningful democratic civic life, is one of the most dangerous aspects of so-called Abundance and other various corporate neo-liberal attempts to co-opt a coalition against fascism.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning

a classroom full of young kids in horrifying Halloween costumes with the caption: Old school costumes had it looking like a classroom full of serial killers ready to go on a Purge

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 6h

It is bitter to know that a good chunk of people over there are certainly relieved that, as someone put it, they “dont have to pretend to care anymore.”

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 6h

There’s a genocide happening and your primary concern is how you can remain unmoved and escape blame for your cold hearted apathy? No, how to shift that blame onto someone who *is* moved!

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 6h

I keep thinking back, about how I had to see all of those folks on the SFWA discord strategizing openly about how to say nothing about Palestine.

I did eventually write again. I still don’t know how to navigate this scene.

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 6h

JESUS CHRIST, Hi and Lois

what the fuck

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

When you’re that rich no one ever tells you to shut the fuck up so you think everything you have to say is interesting

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 6h

This was said by a city planner Lawrence Veiller. It’s not quiet at all. He suggested adding costs through codes would force builders to build single family homes instead of infill density.

Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 28d

Many of our land use / building codes are rooted in exclusion + prejudice, even if they are facially anodyne and widely accepted as common sense today

Case in point: early 1900 fire safety reforms were primarily designed to ⬆️ the cost of tenements / MF apts (old and new) to reduce immigration

From Stuck: "If we require multiple dwellings to be fireproof, and thus increase the cost of construction; if we require stairs to be fireproofed, even when there are only three families; if we require fire-escapes and a host of other things," then, he continued, each of the rules could stand up in court, "and at the same time we have made it difficult to build apartment homes."

From Stuck: But although some champions of tenement reform were earnest in their efforts, no one who had paid the slightest attention to the movement could have any doubt as to the actual aims of many reformers. The influx of immigrants to New York City was the problem; eliminating affordable housing was the solution.

From Stuck: Veiller, instead, did everything in his power to make housing more expensive. Immigrants continued to pour into the city in the years immediately after the passage of the Tenement Act, but newly constructed tenements became increasingly unaffordable. The cost of making the improvements to old-law tenements mandated by the law, and increasing competition for the remaining affordable units, combined to drive up prices, setting off rent strikes in 1904 and 1907. "The fact is that the new-law tenements ... are beyond the reach of unskilled wage earners," one reformer complained in 1919.

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J. "Pumpkin King" Lassen @jlassen.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve been doing some research, and it seems the revolutionary movement in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie One Battle After Another, #TheFrench75 is named after a 75mm French artillery piece, which was also the inspiration for the cocktail of the same name.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_d...

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J. "Pumpkin King" Lassen @jlassen.bsky.social · 6h

I mean. So many “small market” teams are in fact in big markets, and owners just plead poverty. 🙂

But you are correct that BlueJays payroll is in the top 1/4 of mlb teams. Thank you for the gentle correction.

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J. "Pumpkin King" Lassen @jlassen.bsky.social · 20h

My apologies to everyone in Milwaukee if I just jinxed the #BrewCrew
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Sarkat @sarkat.bsky.social · 3d

“the lovechild of a stopped clock and a loose cannon”😆
A+

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J. "Pumpkin King" Lassen @jlassen.bsky.social · 20h

Everyone who complains about competitive balance in #MLB can just stfu. The #Bluejays, #Mariners and (probably) the #Brewers all all in the final round of the playoffs with Only 1 big market team (the Dodgers).

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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J. "Pumpkin King" Lassen @jlassen.bsky.social · 20h

Look… the first tso Harry Potter movies werent great, but the original Home Alone movie was pretty good.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 23h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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doppearlgänger @pearlsnapped.bsky.social · 1d

waking up every day now is like this

🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · Apr 2

Ugh arm hurts Laura Palmer played by Sheryl Lee in Twin Peaks the Return aka season 3 text reads "I am dead, yet I live."

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 23h

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 23h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 22h

For decades lawmakers have funded and outfitted cops with military gear who are trained to unload on anyone for any reason they see fit, and now getting indiscriminately beaten and arrested by them is apparently the only defense from the actual military doing worse.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 23h

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 23h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 20h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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