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Ticketmaster vows crackdown on scalper accounts that buy up most tickets | CBC News

Ticketmaster, the world’s largest online box office, is promising for the first time to crack down on industrial-scale scalpers to bar them from using hundreds — sometimes thousands — of fake Ticketma...

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 6h

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For a moment I thought this was some sort of fabulous trick but it was just for show.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 13h

Trump’s demanding $230M from taxpayers to “compensate” himself for DOJ probes into his own crimes — with his own AG expected to sign off. This isn’t just corruption — it’s self-service at the highest level. The grift has come full circle.

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Jock Cartier @jockcartier.bsky.social · 11h

And the cord cutting circle comes to it's inevitable conclusion, and costs as much, or more, than cable

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 1d

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 1d

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I had to get that out of my system. Now I feel better.

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 2d

Got off the plane and walked into a drug store in Ottawa and got my COVID vaccine in under 5 minutes. No line up. No appointment. No cost.

Was even asked if I wanted Moderna or Pfizer.

It’s unconscionable that we can’t get this same level of service in Alberta.

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 2d

Johnson looks like one of those Men in Black human suits that are secretly being controlled by tiny aliens. And he acts like it too.

Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 2d

How much of this has to do with movie goers not interested in Tron as a franchise, and how much is really about fans not wanting to support a company’s willingness to look past morally questionable actions of the actor(s) they choose to cast?

Ignore that, we will IGNORE your film.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 2d

‘TRON: ARES’ will reportedly make a $132.7M loss.

(Source: Deadline)

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 2d

www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books.

Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years...

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

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EvaH @evacq.bsky.social · 2d

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet A peaceful, quiet morning.

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 2d

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I was kind of caught between two ways to solve that.

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 2d

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Word Salad #599
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Toad went out to his garden with some candles.

“I will read the seeds a story,” said Toad. “Then they will not be afraid.”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3d

(That's how we GOT the 8 hour workday, friends. a GENERAL STRIKE.)

In the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, for 6 weeks, 30,000 strikers shut down the city. There were short-term losses but longer term built the labor movement & the tradition of social democratic politics in Canada.

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 3d

You want to talk about shrinkflation? I opened up two Halloween size M&M peanut packages. One had TWO M&Ms inside it and the other package had ONE! A single M&M.

I guess the chocolate companies are conditioning kids for the world they’re going to be living in.

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 3d

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It took me awhile but then I figured out the most appropriate word for those letters.

Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 4d

Visual models are so important to illuminate the false narratives that get pushed out in shouting and headlines that distract from what is clearly on display.

Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 19d

Watching this makes it clear. They are gaslighting America over pennies while immigrants pay billions they’ll never use. It’s a distraction from the Epstein files, job losses, shrinking GDP and the widening trade deficit.

Don’t get distracted. Stay focused.
#EpsteinFiles #TrumpsShutdown

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 4d

Regardless of our admiration for directing legends like Mann and Miller, Cinephilia & Beyond will not hesitate to call for a boycott of their films if they persist in insisting on AI and incorporating this fraudulent practice into their filmmaking process.

Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 4d

Making Heat 2 involves significant risk and expense, and incorporating AI could potentially lead to a disastrous outcome. We can only quote another filmmaker—and a big fan of Michael Mann—who made a clear statement at the same Lumiere Festival: “AI can go fuck itself!”

variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Michael Mann Says He Might Experiment With AI in ‘Heat 2’: ‘Aging and De-Aging May Be Very Important’

Michael Mann said 'Heat 2' will probably tap into AI for de-aging and will be theatrically released.

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 4d

Saw it was on and so now I’m watching Run Lola Run 🏃‍♀️ because it’s one of those films, like Scott Pilgrim and Rocky Horror Picture Show, that no matter what point of the movie it is at, I must watch it to the end.

a woman with red hair is holding her head with both hands

Alt: Visuals from Run Lola Run of a woman trying to think, after a phone call and then running down the road.

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 4d

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This is my safe space and my safe word.

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 4d

That looks just like Tetris.

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Joe James @joejamespop.bsky.social · 4d

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