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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 9h

I think it's also worth remembering how symphonies, opera & ballet became crazy popular w/ workers in post-revolution Russia bc the gov subsidized tickets & made it suddenly widely accessible

They weren't shunning it as "bougie snob art", it was framed as "I deserve to enjoy beautiful things too"

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 11h

It really sucks that snob gatekeepers framed classical as high brow music so now any time you talk about it, people assume you're trying to signal intellect

But the music itself isn't pretentious, thats cultural baggage. I just like it when sounds are arranged in a cool way, like any other genre

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The Onion @theonion.com · 9h

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began

WASHINGTON—Touting a new crime report as evidence their ramped-up operations were improving American life, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Friday that there had been zero murde...

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 9h

An exchange which reminded me of this sad but true cartoon.

A four panel cartoon titled "Comics Future" set in a museum with comics art on the walls. It depicts the following exchange.

ADULT: "People used to draw stories in little boxes, and they called them comics. And the people who drew them were called cartoonists. And they had no money. And they were very sad."

CHILD: "What happened to the sad cartoonists?"

ADULT: "They all died. Sad, alone, stupid, and covered in dirt. Every last one of them."

The comic is sighed Sweater1 at the lower right.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 10h

In the battle of US political satire, who do you think is bringing the most heat…
The Onion
South Park
SNL
Kimmel
Colbert
Daily Show

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Ragnar @ragnarbelial.bsky.social · 10h

When I hear voices I really wish it was schizophrenia. The other option of being just other people is much more disturbing.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14h

this is a great piece and it absolutely sucks that the outlet went for the ambiguous headline rather.

The idea that you can remain on X and "influence opinion" is equally true for creating a new Stormfront account, or a 4Chan account, or a TruthSocial account.

Our job is to kills its influence.

Did the centre-left bit of UK politics Twitter make an error in decamping en masse to I Can’t Believe It’s Not Twitter? The old site, now remade as X, remains significantly larger than the new, and much of the political class have failed to make the jump. Did those of us who went let our desire for a comforting liberal bubble undermine our actual influence?

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

The story of social media in the last few years is not one of a self-righteous liberal flounce, but of fragmentation: network effects are a thing, and if most of the people you like to talk to switch platforms, there feels little point in remaining behind. If we have lost influence, that’s at least partly down to the government’s reluctance to use its convening power to reshape the information environment, and its odd commitment to a site owned by someone who wants Keir Starmer in prison.

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Scott Fright @scw.bsky.social · 1d

Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews

Steam review that reads “game is good but im some bugs”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Cineuropa, the site for European cinema @cineuropa.bsky.social · 1d

Luxembourg's 18th CinÉast festival will open on 15 October with the international premiere of Chopin, A Sonata in Paris by Michał Kwiecinski. 🎹🎶 Altogether, 65 features & 50 shorts from 20 Central & Eastern European countries will screen during the festival. Details here: cineuropa.org/484663

CinÉast celebrates adulthood with its 18th edition and an equally mature line-up

10/10/2025 - The Luxembourgish festival championing Central and Eastern European cinema will open with the international premiere of Chopin, A Sonata in Paris and boasts more than 120 screenings

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Jared Leto in the background like a malevolent spirit who’s invisible to everyone except the cursed commentator

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Amarok Subalpine @amaroksubalpine.bsky.social · 1d

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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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Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.social · 1d

a woman in a suit says " i hear you "

ALT: a woman in a suit says " i hear you "

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company

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Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.social · 1d

A pri intervjuju?

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Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.social · 1d

a woman is holding a pair of handcuffs in her hands .

ALT: a woman is holding a pair of handcuffs in her hands .

media.tenor.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/ice-raids-myth-vs-fact/

MYTH: My grandmother was deported to El Salvador.

FACT: No one really knows where she was deported to.

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Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.social · 2d

V angleščini so vsi boti in konstrukti striktno srednjega spola, v slovenščini pa to ne gre skozi, ker zveni neumno, če se nekdo naziva “sem šlo/reklo/naredilo”, zato je Fentabot moškega spola, pri drugih pa se ravnam po imenih.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2d

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 2d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.social · 2d

wow, what a dickhead

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Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.social · 2d

Ljudje ne razumete trolanja več, kam gre ta svet!? Nemirna kri je nova POPova “družinska” serija, aka žajfnica z elementi romance in kriminalke.

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Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.social · 2d

Lahko bi imeli 3 lipe, skupaj povezane. A niso eni pred časom neke podobno luštne simbolike z snopiči? To se je dobro obneslo, če se ne motim.

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Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.social · 2d

Kaj pa Nemirna kri, a? Zakaj pa nič o tem ne objavljaš?

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Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.social · 2d

Tisto, ki nam, plačanim po številu klikov pripomore k spodobnemu honorarju.

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact: Maria Colina Machado SUPPORTS Donald Trump sinking fishing boats off their coast.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2d

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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