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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 5h

*looks up Jared Leto's*

Ah, now I see why they made such a point of clearly saying how much that band sucked

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T(im) Ocellus @attimowens.bsky.social · Jul 23

When he goes, let's put him in the Memphis Pyramid with all his family, ministers, megadonors, and hangers-on, like the Pharoah he imagines himself to be. Seal it up for all time and dig a channel to let the Mighty Mississippi surround it, a national monument of shame.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 9h

Is it available on any of the big streamers?

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 10h

I remember it was on heavy rotation on HBO when we first subscribed and being 12 I loved it and watched it constantly, but now I only recall two of those things.

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 10h

Saw a reference to that show on here not long ago, but I was not familiar with it.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 10h

I saw Marsden in something recently, also clean-shaven like this but also slightly buffed up, I think, and was shocked, given I had only ever really known him as the mustachioed and thin Adam Dalgliesh.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 11h

Maybe it gives them a more palpable reason for hating their parents?

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 11h

Look, I could probably have lived a fairly happy hermetic life if I had never gotten married and had kids, but the truth is the self is overrated and can be just as annoying and toxic on its own as other people can seem.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 21h

Self-actualization is important. But sometimes looking back at what people in non-political but dominantly leftie spaces I was in, it looked like a therapy-speak, social justice skin slapped on 80s “Me Decade” stuff.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

Da Pope

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Joshua Wilson @magadizer.bsky.social · 15h

The Robert Altman guide to Texas cities—
HOUSTON: Epic, weird, hilarious, inventive, fun
DALLAS: It's better to drive into a tornado than spend another minute here

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 15h

Based on comments from Mike Masnick, it appears the author has been repeatedly told but wilfully refuses to understand what section 230 actually is and does.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 15h

Hats off to an icon

Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 19h

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 15h

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

/2 BTW this not an incompetent paralegal or legal secretary. Not one of them is this incompetent. This is one of the shitty Trump lawyers writing shitty un-American things on a weird schedule and trying to format the document themselves and being both incompetent and too lazy to proofread.

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 16h

So we are now become our parents, watching as the iconic cultural figures of our youth pass away, reminding us that we will not be so long ourselves.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 16h

Few actors exemplify the delightful wildness and mess that was the hallmark of Meisner technique better than Diane Keaton. What an incredible actor and career. impossible to imagine Reds, Godfather II, or Annie Hall, three of the best American films of the new Hollywood era, without her. RIP!

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 16h

Greil Marcus writing a book on Bryan Ferry? Who do I give my money to?

Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 16h

Greil Marcus talking about what criticism is. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Question to Greil Marcus: "What is the purpose of criticism?"

Greil's answer: My next book is about Bryan Ferry, the leader of the band Roxy Music. Now, you listen to a song like Roxy Music’s “More Than This” and you say, what makes this so great? How did that happen? What is going on here? That’s what criticism is, just wrestling with your response to something. That thing where someone has captured a moment so completely that you sort of fall back in awe. That’s what I’ve been doing my whole life as a writer. There is this urge to, not exactly take possession of something, but to become a part of it to some small degree.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 16h

Coke bottle duck

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 16h

I lived in Saudi Arabia when I was in sixth grade, riding to school on a camel would have been the coolest fucking thing ever but, no, we had to ride a bus.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

The whole internet loves Cola Bottle Nate, a lovely guy who almost kills himself eating Haribro cola bottles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Mr. Rimmington is racist

Nathan Rimmington, 33, is a haulier and owner of an HGV driving school in Barnsley. Huge, tattooed, always sweating and always pining for a pint, he is portrayed in the series as an incorrigible joker: "If the government don't crack down on immigration, my kids will have to go to school on fucking camels."

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 17h

It was @sarahjeong.bsky.social and we’ve been pounding this drum for years - especially since all the promises of metadata to prove images are real have gone nowhere www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17h

The Meritocracy!

(said in the same tone of voice as the punchline to "The Aristocrats")

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 17h

Facebook is adding buttons to posts that offer to provide this sort of "context," so no prompt required.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

Personally, if I put "senior intelligence agent" in my profile, I would not share videos of women with three arms and claim that they're real.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Trying to remember the last time I built a linux kernel and wondering whether I should give it a go for old time's sake.

Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 1d

AND NOW I'M BUILDING A KERNEL good lord

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Best feed is the Quiet Posters feed for when you missed the email that let you know that someone's new album just dropped.

screenshot of a file manager window with a folder containing the flac files for the new Gabriel Kahane record

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