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Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 7h

Call Baz!

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 11h

wow those variants really slap huh

(credit *checks notes* to u/Bisexual_Trash_Panda)

The Life of a Showgirl but the words are Release the Epstein Files

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Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 11h

Well played Satan, well played

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
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Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Blaming my adult diagnosed ADHD on my circumcised peen

Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Ma would send me back to uni with these frozen foil plates of sunday roasts and I would mash the whole thing in a fry pan til it was uniform and heated through and then ho into it in front of the tv

Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing to be done

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Except social media is melting kids brains so...

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Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 2d

I need to go ice my cheekbones

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Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Baltimore journo best know for creating The Wire and his penchant for Zionism

Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao. David Simon. Kiil your heroes and that. His choices are tyrade (when he thinks he might be right) and block (when he knows he's wrong)

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Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Every big brained american who well actually'd the genocide is complicit

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 3d

Weird. Heat is over 30 years old so you’d assume DiCaprio wouldn’t have any interest in it.

Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 3d

Michael Mann's #Heat2 is officially happening at United Artists — and Leonardo DiCaprio is eyeing a key role.

Other names circling the crime thriller prequel/sequel include Adam Driver, Austin Butler, and Bradley Cooper.

Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 3d

A trillion for fancy linear algebra that sucks up energy and rots brains just to get things wrong. Got it.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Black. Bitch. Purple. Kunt. (aka David) @ncred.bsky.social · 4d

"How does it feel to be locked up unlawfully" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 My kinda carrying on! Keep it up.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 4d

I’m gonna get a ton of new followers off this who are not gonna like me saying stuff like “do you think Joe Biden has a bunch of coffins in his garage because he keeps forgetting he bought one already”

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Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 4d

Watch it

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · Jan 29

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 5d

Always Sunny meme from the Gang Moves to the Suburbs. Mac (FEDS) gives Dennis (OREGON) food (TROOPS). Dennis throws it away.

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Crystal Ballin @lebaum.bsky.social · 5d

La lotta continua

Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in Italy, the riot police JOINED the protests against genocide. Unbelievable.

They’re holding their shields to their side as they put Palestinian humanity - and their own - before… following orders.