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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 1h

Very sad to hear that passing of the great Diane Keaton (1946-2025). We loved her in many things; but especially crime thriller Looking for Mr. Goodbye (1977). #RIP

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1h

Read the piece on P Thiel's views on the antichrist and the apocalypse and I find it so horrific that someone with so much power and influence via wealth has such barking views, rooted in such cruelty. I can imagine him arguing that many people should die to lower his taxes, and this is "Christian".

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 6h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Masshole57✌🏼 @masshole55.bsky.social · 22h

Listen. We only have 4 months to learn Spanish. Here is how you say, “Release the Epstein files.”

"Libera los archivos de Epstein"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

The corruption and self-dealing is staring you in the face. Hello?

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 1h

When fascists discover Greimasian rectangles

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 1h

Oh no

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ Star, Dies at 79

Diane Keaton, who starred in "Annie Hall," has died. She was 79.

variety.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 5h

in which Archie finds himself in the MacKaye-verse

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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 1d

Now listen, I’m no scientist/professor of public health or anything like that but I don’t think this is how it works?

A picture of RFK Jr. With his arms out giving a speech with the quote “We’re doing the studies to make the proof” posted on IG by Dr. Andrea Love.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 22h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 9h

This is the thing about ai. The benefits are nebulous hypotheticals but the costs are very high and immediate

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 14h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 7h

faint sounds from the pub, as of revolution or football support

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 12h

As part of our strand celebrating Ida Lupino we will be screening:
The Ghost Camera (1933)
High Sierra (1941)
Road House (1948)
Woman in Hiding (1950)
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Beware My Lovely (1952)
While the City Sleeps (1956)

Passes available here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, Duckzilla and his forest friends birthday cake

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 1d

SAG-AFTRA is continuing negotiations re: AI and I wish we‘d think about this more in academia but then we‘d also need functioning unions 🙃 Or more scholars who actually consider this a threat. If you agree and haven‘t signed this…

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth

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Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

electrek.co

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Benny Brycheiniog @cupking11.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 "What a difference 9 years makes..."🎵

Simon Jenkins: Brexit will be good for Britain (2016)

Simon Jenkins: It's time to reverse Brexit (2025)

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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · 2d

I'm told this is where the Portland antifa operatives are gathering and holding their resistance meetings.

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 2d

This is not true. At the moment, we only control the weather.

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 2d

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/save-our...

Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

act.38degrees.org.uk

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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