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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 2h

Now that "Peacemaker" S2 has concluded, I feel like it's safe for me to say this: The choreographer for the new credit sequence gave the cast way more than they could handle

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2h

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 2h

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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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12h

“I'm Jewish.. All Jewish people are not k!llers. This is just a section of the Israeli people that are like that.. What happened in Gaza was utterly wrong, wicked and terrifying. The Hamas attack was terrible.. but it came from 70 years of oppression..”

—Miriam margolyes

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Mik Must Be Destroyed. @mikduffy.bsky.social · 10h

"This memoir's title asserts that the moon is a balloon, a claim that's scientifically inaccurate and so insulting to the surviving Apollo astronauts that no amount of effervescent showbiz recollections can compensate. No stars, and unlike Mr Niven, I know composition of those celestial bodies."

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 20h

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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Mik Must Be Destroyed. @mikduffy.bsky.social · 18h

That would be glorious. I hope it kills that actor's career completely.

Mik Must Be Destroyed. @mikduffy.bsky.social · 19h

I was thinking about this short earlier today and am pleased to report that it's just as beautiful as I recalled.

Adapted from a short story by Jean Giorno this wonderful piece picked up the Academy Award for best animated short back in 1988.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEP...

The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)

YouTube video by VHS Kingdom

www.youtube.com

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 20h

I keep seeing people ask, "Why does ICE go after harmless people like little kids and old tamale vendors instead of the hardened criminals they say they are trying to get?"

Allow me to clear this up for you.

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Mik Must Be Destroyed. @mikduffy.bsky.social · 1d

No, but I've never seen it used outside an Academic context. A useful way of dividing up those eras though.

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Mik Must Be Destroyed. @mikduffy.bsky.social · 1d

It's a term from Academia. journals.openedition.org/tvseries/6084

Introduction

In media studies today, the development of American television, and of television worldwide, is generally seen as a succession of three major periods or eras, as stressed by the studies of both Rob...

journals.openedition.org

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 1d

Yet again, the satirical media doing a far better job at conveying the truth than the mainstream press.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

The only 2 people I want to hear talk about BIT aside from Elmore himself are @bjcolangelo.bsky.social and @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social

BIT is everything, and as an aside it is a serious reflection of how dogshit this industry is that Brad didn't get a fucking open chequebook offer after making it

This Ends at Prom @thisendsatprom.bsky.social · 2d

NEW EP: BIT (2020)

How do we exist in a world that treats us like monsters for existing and what do we do when we're finally given power? This week is an especially political discussion so strap in and get ready to kick some ass and bite some necks!

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

The This Ends at Prom episode announcement for Bit 2020 featuring Nicole Maines as Laurel washed in bisexual lighting. the quote "we're made to be monsters, so let's be monsters. let's be gods." is underneath it as well as the patreon.com/thisendsatprom link.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Mik Must Be Destroyed. @mikduffy.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, not so much a novella. More three novellas in a monk's robes pretending to be a novel, but my usual answer is A Canticle for Leibowitz.

My favourite actual novella is Claire Keegan's Foster - the basis for the film The Quiet Girl. Both extraordinarily beautiful and heartbreaking works.

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Rick City @rickcity.bsky.social · 2d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 2d

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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Mik Must Be Destroyed. @mikduffy.bsky.social · 2d

Except, this was a very famous skit on Spitting Image with Thatcher and her cabinet in a restaurant.

One wonders what other moments from British TV comedy he's decided to misremember as events in Irish politics? Did Bertie once fall through a bar? Did Dev have a mishap with a hotel inspector?

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Mik Must Be Destroyed. @mikduffy.bsky.social · 2d

Ian Hubert's VFX workflows and YouTube tutorials are a joy to behold. Which makes newsthat the IDF's video propaganda wing have been using assets created by him and others so dispiriting.

It's a reminder that authoritarians are bad at actual creation and invariably steal from actual artists.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 2d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.

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Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 2d

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

The music slaps and Scully is hot, but Tron: Ares is nothing more than corporate whitewashed AI apologia. Yet even that pales next to the ethically bleak desperation it has to rehabilitate Jared Leto's much-deserved reputation as an actual piece of shit. Fuck him, fuck Disney, and fuck this film.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

When I hear Nine Inch Nails in TRON: ARES

Vs.

When I see Jared Fucken Leto in TRON: ARES

Anna Nicole Smith, upset and furious, points angrily in a courtroom witness stand

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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