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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1h

40 years ago today.

The opening panel of Watchmen, with an entry from Rorschach's journal dated October 12, 1985. "Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face."

mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 10h

one thing that’s kind of fucked up is that when a movie star dies, a bunch of streaming services have their “in memoriam” playlists up within a couple hours. I feel like maybe you should wait a day.

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 23h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 15h

basketball season starts next month

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 22h

Contrast all of this decimation of the CDC & unraveling of vax recommendations with the fact that Trump got a covid shot and a flu shot yesterday. The message is clear: they dont care if *we* die, but they sure as fuck wanna make sure they dont

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Spice 💕 @spicedyde.bsky.social · 1d

🐶: “Very spooky! A corpse is a dead body.”

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

I remember watching the documentary about him trying to make his don quixote movie, which was so good, and then years later, he finally made the movie and it was a total wet fart

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

fallen off: terry gilliam, big time

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

throwing this prompt from Twitter in here. what examples you got?

tweet by @Caol_MacCormaic that reads, uncs of film twitter: what are some movies that are canonical now but were basically unknown when we were coming up? like Come and See or Possession. inversely: what are some movies or filmmakers that seem to have fallen off? (Takashi Miike comes to mind)

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

I guess everyone in CREW died at the end of 2024

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

another law that only applies to democrats

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

everyone in trump’s cabinet has massively overestimated how much people want to see or hear them

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

like, i’m at the airport, i’m in line doing the bullshit security theater we’ve been doing for 25 years, and now I also gotta watch a loop of botox himmler whine about how useless she is

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

what is this supposed to accomplish besides pissing me off more

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

irresistible new elder millennial bait just dropped

ATIM Instant Messenger @atim.app · 1d

Sneak peek at a new client for Bluesky that is nearly ready for a beta release. atim.app

A classic 90s-style chat window between two users, Peggy and Joan, discussing getting a drink after work.

A classic 90s-style instant messenger friends window showing users, chats, and timelines.

A snapshot of a user's timeline feed in a 90s style window.

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

the war on christmas has begun

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

*TRUMP TO IMPOSE 100% ADDITIONAL TARIFF ON CHINESE GOODS

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

another friday where I feel like i’ve been put through the ringer, but we persevere. hampden ghost tour tonight.

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

this is how rupert murdoch lost his 3rd wife btw

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really good idea because Idaho is consistently voted “state least likely to see an Arab guy and assume they’re being Red Dawned”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

me to my closet full of windbreakers:

a red sign that says " alert condition red "

ALT: a red sign that says " alert condition red "

media.tenor.com

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

the temps are in the 60’s, and the harbor is no longer fluorescent green and sulfuric

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

we’re calling it falltimore, folks. more and more people are saying it.

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

the one weird trick was to join the neighborhood association

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

there’s one in baltimore

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

I was told it was nigh impossible to get a tour of the inside of the domino sugar factory, but I have done it

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Ro Khanna:

✔️endorsed the concept of DOGE
✔️endorsed AOC's primary opponent in the same year he endorsed her
✔️made this video with a known antisemite who claims Jewish people are responsible for 9/11

Silicon Valley Democrats ... man, I don't know

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 2d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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