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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 11h

We’ve ceded righteous fury to the right for too long. My biggest problem with being agnostic is losing the language to properly call out people who foul the universe by their discarded humanity.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 19h

I should only be allowed to own philodendrons. They are contemptuous of my neglect and grow unabated to remind me of my shortcomings as a caretaker.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to our fine city and our regional contribution to novelty molten cheese delivery cuisine.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 1d

First they came for John Bolton and I said nothing because he fucking suuuuuuuucks

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton.

In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Prosecutors in Maryland are expected in coming days to charge one of Trump’s first-term national security advisers, John Bolton, now a top Trump critic, with mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 1d

What a delightful thing to learn

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 2d

I’m going to suggest, in part because it’s otherwise unheard of, that it’s due to the indelible art direction.
The look of these movies are iconic, and frankly, singular.
Nothing else about these films linger except for the luminescent red and blue Mondrian lines.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 2d

50,000,000 Mavis Fans Can't Be Wrong

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 3d

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
@CRXSSF4DE
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 2d

While Morning Edition and All Things Considered have ushered in their own irrelevance with the most toothless, deferential journalism, it should be noted that Ari Shapiro in particular is a spectacular dumbass.

Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 2d

That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 2d

Neko Case. She embodies this amazing paradox where she writes the smartest, sharpest lyrics like nothing you’ve ever heard before that are also immediately identifiable and universal.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 6d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 2d

Granted, if I tried to do even one of those things now, I would die. But that’s what your twenties are for!

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 3d

I had one book assigned to read all semester on 19th century Chinese civil society.
Cracked the spine the first time the night before my 10-page majority grade paper was due. Skimmed it, wrote it, got an A.
Went to work hallucinating from lack of sleep, went home and passed out watching Finding Nemo

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 3d

“Are you sure I don’t need to take my whole shirt off to get the shot?”

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 3d

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 3d

Like, pretty much all companies are cowards. But Ubisoft enjoys a unique place in cowardice for borrowing the aesthetic of historical and political engagement but absolutely meaning nothing with any of it. And more, they’re frightened of their own pretend thoughtfulness.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 3d

Years ago, Gameological (rest in power) visited an Ubisoft event for the release of AC 3.
It was a gallery show featuring paintings like George Washington as a king or the protagonist framed with graffiti like ‘rebel!’
When asked what any of it meant, the pr person basically said, “uh, nothing.”

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 4d

First frost of the season and Nick Drake’s Five Leaves Left falls on me like a cartoon safe.

Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 4d

I let my kid go see Cold Slither at Excel Center a few years ago and now he’s piloting some kind of upright saw blade against U.N. forces outside of Sudan.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 4d

The same Wells Fargo that had to pay out $3 billion dollars in settlements for signing customers up for accounts and paid services without their permission.
In an industry where shitty behavior is the baseline, they really go above and beyond.

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d

Oh SHIT. Two birds with one stone and neither were for immigration. It was to hassle black folk and make a sizzle real about it and to help Wells Fargo out.

Fucking crazy shit.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 4d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 4d

No, this is accurate. It was well documented.

The moon, partially blinded by a primitive space rocket.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah? Well you try writing an entire religious denomination to justify your own obsessive sexual peccadillos.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 5d

This would be the cruelest thing I’ve ever read were it not simply the most accurate.

defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

She has a cop's heart and a tadpole's brain,

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 5d

It’s been a good year for horror movies punching above their weight class.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 5d

I thought Barbarian was pretty good with some exceptional moments, but this was just leaps beyond. Just masterful in concept and execution (ha ha).

Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 7d

I was about to say Weapons is the best horror movie I’ve seen in a while but I think it’s just the best movie I’ve seen in a while.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 6d

To answer your question so you don’t need to watch the movie:
1. It’s set in a coastal town, not the suburbs
2. That’s Sloth. Sloth love Chunk.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 7d

I was about to say Weapons is the best horror movie I’ve seen in a while but I think it’s just the best movie I’ve seen in a while.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 7d

Mystic Quest? I like your moxy.

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