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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2h

I now cry every time I watch this or hear it.

Also, remember, this is now under the Tom Holland rule and must be reposted every time you see it.

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2h

Remember this: Try.

youtu.be/wQd4JdFP0d0?...

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 2h

More importantly, does he think the letter M is a tiny crown?

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 3h

God, I used to work at Illinois' third-largest newspaper, and they had a daily circulation of around 115k at the time. That the *Washington Post* has fucked up this poorly...

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 3h

Personally I think the show really hit its stride in season 4 when he traded in his car for a souped up Oldsmobile 442 with a roll cage and light bar, the one fans called "The Columbomobile," though I will admit it was probably a misstep when they made the car capable of speech.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 5h

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 15h

This shirt's product name is listed as "To Wear While Eating Snacks in Bed"

A shirt with printed crumb stains on it that reads "crump dumpster" in fancy letters

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Pope of Spooky Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 18h

“I don’t know, I also haven’t seen this movie. Let’s find out together.”

jin @ghangaji.bsky.social · 16d

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

tweet that reads:
Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19h

One of the only statements by an elected official who acknowledges the humanity of Israelis AND Palestinians, who recognizes this atrocity as a US funded genocide, & who understands that future peace must include a dismantling of apartheid and occupation.

NYC—elect this man as your next Mayor.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

My statement on today's profoundly moving scenes in Israel and Palestine.

Today’s scenes of Israelis and Palestinians are profoundly moving: Israeli hostages being freed and families reunited after years of fear, uncertainty, and torture; the first days in Gaza without relentless Israeli bombardment of Palestinians as families return to rubble and loved ones freed from detention.

There is finally a glimmer of hope that this ceasefire will hold and the long difficult work of reconstruction can begin. I also know this news brings solace to millions of New Yorkers, who’ve felt the pain of the past few years. We have watched as our tax dollars have funded a genocide. The moral and human cost will be a lasting stain and requires accountability and real examination of our collective conscience and our government’s policies.

The responsibility now lies with those of us who believe in peace to make sure it endures, and that it is just. Once aid is delivered, the wounded are cared for, and a lasting agreement secured, we cannot look away. We must work towards a future built upon justice, one without occupation and apartheid, and for a world where every person can live with safety and dignity.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20h

We’re seeing a lot of pop-up protests against ICE in the Chicago area, such as this one outside a Home Depot in Evanston, IL, where 2 of our neighbors were taken yesterday.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 20h

Time magazine doing Nazi propaganda and using its language

This is very very specific language they only had one parallel and it’s originally in German.

TIME
HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER
ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS
by MUHAMMAD BIN ABDULKARIM AL-ISSA

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 1d

I do worry that the network will take the very obvious salacious route of "straight couple, love triangle, maybe a bi girl for hotness' sake" instead of a truly accepting and challenging future.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 1d

I think Roddenberry very much felt thar the future would not be prudish, that there'd be sex planets and free love and sexually empowered older women, and he stuck to that even when the network didn't find his angles very commercially viable.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 1d

Personally, I think that horniness and sex-positivity was part of Star Trek long before Berman tried to turn it into gross heteronormativity, and that horniness among the youth often helps them challenge old beliefs and learn more about themselves. But I do wonder how the show plays it.

MaryIsOwning2025 @flutemusik.bsky.social · 1d

Short review of the Starfleet Academy trailer now that I’ve finally watched it. This will make me look like a prude, but we don’t need to sex up Star Trek. I should have counted, but we got at least 3-4 glimpses of making out, sex, or innuendo. I get that it’s young people, but if that is what they

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

they’re scared fucking shitless of this weekend, or, at the least, are scared fucking shitless of trump seeing it on the television

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

It's interesting that he's now publicly contemplating his own mortality a couple of times

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 1d

Being rich and famous kinda is another planet

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 2d

"It might work for us" was from Arrested Development.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 2d

The "man bites dog" principle.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure what that has to do with whether someone has the capacity to lose rights because of the nature of their crime.

Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 2d

Guess that's some sort of British joke.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

A big thing about people who think like this is that they don’t realize: learning how to be happy for other people is a HUGE step in the direction of learning how to be happy for yourself.

How that would help me? Because I already do that but the fact that I have nothing to celebrate myself make me just bitter in return
It's like clapping and be happy toward people about having cake without having ourself cake

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

im rewatching The Shining for the millionth time and while i think the book does some things better (getting us into Jack's head) the book is a story about a good man swallowed by ghosts and Kubrick's story is about a family annihilator, and thus much, much scarier

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

We got to the farmer's market cheesemonger before all the mustard seed gouda was gone today, so I'm just gnawing on the full chunk like some sort of creature, living deliciously and all that

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