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@vidiot.bsky.social

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Video wrangler, journo, cocktailian, flâneur, shutterbug, quizzer, semi-pro New Yorker, fitful writer, cognitive diffident. "Tired and emotional." (Opinions solely mine. Reposts/likes ≠ endorsements, sillypants.) He/him. https://linktr.ee/cocktailians

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S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · Mar 17

Large-letter postcard reading "Greetings from / QUEENS / The World's Borough."

The background is an aerial shot showing the Unisphere, and the letters in "Queens" are filled with shots of scenes from Queens: the Unisphere, the Queensboro Bridge, elevated tracks, the NY State Pavilion, the Triborough and Hell Gate bridges, and the architrave from Athens Square Park.

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S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · 2h

Incredible. I tried a sample of their rye-wheat loaf, which was funky and dark and rich with a perfectly browned crust.

S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · 2h

Oh my GOD. When Parisians line up for bread, you know it's special.

Line around the corner to enter Atelier P1, a Parisian boulangerie.

High wide shot of the counter and workers at Atelier P1.

Closeup of the bread lineup on the counter at Atelier P1

A gooey, warm cinnamon roll that is absolutely perfect.

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S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · 2h

Oh my GOD. When Parisians line up for bread, you know it's special.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

B R a I n s

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 5h

AI could never invent the Bruce Springsteen ska version of the Monster Mash. This requires human creativity to sing.

timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 6h

I'm hyperventilating www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOoz...

Monster Mash - Bruce Springsteen - Rochester, Oct. 31, 2012

YouTube video by BlackLabProductions

www.youtube.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Wait so just to be clear then the cat's name was Buster Keaton

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 10h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · 2h

Producer, on breezily entering my edit bay: "This will be FUN!"

S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · 2h

"Hotroll in ten seconds"

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 6h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 6h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 3h

For. Real.

josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 5h

i would love a future where all people being allowed to simply exist as they are in public is not considered a political issue

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12h

Finally - if Pritzker really isn’t in control of his state police, it’s incumbent on him to get them in line. If he can’t, and just expects everyone to ignore their brutality, that’s cowardly and immoral. But it’s not on US to decode! It’s reasonable to assume he’s fine with what they’re doing.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12h

Illinois State Troopers if I'm not mistaken @govpritzker.illinois.gov

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 12h

US government is running a protection racket bsky.app/profile/nyti...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h

Venezuelan officials, hoping to end their country’s clash with the U.S., offered the Trump administration a dominant stake in Venezuela’s oil and other mineral wealth in discussions that lasted for months, according to people close to the talks.

Venezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict

Venezuela’s autocrat had proposed allocating his country’s oil wealth and other natural resources to the U.S. and ending deals with American adversaries to appease President Trump.

nyti.ms

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine that

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S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · 13h

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 13h

Holy shit: the Department of Justice brought charges against the sitting New York State Attorney General without informing the United States Attorney General.

abcnews.go.com/US/pam-bondi...

Pam Bondi, DOJ officials caught off guard by Tish James indictment: Sources

Sources said that Tish James' indictment for alleged fraud came as a surprise.

abcnews.go.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 18h

Morgan is such a piece of shit

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 19h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 17h

1) In a press conference yesterday, Trump justified calling troops into Chicago by saying, "Do you know they had over 4000 people killed in Chicago... they had 4000 people murdered over a very short period of time."

www.reddit.com/r/illinois/c...

Where did he get that number? Funny answer...

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 17h

Whew, for a minute there I thought a Black person might get this job

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · 13h

They actually call it a "tacos." Singular is "tacos." I nearly had one for lunch today but got a croque instead.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16h

This is quite a split screen:

➡️Trump & RFKjr layoff the top two leaders of the federal measles response team as part of CDC purge
⬅️Measles outbreak expands, hundreds of unvaccinated children hit with highly contagious disease

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

Scientists who focused on other infectious diseases, like an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, also were let go.

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 16h

These fucken people

GUEST ESSAY

Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won
"Horseshoe" doesn't even begin to describe it.

By MICHAEL HIRSCHORN

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