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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 2d

Alec Baldwin is in old episodes of Knots Landing. He plays a TV preacher. And it’s impossible not to hear his I AM GOD speech from Malice.

Alec Baldwin, looking about eight years old.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 3d

BUSTER KEATON

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 3d

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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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot overstate how utterly formative this man and his work was for me, a baby comedy nerd in the pre-Internet, pre-sprawling cable TV days. He introduced me to Carlin. And Python. And so much more.

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 2d

The influential, top hat-wearing DJ, Dr. Demento, wrapped his long-running radio show yesterday with a countdown of his top 40 most requested songs.

www.avclub.com/dr-demento-f...

Dr. Demento ends 55-year run as radio's weirdest DJ

www.avclub.com

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 2d

Any time I see a therapy session on some dumbass reality show I think Oh what a shitty therapist for agreeing to do this

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t hate this.

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 3d

Colbert will voice the "digital dean" of the titular school, delivering announcements to students from the safety of his voice acting booth.
www.avclub.com/stephen-colb...

Stephen Colbert already picking up side hustles, joins Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 3d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 4d

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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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 4d

Outside the Hall of Justice…

…is this hole.

…of justice.

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ceej @ceej.online · 5d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 5d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 5d

People are really hurting right now and I'm not sure a new Tron movie is the answer.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

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

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 6d

"English degrees are useless" says man who needs ai to write an email

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 6d

I think anyone who saw the episode where Mr. Rogers explains the Trolley Problem has it seared in their memory forever.
So much violence, depictions of gore we never thought possible in puppetry.
We wept, we screamed, we were scarred.
Still, it was educational.
So that’s good.
I guess.

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del's exhausted masking @delsaber.bsky.social · 7d

Seen video evidence that she's on a planet in the delta quadrant, boss! If you leave now you might catch her!

CNN @cnn.com · 7d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 7d

I was trying to explain the appeal of Biz when I was watching that documentary recently. And this song has made me realize: Biz was a novelty cartoon rapper like Humpty. Except there was no Shock G for him to turn back into. He was just Biz 24/7.

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 7d

I recently discovered that Humpty Hump and Biz Markie did a song where they just insult each other for 3 minutes. And it's my new favorite thing.

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

The Odd Couple (Remastered)

YouTube video by Digital Underground - Topic

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AAlgar @aalgar.bsky.social · 7d

I keep indirectly hearing about drama involving Bsky leadership. Which I would otherwise know nothing about because I guess I’m not invited to the same parties y’all are.

And I wouldn’t go to them if I was.

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · May 23

Welcome to America

A sign in a parking lot reads:
NOTICE
MUST BE CUSTOMER AT ALL TIMES

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 8d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 8d

—Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.

Happy birthday to Carole Lombard, whose magnificent swan song TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942) is now playing on the Criterion Channel.

Robert Stack as Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski and Carole Lombard as Maria Tura in Ernst Lubitsch's TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942)

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 10d

I think the question of AI personhood is pertinent and a discussion that will need to be had in several hundred years when we're close to creating actual sentient AI.

Not so sure why we're having it now when we can't even get others to agree that certain people are people.

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