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Alex Steed

@alexsteed.bsky.social

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Co-Host of You Are Good and The OC, Again. Corn Telethon coming 09/04/2025. Manager for folks in the arts. Bewildered person. Picture taker. Zine-maker (High Occulture). Activist. Into being.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · Jun 22

I’m not even going to engage in any debates because they’re all structured by fascists to be in bad faith. No fucking war. Do whatever you can to jam up the machine. This and the genocide and the kidnappings of people on our soil and the invasion of Los Angeles is all apocalyptic, stupid and evil.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 10h

Seriously. Making Superman an unironic buttrock fan? Wonderful.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 11h

In my experience there is an almost impossible line between beyond kind to and having grace for one’s self and deluding one’s self.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 16h

Such a Burbank move.

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 17h

Did they design these?

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 17h

At the vet admiring whoever did the brand work for these slutty exam gloves.

NIGHT ANGEL examination gloves, looks like the jacket design of an Anne rice erotic vampire novel

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 17h

Music to my ears.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 18h

Ha! I love the idea of the north shore as foreign country as it kinda feels like it is.

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 18h

Did you ever go to Santoro’s? After we moved to Maine, we’d drive to Saugus once a month to eat there because Maine—according to my father—didn’t know what an Italian was.

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 18h

Ha!

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 18h

Many from the Boston area will understand why I turned a corner in Burbank, saw “Santoro’s Submarine Sandwiches” and immediately started crying.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 19h

"I'm into old-fashioned stuff, too. Hummel figurines, capital punishment, Garbage Pail Kids, and stuff."

— Peacemaker

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 20h

I will say I adored that one too. Great meditation on grief, love and legacy. A win either way.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 20h

I am excited for Peacemaker, which friends enjoy so I'll catch that at some point. I would say to prioritize Superman if you want something fun and enjoyable and in the spirit of the comics. I've also been eager to check out The Boys at some point. I'm not interested in much else right now.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, the tone really works.

I gave up on Marvel a while ago. It's too much. I don't care for much of the DC thing either, but I am watching this because I began watching Peacemaker. I am really enjoying it.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 21h

First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you
Then you win

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 21h

Superman is very funny.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

I don't think it's going to work out in the way they think because what they are doing is to actually promote the protest and the date in a way that the organizers can't on their own. So lots of people will now be searching: October 18 protest who would have had no clue before.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21h

Remember how people lost their minds when I said go to a protest but don't rsvp to one

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22h

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 1d

I’m on Letterboxd.

boxd.it/7GD1b

Alex
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1986
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Watched Oct 8, 2025
It feels greasy.
HENRY
PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 2d

I saw Kamasi Washington play tonight and it was—no joke—the best thing that’s ever happened.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 1d

Best part of the night.

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 2d

I’m on Letterboxd.

boxd.it/7GD1b

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Demons 1985
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DEMONS
Watched Oct 8, 2025
You'll never look at cocaine on a naked breast the same way again.
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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 2d

AHHHHHHHHH! What a city!