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David Raposa @balsafinery.bsky.social · Jan 11

I'm not a @spectacletheater.com volunteer (unless you count my "work" in their early-Covid chat streams), but I am (slowly) working on LTRBXD lists, by year & what's in their Vimeo trailer archive (w/ links), of what's (kinda) played there

here's (part of) 2011: letterboxd.com/falsebinary/...

Spectacle Theater Trailer Archive - 2011

A list of some of the films screened by Spectacle Theater ("a collectively-run screening space in Brooklyn, NY") in 2011, based solely on the trailers uploaded to their Vimeo page, ordered semi-chrono...

letterboxd.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 12h

our neighbor got abducted the other day and the neighborhood is raising money to help out his wife and kids until he gets free. Any help/shares are appreciated gofund.me/7c2338d40

Donate to Help Jesus's Family During His Unjust Detention, organized by Andrea Juracek

NOTE: All funds raised will be going to Jesus's trusted neighbor, Denni… Andrea Juracek needs your support for Help Jesus's Family During His Unjust Detention

gofund.me

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

Indiana University admin backs down, allows actual news in the student newspaper.

Editors: "We do intend to keep administrators to their word. Thus far, that’s been hard to trust."

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2d

I love many of Watkins' films, but if you're looking for one to start with, watch Punishment Park (1971). It's a film that, sadly, is as relevant now as when it was made.

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

Punishment Park (1971) HD, Distòpia, Política

YouTube video by Versió Original

www.youtube.com

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 2d

I couldn’t post this and I don’t know why

Paul: we really are anti-torment nexus. you can’t get rid of the torment but, you know, you gotta put in some hours to fight it

My reply: this is an awful idea.

You can’t say “we’re anti torment nexus” and by that you mean “we’re going to use an enforced civility filter that will punish the no-no words. this is what’s best for you.”

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Greg Chernack, CEO, Four Seasons Total Landscaping @gchernack.bsky.social · 2d

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 2d

Appreciate this coverage but it is hard to explain to people not in the Chicago area that THESE ARE NOT PROTESTS.

This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped.

It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters

A judge recently issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents in the state, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz.

www.bellingcat.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2d

i don't want rankings. i don't want to know that my interactions are influencing some opaque algorithm. i want the posts i signed up for and the replies they receive in the order they were posted

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

“As users ‘dislike’ posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.”

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch

As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

techcrunch.com

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 6d

Over 300 writers so far are boycotting NYT Opinion until the NYT calls for an arms embargo on Israel, conducts a review into anti-Palestinian bias, and retracts 'Screams without Words.' Find out more here: www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc... Then join us: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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Movies from HELL @26mfhpod.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Birthday to Joe Spinell, the absolute king of the ‘spaced-out and thinking about murder’ face

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d

this is so real and it makes me so mad. enough people just said "cool I guess I'll give you a bunch of money then" instead of saying "nah, you already got the taxman to pay for your stadium, put it on the network or I'm out"

Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 5d

Baseball is supposed to be a working class sport and the working class can't even afford to watch it from the comfort of their own homes

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 5d

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

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sean kuhn @seankuhn.bsky.social · 5d

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer?

Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad.

The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself.

Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits.

Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 5d

CA is a solidly blue state. He's not doing this to win votes, he's doing it because he's an honest to god bigot

Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 6d

gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california

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David Raposa @balsafinery.bsky.social · 5d

losing my mind at (among other news things) seeing the Postmaster General being referred to as the USPS CEO (which might just be semantics, but also stop businessing up government departments you thick racist sex pest fuck/s)

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 6d

spotted in my friend’s witchy oddities store in Chicago 👻

extremely cute little white ceramic ghost figure holding a white ceramic picket sign that reads “Fuck ICE”

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JPG @ ENIGMA|STUDIO (HORSE GAME GUY) @enigmastud.io · 6d

RIGHT KIDDIES YOU KNOW THE DRILL
THE ENTIRE ENIGMA TRILOGY IS SERIOUSLY DISCOUNTED FOR THE STEAM SCREAM FEST. €14 FOR A TRILOGY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR GAMES THAT ARE LITERALLY UNLIKE ELSE OH & ONE OF THEM IS THE REASON BALDUR'S GATE 3 ONLY GOT RUNNER-UP FOR BEST NARRATIVE IN THE IRISH GAME AWARDS
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public health guy 🦃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 7d

if any democrats in congress need an example to follow… because if you don’t lead on this, right wing churches and orgs will — and maybe your primary opponent, too

Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 7d

Sounds a lot like what @katmabu.bsky.social is doing, making mutual aid a key component of her campaign www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/kat...

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David Raposa @balsafinery.bsky.social · 7d

(& if the film actually steered into that skid instead of waffling & being overstuffed, it could’ve been more that just “futile competence porn”)

David Raposa @balsafinery.bsky.social · 7d

there’s something accidentally significant about the director of Zero Dark Thirty making a Fail-Safe-esque thriller starring an Obama surrogate where the system “works” & most of the folks in charge are “smart” but shit still goes sideways & nothing’s actually done

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Corey J Brewer @coreyjbrewer.bsky.social · 9d

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David Raposa @balsafinery.bsky.social · 9d

pretty sure — now more than ever — Shams is the T-800 of the grand AI experiment

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 9d

The reality is that “media literacy” right now means leaving certain platforms altogether. This will cause a shift in all sorts of online political economies.

Cold November Mar @histoftech.bsky.social · 11d

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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David Raposa @balsafinery.bsky.social · 10d

doing the Dew feels good in a place like this

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