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Erin, on the side of caution @calliopeanim.bsky.social · Oct 1
I’m going to try to do my 31 (minimum) horror movie thing again this year, though we’ll see if I make it.

I’ll also be putting up some recommendations for different flavors of horror and/or themed double features.

I usually start the month with some found footage stuff, out of tradition.
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helldude.bsky.social
honestly setting up a paper trail for any future defamation cases to absolutely ring CBS's bell is amazing. punitive damages territory when it happens. im a fan of this new direction for her
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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nojusticemtg.bsky.social
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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chhopsky.tv
ALSO PLEASE LEAVE A STEAM REVIEW ASAP IF YOU CAN!

early positive reviews will do wonders for our placement

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chhopsky.tv christina 死神 @chhopsky.tv · 1d
Drive back a hostile alien fungus with a spray cleaner as you traverse your childhood home with grappling tethers & gravity tools.. but is your first love among the dead?

"System shock meets Powerwash Simulator" - @pcgamer.com
"beautiful, intimate, deeply affecting" - @ign.com

Available now!
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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jconley.bsky.social
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17h
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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tamaranopper.bsky.social
They held the line for more than three years. Three fucking years. Incredible.
pghguild.com Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh @pghguild.com · 1d
BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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docseuss.bsky.social
OUT NOW

SUPPORT COOL DEVS MAKIN COOL SHIT

store.steampowered.com/app/2467100/...
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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spookycutewitch.bsky.social
Even if you aren’t the biggest fan of horror, this a top-tier visual novel with a lovable cast of characters + some genuinely clever, fourth wall breaking design. It’s well worth your time
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d
PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is $9.99 on US eShop buff.ly/YedgQoU
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
YES! I can!

Dominic Tarason's curator page is a treasure trove of indie games store.steampowered.com/curator/4313...

Horror Game Aesthetics if you're into horror is fantastic: store.steampowered.com/curator/4046...

NoClip Video is a terrific recent follow: store.steampowered.com/curator/2992...
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
Jarvis @jarvis_best -14h What's the mood on Bluesky? 236 t797 2.6K Ill 402K On the Edge Nate Silver Nate Silver v @NateSilver538 X.com They're too busy burning American Eagle jeans at socially distanced bonfires to have noticed that the shutdown ended. 6:43 PM • 11/9/25 • 402K Views
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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spacecoyote.com
it's chaos in Kabukicho, but I love the vibes
The famous bright red gate of Kabukicho, the red light district in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It's nighttime but everything is lit up by large screens and signs. The streets are bustling with locals and tourists The Kabukicho parking lot, which is surrounded by many billboards advertising host clubs and hostess clubs (places where customers spend lots of money to chat and drink with the attractive employees) A web of telephone wires hang above a narrow pathway in Golden Gai, the heart of Kabukicho. These streets are lined with tiny bars often big enough to seat only 4-8 people Bob standing in a very narrow alley in Golden Gai. He's backlit by a lamp behind him and he's casting a long shallow on the ground. The walls are covered in stickers and graffiti.
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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unavaleable.bsky.social
like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
More than anything else, this is what led some Senate Democrats to cut a deal: Trump’s willingness to hurt people exceeds their willingness to see people get hurt. I want to give them their due on this: They are hearing from their constituents and seeing the mounting problems, and they are trying to do what they see as the responsible, moral thing. They do not believe that holding out will lead to Trump restoring the subsidies. They fear that their Republican colleagues would, under mounting pressure, do as Trump had demanded and abolish the filibuster. (Whether that would be a good or a bad thing is a subject for another column.) This, in the end, is the calculation the defecting Senate Democrats are making: They don’t think a longer shutdown will cause Trump to cave. They just think it will cause more damage. If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise. Shutdowns are an opportunity to make an argument, and the country was just starting to pay attention. If Trump wanted to cancel flights over Thanksgiving rather than keep health care costs down, I don’t see why Democrats should save him from making his priorities so exquisitely clear. And I worry that Democrats have just taught Trump that they will fold under pressure. That’s the kind of lesson he remembers.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Hearing from more people after this went out.

"We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.

"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
How can a human being make it into the US Senate and still be this embarrassingly naïve?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
calliopeanim.bsky.social
When the centrist capitulators have lost *Matt fucking Yglesias*…
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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chhopsky.tv
Drive back a hostile alien fungus with a spray cleaner as you traverse your childhood home with grappling tethers & gravity tools.. but is your first love among the dead?

"System shock meets Powerwash Simulator" - @pcgamer.com
"beautiful, intimate, deeply affecting" - @ign.com

Available now!
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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docseuss.bsky.social
If you think my essays are useful, 250 people chipping in $20 and 250 people quote tweeting with this or any other of my articles would be really helpful. I'm not expecting my car to get paid off or my student loans to be covered here, but I do still need assistance
docseuss.bsky.social docvember @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE WRITTEN A NEW ARTICLE!

this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:

docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
some loosely organized thoughts about dialogue sysin games
think of this as me trying to find out what parts of dialogue choices are load bearing game design and what else can be done with dialogue.
docseuss.medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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danifroom.bsky.social
"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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carolinepennock.bsky.social
This, from an organisation that has previously denounced sex tests as "unscientific and unethical" and has prioritised inclusion above all, is profoundly depressing.
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
calliopeanim.bsky.social
One way you know that this wasn’t just a matter of 8 breakaway rogue senators screwing everything up is:

There’s no talk of replacing Durbin as -goddamn whip- despite him openly defying leadership in one of the most pivotal votes of the entire session.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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jamellebouie.net
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
calliopeanim.bsky.social
The real tell with the Senate capitulation is, I think, that they didn’t even wait to see how this played out.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: The First Circuit denies DOJ’s stay request in the SNAP case, refusing to stay the Nov. 6 enforcement order.

Justice Jackson’s 48-hour clock started just before midnight Sunday, meaning the administrative stay she issued Friday ends at the end of the day Tuesday.
But the district court did not order the government to use the Section 32 fund until November 6. It did so after it concluded that the government had failed to comply with its October 31 TRO. As a remedy for that noncompliance, the court ordered the government to make the full payment of November SNAP benefits by November 7. Thus, even if we were to stay the second TRO, the government could not obtain the relief that it seeks unless it also meets its burden under the stay factors as to the enforcement order. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the government has failed to meet the stay factors as to the enforcement order, and we deny a stay of that order. In any event, the district court has now found that the government failed to comply with that October 31 TRO, from which no stay was sought and no appeal was taken that would have prevented the order from taking effect during the period of alleged noncompliance. Thus, for present purposes, the question that the government's motion to stay the enforcement order presents is this: Has the government made a strong showing that it is likely to succeed in establishing either (a) that the district court erred in finding noncompliance with the October 31 TRO or (b) that, insofar as it did not err in that regard, it could not order full funding in consequence of that noncompliance? As we have explained, the answer is no. In the single paragraph it devotes in its stay motion to addressing the enforcement order, the government does not make a strong showing of likely success in either respect. And in the only other passage of the stay motion that could be read to address the finding of noncompliance, the government fails to grapple with the actual basis for that finding.
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.

Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.

Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
calliopeanim.bsky.social
What a bunch of pathetic fucking losers
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM