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Future of Music Coalition @futureofmusic.bsky.social · 20h

Works out to roughly $19,656 USD per enrolled musician at a cost of about $7.43 per Irish citizen. In contrast, the US Govt spends only about 59 cents per citizen on the entire national endowment for the arts (across all artistic disciplines).

DJ Mag @djmag.com · 1d

Ireland’s government is pressing ahead with plans to permanently implement a basic income scheme that will support 2,000+ artists, creative workers and musicians in 2026

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Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists to be made permanent in 2026

The scheme aims to support 2,000 artists and creative workers, paying each successful applicant €325 a week

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 19h

god I gotta rewatch reds I love reds

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 20h

RIP to a real one 💔

Reds (1981) Congressional Hearing scene

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Hamburger Dipshit🌹 @dohimjob.com · 23h

I am crushed that I’m traveling and will be missing the Mind Melter. It is obligatory you watch this on my behalf.

APB-art @apb-art.bsky.social · 23h

Only a dope would miss this annual treat! Get over to secretcinematheque.com now!

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 23h

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

the usual useful list:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Hamburger Dipshit🌹 @dohimjob.com · 23h

I also love Oakland and have no real plans to leave but every time I come back to visit Portland it does tempt me.

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Hamburger Dipshit🌹 @dohimjob.com · 23h

God I love and miss Portland.

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Hamburger Dipshit🌹 @dohimjob.com · 1d

Just watched a group of absolutely annihilated 60 somethings get 86’d from the Marriott bar yelling about how “WE ARE NOT DRUNK WE ARE FROM WISCONSIN”

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1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 1d

the goal is to play baseball, not end the game, sorry

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 1d

This is part of why I like the regular season extra runner because .. in theory, extra inning games that go on very long sounds fun, but in practice, they all just start to look like *this.*

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 1d

/me looking at Manfred with his runner on second in extras bullshit

Kirk telling Sybok "I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!"

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Productive Outs @productiveouts.bsky.social · 1d

Gogan Lilbert is what you say to your son Bert when he asks if he can go down the slide again.

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Hamburger Dipshit🌹 @dohimjob.com · 1d

Holy shit

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

there's a guy who has a channel where he does bad imitations of bird mating calls who gets about 1000X that per upload

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Judge Judy Themed Striptease @antigoneprogone.bsky.social · 1d

This is also an issue if you read stuff like Game of Thrones or Wolf Hall. The other day, a line of traffic was blocking a left turn I needed to make and the guy behind me started honking at me, and I said out loud, "What would you have me do?"

Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social · Sep 17

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 2d

Huge congratulations to Maria Corina Machado who has won the Nobel Imperialism Prize for steadfastly supporting Israel's genocide and calling on the US to invade her own country so she can be installed as puppet leader while Trump takes Venezuela's oil ♥️

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
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Matt King @mattking.bsky.social · 2d

Jack attempts to create a microwave for the Saudi market and doesn’t realize it looks exactly like the Kaaba until the first ad runs.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 2d

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 2d

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 2d

New meme format

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 3d

It's a testament to the Dodgers' industry-leading depth that when one of their accomplished-but-washed chud pitchers duffs a game out of reach they actually have another accomplished-but-washed chud with even worse politics to bring in to mop it up. Most teams don't even have one guy that odious.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 3d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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connor @rockiesvsconnor.bsky.social · 3d

Sending Kershaw back out there for the haters. Thank you Dave

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