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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

To make up for how Power Rangers is an old Japanese show they filmed additional scenes with Americans for we should do the opposite and make the casts of Law & Order SVU and Grey’s Anatomy stop a couple times an episode to fight people in werewolf costumes

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allie @kaylor.bsky.social · 2d

they think congestion pricing hurts the poor who drive and free buses help the wealthy who ride. i just can’t wrap my head around it.

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 2d

You can tell Cuomo's campaign has cooked its brain on Twitter because it's repeating nonsense talking points from people like Andrew Fine and Reza who claim only rich people use transit.

As of 2017, bus riders in NYC earn an average salary of $28K, well under subway riders ($40K).

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Drake @drakea.bsky.social · 2d

Is this man unaware that the bus and the subway have the exact same fare?

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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👻 🧹 🐈‍⬛ hob bug boo 🐈‍⬛ 🧹 👻 @dubdobdee.bsky.social · 2d

time to listen to the mountain goats

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Drake @drakea.bsky.social · 2d

Also sort of crazy to charge $40 for this.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2d

Final Fantasy IX (Switch) up for preorder on Amazon ($39.99) buff.ly/V4xIytk #ad

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Mighty Mog @mightymog.bsky.social · 7d

Somewhere in the chords of an old game…
the kid you were is still there.

Hit play…and time folds.
The screen glow, the controller, the sense that magic was real.

Video game music doesn’t fade…it saves.
A checkpoint in your heart.
A melody that still knows the way back to your childhood 😊💙

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Open Plans @openplans.org · 2d

By bringing back year-round outdoor dining & simplifying the process, the City will make it possible for restaurants to thrive while giving NYers more ways to enjoy our public spaces. A big THANK YOU to @cmrestler.bsky.social & the bill's co-sponsors for putting people over parked cars!

Council Member Lincoln Restler @cmrestler.bsky.social · 2d

We introduced a bill to restore year-round open dining and make it easier for restaraunts.

Outdoor dining was a silver lining of the pandemic, and New Yorkers want it back. We can simplify the process for restaurants to secure permits and give us more places to dine together.

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Drake @drakea.bsky.social · 2d

I'm about to be older than all the Final Fantasy old man characters.

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 2d

What are your thoughts on Auron being 35 years old?

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · Jul 1

Auron out here looking like a guy who showed up to be an extra in a Papa Roach video but got turned away for being too old.

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Drake @drakea.bsky.social · 2d

I think I have all of these digitally on the Switch already. If money weren't so tight I'd pick the physicals up, too, just so I knew I had them into the figure for whenever the Switch eShop shuts down.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2d

Final Fantasy VII/VIII/IX Switch physicals up for preorder on Amazon ($39.99):

VII/VIII Twin Pack buff.ly/CsuZwtD
IX buff.ly/V4xIytk

VGP buff.ly/MkOt8oL
PNP Games buff.ly/6DZ6Rta #ad

games are on cart

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 2d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 3d

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 3d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

people on here apparently need to learn a lesson most of us learn in elementary school, which is that it’s fucking rude to correct people on zero stakes things and doing so leads rightfully to social ostracism

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

to be clear, the President is bombing civilians in international waters and sending the army into peaceful cities domestically but this fellow thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

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Drake @drakea.bsky.social · 3d

I thought Garry Marshall was actually on it and told my mom "Garry Marshall is actually, like, REALLY funny!"

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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 4d

The best way for our next mayor to create affordable homes is to vote @yesonaffhousing.bsky.social props 2-5.

If passed, these will accelerate the approval of new affordable housing and ensure it's being built in every neighborhood—no matter how rich.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 5d

"140,000 N.Y.C. Students Are Homeless. Can the Next Mayor Change That? The city’s housing crisis has contributed to an education crisis, with more children than ever living in temporary housing. They face dismal outcomes"

Fixing housing crisis is a moral imperative: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

140,000 N.Y.C. Students Are Homeless. Can the Next Mayor Change That?

www.nytimes.com

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 5d

There’s something about little guys on little dioramas that just gets my feelings going something fierce.

A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. A young man consoles a crying young woman in the ruins of a church.

A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. A young man watches on as two women speak in the ruins of an old town.

A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. Hemmed in on both sides, a night guards a woman on a bridge over a waterfall.

A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. Two young men have a heart to heart in a field at golden hour.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5d

"Hunchback is one of the most sophisticated films in the Disney filmography for how it makes such huge themes accessible to children including genocide, justice, manipulation, sin, morality vs. legality, racism, allegorical fascism, and obscene abuses of power."

Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 7d

This week for the first in my Spooky Season Monster Mash series, I watched a movie with the scariest monster I can think of: Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame in which the monster wraps himself in unjust laws and bible quotes to commit genocide and assault.
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Poster for the animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). From the top of the bell tower, we see between the bells down into Paris blazing in orange. Quasimodo sits on the ledge reaching out for a dove.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Drake @drakea.bsky.social · 5d

This is actually the best kind of cookie you could make. The chips are always too gooey and messy, but that brown sugar? Simply the best!

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 5d

Chocolate chip cookie dough without the chips

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 5d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Drake @drakea.bsky.social · 5d

Laura Bailey bringing that level of energy and commitment to episode 1? Amazing. So smart to start with Liam, and to keep Matt offscreen for so long. Really digging the characters and all the new performers.

I watched all 4 and a half hours today.

Drake @drakea.bsky.social · 5d

Was worried about how huge the cast is and a little cagey about the switch of DMs (even though I've seen a little of Dimension 20 and enjoyed what I've seen) but the first episode of Campaign 4 of Critical Role really sunk its claws into me. Feels like the opening sequence of an epic fantasy novel.

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JSH @85jsh.bsky.social · Oct 28

Tactics Ogre

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