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Jonathan Kennedy

@getradified.net

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Filmmaker/photographer, communist, small town surrealist, pro wrestling enthusiast. Abbas Kiarostami liked my work, Guy Maddin liked a bunch of my Instagram posts once (he/him) Hamilton, ON via St. John’s, NL / jonkennedy.net

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · Nov 23

Bataille was so real for this

Excerpt from the introduction to Georges Bataille’s “The Absence of Myth” - “His first public comment on surrealism had come in response to a letter inviting him to participate in what was to be a notorious meeting of the Surrealist Group to discuss the implications of Leon Trotsky's expulsion from the USSR, which brought a refusal from Bataille in the most forthright and uncompromising terms: ‘too many fucking idealists.’”

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 3h

Extremely weird behaviour.

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 7h

Conner has been on it youtu.be/oYLxkGz00d0?...

Irish Mob

YouTube video by Conner O'Malley

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 7h

Rot in piss Ian Watkins

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7h

Who Was Jeffery Epstein? Find out by watching 'The Onion Investigates: Jeffery Epstein' on The Onion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 8h

it’s a simple countermessage, you just … don’t have to accept the right-wing framing as valid

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 8h

the correct response to scaremongering about trans kids in sports is:
1) kids should be able to play sports with their friends
2) you want the government inspecting yr kid’s genitals? asking for chromosome and hormone tests? seems messed up!
3) sports governing bodies also already figured this out

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 8h

There is no such thing as a technology that is not biased towards the historical conditions under which it was created, no matter how badly nerds want to convince you otherwise.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 9h

I’m not sure if it’s the newest macOS update or the newest Resolve update because I updated both around the same time last week but anything I do in Resolve lately makes it freeze for like forty-five seconds and I am going to smash my computer with a hammer real soon.

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 9h

Or conversely any AI slop confirming the worst reactionary impulses becomes evidence that antifa is burning cities to the ground or whatever.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 9h

Gish coded

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 10h

I sincerely believe this is an intended consequence of the push for AI in everything.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 12h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 11h

I have seen my fate.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 19h

No he is correct I am a high ranking member of antifa and this has been on the agenda for months.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1d

I can't stress enough that if this is what Border Patrol does to a middle-aged Midwestern white woman producer on camera, imagine what they are doing to people who are *not* middle-aged Midwestern white women off-camera

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 20h

He is gonna go down as one of the all time worst Prime Ministers

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20h

every couple months, carney starts pulling the legs out from under yet another important climate policy

'It depends': Carney shifts stance on maintaining emissions cap | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping the poli...

www.cbc.ca

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 21h

That’s just sick production design lol.

On the other hand I am talking way less elaborate.

Scene from The Leftovers in which three members of the Guilty Remnant, women wearing all white and smoking cigarettes, sit at a dining room style table in an otherwise empty very large room.

Scene from Cure in which a woman sits at a small table with a doctor sitting across from her but several feet away from the table in a large white room with a blackboard and table with toys on it at either edge of the foreground.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 21h

A thing I unironically love in movies and tv shows is when there’s some sort of meeting happening in a giant empty room that just has a single normal sized table in it.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 22h

Bill and Ted’s Modernist Adventure

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 22h

Apparently Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are performing Waiting For Godot. My friend went tonight and said it was great.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 22h

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 22h

Funny how this happens every time.

Alexis ☭ @gothgf.rip · 1d

reactivating solely because CBC, KKKlanada's public broadcaster, found another Ukrainian Nazi to interview after two years of crying about antisemitism!

they have since blurred his swastika tattoo, without mentioning what they are blurring or why!

Ukro-Nazi featured on CBC: The National. swastika tattoo is prominent and visible.

swastika tattoo (now shamelessly blurred to prevent the audience from knowing this is a Nazi)

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 1d

Speaking of the Andy Ngo 2019 milkshake incident communemag.com/were-being-p...

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 23h

Log Lady [calmly stroking log]: One day the sadness will end.

Log Lady [spinning donuts on your lawn in a Camaro]: But not today bitch

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 1d

13. Hour of the Wolf (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1968)

A black and white illustration of Max Von Sydow’s face and hands surrounding a woman laying on a funeral bier.

A caption reads: "The Hour Of The Wolf" is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fear, when ghosts and demons are most powerful. "The Hour Of The Wolf" is also the hour when most children are born.