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David Robson
@houseofsparrows.bsky.social
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50s. San Francisco based. Cinephile at large. Very, very angry these days (but loves the pictures of your cats). He/him/his. Free Palestine.
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houseofsparrows.bsky.social
it is so in keeping with everything else Dumbfuck has done to unilaterally command the creation of Rush Hour 4 AFTER demolishing the wing of the White House containing his private cinema.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
Chicago House of God.

* Do remember to drink plenty of water, and please do not turn it into wine.
vuc.bsky.social David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 5d
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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chrisstein.bsky.social
RIP Walter ♥️
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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cim.bsky.social
The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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kellylynnedang.bsky.social
It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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itsonlyzach.bsky.social
Beyond the harm that it will to constituents once Republicans inevitably renege, backing down now does so much damage to the Democrats on the best week for their brand since 2020. Such loser behavior.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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aurorapeachy.bsky.social
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film

www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...
Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again
Kodak appears to be taking back control over the distribution of its film.
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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fjbarb.bsky.social
Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.
samanthamash.bsky.social Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 24d
When people hear that I'm returning to part time work they often ask "are things not going well with your art?"

The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
houseofsparrows.bsky.social
gotta say @brndnstrssng.bsky.social goes deep on this lovely interview with Robert Englund, on the occasion of the latter's new star on Hollywood's walk of fame.

letterboxd.com/journal/nigh...
Enter Boogeyman: Robert Englund on a life of Nightmares on Elm Street • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With a gruesome new 4K box set of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise hitting shelves, Brandon Streussnig sits down with Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, to look back on the inimitable horror...
letterboxd.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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dceiver.bsky.social
really liked this piece from @brianbeutler.bsky.social and I think he's right that the next successful Democratic presidential candidate will build off of Biden's warnings about the tech oligopoly and its many ills

www.offmessage.net/p/defiant-re...
The Defiant Resistance Speech An American Should Have Given
There's power waiting to be claimed by an ambitious political figure who makes this his or her cause.
www.offmessage.net
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
houseofsparrows.bsky.social
Ain't no "allegedly.

Like the residents of 16th and Valencia, and with my fellow Roxie patrons, I am grieving and angry.

Rock in Perpetuity, KitKat.

Go screaming to hell, @Waymo
amyalexca.bsky.social AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 28d
Sadly, #KitKat the bodega cat was no match for an unmanned #Waymo: “‘He was a special guest made for a store like this. Friendly w/ everybody, and not afraid of dogs or anything.”—Mike Zeidan, owner of Randa’s Market in #SanFrancisco’s Mission District. #RIP #KitKat 😿 sfstandard.com/2025/10/28/w...
Waymo allegedly kills cat at San Francisco store
A convenience store owner and patrons are grieving the loss of their beloved mascot, KitKat.
sfstandard.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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filmbuffrich.bsky.social
Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/
Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online
The Library of Congress’s Historical Media Publications Collection is now a an online, searchable resource for film fans and historians.
www.filmbuffonline.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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bykowicz.bsky.social
It's starting to occur to state lawmakers that utility customers aren't super keen on paying for all these data centers that are straining the grid, via @briaovers.bsky.social @thebaltimorebanner.com
www.thebanner.com/economy/pjm-...
Maryland officials sound alarm on data centers’ $100B power grid suck
The rapid rise of data centers is hitting the region’s power grid. Maryland lawmakers are concerned that utility ratepayers will pay the $100 billion price for them.
www.thebanner.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
Trump says there will be no invasion of San Francisco. I don’t think anyone should relax just yet though, especially because as far as I can tell he hasn’t said anything about Oakland or the rest of the Bay. www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...
Trump calls off planned federal ‘surge’ in S.F.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he called off the planned federal deployment to the city after speaking with Mayor Daniel Lurie.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed
blasphemousjones.bsky.social Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · Oct 22
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening.

Make statues of this.
A woman in what looks like business attire with a black handbag over her shoulder stands in front of an armed vehicle flipping the bird with both hands. Unfortunately a friend sent this to me, I don’t know who the hero woman is or the photographer
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!
October 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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dceiver.bsky.social
wahoowa

news.virginia.edu/content/uva-...
UVA declines invitation to join federal education compact
University leaders cited UVA’s commitment to merit-based research funding while inviting further dialogue about improving higher education.
news.virginia.edu
October 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
I added multiple fundraisers in the replies. Please help if you can
lexialex.bsky.social الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Oct 16
Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.
unrwa.org UNRWA @unrwa.org · Oct 16
UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.

But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.

Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.
October 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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abegoldfarb.bsky.social
Also at this point the sheer number of rank and file normie Dems who believe in a free Palestine is undeniable. The party adjusts to this or it withers.
October 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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rob-sheridan.com
Nine Inch Nails “Art is Resistance” flyer (2007), with some thoughts on what it means today that came up in my recent Q&A. #NoKings ✊
Nine Inch Nails "Art is Resistance" flyer, 2007. The Art is Resistance flyer, designed by 42 Entertainment with art direction by Trent Reznor and me, was plastered around cities to draw players of the NIN “Year Zero” ARG to real-world gatherings, secret meetings of “the resistance” in the Year Zero fiction, but also a very real mechanism to plant the seeds of real-world activism into a story about what the future might look like if more people didn’t “wake up and give a shit.” Unfortunately, the future turned out almost exactly like what we imagined in Year Zero, but the message - that art is resistance, and you have a voice - is more important than ever. Question (u/tiktock34): What do you think is the most powerful combination of art and music today, given our political climate? Im thinking of movements similar to the "Art is Resistance" type of message. Lots of music and lots of artists but its clear you are passionate about the blend. Also, thanks for the years! Huge fan Rob Sheridan: I think about this a lot, and wonder what the role of art should be in this particular moment of resistance. It's weird to look back at the NIN Year Zero ARG and "Art is Resistance" campaign from 2007 and see that the future took the bad path anyway, almost eerily to a tee. Not that I expected an album to change the future or anything, but at the bleakest of times I couldn't help but second-guess if art did matter anymore in terms of actually affecting change; if I should have been more involved with organizing or with direct action, if we were deluding ourselves in thinking we were doing anything more than a cool art project. But then, year in and year out, again and again, right now included, fans tell me - more than any other project I ever worked on, by far - how much Year Zero meant to them, how much the Art is Resistance campaign inspired them, how it changed the way they viewed the intersection of music and politics. They show me the AiR flag tattoos, their numbers from the ARG, the friends they made through the process, the paths they took after - some even met their future spouses! And it reminds me that yeah, what we did mattered, because a lot of fans were radicalized by that experience to be more politically-aware and think more like activists, and a lot of artists were emboldened to speak out more. 1/3 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/ These days artists/celebs are expected to have an opinion on everything and will even get called out for not speaking up on some things, but back in the early 2000s there was this real cynicism about music being "political." Bands would get so much backlash and told to "stick to music" if they voiced political opinions. I'm proud I helped NIN be one of the bands of the era to really break through that barrier on With Teeth and then demolish it completely on Year Zero, and help a lot of fans come around to how fundamentally intertwined art and politics have always been. And today? I don't think there's any right or wrong way to combine art / music with message, because I think just making art - any kind of art - is a crucial part of the resistance we need right now. At the core of the fascist project is the removal of intellectual and artistic freedoms, and that tells you all you need to know about how much art matters. Between the billionaire techbros & CEOs showing how much they revile creators by racing to gut their livelihoods, and the grotesquely ugly, unfunny, uncreative anti-aesthetics of the right-wing movement, a systemic disdain for the arts and sciences is stronger than it's ever been. In a moment like this, we all have to keep making human art and connecting around human art, whether it's aggressive music that calls the fuckers out directly or just cute drawings of cats that make people smile. I know artists who are making very direct and provocative protest art; speaking truth to power loudly and directly is important, but it's not everyone's lane and it's not the only way to use art right now. 2/3 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/ I also know musicians who are just carrying on with their shows without really speaking out specifically, because they know how many vulnerable people are in their audiences going to their shows for strength and community, and they don't want to put additional targets on those peoples' backs. Protecting your community matters, too. For my own part, thinking about all of this over the past year was a big motivation in doing my art book right now. The feeling of not being sure who I should be or what I should say as an artist in this moment, how much it matters, and finding along the way that some of the art I was making that was really connecting with people and helping them, was art that wasn't literal with a specific message, it just honestly evoked the way I was feeling and the way I think a lot of people are feeling. The catharsis of feeling together, of knowing you're not alone in the way you feel, of seeing artists who matter to you also feeling the same thing; that gives strength, and strength is power. It's okay to check out to take care of yourself. And it's okay to find joy in music, art, movies, games, books, sports right now. I'd say it's crucial to find joy, more than ever. They're counting on you sacrificing joy, because then you lose hope, and then you lose the strength to fight back. Art is resistance, and joy is defiance. If your little drawing of a cat brought you or someone else some joy today, that matters. They want you to give up. Keep. Making. Art. Rob Sheridan, 16 Oct 2025 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/
October 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
I debated about whether to block or not. But these accounts, it is already clear, are being run by malevolent trolls. They do not deserve your time, attention, or engagement. Don't overthink it. Block them all.
eva.computer eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · Oct 17
white house has joined bluesky
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October 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM