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Quinn Rollins

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Quinn Rollins @jedikermit.bsky.social · 22d

Anyone who says "kids these days..." and follows it with anything negative...doesn't know kids these days. They impress me every single day with their intellect, their compassion, and their hope. They have it so much more together than I did. Kids these days are brilliant.

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 1d

Do it. Do it right now. Stop reading this. Go and open another browser tab and pre-order Phil’s book.

Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 1d

Pre-order your copy of @ABRAMSbooks’ The Art of Star Wars: Andor (The Complete Series) today! Featuring artwork from all 24 episodes, plus extensive interviews with creator Tony Gilroy, star Diego Luna, Emmy-winning production designer Luke Hull, and many more! (May 19, 2026)

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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 21m

If you haven’t read the 1619 Project, here’s a summary

Blake Rogers Wilson @bodyindc.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hampton

"The first documented Africans in Virginia arrived here in August. 1619 on the White Lion, an English privateer based in the Netherlands. Colonial officials traded food for these '20 and odd' Africans, who had been captured from a Portuguese slave ship."

A silver Va historic marker with black text. Behind it is the Atlantic Ocean. It describes the history of the "first Africans in Virginia."

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Quinn Rollins @jedikermit.bsky.social · 16m

Oscar's not super pumped about snow in October

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 1d

Rowling spends all day on Twitter attacking trans people and siccing her followers on them. She threatens anyone in the UK who criticizes her with lawsuits. This is not your grandpa saying, "I don't know about this transgender thing." This is extreme hate from a person who revels in harming others.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: i don’t think most people are aware of just how extreme Rowlings views and actions are

Decider @deciderdotcom.bsky.social · 1d

Keira Knightley was "not aware" of 'Harry Potter' boycott when she joined audiobook cast for JK Rowling series: "I'm very sorry"

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 7h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 9h

Soon they’re going to make it illegal to call them fascists

And they won’t see the irony

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9h

Last I checked the GOP controls all branches of our government.

Tweet from MeidasTouch: “Wow that’s crazy. Who’s running the federal government?”
Below, Acyn’s tweet quotes Rep. Mike Johnson: “If you look at polling, people’s faith in the federal government is at an all-time low. Why? Because they don’t see that it’s being done well.”
A C-SPAN screenshot shows Johnson speaking with another man standing beside him.

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 7h

I absolutely loved having this long conversation with Tim Curry, whose memoir comes out Tuesday. He told terrific stories about, among others, Meat Loaf, Ivana Trump, John Huston, Truman Capote, and Miss Piggy. What a life! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Tim Curry Does the Time Warp

The actor and singer discusses the origins of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 9h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 14h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Quinn Rollins @jedikermit.bsky.social · 8h

All these workers "just walked into the door" or "slipped and fell down the stairs"

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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 8h

"You forced me"

~Every fucking abuser

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 22h

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 21h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 8h

Turn the computers off

NPR @npr.org · 8h

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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James Hance @jameshance.com · 23d

“Lost Boy”🧛‍♂️🍜- A new original framed painting up on jameshance.com today!

✨🎨 (Gesso / Acrylic Gouache / Acrylic on Illustration Board)

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James Hance @jameshance.com · 10d

“Keep your chin up. Some day there’ll be happiness again, you’ll see.”

Inktober Day 1 - Original framed painting now up on jameshance.com ❤️✨🎨

31 days of favorite characters, neither Ink, nor Tober!

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James Hance @jameshance.com · 7d

“This Is A Mother’s Angel” (Young Frankenstein)

Inktober Day 4 - Original framed painting now up on jameshance.com ❤️✨🎨

31 days of favorite characters, neither Ink, nor Tober!

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James Hance @jameshance.com · 3d

“So Many Strong Reservations” 🍃🩸(Little Shop Of Horrors)

Inktober Day 8 - Original cradled panel painting now up on jameshance.com ❤️✨🎨

31 days of favorite characters, neither Ink, nor Tober!

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James Hance @jameshance.com · 8h

“Hoggle” (No politics, pls 🖤)

Inktober Day 11 - Original framed painting now up on jameshance.com ❤️✨🎨

I’m a bit late with this one - Playing catchup

31 days of favorite characters, neither Ink, nor Tober!

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Quinn Rollins @jedikermit.bsky.social · 8h

Took this magnificent monster to a dog friendly pumpkin patch and haunted corn maze (with no scare actors) yesterday...he made this face a lot 🫣

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.

(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)

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Flexible scheduling--learn when energy is high,
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Life skill development like goal-setting and time
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Whether they're a morning person, a wiggle-break taker,
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daughter learn in a way that works for them.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too.
#NoKings
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No Kings — Freedom (video)

Why protest is patriotic

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