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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 9h

Wut

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 10h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 11h

Asked to leave the No Kings Protest because I showed up in a 1999 Sacramento Jason Williams jersey.

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 11h

Lmao

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

From @theathletic.com: Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, announced that it will be hosting its own Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 8, 2026, to rival the NFL’s choice of Bad Bunny.

Turning Point USA, group founded by Charlie Kirk, announces Super Bowl halftime counterprogramming

Turning Point USA is calling its Super Bowl halftime show a celebration of "faith, family and freedom."

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 11h

Is that supposed to be Legolas?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

First images emerge from new BBC adaptation of Lord of the Flies

Adolescence writer/producer Jack Thorne is behind the first TV adaptation of William Golding’s beloved novel Images have been released from the first ever TV adaptation of the 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, the latest project from the writer/producer of the hit Netfix series Adolescence. Jack Thorne helped Adolescence’s teenage star Owen Cooper become the youngest male to win a primetime Emmy. Now the writer will be hoping to repeat the success for another child actor, turning his attention to a BBC adaptation of William Golding’s novel. Continue reading...

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 15h

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 17h

To use a booze analogy, this reminds me of the marketing of natural wine or the early days of the micro-distilling movement.

Consumer: This tastes like shit.
Marketer: We need to re-educate the palates of consumers.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19h

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

Yankees lose ❤️

Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

Daffy and Donald Ducks.

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

John Wooden would like a word.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"Before we were Antifa we were the Originals, but we had to change our name because someone was already using that name. It was the Regulars, then they changed their name back to The Regulars and we thought, well, we could go back to The Originals but what's the point?"

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

Be sure to gummy up for side 6.

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

I came in second in the first bar trivia game tonight by wagering big, and came in first in the second game by wagering nothing. I'm not sure if that means anything.

Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

I was waiting for your post card, the one that never came

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Detroit Free Press @freep.com · 1d

FINAL: Detroit Tigers 9, Seattle Mariners 3 in Game 4 of the ALDS.

The Tigers' offense comes alive just in time, sending the series back to Seattle for a winner-take-all Game 5 on Friday, and their ace Tarik Skubal on the mound.

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

Not soon enough.

Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

When I see Sugar reunion rumors.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

All this time I was afraid of getting arrested at a DSA meeting, when I really should have been afraid of getting bombed.

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

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News Anchor Voice: I’m receiving word we are seeing gruesome footage of the war zones of terror that exist inside our cities. Viewers beware, this is some scary radical left gore.

The footage:

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 1d

Happy World Cephalopod Day! 🐙This sucker for adventure feels its way through the world!

With thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors packed into each sucker, the giant Pacific octopus has a real sense for exploration.

A red-colored giant Pacific octopus with one eye poking out from its body while stretching out its arms, and showing off its white, round suckers

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Josh Wright 🪦🪦🪦🪦 @joshwri.bsky.social · 1d

What are you gonna do about it, moneybags?