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Making those Beautiful Podcasts @starsofspace.bsky.social and @rudetales.bsky.social . www.joelepore.cool
TFW you're standing in the middle of a frozen lake erie and the entire ice sheet splits underneath you 😰
February 12, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Movie 43 (2013)
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:

Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
February 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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what if, due to AI, in a couple of years the only people who have jobs are podcasters? that brings us to the obvious question: how are the rest of you going to get the money to pay for my podcasts? that's something you all need to be thinking about because i will not change my lifestyle.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: Analilia Mejia, the progressive challenger backed by Bernie Sanders and AOC, has won the Dem. primary in a special election for NJ's 11th House district, previously held by Mikie Sherrill.

Her main opponent, former Rep. Tom Malinowski, conceded Tue. as Mejia’s lead continued to grow...
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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My sincere hope is that every cast member lives
FEBRUARY 17th. THE FINAL NETHERMURK. WHO WILL SURVIVE?
February 8, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Wanna feel old? Billie Joe Armstrong has entered his Leno era
February 7, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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As a child in school I never could have imagined that as an adult hearing “the vice presence of the united states got booed at the Olympics” my reaction would be an Eriq-Lasalle-in-the-ER-opening-credits fist pump
February 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM
I don’t want a lot for ‘Lympics,
There is just one thing I need,
*a gold*
February 7, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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America is yearning for "it."
January 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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Yes, I’m buying groceries for multiple families now.
Do people broadly feel things have gotten much more unaffordable under Trump?
February 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I I know New York politics we're a month out from Hochul announcing she's relocating the Statue of Liberty to Utica
It's honestly a little unsettling to see a New York mayor and New York governor not at each other's throats.
I'm endorsing Gov. @KathyHochul because she's someone willing to engage in honest dialogue that delivers results.

Along with the movement that powered our campaign, it's how we secured a historic agreement on childcare. And we're just getting started.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
February 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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It's honestly a little unsettling to see a New York mayor and New York governor not at each other's throats.
I'm endorsing Gov. @KathyHochul because she's someone willing to engage in honest dialogue that delivers results.

Along with the movement that powered our campaign, it's how we secured a historic agreement on childcare. And we're just getting started.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Zohran Mamdani: Why I'm Endorsing Kathy Hochul
Exclusive: New York City's mayor explains why he's backing New York's governor in the 2026 election.
www.thenation.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I think this is a really important episode to listen to if you want to be ready for the finale of Nethermurk in two weeks
🚁🌃🪱RUDE TALES OF MAGIC🪱🌃🚁

NETHERMURK EPISODE 35: A Visit to Baltimore!
February 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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To understand what's going down at WaPo, this information is essential. The tech bros brought Trump to power, and the are exploiting their hold on the administration to accumulate wealth in an obscene fashion. The last thing they want is a newspaper running exposés that mess things up.
February 4, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I think as a fun throwback they should make a new episode of Pokemon that gives you seizures
February 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Yahoo with the frontrunner for Most Insane Social Graphic of 2026
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
February 3, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Netflix picked up a Pete Davidson "video podcast" which isn't really a podcast as it doesn't have an RSS audio portion. Hmm... This got me wondering about the deals.

Check out my full piece analyzing this trend & how it could hurt writers/actors/crews. writingandwhatnot.com/blog/podcasts
Podcasts Without Union Protection — Writing and Whatnot
Are streamers like Netflix and Amazon are rebranding talk shows as "podcasts" to avoid union contracts? Which celebrities will get caught in this labor loophole? Let's dig into it...
writingandwhatnot.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:41 AM
I swear to god the last email they release is gonna be Jeff in summer 2019 trying to acquire bats from Wuhan
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”

This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”

This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
1. Arthurian Romance
2. Pop Music
3. Nuclear Non-Proliferation
4. Scriptures of the World
5. The Kennedy Assassination
1.) Writing New York (@waterman.bsky.social is the king)
2.) Chaucer and Middle English
3.) Anglo-Saxon Literature
4.) History of Islam
And here’s a real class that even I wouldn’t have expected me to take:
5.) The Literature of Baseball
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Me: If I post any NSFW art I might lose job opportunities or even have my payment methods or bank accounts frozen
Every third dude in politics and tech: Hello Mister Pedophile may I request passage to Nubile Redhead Beach it seemed ever so interesting. Best Regards
Jeffrey Epstein: yea h / .,
January 31, 2026 at 4:28 AM
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Sarah Polley, on getting comedy acting tips from Catherine O’Hara www.gq.com/story/how-th...
January 30, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread

youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...
SCTV - Lola's Love Spirit
YouTube video by The Second City
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 6:37 PM