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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 9h

Like they made an actual *movie* out of it. I almost hate that there’s pre-planned sequels because you really do reach the end of the main character’s arc - and how it intersects with the larger themes - in a beautifully complete way (before the ending stinger at any rate).

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 9h

I saw 28 YEARS LATER a couple weeks ago and liked it fine on first viewing, but have subsequently started liking it better every time I think back on it.

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Audrey Armstrong @lesbiaudrey.bsky.social · 14h

Never stop posting, folks

The official Doctor Who Twitter account tagging my account dedicated to the Series 10 soundtrack with “can I just say something?”

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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 15h

The rules, the words and your way are tested in another little insight into camp life @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away - 0309 Spotlight: You’re Home Now 💜
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Give Me Away 0309 Spotlight: You're Home Now

Podcast Episode · Give Me Away · S3 E9 · 9m

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

And I just happen to be squeezed into that niche!

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Hahahaha when a man emerges like Michael Myers from the negative space behind Janet Leigh but it’s just boozy Father Hal Holbrook

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

As much of a murderer’s row of old favorites as THE FOG has, I save my biggest fond smile for Nancy Loomis.

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

It all fell apart when we stopped calling beer “the suds”

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

lol I posted this completely in earnest before I saw that this had become the meme of the evening.

Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

What did they arrest her for? It’s not a crime to be the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa - it’s not even a crime to be one of the founders of antifa!

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

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

A really old trick conservatives use is to accuse liberals of supporting an idea that would make sense under liberal values but that liberals don't actually support for tactical reasons. So you face a choice of either accepting the false accusation or you argue against your own values.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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Atypical Artists @atypicalartists.co · 1d

@macrogers.bsky.social, writer of Give Me Away and much, much more, is an expert on characters who have two people living inside of them. So his praise of TWO THOUSAND AND LATE means a great deal!

A stylized graphic with a burning megaphone that says: As a longtime aficionado of the Inner Voice subgenre of audio drama, I was delighted to hear that one of the leading artists of our field was taking it on - and Lauren Shippen crushes it as expected. Two Thousand And Late is Malevolent-meets-His-Girl-Friday, a breathless comedy about surviving late-late-late capitalism with a lot of laughs and some serious bite when you least expect it. Mac Rogers, writer of GIVE ME AWAY

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

(Didn't notice that Clegg story is 4 months old before QTing, but I suspect the sentiment is ongoing.)

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“I can’t go door-to-door getting everyone’s permission in advance for my Burglar Robot to ransack their houses, that would take years, be reasonable!”

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

For me a new Taylor Swift album is like if the Super Bowl went on for several weeks. I don’t hate either of those things, I just don’t care about either of them, so I just sort of sit out culture until they’ve blown over.

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna build a Burglar Robot that breaks into houses and steals shit - but it's cool, guys, each individual homeowner is allowed to opt out of their house being burglarized.

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

The entitlement is just breathtaking: "We built a machine that needs stealing to survive, so it's not fair to tell us not to steal."

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A core part of Marco Rubio's public identity is that he's a Christian, but nothing casts doubt on the faith for me so much as the fact that he doesn't catch fire the second he sets foot in a church.

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Against some very stiff competition, this is the worst thing the second Trump Administration as done. I appreciate the AP's work to keep it from becoming yesterday's news.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta say this seems unlikely Bluesky

Search for “plenary authority” showing no results

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Me waking up in the middle of the night and rolling over onto my other side that isn’t yet sore from being slept on: “This is genius! This is such a great idea I’m having!”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.