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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 7h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 10h

Hell yeah, see you at the merch table

Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 11h

MTV's own Jimmy The Cab Driver. Pictured, a sweaty white man with glasses and long damp hair and a damp white t-shirt, driving some manner of 80's taxi with a very beige, most likely very damp interior, looking over his shoulder at the camera.

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 14h

Mitsubishi Delica drove down my street the other day and I almost chased it

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 14h

Oh cool, def familiar with some of his work but not a lot.

Knowing how the field works now, I had to imagine whoever it was was working in a very different era and economy :)

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 14h

I have to imagine Richter would be putting up numbers on proper Jeopardy! too.

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 14h

Budgets for site visits aren't what they used to be, apparently!

Would be curious who the famous LA was, and what kind of practice they had, I work for a small but more-or-less prestigious firm and I can't think of how we would pull off something like that, logistically. Would be cool as hell tho!

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 15h

If I watch it at all, it'll be on the back of an airplane seat like the director intended

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 19h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 17h

I tried recording my kid’s soccer team doing this after games a few years back, with the idea to do something along these lines, but didn’t get enough good audio

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 1d

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

That said, I did go to a private high school that pushed writing hard, so I could use those drilled in skills to advance my slacker-ass attitude

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

In college, I took a literature class with my then girlfriend/now wife, and she worked for like 2 weeks on her final paper, I worked on it for 2 days. I ended up getting a better grade, and boy was there some strain on our relationship. Decades later she still brings it up as an annoying me story.

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

Had a similar moment walking by the neighborhood comic book shop window a couple days ago!

A photo of a comic book shop window, in it is a lot of comic book memorabilia, as well as a game board box reading HUSKER DU?

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 1d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

They're never hungrier than 10 minutes before bedtime tho

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

Danielson Famile

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Which praise and worship band would Mike Johnson prefer to do the Super Bowl halftime show, wrong answers only

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 1d

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

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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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

Chat Pile @chatpileband.bsky.social

RIYL Unwound, Pissed Jeans, Part Chimp

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

A real standout in a series that is basically all standouts.

quiet details @quietdetails.bsky.social · 1d

Huge thanks for the support so far for qd40 @scannerdot.com - Forces, Reactions, Defections!

Such a wonderful album it’s a true pleasure to share with you.

Two more days of half-price digital - some CDs still available too, so if you want one, they’re there for now!

#scanner #quietdetails #music

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't that basically what Lana Del Rey did?

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

Her song "Maroon" from Midnights has a line about "Your roommate's cheap-ass screw-top rosé" and while I legit think that song kind of rules, that line always gives me pause, like cmon, when was the last time you even hung out with someone who has roommates, in their home?

Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

That Brussels Sprouts sandwich is incredible. Also their Nashville Hot Mushroom sandwich is better than most Nashville Hot Chicken sandwiches I've eaten in this town.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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