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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 12h

Still from the movie Captain Phillips showing the pirate leader pointing at himself with two fingers with text that reads "Look at me, I'm the Hut now"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

tim heidecker rocks

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9h

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 8h

Even today, there are ppl whose names show up differently on different documents. This is why "no match" voter clauses are so evil and effective.

If you're Thai? Forget about it.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 10h

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 8h

Games already claimed 👀

Fit to Print
Guild of Merchant Explorers
Inis + Seasons of Inis exp
Next Station: London
The Golden Ages + exp
Twilight Inscription
Wyrmspan

Still 50+ games left on the list!

Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 9h

🧵 Boardgame Rehoming: Fall 2025

I am paying forward 60+ boardgames from my collection!

• Google shared doc is 1st come, 1st served
• Games opened/played at least once. Most are like new. (NOT for collectors)
• You pay shipping - contiguous United States only

Link to list + details in comments!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8h

This is why I get so exasperated when people suggest SF written 50+ years ago as the place for new readers of the genre, especially young readers, to start with. There is SO MUCH that will throw them out of the work, from outdated tech to outdated social structures. They'll leave and not come back.

J. Hammer-Slay PhD 🎃🧛‍♂️🧟‍♂️🧌👻 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 8h

Yup was just gonna comment on this! My kids always notice how outdated computers or other technology seem when I make them rewatch e.g. original Star Wars trilogy rr something

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

gene kelly is antifa

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 8h

My other literature opinion is...

You know those humorless librarians in the 1990s and 2000s who warned that the Harry Potter craze would yield kids who only read Harry Potter? And how they were mocked as shriveled old killjoys? Told that HP was a doorway to reading?

Apology when?

darwin from the amazing world of gumball is shown with the words apologize below him

ALT: darwin from the amazing world of gumball is shown with the words apologize below him

media.tenor.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17h

this girl Gloria who got into my local newspaper for seeing Titanic 50 times in Rome and who I have remembered since reading about her in 1998

Published March 14, 1998|Updated Sept. 12, 2005

A 12-year-old from Rome, identified only as Gloria, goes to the movies every day. Same time, same place, same movie: Titanic. So far, the girl has seen the hit film about 50 times, leading the pack of Italy's fervent Titanic fans. And she's still not tired of it. She even has cats named Jack and Rose. The young movie buff was discovered by the newspaper La Repubblica. "She comes to the 9 o'clock feature every night," said Giancarlo Malferrari, the owner of the only movie theater in Castelfranco Emilia, a town of 11,000 in central Italy. "And every weekend, she watches two shows in a row." Now the theater has started saving her favorite seat and even letting her in free. Neither he nor La Repubblica used the girl's last name, citing Italy's privacy law. Gloria told La Repubblica it isn't heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio that attracts her, but the character he plays: Jack Dawson, a struggling artist who wins his passage on the Titanic in a poker game. "Jack is cuter than Leo," she said. "And it's for real; it's a true story. That's what makes it so beautiful." Gloria's mother, a cleaning woman who works at night, says she hasn't seen Titanic yet but she's not worried about her daughter's obsession. "She's not doing anything bad," she told the newspaper, adding that Gloria has to do her homework first every night.

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moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 8h

All I know is that Switzerland should have to take me back

moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 9h

YUP. The kind of folks who pride themselves on not reading certain genres, or 'genre' at all, which is just telling on themselves right away

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 10h

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Kitty Dillinger @kittydillinger.bsky.social · 10h

understanding it from the audience perspective at the time was like a history lesson on life in Britain at the time, on top of reading Shakespeare. every teacher after that one was such a let down. 3/3

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Kitty Dillinger @kittydillinger.bsky.social · 10h

my first lit teacher explained As You Like It in context so we understood it the way the audience would have. it had plays on words and gender jokes bc male actors played all the roles. I think it also had jokes for the poorer people in the front that the rich didn't get. 2/

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Kitty Dillinger @kittydillinger.bsky.social · 10h

I only had 1 teacher explain Shakespeare in context, and to this day, it's the only full Shakespeare I've ever read. it actually was funny. Forcing people to read literature without explaining is counterproductive, yet many schools built an entire curriculum that does just that. 1/

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シェパード, Shepard @earthnova.bsky.social · 11h

Dr Victor Frankenstein was a man, who created life. When a man creates life, he is a "father". Children get their father's last name. Therefore it is correct to refer to Frankenstein's monster as Frankenstein. Or to be more specific, Mr. Frankenstein.

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moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 9h

My literary take is that a lot of people treat their reading list like an IQ number, showing it off because they think it makes them look smart, but it really just proves they're an arrogant asshole who thinks their opinion = fact & their preferences = good

Not sure how hinged that is

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moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 9h

How can it be genocide, asks the checkmarked pundit, if people are still alive?

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moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 9h

And they don't want to admit that

For these dudes, it's the old schtick about not calling someone a fascist/nazi, even if they are one, because civility, or it's not 1939 and therefore teeeeechnically...

It's a thing that can only be decided years after the fact, safely removed from the situation

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KL Resists @klknightlight.bsky.social · 11h

Massive theatre productions, but it's just a rotating cast of performers reading bedtime stories so everyone can nap

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Scotty B @scottyb.bsky.social · 12h

When a work is said to "transcend genre", what they really mean is the work is good but they don't want to concede the genre can have good works.

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 10h

100%. My hot literary take is that literary fiction IS a genre, just like science fiction, horror, mystery etc. The way lit fic is treated in western culture as though it is not a genre (those awful unwashed genre masses!) is disturbingly similar to how white people are thought not to have a color.

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moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 9h

Actual experts on the topic: genocide

Dudes high on politics and clout: you can't just throw around hurtfully accurate words like that

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12h

This is just objectively true and the ubiquity of the latter interpretation was a factor in how I just assumed no one would give a shit about my depression as a kid

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 12h

The Catcher in the Rye is about a teenager struggling with the grief of losing his younger brother to cancer and it's strongly hinted that the narrator has been a victim of childhood molestation or worse and everyone who takes that story and turns it into "rich kid won't stop whining" is illiterate.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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