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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 8h

What can't Eric Smith do (2000) web.archive.org/web/20000816...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 18h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Iach Bodb @iachbodb.bsky.social · 22h

I drive past this marquee for Arby's that just says "THE LOADED ITALIAN IS BACK" and my brain goes "He has a name. You can just use his name."

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 13h

Today I drove over a hundred miles to bring her birthday perry and birthday ribs and it was worth all the miles and then some

ST in her cool cap is enjoying a cup of hot hard pear cider

We are sitting in the front porch of the greatest bbq roadhouse ever and ST is happily sitting in front of a half-massacred slab of ribs

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

I was recently scuba diving in Indonesia and I can 100% confirm that the dick starfish are real and they actually look like this:

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

people helping people tonight in the air

ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 1d

(1/2) VDLM2 Message From: N993AN / AA3245

Message: GIVING THE NEW PHILLY CAPT A PLANE WITH NO WIFI DURING A PLAYOFF BASEBALL GAME IS A BAD JOKE. THINK THEY BOOD ME AT THE GATE APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD UPDATE US WITH OCCASIONAL SCORES. I PROMISSED TO PASS THEM ALONG. UNLESS THEY ARE LOSING IAN

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Um, he's antifa. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris firebomb the 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

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

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 2d

would be cool if Dr oz became Dr stfu

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

this is beautiful theatre

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Fill Colons @uneasylover.bsky.social · 1d

Hey jimmy, get me a social network with nothin'

Image from old string cheese commerical. Cook guy named Jimmy is asked to make a "cheese pizza with nothing" and is perplexed so he scrunches his face and says "nuttin'??". He's wearing a little paper hat that looks like the boat you'd put french fries in.

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

now that's a well-fed raptor

we used to have a tree out back of our old place where every now and then a hawk would bring up a squirrel for a little dinner al fresco

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

This is what was taken from us

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 1d

marlborough-blenheim-claridge hotels, atlantic city, new jersey, 1978

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 3d

if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

The bus ride earlier was beautified by a hawk which followed us from Teele to Davis, circling around and at some points hovering in midair before wheeling around and figure 8ing, way to go hawk, enjoy the air

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

Got two helicopters circling Teele/Clarendon so if you're out walking it feels like the end of Goodfellas; if you hear Harry Nilsson you're screwed

There's apparently a tree down on Paulina and maybe that's what they're trying to hover over?

This has been your West Somerville update

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

abraham benrubi went on to be a regular on ER and every time he showed up we'd go "hell yeah, kubiac's here"

this was a fun live action cartoon of a show which managed to beat nbc's ferris bueller by letting its leads be kids & not smug-ass cool doodz

hope it's aged well; it had a great cast

Zach Wilson @televisionaryzw.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨First time streaming alert 🚨🚨 Now streaming for what I believe is the first time in the US, all three seasons of Parker Lewis Can't Lose are on Plex!

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Yael @elle91.bsky.social · 18d

"Not all jobs are supposed to earn you a living wage" oh for sure, this is my recreational job.

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2d

seek ye out the halal places which charge a small amount at the end of the night for such a large amount of chicken and rice in a bowl that the top cannot be sealed and you have to carry it out with the plastic bag wrapped double around it

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2d

You can't go around saying you were Derek in Star Wars, nobody is going to believe you

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🥦Lina @broccolina.bsky.social · 2d

my hot take is that torrenting is preservation

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2d

I maintain that if the profession is going to allow genAI, we have to be okay with torrenting of media too.

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 2d

when you say "Albany" wrong once and just roll with it and then you're in too deep

kos data: 🇺🇸🇦🇱 NYC Mayor Eric Adams is traveling to Albania for an official visit, one week after dropping his reelection bid.

(Via: NBC New York)

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 2d

additional weird overlap: benjamin "bugsy" siegel, kingpin of Murder Inc and effective founder of modern vegas, had to be talked out of killing Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering at a party in Italy in 1939

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2d

I am wired to believe via my virginia/north carolina side that a container of cottage cheese and a shaker of lawry's seasoned salt (it cannot just be plain salt, no sir) makes for good sit-by-the-TV eating, and I stand by that to this day

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 3d

imagining the cleaning lady standing in shock as all seventeen fall one after the other through the door of a cupboard which could surely never have contained them in the first place

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 3d

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

www.thetimes.com

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