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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 6h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 16h

Enjoying all the Mariners love and since I’m on the West coast I get to enjoy it at a decent hour. Go M’s.

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 17h

If the Mariners win the World Series Criterion needs to put out a 4K of HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 20h

Perhaps worth noting that between this and FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, 2025 has given us two DOA direct-to-streaming "heist" movies that prominently feature shipwrecks. Must be something in the water.

Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 20h

"This Parker, as played by vacuous wet wool sweater Mark Wahlberg, is a dead-eyed, humourless simpleton constantly wondering in the wordless, pleading way a goat asks for a field of milkweed."

Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 1d

FFC review: PLAY DIRTY, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social).
filmfreakcentral.net/2025/10/play...

Play Dirty (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

½*/****starring Mark Wahlberg, LaKeith Stanfield, Rosa Salazar, Tony Shaloubwritten by Charles Mondry & Anthony Bagarozzidirected by Shane Black by Walter Chaw It took me 72 hours to finish Shane Blac...

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 1d

To me this doesn't read so much like DOGE cutting as someone trying to Confident their way out of ignorance. "We both know that *I* know what you do, but just for fun let's pretend I don't and you had to explain it to me very simply."

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

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IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

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Tim Healey @timbhealey.bsky.social · 2d

This is the first time in Yankees history that they have won just one World Series in a quarter-century.

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 3d

@jspencersharpe.bsky.social It is my solemn duty to bring this thread to your attention (in case you haven't seen it already).

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

would you like to live multi-modally?

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 3d

y’all this goes so hard

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 4d

Did they have to win specifically for acting or could they have won for writing and/or producing/directing the movie they acted in?

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 4d

Saw it when it first hit DVD and my main memory is wishing the "M aime M" bit translated better into English. Gonna have to give it a revisit soon.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 4d

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 4d

www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Kaleb Horton Obituary (2025) - Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles Times

View Kaleb Charles Horton's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 4d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Kyle Gilman @kylegilman.net · 4d

So in the new Tron movie, Tron comes out? I've seen the other Tron movies and you go into Tron, Tron doesn't come out, you go in. What even is Tron to you? youtu.be/8cdBcfLhJVY?...

Jumanji - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 6d

Now reading: WHY RELIGION WENT OBSOLETE by Christian Smith.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 6d

This is it. Trump is not a historical aberration; Trump is a reminder that after decades of comforting platitudes about the arc of history, something approaching actual democracy in this country is barely 50 years old.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6d

For diff reasons, there are people who say if u look at the grand scheme of American history, Trumpism isn’t all that divergent from what America is, and yes exactly that’s why it’s so titanically bad

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 6d

A+ blog

Max Read @maxread.info · 8d

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

'One Battle After Another' as a car movie

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 6d

Seems to me the line of thinking is “I feel something for my chatGPT, and my feelings must be legitimate, therefore your denigration of chatGPT deligitimizes my feelings.” Complete self-absorption that begins with the abdication of interrogating why/how they might develop the feelings they have.

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 6d

In my head I always rhyme “woah” with “Noah” and I don’t know how so many people don’t.

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 6d

KATABASIS had me from page one and kept me through to page 541 because Rebecca Kuang writes with her heart and her influences on her sleeve. Surprising, engaging, and maybe even enlightening? I can’t say it’s fun—C.S. Lewis once said that… www.instagram.com/p/DPZ72-cAW3...

It’s the book cover, but in black and white

Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 6d

America's descent into chaos update: Trader Joe's in-store music is Motley Crüe's "Girls Girls Girls."

Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 8d

Coincidentally, that's the actual lede of this review from @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social

www.truthdig.com/articles/pau...

"One Battle After Another" Review: Paul Thomas Anderson's Intimate Revolution

“One Battle After Another,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a Molotov cocktail lobbed right at the studio system.

www.truthdig.com

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Adam Palmer @thatadampalmer.bsky.social · 9d

Out of all your Big Gets for your students this is the most jaw-dropping. What a fortunate bunch they are to have you for a professor.