Travis Acevedo
@travisacevedo.bsky.social
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Tea blender. Texan in Brooklyn. The Spectral Saloon is my band
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
travisacevedo.bsky.social
Cannot imagine the person who is clamoring for Aziz Ansari to come back, doing his same hack cutesy nonsense now in his mid 40s
travisacevedo.bsky.social
Woke up at 3am to write a 20+ paper on Kantian cosmopolitanism due at noon. Was thwacked on cough medicine and adderall and mostly remember rapping along to Three 6 Mafia while looking for quotes. I’ll John Henry an AI any day of the week
monkeyminion.com
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes
travisacevedo.bsky.social
This comes from an article about Tom Petty’s FULL MOON FEVER
travisacevedo.bsky.social
Can Warby Parker get their money back for those Arch Manning commercials?
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marc-fischer.bsky.social
Read this, feel it, and know that it's on us to challenge these fuckers wherever and whenever we find them.
dansinker.com
ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…
travisacevedo.bsky.social
Perhaps Trump’s full-on embrace of dogshit AI slop will make enough people want to distance themselves from it that this whole facade will finally crumble
travisacevedo.bsky.social
Read and repost, everybody
laurajedeed.bsky.social
The American cities Trump has vowed to invade one by one produce 90% of this country's GDP. We must withhold these funds, and our infrastructure, from the United States Government, until these invasions stop

If you only read one thing I've ever written, please make it this
The Point Of No Return
We Are At War, Whether We Want To Be Or Not
www.bannedinyourstate.com
travisacevedo.bsky.social
Chappelle’s slide into bootlicking hackery would be a tragedy if he hadn’t also become so lazy and dull. Went from generational voice to utterly inconsequential, and for what? So he can mock queer teens while Elon gifts him a jet pack? Fucking pathetic, man
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atrupar.com
Warren: "Knock 15 million people off their coverage, drive up the cost for everyone else, close rural hospitals -- that's the Republican plan, because you know what the real heart of it was? They gave away a trillion dollars to the billionaires. That was the part that matters to them."
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amandamarcotte.bsky.social
That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.

On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why
The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem
www.salon.com
travisacevedo.bsky.social
So now it’s just straight up racial cleansing
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.
travisacevedo.bsky.social
My early evening screening at the Times Sq imax last night was completely sold out, for what that’s worth

(The movie rips)
travisacevedo.bsky.social
I’m jittering with excitement about seeing ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in a few hours. I feel like a little kid, I’m so stoked
travisacevedo.bsky.social
Yeah, we are going through it
travisacevedo.bsky.social
I was so into Fallen when I was a kid. One time I called the video store to ask them to hold a copy so I could be sure I could show it to some friends that night. The video clerk shot back, “dude, don’t worry, there’s no danger of a rush on Fallen.” Crushed me at the time but a hilarious reply now
travisacevedo.bsky.social
Hammers home how much of a mistake it was to muzzle Walz post convention
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kleinman.bsky.social
It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.
bencollins.bsky.social
Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
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alexwild.bsky.social
I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.

The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.

Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020
A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.
www.texastribune.org
travisacevedo.bsky.social
This cowboys/giants game is a prime example of neither team winning, just one team losing more slowly