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aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · May 16

my money got her amazed call that wonder bread

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 14m

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature after I watch a bunch of Béla Tarr films and add "read some laszlo krasznahorkai books" to my 2025 new year's resolutions*... coincidence?

*still haven't done it of course

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Trylove, A Movie Podcast @trylovepodca.st · 1d

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒.

Our spooky season kicks off with THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974) in all its gory glory of American rural decline!

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#filmsky #Halloween2025 #spookyseason #horrormovies

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aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 3d

looking for vegetarian meals that's not just a bunch of beanslop... weirdly hard thing to do

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 4d

it was part of a variety pack. not my fault.

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 4d

drinking a pumpkin ale that just tastes like absolute ass. straight-up sewer water.

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aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 4d

It's #PerformativeReadingSaturday what are we reading in public folks

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 5d

Listened to most of that new album... Really embarrassing stuff

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 6d

"I believe she was a sperm thief."

"...a semen demon?"

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI.

Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo driving a train.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo working on the outside of a building.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 7d

had a bit of a chuckle imagining a dumb guy tattoo that says "SURVIVE OR DIE"

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 7d

Goes without saying that everyone on the Gaza flotilla is incredibly heroic. Same for those protesting in Europe.

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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Trylove, A Movie Podcast @trylovepodca.st · 8d

𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕨𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕦𝕥.

No ghosts here — just special guest Tony Wagner! Back to help us dissect another movie compromised by studio meddling: Michael Mann’s very weird THE KEEP (1983)!

Is it a Mannsterpiece of vibecraft or a cult clunker?

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#filmsky #podcast #80svibes #cinema

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aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 8d

why do I have to keep hearing about ezra klein. i've had to hear about ezra klein for like 12 years now

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 8d

shadow ticket preorder acquired 👍

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 10d

the first sinner may have been the heretic here

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aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 10d

they said he'd never beat first sinner

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aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 10d

uncorking an expensive bottle of red, lighting the fireplace, and sitting back in a nice big easy chair to read armond white blather on about one battle after another
www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/ther...

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 11d

i look fly as hell in this shit

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 11d

listening to one summer's day on a summer day... joe really knocked it out of the park with that one

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 12d

Right. I was honestly expecting something much, much more dissimilar based on what I had read

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aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 12d

Apart from other books of Wolfe's, Anna Kavan's "Ice" is a great rec that hits a lot of the same notes.

aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 12d

(which itself feels like a result of the decision to modernize the story, and also a natural consequence of not being written in the 80s)

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aaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 12d

Very odd seeing people say that One Battle After Another fails to properly adapt + interpret the themes of Vineland. It feels to me like it undeniably does that, even if the former's views on the remnants of the '60s revolutionary ideals are much more optimistic

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 12d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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