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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 29m

It took me two days to address notes on one scene but I finally got it done. Sometimes the writing's quick and others it's like pulling teeth. #writing

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1h

If your grandfather fought in WWII he was "antifa"

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h

Jack Posobiec speaks at the "Antifa Roundtable" and immediately references the Weimar Republic. He's a nazi.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 1h

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1h

Love the little dance he does at the end.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 8h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 2h

I'll repeat this until the LLMs bubble finally bursts: We were told NFTs were "the future" "here to stay" and "inevitable"

Where's that market now.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 5h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 3h

Dolly Posting.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 7h

If you want to create a docile, obedient nation, first attack the arts so you deskill children of critical thinking. Once you’ve done that the people can be moulded as their rulers please. Beware this barbarism. It’s a path to demagoguery and authoritarianism

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 3h

None of these immigration enforcement goons should ever know a moment's peace but Black folks roasting a Black HSI agent's haircut right in front of his white coworkers is a special little slice of heaven

TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 4h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 3h

Credit where credit is due. At least some Democrat is calling Johnson out on Republican bullshit

Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 3h

Ran into Speaker Johnson and told him exactly how I feel about Republicans shutting down the government to protect pedophiles and jack up health care costs for 24 million Americans.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 3h

We really need to do a better job of warning teenagers and young people that being an adult is just a series of unexpected expenses hitting your bank account every time you think you might be able to build some breathing room. Financial literacy should be a mandatory class in high school.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 19h

a rabbit from the secret life of pets is angry and says `` i 'm sorry ... what ? ''

ALT: a rabbit from the secret life of pets is angry and says `` i 'm sorry ... what ? ''

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 21h

I didn’t ask 😆 I showed with ‘em up like “THIS IS HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS MOVIE” and they let me use them

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 23h

That is also true 😆

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 1d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, it's me. I'm the obsessive it's me.

A screenshot of Akela Cooper from the horror docuseries In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999 holding up a book novelization and collector's magazine for the 1995 film Tales From the Crypt Presents Demon Knight

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1d

Growing up I watched a lot of docuseries with my parents and I always wanted to be a talking head in something. Thanks to In Search of Darkness that dream continues to come true.

youtu.be/RbI8TazeC3I?...

In Search Of Darkness 1995-1999 trailer

YouTube video by CREATORVC LIVE

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K8 Häxan 🦇 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Truly amazing that this is a massive open secret that continues to be ignored.
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Jared Leto's #MeToo Moment

Rumors of the actor's inappropriate behavior with younger women have swirled for decades. Now, nine people have come forward with their stories.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 1d

He remains a horrible human with an above average social media manager.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

you are no longer allowed to have imposter syndrome.

not after this bari omgwtf weiss situation.

you're literally not allowed to feel imposter syndrome ANYMORE

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 2d

Yes they did. What we're seeing here is the beginning of the "I was never a (real) supporter" backtracking so they don't have to shoulder any blame for where we are.

They'll all eventually do this, including Republicans in office. We cannot let them live it down. Ever.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 2d

For a product that creates slop that helps no one and does nothing. Why are we allowing this?

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

fortune.com

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