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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · May 25

Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"

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Mary Kobayashi @marykoco.bsky.social · 2h

I shouldn't have to press shift to get the colon. Shift should be for the semicolon. Bitch, you are no one's first choice

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 3h

Holding aside everything—everything—else, the President conducting very sensitive conversations with his Attorney General on an unencrypted social media platform would have been a major scandal any time before 2016. Is he DMing the CIA Director on there? The Secretary of Defense? We don’t know.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 5h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Nick “Rocket” Rodriguez (he/him) @nickrodriguez00.bsky.social · 3h

This makes me so sad. 😭

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 7h

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 2h

Like for real. The plot of Spirited Away is about a kidnapped child forced into a life of indentured servitude in realm of gods after her mother and father are magically forced into becoming pigs by a witch. Meanwhile, Princess Mononoke exists.

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever someone uses Ghibli or Miyazaki as a synonym for "quaint, charming, unthreatening" I'm always like "bro did we watch the same movies?"

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 3h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 4h

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"

Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.

"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"

"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"

"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."

"Is it really as simple as that?"

"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?

What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 15h

Just don't share A.I. slop of any sort. I've seen a wave of Sora shit on various social media platforms.
A.I. is destructive on too many levels to ever encourage anyone to use it, and sharing or liking is encouragement.
Complicity in the destruction of our planet and humanity.

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🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈 @blcagnew.bsky.social · 2h

Popping in the Criterion of CRONOS - my first time, hold all my calls.

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🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈 @blcagnew.bsky.social · 2h

GotDAMN. what a year for the genre.

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 1d

Letterboxd’s top 25 highest rated horror films of 2025 (so far) 👀

See the full list on Horrorville ➡️ boxd.it/Pnt3u

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

More and more Democrats are calling out the Mad King, you love to see it

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7h

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · Dec 6

Those four magic words

Opening credit text for KINDERGARTEN COP: Music by Randy Edelman

Opening credit text for DROP DEAD FRED: Music by Randy Edelman

Opening credit text for GHOSTBUSTERS II: Music by Randy Edelman

Opening credit text for MY COUSIN VINNY: Music by Randy Edelman

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🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈 @blcagnew.bsky.social · 2h

Well, shit - ok, then.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · Jun 28

Hey Dune

The cast of the television show Hey Dude but with their eyes blued and little crude tubes drawn on their face making them look like Fremen from Dune

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

This is important.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈 @blcagnew.bsky.social · 3h

But 1-6 are worth it for the relationship between Sydney and Gale.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 5h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈 @blcagnew.bsky.social · 3h

2 is good in spite of last minute changes to the ending, 3 means well but was kneecapped from the starting line, 4 is ahead of its time but whiffs the tone, 5 is good fun as "THE SCREAM AWAKENS," and 6 legit whips.

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🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈 @blcagnew.bsky.social · 3h

Oh shit oh fuck

a close up of a woman 's face wearing a necklace and earrings

Alt: Mikey Madison in 2022's 5CREAM.

media.tenor.com

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Patrick Bromley @patrickbromley.bsky.social · 3h

They should have created a special award for Joe Swanberg in YOU'RE NEXT

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🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈 @blcagnew.bsky.social · 3h

"If I can't make them laugh, I'll make them afraid."

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 3h

What is it about being a failed theater kid that makes them become soulless propagandists?

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 3h

When you enjoy the movie

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