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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 15h

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

Guy filming himself poorly on his own phone: I think the first thing we’re showing is how we’ve mastered all technology

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

Brother no one wants your shit. I’d rather listen to fuckin Pod Save America and that’s the last thing I want to fuckin do. I will endure seven men named Jon airing petty grievances

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

We won’t LECTURE you with ideology but also you better be patriotic lol like for real haha we’re all having fun here but capitalism should not be questioned but hey let’s all be pals as we all agree that Jeff Bezos is actually not bald but simply had very short hair in a fashionable way

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

Bear Hands is great, I love 2 AM

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

Me, trying to figure out drywall: one day I’m going to have that sou-

Viola Davis, kicking down my drywall: DID YOU SAY PHIL COLLINS GENESIS IS IN ANY WAY BETTER TO PETER GABRIEL GENESIS

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

Me: well that was harrowing but now I am going to have that soup

Dame Judi Dench, punching her way through another wall: I DONT CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT JOHN LYDON THE SEX PISTOLS ARE AN IMPORTANT CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 6h

i feel like you could rotate and stretch super mario 64's face in a perfect way so it looked exactly like cal raleigh

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

Me: …I think I’ll make some soup

Julia Roberts, busting through the walls of my home: LISTEN UP

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 6h

Julia Roberts explains we should listen to the Smiths even if Morrissey's problematic

Julia Roberts Explains We Should Listen To The Smiths Even If Morrissey’s Problematic

Morrissey and the Smiths come up in After The Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s new movie starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny. As Time’s review ex...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

I was hoping it was about Charles Mingus

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

I also sometimes go the other way and imagine them being the hottest people ever, like supermodels, who just decided to host a podcast about Paul Blart Mall Cop, video robs me of the dream of super hunks doing that

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 7h

My wife just texted me to come into the room to see this incredible wig

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 7h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

Ah that’s awesome!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

Lots of love for @thebeths.bsky.social as well as Greg Freeman who I had never heard of but I’m listening rn and it’s very interesting

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

Ok now that I’m looking at Mr Beast again I do not forgive you Trent Reznor

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

It’s been a long journey to acceptance. But it’s not your fault. I know that in my heart.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8d

Wait what the fuck lol

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

Trent Reznor I forgive you for this

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 12h

Disney promoting AI slop posters at the ‘Tron Ares’ premiere

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

When it comes to cervix women be dilating like nobody ever seen

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

Women be on beast mode when it comes to the creation of new life

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 8h

“If I can get seconds, thirds and fourths on that raw milk now? Ooh boy!”

Bryce Harper on the birth of his fourth child, a boy, last week: "I've got an incredible wife, man. She pushed that thing out in three pushes and 30 seconds. She's an absolute monster doing it. Women, man, what a breed.
I'm serious, it's an incredible thing."

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 8h

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is