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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 1d

You didn’t hear? That checkup in April was “rigged” by “fake news” so need a re-do.

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 9d

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Simone (2002) Official Trailer - Al Pacino, Winona Ryder Sci-Fi Movie HD

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 9d

Andrew Niccol’s 2002 film “S1m0ne” about a virtual actor named “Simone” feels relevant in the now and here.
Link to my three-star review essay in the Chicago Reader:
chicagoreader.com/film/virtual...

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 14d

And what’s with all the double spaces mid-sentence? Q-Anon will no doubt decode this deep state signaling.

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 20d

Penalty for breaking pledge?

bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 20d

“symbology”? not “symbolism”? not synonymous

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 20d

Who is upset that 97% of stories about Trump on FOX are good? Does not matter since it is not exercising its freedom of the press. It is willfully unfree of Trump.

bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 20d

Is it too much to ask for a reporter to ask Trump how he reached that 97% number? Yes it is. Size of data set. Period of time stories were counted as good or bad. Any number of reporters could ask Trump about any number of his made up numbers and get expelled from White House pool.

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Zaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · 21d

All of this has happened before and it will happen again.

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 21d

For years Trump says things about the ratings viewership readership crowd sizes of his opponents and perceived enemies. Ever ever ever asked for any any any of those numbers?

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 21d

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 22d

chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-t...

Chicago directors are leaning into film's favorite new genre: the tech bubble-inspired horror comedy

Locally set movies about crypto ("$Positions") and a kombucha startup ("Kombucha") will screen at the Chicago Underground Film Festival this week.

chicago.suntimes.com

bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 22d

Makes one wonder if ours is the only species de-diversifying the world like this or just the best at it.

bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 22d

You saw garbage going into Lake Michigan at 57th Street beach yesterday at 6:50pm? How’d it get there?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22d

We might have thought the biggest right-wing hoax was that Trump won the 2020 election. But the biggest hoax they perpetrated was that the media is “liberal.”

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22d

Sinclair, run by right-wing media mogul David Smith, says suspending the Jimmy Kimmel show isn’t enough. It is going to run a tribute to Kirk during Kimmel’s time slot.

Sinclair stations will run not consider putting Kimmel back on air until he apologizes and donates to Turning Point USA

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 24d

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 24d

We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek.

‘tragos’ = goat

‘aeidein’ = to sing

So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”

Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 24d

To other Commenters here asking for source, as I did too, then deleted mine when I figured out this graph and several others like it are original research by person, see screenshots below/

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 26d

Love seeing your Science Feed Rules after contacting so many apparently bot-‘administered’ sites that omit names of authors & scientists, published studies or press releases, let alone the year of a discovery, invention. Posted comments imply no one cares. Actually mock me for asking why no links!

bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · 27d

“They” is Tyler’s pronoun. Didn’t Utah police who booked him ask him that?

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · Sep 7

Broadcasters can show the booing so long as they don’t showcase it.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 6

That’s exactly what this feels like!

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bstamets.bsky.social @bstamets.bsky.social · Sep 6

Maybe old news or near-news. Even if fake news, it has its uses. As pseudo-kompromat para-kompromat meta-kompromat.
www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-putin...

WHAT PUTIN HAS ON TRUMP

On August 12th, 2025, Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin possesses a comprehensive kompromat file on Donald J.

www.closertotheedge.net

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Sep 5

Have been posting less bc writing a book. Will post more when not too tired to think of new sentences after long days of thinking of new sentences.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’ll stop comparing MAGA to Nazis when MAGA stops acting like Nazis.

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