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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 16h

That noise you heard was my eyes rolling into my head when Dwayne "The Smashing Machine" Johnson, as a tragically opioid-addicted wrestler, picks up a piece of Japanese wabi-sabi crockery and feels a mystical spiritual kinship with it.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 57m

I don’t know of any game that isn’t (or wouldn’t be) improved by GIANT SKEELEETON

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 9

magazine screenshot (1987) archive.org/details/mico...

tiny red dressed protagonist, advancing towards a massive skeleton, holding a sword, on a lower platform. a flying skull is coming from behind but above.

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Miles Softail @stagefatality.bsky.social · 23h

Jesus fucking Christ

Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 15d

Um.

Just um. Yeah.

This is a problem.

Is bluesky safe?

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RandyResists2025💙🔵 @resist2025.bsky.social · 14h

It is all intentional. They intend on starting a civil war.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 10h

it's definitely something i'd love to see

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 15h

My dear friend Tasneem and her family have been displaced several times, like many Gazans. As the attacks continue, they rely on our donations to survive.

Please give to Tasneem so she can feed her children and escape Gaza. And to others. ❤️🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 10h

someone please put ultima underworld, eye of the beholder, and lands of lore on the switch. thank you.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

This made me laugh so hard. Second screenshot is of the video posted by Benny Johnson of the event.

Benny Johnson « @bennyjohnson
X.com
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland.
Noem says:
"Hey; Guy in the chicken suit. You can do better.
Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed."
Noem isn't chicken: [chicken emoji]

A view from the roof of the building. There are about 15-20 people visible in total, several of whom appear to be reporters. Most are holding signs. They aren’t even taking up the whole sidewalk. One guy is wearing a chicken suit.

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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 12h

Planning a very confusing essay entitled “If I Was a Dude, No One Would Pester Me to Write About Gender”

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 11h

Sure. But it’s also perfectly fine to think, based on one’s own tastes and convictions, that it is bad. Or to think that it’s great! Maintaining some sort of neutrality about creative works isn’t inherently more mature or sophisticated than having convictions about them.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 12h

I often agree with him and sometimes disagree but my admiration for him as a critic has nothing to do with whether I agree or not. It has everything to do with the way he writes, the way he argues unapologetically from his own taste and his own moral core. I get so much from his reviews as a result.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 12h

I admire any critic who’s willing to take a big stand for a movie nobody else likes, and vice-versa. It’s one of the most important parts of our job: to show people that there’s no “right” or “wrong” way to feel about art, so long as that feeling is genuine.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 12h

So apparently, I'm not just the only critic in the country who gave this film such a high rating, I'm one of a handful that even liked it!

That's fine with me.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21h

"A rave of a movie that acts as its own hallucinogen, best experienced on a huge screen with a state-of-the art sound system. If they’d played it again right after I saw it for the first time, I would have gladly stayed in my seat." My **** review of TRON: Ares. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tron...

TRON: Ares movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

“TRON: Ares” is spectacularly designed, swiftly paced, thoughtfully written, and directed within an inch of its neon-hued life.

www.rogerebert.com

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 12h

And there’s this from the piece I shared earlier. I also might encourage you to read some reviews by Walter Chaw, one of my favorite film critics, who often champions films with enthusiastic raves and often pans them but will never say “it’s bad but I liked it” or “it’s good but it’s not for me.”

Bio Shock Infinite is the third most highly reviewed game on Metacritic so far this year. Across 3 platforms (PC, Xbox 360, and PS3), it has received 126 positive reviews and 2 mixed. Its overall Metacritic score is 94 out of 100.
"This is as close to perfect as videogames get."
"Irrational's achievements in BioShock Infinite dignify the medium."
"[Bio Shock Infinite] is about circles, and how you can go around them and end up in a completely new place. It's a beautiful game."
The question is not: why do none of these reviews agree with me? It is: why do they all agree with each other?
Where is the diversity of opinion? Where is the spirited debate? In the aggregate, it becomes clear that the problem is not any one review. It's all the reviews.
I don't expect every reviewer to give BioShock Infinite a 2 out of 10, as I would. But I expect to see more dissent than that offered by excellent outliers like Game Critics or Quarter to Three or Action Button. I expect to see more actual criticism in the videogame review community. I expect to not have perspectives like mine looked upon as trolling.
Reviews are not about finding agreement. They are not based on commonly held values. As if anyone is sure just what makes a videogame great. It's all contested ground. It's our values as gamers that are exactly at stake in reviews. We shouldn't be asking whether Bio Shock Infinite deserves a 9 or a 10. We should be asking whether it deserves a 2 or a 10. That's a real debate.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 12h

*love, obviously

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 12h

But I don’t think that at all. I live movie reviews, for instance, that strenuously argue for perspectives and experiences of a work that i disagree with, they help me to think about the work in new and stimulating ways.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 13h

guess I’ll die dot jpeg

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt the outlaw
@cursedgloryhole
Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: "I will never, ever comprehend how humans can be so evil that you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades [..] of suffocating oppression, apartheid, occupation."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide

Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide | Common Dreams

"This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fueled by our own governments, our institutions, our media, and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity."

www.commondreams.org

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 19h

I have watched my talented, ethical friends lose their jobs because Nazi fuckups like Weiss siphon all the money out of the room and use it to create propaganda mills where sycophants tell the Führer and his thugs they're so special and brave and everyone loves them

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 20h

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 18h

one of these journalists is 25 and had worked in public-radio newsrooms in alaska since she was 18. just a really brave thing to do at that point in her career, especially in that media landscape and broader economy

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18h

This is notable www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 18h

trans rights are non negotiable, this man is trash

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

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

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 19h

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21h

"A rave of a movie that acts as its own hallucinogen, best experienced on a huge screen with a state-of-the art sound system. If they’d played it again right after I saw it for the first time, I would have gladly stayed in my seat." My **** review of TRON: Ares. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tron...

TRON: Ares movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

“TRON: Ares” is spectacularly designed, swiftly paced, thoughtfully written, and directed within an inch of its neon-hued life.

www.rogerebert.com

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 19h

I have no idea which role Mann sees DiCaprio taking but I could see him as Chris Shiherlis, the character played by Val Kilmer in the original Heat who has a much larger part in Heat 2 (the book, at least, which is very good).

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 19h

Michael Mann's Heat 2 Moves From Warner Bros. to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber Producing. Leonardo DiCaprio circling to star but no offers made yet www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 20h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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