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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 1m

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 18h

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 1h

Seems like only the first part is sped up oddly

David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 1h

The latter

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 1h

Oh whew it's not that long

David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks

Why is it sped up

And any idea how far in the sock stuff is?

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Ed AKA SleazeRanger Green @carseatedrest.bsky.social · 2h

One of my favorite post WWE interviews ever. You get the full scope of how much of a “dumb guy who thinks they’re smart” Black really is. The socks, saying Vince liked him and it wasn’t his call to release him, saying Heyman told him his issue is he’s “too smart and creative”. Beautiful shit.

David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 3h

Does anyone have the clip saved from when Aleister Black was streaming on Twitch right after WWE fired him in 2021, a fan mentioned that it looked like he was color coordinating his socks as part of whatever his grand creative plan was, and then Tom lit up like FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS MY GENIUS?

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 2h

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of them use Shop[ify] and that makes me wonder if the issue is on Shop[ify]'s end and not something the stores did?

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 2h

Someone has to have this.

David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 3h

Does anyone have the clip saved from when Aleister Black was streaming on Twitch right after WWE fired him in 2021, a fan mentioned that it looked like he was color coordinating his socks as part of whatever his grand creative plan was, and then Tom lit up like FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS MY GENIUS?

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 2h

There are multiple big name online record stores that just...don't charge sales tax on top of the sticker price. One finally noticed and changed it recently, but there are still a LOT left.

Is this deliberate? And regardless, why are record stores the ONLY stores I see flirting w/ danger like this?

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 2h

Not naming names for obvious reasons, but why is it that since South Dakota v. Wayfair in 2018 upended "no sales tax at point of purchase for out of state mail order purchases" for good in the United States, the only stores I see that never switched over to charging tax everywhere are record stores?

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 3h

*ultraviolent

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 3h

Does anyone have the clip saved from when Aleister Black was streaming on Twitch right after WWE fired him in 2021, a fan mentioned that it looked like he was color coordinating his socks as part of whatever his grand creative plan was, and then Tom lit up like FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS MY GENIUS?

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 20h

This is hilarious. Now I want to watch this show

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

www.theguardian.com

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 19h

You can do a ladder match with eight guys and as relatively safely. You cannot do that spot safely at all.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 19h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 20h

He would absolutely call him "the owner of the ultraviolet wrestling concern."

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 20h

Some have said about Assassin's Creed games that "DEI kills art" but this might be a case where "anti-DEI" helped kill art.

Much more about the game and the context of the decision at the link.

Most of the story is paywalled, but you can sample reading it via a free trial.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 20h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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David Bixenspan @davidbix.bsky.social · 22h

Meanwhile in, The Wrestling #Discourse...

Cover art for Billy Joel's "Turnstiles" LP.

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 1d

If you ever wondered if your art was valuable, the people who are stealing it for profit sure think so

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 1d

As you watch this horrific video of a protesting priest being shot in the head with a pepper ball by federal agents, know this:

Less lethal projectiles are absolutely deadly, and have killed many people. Specifically, Boston police killed a Red Sox fan with pepper ball 21 years ago this month.