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Jonathan Kennedy

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Filmmaker/photographer, communist, small town surrealist, pro wrestling enthusiast. Abbas Kiarostami liked my work, Guy Maddin liked a bunch of my Instagram posts once (he/him) Hamilton, ON via St. John’s, NL / jonkennedy.net

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · Nov 23

Bataille was so real for this

Excerpt from the introduction to Georges Bataille’s “The Absence of Myth” - “His first public comment on surrealism had come in response to a letter inviting him to participate in what was to be a notorious meeting of the Surrealist Group to discuss the implications of Leon Trotsky's expulsion from the USSR, which brought a refusal from Bataille in the most forthright and uncompromising terms: ‘too many fucking idealists.’”

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 2h

The “war on drugs” began as a metaphor, but the “war” part quickly became all too literal.

Listen to the first episode of Collateral Damage with @radleybalko.bsky.social on
Apple: interc.pt/4o61Gq3
Spotify: interc.pt/42ypD17
Everywhere else: interc.pt/4gXnd1S

Collateral Damage: A New Intercept Podcast With Radley Balko On the War On Drugs #politics #police

YouTube video by The Intercept

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16m

Apparently it whips ass

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 58m

Poster for Despiser featuring four men and a woman standing in the foreground, the man in the middle holding a gun, and a large multi limbed CGI monster looming behind them

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 2h

The good shit.

Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 17h

The second episode of 31 Murders To Midnight, the series when I review 31 horror movies (and some other stuff) for 31 minutes each in October 2025, is now live for subscribers to the patreon patreon.com/sfultra

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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 2h

🎙️ ON AIR:

We're talking to journalist @maxread.info, @datasociety.bsky.social's @alicetiara.bsky.social and @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the impact that increasingly realistic deepfake videos could have on our society.

❓Are AI videos changing how you use the internet?

📻 Listen:

Deepfake Videos Just Got More Realistic…and More Dangerous | KQED

We talk about OpenAI's Sora and what kind of destabilizing impact could it have on our society.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 2h

Based on channel avatar image along tbh

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3h

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 4h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Eric "The Monster Mash is about worker solidarity" Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 12h

Ton, it's a game called Disco Elysium. You're a cop trying to figure out who the hell he is. There's also a kid named Cuno who's a real piece of work

Chris moltisanti explaining a very good game

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 15h

not directing this at Greg but this is what BLM was all about. trying to explain to people that the guns they aim at Black folks just minding their own business will be turned on everyone if we dont course correct and here we are.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

On the verge of a lot of potential Kent State situations out there. Be careful, friends.

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 15h

The aid boat Conscience is currently being raided by the IDF in international waters. A helicopter was audible before the audio cut out.

The boat is full of medical staff and journalists trying to bring aid into Gaza.

Live from Conscience Boat to Gaza, FFC & TMTG (Live 3)

YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 15h

Now a Molotov? Is he a cop or is he antifa? Make up your mind Darby.

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 15h

Pepper spray and taser? When did Darby Allin become a cop?

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16h

The other Safdie brother has apparently cast Kevin O’Leary in his new film, immediately cementing himself as the inferior Safdie brother.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16h

It used to be understood that real estate developers were evil in movies, we gotta get back to that. Not just a politics thing it’s just a good plot device.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16h

Did they upgrade Orange Cassidy’s entrance video from Media Offline to proxy files?

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16h

I was killed early in my first run through by a gum wrapper so I feel you lol

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16h

Even the chances to die through checks is extremely low and rare lol

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16h

These Nazi ads during Dynamite are fucking rough.

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16h

Like easily in my all time top five.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16h

lolllllllll it’s so funny because there’s no real combat in the game (two fights that play out as checks) but if you’re not careful something silly like that can get you depending on your health and morale stats. It’s unbelievably good though.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16h

Maybe?

🐰 Inland Empire
🦑 Possession
🕯️ Hour of the Wolf
📼 Videodrome
🖥️ Pulse
🚐 Under The Skin
🫳 Repulsion
📹 The Blair Witch Project
👺 Noroi
🐝 Candyman

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

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon

Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 19h

10 horror movies to get to know me by
🪡 May
🩸 Nosferatu '22
🩸 Nosferatu the Vampyre
🩸 Nosferatu ‘24
🌸 Midsommar
💀 Blood Quantum
🩰 Suspiria '77
🐝 Candyman
🐅 Manhunter
🌲 Antichrist

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The Independent @independentnl.bsky.social · 17h

“I have spent two years watching mothers in Gaza grieving their dead children. If I don’t speak out about it today I think I’ll regret it for the rest of my life.

“We are watching children die that should affect us. Please do not get used to children’s deaths.”
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St. John’s city council passes resolution in support of Palestinians – The Independent

Coun. Maggie Burton put forward the motion calling on the City to write to PM Carney expressing the City’s support for a two-way arms embargo and calling for improvements to the Gaza Temporary Residen...

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