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Benjamin Balthaser

@blbalthaser.bsky.social

“Covid is over” might be the biggest lie sold to us in a staggering decade of lies

Covid-19 ls Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds
Between 2022 and 2024, covid-19 killed roughly 100,000 Americans annually, new research by CDC scientists shows.

January 6, 2026 at 6:18 AM

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"fart"

@jonhendren.com

i have a new hobby i made up where i look at hundreds of ancient stock photo cdroms from archive .org and try to find cool shit in them. ill post more later but for now these are "tonights picks"

January 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM

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Garrett Bucks

@garrettbucks.bsky.social

I wrote a new year's essay! About how impossible things become possible!

thewhitepages.net/p/everything...

Everything is possible and nothing is pre-ordained

And who knows, maybe this year you and your neighbors will surprise us all

thewhitepages.net

January 1, 2026 at 9:48 PM

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danita

@danitasteinberg.bsky.social

Two weeks until the first MASKED AT THE MOVIES of 2026. And we’re kicking off the new year with cult comedy musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. All details & accessibility info at the link. Hope to see you there! 💚🌱 www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-at-...

December 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM

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Neugin

@lostcitymagic.bsky.social

A message for you all to carry through the year

Image is a popular astronaut meme. An astronaut is looking at the earth from space saying wait, I am worthy of love? An astronaut is behind him holding up flowers and saying always have been

January 1, 2026 at 6:32 AM

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🌒 West 🌒

@prdolan.bsky.social

Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

Billy Joel listed 59 people in his single "we didnt start the fire." after Brigitte Bardot's Death, Only 3 Remain Alive.

December 31, 2025 at 4:17 AM

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Vrai Kaiser 🧛‍♂️

@writervrai.bsky.social

Remember the reason for the season

A blonde woman narrating across all four images. "Two thousand years ago on the night of a shooting star,"

Mary in a manger with twins. "...my mother, Mary...."

Mary with twin babies. "...delivered twins, Jesus Christ and Camilla."

A baby with fangs. "I was a fanged vampire from birth."

December 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM

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Justin Decloux

@declouxj.bsky.social

I was not aware till today there was a Godzilla Christmas Song officially sanctioned by Toho called Kaiju Christmas:

youtu.be/Bk1H4Gg7YxE

怪獣のクリスマス (ゴジラ)『あつまれ！ガーベージ音楽部』(幻の迷盤・トンデモ音源) 雷門ケン坊・ミニラ・モスラ・ヘドラ・キングギドラ・メカゴジラ

YouTube video by GARBAGE

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November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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dan sinker

@dansinker.com

This year we've been told over and over that there are shortcuts to Doing The Work. But there aren't, not really.

Here on the shortest day of the longest year I wrote a little defense of Doing The Work. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

A note in defense of Doing The Work, written on the shortest day of the longest year | dansinker.com

dansinker.com

December 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM

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Letterboxd

@letterboxd.social

today is their day 🧤

December 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM

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RiotGrlErin

@riotgrlerin.bsky.social

why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread

December 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM

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RiotGrlErin

@riotgrlerin.bsky.social

December 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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Sean T. Collins

@seantcollins.com

Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social

December 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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Richard Kadrey

@richardkadrey.bsky.social

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

a plate of cookies that look disturbingly like Sean Connery in Zardoz

December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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El Norte Recuerda

@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

Intertapes — Main

Obscure tape finds and their stories

intertapes.net

December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM

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David Lynch's Worlds

@davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social

December 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM

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Owen Dennis

@owendennis.com

A thing I haven't seen brought up much regarding the big entertainment news of the week:

Box office actually DRIVES views on streaming.

In pretty much every instance, movies that had a theater run do better on streaming.

Here's an article on this phenomenon from last year: archive.ph/JPDhn

Since August 2022, 65 percent of Netflix’s weekly top 10 English-language films were movies it had licensed from studios after they debuted in theaters. And when Nielsen, the audience measurement company, crunched its data for the past two years, only three of its top 20 streaming movies of 2023 had been released straight to a streaming service. (The outliers were Disney’s “Turning Red,” which was first released to its service in 2022; Netflix’s apocalyptic drama “Leave the World Behind,” starring Julia Roberts; and the Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy comedy “You People.”)
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In 2024, only four films in the top 20 went straight to streaming. Two of them, Netflix’s “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” and Amazon’s remake of “Road House,” were based on previous theatrical titles. (The two streaming originals that made the list were Netflix’s action film “Damsel,” starring Millie Bobby Brown, and the heist film “Lift,” with Kevin Hart.)

It’s not only new films that benefit from the copious marketing dollars spent on theatrical releases. (Summer blockbusters often cost north of $100 million in global marketing money, while even the smallest films have a hard time opening in theaters with marketing spends lower than $25 million.) When new chapters of a successful franchise are introduced to theaters, they prompt spikes in each company’s catalog of films.
Paramount Plus said that when “A Quiet Place: Day One” premiered on its service, viewers increased their “engagement” with the other films in the “Quiet Place” franchise by 207 percent. For “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” the percentage increase in interest in the other “Mission: Impossible” films was 181 percent.

December 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM

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Andrea Ritchie

@dreanyc123.bsky.social

apple.news/AP09J_X-HQH-...

‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on — Guardian US

The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’

apple.news

December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM

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Julia Serano

@juliaserano.bsky.social

one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it

Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · Dec 5

Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...

ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:

"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."