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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 36m

that's it, I'm definitely seeing it now

Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 2h

‘“For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News.’

Damn, this movie must make a lot of sense.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 1h

"kings are for storybooks" is my current favorite sign concept for this dad-daughter activity

John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 2h

gonna bring my sweet wonderful toddler to the no kings rally in my ATL suburb on 10/18 (concepts for signs appreciated!). if you live in the burbs of a big city I encourage you to look up a local demonstration. cities have plenty of support; your local community needs you. www.mobilize.us/nokings/

Orange sign with black lettering "No thrones. No crowns. No Kings. Saturday, Oct. 18"

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 1h

just scheduled her covid shot after the rally. I am a grizzled veteran of the Culture Wars™️

John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 2h

#44 "piney woods" reminds me of that great line from bernie (2011): "the pine curtain"

John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 2h

I want a better world for her.

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 2h

gonna bring my sweet wonderful toddler to the no kings rally in my ATL suburb on 10/18 (concepts for signs appreciated!). if you live in the burbs of a big city I encourage you to look up a local demonstration. cities have plenty of support; your local community needs you. www.mobilize.us/nokings/

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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 Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 14h

lolllll

In my experience, the people who are excited about AI rt also happen to be some of the most talentless fucking people I've ever met

They're middle managers, executives, or marketers whose LinkedIn bio reads...

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 14h

god bless this man

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 1d

"let's do the fucking news" is more rewarding if you imagine it in jennifer coolidge's voice

Jennifer Coolidge raising a glass of champagne from season 2 of White Lotus.

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not an aficionado but is this the first SNL sketch set in the early middle ages? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn9A...

Inventing Spanish - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

www.youtube.com

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d

This is incredible camera work

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Just some guy @rocinante.bsky.social · 3d

That epic handshake meme.

Left arm: “the life of pi”

Right arm: “tonight’s ballgame”

Where they meet: “Tigers and Mariners”

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 5d

Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire

Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 4d

SPQR has been and remains a great, accessible text for motivated young readers aged 16-18. a stretch for some, but that's good for them.

John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 4d

great time discussing a reading from @wmarybeard.bsky.social's SPQR in my "big rome" seminar yesterday. students were picking up on modern echoes left and right: cato's maga-esque nostalgia, excusing of war crimes in the name of "defense," who gets to be roman in the wake of imperial expansion, &c.

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 5d

every couple of weeks this dipshit enters my feed with some quote I'd never accept as mediocre work from my high school students

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 5d

“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
— Hannah Arendt

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 5d

different style but I'm so glad I snagged one of buck mason's eddie bauer vintage jackets which, esp now that I'm seeing these prices, was priced super reasonably