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Jon
@jsimione.bsky.social
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Hobby photographer. Film lover. Go Dodgers.
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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robpilk.com
A Christmas Carol (1843) is one of our most enduring stories bc it rightly insists that to get wealthy ppl to do the right thing, we gotta scare the shit outta them first
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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mangiotto.bsky.social
Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
“Quentin Tarantino says..” Quentin Tarantino says a lot of things
December 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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andylevy.net
you’re telling me someone made a list and your list is different from their list??? this is huge
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
jsimione.bsky.social
@rianjohnson.bsky.social did I spy a reference to one of my favorite Dodgers (Corey Seager) towards the end of WAKE UP DEAD MAN or am I just missing baseball way too much…
a baseball player wearing a dodgers uniform is running on the field
ALT: a baseball player wearing a dodgers uniform is running on the field
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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tomdavidson92.bsky.social
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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markpopham.bsky.social
the "looks like meats back on the menu, boys" orc but he's saying "Looks like wokes back on the menu, boys!"
November 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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docrevan.bsky.social
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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ricsanchez.bsky.social
You know who REALLY wins tonight? Will Klein. His performance is frozen in amber
November 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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radobrien.myatproto.social
China remains one of the smartest countries in the world
gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · Oct 29
Podcasts are now illegal in China
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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bicycleidiot.bsky.social
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century
September 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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discussingfilm.net
A protestor outside the Disney lot today after the studio suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show.

“Did you even watch ANDOR?”

(📸: @westernwilder.bsky.social)
September 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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jlalibs.com
Don’t normalize this shit. It’s an affront. The last thing we want is for something like this to be financially successful or make waves in any way. If the “test case” benefits those bankrolling it, where does this stop? Do we get a fake “original” cut of GREED next?
Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes
Amazon-backed firm Showrunner, led by Edward Saatchi, is using the film as a test case for how Hollywood can overhaul production. The results won't be commercialized — the tech giant hasn't obtained r...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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infinata.bsky.social
Ph.D. level experts that have been kicked in the head by a horse, mind you.
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 7
OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’
OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.
nbcnews.to
August 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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redthespian.bsky.social
there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.
August 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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brandon.insertcredit.com
I love when I can see the work in a piece of art. Practical effects in film, brush strokes on canvas, strange sounds in music, "impossible" visuals in games. It puts me in conversation with the artist. That's why - ethics aside - art created with AI is just so disappointing. There's no work to see.
August 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
through the miracle of modern technology we have made one of the most beautiful and influential movies of all time look like microwaved shit
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Aug 1
Here's a video 🚮
August 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
jsimione.bsky.social
Favorite first watches of July 2025:
OUT OF SIGHT
SORRY, BABY
SUPERMAN
WINGS OF DESIRE
Out of Sight (1998) Sorry, Baby (2025) Superman (2025) Wings of Desire (1987)
August 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
Raymond Chandler on what people really care about in a story
"A long time ago, when I was writing for the pulps I put into a story a line like ‘he got out of the car and walked across the sun-drenched sidewalk until the shadow of the awning over the entrance fell across his face like the touch of cool water.’ They took it out when they published the story. Their readers didn’t appreciate this sort of thing: just held up the action. And I set out to prove them wrong. My theory was that they just thought they cared nothing about anything but the action; that really, although they didn’t know it, they cared very little about the action. The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialogue and description; the things they remembered, that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of death he was trying to pick a paper clip up off the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain on his face and his mouth was half opened in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn’t even" "hear death knock on the door. That damn paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers and he just wouldn’t push it to the edge of the desk and catch it as it fell."
December 7, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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tvaziri.com
The U.S. isn’t even in the conversation.

It doesn’t have to be like this, folks.
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jul 18
Vienna has been dethroned. The new "world's most livable city" is [drum roll] Copenhagen, which was also, in a separate survey, recently ranked the world's happiest city.

US cities basically do everything exactly the opposite of Copenhagen, which is why not a single US city is in the top ten.
The world's most liveable cities for 2025 - and what it's really like to live there
Copenhagen has overtaken Vienna as the world's most liveable city in 2025. But what makes these places tick? Locals in five top-ranking cities share what life is really like there.
www.bbc.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM