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Erin Shhh (she/her) @erinshhh.bsky.social · 17h

Did Gavin Newsom write this

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 20h

The hunger
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The hunger
Well we just got back from stringing up our weakest
friend in the middle of the town square for the
vampires to feast on overnight. No one liked the
actual doing of it when it came to doing it I’ll say that.
But the past is the past. Time now to hunker down
inside and wait for them to leave us alone for good.
Figure out tomorrow what to do with all these surplus
wooden crosses.

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · 13h

Let’s fucking go.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 16h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · 4d

Very sad to learn that Kimberly Hébert Gregory, the voice of Craig of the Creek’s mom Nicole, has passed. She brought so much heart and comedy to our little show. She will be missed deeply. My creative partner Ben Levin posted a wonderful tribute here: www.instagram.com/p/DPbxXqREUk...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 9d

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one

I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things

It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · 8d

Every day feels like another 4 years is added to the time it will take to un-fuck this.

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · 12d

My almost lifelong interest in Magic The Gathering just plummeting off a cliff with these 2026 sets. Woof. Getting a return to Lorwyn turned out to be a real curling of the monkey’s paw.

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · 23d

Woof.

Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · Aug 29

The way he says “for no reason!” makes me think there was definitely a reason.

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hey y'all. I will not be returning to SNL this season. A couple of factors (wasn't on the show last season, have never even auditioned or submitted a writing sample) have made it impossible. Sorry to all the fans!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 28

really worth watching

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is a real work of art in the Youtube Video Essay genre. Funny, witty, hates the people I hate and genuinely insightful. Highly recommend. youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult

YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hope everyone in the industry learns some lessons from K-Pop Demon Hunters blowing the hell up! Saw it in a sold out theater today, audience was INTO IT.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · Aug 23

I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 6

1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports.

He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.

It's so much worse than being reported.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast

The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · Aug 20

Oh, we’re going to let the AI guy have a 6th crack at his project, but I get my funding pulled after presenting only the first version of my invention, “the computer that poops”?!

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · Aug 12

Trying to imagine a child that would see someone popping a wheelie and not respond with "Oh, that is sick as hell."

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · Aug 5

It’s obvious with the price they set - this is a deal done in collaboration with the Devil, who is subsidizing the price of the ticket.

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · Aug 4

Cool kids: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6UqGC3h/

How the ‘Creek Crawlers’ are using their summer vacation to inspire others This summer, a group of intrepid kids in Indianapolis is documenting their adventures and posting them on Instagram. Along th...

TikTok video by pbsnews

www.tiktok.com

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Aug 2

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

$[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]$

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SCAREon - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · Jul 28

It was all for nothing. All the canned projects, people laid off, countless hours of work and films and shows thrown away. And the end result was just "Yeah we're back to where we were before it began."

This is going to be somebody's Joker origin story moment.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Jul 28

Warner Bros Discovery will separate into two companies by mid-2026

One is called Warner Bros:

Includes HBO, Max, Warner Bros. TV and films, DC Studios, and gaming

The other is Discovery Global:

Includes CNN, Discovery, TNT Sports, and Discovery+

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jul 27

The woke college students were right but we can't acknowledge this because then we'll have to consider whether they're right about other things too. That I'm a big stupid moron for instance

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Jul 27

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · Jul 26

At the “big reveal” of the Fantastic Four credit scene my kid yelled “It’s the Mandalorian!”

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · Jul 23

To wear one of those hats with the propellers on top, to me, is immature. Do not spin that shit at me, I will drop your ass. Truly childish behavior. In this day of age

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Mike Scollins @mikescollins.bsky.social · Jul 19

Gavin Newsom is such a fucking loser. Wild how these dirtbags act like remembering someone's pronouns requires a Mensa card when there are about 10 million different last names in the world and they learn those no problem. Just admit you don't care.

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · Jul 19

im always taken aback by just how much cis people will humiliate themselves to be dicks to trans people. like sorry, youre confused about pronouns? how did you make it thru 6th grade english you slimy dipshit? why are you going on podcasts to advertise youre too stupid to understand simple concepts?

“The trans issue for me is so novel,” Newsom said. “I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”

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onion person @junlper.beer · Jul 18

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

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Matt Burnett @mattburnett.bsky.social · Jul 8

It was in remarkably good condition considering how many times I played it un-sleeved on sticky picnic tables at the neighborhood pool club.

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