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Notthedarkweb

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High Priest of high liberalism. Toronto sports fan. "Radical Socialist" (Very much a political liberal). Not that funny

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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · May 12

Spent a lot of time making this too-long guide to getting good at watching cinema guide, which maybe less than 10 people will read through

Films: Lady Bird, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, There Will Be Blood, Get Out, Shiva Baby

Films: Casablanca, The Great Dictator, Singin' in the Rain, 12 Angry Men, Some Like It Hot

Films: North by Northwest, Rear Window, Psycho, The Birds, Notorious

Films: Mean Streets, The Godfather, The French Connection, Chinatown, Easy Rider

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1d

Fellas, is it sigma to eat crumbs off the floor?

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Vox @vox.com · 6d

Jane Goodall used her stature to advocate for one of the most important, yet most unpopular, causes in the world: Animal rights.

voxdotcom.visitlink.me/14PIox

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Vox @vox.com · 5d

The most effective way to avert a climate change catastrophe: People in wealthier countries have to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat, poultry, and dairy.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 3d

despite our bullpen's best efforts, the Blue Jays have won

Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 3d

JAYSBROS

Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 3d

Aaron Boone went to the Delphic Oracle before the ALDS. The Oracle said, one big market team from the biggest city in the country will have a de facto bullpen game. Boone saw the Jays rotation for game 4 and said well it can't be us

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 3d

spongebob, me boy

sometimes i wonder: why even bother

mr krabs sitting on a bed, in a dimly lit room. he looks depressed. a bottle sits on the accent table off to the side

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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 4d

I have a NFL+ tab or something but NFL is a sport i care less than MLB and NHL so it doesn't really matter.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

I have a sports tab that was either added on here by default or that I somehow subscribed to and I used to hate it but somehow I pavlov'd it into giving me wrestling content and club football content

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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 4d

I wish bluesky had a proper algorithm because I see zero posts about the MLB postseason on my FYP

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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 4d

WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE

Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 4d

LETS GO BLUE JAYS

Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 4d

me tomorrow

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 4d

‘New linguistic articulations can reconfigure the way we make sense of our own feelings, thoughts and responses – our internalised self-interpretations.’

Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s new book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stephen Mulhall · Self-Interpreting Animals

The philosophical anthropology of Romanticism naturally tends to give art a fundamental role in shaping the way we...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 5d

I don't really think Mullally has any discernible liturgical/theological affiliation, she seems fairly broad churchy, yeah. If there is anything to say about her, it'd be that she's "liberal", whatever that means.

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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 5d

All the tired debate about wokeness and progressivism in the CoE aside, Mullaly not discernibly being part of the exchange compact where the Church exchanges evangelical and Anglo-Catholic AoCs is the most interesting part to me.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 7d

The Far Edges of the Known World is now available in North America! If you like ancient history, global history, reading about different cultures, or just fancy an escape - give it a look.