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Nicholas Slayton

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Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose.com . Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, Wired, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli. Signal: nslayton.12 nslayton.substack.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 9d

If you saw footage of Nepal's protests this month, it's a fair chance you saw it from WeHateTheCold, a British travel vlogger who stumbled into the revolution and started filming. I spoke to him about it for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/how-a-...

How a Travel YouTuber Captured Nepal’s Revolution for the World

Harry Jackson went into Kathmandu as a tourist. He ended up being one of the main international sources of news on Nepal’s Gen Z protests.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 5h

Love it. Youre a better man than me for going teatotaler

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 11h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 5h

Glasses are delightful.

Also what was the Battlestar tattoo? "Baltar was right?"

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 5h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

Fright Night (the remake)
Danny Boyle's Frankenstein
The Wolfman
Dracula 1931
Byzantium
Franklyn
The Woman in Black
Cabin in the Woods
Shaun of the Dead
The Devil Rides Out

Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 6h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🧛 Fright Night
📌 Hellraiser
👻 Poltergeist
🏕️ The Blair Witch Project
😈 Demon Knight
🕯️ The Craft
🐺Bram Stoker’s Dracula
🪰 The Fly
🐐 The Witch
🐕 The Thing

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 7h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🧟‍♀️ Evil Dead 2
🧗‍♀️ The Descent
🧙‍♀️ A Dark Song
😱 Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
🧩 Hellraiser
🌒 Messiah of Evil
🤖 Hardware
🦇 Fright Night
⚰️ Phantasm
🎹 Deep Red

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 6h

Please share the skincare routine

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Evergreen

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 6h

A design so bad I somehow feel bad for the Punisher skull

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 6h

Chapman got left for dead by colleagues, kept fighting, and even tried to cover a rescue helicopter before he died. An earlier attempt to adapt the book Alone at Dawn in 2021 stalled out.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 13h

Driver will play John Chapman, an Air Force combat controller killed in Afghanistan, in 'Alone at Dawn.' Ron Howard will direct. trib.al/5yboU1M

Adam Driver will portray Air Force Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman

Driver will play John Chapman, an Air Force combat controller killed in Afghanistan, in 'Alone at Dawn.' Ron Howard will direct.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 7h

With the release of THE SMASHING MACHINE I just want to reiterate that Benny Safdie should have gotten the Best Supporting Actor nom for OPPENHEIMER.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 8h

On the one hand, civ-mil relations are gonna be nuts for the rest of my life

On the other hand, encouraging that the military isn’t cowed at every level

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 17h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 7h

*sigh* the Boston Twisted Tea Party

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 13h

everything else the trump administration has done has felt like pure libidinal reagan energy. but "this secret opinion says we can legally do sadistic stuff to random guys" has a bush/obama flavor that feels different, simply by virtue of producing a flimsy opinion instead of just shrugging

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. https://cnn.it/4o7ma1R

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 9h

Jewish Currents has learned that the Conscience flotilla, with
Emily Wilder aboard reporting for us, has been intercepted and boarded by the Israeli military. Communications with Emily and the rest of the boat have been cut. We are awaiting further updates.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 7h

The only al-Sisi lookalike to help enable mass slaughter and destabilize a region only to get a cushy columnist job

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 9h

Firing David Frum would be praxis over evil

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Disgusting

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 16h

Disney promoting AI slop posters at the ‘Tron Ares’ premiere

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 14h

TRON: ARES having an official collaboration with Grok and having AI slop on display at he events is making me never want to watch that movie. Ugh

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 16h

Disney promoting AI slop posters at the ‘Tron Ares’ premiere

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 7h

Scientist on three-week off-grid hike finds out he's won the Nobel prize

Dr Fred Ramsdell was "living his best life" offline when the Nobel committee tried to contact him.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 7h

Worth noting the video of Rev. Black getting attacked was from mid September. ICE and DHS have only escalated since.

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 9h

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 7h

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals told the BBC the destruction from the motorised paraglider made it hard to identify victims.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

The Plot to Enslave America

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 8h

Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 12h

Columbus City Schools Board of Education has voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move amid district financial challenges.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13h

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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