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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 16h

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 1d

The evolution of Marxism

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 2d

Silver is antimicrobial, and as a bonus people will get to sniff at you "you were born with a silver spork in your mouth"

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 2d

how I am getting around while commercial air travel is affected by the shutdown

A framed painting against a pink wall, by Henry Singleton, depicting Ariel (the spirit from The Tempest) riding a bat through the night sky. The painting is about 205 years old. Seen at the William Blake exhibit at the National Gallery, Budapest. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/singleton-ariel-on-a-bats-back-n01027

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality.

The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 4d

If you've been following my six-month quest to unseal the search warrants for XiaoFeng Wang's homes, huge news:

I won.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 4d

(I should clarify, having posted halfway through watching that video: no one believed in it ... except, as it turns out, the great Kathryn Bigelow.)

Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 4d

I dragged my friends to see it opening night because I had loved RESERVOIR DOGS. They complained ("Are we lining up to watch a _John Travolta_ movie? Jon, what the hell!") but we all walked out thinking it was a masterpiece. Admittedly this too was after the Palme.

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 4d

This is amazing: no one believed in PULP FICTION, including Tarantino, until it won the Palme d'Or. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_i6...

How Tarantino's “big mistake” changed movies forever

YouTube video by Cinedome

www.youtube.com

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 5d

jeez, this is grim: "Last year, there was less production activity in the Los Angeles area than at any time since at least 1995, save for the pandemic ... thousands of dreams are evaporating ... “It’s not dramatic to say the result has been personal financial ruin,”" archive.is/HeBoD

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 5d

I look at approval ratings to remind myself I live in a liberal bubble. For instance, Trump's approval ratings this year are higher than Biden's last year.

Basically, if the election happened today, Trump likely would win again as he's still more popular now than the Biden administration was then.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 6d

TIL that Hemingway loved Raymond Chandler's work, but that the feeling was very much NOT mutual:

tohaveandhaveanother.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/h...

Hemingway was an ardent admirer of Raymond Chandler. In a 1940 letter to his editor, Max Perkins, Hemingway asked for a copy of Farewell My Lovely. Further, in a 1950 piece he wrote for the New York Herald Tribune Book Review, Hemingway noted that “[i]n the old days, I could read anything. But now I cannot read detective stories any more unless they are written by Raymond Chandler.” Perhaps the feelings weren’t mutual. In the aforementioned thriller Farewell My Lovely, Philip Marlowe is confronted by a cop who, like most cops in Chandler’s books, gets on his nerves. “Listen, Hemingway, don’t repeat everything I say,” Marlowe retorts, and continues to call him Hemingway throughout the scene. When the quite oblivious cop eventually asks Marlowe who this Hemingway person is, Marlowe snidely replies, “A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good.” Hmmm. I did mention that Hemingway liked Chandler, didn’t I?

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 6d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 6d

I've sort of found myself drifting toward the J.S. Mill position on this: There's stuff a free society ought to permit but maybe restrict mass-media commercial advertising for.

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 6d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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The Irate Gatsby @stevespla.bsky.social · 9d

Some Halloween deals from the 1920s

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 10d

"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?" - the President of the United States of America

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

www.kgw.com

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 10d

"As the EU has struck deals with more countries, abuses have been pushed farther from European shores. Tunisia’s repressive regime has been accused of dumping thousands of detained migrants in the desert" www.economist.com/internationa...

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration

Europe’s big, invisible wall is slowing boat crossings by migrants

www.economist.com

Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 10d

This is just crazy. Next you'll be telling me that building new housing directly causes rents to fall. Imagine! denverite.com/2025/07/25/d...

Denver rent is back to 2022 prices

With 20,000 new units on the market, prices are down about 3.7 percent.

denverite.com

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 11d

okay, this is AMAZING. apparently there's this abandoned research center on an island off the coast of Russia, and a bunch of polar bears just … decided to move in.

Polar Bears Move Into Houses In Abandoned Research Town In Russia

YouTube video by Inside Edition

www.youtube.com

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 11d

“We developed the script. We were happy with it. We took it to market, and it didn’t sell. So we’re like, ‘We still love this thing. Let’s do a book.’ So we hired a writer. We developed the book. We sold the book to Simon and Schuster.” deadline.com/2025/09/temp...

Expanding The Book Adaptation Pipeline: How Production Companies Like Temple Hill & Alloy Entertainment Are Turning The Page To Develop New IP

Production companies like Temple Hill and Alloy Entertainment have created unique models for book adaptations that allow them to retain IP.

deadline.com

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spookygorski @cpgorski.bsky.social · 11d

I have a theory that a solid quarter or more of the monster stories we've been telling each other since we all believed in monsters are actually stories about rabies.

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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 11d

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

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Jon Evans @rezendi.com · 11d

The most interesting thing here (and there are a few) is that the percentage of people who sometimes/often get news from social media hasn't budged in five years. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

Social Media and News Fact Sheet

Many Americans use social media for news: About a fifth or more regularly get news on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

www.pewresearch.org

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 11d

Just saw someone repeat the refrain that The System Is Working As Intended and if there is one thing I know about systems theory it is that systems NEVER work as intended.

Some systems fail more, some less, but NONE are exactly aligned whit their purpose.

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