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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1h

meet the 40-year-olds driving the Tory youth movement

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 39m

PoV: It's 4:56 PM and the HOA board just spotted you taking your trash out .

A group of people whose hard drives should be searched.

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Jay 🌲 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · Dec 16

I was looking through my media tab.. and I don’t think I’ve ever given this design that I use as my pfp a proper post. Here they are 🌲🐻 #indigenousart #formline

A formline design of a monster head. The creature has protruding fangs and long, sharp incisors that stick out. They also have sharp horns sticking out from their forehead and pointy, ungulate-esque ears. They are coloured a deep teal and highlighted with light forest green and yellow.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 11h

GOOD BOY IS SO GOOD holy shit I’m glad we saw it in the theater because

1) we support an awesome indie film
2) there’s an adorable behind the scenes in the theatrical release and
3) it would drive MY Indy bonkers with his name constantly being said, I don’t even know if we can watch it at home

Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 2d

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: the new horror film “Good Boy,” starring a rescue dog named Indy but not MY rescue dog named Indy, is currently in theaters. We are going Wednesday but I’m endorsing it now, unseen. Indy tax included

Indy the dog lays on the ground with a happy face and an autumnal scarf. he is chill but ready for adventure and fun.

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 11h

oh classic!

spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 17h

it was good :)

spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 22h

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 8: HOLY WEDNESDAY: ...And on the 8th day the Physical Media God watches a Christploitation flick.

Alucarda (1977)

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Alucarda - menacing girl with inverted cross

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 1d

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 7: NOW THAT’S BRASS: Skewer the end of week one with a thrust of metal - be it precious or, better yet, base.

Project: Metalbeast (1995)

h/t @octoberjohn.bsky.social for the great suggestion!

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Project: Metalbeast poster - it looks exactly what you'd expect

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 2d

ooo good suggestions! thank you :D

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 2d

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#scvpsychochallenge friends, what are we thinking today? Tetsuo: The Iron Man would be a great choice but I've already seen it. Maybe something with swords?

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Emi Birdee @ GATEway FATE @emibirdee.art · 2d

Last art update before bed: updated a design so that it sets better! (Old one had too many slender parts that can tear easily)

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 2d

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 6: SQUEAKY REELS: [whispers] This one came out in 1925. Shhhhh!

Phantom of the Opera (1925) was the most obvious choice, plus I'd never seen it before!

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 3d

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 5: SHRIEKS & SQUEALS: This one’s gotta have that sound that makes the hairs on your neck stand up and sends shivers down your spine.

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

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Kazuma Hashimoto @kazuma.bsky.social · 5d

this is bad lol takaichi is a member of the nippon kaigi, supports the revision of article 9, and much like her idol, Margaret Thatcher, has extremely regressive views of women's rights, among other things.

Nikkei Asia (Official) @asia.nikkei.com · 5d

BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi elected first female leader of Japan’s ruling LDP
trib.al/lz8joW3

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

A popular—but comically generic white male—video game YouTuber has now taken a more vocally critical stance of Netanyahu than the leadership of the Democratic Party. I am under a constant torrent of mental anguish.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

we live in the end of times

Moist Critical, aka Charlie, reaction video about Benjamin Netanyahu being an evil moron.
Video: I can’t believe this timeline

Captions:
“we're living in I also just saw today Benjamin Netanyahu just openly”

“ stating in front of the whole world his
plans on brainwashing because so”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 4d

www.feedingamerica.org/need-help-fi...

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Rob Benfield (Biddy Faircloud) @rbenfield95.bsky.social · 9d

Not my picture but my god this EXACTLY sums up why I'm so done with goddamn internet discourse. Everyone feels they have to have a take. It feels like people are seeking out negativity rather than just... enjoying what they do like.

I genuinely don't wanna be around people who act like this anymore

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 4d

"Juan" traveled from CA to harvest blueberries in OR. "The fields are in bad condition-so overgrown I can barely walk. I was to get paid 40 cents/lb, but the labor contractor who brought us here doesn't want to pay us sometimes. I'm not protected by a union contract." #WeFeedYou

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 4d

You'll never look at right wingers the same once you realize they signal values to each other by listing off things they hate. It's why their bios are just rants and they can't tell a joke without succumbing to making lists. They use buzzwords to close deltas where character is supposed to be.

A typical conservative "joke" reply:

Oh, so that's what this Matt fellow was jumping up and down for. I thought he was flipping out because a black non-binary genderfluid person showed up holding a pride flag and wearing xe/xir pronouns on xir belt.

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 5d

it was pretty fucked up! (in a good way lol)

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 5d

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 4: MYTHICAL CREATURES: Though they are hard to capture, you must see one in this feature

Death of a Unicorn (2025)

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A partially-seen dark monster with huge sharp teeth menaces a young lady.

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 5d

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 3: SIMIAN CINEMA: Grab a six-pack of bananas and watch a primate film. Something appeeling.

Monkey Shines (1988)

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