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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1h

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 5h

Was completely on purpose

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 8h

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

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Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 6h

I see what you did there

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8h

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 8h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 8h

"We took the freedom of speech away"

Jack Nicholson meltdown from the conclusion of "A Few Good Men"

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Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 11h

May 20, 1981
Movie: Bustin' Loose (dir. Oz Scott & Michael Schultz)

Song:

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 12h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 11h

It was a thin bean sandwich on transparent bread

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Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 11h

Pretty sure this is the same loaf Mickey Mouse sliced to be see-through thin

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Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 11h

I have some friendships that are nearly 20 years old now that would not have flourished had we not gotten up in each other's mentions on Twitter all the time.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 23h

“I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious … She’s been a little under the weather and I simply asked for prayers bc I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 23h

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 13h

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 1d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Lair Of The Gurt Sherm (Stoker 1911) @gurtsherm.bsky.social · 17h

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 14h

The story now is that 22 years ago someone perfectly captured Trump's speech patterns and crutch phrases to forge a cryptically porny birthday letter to his pedophile BFF in Sharpie with his exact familiar signature and kept it secret through three successive Presidential campaigns.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 15h

Robocop

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

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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Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 1d

I've *never* understood why people are so prickly about ketchup on hot dogs. It's a hot dog for crying out loud, not some A5 wagyu steak.

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Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 1d

With as many people in this town (with money) that own golf carts you'd think this would actually be something that would happen

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Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 1d

I've bought several different discs and TV sets from them and can definitely vouch for the quality of what you get, especially for the price.

Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 1d

I'm normally all in favor of buying movies and such via legitimate avenues, but the DVD is out of print and it's never gotten a domestic Blu-ray release. So if, like me, you really wanted a physical copy of Quiz Show, this is your best option right now.

*limited run* Quiz Show (1994) Region Free Bluray *BLACK CASE EDITION* – SloppySecondSales – Home of Cinema Dream Network

sloppysecondsales.com

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oriana schwindt @schwindter.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 capitalism as totalizing ideology 🎶

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes when you read the list of who liked your post

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