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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 5h

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"

Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.

"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"

"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"

"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."

"Is it really as simple as that?"

"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?

What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 2h

to my great shame i have been in a room with bari (friend's wedding) and the pleading uneasy need to be liked is palpable. ted cruz levels

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 3h

One of them was Summer from The OC, haha

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 3h

This is silly, but I’m now mid season 7 of Buffy, and I think a reeeeaal problem with the potentials is the first two they introduce (plus Kennedy) have extremely fake sounding British accents. It immediately signaled these weren’t going to be real characters in a way.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 10h

This is why I love Chicago so much. Their “we will fuck with you” reserves are BOTTOMLESS.

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 12h

This is amazing.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · Jun 28

Hey Dune

The cast of the television show Hey Dude but with their eyes blued and little crude tubes drawn on their face making them look like Fremen from Dune

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Adrian Walking Dead 🧟‍♂️ 🦇 @adrianswalker.blacksky.app · 5h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

It’s so funny that we finally got confirmation it was an accident and even funnier that we didn’t know for sure because he tweets such crazy, criminal shit all the time

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“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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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 5h

"Front room."
"Garbage."
"Garage."
"Bears."

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 6h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 5h

Andor, played by Duego Luna, saying "I would rather die trying to take them down than giving them what they want."

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willYum @urpalwilly.bsky.social · 6h

even though I had read this in WTHW some time ago, I took this pic from We Had It Coming and I keep coming back to it cuz it’s so simple but says so much. “how it actually is” “in case you need reminding” “look at what we allow” all cut to the heart of it. thx @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

I told you before that I know it can be uncomfortable to encounter an unhoused person in distress but that is because it is an up close and personal look at How It Actually Is. A peek under the hood of this country.
The churning gears and foul combustion. It's no wonder then that so many of us want these humans simply disappeared. And they are humans in case you need reminding.
They aren't a threat so much as they are an
indictment.
Look at what we allow.
It's the hideous beating of the tell-tale heart.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 7h

Anybody think it's vaguely unfair that dental assistants are always so goddamn pretty? Like the most beautiful woman on the planet just scrutinizing your flossing.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 7h

*waves back* And it's great to see you over here, as well!

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 7h

I got followed by @pattonoswalt.bsky.social and @chuckwendig.bsky.social on Twitter because of my threads about Batman and Superman, and I've become mutuals with a lot of great people involved with Star Trek.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

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

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HudsonRiverCroc @hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social · 7h

Yep, he’s dying

Trump had a yearly physical exam on April 11th 2025. White House announced he’s having a yearly physical exam on Oct 9th 2025

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 7h

I rewatched II recently and had to look up whether Stallone blew all his money after the first movie, because so many of those details were really well-observed. I was like, "Oh man, Stallone really knows how people who've been poor their whole lives deal with a sudden windfall- oh, wait."

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 7h

Rocky II, a story about a guy who found unexpected success in the first installment, made a lot of poor financial decisions, tried to go do something else, until eventually caving to external pressures to just do it again, is basically Stallone's autobiography of deciding to make the movie.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 7h

Like, these women are so STRONG and BEAUTIFUL and AMAZING, and then some villain DESTROYS them, and they linger on that destruction, and then a normie type (a Xander, a Wash, a Giles) gets to be the one who says just the right thing to fix it. The shlubby normal guy gets to be special somehow.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 7h

I think intellectually, Whedon loves the idea of a girl who can kick ass. I think his boner's favorite moment is when the asskicking girl gets broken, when SMG's lower lip is quivering and her eyes are welling up with tears. And his ego's favorite moment is when some normal dude helps pick her up.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 8h

He's more attracted to their ability to dish out comeuppance, while Whedon lingers on the suffering, I think.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 8h

We all know how goofy this is, but make sure all your friends who might not be so terminally online know how goofy this shit all is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 8h

this.

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 9h

"For some, the Trump administration’s Chicago assault was a shock. But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered." interc.pt/4h2hBUd

A photo of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Black People Knew This Would Happen," and the DEK, "Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us."

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