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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 1h

Oh. The ratcheting-to-the-right of social media 2.0.

Actually. That's a book right there. Ugh.

deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 1h

I learned my mom and my former (her current) pastor (who is such a big normie compared to my not normie mom) have been big fans of hers.

My mom was telling me about the longest ingrown hair ever and I...cannot.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1h

Time to nourish my mind and spirit ✨

*starts an episode of Dr. Pimple Popper*

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 1h

When you see evidence of what you knew deep in your bones but you're still horrified.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 5h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

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 unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 1h

WE KNEW. But isn't it nice to have it out in the open? YES.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 6h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

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

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 2h

I hate Jimmy Fallon but I'm really glad the HUNTR/X ladies, Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, get to shine and be Golden all on their own. 💛

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 2h

'KPop Demon Hunters' trio shine 'Golden' like they're born to be in first full-length TV performance

Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami — the singing voices of the 'KPop Demon Hunters' girl group Huntrix — perform the platinum hit 'Golden' live on 'The Tonight Show.'

www.latimes.com

deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 2h

This feels like a symbolic win, and to hear the Cubs and Tigers as team names right now is strange! A very Midwestern feeling.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2h

Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 5-2 on Wednesday to send the Yankees packing in the Major League Baseball playoffs as the Cubs and Tigers stayed alive

u.afp.com/Smnc

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 2h

This is actually extremely on-brand for fascists. They prioritize aesthetics above all else, even to their own extreme detriment.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 5h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 2h

TRUMP: They're animals!*

* inflatable

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2h

i wish that it was possible to truly enjoy the utter comedy in the juxtaposition between this and the way the president is describing this

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 2h

That kid learned another lesson today.

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 2h

Solidarity with Vandy

Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 4h

www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

Campus Crowd Demands Vanderbilt Reject Trump Deal

Students, faculty and professors marched on Wednesday as Chancellor Diermeier mulls funding deal with Trump administration

www.nashvillescene.com

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 2h

I'm so mad at this piece. I saw this on IG and I was like, funny how these are all Black vets.

This is a Bezos hit piece and a very dirty, shameful smear campaign. WaPo's credibility is so tattered as it is.

The ultimate goal is to discredit the VA and we should make sure that doesn't happen.

Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 5h

This is wrong on every level. It’s a rigorous process that can take years. Just because a small number of rotten people faked being blind or paralyzed doesn’t mean the system should be gutted or over 9 million veterans getting benefits smeared. This is so dam irresponsible of WaPo.

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 2h

This full moon in Aries is so not fun for me, and to be back where I grew up for it is also not what I want but it seems necessary. It'll be nice to have some substantial me time for the next few days to process things.

deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 3h

What a debut. "Good Souls" carried me through the early aughts.

As I turn to you and I say
Thank goodness for the good souls
That make life better
As I turn to you and I say
If it wasn't for the good souls
Life would not matter

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEAS...

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4h

California passes law requiring social media companies to remove your personal data when you delete your account 📱

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Kate Stutzel @katestutzel.bsky.social · 4h

This feels like the time I was at the Tate in London looking at a Duchamp and some guy near me sneers "that isn't art" - AH HA YES!

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 8h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 6h

This is not a photo of protestors in Portland “ICE fishing”, as clever as that sounds.

I can’t find the photographer so far, but it’s been online since at least 2013, and those are Toronto cycling cops, not American ICE agents.

Note the uniforms, shorts, bikes, and lack of masks.

Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 1d

Ice Fishing in Portland

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❛ 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂⁠. ✿ @dailyrunway.bsky.social · 16h

Ayo Edebiri in Chanel by Matthieu Blazy for the cover of Vogue November 2025 issue #fashionsky

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 4h

I love you, Chicago. 💘

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Mike in the Box @mike-in-the-box.bsky.social · 5h

Mark Bray is a professor at Rutgers, but he and his family have been forced to flee the country, because of death threats that have been unleashed on them by Turning Point USA. Now... this:

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5h

“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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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 6h

I really love when people don't make their vocations their whole life but are still excellent at what they do. It's very not a capitalist thing to do and what I aspire to.

Sadly it's, for now, a privilege, too, but I'm still going to aspire to it.

Two Capricorn people who find their work creepy.

deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 7h

I've always loved her and I love her partner Matthew Rhys and I love them together. Love love love.

Aries women ARE IT. Period.

(She has a Cap moon, which is probably why I love her. I love Cap moon people, like my brother who has one).

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7h

Over three decades and several hit shows, television—an intimate medium that rewards emotional transparency—made Keri Russell a star. Now, the actress reflects on her career and playing make-believe for a living.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 11h

cbs story (image 1): www.cbsnews.com/amp/losangel...

latimes story (image 2): www.latimes.com/california/s...

Palisades Fire arrest made; suspect allegedly set earlier blaze that later ignited Jan. 7 LA inferno, officials say

29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht "maliciously" started the Lachman Fire on Jan. 1, which later became the devastating Palisades Fire, prosecutors said.

www.cbsnews.com

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 6h

I couldn't even dream of writing sci-fi liket his. This is why nonfiction is stranger than fiction.

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 12h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 7h

I love that she doesn't want to be married and to keep her money separate. Her female friends are her ride-or-dies, not her romantic partners and...

"She’d also seen the ways that marriage had affected the women around her—the things they talked themselves into, or into being."

deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 7h

“It’s so creepy,” she told me, then muttered, “I shouldn’t say that.” Did she mean acting or celebrity? “Both,” she said, laughing.

So grounded. It's hard to have perspective in Hollywood but being and remaining an outsider is a good way to be.

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 7h

I've always loved her and I love her partner Matthew Rhys and I love them together. Love love love.

Aries women ARE IT. Period.

(She has a Cap moon, which is probably why I love her. I love Cap moon people, like my brother who has one).

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7h

Over three decades and several hit shows, television—an intimate medium that rewards emotional transparency—made Keri Russell a star. Now, the actress reflects on her career and playing make-believe for a living.

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV

But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

www.newyorker.com

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