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December 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
There's a running joke among ex-LJ employees: "given enough venture capital, all sites will reimplement LiveJournal circa 2004", and part of the reason Bluesky feels so much like home is it reminds me incredibly much of the vibe from those days!
December 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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zaneselvans.org
Maybe LLMs speak prep-school (post-) Imperial British English. Because that's what most English knowers globally use.

marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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ztul.bsky.social
I'm just as sad as the rest of you that the internet stopped being a living book and became a living TV but let's not pretend that's not what happened.
December 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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mrgodfrey.bsky.social
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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mikexnichols.bsky.social
This is Spinal Tap. “It really puts perspective on things, though, doesn’t it?” “Yeah, too much. There’s too much fucking perspective now.”
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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earlthird.bsky.social
While digging through my Game Boy carts last night I found what might be my favorite bootleg find. The title and label really capture what I love about unofficial releases.
A bootleg Game Boy cartridge of The Blues Brothers (1992, Titus). Despite being a black and white Game Boy game, it’s in a Game Boy Color style cart (albeit with a notch in the back so it can still physically fit in an original DMG-01) that’s molded in yellow, and says “Game Color” where an official cart would read Game Boy Color. Despite being a copy of The Blues Brothers, the cartridge label has a picture of Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as seen on the poster for Men in Black. According to the cartridge label, the game is simply called “The Blues Brother”. Rest assured, you can indeed still play as both Jake and Elwood. I purchased this at a GameCrazy in 2005, where it sat among the other Game Boy/Color games as if nothing was amiss.
December 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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theworkingdead.bsky.social
I love Zebulon, and this place is tiny. If you’re gonna go, get there early.
davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 14d
Attention Los Angeles, California:
#TwinPeaks
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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meakoopa.bsky.social
has anyone written about how Stephen King’s IT is just COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME JIMMY DEAN JIMMY DEAN but with a murder clown

probably not
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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brandonbird.bsky.social
You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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cinematicvoid.bsky.social
COOL AS ICE screens in 35mm on 12/22 at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social. Part of our A Cold Void series. 🎟️: tinyurl.com/4a7pmpmd
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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dreamcastaway.bsky.social
I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment.

transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
I Hope You Get To Live Your Entire Life As A Human
I thought this was going to be a review of my time with Santa Ragione's Horses, the controversial art game recently banned from Steam and the Epic Store. To some extent, this will be that but after...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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lafilmcritics.bsky.social
We will be giving a Special Citation to Judy Kim of Gardena Cinema, a historic 800-seat, single-screen movie palace that has operated as an independent cinema and beacon of community since the Kim family took ownership in 1976. #LAFCA
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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dryad.technology
As the last 4 years have shown, there are few things more dangerous than a technology which does not exist but is being sold on the premise that it does. Imagine how dangerous it would be to have a machine that people believe reads thoughts but does not. Imagine what law enforcement would do with it
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
After the recent joy of Hard Boiled in a packed theater it hit me that one of the tragedies of capitalism’s manifestation of our tech age is that on top of imprisoning us in gilded cages disconnected from shared reality, they are transforming communal experience into an expensive, uncommon novelty.
discussingfilm.net DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 20d
James Gunn says theatrical releases are “incredibly important” for DC after the Warner Bros & Netflix merger news

“The communal theatrical experience is something that is incredibly important & remarkably well suited to our big spectacle films”

(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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abegoldfarb.bsky.social
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar: “No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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bextraordinary.bsky.social
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To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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cinematicvoid.bsky.social
January Giallo returns to @thecoolidge.bsky.social

1/3 THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS

1/10 A BLADE IN THE DARK

1/17 MURDER ROCK

1/24 SISTERS

1/30 SUSPIRIA w/ CV’s Jim Branscome in person

1/31 A BAY OF BLOOD w/ CV’s Jim Branscome in person

Tickets on sale now: coolidge.org/programs/aft...
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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nadiaoxford.bsky.social
Damn, one thing I can say about growing up during the era of over-inflated fears about MK and Night Trap is at least the kids didn’t side with the game cops.
headfallsoff.com headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22d
i am going completely insane watching gamers make up shit about horses and interrogating every single thing the devs have said for inconsistencies and then deciding well it probably had cp in it. this is the easy mode version of the kinds of censorship that are to come and you're failing like babies
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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barbaracrampton.bsky.social
Suitable Flesh is a Christmas movie! Didn’t you know? Watch on @shudder.com, Hulu, Prime and more 🎄🩸
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
tablesaw.bsky.social
Tuesday Weld on the cover of Matthew Sweet's 1991 album Girlfriend.
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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bfletcherwatson.bsky.social
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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juddthelibrarian.bsky.social
Itch.io Creator Day: Lists to help sort it all out

itch.io Creator Day is at hand...
Itch.io Creator Day: Lists to help sort it all out
itch.io Creator Day is at hand...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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johannawinant.bsky.social
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
This is why I hate whenever people lump smart home shit in with AI. You can make the Breakfast Machine from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure in your house run totally locally and securely entirely from parts sourced from AliExpress and GitHub repos.
papapishu.bsky.social Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · May 6
❌ Smart home stuff sucks why do you need to make a toaster have Bluetooth who asked for this
✅ someone on GitHub found a way to make your rice machine send you push notifications to tell you it’s done inferred entirely by how much power it’s consuming
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM