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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 41m

it happened again

Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

when only one of the airpods is charged… like what the fuck were you doing in there

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 46m

George isn’t gonna get to make the last Mad Max movie so he’s trying to make the Wasteland happen for real

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 4h

you named the robot what now

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 6h

should i go to the used bookstore, will that fix my life?

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 8h

I am so behind on documentaries as you can see at the link, but I've been updating my Oscar predictions for @theankler.com's Prestige Junkie Pundits as I watch all of the movies: anklerpundits.com/pundit/tyler...

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 9h

i adore this man

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 9h

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 10h

you can make up facts and print them in a magazine but that doesn’t make them true!!!

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 10h

the answer is surprisingly kevin costner, who is also described as being responsible for a line of dialogue he did not write and did not say

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 10h

if you read the sentence “the Oscar-winning director and actor with the most iconic American screen presence since Gary Cooper,” who would you imagine it’s talking about

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 22h

cliff is so big now and it freaks me out!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 1d

Hamnet and A House of Dynamite, at least in my social circles, are already the most divisive Oscar contenders of the season

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Reacher from the Jack Lagoon @daltondeschain.com · 1d

It's not that I won't vote for Gavin Newsom if he's the presidential candidate. It's that if the Democratic Party chooses him, then they are communicating to me that they actively do not want my vote, and believe they don't need it. I will simply honor their wishes

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

when only one of the airpods is charged… like what the fuck were you doing in there

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

grooving to the new jeff tweedy while making buratta toast… i have never felt more 42

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

In addition to being a sign of terrible political instincts, this is also a sign that Hakeem Jeffries cannot think a single step ahead. Trump will 100% send troops to NYC, either as soon as Mamdani is elected in November or when he takes office in January. Unity among NYC Dems is going to matter.

Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 2d

Hanging out with my Dad who's watching MSNBC. I just saw Hakeem Jeffries, my fellow law school alumm fail yet again to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for NYC Mayor. And then he shanked a direct question about whether he will *vote* for him. Incredible. This is unacceptable.

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 2d

can’t believe being a total fucking dumbass has consequences

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2d

“… the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority …”

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 2d

Need a cigarette after reading @deliacai.bsky.social's ant-AI screed in today’s Deez Links www.deezlinks.com/p/the-ai-cla...

Besides, I maintain that it is the distinct purview of writers and artists and actual non-baseball-cap-enabled thinkers to get our dunks in where we can, in the beautiful city of New York and larger project of America wherein cultural capital is still not something that can be entirely bought and stripped for parts yet; thus being able to categorically reject an AI company’s attempt to be “cool” and “community-minded” is probably the closest thing to artistic freedom we will have in this decade. So let me reiterate, actually, that I think this shit is so fucking dorky, and anyone who is excited about the “aesthetics” of an AI company reveals a soul so malnourished from lack of exposure to basic facts of experience, sensation, context and yes, TASTE, that a semblance of a gesture toward meaning activates some kind of rhapsodic trip-wire within. Oh my sweet children. I can’t believe you think that’s beauty.

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

if i EVER write about myself in the third person, please put me down

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

she’ll be in charge of the news division of a broadcast network, not the country

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

eh, olivia will probably do little actual work and get away with it, whereas bari is going into BROADCAST TELEVISION IN 2025 having never worked in tv

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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

even failing upward has a ceiling

Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 2d

it's not all doom and gloom, y'all. bari weiss is taking on an impossible job that she's so deeply unqualified for and it'll be fun to see her publicly fail at a massive scale!

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