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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 2h

Checking in with MJ Bassett for my next movie.

Poster for the 2006 film Wilderness, a large set of jaws of perhaps a bear frame the title, surrounded by darkness with perhaps some visible wall like background in the upper corners.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 2h

Interesting. I’m not getting it on mobile, have not tried desktop.

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 2h

Ireland.

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 2h

Huh still not working for me.

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 3h

Search not working for anyone else?

Screenshot from the Bluesky app, labelled Explore at the top left, an option to see All languages at the top right. In the search bar the word ‘bluesky’ is written. Below that are the tabs (left to right) Top, Latest (highlighted), People and Feeds. Below them is the result:
‘No results found for bluesky’

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 8h

the screengrab from One Battle After Another that i still really need is Leo crying on the phone saying “I’m a drug and alcohol lover!”

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 23h

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Alex Gumpel @anelf3.me · 12h

Tom Morello, best known for his role as Crewman Mitchell stationed on deck 15, in the Star Trek Voyager episode "Good Shepherd" (2000)

Captain Janeway strolling through the bowels of the ship on deck 15 walking towards a crewman in a science uniform who is standing at attention

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 11h

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

three panels from the nausicaä manga depicting ohmu & giant insects

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Non-Fungible 🎃SPOOKIN🎃 @kn3rds.bsky.social · 15h

Iggy Pop, best known for his role as Yelgrun in the DS9 episode “The Magnificent Ferengi”

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 15h

I also think about it. Lot going on there

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Evelyn Waughluigi @mattressisland.bsky.social · 15h

grim example, but the last public guillotining in France took place two months before The Wizard Of Oz premiered and was witnessed by Christopher Lee

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently!
www.whatsonstage.com/london-theat...

Screenshot of a WhatsOnStage page, with a search bar (on which “Search Shows & Articles” is written.) Beneath that is a wall of text that begins and ends mid-sentence:

“as well as Puccini – it's worth remembering that when Dmitri Shostakovich, arguably the greatest composer of the 20th century, saw Superstar in London shortly before he died (twice, on successive evenings) he lamented that he could not have written something similar himself, admiring particularly the writing of a core rock band orchestration overlain with full symphonic strings, brass and woodwind. And Sondheim hails”

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 9d

The Sebring-Vanguard CitiCar (1975)

Miss Auto Expo standing with the wedge shaped electric vehicle

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 17h

Dmitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar! He also liked it so much he considered writing a rock music themed suite (like his earlier Jazz suites) but died soon after.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

I think if we know anything about social media companies at this point it’s that the main problem they have are human beings using their service

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

Meta’s new A.I.-generated video app, Vibes, launched last month to overwhelmingly negative reception. The “Hard Fork” co-hosts discussed why. "It’s essentially like TikTok, but if TikTok were populated just by little animated A.I.-generated shorts." nyti.ms/4ocx2LW

A quote from Kevin Roose, co-host of "Hard Fork": "I was not surprised to see Meta announcing a version of essentially a social network with no actual people on it. I think this is the direction that they’ve been moving for several years now."

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 17h

Why are certain "journalists" (yes, I'm looking at you, Irish Times) uncritically reporting Maria Steen's repeated assertions that independent candidates have been "blocked" from the presidential ballot.

The current frontrunner is an independent candidate.

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alt.tv.pink-opaque @maxrebosroadie.bsky.social · 17h

so many sci-fi stories these days are

scientists: i have made sentient artificial life
other humans: you fucked up a perfectly good robot/spaceship is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 19h

Ah I think they get it fine x.com/inherentsubt...

loop 🖖🏼🍸🩸 @50 years of beej on X: "#QUANTUMLEAP: "I'm a woman!" "And I'm in love!" 🎶 The only girl I'll ever love is... https://t.co/YDBrkaxFEE" / X

#QUANTUMLEAP

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 19h

Oh yeah. There’s a great Quantum Leap edit to it (unsurprisingly the show lends itself well to the premise; there are multiple episodes where Sam is in the body of a woman and one where he was just in drag.)