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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 4h

I still always think of "SI" as "Stupid Intelligence." Makes just as much sense.

Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fuck me... I just saw a dead body. A woman fell off my apartment fifteen minutes ago. I can't believe how shook up I am over this. They are still working on her, but there is blood pooling in my parking lot. She wasn't moving before they got to her. Fuck me...

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love when people argue semantics rather than substance. That's always so productive.

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Belbury Poly dives deep through hand-painted paperback covers & into the arms of ‘80s sword & sorcery films with an engrossing zeal. Somewhere in the badlands of Beastmaster, Krull, & Conan, Jupp is lurking with a synth in hand & a percolating riff that rolls down like poisoned sweat bit.ly/4dUiLR6

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gen Z are more likely to use AI regularly, but they also feel AI has more risks than benefits and are more likely to limit their use of it, despite being overwhelmingly confident in their ability to use it: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/over-40...

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Over 40% of people are limiting AI use, as popularity starts to wane | King's College London

People are increasingly choosing to limit or reject the use of AI tools, according to a new report published today by the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London and Responsible AI UK.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think 'American Pop' is underrated. It paints a compelling picture of post-Civil War America, the immigrant story, and the history of US music through a surreal blend rotoscope animation and stock footage. For my money, it's the best thing Ralph Bakshi ever did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

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American Pop - Wikipedia

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SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wow the premier just announced a long time COPE policy and one of the motions I tried to move last year!

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ed Sheeran demolished his career for nothing. What a coward and a moron.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Apparently, Wendy's hasn't changed all that much since 1981.

A still shot from the film 'All the Marbles' (1981), showing a Wendy's restaurant exterior.

A still shot from the film 'All the Marbles' (1981), showing a woman grimacing as she looks at her Wendy's burger.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As an OG fan of Jackass, I find this installment incredibly confusing. Why bother introducing the new cast in 'Jackass Forever' just to sideline all but Poopies in favour of previously seen footage from earlier films? Preston Lacy is barely in this too. So weird. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackass...

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Jackass: Best and Last - Wikipedia

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The more that I sit with the 'Backrooms' movie, the more that I appreciate about it. It has layers and depth. Conversely, the more that I sit with 'Stranger Things,' the more that pisses me off about it. It's dumb AF. This is one of the defining differences between fine art and mere content.

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: a peak of humanity as #totp's Ruby Flipper dance to Disco Duck. Never pause on the final image of this video.

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Ruby Flipper - 'Disco Duck' Top Of The Pops Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots

Ruby Flipper on TOTP on 23.09.76.

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Polaris Music Prize @polarismusicprize.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Angine de Poitrine have won the 2026 Polaris Album Prize for Vol. 2, and SOCAN Polaris Song Prize for “Fabienk.” -- Angine de Poitrine a remporté le Prix de l’album Polaris 2026 pour Vol. 2, ainsi que le Prix de la chanson SOCAN Polaris pour “Fabienk.”

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We probably should have seen all this 51st state nonsense coming.

Deadpool is a U.S.Avenger.... of Canada.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Elizabeth Holmes is a true sociopath. Nobody can fake that much about themselves for money while caring so little about the health and wellbeing of other people unless there is something deeply, profoundly, disturbingly wrong with them. youtu.be/xXF1NDn9I5o

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has legalized child porn, as long as it's AI-generated, while the FBI is actively recruiting bestiality aficionados.... not sure how much greater America can get at this point.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

WZZZ 100.1FM Drifts Downtempo '76 A 10-hour mix of instrumental downtempo electronica made to sound like a radio station that you are meant to chill or even fall asleep to, cerebral samples with music that planted seeds for Boards of Canada, Bibio and Broadcast. DROPBOX LINK: bit.ly/WZZZdriftsDO...

Almost all cover art imagery is from 1976.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The best thing about getting your gallbladder removed is sitting on a nice big pile of T3s.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My Top 10 of 1979 (actually 11) Alien All That Jazz Apocalypse Now Being There The Jerk Mad Max Monty Python's Life of Brian The Muppet Movie North Dallas Forty Phantasm The Warriors

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Huh... they made a movie about women playing men's sports in 1978, and the world didn't end.

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Wax Pack Glam @waxpackglam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Elvira, 1981 Donruss Baseball style.

Cassandra Peterson as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark in an implied nude pin-up shot. Presented as a parody of a 1981 Donruss baseball card.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We care about everyone who dies in car accidents. They get headlines. We should care about people who are dying or suffering or being injured by seatbelts." Same logic.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Aimee Mann on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' This beats out Cibo Matto if only because Mann has the line, "Man, I hate playing vampire towns." She also had a notable cameo in 'The Big Lebowski.'

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yup. The USA could elect a trans Latinx president in 2028, and it will not change a goddamn thing. Canada isn't coming back. We can't trust that the president after that won't be another Epstein pedophile klan member, worse than Trump. There are no checks and balances. Your courts are compromised.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Hedwig and the Angry Inch will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nice to see Ed Sheeran is finding out that f-ing around with zionist billionaires isn't the neutral position he thought it was. "Not taking a side" during a genocide is taking a side. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Ed Sheeran's support acts quit tour in support of Macklemore

The star said he was not responsible for Macklemore being dropped from the line-up after he made pro-Palestinian statements on stage.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think my cat has a weird addiction to hand lotion, among other things.

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Cabaret D'Arques @cabaretdarques.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fallposting (the time is nigh)

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm two episodes in, and 'Stuart Fails to Save the Universe' is pretty freaking awesome. Not a big fan of the AI slop intro, but the show itself is a fantastic iteration of a spin-off show. Really reminds me of first couple seasons of 'Sliders,' but way funnier. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_...

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Stuart Fails to Save the Universe - Wikipedia

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