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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 02/08/2026

On Instagram, you can *pay* to view peoples’ stories without them seeing you viewed them. Which tells you everything you need to know about the fucked up status of Facebook’s psychological depravity.

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 30/07/2026

I’ve somehow become only the 7th best player of a game I created

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

do you know how stupid you have to be to get community noted with a link to project gutenberg

Matt Walsh
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Nolan's obsessions with the non-linear storytelling gimmick really hurts this film. It jumps around so much, and spends so little time on any one particular moment or scene, that you never really feel like Odysseus is on an epic journey spanning many years. When he makes it home, you never feel like he's been gone for 20 years. The film does not capture the grandeur and scope of the original epic. That's why it feels rushed and too long simultaneously. The movie comes off like a rough draft. Nolan was searching for the actual story but never quite found it.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

finish da fight

The Sopranos. Tony Soprano holding a Needler weapon from the Halo video game series.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer

Ryan Gosling and another man both in some kind of ancient garb holding a small dinosaur that seems like it might talk and be sassy

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Me, listening to all your Oddyssey takes

Matt Damon tied to the mast as they sail past the Sirens in The Oddyssey

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🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The Odyssey but everyone except Matt Damon is a muppet.

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 22/07/2026

I do think the horror elements were new from him

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol

A picture of a box styled like a little free library but with blockbuster movies

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 21/07/2026

These Google Workspace ads (for *paying* customers!) are driving me crazy I don't know why I would need a "virtual receptionist", what "Voice Standard" is, who "my callers" are, and why I would need to "guide them automatically" Is Google Workspace losing its mind? What next: proper ads?

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 20/07/2026

Back here live at the Waterfront Village with my friend the zombie, Jonathan, you’re looking good Jonathan just got an awesome face paint job what do you think?

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Do members of Congress actually do anything other than tweet, launder money and bankrupt the country??

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 19/07/2026

The Dune sneak peak was pretty great too

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 18/07/2026

Just wait until you read Ready Player Two. Might be even more you

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 18/07/2026

Just saw #theodyssey in 70mm IMAX. Here’s my spoiler free review: EPIC! Not what I expected, brilliant, more moral than moving. A work that’s convinced there is right and wrong. Which in our time is needed. It really may be his best film, even if it’s not my favorite of his.

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 18/07/2026

My top 5 prediction: - Kimi - Max - Lando - Charles - Lewis #f1

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 18/07/2026

“San Francisco is, after all, the same town that invented Google Glass and NFTs. But it’s also the same place that incubated the internet, social media apps, and the modern office. What happens in tech sometimes becomes a joke, and sometimes becomes ubiquitous.” – Benn Stancil

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/07/2026

Christopher Nolan has done some of us a great service by making a movie that has become a heat sink for all the illiterate chud rage grifters who usually spend all day talking about videogame bustlines

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 15/07/2026

THX, Pixar, Industrial Light & Magic, Lucas Arts You can really make the argument that Lucas was a tech exec whose products were movies, television, and games Director/producer is pretty reductive of his output

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Sarah Forde 🌙🪡 @sailorastera.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Happy anniversary of that time the post office asked me to provide evidence that my package was not delivered.

A series of photos of me pointing to places where packages could be like inside of a mailbox or on the front porch or in my hands except there is nothing there

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 11/07/2026

I think we can take a moment to admire the United States Postal Service's commemorative stamps celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, by illustrator Juan Carlos Pagan. The '1776' in both designs is smart, though where the feathers are elegant that stylised flag is 👌

Two postage stamps with illustrations of the American flag and a quill pen. The left stamp features a stylized flag with red and white stripes and a blue circle with white stars. The right stamp shows a red, white, and blue quill pen on a dark blue background. Both stamps have the text "1776 forever USA" and "Declaration of Independence" printed vertically on the side. In the background, there is a painting of historical figures in a formal setting.

Two postage stamps with red, white, and blue feathers on a white and dark blue background. The text "Declaration of Independence" is written vertically on the dark blue stamp, and "1776 forever USA" is written vertically on the white stamp. The stamps have a serrated edge.

A close-up photo of a white envelope with a red, white, and blue airmail border. A navy blue stamp with a stylised United States flag forming the numbers '1776' is applied. The stamp reads "1776 forever USA" and "celebration of Independence." The envelope is placed on a red, white, and blue striped surface.

Two large banners hang on a stone building with classical columns. The left banner features a stylized eagle in red, white, and blue, with the text "1776 forever USA" and "Declaration of Independence" vertically on the side. The right banner displays abstract red and white stripes forming a ribbon-like shape, with a blue circle containing white stars, also accompanied by "1776 forever USA" and "Declaration of Independence" vertically. The building's facade is ornate, with detailed stonework above the columns.

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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 08/07/2026

Shakespeare couldn’t even fathom a sentence like this

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Stuart Frisby @mrfrisby.com · 28/06/2026

I just scored 4,290 points (including a 28-flag survival round!) in Vexil! Can you beat my score? apps.apple.com/app/id650491...

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 29/06/2026

That flow state must have felt **excellent**

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 23/06/2026

Will work in the next release! Turns out you need to submit them for review alongside the app. My bad lol. Glad you’re enjoying it!

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 24/05/2026

Look at this absolute unit

A massive wedge-shaped railway snowplough painted deep red sits inside a historic engine shed beside a small blue steam locomotive. The side of the plough is marked ‘N.E.R. Snowplough No.18 Bishop-Auckland,’ with sunlight streaming through tall arched windows onto the stone walls and concrete platform.

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 19/05/2026

My first ACE graded card - super nice touch how they “extend” the card art in their grading slip - I wasn't a huge fan of Metagross until I got a hundo one in Pokémon Go, now I really like the design - especially with this super fun snow scene 🌨️

An ACE graded Pokemon card of two Metagross moving snow in a snowstorm

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 14/05/2026

These are all the same person

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 14/05/2026

Can I just say that I have absolutely no intention of finding out who Wes Streeting is

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 08/05/2026

This film is even more miraculous when you learn that 20 years before acting together again they were together for five years and have a child

The film poster for the movie the Taste of Things

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Matt Hill @gethill.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 19/04/2026

Doing our part for the local little library (before & after)

Totally full after we dropped off dozens of books

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 16/04/2026

Some of my friends on Pokemon Go are next level

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 10/04/2026

We’re 26 years into this millennium and I’ve just thrown out my dad’s landline phone he still had stored in his closet “in case I needed to test a landline”

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Chris Hadfield @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

4 people are flying around that Moon today. The first since 1972, and the first-ever with digital cameras, to see better into the dark craters and textures. The crew will have perfect quiet when the Moon blocks out Earth - a time of peace, alone, together.

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My favourite fact about the Artemis 2 mission is that three of the four RS-25 engines launching the stack into orbit have flown Shuttle missions. One of them has flown 15 Shuttle flights, with its first flight in 1998.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

In Britain this is considered the highest form of praise.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Read this if you need a laugh.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

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Alex Manthei @alexmanthei.com · 14/03/2026

He has this insane tendency to think because he's been at Ferrari so long he's somehow Mr. Ferrari and somehow deserves to win because of that

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