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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 1h

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 45m

Wordle 1,929 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 What a mess. Lots of people are getting smoked today.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 58m

looking forward to buying a nice lunch with my anthropic payout

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1h

Happy birthday to the great Len Cariou (who is, significantly, a leftie).

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1h

today's random theater photo: Aidan Turner, Noel Leslie, Leo G. Carroll, Boyd Crawford, and Lillian Bronson (❤️) in John Van Druten's The Druid Circle (1947)

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1h

Happy Lil Dagover's birthday!

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 4h

Michael Powell, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, in Bekesbourne, Kent, England 📸 Cornel Lucas (1985)

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 18h

Looks like they heard you!

A post from the "Editing the Blue-Gray Lady" Bluesky account, showing that the word "Falters" in the headline "As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator's Accusation of Perjury Falters" has been updated to "Falls Apart."

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 18h

Seems, madam? Nay, it is; I know not “seems.”

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19h

She's aiming at Marlene.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19h

Took me three times looking at this swell photo to realize that Max has taken charge of Judy's handbag.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19h

So I had to hire someone to get our printer to talk to our new internet thingie, and I was oddly pleased that it took him nearly an hour to do it. Better than the million years it would have taken me not to do it.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19h

Fun that Benny Johnson misspelled Eric Schmitt's name. Twice.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19h

It didn't falter. It collapsed.

"As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator's Accusation of Perjury Falters," per The New York Times.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 20h

Today is Stanley Kramer’s birthday.

With Spencer Tracy, and Richard Widmark on the set of ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ (1961)

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20h

One of these days those essays are going to be leaked/released, and I I don’t know what the rest of that thought is.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20h

I have no idea why OOT is playable on the Scrabble app, but it is. Also OOTS.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 21h

waiting on the executive order mandating that spielberg rename his movie

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 21h

It’s refreshing that a significant number of Dems are running on a platform of “my opponents are monsters.”

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 21h

Please stop saying that Darlene Graham is a gibbering fool who's not only out of her depth in the Senate but would be out of her depth in a kiddie pool.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 21h

Every now and then I'm about to use the phrase "virtue signaling," and then someone else does and I gasp and think "Dodged another bullet there, didn't you."

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 22h

why not just call it “fetch intelligence”

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 23h

i took the most deadly boring weekly three-hour seminar on transcendentalism with this guy, and yes, he brought a frisbee to toss around outside during the break

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23h

"A.I. will write summaries of our thoughts and may contribute some of its own." No it won't.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23h

it's really telling though that missouri dude's response is to complain about procedure, try to talk over klobuchar, get red-faced and yell, and refuse to back down.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

Look, I’m not going to suggest everyone call Eric Schmitt’s congressional office and tell them they need to check the battery in their carbon monoxide detector, because that would be RUDE

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23h

The Wikipedia entry for Voyage of the Damned kicks off with "an all-star cast featuring Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Lynne Frederick, and Malcolm McDowell," and I'm thinking "What relative of Lynne 'Mrs. Peter Sellers' Frederick's keeps attacking this page?"

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Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love the first act finale of Shuffle Along so much. "I'm Just Wild About Harry" is one of the catchiest show tunes ever written, plus Adrienne Warren tapping! Audra wearing a cute hat! Ann Roth's costumes!

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great post, very informative.

The defense secretary will announce the move on Wednesday during a speech to a handpicked group of lower-ranked officers
and enlisted troops repeated three times bracketing a photo of Pete Hegseth.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What an incredible piece of Schmitt.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026

Birthday boy Stanley Kramer's collected oeuvvvvvrrre is weird and lumpy, but Judgment at Nuremberg is kind of perfect and I love Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (sue me), so that's that. Happy Stanley Kramer's birthday.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026

Observing the grisly spectacle of a dozen self-identified professional copy editors detailing how they'd improve a perfectly composed sentence by a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, and to be honest I'm a bit embarrassed. For them.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026

today's incredibly groovy not quite random theater photo: Julie Newmar (before she was fired), birthday girl Madeline Kahn, Charlotte Rae, and I'm not quite sure who, in rehearsal for David Rabe's Boom Boom Room (1973). Also fired en route: director Julie Bovasso.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026

Is Sen. Foghorn Leghorn chewing gum? Did he bring enough for the whole class?

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Caravaggio, Painter, #BornOnThisDay in 1571, in Milan ‘The Taking of Christ’, National Gallery of Ireland

Caravaggio’s ‘The Taking of Christ’, National Gallery of Ireland

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Greer Garson, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1904, in Manor Park, East Ham, England

With Teresa Wright on the set of ‘Mrs. Miniver’ (1942)

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026

“Christ, what an asshole.”

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026

Courtesy of @kevinddaly.bsky.social, Mariette Hartley, Sada Thompson, and Barbara Barrie in a 1959 All’s Well That Ends Well, proving conclusively the existence of a benevolent deity.

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond from September 28, 1941.

In this six panel color Sunday strip, Flash is demonstrating his special rocket ship to US military and government officials when he receives an SOS from an oil tanker that is under attack by an enemy warship. He successtul destroys the warship and goes to help survivors of the tanker who escaped on lifeboats. But the last panel shows an attack squadron of planes that have just launched from an enemy aircraft carrier.

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Will Eisner's The Spirit from September 28, 1952. Art by Wally Wood & letters by Ben Oda.

The cover shows a rocket ship heading towards Earth, above the title "Return from the Moon." The Spirit's face, partially in shadow, is in the background.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of "I hope someone tells these proles to turn off their phones and not talk through the performance" commentary in response to NYC's Met ticket giveaway, as if theaters aren't already overrun with people who pay hundreds of dollars to leave their phones on and talk through performances.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sick flex bro

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