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This is what’s known as grand larceny

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026

The problem is not that we believe we can do it. The problem is that too many people get excited it will happen but don't do any work to make sure it does, and then they have to perform extra cynicism to get past their embarrassment at acting like they believed in something.

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Face plant @chengeling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Prop 41 and 42 ads are lying to you

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Because it transcends the medium? Fair enough

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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every time you willingly use this shit, you’re agreeing with him.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s easy to say “this guy fucking sucks” and be 100% correct, but the movie is using that feeling of catharsis to illustrate how that can be a tool of manipulation from more insidious threats, which is pretty fundamental to the story

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let’s not act like I introduced the question of morality. OP is responding to black-and-white question “is Christian Victim or Villain?” as if no one in their right mind could call him a victim. But he literally is. It DOES feel cathartic, but that’s because the movie is pointedly from Dani’s POV.

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Moz 🔞 NSFW @pulppunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I suddenly remembered Dr. Paula Hutchison from Rocko's Modern Life

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hey I think the movie is fantastic. I just don’t think it’s arguing that Christian should be killed because he’s THE bad guy. The cult is far, far worse, and it’s very intentional that the audience may not even feel that way when the movie ends.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘Be very angry about how the world is being fucked.’ King Guillermo, I adore you. 👑♥️ [Not my video! Saw on Reddit!]

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Of course he sucks. He’s a pathetic, selfish, unreliable parasite. But I didn’t realize we were cool with burning such people alive? Sexually assaulting and killing someone contemptible as part of a grand recruitment scheme is the actual “villain” behavior. The cult manipulates the audience, too.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Or maybe men are lonely because they seek approval and belonging within male-dominated communities that are blatantly obsessed with competition and self-rejection

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FA is being very up front about both the cost of hosting the site [it aint cheap] and how advertisers theyd been relying on prior are pushing all the same puritan bullshit weve been seeing other platforms push FA is one of very few Old Internet spaces around. Support em while we CAN

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Jane! 🧠🍴 @janegumball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Doom & Gloom - The Animated Intro 💀🐈‍⬛ HUGE thank you to my team who made this look as gorgeous as it does 💚

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you don't take the time and effort to find out who you are, neither will anyone else

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Jikure @kurebuster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

take ur stuff trio

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Prepare how? Talk to my priest? I don't even know what the damn thing's about except that there's a Doctor Doom and like 500 other guys in it. The goodwill people are extending this time just seems really wack to me, this is such "remember when we did this before, except it was good?" energy

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They want you to believe you're not good enough to have earned the life they promised you. They want you to believe that because they lied, and the well of shame and hopelessness that lie creates makes you less threatening to them. It makes you believe you might be as inferior as they wish you were.

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Ringer @mmmatch.es · 29/09/2026

Normalcy is a race to the bottom, a pointless act of stripping yourself of anything that makes you even slightly unique in a futile effort to appease the unappeasable

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While discipline can make us strong, cruelty does not. It makes us rigid, to the point we break where we should bend. Knowing this, those shaped by cruelty seek protection from pressure, putting their untested strength on display to ward challenge off

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It kinda still is. But also, that well-oiled machine - that they built and he commandeered and destroyed - is a meth empire. As Jesse says, "Is a meth empire really something to be proud of?" I love Better Call Saul, I believe it's clearly the superior show by way of craft and thematic heft.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Forgotten Island is such a marvelous flurry of kicks to the heart and eyeballs…. Please go watch it and have a fantastic time

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He may be one of the few top level studio execs who famously got fired just for being a huge asshole

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes, I too really wish this movie was good

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

First they'd have to give a shit about the US

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

just gonna say... all the action is center screen in Mad Max Fury Road, and we all agreed that was the best action movie in the universe. It's not the least logical thing to do. Besides, if they have been marketing it on TikTok, that would be a GOOD thing

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The cartoon community can't single-handedly rescue movies that the studios refuse to market to general audiences

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“If people really wanted to watch movies about girls or Asians or whatever we wouldn’t NEED to advertise” it just never ends with these ghouls.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile I have been made to watch 270 trailers for Cat in the Hat, a movie that is never going to come out.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

America's worship of self-interest serves a critical dual-purpose: glorifying the worst actions of those in power, and manipulating as many others as possible into eagerly gambling away whatever power they had left.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yall misunderstand, I’m not mad at comic fans for being hyped, I’m just sooooo not on the wavelength of whatever this movie wants to be, as no real groundwork seems to have been laid in-universe. It feels like the MCU finally becoming as impenetrable as superhero comics have always felt to me

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I enjoyed Endgame, a lot. So why does listening to rabid fan speculation about Doomsday make me want to move offworld (rhetorical)

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Remulle @remulle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lookin' good!

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Many of us are trying to prove something to ourselves: that we're enough, that we deserve to have some part of ourself recognized and validated. If the way we're doing that is also the thing that's killing us, why would we expect to get away with it forever? We're the ones invalidating ourselves.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congrats! I'm glad this sold out immediately lol

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Those of us who've spent a lifetime bullying ourselves into improvement: There will always come a day that it stops working. That is what burnout is. We find a new way forward, or we don't go forward.

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everyone knows suffering. Most of the time, we’re only asked to feel bad for those who have accumulated incredible power and status precisely to avoid as much suffering as possible. We’re supposed to feel bad when they publicly fail to rise and remain above the rest of us, shielded. That’s healthy

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can confirm ;-;

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Birchly @birchly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also why comedians stop being funny the instant they can afford to do (or not do) whatever the fuck they want. Laughter is our finest coping mechanism, but it also serves to connect us. The privileged and disconnected only laugh to reassure themselves that their status remains firmly elevated.

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