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Blu Ray Samurai

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Arsenal, film/physical media, F1, and birds. Criterion and Radiance paypig. boxd.it/2hFhP

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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
#lastfourwatched #filmsky
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
watching da vroom vroom while my telescope is outside taking pics of da solar system this is l i v i n g
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/02/2026
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
theguardian.com
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
#lastfourwatched #filmsky #morverncallarbluraybeingOOPisacrime
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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 21/01/2026
this one's free www.graceonfootball.com/p/mikel-arte...
graceonfootball.com
Mikel Arteta is the great British manager of his generation
Fabio Capello had a problem.
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
“Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.” - Ronald Purser — ‘How do you learn if you can always get the answer from your phone?’ is a problem no one is trying to solve.
currentaffairs.org
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
1. Bone Temple 2. Bone Temple 3. Bone Temple 4. Magellan
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Meghan with a H @wardamnmegs.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Eze hat trick against his lifelong rivals?
media.tenor.com
a man wearing a red jersey with the number 10 on the back
ALT: a man wearing a red jersey with the number 10 on the back
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Ebere Threeze
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
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sean @snkhn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer?

Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad.

The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself.

Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits.

Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Defector is spittin with this one
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
#lastfourwatched #filmsky
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
king shit
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
You have to wonder what a Yasujirō Ozu might have done with The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Macrohard. What a stupid fucking time to be alive.
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
i need it
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
#lastfourwatched #filmsky
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
#lastfouwatched #filmsky
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Ban hamstrings
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
HE HAS ARRIVED. GYOK TUAH!
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
#lastfourwatched #filmsky
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
ever y time i see like 200 fireworks going off I imagine that theyre being shot at an aliens ufo just rocking the shit out of his stupid ass
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Poorly Drawn Arsenal @poorlydrawnarsenal.com · 17/08/2025
CALAFRIORI SCORES!
stupid sexy calafiori on a cloud
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Set Piece FC
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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Gavin Newsom is a ghoul who can suck my ass, and if he gets nominated for POTUS the Dems will either a) suffer a humiliating defeat, wonder where they went wrong and then tilt even further right or b) squeak out a win, decide that tilting right is a winning strategy and tilt even further right
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
We’ve already seen one major tech-driven culture shift from the pre-internet era to a swipe-and-stream generation hooked on instant gratification and app convenience. When AI is always-on and omnipresent, what behavioral rewiring comes next? What happens when thinking itself feels too hard?
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
absolute unit
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Poorly Drawn Arsenal @poorlydrawnarsenal.com · 16/08/2025
Looking for an Arsenal season preview that won’t provide you any tactical or general knowledge about the upcoming season? This is the one for you.
poorlydrawnarsenal.com
A Poorly Drawn 25-26 Season Preview
Here we go again
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Every day I'm reminded we live in hell. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/a...
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
#lastfourwatched #filmsky
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
#lastfourwatched #filmsky
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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.
npr.org
World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men
The International Chess Federation will stop allowing transgender women to participate in women's tournaments. The group said changing genders has a "significant impact" on a player's status.
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
#lastfourwatched #filmsky
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
been monitoring the hbo max situation; consistently hearing reports that big bird has a fully articulated cloaca that they never show on tv
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Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I find it bizarre that we're forced to accept live-streamed genocide and are told that it's illegal to be opposed to it, but anyone who says the obvious about these guys is at best putting their account at risk and at worse potentially facing legal charges. and the obvious is: we need to kill them
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
late but #lastfourwatched #filmsky highlighted by IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE in theaters
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Happy 44th bday to Brian De Palma's BLOW OUT. I wrote about it for @bwdr.bsky.social. “BLOW OUT is when the split in the screen between his political films & the sleaze-noir of his erotic thrillers fell, merging in a Zaprudic interrogation of our need cinema.” Artwork by @briannaduggan.bsky.social
brightwalldarkroom.com
A Shot in the Dark - Bright Wall/Dark Room
Blow Out marks the moment when the split in the screen between De Palma’s early films & the sleaze-noir terror of his erotic thrillers fell, merging in a high-low interrogation of our need for comfort...
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
bangers only #lastfourwatched #filmsky
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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
NEW: A long, in-depth look at Viktor Gyökeres. His goal record, his major strengths and some weaknesses, what he offers that Arsenal don't have (but do need). Read, enjoy, share, subscribe. Or don't! likeanewsletter.substack.com/p/gyok-n-rol...
likeanewsletter.substack.com
Gyök 'n' Roll Star
It looks like Arsenal have their new striker. A long-read on Viktor Gyökeres: pros, cons, how he plays, what he'll add, how he'll fit.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Kinda like how therapy changed Tony Soprano
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#lastfourwatched #filmsky
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I wrote for @southwestreview.bsky.social about how the 1997 reincarnoir LOST HIGHWAY is THE key film of David Lynch's career, how its bloodjaculate phantasmagoria serves as a summation of the Lynch films that came before it and as a guide to the works that would come after. Give it a read:
southwestreview.com
Fermata: The Never-Ending Nightmaria of Lost Highway and the Unbroken Dream of David Lynch
By Travis Woods
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Blu Ray Samurai @birdappreciator.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
a united timeline
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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