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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 10h

I saw a guy in a Mariners jersey that had "Vitology" on the back. Then he turned so I could see his partial profile and I was like "That maybe could actually be Mike McCready."

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 11h

When will we get a gritty Robert Pattinson vehicle about the televised evils of "Tosh.0"?

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 15h

Obviously not all AI flier art is "realistic," but the design is definitely cramped, AKA "detailed," AKA "good." The fact that we call it slop is not just insulting the garbage-ass flier, but in the minds of a lot of people, their garbage-ass taste.

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 16h

My wife and I were planning a podcast once, and I was pushing for a segment where we'd watch the last sketch of every episode of SNL.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Californians, you have a very important job to do. Spread the word on why everyone should vote YES ON PROP 40 and no on 41 and 42. If you're confused about these propositions, billionaires like Sergey Brin and Peter Thiel want it that way. Here's a good explainer: www.tiktok.com/t/ZPL1pponT/

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CALIFORNIA LOCK TF IN

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Selene Kapsaski @selenekapsaski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of my personal fav Ramones albums TOO TOUGH TO DIE was released today, 42 years ago. According to George Dubose, the Ramones' photographer, the band wanted to recreate the famous tunnel scene from the movie A Clockwork Orange for the cover. #punksky

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A random guy walked up to me and muttered something while making the sign of eat food. I asked for clarification. He was asking if I smoke weed. I don't know why, because I wasn't interested, except... There's a gesture for that and it's not the same as the eat food gesture. Is that cultural?

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In my mind, "Holiday" is THE song of the early Bee Gees. My wife grew up in a somewhar different time and place and didn't recognize it.

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Bee Gees Holiday 1967) [High Quality Stereo Sound, Subtitled]

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I will judge Digger for myself but whether I end up agreeing with the bad reviews or not, can we agree that everything about it looked very bad from the getgo

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm even trying to wrap my head around someone who could conceivably say that they weren't at the house, didn't see the group chat until the next morning and still did nothing. Didn't tell a parent, a professor, file an anonymous tip... whatever. Just sickening.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why are progressive politicians so reluctant to admit that conservatives are wrong about something

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, most of my man friends have never said a thing about sex. If I've heard anything about them actually having sex it's because their partner said something to my partner who mentioned it to me, which is still rare. Man friends talk to me about music and movies.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One has to wonder if any of these guys will do any introspection and ask just who, exactly, left the door open to all of these Nazis currently taking over the party. [ed. note: They will not do any introspection.]

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's way past time to treat all these things as publishers and not as common carriers. I'm not holding my breath.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 27/09/2026

This is still true

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I sensed it but not enough to articulate at the time, but the "poptimism" trend always struck me as being less about bringing down elitist barriers and more about inverting them. Going from "Oh, you don't listen to Bartok? Tsk tsk" to "YOU MUST KNOW THIS TAYLOR SWIFT JAM, YOU ASSHOLE."

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

LOST ended over 16 years ago and so many people are still only able to watch TV shows in “guess the twist” mode. Maybe the most boring way to engage with entertainment. #Lanterns

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Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Pranks-to-rama @prankster36.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really can't emphasize enough that Trump was never that popular. MOST politicians aren't actually that popular. The US system is set up to allow through certain types of candidates who then compete over the votes of a relatively small vector of the population. Trump benefited from this.

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Nolan Void @wolter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I detached myself from the monoculture 30 years ago, and I refuse to feel bad that I only pay attention to the parts that instantly catch my eye. It was contrarian as hell when I was 20, but at age 50 it’s simply not normal for me to get fomo about stuff aimed firmly at people who aren’t me.

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's wild to me how much we treat the 20th Century and particularly the second half of the 20th Century and a baseline of how humanity is or should be. Monoculture was always tenuous and never good. Even the positive elements were a mixed bag at best.

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scary metaphor @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One day in 20-30 years we're gonna have a discourse about how weird it was that we problematized Taylor Swift the individual and not the entire entertainment industry for how she's presented. We will learn nothing, and probably argue about a giantess cyborg Arianna Grande clone at the same time.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I gave a suggestion that conformed to my priors, people with more experience disagreed with me, and that's why I now support fascism."

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Name a film you watched at a drive-in.

The classic YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN poster. It's a painting of a tall hill with an ominous castle at the top, the title in stone letters make up the bottom. An image of a mad looking Gene Wilder as Frederick Frankenstein on the left and a solemn Peter Boyle as The Monster tipping a top hat.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love talking about how we telescope eras to convenient ten year chunks and then pick and choose the weirdest assortment of pop culture touchstones to decorate them

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the worst things about streaming with ads is no humans appear to be in charge of placing the ad breaks. Even shows which originally had ad breaks, where there was an obvious break in the narrative for it, don't have the ad breaks put in those places now

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remember this a little differently. There may not have been an enthusiasm for militarism, but almost all the hippieish tech guys at the top of the food chain had no hesitation about working with the Pentagon

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone else said this but to paraphrase: successful comedians seem to curdle at a higher rate because humor often relies on relatability and if they just do rich people things with their rich friends, that’s their well of material. They resent the punters no longer getting it.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The extraordinary spectacle of Tommy Tuberville trying to start a new hate & fear campaign against furries in the airline industry when his whole party are a bunch of goddamn human trafficking pedophiles.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 21/09/2026

Media professionals, find and make new places to work and new ways to bring that work to people. Nobody likes these weirdos or wants them in charge!

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I was just following orders..."

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Grunkle Harm @harmonwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it feels like a dark joke about transmasculine invisibility that i saw a million snarky tweets about there being no trans folks in CAMP MIASMA, and now I am seeing a video of the underappreciated transmasculine actor from CAMP MIASMA literally begging for work to keep their SAG health insurance

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Are You Casting?

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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: The Grand Illusion Cinema lives! The single-screen movie house that'd been in Seattle’s University District for more than 50 years before closing in January 2025 is coming home. It will be now taking over at the Varsity Theatre 📽️ My story @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

A photo taken outside the shuttered Varsity Theatre on September 22, 2026 with the marquee reading COMING SOON GRAND ILLUSION.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/09/2026

Should be 100 or more.

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dick's is the place where the cool hang out. The swass like to play, and the rich flaunt clout. Posse to the burger stand, so big we walk in twos. We're gettin' dirty looks, from those other sucka crews.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

HUGE recommend from me. One of my favorite TV shows ever, full stop. And not just because it features a character nicknamed Angry Ginger. It just rocks. Anyway -- I love Killjoys, love it a lot. Team Awesome Force 4eva!!!

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My issue with all “definitive“ lists by committee is that, on the whole, they end up boring and safe. I far prefer someone sharing a list of highly personal favorites

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My top five when I turned 18 would have been Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon Sign "O" the Times - Prince Mind Mind Bomb - The The Introducing the Hardline According to... - Sananda Maitreya Maybe?

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"every show now feels the same" -- that is not me grousing, this is what one of the most powerful TV execs of the last 20 years said to me 2 months ago. this person was not wrong! and the merger news today gives me not a ton of hope on this front, sorry. Hate this for you all, TV writer friends. 🔥💔

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A generation of indie moviemakers sold out to the studios, everyone agreed slop storytelling as the essential One Way and now we're here with no one to lead the way out.

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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your daily reminder that your government does not give a single solitary flying fuck about you.

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You'll be surprised how much lower it can go without anything actually changing.

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Mat Bradley-Tschirgi @matwbt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

First Disney + 20th Century Fox. Now, Paramount + Warner Bros. Discovery. This will result in fewer movies being made; the ones that will be made will be more cautious and milquetoast than ever. Neither merger should have been allowed.

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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 21/09/2026

This is why voters continue to profess contempt for the Democratic Party: because most of its elected and appointed officials are weak, ineffectual, and cowardly in the face of fascism. This is a massive betrayal and failure by the California AG.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...

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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)

The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.

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