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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3h

Looks like Trump's bold strategy of committing war crimes has once again failed to win over the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Tough crowd.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I… I won my fantasy football matchup. I… I don’t understand. What am I supposed to do now?

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do cackle at “tourist planet” and “assistant planet.” This seems a perfectly wonderful solution to the “what’s a planet” debate. Make it so!

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A $6,000 fountain pen!? James fucking Bond would look down his nose at somebody who bought a pen for six grand!

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What new and creative way can I find to lose in fantasy football this week? Stay tuned and find out!

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This quote is just… chef’s kiss. It has so many facets. I am stealing the hell out of it. I genuinely think it may be the defining quote of our era. Thank you for coining it @edzitron.com

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can we get EYE Filmmuseum trending here? It's Bluesky! We need, what, five posts? Let's make some noise to support a nice Dutch archive that gives us lots of free silent movies to watch.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We all are, Molly. Because it is fucking delightful. Such schadenfreude, I could only dream of.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This man really is a god among Trekkies, design nerds, and rabbit hole research enthusiasts. I’ve never met him, but I do kind of love him.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We absolutely will buy the plushy versions of these and pose them doing unspeakable things… just for the memes. Don’t test us. We will fuck your brand up.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really phenomenal framing here. The man is an extremely capable communicator, which is basically the #1 job description for a political candidate, especially in a close election.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And ‘twas a fine book at that. No, really. I finished it in early August, and I enjoyed it very much. I look forward to the sequel.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is somehow, strangely, even easier to skip a Netflix movie than a theatrical one.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This may be my favorite Star Trek meme of all time.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“What’s your favorite song, Dennis?” “Dennis.Music.64904572.v3.” “I don’t think I’ve heard that one.”

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today, we learn more about a wildly under appreciated character actor. He really is loads of fun to watch.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can you imagine not only thinking this, but willingly articulating that thought? Out loud? Knowing the person you’re talking to intends to put your words into print, for all the world to see?

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is 100% true. And for more on the dude in question: bsky.app/profile/24fp...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are the matter and antimatter of tech CEOs trying to push whole new product lines into our lives. One had a sort of impossible-to-fully-explain charisma. The other looks like the Revenge of the Nerds cast trying too hard. Also the pervert necklace sucks.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I finally read the Rolling Stone piece about how all the folks ignorant of Ella Langley’s hit, Choosin’ Texas, and it is too slight and lacking in actual analysis or insight to be worth much commentary, BUT… www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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What Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim to Have Never Heard 'Choosin' Texas'

Claiming to have never heard Ella Langley's record-setting country song 'Choosin' Texas' is similar to saying, 'I listen to anything but country.'

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy Sunday, also known as the day when the tricksters of old conspire to get my fantasy football hopes up, before they are dashed on the rocks of Monday night and the abs of tight ends we’ve never heard of.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m going to need @cmolanphy.bsky.social to be summoned to every thread on this topic to illuminate us on whether the billboard charts even mean anything anymore? He does have a good piece on this song, at least: slate.trib.al/Da3cHmt

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Country Music Is Dominating the Billboard Charts Like Never Before. I Think I Know Why.

The three longest-running No. 1 hits of all time are all recent country songs. Here’s what’s happening.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is this accidentally Wes Anderson, or is Wes Anderson purposely Kaptain Sunshine?

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m not really sure what to say to wildly rich, wildly out of touch people. I know a variety of curse words are involved, but I can’t quite work out in what order.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m a diehard #StarTrek fan. I’m a #designer. I *love* LCARS. But I will die on this hill. No advanced civilization is putting mass quantities of text in that typeface. I don’t care how much retinax you’ve got or how good your optometrists are. That all caps, hyper-narrow type is hell for reading.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Idiocracy ahead, and it turns out objects in your windshield can appear further than they are, so buckle up buttercup. The shit’s gonna be bumpy.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are moments when I find myself pining for the decorum and seriousness of Ronald f***ing Reagan, and I think to myself, “What has this timeline done to me?”

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did I need to know more? Did I need to know the stuff before the more? I don’t know. I do know I did not *want* to know any of this.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have twice the brains I thought I had. I’m a genius!

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Imma gonna make like John Madden and buy a big ass bus to travel in from now on. Not a snowball’s chance in hell people don’t die as a result of this nonsense.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s such widely accepted fact that Birth of a Nation, in spite of being a massively racist film, is still wildly innovative in the medium. I don’t actually know enough about the era to say if that’s right or wrong, but @moviessilently.bsky.social is sure making a good argument that it’s bullshit.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every single person I have ever known who served in the military has vocally and vociferously found this kind of macho weapons-and-war fetishization utterly insufferable. Reinstate the draft just for tools who spew this bullshit in public.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“I can’t condone it. I do understand it.” That may be one of the wisest sentence combinations in history. Works for so many things in this absurdist timeline.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Twenty-five years *before* the New York Times was founded, these two pioneers of American journalism established a platform to counter “misrepresentations which affect us dearly” by writing in their own voice. Let’s teach this in every American history classroom.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I read this entire, 52-part, thread, so now you have to. I should get credit for this towards my annual book reading goal. Also, I now have a dozen new reasons to hate AI and wish it never existed.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a film review that included a literal admission that the writer hadn’t seen the film. It’s like a milestone in stupid journalism.*

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hey man. Stories about virus-mutated horror monsters and corporate cover ups are serious business in this day and age. We have to take that shit seriously… stop laughing!

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t… what… huh? Why is my entire Bluesky feed suddenly discussions of gang bang birthdays, Harry Potter fan fiction, and the AI industry? I am so confused. Somebody please (do not) explain it to me.

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As someone who has designed complex infographics for civic education textbooks, and as a parent… letting AI anywhere near educational settings is borderline child abuse.

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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey look, the Montessori school that gave my family incredibly bad vibes collapsed because it was basically a real estate Ponzi scheme www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/b... I had so many fights with the admin of this place, of course it was run by a useless biz guy

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Inside the $440 Million Collapse of Guidepost Montessori

A man with a vision set out to revolutionize preschool. It became a $440 million fiasco.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026

i both think that students in the US should get literary instruction in the Bible (basically the equivalent of an intro religious studies course) and that doing so would be so controversial that it isn't worth the effort

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I swear to G-d, I’ve been screaming for years for the streamers to do this. Warner Bros. Discovery was best positioned to leverage their cable brands to do it, but they never got their shit together.

A Threads post commenting on a Polymarket post reading, “JUST IN: Netflix is reportedly considering live, always-on channels that automatically play shows by genre.”

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Bradford Pilcher @bradfordpilcher.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Nobody can really be trusted with digital only products, where continued access to and use requires some kind of internet server check-in. What we need is legislation setting standards for perpetual access of digital purchases, right-to-download, etc.

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