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David Madden @davidmadden.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is cool stuff! I tested in on floppy on my A500 and it is great!
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Someone in a "Sexy" Jeremy Parish Halloween Costume @jparish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Plan out the key elements of your narrative in advance
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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning: “Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 06/09/2026
Golden Brown by The Stranglers, played on a Harpsichord. You're welcome. youtu.be/EilFbfx1QRc?...
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Golden Brown by The Stranglers - Harpsichord Cover
YouTube video by Uomo Universale
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David Madden @davidmadden.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
RIP.
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists asked me to write about 13 films that I thought were essential to understanding the nuclear age… and so I did! And now I am ready for everyone to tell me how wrong I am to have missed their favorite film, which is understandable. thebulletin.org/premium/2026...
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Thirteen films that are essential to understanding the nuclear age
A chronological list of the best nuclear Doomsday films shows how the nuclear perspective unfolded from the earliest days to the present.
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We are not a serious country
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 08/05/2026
Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...
Caption via The Tennessean: 

Rep. Justin Pearson D- Memphis attempts to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is denied entry by the Sergeant at Arms on the second day of special session concerning redistricting at Cordell Hull State Office Building in Nashville on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
ROSENBERG: “.. consumer sentiment at its lowest level since the series began in November 1952! .. undercutting the lows of all the prior eleven recessions .. the 1970s oil shock,.. the Asian financial crisis .. the tech wreck and terrorist attacks of 2001, the GFC of 2008-2009 .. the 2020 pandemic.”
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David Madden @davidmadden.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Whoa!
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Bugs and Gossamer
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SCREAM Drafts @screendrafts.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
ICYMI! Author @danielkraus.com and filmmaker Greg Nicotero joined us at the Draft Table to competitively / collaboratively rank the 7 BEST films from the industry-altering career of the father of the modern zombie, GEORGE A. ROMERO! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Screenshot of the Zoom recording, everyone is having a good time.
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 18/02/2026
Tom Noonan (1951–2026)
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David Madden @davidmadden.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/01/2026
this guy is a fucking hero
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Constant Reader @stephenkingcast.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This is incredible. The art invokes the late, great Bernie Wrightson, especially from Cycle of the Werewolf! Thank you for sharing!
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David Madden @davidmadden.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
2D run n gun fans are eating well this year!
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/12/2025
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 27/11/2025
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech but it's Ellen Ripley
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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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David Madden @davidmadden.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Our Halloween-eve movie-thon for 2025. The Ghost Breakers (1940) Razorback (1984) Hellhouse LLC Lineage @shudder Brain Dead (uncut Laserdisc) #horror #halloween
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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Federal appeals normally take over 2 YEARS, start to finish. Here, the circuit court moved heaven and earth and produced its unanimous 61-page order, affirming the district court, less than 3 WEEKS after the district court's. The Supreme Court just nuked it without a syllable of explanation.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's a rad fanmade beta tool that converts your images of battle maps for tabletop roleplaying, scales them to the proper size, then exports them to a PDF for printing and assembly on the tabletop. LITERAL game changer. www.beta.arkanatools.com/papermap/
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Paper Map Generator
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 18/07/2025
Scream Factory is celebrating the 40th anniversary of George A. Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD with the news that the long-lost original film elements have been found:
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George Romero’s ‘Day of the Dead’ Original Film Elements Found, 4K Restoration in the Works from Scream Factory
Scream Factory is celebrating the 40th anniversary of George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead with the news that the long-lost original film elements have been found. The company is currently working on a ...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I told you we’d be back
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
When Senator Bill Cassidy announced he would vote to confirm RFK Jr, he included this in his statement: “If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.” WITHOUT CHANGES.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/06/2025
FDA Official: "Just Eat A Goddamn Vegetable"
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FDA Official: "Just Eat A Goddamn Vegetable"
YouTube video by The Onion
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 21/04/2025
I finally solved the mystery movie mistake in “Episode III”, and also talk about some of my favorite revealing movie mistakes from my favorite films. The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...
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The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"
Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov...
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David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
John Tyler became US president in 1841. His youngest grandson just died this past weekend. www.richmonder.org/harrison-ruf...
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Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of 10th U.S. president and longtime Richmonder, dies at 96
The Richmond resident, preservationist and chemical engineer, for whom William & Mary’s history department is named, also had the distinction of being the grandson of a man who became U.S. president i...
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The Cannon Film Guide @cannonfilmguide.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In the mid-1980s, Charles Bronson delivered one of the hardest Earth Day PSAs ever seen by mankind.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17/04/2025
the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Personasama @persona.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Insane normal
An edit of the previous photo of a bunny jump kicking another bunny midair except with a giant red hitbox around the kicking bunny’s leg showing off how good of an attack it is in 2d fighter mechanics
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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Richard Norton was a wonderfully talented stunt performer, stunt coordinator, and actor. He was also a friend. I met Richard as the fight choreographer on The Suicide Squad; he choreographed the Harley escape scene, Peacemaker vs Rick Flag Jr. and more.
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I think about this headline all of the time.
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David Madden @davidmadden.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Outlaws was a goddamn outstanding game! Great soundtrack and fun MP too.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Can someone explain to me why I'm able to tell these images are AI even before I find huge errors (extra fingers, distortions, etc)? Like what are the aesthetic qualities that out these as creations of AI?
A mob of fish in the shape of a large fish looms over a sharkAn ad got skechers showing two illustrated women in haute couture walking down a sunny and presumably Parisian boulevard
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STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo @stapleexpo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Staplegator of Legend by @kennon9.bsky.social !
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Bran 9 From Outer Space @bransonreese.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Another A.S. Hamrah heater www.fastcompany.com/91285846/hol...
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Hollywood’s obsession with AI-enabled ‘perfection’ is making movies less human
From digitally enhancing accents to resurrecting the dead, AI is reshaping film in pursuit of impossible standards.
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David Madden @davidmadden.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The probability that a sleeping Windows laptop will (along with any accessories it is docked with) properly and fully "wake up" is known as the Gates-Ballmer Uncertainty Principle.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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John Lurie @johnlurie.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Had he lived, today Abraham would be 216 years old and 95 feet tall.
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David Madden @davidmadden.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@shultsart.bsky.social you have work to do aiptcomics.com/2025/01/21/w...
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Marvel announces'Wolverine and Kitty Pryde' #1 coming April 2025 • AIPT
This April, Chris Claremont teams up with artist Damian Couceiro for WOLVERINE AND KITTY PRYDE.
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I am fairly pleased with this table that I cobbled together for a guest lecture next week on the different narratives about the use of the atomic bomb in World War II, and creating an example of ways in which they can be compared to each other in an overarching way.
A table titled "Atomic Bomb Narratives," which compares the properties of three different narratives about the use of the atomic bomb during World War II. Each narrative is a column, with each row corresponding to one of 7 different narrative properties: "nature of the 
use decision", "motivation(s) for use of bomb", "outcome
necessary for surrender?", "originators", "genre", and "message".

The first narrative is labeled "orthodox/the decision to use the bomb." Nature: "moral deliberation." Motivation: "avoid invasion." Output: "ended war, saved lives." Necessary: "yes." Originators: "government officials who made/dropped bomb." Genre: "heroic." Message: "the ends justify the means."

The second narrative is labeled "revisionist/atomic diplomacy." Nature: "diplomatic intrigue." Motivation: "flex on Soviets." Output: "began Cold War." Necessary: "no." Originators: "critics, Marxists." Genre: "tragic." Message: "don't trust the US government."

The third narrative is labeled "consensus/bureaucratic inertia." Nature: "accumulation of assumptions." Motivation: "multiple, overdetermined." Output: "contributed to end of war (with Soviet invasion)." Necessary: "maybe, maybe not." Originators: "academic historians." Genre: "comedic (chaotic)." Message: "history is really messy."
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