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David Call

@davidscall.bsky.social
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actor / filmmaker / woodworker / flyfisherman / jeep cherokee xj rescuer / guy from that thing t.co/qnDCAFxwGV

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h
i do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h
Yeah the thing about white elite obsession with rule by eugenics is they have to constantly caretake the power required to bend institutions to their will when their eugenics inevitably fail to be great:
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h
it's wild how we've normalized the fact that the biggest U.S. cable TV "news" network is overt right wing propaganda, and the rest of the press helps them pretend to be legit
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Fox News' ratings margin hits widest point as it turns 30
Fox News president and executive editor Jay Wallace attributes the brand's durability to consistency in ownership and strategy.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h
difficult decisions who could have foreseen what could have possibly been done alas
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Skydance CEOs Acknowledge Layoffs Will Be Coming After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: Read the Full Memo
Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery have officially merged into Skydance Corp. And the top leaders have notified the new company's staffers that layoffs are in the offing.
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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 9h
'Music-related research will continue and grow within the School of Computer Science.' Neoliberal barbarism knows no bounds.
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University of Nottingham approves plans to close music department - Arts Professional
The University of Nottingham's council has approved a business plan that will see five music degree programmes closed and music-related research absorbed into
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David Call @davidscall.bsky.social · 5h
i wonder how much of this is downstream of people using speakerphone and facetime on reality tv shows, so that the mic/camera can pickup the full conversation??
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: Remember that AI website the Trump admin launched last week? It was built by the National Design Studio, a successor of sorts to DOGE. Some NDS workers, though, are actually on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s GC—himself a former DOGE operative. @telliotter.bsky.social has the story:
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13h
Look how easy it is to frame this issue! This handsome writer did it and he’s not very smart www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 5h
schumer-jeffries wing of the party has guys in a lab trying to figure out how to seem like you’re doing mamdani stuff without actually doing it
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h
This article (and Slade's book) are fan fiction. Trumpism isn't a break from Reaganism, it's the intended result, a gov't by, for, and of corruption, lawlessness, racism, and misogyny. That's why Reaganites with power—Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, McConnell—worked hard to empower and entrench Trumpism.
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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 5h
If you’re an average college student, the 10-year Treasury hasn’t been this high in your lifetime. It’s at levels not seen since 2002. This is a blow to a generation that is already set to struggle with housing affordability.
A chart of the 10-year US Treasury, with a blue line rising to 5.339%on the chart. Yellow text  says it is a new 52-week high today.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 5h
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😳 GOP Panics That Racism and Trump’s Election-Rigging Attempts Will Fuel Democratic Victories
Republican operatives are in midterms meltdown, with years of gerrymandering and stirring up hatred set to come home to roost. In Maine, Senator Susan Collins met Troy Jackson on the debate stage.
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David Call @davidscall.bsky.social · 5h
same thing as the plastic lock boxes everything is behind in drug stores now. hugely inconvenient security theater built to manage a practically nonexistent issue for a completely disconnected executive class
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David Call @davidscall.bsky.social · 5h
Damn right.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h
Sorry but this is peak white guy style. You don’t want to hear it, but this is as good as it gets.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h
Yes. I saw it with Lower Ed. Similar to challenging any orthodoxy, especially when you’re vulnerable to its collapse. You won’t convince them this is bankrupt. We who can live with the ambiguity of post austerity have to build better incentives for them, without them — and despite them. Sigh.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23h
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 6h
ELON MUSK: [speaking into watch] what should i say to mark zuckerberg WATCH: hello mark zuckerberg ELON MUSK: no no I’M not mark zuckerberg, i’m elon MARK ZUCKERBERG: [to watch] hello
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7h
obviously the media is a joke but the reason theyre not covering this is because democrats arent making it an issue the media would do it. they would. they’re lazy and they just want to go “the other side is saying this thing, how do you respond?”
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 14h
Martín Soto, a primary organizer of people detained at Delaney Hall who went on hunger strike to demand their release and to improve conditions, has been released. Soto was detained for more than 9 months, 4 of which were spent in solitary confinement. Via: www.instagram.com/reel/DeLIuSe...
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 16h
And with that the awards show honoring best television shows will no longer be on… television
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7h
a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 18h
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h
the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h
I love the Maine accent. Here’s a link to some oral histories taken in the 1950s where a reaaaal Downeaster tells the story of “Tall Barney” Beal, a near-mythological Paul Bunyan-esque man who lived in Jonesport, ME in the mid-19th century Century. media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_object...
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[United States, Maine and Rhode Island, 1956] - Media Collections Online
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19h
sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.
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xX_Doctor_Cucumber_Xx @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 23h
Genuinely we need to ban golden parachutes. They're presented under the premise that a failure CEO would never be able to work again but we get the same slate of parasites sucking companies dry time and time again, deploying multiple parachutes on top of eight figure salaries.
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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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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 16h
Are we not men? We are DEVO
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17h
We’re absolutely going to land in a place where “let the police handle immigration enforcement once they’re properly trained” as the response to mass deportation. It’s going to drive me up a wall and I’m going to repeatedly point out how this will only further entrench mass deportation as a policy.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19h
They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 20h
Lol
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Skydance Adds Bobby Kotick and Laurene Powell Jobs to
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Skydance Adds Bobby Kotick and Laurene Powell Jobs to Board, Ta...
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But they're gonna have to lay off thousands of people who make a fraction of the executives' income in order to be "fiscally responsible"
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21h
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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David Call @davidscall.bsky.social · 20h
“insufficiently relational” is some nasty work
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GD (Mima Spooky Season) @mrgamerdude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tim Curry with his GameBoy on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993)
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 21h
Eva Marie Saint made her feature film debut starring opposite Marlon Brando in ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) and costarred in Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). She’s died at 102, ten years after her husband passed away. They’d been married 65 years! variety.com/2026/film/ne...
In a 1954 photo by Philippe Halsman, Eva Marie Saint appears to be ascending toward an infinite sky.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 23h
Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 21h
a giant.
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Eva Marie Saint, ‘North by Northwest’ Star, Dies at 102
Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, who starred in such memorable classic films as “On the Waterfront” and “North by Northwest,” has died.
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David Call @davidscall.bsky.social · 21h
franco’s reaction upon seeing him is pretty perfect
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Courtney Tenz @courtneytenz.bsky.social · 21h
Another misunderstanding is that sexual violence can be ended through education. There is not a single evidence-based program for perpetrators that has reduced sexual violence. What schools call an educational intervention is making perpetrators sit down to read the sexual-misconduct policy and asking if they have any questions. It’s having them write an essay. None of these things work.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 21h
“For entire disciplines, this is existential”
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David Call @davidscall.bsky.social · 21h
yeah, i enjoy watching football, no need to bring homework into it
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Screen shot from a YouTube video by someone named MEpearl, an older woman with short hair wearing a red long sleeve shirt and a dark floral scarf. She sits before a wall of books, though it may be a photograph of a wall of books, but the important detail is that in her lap is a beautiful possum, and that possum is eating from a plate of fruit on the table before them. The title of this video is “is your possum a narcissist.” It has 31k views and was posted 5 days ago.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22h
this thread is also a deep metaphor for what our collective migration online has done to communication
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