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Missy, 40ish, wage slave, fandom old, writer, raconteur. Ballads, Songs and Snatches: The Art of Julian Sands coming sometime in 2026; biography to follow in the future.

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 7h
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10h
That long silent walk the lectern is priceless.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Trump: My Administration will, immediately, begin sending 'Checks' of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premium ... This money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, a pointless 'Slush Fund' that has only been used by Dumocrats ... "
Trump: "I am pleased to announce that my Administration will, immediately, begin sending 'Checks' of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums, which we have already reduced by significant amounts. This money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, a pointless 'Slush Fund' that has only been used by Dumocrats in Congress to pay for the Waste, Fraud, and Abuse for their Special Interest friends, and drive up Healthcare costs. We are finally using this Fund, along with my Most Favored Nations Deals, to substantially LOWER costs for our Seniors. I pledged to protect and preserve Medicare and Social Security, which were on the verge of RUIN by Joe Biden, who foolishly and maliciously let tens of millions of Illegal Aliens into our Country, and we are doing just that for America’s Seniors. This is separate from the equally substantial Refund 'Checks' we are sending to One Million Americans who were overcharged for their Unaffordable Care Act plans by Joe Biden.

Because I delivered on this very important issue for the American People, they can also rest assured the highly popular $5,000 Trump Dividend will be distributed to every U.S. Citizen if, and when, the Republicans win the Midterm Elections! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 6h
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Retro Commercial Screens @retrocommercials.bsky.social · 6h
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H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social · 5h
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW: a psycho-erotic photo-essay by @atrupar.com
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 5h
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h
Half want to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
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Half want to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary Andy Burnham’s personal preference to rejoin the European Union after the next election is supported by almost half of all voters, a new megapoll has found, although cabinet ministers concerned about reopening Brexit divides are privately urging him to proceed with caution. The poll by the Messina Group (TMG) found that renegotiating the UK’s relationship with the EU could boost Labour’s vote share by as much as seven points, if the prime minister offered a fresh referendum in which he campaigned to re-enter the bloc. Continue reading...
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3h
These are what all the ads for Angel Studios productions look like
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3h
The Stroheim cut of GREED
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4h
You need to stop dating seafaring poets, it never ends well
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Forbes @forbes.com · 13h
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Kushner Rejects CNN Report That His Israeli Diplomacy Might Benefit His Private Equity Fund
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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🏒🧛🏻‍♀️Ashley Harlequin🧛🏻‍♀️🏒 @misskittyf.bsky.social · 7h
Honestly, if we’re going to do an episode of Collision on the Jericho Cruise, I need the Bang Bang Gang to parody ‘I’m On A Boat’
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 10h
My colleague Chris Lee talked to some film industry insiders about David Ellison's apparent decision to replace the heads of Warners with his friends from Paramount, and, well, let's just say folks are wary: www.vulture.com/article/insi...
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‘It’s Going to Be a Disaster’
What insiders are saying about David Ellison’s decision to fire Warner Bros. studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy ahead of the Paramount merger.
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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 10h
Betty Crocker Date Bar Mix (1956-2007): A boxed mix for making date bars--a thick paste made of dates, sandwiched between two layers of a buttery, crumbly crust made with oats, honey, and coconut
A plate of date bars with a thick crumb topping, above an image of Betty Crocker and plates of date bars with vanilla ice cream and a cup of coffee
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Allison Pregler 📼🎃 @allisonpregler.bsky.social · 10h
Watching Haul Out the Halloween and the groom said during his wedding vows that his legs were shaking like a polaroid picture. 🎃🎃🎃
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H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social · 9h
Let's be honest: he's gonna send troops to the polls. So when we're done voting we should stick around to protect our fellow Americans from our fellow Americans because THAT, unfortunately, is what this election is ultimately about.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
Reporter @maxblau.bsky.social spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?
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Do My Grocery Store Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed?
Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?
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Retro Commercial Screens @retrocommercials.bsky.social · 9h
30+ years later and this earworm still hasn't left my brain.
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Tomy Big Big Loader Construction Set commercial 1994
YouTube video by TapeHole
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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 17h
Bryce Remsburg in an Instagram Story: "Ace of the ring. Ace of the locker room. Mox waited until he knew the camera was not on us and came up behind me and put his hands on my shoulders and said 'This is intense, but we're gonna get through it together.' Proud to play for this team."
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Ace of the ring. Ace of the locker room.
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Mox waited until he knew the camera was not on us and came up behind me and put his hands on my shoulders and said "this is intense, but we're gonna get through it together"
Proud to play for this team.
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Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.social · 9h
Pick the best McDonald’s translite sign out of this crop… Nothing tops Mac Tonight with the Big Mac billboard for me!
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 9h
OK, this is delightful. youtu.be/t3yZ5KzcO98?...
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Country Special Opening 2026: Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) | The Late Late Show
YouTube video by The Late Late Show
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 9h
This ad is Talariffic: youtu.be/GOd04R2x_mo?...
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Call the Ken Paxton CORRUPTION Hotline
YouTube video by James Talarico
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 9h
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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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 8h
Please have a video of Eva the Labrador receiving her favorite treat, a cucumber, in these trying timed
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h
It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. (Published June)
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Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.
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Marcie808🧡🖤⚾️ @marcie808.bsky.social · 8h
I don’t care how old you are, if you get yourself a pack of colored pens you’re a kid again for a while 🩷❤️🧡💚🩵💙💜🖤
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
just catching up on JD Vance telling Hannity that Jeffrey Epstein is actually "a great character reference" for Donald Trump 😳
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
"I'm supposed to be tough. What happens if I faint?"- here's fun footage of Curtis Sliwa & Mayor Mamdani getting their flu shots together, including Mamdani offering to hold Sliwa's hand 😆 (Sliwa takes him up on it!) (Flu season is approaching and NYers can find free flu shots at nyc.gov/healthmap)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump on South Korea saying they haven't signed off on an Alaska pipeline despite Trump saying they did: "If they don't want to do it, that's okay with me. I'll just charge them more. Tell them if they don't sign shortly, I'm gonna double it up."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump on diesel: "We're not gonna be doing the export ban"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump on Erdogan: "I'll always make him happy"
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 11h
Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy won't be working w/ Spielberg, Scorsese and PTA to save TCM this time. The co-CEOs who were given "curatorial oversight" of TCM after Zaslav layoffs threatened its future in 2023 are out after 4 years at Warner Bros. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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Diva @hyxpk.bsky.social · 18h
1585. ...What is this?
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Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.social · 17h
Tonight on TCM #TCM HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) One of the strangest and most haunting films of the silent era. Directed by Victor Sjöström, it stars Lon Chaney. 🎥\
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Your daily John Waters screenshot @johnwatersbot.bsky.social · 17h
Just think of all the little horror stories...that go on in other people's lives.
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Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.social · 17h
FILM FREAK FRIDAY #FilmFreakFriday HULA (1927) Clara Bow positively leaps off the screen in Hula, a lively romantic comedy directed by Victor Fleming. Made the same year as her breakthrough film It, Bow’s screen persona already seems fully developed here. 🎥
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 16h
Smashing idea! And suppose they even incorporate cute versions of physical office supplies. A paperclip, for example
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MxSharknado93 says Free Palestine! @mxsharknado93.bsky.social · 16h
Is he planning to run in 2028 as a Republican?
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🏒🧛🏻‍♀️Ashley Harlequin🧛🏻‍♀️🏒 @misskittyf.bsky.social · 16h
I had hoped Bowens would at least stick around, but so it goes.
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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 16h
Tomorrow, Saturday, October 3rd, Fated States is calling Ohio for Sherrod Brown. Register now: fatedmates.net/fatedstates
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 16h
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 15h
So we've got measles and mumps, so rubella is likely waiting in the wings and people are going to remember quickly why we worked so hard to eradicate it.  How many adults are going to find out that their parents didn't vaccinate them only after they get rubella while they are pregnant? 
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 15h
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RiffTrax @rifftrax.com · 14h
This is the weirdest movie that's (kind of????) about making movies that we've ever seen! Enjoy The Angry Breed, new RiffTrax! www.rifftrax.com/the-angry-br...
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The Angry Breed
Johnny is your typical Vietnam vet/aspiring screenwriter going about his day when he spots some Nazi bikers attacking a young woman on the beach. He saves her and does the natural next step: he moves
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Turner Classic Movies @tcmtv.bsky.social · 14h
James Cagney portraying legendary actor and makeup artist Lon Chaney in MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES ('57). See it tonight following the documentary LON: CHANEY: A THOUSAND FACES (2000) as part of our Films on Film lineup with Ben Mankiewicz. It all starts at 8pm ET.
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 14h
There's one pre-1970 film clip in the sizzle reel for the new parent company of Warner Bros. and Paramount, two century-old film studios. And 60 logos, but no TCM... www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EG... #FilmSky
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Skydance
YouTube video by Paramount
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 14h
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 19h
Trump's economy in two headlines.
CNN Business: The US economy added just 29,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. 

ABC News: Households will pay more for energy because of Trump's policy changes
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19h
Wow, these job numbers are TERRIBLE. Many people are saying we must have an “incompetent” president who is “asleep at the wheel”
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