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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026

thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fries are outdated?! Big Woke has gone too far

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Highly usable post from last year

@weedle.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 08/08/2026

one day archaeologists are going to find “talk shit get hit” on a clay tablet

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 08/08/2026

I find it hard to describe what the Marvel movies actually ARE, which I think is interesting. flaminghydra.com/issue-623/

With a couple exceptions I have dutifully schlepped out to the movie theaters to see every single MCU movie since the first Iron Man, when I covered the premiere for Daily Variety.
Even when everyone else has hated them I have at least seen something I sort of liked about them. Despite their rewatchability, the MCU movies feel less like actual movies than like parts of a larger project of dubious value, but of tremendous interest. They almost always have at least one brilliant performance in them, usually by the actor playing the villain; Marvel Comics are filled with villains who have interesting motivations and costumes, and so you get Christian Bale in Thor: Love and Thunder and Harrison Ford in Captain America: Brave New World. And in the multi-movie roles, casting real actors to play characters who famously never age or die is a fascinating gamble. From the moment of Samuel L. Jackson's cameo at the end of Iron Man, the series has always looked forward, to the next installment, and despite some real-world disasters that changed the shape of the project-Disney's stupid, retaliatory firings of unionizing VFX workers;
Jonathan Majors's horrible cruelty to his partners; the death of Chadwick Boseman-the show has gone on.

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It’s the banal cheerfulness of the CBS announcer guy that gets me every time, thank you for this

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Mustard, and relish at a base level. Maybe onions. I don’t normally abide ketchup but Citi Field has onions braised in them and that’s killer

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Deeply insane that he and Louise “the death penalty for Steve Bannon” Mensch are still allowed to post and have followers

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I’m honestly shocked that Bari herself hasn’t pulled a Mike Richards and tried to put herself front and center. Maybe she has *some* awareness after all

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The perfect soundtrack to the collapse of the American empire music.apple.com/us/album/inf...

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Inferno by Boards of Canada on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 19 Songs

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

“JAMES! YOU SPENT $957 ON ROOM SERVICE?!”

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

They honestly should lean even further into it and just have her go full Austin Powers

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HE SACRIFICED?!

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Just imagining him jumping out of bed and singing it like Stan Smith in the American Dad intro, before anyone has even had a single thought about coffee

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

At least once a month I think about his histrionic “HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM!!!” and burst out laughing

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Every time I see him judging someone else’s mental fabric I remember when he shot a copy of the New York Times

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Eli Bates @elibates.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Misread the headline as Noah Feldman *being* the long game, which is probably only slightly less insane than whatever the hell bad faith opinion he has in this article

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