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Ericka

@erickaf222.bsky.social
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Mom to Natalie and Sam 😻 (R.I.P. Maggie and Lizzie). Wife to MattyFinz. Penguins 🐧 🏒 fan. Post-punk/emo lover. Culture studies scholar with a focus on film/television/media. 📽️📺

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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Hated seeing the disappointment on McDavid, MacKinnon, and Celebrini’s faces, tho. Also would’ve been nice for Crosby to get a gold in his final Olympics.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Gross that the Tkachuks are gold medalists. But, congrats to the US men’s hockey team on the anniversary of the miracle. Hellebuyck earned it. And I still love Guentzel.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
9 years ago today, ‘Regular Show’ ended on Cartoon Network.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Sigh
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/01/2026
Tim Cook on January 6, 2021: "Today marks a sad and shameful chapter in our nation's history. Those responsible for this insurrection should be held to account, and we must complete the transition to President-elect Biden's administration. It's especially when they are challenged that our ideals matter most."Tim Cook genuflecting before Trump in the Oval Office as he hands him the bespoke golden tablet that he crafted for him.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I’ll add that when I taught Intro to Film, my favorite student reactions were to the subversion and adherences to genre norms in The Big Sick. He’s got such a great comedic mind.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Kumail Nanjiani on Taskmaster!!! Man, am I excited for this!
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I may hate the team he’s playing for now, but I still love Jake Guentzel! Congrats to him for being named to the US Olympic team! (still rooting for Canada, tho)
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
WOW!!!!!!!
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Rod Serling Memorial Foundation @rodserlingmemfndtn.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Fan art by William Carlisle.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.
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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It's a whole genre it's beautiful
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, wehave effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn
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Wes Crosby @othernhlcrosby.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Crosby passes Lemieux for Penguins points mark in shootout win against Canadiens RECAP: www.nhl.com/news/montrea... #Pens #Habs
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Crosby passes Lemieux for Penguins points mark in shootout win against Canadiens | NHL.com
Captain has goal, assist to help Pittsburgh end 0-4-4 skid
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 18/12/2025
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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Wes Crosby @othernhlcrosby.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Can confirm now that warmups have started: It will be Skinner in an Oilers mask starting for the Penguins vs Jarry in a Penguins mask starting for the Oilers.
Stuart Skinner before his Penguins debut vs the Oilers.Tristan Jarry returns to Pittsburgh with the Oilers.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The absolute tragedy of the news coming out about what happened to the Reiners is horrific. Rob’s films hold a very dear and sentimental spot in my heart. I cannot fathom the hurt his children are experiencing right now, especially Romy.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This is one of those times when all of the bad news just sucks the air out of your lungs.
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This entire weekend
in the pit
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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner was one of the perennials, a force in TV and then film and then politics and Los Angeles life for decades and decades. He was the quintessence of Bleeding Heart Liberal Hollywood in the best sense of every word. May his memory be a blessing.
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Wes Crosby @othernhlcrosby.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Regardless of your overall opinion of his Penguins tenure, Tristan Jarry deserves credit for getting right so far this season. Would have been easy to completely fold after going on waivers with AHL stints last season. He didn't. Was a big part of PIT's nice start.
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The absolute fucking gall to have this bitch holding a book, too. Like she knows how to use such complicated tools given the garbage she called an essay.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Those orgasmic moans and groans while the mom is being massaged is *unsettling.* Otherwise, pretty good, though.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The “Jack and Jill” bath with 3 sinks with only one door is top tier.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Never forget Spitgate.
Three frames: the still image that appears to show Harry Styles spitting on Chris Pines, with the “droplets” circled in red, an image of Blake Lively from Gossip Girl with a text box asking “what did he do?,” and the response box with Leighton Meester’s face replaced with Chris Pines’s and the Gossip Girl logo edited to read “spit, girl.”
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Tricolor cats and Dr Pepper. Two of my all time favorite things.
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scaremyn! @carmyn.zone · 27/11/2025
ah here he comes that soon of a gun that cat that Garfield that gigantic thing
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ITYSL memes 💦🥩 @ityslmemes.com · 27/11/2025
An article from The Hard Times with the headline “Local Man Only Able to Express Emotion Using ‘I Think You Should Leave’ GIFs”Tim Robinson wearing a fedora with safari flaps, sitting in a courtroom and saying “what the hell?” under his breath
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Papas Place For FIV+ Cats @papasplace.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We all pspspspsps down here #Cat #Cats #Kittens #CatsOfBlueskh
Stray tabby kitten hiding under shed
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
May I please see your rates? Who am I kidding? I’ll pay.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I’m one of those millennials that straddles the Gen X line. I was into grunge, but still loved the Beatles, who I’d grown up listening to as a kid. I did turn my nose up to a lot of classic rock, and that only intensified when I started getting into punk/post punk genres.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent. Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
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Trump Wrongly Indicted Me, I’ll Rightly Impeach Him | Kat Abughazaleh Speaks at Lincoln Memorial
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
They had fantastic black bean burritos.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Cannot wait for the protesh strem!!! It’s my favorite time of the year. Looking forward to some humiliating costumes and bickering over semantics in the movie quiz!
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bryan! @bryguy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year
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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I wonder if right now, zohran is talking to his wife about the smell
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I want a replica of that bad boy so bad. I’m fine with it being nonfunctional, but just a decorative napkin holder would be phenomenal.
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Wes Crosby @othernhlcrosby.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Didn't anticipate Evgeni Malkin making "scoring goals from below the line off an opponent" his thing at age 39.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
For the record, I haven’t really read any non-scholarly texts in many, many years. All of my answers were from more than 20 years ago when I had more time for fiction. And, I thought the fact that they were all also films would be a disqualifier. I said Lawnmower Man, Graveyard Shift, and Apt Pupil.
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I’ve been watching a lot of the UK game show Pointless lately. It’s super thrilling when I come up with a pointless answer for the final round. Let me brag for a brief moment and say that I pulled out three pointless for the round that asked for short stories/novellas by @stephenking.bsky.social !
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Pittsburgh Penguins @pittsburghpenguins.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🥲
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Ericka @erickaf222.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
@pftompkins.bsky.social jealous of your tour of the Taskmaster house but certainly enjoyed seeing you in the caravan. Fingers crossed to see you on a future season or as the American Taskmaster in a version that doesn’t suck.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
oh shit i had totally forgotten what it felt like for something good to happen
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
i don't care if you're here legally and i do not care what you buy with SNAP. you could not pay me to care!!!
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Wes Crosby @othernhlcrosby.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
And there it is. Sidney Crosby becomes the ninth player in NHL history with 1,700 points. #Pens
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