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It seems like the concern-trolling at work here is that they really want me to have the memory of a goldfish and respond like a clapping seal to the sloganeering they use to sell the ways in which they constantly, materially, and deliberately make my life shittier to enrich themselves. Nah bro.

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Yeah, I remember 9/11. I remember when the Republicans tried to stop the first responders from getting their horrible chronic health problems paid for. Just like they're gutting the VA now. Republicans love dudes in uniform as long as their bodies are in good shape.

I can see why the GOP, a rapacious death cult, would feign offense about it. Their fundamental position is that going to war (for any reason) is good and improving public health outcomes is bad, and any attempt to tie one to the other (given the zero-sum nature of public funding) is bad.

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I'm really not sure why any media types think I should be offended that @abdulelsayed.bsky.social said we should care as much about millions of Americans dying needlessly of COVID as we did about thousands of Americans dying on 9/11. That seems like a pretty reasonable position.

This actor was told he had Alzheimer's, now he's performing a one-man show

What a remarkable story. I don't have any pithy observation about the triumph of creativity and the human spirit, but trying to do one last creative pursuit while your ailing mind can still manage it is life at its finest. It's not raging against the dying of the light. It's...dancing while you can.

bbc.com

Peter Marinker is taking on one of Samuel Beckett's most famous plays alone on a London stage.

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Dolly Parton passes away Big enough to trend twice

Bluesky Trending topics list
#3 and 4 are both "Dolly Parton passes away"

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So fuckin embarrassing They're just gonna quietly change it back as soon as he's dead He...must know that on some level, right?

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"Don't speak ill of the dead bc they were freakin awesome and you have zero need or inclination to" is a fine rule

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Truly one of the best humans.

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Very slick. Well done.

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"Look I'm just looking for an honest debate about the definition of a wom-" [unable to continue speaking without a face wash and some Listerine]

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Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White are not eligible for the WNBA draft, AP source says

The response to this kind of shit is to say that these people are not eligible for the WNBA draft because "We aren't gonna hire a dumb troll piece-of-shit has-been crybaby bitch." Repeat as needed. When the right-wing media shows up to pretend to care, respond with 💩 (or actual feces).

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Former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White are not eligible for the WNBA draft, according to a person familiar with the decision.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.net · 22/08/2026

My late father literally wrote "random downstairs crap" on a box and then proceeded to fill that box

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.net · 19/08/2026

They mean "people with charisma" because they envy them. They also mean "people who are fragile and tightly wound", which is just "people" with extra steps. They also mean they're unimaginative and peaked in high school. They contain multitudes! Theatre kids, that is. Not right-wingers.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.net · 18/08/2026

Wow, I've been listening to old Dragnet and other old time radio stuff, and I recognize her name and voice. I was used to everyone from those shows being long gone. Hell of a life and career. RIP Peggy Webber.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.net · 18/08/2026

At the time, it was donniedarko[.]com, which now redirects to some spam But rest assured it was exactly as bad of a website

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.net · 18/08/2026

There is only one movie that's allowed to make you do homework, and it's Richard Kelly's 2001 weird shit "Donnie Darko" whose lore is best left unexplained onscreen except for the oddballs willing to visit donniedarko.org.uk He tried to make a teacher's edition a few years later and it was worse

donniedarko.org.uk

Plesk Obsidian 18.0.80

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.net · 17/08/2026

A car chase in one of the Bourne films took place in a city I had visited. I recognized a location and then checked some of the subway signs visible in other scenes and saw the geography was impossible/all over the place. Not really the same phenomenon though - I broke my own fourth wall on that.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.net · 14/08/2026

Wow, Google. Yeah, it's a mood, but not the one you think. Hey bestie, remember when your whole state was on fire because the world was ending last year too?

Google Photos notification titled "Mood" featuring a sunset vividly colored by wildfire smoke

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.net · 13/08/2026

They're not your friend or your source, bud. You are their broken little tool.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.net · 13/08/2026

I believe he was "With" though. I think the only time Tarantino has leaned into that joke was with Rick Dalton as a "special guest star" in his own picture (as a has-been in a TV villain role), but that came with a layer of irony.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.net · 13/08/2026

Me either, but there are certain characters for whom I would readily accept it

Harvey Keitel as The Wolf in Pulp Fiction
He was credited as "with", but...same vibe as special guest star, really.

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But we're not here to judge dead people. We're here to judge the creep wearing the all-seeing camera goggles on his face, pretending like his yacht crew isn't under standing orders to do nothing but tend to the needs of Zuck.

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(SS Californian probably couldn't have done anything in time -they had less than an hour from radio broadcast to Titanic slipping beneath the waves - but there's a good chance they could've made it in time to save more lives if they hadn't ignored the rockets)

The Coast Guard broadcast an MARB (Maritime Request for Assistance Broadcast), which Zuck's pleasure barge was not legally obliged to respond to (unlike a mayday). So. "Whoopsie! Wrong channel!" is not an explanation I buy. So was it -"We weren't listening" (crime) -or "we didn't give a fuck"?

Mark Zuckerberg's yacht didn't hear boat's call for help off Alaska coast, spokesperson says

Hey you know who else didn't hear a call for help? The SS Californian, which was much closer than the Carpathia, and failed to respond to RMS Titanic's distress call (and rockets). Which led to the standardization of Channel 16 for distress calls, and mandated 24-hour monitoring for the same.

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The issue arose when a skiff ran out of fuel off the coast of Alaska and called for assistance from nearby ships.

How to use your smartphone to record fireworks How to use your smartphone to record a concert

"How to use your smartphone to capture August's solar eclipse"

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