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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Secretary Rubio’s desire to stay on his boss’s good side leads him to twist reality like a pretzel.” Francis Fukuyama on Marco Rubio’s speech at the Acropolis from October 7. I’d be so disappointed in myself if one of the world’s preeminent political scientists (rightfully) flogged me like this.

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Rubio is cribbing from my book #francisfukuyama

YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 10/10/2026

they should've made the sequel to the blair witch project about going in there with the army to kill her

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I googled “What’s going on with the Gaza Peace Plan.” It’s not working because it’s not a peace plan at all, it’s a ghoulish real-estate development deal masquerading as foreign policy. The Trump clan doesn’t care about human rights or advancing the U.S. interests, only lining their own pockets.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

La Presse, a Québécois newspaper, says that the newly elected minority government helmed by Plamondon’s Parti Québécois has the least amount of votes of any government in Québec’s history, only 30% of the pop. vote, so a referendum on separation is highly unlikely. www.lapresse.ca/elections-qu...

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974), dir. Ettore Stola I’ve been thinking about this one a lot lately. It’s fascinating how good movies stay with you, how they can be like a hug when you need one.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 05/10/2026

Michael Harris: Just because Mark Carney is on a roll doesn’t mean Canada can do without an effective Opposition. Too bad Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives can’t muster one. #canpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Canada Needs an Opposition That’s Serious and Constructive | The Tyee

Instead, we get Poilievre’s simplistic sound bites, leaving Carney unaccountable.

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Heathenly Rick Havoc @rickhavoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today has been a cold can of Chef Boyardee.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From the book Empire of Pain, detailing the story of the Sacklers, the family behind OxyContin. I’ve felt this about today’s rapacious billionaires destroying the world for profit (especially Sam Altman) but couldn’t put it in words. Also applies to journalists trading their integrity for access.

“They [the Sacklers] could produce a rehearsed simulacrum of human empathy, but seemed incapable of comprehending their own role in the story, and impervious to any genuine moral epiphany.”

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 02/10/2026

"A dozen orcs stormed the Palantir offices in Seattle this week to apply for jobs at the surveillance tech company. Palantir's militarized AI products attracted the horde of orcs, who hoped that their history of serving the Dark Lords would land them a gig. Unfortunately, Palantir didn't bite." 🤣

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Herr on the Vietnam War press coverage in his book Dispatches. The Iraq/US War reporters are now getting the social realist, prestige cinema treatment, which is giving me emotional whiplash, considering the origins of social realism (Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, Rossellini’s War Trilogy).

“The press got all the facts (more or less), it got too many of them. But it never found a way to report meaningfully about death, which of course was really what it was all about. The most repulsive, transparent gropes for sanctity in the midst of the killing received serious treatment in the papers and on the air.”

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wouldn’t it be ethically murky if the new studio went ahead with Barbie II? Isn’t it already, considering Warner Bros’s existing business relationship with Mattel? I know it’s a total waste of time to type this out since nobody cares but this is exactly why so many people are opposed to the merger.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 24/09/2026

Gaza is suffering the world's worst economic crisis ever recorded, with nine in 10 businesses destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, a top UN development agency warned on Thursday. u.afp.com/S9Si

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Matthew Rankin has a new movie coming out! I LOVED The Twentieth Century so I’m really glad that his newest seems to be in the same wheelhouse. I’ve never bought a ticket so fast!

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney | TEASER

YouTube video by NFB

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 14/09/2026

Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison faces a pivotal decision: Should he uproot his Hollywood studio — the birthplace of such film classics as “Sunset Boulevard,” “The Godfather” and “Beverly Hills Cop”?

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Paramount’s possible Hollywood exit puts Los Angeles on edge

Los Angeles' identity and workers' livelihoods are at stake, say worried residents who fear that Paramount will leave the state.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From March 2026: “My promise to you is to build a stronger Hollywood, by keeping both of these legacy studios operating separately, thereby preserving and potentially increasing jobs.” — David Ellison, in a letter to California senator Adam Schiff and California Rep. Laura Friedman

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David Ellison Sends Letter to CA Lawmakers Outlining Plan to Keep Hollywood Jobs Local (Exclusive)

In a letter to Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Laura Friedman, the Paramount and soon-to-be Warner Bros. studio chief argued that keeping key aspects of the historic studios separate will help workers and L...

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What a ride of an article! It reads like a modern Shakespeare play: Trump Sr. didn’t go to his son’s wedding. Article also mentions Gazprom, Russian state-owned gas company & arm of Putin that funded the Yura Borisov AK-47 movie filmed in Russian-occupied Crimea in 2020. Funny how it all connects.

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Tom Voorhees @angelus04.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The thing I remember most about 9/11 was the Republicans engaging in cancel culture if you didn't support their war in Iraq

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My YouTube feed today. I think it’s trying to tell me something 😝

Screenshot of my YouTube video feed. A thumbnail for a video of two chubby, passive aggressive corgis fighting. Below is another video thumbnail of Matt Stone and Trey Parker entertaining seniors at a retirement home.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Even if Netanyahu wasn’t informed of the attack through official channels, Hamas were posting training exercises near the wall on their social media accounts for months leading up to it. There’s no way he didn’t know, unless he was comatose all that time, youd have to be to miss it.

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Jean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Me: *hassling the cat for fun* hee hee! Oh hee hee hee! The cat: *comes over to hassle me* Me: how dare, I don't know why you think you can act like this

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Isn’t this profiteering?

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“In much of the world, the big battle for women is not the one for equal pay, but the one to be allowed to work outside the home at all. In swathes of the Middle East, north Africa and South Asia, “male honour depends to a large degree on female seclusion,” notes Alice Evans of Stanford University.”

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How work makes families more equal

The love of money is the root of quite a lot of good

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’ve been reading up about Ron DeSantis. The parallels between his spat with Disney & the ParaBros megadeal debacle in California are interesting. While ideologically the two cases could not be further apart, the state AGs could definitely afford to manhandle Paramount more, be tougher with them.

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In Florida, there's détente in the battle between Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis

Disney and a board appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have settled lawsuits over who controls development in the 40-square-mile district that's home to its Orlando theme parks.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

*Checks watch impatiently*

Scientists predict that the sun will explode in 2064.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don’t agree with the sentiment that the animation in the Chinese rogue blockbuster Niu Lai is bad. It doesn’t look all that different from Flow, which got the prestige cinema treatment.

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exitflagger.bsky.social @exitflagger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Why is everyone so mean to Woody Allen? All he did was MARRY HIS OWN CHILD.

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frightened javi @cyberjauvie.me · 21/08/2026

every company stealing work and asking, “why don’t you like us, 🥺”

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Gold mines like these are at the heart of the conflict in Sudan. The ruling parties are fighting over who gets to control the revenues. Why aren’t any of the outlets reporting on that? Is it because the Gulf States (especially the UAE) are their biggest customers?

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The notion of zombies trace back to when African slaves were brutally disciplined and worked to death. It was rumored that some got rendered “soul lost,” so they would toil without rest or protest. Thus within Haitian culture, zombies were victims, robbed of independent will by cruel masters.

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‘Black Zombie’ Review: An Engaging Doc on How the Flesh-Eating Hordes of Screen Fame Obscured Painful Real-Life History

Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary 'Black Zombie' looks at nearly a century of zombie cinema through the lens of cultural appropriation.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We went real fast from “We care deeply about California’s film industry,” to “F California, we’re moving to Tennessee” 😭😭😭

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/08/2026

The complaints cite a ProPublica report detailing how CBS and Paramount have for years given FCC commissioners luxury gala tickets, which the commissioners accepted even as the FCC was reviewing or about to review major Paramount business decisions.

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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about…

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

‘Penelope and the Suitors’, by Italian Renaissance artist Pintoricchio, who condensed The Odyssey into one frame. It’s contemporary and above all, true to the spirit of the source material, which is more important than accuracy. That’s how you do an adaptation (easier said than done 😆)

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The entire Odyssey in one painting | National Gallery

YouTube video by The National Gallery

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“It’s very easy to be brave when there’s no danger.” - Nadav Lapid (Variety interview, June 18, 2026)

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The similarities between PM Modi’s crackdown on Indian journalists and what is happening in the States, with Trump and the Ellisons buying up all the major news outlets, are terrifying to say the least.

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India’s Newsrooms Are ‘SCREWED’ If They Don’t Show Some Spine

YouTube video by Zeteo

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Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#NowWatching WOMEN IN LOVE (1969). Director: Ken Russell. Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed. Provocateur Russell takes on D.H. Lawrence's saucy novel about evolving sexual mores of four disparate souls. His one Oscar nom for Best Director. Jackson won Best Actress. Rewatch. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Col 916

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“Russia’s justification for an invasion, the propaganda and the lies, seem taken from Israel’s playbook every time it invaded Gaza or Lebanon. Israel always feels threatened, just like Russia, and both deny the national rights of the people it occupies.” — Gideon Levy, columnist for The Haaretz

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Someone in the EU is taking bribes. What about the fact that the new entity will be taking on billions of dollars of debt that it can’t pay, almost 40% will be owned by foreign wealth funds and will stifle journalistic freedom in the US. How is any of that alright with the EU regulators?

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“In medialand, being pro-war means never having to say you’re sorry.” — Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible

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