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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2025

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is gonna be a big problem, but the bigger problem, which I (and I’m sure many others) are already experiencing is that simply, no one is buying anything right now - my orders have already been dead for a month - please support independent artists if you still have the cash!

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Mark Walsh @markwalsh.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Lots of amazing details in this, including this story about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s reaction to the 2019 film Cats.

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Stephen King’s KAYLEIGH @ronchronchronch.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The world is a cold, cruel place, but remember: there is always Columbo. I wrote about the twelve best episodes of COLUMBO (including Peter Falk’s personal favorite) for Looper:

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12 Best Columbo Episodes Ranked - Looper

Columbo is widely regarded as one of the greatest TV detectives of all time, and these 12 episodes are perfect examples of why.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Did you follow all that happened? Liberals or Dems —won WI supreme court —won WI school superintendent —flipped mayor of Aurora, IL's 2nd city —flipped county executive in WI's Winnebago —strong results in WI school boards —more local wins in IL —beat far-right contender in Anchorage more details:

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The 20 Elections to Watch This April - Bolts

A Democratic candidate who railed against Elon Musk and his spending cuts flipped an ancestrally Republican district in Pennsylvania’s state Senate on Tuesday, March 25. Democrats, who will now repres...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign. (lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)

Malone said Saturday that his campaign volunteers have heard concerns from thousands of voters over Musk’s work with the Trump administration to reshape the federal government, which he said has led to “benefits for veterans, retirees and students” being cut “so Elon Musk can get a tax cut.”

“Josh Parsons might be OK with that but I’m not,” Malone said. “On Tuesday, you’ll get to make the choice between more Musk, or Lancaster values.”

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/03/2025

"I’m not being heartless. I know that Sloth is a victim, and yes, I know that 'Sloth loves Chunk.' And I can appreciate the fact that 'Chunk loves Sloth.' I’m just trying to think this through logistically. There is literally nowhere to put him."

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I’m Chunk’s Mother, and No, He Did Not Consult Me Before Telling Sloth He Could Live with Us

Motherhood is all about making sacrifices and supporting your children, no matter how outrageous their decisions may be. I’ve learned to accept the...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It was quite a revelation to me to learn that the reason color films made in large American cities in the 1970s had kind of an orange/brown tinge in outdoor scenes is because of air pollution

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Stephen R Bissette @stephenrbissette.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11/03/2025

the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Some federal workers are going back to work. The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back. Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired. The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

this ‘jurassic park’ story 😭

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

realized while emptying the dishwasher that Yoda is precisely wrong. not malevolently so. but there is no do and there is no do not. there is only try. this is clear to a man in his mid-fifties and so should be clear to a 900-year-old Jedi knight

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David Aja @davidaja.com · 28/02/2025

Again, please, Generative AI (chatbots, image generators...) demands crazy amount of energy and water and increases carbon footprint. When you use it, you are not just stealing copyrighted material and looking super clumsy, you are also accelerating global warming.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.

Winston Churchill at the White House wearing a one-piece garment known as a siren suit.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.

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Mars probably had liquid oceans a long time ago, before it cooled. Now, there are vast fields of ice covered by red dust.

If we warm up the planet, the oceans will return and the atmosphere will densify, making it possible to extend life to Mars.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This story will never get old. #RIPgenehackman 🙏🏼 @vanityfair.com @benstiller.redhour.com www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Cheerful round-up of bad news for Tusk/Mump.

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

and like during the bush or reagan years, once they take something away -- it doesn't come back.

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It’s hard to overstate how catastrophic the streaming / cloud-based / everything is licensed and nothing is owned media landscape is. Burning books was one thing, there were almost always other copies. Now Amazon can just delete a book from existence and erase the fact it ever existed

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

When I started this account I was going to post stuff like Gundam model builds and then I didn't. Anyway, here's the Master Grade RGM-79SP GM Sniper II that I started. There's a tiny pilot inside his chest you seal up inside there forever as part of the build. I might open it back up for pics.

head and chest of a master grade gundam model kit -- the sniper gundam -- next to a hobby knife.

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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It rains, and it’s very cloudy and humid.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/02/2025

Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This is phenomenal. I'm never going to stop thinking about this for as long as I live

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Pat Ryan @pkryan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Anyone who claims to care about our Vets should be FURIOUS about this. You want to talk government efficiency? Let's talk. Gutting the VA isn't efficiency. It's an insult to the heroes that have served our country.

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Webster's dictionary defines "Schadenfreude" as "a combination of the German nouns Schaden, meaning 'damage' or 'harm,' and Freude, meaning 'joy.' So it makes sense that schadenfreude means joy over some harm or misfortune suffered by another."

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

i was joking about this the other day but it’s also imperative to actually destroy the GOP and its propaganda wings. it’s not enough to rebuild if the fruits of your labor can be clawed back in 4 years. these fuckers can never be allowed near the levers of power ever again

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 15/02/2025

It would be a mighty shame if the the White House's new CFPB tip line meant to snitch on regulators were stuffed full of demands to bring back consumer protections & regulate Big Tech... fftf.link/floodthecfpb

On a purplish pink background, curvy white text reads "send the snitch line a valentine!" "dear tipline at CFPB dot gov.... with love, consumers." In the middle, a red chrome heart with an arrow through it appears. A link appears with a cursor icon clicking on it, reading "fftf dot link forward slash flood the CFPB."

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/02/2025

I want to be clear about this: Kara Swisher isn't even uniquely bad when it comes to Elon Musk. She is just the most visible tip of an entire iceberg of profound failure on the part of the tech media to see a fucking decade of red flags around this guy. This rot runs deep. bsky.app/profile/nied...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I wrote about Elon Musk’s seizure of the federal bureaucracy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

i think we're also losing institutional knowledge at a faster churn. blame it on social media, the right-wing attack on education, whatever covid did to our brains, i dunno.

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

how'd we do on that groundhog or did trump have someone curb stomp it this year?

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

advice i need to take ha ha sigh

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I'm really enjoying the new season of @rememberthispod.bsky.social especially the John Ford episode. It made me immediately rewatch the David Lynch as John Ford scene in the Fabelmans. Lynch puffing on that cigar for an hour. "So what do you know about art, kid?"

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David Lynch as John Ford

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

maybe reid hoffman can go try this out and then come back in a few decades and let us know how it went

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Dems should note that this triggered Trump bigly and take that as a sign that they can win arguments by seizing opportunities to position Trump and the GOP as on the wrong side of basic decency and humanity. cc @brianbeutler.bsky.social @whstancil.bsky.social

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/01/2025

I have seen the dumb men throng to see him

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Another good double feature: David Lynch's Dune and Flash Gordon. You get a truly odd and often unsettling space adventure movie with David Lynch and you get to see where a lot of Jodorowsky's designs for Dune ended up in Flash Gordon.

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

cool thread about marketing and licensing and the difference between star wars action figures and annie leibowitz's vanity fair photo shoots of jedis and stuff

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The kicker from the NYT's story about microplastics in teabags. Which first of all: what a stupid shitty world we've created. Second: hey just don't worry about it worrying about it is going to make you feel sad. Journalism in the year 2025.

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Frank @frnksmth.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Furiosa and the Black & Chrome version of Fury Road make for a pretty great double feature.

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