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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

Holy shit.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 20h

Jim Jordan honoring Dennis Hastert with a decades-long moment of silence.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 20h

Could there be a job, a simple job, for someone on SNL as the designated Crosser-Out of Lines About Why a Thing Is Funny?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.

From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."

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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When witches are cackling and telling you “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” take a step back. Breathe. Those are normal things for fire and cauldrons to do. They’re trying to mess with you.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 22h

Ah, yes, who could forget the revolutionary battle cry: "Liberté, Egalité, Efficacité."

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And now the season has brought us to this, the very "Peter Criss sings 'Beth' on the Paul Lynde Halloween Special" time of year. Blessed be.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Without hesitation I can say it was the TV ad for MAGIC (1978). I couldn't even think to turn off the TV; I'd just hide behind the couch. I *remember* the witches in Snow White and Oz but they were in stories. This was just context-free nightmare fuel.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Home now from the second of these and I will never stop being amused and confused by just how much the audience enjoys them, honestly.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

someone call up will smith we need him to do something

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's Buster's birthday, as good a day as any to remind yourself that splendid beauty has existed and can exist in this world in any circumstances.

Buster on the handlebars in Sherlock, Jr.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Time to watch (the stupid, lumpy, beloved) Mad Monster Party? again and I had forgotten it canonically provides the origin of the tesseract.

Dr. Frank looks at his glowing blue creation

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Post a vampire

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So does Practical Magic take place in the I Married a Witch Cinematic Universe?

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 02/10/2026

I start teaching another class on Pre-Code films today, so here's one of the more Pre-Code-ier musical numbers of the Pre-Code era. From Meet the Baron (1933), directed by Walter Lang. 1/2

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Goodbye Warner Bros. Ich loved thee. Ich loved thee wyth myne entyre hearte. We will alwayes have Casablanca.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(I note this because we're two days into our annual readaloud of A Night in the Lonesome October.)

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've changed to the usual easy seasonal handle in part because I can never figure out how to spell it in such a way as to make a "Greymalkin" pronunciation obvious.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've read 246 books this year with Z. This is revolutionary!

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I use this again as my own personal annual Day of Atonement. To all* who have had to deal with my intrusive Inner Groucho when he gets out, well, can't you see what I'm trying to tell you, I love you!

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

American Movie Classics debuted #OTD in 1984. A decade before TCM, AMC gave classic films a platform on basic cable w/ hosted intros, celebrity guests, and no commercials. Never forget what they took from us. #FilmSky #TCMParty

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just found out there's a kind of jellyfish called Aurelia aurita and I have to assume it was discovered by Slim Gaillard.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What we neede ys anothir filme that ys obliquelye about Hamlet.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Louisville: our October evenings of ghost stories and creepy poems and whatnot are filling up fast—and we've added another performance of our (dare I say timely?) adaptation of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. If you're interested...

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Bible does support the idea that unlevened bread can be transubstantiated into flesh so, you know, I don't really look to the Bible as the definitive source on trans issues.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Louisville: our Sunday Scaries reading series continues October 4 at 7:00 with an evening of Poe, Marquis, Dickinson, Beddoes, Pain (the author), Noyes (the poet), and maybe some Gershwin for fun, all in the cozy atmosphere of Vines Wine Bar & Spirits Shop.

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Daniel GHOUL-am @dgill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"It's got a weather station, and it's got an antenna and light bar on the roof and LED pods that are facing backwards," he said of his truck. "I storm chase, so I've got it set up for that. There's no truck in this city that looks remotely anything like this truck."

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Louisville Public Media @lpm.org · 30/09/2026

Lexington resident Will Penn posted doorbell camera footage to Facebook after the incident. It's since been shared thousands of times. www.lpm.org/news/2026-09...

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Flock search that led Lexington police to surround wrong home intensifies debate over the tech

Lexington resident Will Penn posted doorbell camera footage to Facebook after the incident. It's since been shared thousands of times.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I *will* say "Schmitt" and "floated" work really well together.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In retrospect, an ideal way to celebrate Madeline's birthday.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It would upset him so much, if he even knew the work of Ernie Barnes, to know how much this looks like a stance in the work of Ernie Barnes.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The story is the point, I know, but I had to read the Guardian headline "Grooming gangs inquiry to investigate offending in Wales and Birmingham" about four times before I could make it cease to be gibberish.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't know how your rehearsals go but ours involved my lovely wife singing Gershwin's "Lorelei" a la Dietrich and maybe reciting a little Wordsworth like Elizabeth Holmes; so while we hope audiences are happy they are in the long run obviously not our primary concern.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...

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Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)

“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Three times! You do not have me rooting for the team you want at this point!

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jolted to attention by a phone alert because a suspect was mean to a cop 100 miles away from me and I would like to opt out now please.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminize a band name (Please Don't Send Me Pics of Your) Wang Chung

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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