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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 11h

if i have to drive to every one of your homes and put the lowdown on your screen and sit there next to you while you watch it i will do it i SWEAR TO GOD this season is SO GOOD and so funny and weird and smart and BETTY FUCKING GILPIN www.vulture.com/article/the-...

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The Lowdown Flies High

Sterlin Harjo’s shaggy Tulsa noir returns as the best, most confident version of itself.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12h

Happy new The Lowdown day to all who celebrate, if “crime comedy by the creator of Rez Dogs starring Ethan Hawke that’s like if a Warren Zevon song was a show” appeals to you, statistically you’re probably on Bluesky

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you enjoyed my coverage today (or really hated it, but because of the situation, not because of me) please consider donating to help fund @lawfaremedia.org's court coverage and expert analysis here: givebutter.com/journalism/m...

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Lawfare's Nonpartisan Journalism and Expert Analysis

Support the impactful and trustworthy coverage of Lawfare

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very excited to share the cover of my new book JUST BENEATH THE SOIL: WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS LAST WITNESSES. It will be out May 4, 2027. I learned so much writing this book and truly can't wait to share it with you all. It’s available for preorder now: sites.prh.com/justbeneatht...

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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This might be the easiest and most wtf pick six I've ever seen

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Onion Sports @onionsports.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shy, Bookish Umpire Actually Really Beautiful When He Takes Mask Off

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Joseph Hefner @josephjefe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🎤 Taps mic: Is this thing on? Testing… testing… 1, 2. Sooooo..... Some of you may remember my old Formations app, which used NFL Participation data before the NFL ditched it. Well, @ftnfantasy.com changed that. Jefe’s Team Personnel is live! www.jefeshandiwork.com/shiny/team-p...

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Jefe's Team Personnel

NFL team personnel and formation data from FTN Data and nflverse.

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GK @gk3ny0n1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The ADULTS music coordinator loves them some AJJ (laudatory).

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So thoughtful of your parents to put together their very own fall tv preview! Read it here: www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

Shouts & Murmurs
Your Parents’ Fall TV Preview
By Josh Gondelman
Published 9/17/2026

A photo of an older white couple sitting on a couch watching tv.

“North of South of the Border” on Paramount+

Welcome to El Paso, where men are men and women are cast mostly in nonspeaking roles. Taylor Sheridan’s latest drama stars Mel Gibson as a Border Patrol agent who feels conflicted about his work because his bosses won’t let him arbitrarily deport Jews and Greek people. Sheridan’s shows currently take up so much of Paramount’s programming that there isn’t enough time in the day to air “North of South of the Border” as its own hour-long drama. It appears exclusively in snippets on television sets that characters are watching within the show “Landman,” which your parents refer to as “Yellowstone.”

“Tendershire Farms” (Season 18) on BritBox
Maude Tendershire (Olivia Gingerbottom) works as the caretaker for her family’s historic chamomile farm. That’s about it. The show is so cozy and soothing that the actors frequently fell asleep during takes and can be spotted snoozing in the background. This season, low-jinx ensue after Lord Gilderoy (Hankleton Dunderthorpe III) stops by for a visit, but he’s already eaten so he doesn’t stay for tea. A lamb wanders off but soon returns. And for one entire episode, a gentle breeze rustles the branches of a weeping willow tree as an inaudible conversation takes place nearby.

“Dr. Shaft, M.D.” on Fox
An underground facility known as Drive Shaft, Maryland, is home to the Washington, D.C. metro area’s most cutthroat drag-racing scene—and there’s a new driver tearing up the quarter-mile track. Other gearheads know him as Smooth J., but at his day job, at the Foggy Bottom Urology Clinic, Jason Shafterton goes by Dr. Shaft. Will his addiction to fast driving undermine his commitment to providing affordable penile health care to residents of our nation’s capital? Only time will tell. Your parents really aren’t that interested in the racing scenes or, frankly, the medical stuff. But your mom refuses to miss an episode because the show stars Daveed Diggs from the original cast of “Hamilton.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026

CASTEN: Trump said 'we're taking in billions and billions from Venezuela.' Who is the 'we'? That suggests flows to US persons BESSENT: Again, this is one of the largest assets ever to go on the US balance sheets CASTEN: You can't testify whether or not they're flowing to US persons? BESSENT: No

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Seth Walder @sethwalder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

364 days a year FPI looks at the NFL probabilistically, based on 10,000 simulations. Today is the other day. A one-time view of how the 2026 NFL season will play out, based on a single simulation. Life is a single sim, after all! www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

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2026 NFL season sim: Predictions, surprises, playoff teams

We played out one of the Football Power Index's 10,000 season simulations (No. 9,187), from Week 1 through Super Bowl LXI.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 06/09/2026

When I wonder what it is that Clemson does all offseason this is all I can picture

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GK @gk3ny0n1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wow this is as close to the hammer as it gets.

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It's still Albrot @albrot.party · 26/08/2026

Attention Parents: We will no longer be using MyGrades for progress reports, they will be on RePortz. Discipline & attendance events will be tracked on Spanc. Bus service will be monitored with YELO. These services are accessible through the KidzPortal. You can set up your portal account in MyGrades

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Me and the boys about to lay down the HALO theme

Old fashioned renaissance style illustration of monks singing in a choir

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I don’t think you could have said this (in the screenshot) in public 10-15 years ago without swift backlash, which is a pretty clear indication of the level of decline we’re looking at

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

60 Minutes has found a market inefficiency in the television landscape: terrible thinkers devoid of charisma

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ID4 in Real Time @1996id4.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

President: "We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist. And should we win today the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight."

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Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Knicks fans, celebrate ya chip with hats & jerseys but please wait for "post-championship clarity" before buying anything crazy. I own a Chicago Cubs commemorative championship light-up Wrigley Field baseball table? Da fuq for?!😂

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In this week’s @tvisgoodpod.bsky.social episode, @kvanaren.bsky.social & I try to figure out which island is more cursed: Widow’s Bay, or Gilligan’s Island. Watch on YouTube:

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Is Widow's Bay more cursed than Gilligan's Island? | TV Is Good #5

YouTube video by TV Is Good

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Extra Hot Great @extrahotgreat.com · 10/06/2026

Earlier: it's #EHG 618 with Caroline Framke! #NotSuitableForWork, #LoveIslandUK, #MichaelJacksonTheVerdict, #GardenersWorld, a #Hacks Canon pitch, and more -- like our lead topic, #TheVampireLestat / #IWTV S03! extrahotgreat.com/eh...

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GK @gk3ny0n1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Screaming, crying, etc.

Young Link, a Kokiri boy in green garb, sleeping, disturbed by dreams as the triforce glows on his hand

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I still often awake with a start, thinking this guy is stealing my potions

A scene from the arcade game Golden Axe where the dwarf guy is sleeping on the ground and a little gnome looking guy has arrived to rob him.

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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.

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GK @gk3ny0n1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I kind of miss pitchers hitting sometimes. It was whimsical. We will never have the joy of a Bartolo Colon homer again.

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Inside-the-park grand slam for James Wood (!!!)

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This past weekend, I was honored to receive an honorary doctorate from American University and to give the commencement address to their schools of education and communications. Shout out to the class of 2026. Keep going. We need y’all.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

First full episode is dropping Monday. Subscribe now!

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 14/05/2026

#Recall: Petzl America ASTRO BOD FAST, ASTRO SIT FAST and CANYON GUIDE Harnesses; The recalled harness’ D-ring can release, allowing the attachment point to open, posing a risk of serious injury or death from a fall hazard. Get replacement. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

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John Hollinger @johnhollinger.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

2024 - Trae Young's team wins the lottery 2025 - Anthony Davis's team wins the lottery 2026 - Trae Young and Anthony Davis's team wins the lottery

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NBA @nba.com · 10/05/2026

The results are in for picks 1-4 in the NBA Draft Lottery 2026: 1. Washington Wizards 2. Utah Jazz 3. Memphis Grizzlies 4. Chicago Bulls

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dallas @liketexas.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

So it sounds like Trump is going to destroy my home course, where I’ve played hundreds of rounds over the last six years. Before that happens, I want to share with everyone how special of a place it was. This is East Potomac: a photo essay by someone who sucks at photography.

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deneb @v3gaaltair.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

demeter when her daughter goes missing

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GK @gk3ny0n1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Maybe McVay wanted his own Trey Lance experience.

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Extra Hot Great @extrahotgreat.com · 10/04/2026

It's never been harder to make a living with an indie podcast, so consider supporting ours! For $5/month, you get PERKS, including a second BIG, NEW bonus episode each week -- this week, we're talking #TheMiniatureWife, a #BH90210 pitch for the Tiny Snack Canon, and MORE! extrahotgreat.com/club/

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GK @gk3ny0n1.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Good day to post one of my favorite political medals. americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...

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