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PatMacNamara

@iamthepatmac.bsky.social
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Writer of all things genre, frustrated ham, and rugby union/laser-tag/air guitar champion... Really! There are trophies! Also, purveyor of fine poptiquities by way of the 'Bazaar of the Popzarre'.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 10h
So much winning! Who would want to visit this shithole country? Worldcon attendance was massively down because so many foreign folk stayed home.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
As the U.S. military depletes critical munitions and evacuates bases amid Trump’s Iran war, Pete Hegseth is now moving to eliminate 20% of the military’s top brass positions.
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Hegseth Moves To Gut 20% of Top Brass, Calls Press ‘Treasonous’
At Quantico, Pete Hegseth paired a sweeping cut to senior military positions with culture-war rhetoric and an attack on journalists reporting on the Trump regime’s war.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10h
This morning, the Justice Department went after nearly an entire state's federal bench, all at once. The judges had said the government wasn't following court orders. The response was to try to remove the judges. Here's why every American should be paying attention. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
thenerve.news
They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please Senator Jane Hume don’t sell out Australia’s original content creators to US AI with your “getting the balance right” response. Our American friends will walk through our Copyright Act with Trump’s support. Time for our ALP/LNP duopoly to demand fair compensation for local AI training.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New Yorker style comic of two sophisticated people at a cocktail party.
One guys says "mainstream news refusing to tell people the planet is being cooked is serial killer multiplied by molester level evil."
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PLEASE SHARE
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026
HUGE. Everyone who was a part of prosecuting her needs to resign from public life and pray for forgiveness.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“I remember seeing him on TV and thinking, ‘No, that can’t be Kash,’ but sure enough, there he was, addressing the nation about a missing person case.” — Daisy, local golden retriever
theonion.com
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
WASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was...
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PatMacNamara @iamthepatmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes, it can always get worse! FFS!!!
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Brownshirts. It's 1934 in these United States. And we have too many quiet Germans.
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
Citizens showed up to the city council meeting with plans to let city leaders know how they felt about the city’s use of Flock. But Springfield mayor Jeff Schrag moved to prevent public comment on Flock. Then, arrests happened, @mjgault.bsky.social reports. Story: www.404media.co/woman-arrest...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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Aly Fell @alyfell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well, IT'S READYish. Kickstarter pre-launch is active! Please sign up there if you fancy it. I can then gauge interest which gives me ideas for funding targets, add-ons etc. It should go live in October for an appropriately spooky seasonal Kickstarter! Thank you! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aly...
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Coming soon: Candelstone: A Faery Tale
An original graphic novel of magical realism set against the insular world of an isolated 1920's Devon boarding school.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Guardian at least leading with the actual story here
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And don’t sleep on the part where we bust Cleta Mitchell (yes, that one) for helping to hatch a campaign finance cover-up:
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PatMacNamara @iamthepatmac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social #auspol
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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Broadcaster and actor Peter Purves got in touch to say how much he’d enjoyed our book The Quatermass Experiment, @tobyhadoke.bsky.social’s definitive guide to TV’s first sci-fi classic, available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk 🚀
‘A remarkable achievement. Your research cannot be faulted, and you have knitted it into the definitive book on early TV production skills and techniques, without ever being boring. Having watched the original Quatermass, I was reminded of so much that I had forgotten. Your choices of photographs are incredibly valuable to the story, and show the limitations of the setting, which you describe quite brilliantly. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and cannot praise you highly enough.’ Peter PurvesThe Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic
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Jon Herman ⭕️💅🏼😎 @hermjon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
W O W
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/09/2026
He works for billionaires. They’re his bosses. Never forget it.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
Trump's decision seems to already be backfiring.
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Trump's desperate for TV cameras until they tell the truth
ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC halted their TV coverage of presidential events after Trump banned some outlets from White House access for unfavorable reporting.
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PatMacNamara @iamthepatmac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Surely, I can't be the only one who thinks Chris Hemsworth should be the new James Bond? #ChrisHemsworth #JamesBond
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PatMacNamara @iamthepatmac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/be... So many missing from this list! Community, Andor, The Expanse, Dark, Better Call Saul, Chernobyl, Twin Peaks, Succession, Game of Thrones, Primal, Justified, Veep...
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My Top Shows — the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century
Firefly, Mad Men, Detectorists and 7 more.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
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Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It would appear Lance ain't real bright.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Fuck it. Just announce it. We own the Government and news media plus the NFL just started so no one's paying attention. Now let's hit the links."
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PatMacNamara @iamthepatmac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well, this sucks! #RideOrDie
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where Trump administration deportees are being held indefinitely..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Aly's last graphic novel was gorgeously illustrated and he also contributed to the Gail Simone-written MISTY Special a couple of years back. This is going to be *well* worth your time. www.kickstarter.com/projects/aly...
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Coming soon: Candelstone: A Faery Tale
An original graphic novel of magical realism set against the insular world of an isolated 1920's Devon boarding school.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/09/2026
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
LIVE from the Kennedy Center! We’re just getting started. Join our live coverage so you don’t miss a thing: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
*There aren't a lot of old-school leaky-hacktivists any more, but the ones that exist really want to go for the jugular. #GrayWar #cyberwar #Ukraine #Russia
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 17/09/2026
Forbidden Planet (1956) "For the very first time, Forbidden Planet is presented in its original Cinemascope aspect ratio of 2.55:1 with its theatrical "Perspecta" stereo soundtrack in an eye-popping brand new 4K restoration that is out of this world!"
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Forbidden Planet | Official Trailer | 4K
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"What a sad state of affairs. What a tragedy. How small-minded, narcissistic." Maria Shriver reacts to the narcissist-in-chief shutting down the Kennedy Center (and potentially demolishing it) because he can't get his name on it like a giant toddler.
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Katie @rebelrouser1962.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 18/09/2026
Buc-ee’s Extracts 850k Settlement From Born United For Parody Usage If you thought we were done with the trademark bullying drama resulting from gas station and convenience store chain... www.techdirt.com/2026/09/17/buc-ees…
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Buc-ee’s Extracts 850k Settlement From Born United For Parody Usage
If you thought we were done with the trademark bullying drama resulting from gas station and convenience store chain Buc-ee's, you were wrong. While we're still waiting for this corporation to take up John Oliver's request to sue him for creating parody merchandize of the Buc-ee's brand, the company has decided to do what bullies...
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Del Bigtree told me he wants his teenage son to catch polio. Measles, too. He’s considered driving his unvaccinated family to South Carolina, which is in the midst of a historic outbreak, so that they can all be exposed… He’s more than anti-vaccine: He’s pro-infection.”
theatlantic.com
‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’
Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here's how totally f***ed up this administration is: RFK Jr. is raising an alarm about completely fictional chemicals in the atmosphere, while he and the rest of the Trump administration are calling the chemicals that ARE literally changing the planet's #climate a "hoax."
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PatMacNamara @iamthepatmac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How would you describe your social media reach? Mine:
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Thrilling Leap into a Dark Cave
ALT: Thrilling Leap into a Dark Cave
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Abortion, Every Day spoke to a woman whose state refused to let her cross state lines for an abortion. Don’t tell me Republicans will never criminalize travel—they already do. Pieces like this make me so proud to work with @kylietcheung.bsky.social
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She Wanted An Abortion. The State Wouldn’t Let Her Leave
Travel bans are already here—we just don’t talk about them
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PatMacNamara @iamthepatmac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ok, to get something positive from the ed sheeran discourse: what's the *best* musician cameo in a tv show or film?
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PatMacNamara @iamthepatmac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Miami Vice Don Johnson
ALT: Miami Vice Don Johnson
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/09/2026
??????????????
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