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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

My man looks like Richard Dreyfus sculpted him out of mashed potatoes

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 9h

Just add the Shaft theme behind him while you're at it

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 10h

Democrats beating Texas Gov. Greg Abbott would also let them block new 2028 gerrymanders in Republicans’ biggest state, which could save several House seats and many legislative seats. I’m skeptical he loses—he narrowly leads most polls—but this is the best Texas has looked for Dems since the 1990s

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just saw NAZA at the #ifccenter and... what is there to say? One moment to note: at one point, the directors cut away to the Tel Aviv Cinematheque where they are doing a Claude Lanzmann retrospective, and the irony was thick enough to choke all of Israeli high command. Fucking hell.

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #filmsky @letterboxd.social #digger Weird week. The underrated if flawed "Frailty" by Bill Paxton in the middle there helped it not be completely... broad.

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David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DIGGER

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To those who have supported the Trump Administration’s weaponizing of allegations of antisemitism: Do you see how preposterous this is? Nothing here is making Jews safer, it’s just using immigration enforcement to punish people for their political views.

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Graham Edwards @grahamedwards439.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, Nixon certainly wasn't treated fairly. He was pardoned and escaped prison. Very, very unfair.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I couldn't get past the 2nd answer. Fucking shit man.

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I watched all six (666) of the Resident Evil movies (mostly) directed by Paul WS Anderson. I felt like I chugged a whole lot of Monster energy drinks and ate all the spicy cheese doodles. For what it is worth. cinetarium.blogspot.com/2026/09/paul...

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Paul WS Anderson's RESIDENT EVIL series (2002-2017)

Well, thanks to Zach Cregger and his sensational adaptation of the video games, I realized now would be the time (and what else am I doing w...

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Damn I guess I had version, at my screening they were doing the Watusi from Pulp Fiction

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A New Reconstruction @burleyzack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

40m people rely on the Colorado River, which year after year shows less water in it. Denver Water has declared drought conditions and restricts residential use. You’re saying we shouldn’t care about the new water use equal to 16000 people? www.governing.com/finance/denv...

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Denver’s New Data Center to Use as Much Water as 16,000 People

As city leaders try to reduce carbon emissions and conserve water amid a 20-year drought, a proposed tax break for a new, water-intensive data center is drawing scrutiny.

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎶 Where can I find an ethos like that 🎶

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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Coyote vs. Acme: A movie where Luis Guzman has to pensively choose between a real and a cartoon gavel is a good movie.

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really feel bad for whatever democrat is elected next. They are going to be ice skating uphill across the world. My only hope is that whoever is elected focuses much more on domestic policy to make things better here. It isnt going to happen internationally.

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I cant wait to see this movie. It will be good for my soul to be in a packed theater laughing at him

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It makes more sense for him to live in a mouth than a data center

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky @letterboxd.social "Primetime" Robert Pattinson *AND* Skyler Ginsondo. WOW. One of the most captivating films about acting and performance in this century.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

11. In essence, Trump asked a majority of voters to trade democracy and the rule of law for an IOU, and to the shock and horror of the civilized world, a majority of voters accepted.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

7. What on earth is the White House trying to prove? Not that Trump is a good president. More like proving his enemies right. This, for instance, from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

"Trump is the imperfect figurehead of a corrupt cabal of plutocrats and ideological fanatics, who have used his political movement to foment something like a revolution, short of igniting civil war: Collapse the democratic order globally, replace it with great power spheres, and subservient, corrupt courtier states. Collapse the democratic order domestically, replace it with a rightwing autocracy."

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Everything is so dumb dumb dumb d-dumb dumb, d-dumb dumb, d-dumb dumb d-dumb dumb dumb

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

By a 1 vote margin, Republicans voted to continue the Iran war that had spiked your gas prices to $5 a gallon and caused inflation to soar. Remember this when you vote in November.

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I saw it on a double bill years afo with Reservoir Dogs on the 2nd half. Quite a day of Noir

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Never be afraid to be silly. Jim Henson took great delight in Muppets blowing up or devouring each other. There is beauty in absurdity and hilarity. Indulge it.

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The Muppets "Glow-Worm" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've had life insurance for years. Haven't used it once.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So that puts David Ellison, whose competence is in question, and his daddy, whose malevolence is not, in charge of 156 theatrical movies over the next five years. I hope you guys all like Paw Patrol.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I get the challenge for CA state officials of weighing potential massive job losses* against the disastrous nature of this deal. But I do not understand why every other state AG seems to be going along with it. *which are going to happen anyway

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 21/09/2026

liberation of the camps, a rescue of all people sent to foreign prisons, reparations to the victims, general right to return for all the people we have trafficked, a general pardon for all immigration violations, and a streamlined citizenship or permanent residency status we've got a lot to do

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JPSea ..✳️🈶 @jpsea83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈..(ᵃᵘᵗʰᵒʳ) #Botd (September 21, 1947 Portland, Maine) #FilmSky 🎟📽📙 #BookSky

Cover of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟖)

Regarding his interest in horror, King says "It’s built in. That’s all. The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated." He recalls showing his mother a story he copied out of a comic book. She responded: "I bet you could do better. Write one of your own." He recalls "an immense feeling of possibility at the idea, as if I had been ushered into a vast building filled with closed doors and had been given the key to open any I liked."

“When, during the course of an interview for The New Yorker, I told the interviewer (Mark Singer) that I believed stories are found things, like fossils in the ground, he said that he didn't believe me. I replied that that was fine, as long as he believed that I believe it. And I do. Stories aren't souvenir tee-shirts or GameBoys. Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible. Sometimes the fossil you uncover is small, a seashell. Sometimes it's enormous, a Tyrannosaurus Rex with all those gigantic ribs and grinning teeth. Either way, short story or thousand-page whopper of a novel, the techniques of excavation remain basically the same.”
-𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 played guitar for the Rock Bottom Remainders, a charity supergroup whose members included Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, Dave Barry, Scott Turow, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, Greg Iles, Kathi Kamen Goldmark and other authors.

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am really depressed the Paramount/WB merger is going through. This is so bad. Is there anything good that can come out of this?

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A part of me wishes that the news organizations would just ignore Trump and let the propaganda flow, but he relishes the attention. And it's a distraction always from Epstein which is the number one most important issue that we should not take our eye off of.

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