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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 47m

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 16h

The Cornell story is horrific, but I’d like to shine a light on what happened at LSU with a current football player on the team:

In July, the school found Shanklin responsible for "forcible rape" and issued a one-year suspension, which is a full ban from campus and activities, according to documents reviewed by ESPN. After Shanklin appealed, an administrative law judge who handles appeals per LSU policy upheld the finding that the athlete was responsible for "forcible rape," but reduced the punishment to four semesters of probation with no restrictions, which allows Shanklin to remain enrolled and on campus and to participate in activities as long as he stays out of trouble.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 15h

THIS IS THE CURRENT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR AT LSU

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I also like this explanation, i.e. they simply forget women’s sports exist when they don’t need them as a cudgel against trans people, because actually “it never occurred to a single one of us that a man would go to a women’s basketball game” is an even more stunning self-own

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

I’d like to report a murder

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No one will ever sum up DIGGER than @bilgeebiri.bsky.social remarking that the movie feels "like being stuck inside a tuba for two hours." www.vulture.com/article/revi...

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Digger Is a Brazen Act of Self-Sabotage

The Tom Cruise-starring climate change satire is a torturous experience — sometimes purposefully so, often unintentionally so.

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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My Globe review of DIGGER is up. I suppose I should have expected that the director of the worst best picture Oscar winner, and the man with an ego so big that you can see it from space, would make a movie so insufferably bad that I needed a stiff drink after it. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/29/a...

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‘Digger’ is the worst movie of Tom Cruise’s career - The Boston Globe

As Denzel said in ‘Malcolm X,’ you’ve been ‘hoodwinked and bamboozled’ by this film’s mendacious marketing.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Particularly this week hey maybe let’s not leave the stories about the unconscious girl getting kissed to the fellas, huh?

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every Riot grrrl band in the 90s

Still from the television show Xena: Warrior Princess showing Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer all with goofy expressions on their face

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Meredith Borders @mereborders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is really powerful writing (and thinking, and reckoning) from Britt 🩵

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Jette @jette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

maybe if we promote this film - or remake it? - we could get better hot chocolate in coffeeshops? Serve good hot cocoa, it'll destroy all our toxins and we'll be healthier and happier. (Also, societally we need more "chocolate will improve your well-being" and less "eat more sauerkraut and whey")

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 27/09/2026

Someone elsewhere posted this great photo of June Havoc during her Sweeney Todd tour, and I figured you should see it.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know there's a butterfly motif in 9 to 5? Or that the 3 leads subtly influence each other's costumes over time? Or that you could read a queer romantic obsession in the costumes? Or what Lily Tomlin's nameplate necklace really says? tomandlorenzo.com/2026/09/bitt...

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Bitter Kitten Movie Club: 9 to 5 (1980) - Tom + Lorenzo

9 to 5 (1980) Directed by: Colin Higgins Starring: Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman Costume Designer: Ann Roth Happy Dolly Day,

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

your moment of calm, corner of ne prescott and 109th ave (owners provide food) if you want to visit

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was at a convention with Barry once, and we hung out most of the weekend. He was hosting a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show after signing hours when there was a sound issue during “Damnit, Janet.” Barry ran over and grabbed me saying “Cargill, you know the words! Come on!”

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"You see what this looks like, right?" some thoughts on Primetime and the questions it doesn't attempt to interrogate — because we aren't, either. www.patreon.com/britthayes/p...

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After having just endured Alex Gibney employing grotesque-looking AI that constantly took me out of his Elon Musk documentary, I smiled seeing Guillermo go Full Fuck AI for this, very prominently displayed on Sunset Blvd. The non-3D version of this will be my next Beyond Fest movie.

An building-height ad for PAN’S LABYRINTH that says:

GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S
PAN'S LABYRINTH
20" Anniversary
MADE BY HUMANS.
FOR HUMANS.
Guillermo del Toro

In Theaters October 9
Get Tickets Now

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At first you think they’re just hyping Judy up with that “beast mode”. Then you see her lifts and realize they’re underselling it. Small, thick, and mighty for the win, every time.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's important we listen to the man who spent over a billion dollars to make Quibi

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you are available to spend some time holding space at the shooting site memorial in Austin please DM me. Those holding vigil there are being threatened with arrest and need more allies on the ground.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/09/2026

I honestly have never considered switching from Google Pixel phones until they sent me a "wanna celebrate destroying the lives of trans people" as a system update.

Android Pixel system update screen, showing Harry Potter customizations as a bullet point.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

- I saw Fran Lebowitz speak earlier this year & she talked about how Oprah might have encouraged a lot of people to get into reading but she did so by referring to books as mirrors where you should see yourself reflected RATHER than viewing books as windows into the experiences of others.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sagae City’s mascot is Cherrin, a cherry fairy with cherries on her head. Her scarf is made of soba noodles, and on her belly is the city flower, the azalea.

A mascot with big eyes, rosy cheeks, and two giant cherries on her head, is standing in a convention centre.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Never forget that Frank Oz believes the stress of dealing with Disney's initial, relentless attempts to buy his creations is what killed Jim Henson. "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick," he told The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...

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Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me’

He played some of the most memorable characters of all time on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street - then became a brilliant comedy director. What is he most proud of?

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ok i am officially logged into and attending one of the very few or possibly the only known ham radio classes for WOMEN run right here in oregon!

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Xingcat @xingcat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My art is the cover of another @nemesisvexmusic.bsky.social single! Check out this one, which is very rock-heavy (to my ears). Thanks, Greg! nemesisvex.bandcamp.com/album/hide-d...

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Hide Don't Seek, by Nemesis Vex

3 track album

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Steven Spielberg wears a respirator while being interviewed outside the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on September 19, 2026. Respiratory protection doesn’t have to be unusual or disruptive. For many people, it remains a simple, everyday way to reduce the risk of airborne (...)

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pointing and laughing at people who created a community to try and protect the disabled and chronically ill is not allyship actually.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 23/09/2026

at least it is apparently not just me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

a screenshot you can tell is wikipedia reads:

"Early PHP was never intended to be a new programming language; rather, it grew organically, with Lerdorf noting in retrospect: "I don't know how to stop it [...] there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language [...] I just kept"

i cut it off there

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/09/2026

The basic message to NYU Langone.

Person holding a handmade sign reading DON'T ILLEGALLY STOP KIDS' CARE FOR FUCK'S SAKE over a trans flag.

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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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Jette @jette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

prev RT: I saw the red carpet pix from this event and actually quite a lot of women were there! They just didn't qualify for the Sausage Party Prestige Filmmaker photo op.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just going to casually have this image from the Lucas Museum projected when my students walk into “Women Filmmakers” class tomorrow and see what happens

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jack Haven! So rad in QUEENS OF THE DEAD and I SAW THE TV GLOW! I know producers follow me; hire Jack! If you hire Jack on a union horror gig in the time frame they need, I guarantee magazine coverage, if that entices you at all… youtu.be/tqB5YbeelFU?...

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Are You Casting?

YouTube video by Jack Haven

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Jette @jette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reading this. Feeling very very tired.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know it sounds bad that Gavin Newsom sold out California so Larry Ellison can buy about half of the entire American entertainment industry but to be fair to Newsom, half of that is actually going to be bought by Saudi Arabia

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