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Jillian Sauers

@jilliansauers.bsky.social
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Formerly MerakiRetreat and same name on twt. Combining lit nerd and fandom accts here. ko-fi.com/jilliansauers6075

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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 2h
one reason I'm running out of hard drive space is Windows keeps downloading AI bullshit and AI bullshit is also the reason I can't afford more hard drive space
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 6h
At least four possibly five
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 6h
I know I am about as biased as possible on this but go to an indie bookstore. An indie bookstore's vibes are the opposite of...all of this. You'll be surrounded by memories, stories, brave visions of the future that don't ignore our barbarous present. Your brain can be quiet AND full. Seriously.
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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 5h
Along with all the other obvious factors like “nobody can afford anything,” “the planet is boiling” & “you could be left to die in an ER parking lot if you have an ectopic pregnancy” this has to be yet another reason the birthrate keeps dropping
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 6h
There’s nothing I can post about this that won’t get me banned for life
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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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Lucia ✨🏴‍☠️🎨🏳️‍🌈✨ @citrussyndicate.bsky.social · 6h
If someone was going to win an award for being hot at privateering school, it’d be these two boyfriends 😌 #OFMDfanart #OFMD
A digital drawing of Stede Bonnet and Edward Teach from Our Flag Means Death. They’re posing beside large versions of the cake toppers Ed was obsessed with in s2e1 while he was missing Stede. The drawing is done in the style of a recent photo of Taika and Rhys at the Academy Museum where they were standing beside large Oscar Awards. Ed is gazing up at the figure in a pink suit, while Stede is pursing his lips and holding his glasses beside the figure wearing a blue dress. The stand for both figures says “Academy for Wayward Seaman” instead of “Academy Museum of Motion Pictures”
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aRealHumanBartender @alltomato1717.bsky.social · 8h
yes yes yes yea yes yes fuck YES
three men at a third ave sign from rhys darby’s IG
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 9h
if Trump posts a trans slur on Truth Social which is aimed at you, and you say anything other than "can you guys fucking believe the President of the United States is out here posting trans slurs on Truth Social, fuck him into the sun for all eternity," you have failed the most basic of all tests
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 8h
Ever had the feeling like you suddenly realized every crumb of perseverance & determination you ever scraped together the past mumblety years was actually being borrowed against your future resilience but the bill came due while you weren't looking & now both stores are depleted, or is that just me?
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8h
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 11h
Here’s what I do know. If someone white was doing half the stuff Blacksky has done in the last year, they’d be lauded as one of the most forward thinking and innovative people on the planet. But it just shows how progress is always happening, especially in places where folks don’t want to look
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Merryfinches 💕🌈 🏴‍☠️ @merryfinches.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2027 GENTLEBEARD CALENDAR IS FIIIIIIIIIIIRE! every piece of art is STUNNING! You’re gonna love it! Can you guess which month I got? 🌈🥰 @gbcalendar.bsky.social #shopofmd
Image says “2027 Gentlebeard calendar pre order from October 15-31’ and there is art of Ed and Stede laughing in front of a rainy sky and rainbow
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Jenn overboard! @self-induljennt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My pirates!! New stickers just went up along side recounted stock of my previous batch! These stickers help keep me afloat between comms so please share n scoop up some for yourself! It's such a big help to me. Thank yooou!! 🧡 ❇️ ko-fi.com/s/600e03d75f ❇️ #ofmd #OurFlagMeansDeath
Image showing three different pirate sticker designs of Ed and Stede from Our Flag Means Death. Ed is kissing Stede's shoulder freckles, Ed and Stede snuggling in their robes, and Ed is tiny and sitting on an apple.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm convinced this is why it got randomly mentioned on multiple TV shows not even on a WB-owned network the billionaires all got together at the weekly meeting
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ArchEmily🖤 @yerbamansa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
hey anyone got a line on just, like, creating an alternate reality where people who are good at doing stuff and making things do that in exchange for whatever currency is required to keep living and we do that in community or whatever and there's no encroachment of oligarch llm bullshit
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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My last day job was in civic tech, specifically tools for election admins to manage vote by mail, and this is very very not good
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 07/10/2026
Introducing Discussions - a new way to have conversations on Blacksky 🗣️ Now you can create a dynamic poll right from the post composer in the app to ask questions, get feedback, or to build community around any and every topic you find interesting.
Discussion example: Who was the villain in The Wire?
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SoupBeech @soupbeech.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Does bad photoshop count?
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SoupBeech @soupbeech.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Let me try that again…
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/10/2026
Joined @arimelber.bsky.social on MSNOW talk about the AI bubble, Treasuries and the growing cost of AI data center debt, and how Oracle and Paramount’s debt threatens Larry Ellison’s future.
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Al the Archer @wastingyourgum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This just popped up on my feed again and it suddenly hit me: the HFTW screening was arranged by the NZ cultural attaché?!? Murray?!? 😂
An edited screencap of an Instagram post by academymuseum with a picture of the recent Hunt for the Wilderpeople screening Q&A featuring Rhys Darby, Rima Te Wiata and Taika Waititi and text which says "Hunt for the Wilderpeople with Taika Waititi supported in part by New Zealand's Cultural Diplomacy International Programme. Academy Museum film programming is generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation."
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TallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Russel the Hedgehog #critterposting
Crude yellow and orange drawing of a yellow and orange hedgehog amidst a line of yellow and orange spikey leaves. Shaped like shapes.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026
All of them have connections with Epstein.
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moosh 🧜🏼‍♂️ @mooshy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
what do you MEAN he's doing a wwdits screening/q&a ON HALLOWEEN and i cannot attend???? 😫
screenshot of page for wwdits q&a with rhys
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🏴‍☠️ AH-Lee 🦇👻🎃 Something Witchy @orchid-explosion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
not the exact same plate but if anyone wants a more clear look at the design on it I found this!
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Lucia ✨🏴‍☠️🎨🏳️‍🌈✨ @citrussyndicate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Are you ready for a whole new year of Ed and Stede being hot together? 😌 #shopofmd
A teaser image of Stede and Ed for the 2027 Gentlebeard Calendar. Pre orders are open from October 15-31. There is a cropped version of my digital draw of Edward Teach and Stede Bonney from Out Flag Means Death at the bottom of the image. Stede hand is resting agains Ed’s cheek as they gaze into one another’s eyes.
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The Reluctant Rose @reluctantrose.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This little book and I have already kinda been through it, but WHAT IS A PIRATE? is finally out in the world! Thank you, beautiful Crew for all your support!!
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Gentlebeard Calendar @gbcalendar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pre-orders will open from October 15-31! I'm still working out the price, but it should be $25-$30 for the physical and $12 for digital. Proceeds will once again be donated to The Rainbow Railroad.
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petrichor #CrewForLife @gheyandwoke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
While in LA, @indarltonitrust.bsky.social and I met Tatiana Kazakova (lovingjimmorrison on insta), a production designer and art director for #OFMD. She signed my flag and shared these BTS pics, some of which she said she posted before but some may be new! We have the best cast/crew in the WORLD
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aloc @aloc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@gbcalendar.bsky.social 👀✨ #gentlebeardcalendar2027 #ofmdmerch #ofmd #edwardteach #gentlebeard
a preview of my contribution to gentlebeard calendar 2027
pre-orders: October 15-31
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 06/10/2026
everyone is selling the furniture and ripping the copper out of the walls to cash in on this period of utter lawlessness which they'll try to keep rolling long enough for Democrats to end up holding the bag for the inevitable meltdown
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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SoupBeech @soupbeech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
She is all of us.
Screenshot of Livy (Olivia) the seagull from OFMD right before calico jack gets cannonballed. In her eye, we see the reflection of Zaslav.
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A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Universal has a good opportunity to become the last standing dream factory. Lure away talent (like they did with Nolan), snatch up excised visionaries, become the alternative to the Skydance slop machine on the way.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Independent animation is going to be even more indispensable in the coming decade. Skydance is 100% shutting the taps off.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026
Dems are about to ride into power purely on the back of anger about How Things Are and ... then what? Are they going to be able to make things substantially better -- or rather, *feel* substantially better -- in the next two years? Just feels like short-term fury is the only force left.
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Lucy 🧜‍♂️🏴‍☠️ @butterscup95.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
DJ going off on Twitter like-
Izzy Hands holding open a piece of parchment that reads like Mean Girls. Text reads, “This man isthe nastist
Skank bitch I've ever met. Do NOT TRUST HIM. He is a Fugly slut!” followed by a photo of David Zaslav.
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Peter Paige @thepeterpaige.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s amazing to me that ANYONE lobbies against taxing the .1%. Are they thinking they’re gonna make a quick billion any day now and this would really fuck themselves over? SMDH. The psyop 80s politicians did on this country…
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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 06/10/2026
The Skydance takeover was unnecessary, and like the WBD merger before it, it benefits only a tiny number of people. It will upend the lives of thousands while contributing to the downfall of one of America's most prominent industries, all so one billionaire can try to make a bit more.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Democrats aren't abandoning trans people! Maybe just one or two..." Here's every Democrat who's either voted to strip human rights away from trans people and/or has campaigned on anti-trans propaganda in the last year.
Amy Acton
Jamie Ager
Colin Allred
Angela Alsobrooks
Tammy Baldwin
Beau Bayh
Xavier Becerra
Richard Blumenthal
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Sherrod Brown
Chris Coons
Catherine Cortez Masto
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Cleo Fields
Shomari Figures
Aaron Ford
Ruben Gallego
Sarah Trone Garriott
Blake Gendebien
Lauren Gillen
Kirsten Gillibrand
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Maggie Hassan
Martin Heinrich
John Hickenlooper
Mazie Hirono
Jeffrey Hulum III
Ben Ray Lujan
Tim Kaine
Marcy Kaptur
Mark Kelly
Angus King
Amy Klobuchar
Susie Lee
John Mannion
Seth Moulton 
Gavin Newsom 
Jon Ossoff
Mary Peltolta
Gary Peters
Bobby Pulido
Jack Reed
Jacky Rosen
Rob Sand
Kim Schrier
Chuck Schumer 
Terri Sewell
Jeanne Shaheen
Elissa Slotkin
Tom Suozzi
James Talarico 
Josh Turek
Eugene Vindman
Mark Warner
Raphael Warnock
Sheldon Whitehouse
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SoupBeech @soupbeech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bringing this back with mirth and aplomb.
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molly 🏴‍☠️🪴🌌🚀 @aproperpirate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
someone hire djenks to write the zaslav miniseries
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Haylezilla Minus Zero @heyhayley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Go offfff Dad
I was at my desk on the lot when Zaz released the "initial word mark" for Warner Brothers Discovery, complete with a quote from The Maltese Falcon.

It looked like an intern from 1993 put it together.David Jenkins @david_jenkin... 23m Beyond the collective cringe, everyone was trying to attach meaning. Was he just completely out of his depth? Did he actually have some affection for the history of the lot and this storied brand? And, if so, would that win out?



David Jenkins @david_jenkin... 19m Twenty minutes after "the word mark" debuted, we had a production meeting with our execs. Normally an upbeat bunch, they looked ashen. Hollowed out. They'd just come from a town hall hosted by the man himself. It was as if someone had a gun pointed at them from just off camera.



David Jenkins @david_jenkin... They kept their composure, and gave us our usual productive and insightful meeting. But it was clear whatever they'd just witnessed was demoralizing. At best. And we went back to our pirate ships to shoot the day's work on that gorgeous lot.



David Jenkins @david_jenkin... 10m And Zaslav got busy too. He spent a lot of time courting the town and playing mogul. He was seen at the Polo Lounge regularly, seemingly taking the temperature of the major players including Steven Spielberg. He made a show of it, kind of a listening tour. David Jenkins @david_jenkins_5m

But it was clear pretty quickly this man was playing dress up. Like his initial wordmark, this was a fantasy he was living out. He put down his money, and he got to play entertainment mogul. Literally while living in Robert Evans' old house, which he'd purchased the year before.


David Jenkins @david_jenkins__2m

Of course, the only reason Zaslav's ownership was possible is the company was billions of dollars in debt from the AT&T days. As much of a piker as he seemed to be, he was a piker with money. A symptom, really. These kinds of symptoms appear when a company is truly sick.
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SoupBeech @soupbeech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That “every universe” thing is no joke.
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Andy @ndy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The percentage of my 4k collection that could be described as “bought this because I don’t trust Zas to keep it in circulation” is shockingly high.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
You can’t watch the show where Evan Rachel Wood transitioned from Tradwife to Infinite Ammo Lady & also Thandiwe Newton was Info Broker Courtesan Turned Ninja Sword Lady aka A Thing We Love & Tessa Thompson dressed Like This and it also had Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris & Jeffry Wright cuz of Zazlav
Evan Rachel Wood in a black sneaking holding a huge modern rifle of some type with a You’re Already Dead look in her eyes Thandiwe Newton in a black sneaking suit looking stoic but suspicious with a sword on her back Tessa Thompson in a very cool cherry blossom pants suit with a modern cut in the sport coat
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