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Christ I hate posting about social issues here, immediately have to think of 17 different bad faith readings to anticipate

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Please don’t misinterpret this to mean “let people decide if they want to care about trans people.” This statement is predicated on the idea that caring about others is something that comes naturally to us, and knowing that right-wing attacks on trans people are wildly unpopular.

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A lot of my responses to stuff like this is informed by knowing what it takes to leave cults and abusive environments and while that sounds extreme the work of changing hearts and minds is fundamentally the same. You have to give people the runway to make the decision for themself

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 8h

I think it’s morally correct to boycott/object to HP but I think that requires a strategy beyond performing outrage at every mention of the brand. you can just…use these opportunities to inform people that JK Rowling actively funds the persecution of trans people, a very sensible thing to oppose

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it’s Philly film fest lineup day, one of the best days of the year

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 22h

god grant me the serenity to accept the bags I have already fumbled, the courage to fumble bags as i type this, and the wisdom to know that i am really goof at fumbling bags

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Heartworm is really goddamn cool and it does some wild rear window-type shit with flash photography in the game

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GOOD AT jfc do you see what I mean I am s-tier at this shit

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god grant me the serenity to accept the bags I have already fumbled, the courage to fumble bags as i type this, and the wisdom to know that i am really goof at fumbling bags

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026

turning to dust as I open a writing sample I sent off months ago and immediately find a typo in it

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sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can get in trouble thinking you are smarter than the app! Ask me how I know!

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willow @fireatwillow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(dragon’s dogma pawn at the grocery store) ‘tis an item we require in every aisle! a divide and conquer scenario would work best, seems

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RIP to Eva Marie Saint, a lady with a nose for bullshit www.avclub.com/from-on-the-...

Don't Come Knocking (2005)-"Howard's
Motheri
EMS: I loved-did you see that?
AVC: I did, yes.
EMS: Did you like it?
AVC: I did.
EMS: Now wait a minute. Can we get a little more enthusiasm?
AVC: Sure. It's a great movie!
EMS: Now you're going too far. It's not a great movie. You can't win with me today.
[Laughs.]

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“Oop! [does saquon jump] appreciate you!”

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Baldwin and Wahlberg having an endless stream of conversations with themselves is so much fun

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Dave Sund @davesund.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

what if I have TWO apples a day, doc? what then, jackass?

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To date I think this was the best fictional portrayal of post 9/11 or Iraq War politics and dynamics.

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This, to me, is what movies are about

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bumping as go time approaches!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

take her out to Bennigan’s, see if they cook chops right

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Thousands of Cornell students have taken over the main plaza on campus to demand the Cornell 7 be held accountable for their crimes. 21% of undergraduate women are raped or sexual assaulted during their time on campus.

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Right and the show so strongly suggests that everyone is suspect or lying so I never know what anyone is supposed to take as the truth, if at all

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The Lanterns and the Guardians are all suspect in the show, but they do not have a strong presence. A major weakness is that you do not know if the Lanterns and Guardians all suck, or just these two.

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Tom King has this line where he says “Lanterns are cops, John Stewart is a superhero” This is really compelling! And I do not feel it is really expressed in the show!

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Man they must have felt like geniuses sending them to the 70s. Just the funniest punt in hindsight. Great season though

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Yeah once they kinda decided to sever the mythology knot with the Jacob/man and black struggle it starts to do the far more interesting work of scrambling to give as many characters as possible worthwhile endings

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Please do not shoot the messenger, I am not saying this is correct or just but: one can’t stress enough how little people at this level care about video games. Like we already know how little the executives whose job it is to make games care about them. Their bosses even less!

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

honestly, it will probably be weeks before skydance realizes it has purchased a games publisher

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I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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lol hell yeah, Bouie has moved on to The Hard Stuff

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

do you have any idea how over-indexed the animation industry is on Dee Bradley Baker. whole thing would collapse if he suddenly couldn’t make weird little noises on demand anymore

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never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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I will probably just throw it up on my blog but if you are an editor type interested in a personal essay tied to Pan’s Labyrinth for the re-release this weekend let me know!

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the most stressful part of con prep is figuring out a bag situation that you can live out of for a weekend and also haul around a convention center all day

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Had the pleasure of copy editing this feature, which contains a funny anecdote from Shawn Layden about the time he inadvertently trolled Vib-Ribbon fans from the E3 stage and then had to get Sony to port the game to PS3/PSP (for what would be its debut in North America, 15 years after launch)

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I will probably just throw it up on my blog but if you are an editor type interested in a personal essay tied to Pan’s Labyrinth for the re-release this weekend let me know!

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If you take the show’s world building seriously, Rushville is a cult in the thrall of an alien and they just…get over it? Get mad at Hal instead?

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Ok after an espresso or three

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