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Joe Bandy

@joebandy.bsky.social
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Dad, leftist, cinephile and some other stuff. Here for the vibes and solidarity. Opinions my own. he/him boxd.it/iCU9

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Joe Bandy @joebandy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I genuinely don't understand how Lanterns made it to air. So much potential with the cast and premise and they fumbled basically all of it. Cheap and inconsistent. The arcs are vague, there's almost no action. A green lantern show with no constructs is just a waste of everyone's time. Inexcusable.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the state farm commercials with ludacris make me want to go on some kind of spree
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026
Vacationing Man Excited To Try Fast Food Franchise Not Found In Hometown theonion.com/vacationing-man-excite…
Vacationing Man Excited To Try Fast Food Franchise Not Found In Hometown
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HBO MaXXXinoparsnip @dekkoparsnip2.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Guy who has only seen Boss Baby in the Criterion Closet: fuck
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i saw some commentary on here about how one never sees Charlie Kirk anymore in a serious context, and it made me feel the need to take y’all on a short walk through the halls of congress one year after his death i only made it past about half of their offices bc I only had like 40 mins at lunch but
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm sure there's a clip of Republican Senator Ted Cruz pausing his speech to say, no, these Democratic officials should *not* be shot and I disavow and denounce the Republican in the audience who is calling for assassinations at a Republican political event.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.
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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
 * Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
 * Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anthropic employee: I resign from anthropic, anthropic are acting immorally and it is critical that their business should be stopped by any means necessary Twitter: this is marketing for anthropic
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Joe Bandy @joebandy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The persistent belief by many on this site that you can't trust any of these warnings because they're either a) marketing or b) from someone with AI psychosis, is concerning. If everyone who uses the tech is inherently untrustworthy, how do you expect to have any insight to its capabilities?
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The best example of gender is how the guys most likely to have uttered the phrase "god made man, Sam Colt made them equal" also have very strong opinions on women in the military
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 02/09/2026
OMG
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Disaster Girl Meme: Pirómano
ALT: Disaster Girl Meme: Pirómano
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Joe Bandy @joebandy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Lanterns is fantastic when it's actually the "Aaron Pierre/Kyle Chandler space true detective" show it was hyped as. Unfortunately, they're spending a whole lot of time away from that premise.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
What Black people think does not matter to them, how Black people have used the term and how we understand it does not matter to them. They don’t have any use for the opinions of Black people because they don’t think Black people’s thoughts hold any value.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What gets me about these sorts of incidents is that they illustrate how many people are using AI for COMPLETELY USELESS purposes. There are already a million US maps and periodic tables! You can get them anywhere! What conceivable reason is there to have an LLM make one? It doesn't even save effort!
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'Venecky' instead of Kentucky: JCPS middle school parents suspect school agendas are AI-generated
A Farnsley Middle School parent found bizarre errors in student agendas, prompting JCPS to warn families.
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 19/08/2026
The difficulty level of the one-two-punch of "X-Men: First Class" (re-cast prequel!) and "X-Men: Days of Future Past" (mixing old and new casts+time travel!) cannot be understated. The fact that these two movies are as good as they are is something special.
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Joe Bandy @joebandy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sorry but the @jamellebouie.net lecture on Star Wars is indistinguishable from any other whiny "fan" rant. Self contradictory, objectively wrong on more than a few counts, and ignores a ton of things that go against the argument. Why are people so irrational about this series? youtu.be/K0FbfwCEiRI
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How to make a good Star Wars movie for once
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Any update on this?
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Joe Bandy @joebandy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Some dumbass posting on Reddit does not constitute a full discourse cycle. This is Threads behavior.
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Joe Bandy @joebandy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The treatment of the female characters on House of the Dragon is so egregious. Cannot believe how they handled Rhaenyra this season, and Alicent is barely a character now.
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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I hate, hate these pervert glasses. Listen to this guy interrupting the filming of Cunk on Cinema. What an entitled dick.
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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Imagine Stephen King, circa 1997, putting out daily press releases promoting his anti-gay org while publishing horror books as Richard Bachman. Imagine George Lucas, circa 2007, announcing a billion dollar fund for anti-Muslim lawsuits, then launching 'The Clone Wars.' This is J.K. Rowling today.
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Joe Bandy @joebandy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Skeptical of the amount of people who get a lot of viral posts on here by sharing screenshots of dumbass twitter antics. It's helpful to know about sometimes, but a major reason of leaving that site was to stop platforming bigotry. Quit bringing it here!
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
He will be asked to disavow to this about a thousand times more than Trump will be asked to justify denying federal aid to places that didn't vote for him.
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 08/08/2026
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/08/2026
years and years of “actually the president doesn’t have that much power to directly affect the economy” and damned if donald trump hasn’t managed to turn that thing right around
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 07/08/2026
All told, the U.S. economy has added 542,000 jobs over Trump’s 19-month second term. Over the previous 19 months, the economy added over 2.7 million jobs. To date, the White House hasn’t even tried to explain why the job market worsened after Trump took office. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
JD Vance calls for Trump to be imprisoned
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
At the time, medical authorities said "If any of this works, it'll look like we overreacted," and yep, here we are.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 05/08/2026
Takes like this are very tempting but IMO go too far. The polling miss last night was historically exactly average for a primary — no evidence polls have gotten worse recently. And remember 2022 had the most accurate House and Senate polls in history! bsky.app/profile/gell...
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Don't say the new generation isn't educated. My son is playing laser tag with some friends and he just shouted "I LET YOU KNOW I WAS COMING. I'M ODYSSEUS, BRO."
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
wow, i was not expecting to be blocked by @kenjennings.bsky.social over this. We’ve previously interacted in friendly ways, so i reached out in good faith & not trying to drag him. I was giving the benefit of the doubt that maybe his transphobic behavior was unintended. really disappointing.
Ken Jennings - @kenjennings.bsky.social
Muted by "A Very British Bigotry"
User Blocking You
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.”

“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”
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gwen 🌶️👹 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 04/08/2026
i do not care if he personally asked people or not ( i doubt he did) but this is what happens to trans people any time a famous person treats us like shit. on here. this is harassment and it is ken's responsibility to do something about it.
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The Brad That Dreaded Sundown @bradmilne79.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This sentient Will Ferrell SNL sketch has honestly gotta be stopped.
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Tawni Monster Mash-all @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'm always dumbfounded when people are like "a trans player could take away a scholarship and an opportunity for a cis girl to go to college" because, basing educational opportunity on how good someone is at a game seems like the bigger problem to me.
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Joe Bandy @joebandy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is like saying LOTR is a singularly resonant fantasy story, or Star Trek a singularly resonant sci-fi. Spidey is the defintional superhero. The record breaking success of his movies is WHY we have an MCU.
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Joe Bandy @joebandy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
*except* by the civilians on the boat who refused to play his game. Always an important qualifier. Gotham saves itself, Batman wasn't at all involved in their ordeal.
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Joe Bandy @joebandy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Remember a few weeks ago when The Odyssey was doing well and people were saying it's because audiences are desperate for original movies and tactile filmmaking? lol
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/08/2026
This goes beyond cringe to some whole other category for which we don't even have a name. We need our best scientists on this.
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Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure
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