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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/10/2025
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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Marcelo Córdova @marcelocordova.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
RIP Drew Struzan
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹 This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨ Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌 youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...
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No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko​
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22/09/2025
Sigourney Weaver is really The Space Sci-Fi Queen.
Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979)Sigourney Weaver in Galaxy Quest (1999)Sigourney Weaver in Avatar (2009)Sigourney Weaver in Wall-E (2008)
No, seriously.
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I AM SCREAMING THIS IS SO GOOD
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Stephen Colbert's Emmys acceptance speech: "I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15/09/2025
Dan Gilroy won the #Emmy award for best writing for a drama series for "Andor," which brought untold stories of trauma and humanity to "Star Wars."
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'Andor' is ending. It brought untold stories of trauma and humanity to 'Star Wars'
“Andor” ends with the release of a three-episode series finale on Tuesday. The Disney+ streaming show took “Star Wars" to previously unexplored places, including depiction of the long-term effects of trauma.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If your peace requires silence about injustice, then it is not peace. It’s privilege.
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Catrina, CEO of Ventress @ohcatrina.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If you haven’t read Bloodline PLEASE do yourself a favor and READ IT!!!
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Adam Lance Garcia @adamlancegarcia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I have said it many times but The High Republic represents everything I love about Star Wars. It is expansionary, adding new context to the galaxy, built around the central idea that hope burns even in the darkest of nights. Everyone involved with this initiative deserves this victory lap.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
She is talking about the second largest city in America. This is how she views millions of Americans. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/dhs...
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DHS Secretary Noem on Los Angeles: ‘They’re a City of Criminals’
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem deemed Los Angeles "a city of criminals" as protests continued on Monday night.
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erinscafe @erinscafe.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Any post-bubble streaming show now is pretty much a miracle.
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Cosmic Petal @cosmic-petal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Gotta keep calling this out now that we recognize the pattern. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Famous men’s toxic fandoms have become a tool for punishing women | Tayo Bero
From DDG to Tory Lanez, a male celebrity is accused of abuse – and his supporters reverse the roles of victim and offender
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Kelly Knox @kelly-knox.com · 14/05/2025
perfect casting is perfect
Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane in Superman
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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 13/05/2025
Ahead of tonight’s #Andor finale, I encourage you to take a minute (if you haven’t already) to read up on my analysis piece about the show’s driving theme of empathy and how it’s the real key to victory over darkness. #StarWars screenrant.com/star-wars-an...
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Empathy Is The Key To Andor: How One Theme Unites Every Single Character Arc, & Gives Star Wars' Best TV Show Its Power
The heart of Andor.
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Star Wars Explained @starwarsexplained.com · 11/05/2025
Happy Mother’s Day to our Star Wars Moms!
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Charles Chase @charles-chase.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"Are you enjoying your meal, sir?" "Yes, it's amazing!" "Splendid." *removes it from the menu*
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Noah @keldorjedi.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I can’t imagine witnessing the greatness of Andor, only to focus my energy on tearing down other Star Wars stories. Sounds like a miserable way of engaging with something you love.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Can't stop thinking about how ANDOR decided that the Star Wars universe canonically has trashy daytime talk shows and right-wing cable news
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Candace Kaw @candacekaw.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Reminder Rebels and Andor are two different mediums with different target audiences. It’s like comparing apples and jogan fruit. Both are amazing series in their own rights.
I just put that episode of Rebels on right after watching today's Andor episodes.
Listen, I love Rebels. But this was like having a steak dinner and then following it with a Slim Jim.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
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Scotty Holiday Star Wars @scottyholidaysw.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“The difference between what is said & what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.” - Mon Mothma #Andor
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
did lala steal this from the dean’s closet yes or yes
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
May the 4th be with you #starwarsday
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
He gives good interviews. Tony Gilroy in The Hollywood Reporter. Good bit here. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...
Interviewer: I recognize that some people want their preferred version of Star Wars so much that they'll jockey for position in any way they can, but shouldn't we all be rooting for a rising tide in that case? Success means we can all win and get what we want.

TG: Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me. If you love this thing, then the more variety in it, [the better]. You can't talk about the Star Wars community: it's not a monolithic thing at all. There's 25 different versions i nthere. But I do go online, particularly when we're going out to sell or there's something intense or we're getting into marketing and we're trying to figure out what to do. So I do go online and look, and most of it is fantastic. But every now and then, there's just someone saying something that's completely appalling. The people who speak with the most authority online are usually the people who know the least. That seems to be a pretty fair theorem. So I don't to piss anybody off by saying this, but it is a big tent, man. It's a big frickin' tent. It should be."
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Since we’re in a golden age of new Star Wars tv shows, I’ll again pitch “David Attenborough style nature documentaries but of fictional Star Wars creatures.” No empire. No Jedi. Like, what the Jedi would watch on tv to relax after a stressful mission.
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a black and white bird is standing in the grass
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Coachella — but a scarecrow doing an interpretive dance about recycling, a goat named Clarissa, and thousands of families lining up to see marionettes with more stage presence than frank ocean. The front row is mostly toddlers in fairy wings. #bobbakerday
A mother in a baseball cap and a father with an insane beard smiling next to a toddler in a stroller in a park
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Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It’s official: Stunt performers are getting their own Oscar, starting with 2028 show. Very hard faught win for stunt community and will add more blockbusters to the telecast…
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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm
To: Byron Preiss
Dear Byron,
Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the
first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above).
I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible.
One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again
whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the
States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the
way it is!
There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense.
Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every
single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that
Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay withare English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So
why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And
'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that
Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't
mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel
disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that
people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You
wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'.
There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a
generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to
"Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they
haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks
Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text
of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the
continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't
heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most
people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of
just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and
see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people
are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get
through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Tried to tell her that she’s going to have to get a job at the biscuit factory to help out now because of the tariffs. She didn’t take it well.
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His Skeletoncy, the Ghoul of Hell @timhodgson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.
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Heather Antos @heatherantos.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today's Headlines
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Introducing my daughter to the Lion King for the first time tonight. Will she handle the hyenas okay? Will I start crying at the music? Only time will tell.
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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Old enough to appreciate investing in good Tupperware, young enough to still lose the lids
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
hey so NO ONE TOLD ME that I would be crying my eyeballs out when I watched “Flow” omg I cried like five times???
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Levar Burton is going to be reading a book to my daughter today and the millennial in me NEEDS to put her in a rainbow shirt
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a pixel art of a man standing under a rainbow on a blue background
Alt: a gif of Levar Burton standing under a rainbow on a blue background from his TV show Reading Rainbow
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Told my 2.5 yr old she had to go pee before playing in the park so she looked me dead in the eyes, smiled, peed herself, and ran off. honestly respect
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
so I’ve seen these ads all around LA and genuinely thought it was an aggressive eyewear ad campaign until this very moment
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Last day at the office. I’ll still be remote for a bit, but cleaning out my in-person desk and saying my irl goodbyes has me in my feels. Thank you, Emmy. 🥰
Woman fondly looking at Emmy statuette at an office desk.
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE. (President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL
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SeanLikeConnery @seanlikeconnery.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
#Disney dropping two of the most consequential and relevant shows back to back on #DisneyPlus at this moment in time is desperately needed. #DaredevilBornAgain #Andor
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
hi! here’s a reintroduction for my new friends on here 🫶🏻 🙋‍♀️ name: kir manda 💻 work: television academy (aka the emmys) 💕 what I yap about: women, star wars, the future of tv, motherhood, pop culture, the occasional muppet ✨ kir-coded characters: jo march, hera syndulla, tonks, liz lemon, cj cregg
Professional headshot of a smiling woman in a maroon blazer against a blue background Laughing woman in a Star Wars pride shirt getting booed by Statler and Waldorf in Empire uniforms at Star Wars Celebration Super cool woman you should totally be friends with in a red and pink polka dot shirt (WITH HIDDEN MICKEYS), rainbow pride watch band, and white sunglasses she found at a gas stationDressed up woman in a green sparkly gown at the emmys sticking her tongue out bc she’s a millennial and can’t take normal pictures
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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
- Conclave cost $20m - The Substance* cost $18m - The Brutalist cost $10m - Anora cost $6m - Flow cost €3.5m - A Real Pain cost $3m - I’m Still Here cost $1.48m Really good Oscar year for modest and low budget indies
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Kir-coded characters
Winona Ryder as Jo March from Little Women eating an apple. Nymphadora Tonks looking elated and mischievous from the Harry Potter franchise. Rebecca Bunch doing her thing from the criminally underrated TV show My Crazy Ex Girlfriend. Shawn Spencer from Psych as the Kermit “but that’s none of my business” meme drinking a smoothie.
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
@tommystella.bsky.social happy birthday! 🎉
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van @vanconver.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
they’re my everything :3
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Kir Manda @kirmanda.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
ABOUT TIME
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Catrina, CEO of Ventress @ohcatrina.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The Emperor’s New Groove is a fantasy movie because a rich narcissist oligarch learns empathy by spending time with normal people. And also he gets turned into a llama
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