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ceej @ceej.online · 03/10/2024

Zombie fiction is, at its core, about the fear of seeing your own body age and decay. Ghost stories are about the impossibility of grappling with the past. Vampires are about what if you got so horny you died

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 18h

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps.
1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says:
"Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!"
2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says "Good ol' Charlie Brown...yes, sir!"
3rd panel: "Good ol' Charlie Brown..."
4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, "How I hate him!"

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 17h

On this day, Oct. 2, 1984, Twin/Tone Records released the Replacements’ “Let It Be” album and rooftop photo. Fans who for six weeks had been spinning the “I Will Dare” single relentlessly finally got to hear the full new LP, which has come to be considered an all-timer @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social

REPLACEMENTS
LET IT BE
released: October 2, 1984
Twin/Tone Records - TTR 8441

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 8h

Happy Anniversary to all who celebrate.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Michael Oosterom @michaeloosterom.bsky.social · 7h

well these two certainly deserve each other

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15h

That would be much more useful than learning how to do-si-do.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just called us "Homey Sapiens" as a typo in my book, wake up babe, new species name just dropped

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sid @sidvicious.ca · 02/10/2026

i bring you love

a drawing of mr Burns as the alien in the Simpsons episode but in sids style

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable

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Michael Oosterom @michaeloosterom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

felt cute might delete later (Philippe de Champaigne's Vanitas)

The memento mori painting "Vanitas" by Philippe de Champaigne, which shows, left to right, a flower in a vase, a human skull facing the viewer, and an hour glass.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s really great that Eric Schmitt wasted everyone’s time because he can’t tell the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes, meanwhile people in Missouri are struggling to pay for utilities, gas, groceries, housing, and child care.

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 29/09/2026

Design for a flying machine, 1488 #davinci #earlyrenaissance

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Movement to Abolish ICE Is Gaining Momentum As activists rally around federal legislation to dismantle ICE, Amnesty International joins the call for abolition. truthout.org/articles/the...

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The Movement to Abolish ICE Is Gaining Momentum

As activists rally around federal legislation to dismantle ICE, Amnesty International joins the call for abolition.

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Aaron D. Proctor @racetoperu.neocities.org · 29/09/2026

Again, Go Birds.

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Little Astros Fella @greggiefella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Monday Night Football’s national anthem is being performed by an excellent mariachi band and the worst people you know are having a stroke. #eagles #mnf

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Michael Oosterom @michaeloosterom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have not heard "Choosin' Texas" but I've heard this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTZa...

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Bryan Andrews - Yeehaw

YouTube video by BryanAndrewsVEVO

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BTW, if you'd love to hear some country that absolutely rips, Bryan Andrews is the Outlaw Country artist for the Bluesky crowd. I've had this on my driving playlist all summer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTZa...

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Bryan Andrews - Yeehaw

YouTube video by BryanAndrewsVEVO

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

from “Eros Thanatos – ein Totentanz” series —Arminius Hasemann, 1921

Black and white art. I think it's a woodcut. a nightclub where the audience embraces each other or watches the stage where a musician in a tuxedo plays the violin. the musician has a skull head and skeletal hands. he is playing the dance of death

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.

Each detention unit would sit on asphalt or concrete behind an office's existing security fence, with a counter for processing people and a separate holding area fitted with a toilet and sink for detainees according to the draft work statement.
The agency also wants a 300-square-foot unit for interviewing people in custody and a 60-square-foot "Virtual Immigration Court Unit" for hearings run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that operates the immigration courts.
Both must also be designed for their purpose before delivery.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Never be afraid to be silly. Jim Henson took great delight in Muppets blowing up or devouring each other. There is beauty in absurdity and hilarity. Indulge it.

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The Muppets "Glow-Worm" on The Ed Sullivan Show

YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 25/09/2026

2001: A space Odyssey (1968): Orion III Spaceplane & Space Station V, art by Robert T. McCall

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Accurate🤔...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026

NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...

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Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com

EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...

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BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Last Judgment - Central

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW @thequietus.com FOLK COLUMN This edition of my seasonal guide to experimental folk features a report from Supertraditional Fest in the batshit environs of Skansen exploring international weirdo trad solidarity. Plus reviews of 10 excellent new records including Spanish electroclash bagpipes

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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Autumn, by Patrick Clarke | The Quietus

Before we begin, I can’t recommend enough that any England-based readers catch La Tène and Sourdure, two outliers of the French radical folk scene, at their forthcoming Cafe OTO show this Saturday (26...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ICE public affairs responds to local journalist @author_natalie about the Sunday shooting of Wilbur Garces Perez. Cartoonish levels of dehumanization.

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Chronically Curious @hcsnemnenihcsam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The First Deepfake Was Built in 1927: What a Century-Old Robot Still Has to Tell Us About AI substack.com/home/post/p-... #Maschinenmensch #MaschinenmenschMandate #Metropolis #AI

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The First Deepfake Was Built in 1927

What a Century-Old Robot Still Has to Tell Us About AI

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Michael Oosterom @michaeloosterom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Love this BTS photo. Brigitte Helm on the set of #Metropolis (1927) dressed as the #Maschinenmensch

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Update on the condition of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at the South Texas Ice Processing Center. He’s being taken to the hospital. He is in tremendous pain and tells us that the bullet is still inside his left side. He can’t move the left side of his body.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

42 years ago this month, September 1984, fans of a nascent musical subgenre called "college rock" were hearing a new Replacements song—"I Will Dare"—off a Twin/Tone Records 12" single that was fast becoming the Mats' first truly breakthrough release, weeks before the full "Let It Be" album came out.

Record cover says: The Replacements. I will dare. 12 inch 45. And a black and white photo is an alternate image of the band members sitting on a porch roof that was later on the cover of the album Let It Be

The back cover lists two b-side songs: 20th Century Boy by T. Rex, and Hey Good Lookin' by Hank Williams (Live). Along with the a side: I will dare

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Damning new reporting on the breadth of Trump's deportation operation that follows up on two scoops from The Handbasket last year: the State Department's creation of the Office of Remigration and monetary agreements with "third countries" to accept refugees from elsewhere.

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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation

Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We’re just normal men

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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@hcrichardson.bsky.social offers an excellent take on Bacon's Rebellion on the anniversary of the burning of Jamestown. This one has special meaning for me as I'm a descendant of John Ingram who became the leader when Bacon died. He was hung when the rebellion failed. youtu.be/VXtAWUihfCU?...

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Austin TX live presser, mayor starts by saying Austin PD not involved--but says they were blocking off streets. Boxing somebody in who then gets shot is most definitely "involved."

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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