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MikeStan

@mikestan.bsky.social
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I used to make sure your images were in focus. Now I just tinker and teach your college student how to keep things in focus.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A racist billionaire with a pedophile-enabling robot is bankrolling the gop and the democrats won’t say anything about it
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
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Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Somewhere, Maris Crane is weeping while coyly hiding behind a bread stick.
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm here for miracles. Cubs rallying to win? Sure, fine, whatever. Someone managing to sneak in a dildo and hit Kershaw in the face with it? That's my beautiful dream.
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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dazzle (Radio Shack VHS) [NO SOUND] : 2461s
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This seems... Not good!
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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.
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animal from the international network @animalonline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Using your UN spot in the US to attack a US politician in defense of your genocide. Truly ignominious moment for the fiction that is the international rules based order
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Man I really hate that seeing Pete getting to 40/40 made me that emotional. Good for you, PCA.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
reason.com
Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"What continues to be galling is how Republican candidates act surprised when a third party points out there’s a Nazi in their midst. And even mainstream media continues to treat it like a bug rather than a feature."
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rich people don't want anyone telling them they can't have their emotional support massacres.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"60 Minutes. More like 60 viewers!"
Statler and waldorf
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this shit does not work on me. go try it on the centrists who call trans women "biological men."
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
25 years of tech reporters not knowing what they were looking at, so the SV guys who gave them the most access got written up as geniuses because those stories allowed them to continue getting paid as tech reporters. And now we're here. Hucksters baiting dummies is the model because it's worked well
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If this happened to me, I would be in traction for a month.
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When 'power pitching' meant throwing 95-96 mph, it was novel and fun. Now, because of the optimization craze, it means 100 mph and it's incredibly boring.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good for the Chicago Sun Times. It's just CONSTANT demagoguery by politicians. chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
chicago.suntimes.com
Mayoral candidates decry Chicago violence ‘crisis,’ even as summer murders hit 61-year low
Chicago had 122 murders in June, July and August, the lowest summer total since 1965, according to city and police data. But in their mayoral quests, candidates keep stoking public anxiety about viole...
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Sami @samitron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rest in peace to a genuine icon and hero
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Y'know what... If every story about AI and robotics right now ended with them running full speed into a wall and crumbling to pieces, I'd be fine with it.
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Philippe, an anthropomorphized otter from the web comic Achewood, screams in horror as he drops to his knees.
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hot take. Anything with triple digits should be an automatic ball.
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
static.klipy.com
Tombstone: Well Bye
ALT: Tombstone: Well Bye
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NASCAR won’t be returning to the streets of downtown Chicago next summer, as it announced plans to once again run three days of races at the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet. to.wttw.com/4gF81ba
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NASCAR Won’t Return to Chicago in 2027, With Events Staying at Suburban Chicagoland Speedway
NASCAR won’t be returning to the streets of downtown Chicago next summer, as it announced plans to once again run three days of races at the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet.
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“As deadly firestorms raged in Los Angeles County bets online were rolling in. How fast would the blazes grow? How long would it take to contain them? How much would be destroyed? “That was fun. Thanks everyone. Until the next time!” one Polymarket user commented.” www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
'That was fun.' As L.A. burned, online gamblers bet on how much the fires would destroy
While Southern California was burning in January 2025, people online were placing money on potential outcomes. Experts say the possibility of making money on disasters can create dangerous incentives.
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HEALTH @health.band · 15/08/2026
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17/08/2026
Pope Leo has joined those condemning escalating Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, as settlers and soldiers continue to attack civilians, besiege families and block aid.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Cheering for military jets to fly by a baseball game is such weak, loser shit, man. There are so many better things to waste taxpayer money on.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 30/08/2025
As Broadview PD arrested activists, a priest on his knees with rosary in hand pled with ICE agents and prayed for them. He was eventually dragged out of the way of the vans.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026
My hardest battle rn is figuring out how Stephen Miller reconciles his eugenicist positions with the fact that he looks like a thoroughbred ghoulish butler & the only conclusion I can come to is that due to the concentration of demonblood he is genetically unable to cast a reflection in the mirror.
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Valerie Valkyrie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Personally, as a trans person who is a long-time WNBA fan, y'all gotta stop worrying about this. There's nothing you can do about shitty people being shitty. Stand on business, defend trans people, don't let the bigots think they are normal or right or accepted. The rest is out of your control.
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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 08/08/2026
the media in this country treats bigotry coming from a place of fear as a valid public position. eventually this leads you to the ludicrous place where “the muslim mayor of new york city shouldn’t attend the 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11” is treated as newsworthy opinion
"This guy, I think, is just an in-your-face type of guy that — for lack of a better word — enjoys this kind of controversy.
I'm just not in favor of him being around, so if he didn't come, I'd say great, we would go. But if he's going to come, I would venture to say a lot of people might not go," said Hughes, who is now retired and lives on Long Island.
The grieving father said he disagrees with Mamdani's politics and expressed anger toward the mayor. "Just the thought of him there rubs me the wrong way," he said.
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Your Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I shit a lot on the Phantom Menace, but it did accurately predict how most journalists would react to fascism
One of the Trade Federation guys from Star Wars. He looks like a frog who got depressed and tried to fill the void inside with money and statement jewelry. He's talking to a holographic Palpatine; we can only see the back of his hoodie, but he still looks evil as hell. The Trade Federation guy has his head cocked to a slight angle like a confused dog. Caption: "My lord, is that legal?"
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I will never forget waking up at 3am every morning as they turned the floodlights on outside to place more bodies into the mobile morgue outside my window. Everyone’s beloved dead, stacked nightly like so much excess, while the waking city was a claustrophobic nightmare. Never.
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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 28/07/2026
when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts.
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
This is ... horrific
lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them usina industrial- grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors' books to train its Al
This process took advantage of a egal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder's say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physicak texts into digital ones - rather than redistributing them as new copies a iudqe found this to be "transformative." and therefore
protected by fair useOne small book seller said that in April, he suddenly went from selling no more than 20 books a week to hundreds. and he's almost certain that the customers are Al labs. noting the random selection of the books and how they all have ISBNs He added that his inventory is full with rare and out of print books. meaning that an Al company could be destroying some of the few remaining copies that can be found
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I cannot believe Ari Emanuel would write this and @wsj.com would publish it without disclosing that they are business partners, and Ari’s company TKO got $7 billion from David Ellison’s Paramount for UFC rights. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
wsj.com
Opinion | The Paramount-Warner Merger Could Save Hollywood
California’s attorney general ignores the reality of competition in the entertainment business.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
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MikeStan @mikestan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I loved cicadas as a kid and somehow discovering Neon Genesis Evangelion made being immersed in their cacophony even cooler.
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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Star Trek VCR Board Game (1994) : 5s
Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 5 seconds.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 16/07/2026
beginning to suspect building society atop "what's in it for me?" was a misstep
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