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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

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James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

2001: The Martin Balsam Cut

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.

Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/08/2026

Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

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A New World Of Andrew Todds And Monsters @andrewtodd.co.nz · 13/07/2026

You don't get to use the term "national treasure" much in New Zealand - there's just objectively not many of us around - but Sam Neill was kind of the Platonic ideal of that term.

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A New World Of Andrew Todds And Monsters @andrewtodd.co.nz · 13/07/2026

Live your life in such a way that some kid who you said some encouraging words to one day cries when you die

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Dylan Cheung @dylancheung.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

RIP Tony Rayns, one of the few English-language critics who genuinely knew what they were talking about (most of the time) when it came to East Asian cinema, especially Hong Kong's.

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Tim 🎃wens @attimowens.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This was the best they could do for our 250th birthday.

A temporary structure on the Mall meant to resemble Pharoah's planned arch. Instead it looks like lowest-bid Temu Minecraft. Three goons in body armor swelter at its wrinkly-vinyl base.

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Name a film with a title that is a full sentence

"Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's hung you in the closet and I'm feeling so sad"

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 16/06/2026

On Space: 1999's Eagle: Brian Johnson: "It's a well known fact that anything mechanical that captures people's eye, I think anyway, like Concorde or devices like that, are very insect like. And so to make this really believable, I made this insect like as well. Not that I wanted to..."🔽

Brian Johnson and Sylvia Anderson stand on a dark studio set holding miniature Eagle models of three different sizes, with a large prop moon visible in the background.

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

As a kid there were two special effects dudes I knew by name: John dykstra and this badass. He's going to heaven for the Eagle alone, but Space:1999 was full of incredible spaceships and FX on a weekly basis. RIP King 👑🚀

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JIMBO-SOLAR @jimbo-solar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Some extremely sad news today folks. Multi OSCAR and award winning VFX legend, Brian Johnson has died. Stingray, Thunderbirds, 2001, Alien, Star Wars and so much more. I met him quite a few times, shared a show table and dinner once or twice. An absolute influence to many. RIP Brian. So long.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ed Martin has made it clear that the whole operation is essentially a bank robbery. The bank is the US Treasury. And the beneficiaries are Trump's entourage and others he things will join a future Trump led insurgency. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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DOJ official told GOP ally that big payouts were coming for Jan. 6 defendants

Months before the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund was announced, Ed Martin predicted Capitol rioters would get millions, even if it took until 2028, two people told NBC News.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My 11-yo, raised on superheroes, just wept over a 28-year-old disaster flick & 'Project Hail Mary'. Not for the spectacle, but for the awe of ordinary people facing the impossible with courage. Is this how we save Hollywood? Watch/Listen/Read to this 5AM StoryTalk ep at links in bio/first comment!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

*I was a child in the 1960s the last time there was this much focussed hostility toward computation per se

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

But Lord Donald … what about the hardest times in my life? … then, in the midst of my deepest struggle, there was only one set of footprints …. Trump Christ: Yeah I don’t walk with losers

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

In 1938 the only route to a nonmilitary outcome was if the German people could have removed AH from power somehow. But they couldn't/didn't want to. The rest was inevitable. That's where the world is, once again.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"The president is depleting the military and wrecking the economy so he can watch a fresh 2-minute reel of snuff films every day" is the kind of thing that should demand Congress step in and reassert control over foreign policy, and in a parliament would mean a snap election or collapsed government.

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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 01/03/2026

"When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite." — Sergio Leone.

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I've never rooted so hard for cancer. Go cancer! This is your potential moment for a legendary hero turn

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A more vile and despicable creature does not walk the earth. I hope hell just heated up another thousand degrees for his arrival.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I know that Trump's death won't magically fix everything but I do think that the collective wave of global joy that when we all get the news will be powerful enough to at least save an endangered species of something

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Fifty-one years ago today.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

bruh we talk about a decade of humiliation and economic ruin lead to Germany embracing naziism and then it's like what was our national humiliation? we elected a black guy president

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

musk unveils new grok slogan

A cartoon of Elon Musk unveiling a new Grok slogan which reads “Grok. Putting The AI in Nazi”

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

ICE now has a larger budget than Russia's entire army. Skyrocketing debt to give billionaires tax breaks. Millions losing their healthcare and food assistance programs. More concentration camps being built. America isn't becoming a fascist state. It is one.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States. It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps. It’s fascism.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

what a stupid presidency, what a stupid fucking war

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I for one I think it's cool and good that the largest engine of speculative wealth in America went all in on robots that lie to you to tell you what you want to hear just in time for people to be coming to terms with the tremendous social alienation and loss that was the pandemic.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 14/06/2025

Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.

A sign at a protest reads “you lost” next to a Confederate flag, “you lost” next to a Nazi flag, and “you’re next” next to a MAGA hat.

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Mac Sees @macsees.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74. QuickDraw, MacPaint, HyperCard ... Bill changed the world www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

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Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Nazi Germany, 1935: “Was President Hindenburg mentally fit in 1932?”

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Swear to all that's holy that my exposure to Free to Be You and Me as an impressionable youth has had a significant positive effect on my happiness. Internalizing that men and women are equal and gay people aren't scary was very positive! engagededucation.substack.com/p/free-to-be...

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Free to Be You and Me Turns 50

Was I brainwashed? Who cares, I'm happy!

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

He did it. He crashed the entire economy. In exactly 90 days.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/04/2025

vance is a detestable liar and an open enemy of the constitution. the central load bearing factual claim here is completely false and even if it wasn’t the constitution contains two explicit guarantees of due process

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