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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

To bring his iconic films to life, director James Whale had to fight Hollywood censors, Wall Street, and Adolf Hitler (yes, really) ... my new video about his incredible life goes live now, join us for the live premiere! youtu.be/2hU9jiUTFLo

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Mahers vicious racism and Islamophobia has been on full display for decades now, the reality is that way too many American liberals and centrists are happy and comfortable with that racism; and they are all happy to abandon any number of women to ensure a Muslim man doesn’t become mayor.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/10/2025

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

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Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Such a beautiful man.

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 08/10/2025

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social explains precisely why Mike Johnson is stalling the new Dem rep's swear-in over the Epstein vote: "Right now, Johnson can pressure the four Republican signers to change their minds. He has time to do it—as long as he keeps Adelita Grijalva out of Congress."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/10/2025

The current paradigm of "AI"— all of its, e.g., embedded values, design, cultural deployment, & structural affordances— has been repeatedly demonstrated to harm both critical skills development & the structure & maintenance of the relational social fabric. That sounds pretty anti-pedagogical, to me

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

If we can embrace the Israeli destruction of Gaza City, surely we can take the next step and accept the armed occupation of our own cities. by Bari Weiss

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Whatever @oaktownpirate.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Darkness does not exist; only light exists. Darkness is the name we give to a relative lack of light. Cold does not exist; only heat exists. Cold is the name we give to a relative lack of heat. Evil does not exist; only Goodness exists. Evil is the name we give to a relative lack of Goodness.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 01/10/2025

They’re kicking Black men out of the military over beards. Three out of five Black servicemen have pseudofolliculitis barbae which is a painful skin condition caused by shaving. This is blatant discrimination.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Burr’s “‘ey I’m just a schlub, just one of the guys on the job site” stage persona is so effect that it’s easy to forget that he grew up an upper-middle class son of a dentist and his favorite hobby is piloting helicopters. He has no idea who “we” are and never has.

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

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Stephen J Pumpkins @jaybeans.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It's even worse than we thought "(Energy use doesn't scale linearly), for instance, a six-second AI video clip consumes four times as much energy as a three-second clip."

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Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage

The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

They're using chemical weapons & deploying snipers against citizens. They're using chemical weapons & deploying snipers against citizens. They're using chemical weapons & deploying snipers against citizens. They're using chemical weapons & deploying snipers against citizens. They're using chemic

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Despite the fact that Charlie Kirk is not in this documentary, our distributor, a major national movie chain, got cold feet and pulled out. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile had Donald Trump in it, so they were out.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Friday was the 50th anniversary of the The Rocky Horror Picture Show release, which bombed at the time but quickly became perhaps the biggest, most durable cult classic in history, spanning generations in appeal. So, let's do the time warp again, folks! www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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a close up of a woman 's face with the words how bout that written below her

Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words how bout that written below him - Frankfurter played by Tim Curry from Rocky Horror, released 9/26/75

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2025

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Sex can advance plot, can deepen character, and, deliciously, be set dressing. Consider, the time-honored and noble tradition of playing porn on huge TVs in gay bars, it's *absolutely* necessary because it keeps the riff raff out.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

SO when you grow up in an abusive home, you often don't realize it's abusive. Because there's a culture of silence. One way many people recognize abuse for the first time is in talking to other people who are horrified and you realize how bad it is. How abnormal. Social media is huge for this.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I'm beginning to think the endless right-wing focus on letting comedians make transphobic, sexist, violent, racist jokes without professional consequences wasn't about protecting the freedom to make jokes.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I wish for you all to love something as much as this fellah loves Pete and Bas' new track! ❤️💪😂👍❤️ youtu.be/yZ_rmcUwb2U?...

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Pete & Bas - Whirlybird | Reaction!

YouTube video by WHAT IT DO DAVE

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Yes, Financial Times, we know. We told you this shit from the start.

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Whatever @oaktownpirate.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

One of my bartenders named me “Freddy Kreug-ARRR”. 😂

Pirate in black cowboy hat, red striped shirt, and 2 radios i. front of the Greek Theater bowl seating.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC. “I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

The GOP is no longer the party of "small gov't," even tho that's how many voters still vestigially think of them. There's an opportunity for Dems to say something like "they use big government to do bad stuff that hurts people, we use gov't to do good stuff to help people. That's your choice."

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I’m completely sincere about this: On Charlie Kirk’s day of remembrance, hit the administration where it hurts by showing them that he didn’t rate. Don’t talk about him. Talk about Aaron Bushnell instead, who recognized two years ahead of the UN that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

No. But this is exactly how the Cultural Revolution went. ('Scuse me while I have a panic attack from my ancestors.)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2025

the way the right keeps obsessively trying to blame this shooting on trans people is deeply sick and incredibly dangerous, and powerful people and institutions turning a blind eye to it are complicit just leave them alone

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/09/2025

Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock, Scott Lincicome argues. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.

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America’s Perón

Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Instead of the media’s lazy posthumous takes, I am in favor of Kirk’s actual words being spread far and wide.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

John Fugelsang: a Christian who has actually read the Bible!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12/09/2025

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

¡Chinga tu madre, Corte Suprema!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I am not aware of any gun violence that happened when I was a kid. by RFK Jr.

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 10/09/2025

To be fair “richest man in the world constantly shrieking about The White Race” *has* been normal for most of the last few centuries

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

And as always, the rich will continue to have these choices and freedoms while those too poor to travel will be forced to “breed for the oligarchs.”

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Whatever @oaktownpirate.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Through storms and tears, a Captain still gotta stand on the deck and lead their ship and crew back to port. youtu.be/UoVaK2NXmJA?...

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Into the West - Annie Lennox lyrics video from The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King

YouTube video by Teresa Chow

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I do not share substacks. I’m sorry—even if you have very excellent reasons—I will not support works being shared in a Nazi bar. This one isn’t “no ethical consumption under capitalism”, it’s “holy crap this is practically taking out an editorial in Der Stürmer.”

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