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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The world is watching.

4 frame comic. A guy with an American flag t shirt asks a woman with a Cochran Mamdani shirt : what do you care if Mamdani wins or loses? You're not even American. She replies : Americans have made sure through centuries of imperialism that whatever choice they make, the whole world will face the consequences. We are tired of hearing the gerontocrats standing between fascists and power telling us that the only way to defeat the far-right is to always move farther right ourselves. We want leaders who have the courage to stand up for the ideals, not political weathervanes willing to say whatever gets them closer to power,

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John Topper @jct49.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Good morning to you 🌞 from the Southern Coast on the

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

While this is good overall, it's important to understand that it's not these companies' "realizing the ethical issues". We, the consumers, know the ethical issues, but companies don't give a hoot about ethics. Rather, what happened was that AI didn't live to the expectations they were fantasizing.

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It took a trip to New York to make me finally realize that traveling with my parents is bad for me

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I've discovered something about myself. I hate the notion of 'Story where main character gets killed off = good story'. This is a stupid reason to think a story is good because you get rid of...y'know? The story?!?

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

should be judged and viewed in different lenses.

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

way back home as difficult as possible, and Epic is a last survivor story about how the character of Odysseus changes as he undergoes different levels of hell while desperately trying to get to the love of his life. They're 2 different stories showing different themes and, therefore,

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Odyssey (despite the creator of Epic saying otherwise), and Odyssey fans need to understand this because they are blatantly two different stories. Their differences are the whole point of making an adaptation. The Odyssey is a story that shows how much the universe hates Odysseus, trying to make his

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

artist. What I'm trying to say it that Epic isn't supposed to be a retelling of the Odyssey. Even Jorge Rivera-Herrans has publicly said that this isn't a retelling of the original story. Epic fans need to understand this because there seem to be some fans thinking that Epic is a retelling of the

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Now, here's the thing I think both of these groups need to understand...an adaptation shouldn't be a one-to-one retelling of an original story. An adaptation should keep the overall story structure relatively the same, but the actual plot and story should be left up to the interpretation of the

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It's just turned into a back and forth of Odyssey fans being butthurt that Epic wasn't a one-to-one retelling of the Odyssey, and Epic fans being butthurt that Odysseus's name was getting 'slandered'. (For the record, I'm not generalizing here. It's not ALL Odyssey fans, and it's not ALL Epic fans).

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm a huge Epic, the Musical fan, but I've been seeing a bit of a war between Odyssey fans and Epic fans, and it made me think about what it means to adapt a story. I'm seeing a lot of Epic fans defending Epic Odysseus from Odyssey fans saying that the OG Odysseus absolutely cheated on Penelope.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

This is so spot-on it’s scary.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 26/12/2024

“Haha can you believe McDonalds is doing a Squid Game promo” easily yes because capital subsumes all critiques of itself and no popular TV show or piece of art will ever threaten or unsettle it

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

That was 2022!!?!? I guess I got my timeline messed up, I thought it was significantly earlier😭

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Do you really assume that? Because when the Phantom of the Opera movie came out, people raved about how Jackman would've been a better Phantom than Butler. Not to mention, Music Man is just low hanging fruit, and he has since shown his vocal prowess.

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Not to purely blame Hooper for the quality of the film, but he put his actors' health on the line for this film, all because he has a massive misunderstanding of how music and the voice works.

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

That's like taking a high-end strings instrument and dumping it in a vat of oil. The instrument will be ruined, and if not looked after immediately, it will be destroyed beyond repair. There were so many stupid decisions made by producers and actors, but above all else, the director.

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

of the most vocally taxing roles in musical theaters, you're not just gonna sound bad. You run the risk of destroying your voice permanently, and this was a shared experience with many other cast members. Anne Hathaway did something that made it even worse. She tried to cry and sing simultaneously.

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Let me explain this to those who don't get what I'm putting down: If you don't drink water, you can kiss goodbye to your voice box. Dehydrating yourself is essentially denying your vocal folds and voice box the proper moisture needed to function. So when you dehydrate yourself and then you play one

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The reason why he was terrible was because he was directed to just 'go with the flow' instead of following an actual rhythm. His live singing was led poorly. Oh, and he fricken dehydrated himself. If you're a singer, you know that's a setup for disaster.

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Hey, if you're someone who watched the Les Mis movie and thought "huh, they sound kinda...bad", there's a fricken bombshell of a reason for that. If you're a singer, you may already know this, but it's bad. Hugh Jackman was terrible in this film, and he has ample musical theater experience!

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Sometimes I don't follow people because they don't follow me and I think they probably hate me so if I follow them then they'll be like "Ugh, gross, he followed me" because of how I think 100% of everything is 100% about me.

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april (villainous lesbian) @smokestack.mom · 05/12/2024

It really is quite touching. I haven’t seen something bring people together like the UnitedHealth CEO assassination since the release of Pokémon Go.

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Haha, CEOs are now crying now that they realize their actions may have unwanted consequences lmao

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CONFLICT NEWS FELLA @warosintfella.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I feel like I shouldn't have to say this, but I'm gonna. If the first thing you think of when you hear about the alphabet mafia is "Oh, they only talk about sex", that says way more about you than it does about us. We don't constantly think about sex. You just find our sex lives way too interesting.

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Inaccurate...they would never say please

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Other than dark souls, I still like every single one of those (no ill-will towards dark souls, I just never played)

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Wild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The people whining about video games being woke never have any actual ideas themselves. They never suggest stories they want to see or themes they want explored. It's always just crying about boobs being not big enough or a character being gay. Truly the biggest whiniest babies on the planet

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is so rude. He's just a little guy

Old newspaper article titled "Was most grotesque animal. Stegosaur, who lived in Utah ages ago, is a freak of nature" and there is a drawing of a perfectly normal and valid stegosaurus

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Sam da Yak @sam-d-yak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hades, love the game, but I suck at it

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