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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 2h
“You always think you have more time…until you don’t.” That's not somebody talking about their recently deceased grandpa. It's a Roku customer. #NeverStream
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been checking the internet for this off and on for the last decade or so. When I was a little kid, this is what told me a movie was about to happen. youtube.com/watch?v=ZEK4TvY9l0I
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Litchfield Theatres Policy Trailer
YouTube video by brainwrapper
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
I implore all cis people to read this.
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o faquir da dor @tropigotico.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary.

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David Ellison has shown an official graphic of everything Skydance will own after acquiring Warner Bros and Paramount.

Assets:

• TNT
• CBS
• CNN
• MTV
• TCM
• Showtime
• Adult Swim
• DC Studios
• Paramount+
• Nickelodeon
• HBO/HBO Max
• Comedy Central
• Cartoon Network

Film Rights:

• Star Trek
• Gremlins
• Beetlejuice
• DC Comics
• Tom & Jerry
• Harry Potter
• Citizen Kane
• Transformers
• A Quiet Place
• Looney Tunes
• The Conjuring
• Mortal Kombat
• Game of Thrones
• Dora The Explorer
• Mission Impossible
• The Lord of the Rings
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Dune 3 (distribution rights)
• Minecraft (distribution rights)
• MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Like displaying heads on pikes
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#NeverStream
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this
My dad used to work with Ted Bundy at the University of Utah and every Friday my dad would say, "See ya Monday-Bundy" and I can't imagine how much Ted actually thought about murdering him for
it.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3: 
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Democrats!
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would only keep one of Emily's top 10 (you know which one).
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Of the shows on the list I've seen (including some I bailed on quickly because they stank), I would remove these entirely: Breaking Bad, Fleabag, Game of Thrones, Veep, Girls, Friday Night Lights, Survivor, Watchmen, Hacks, House of Cards, Stranger Things, Nathan For You, PEN15, Mare of Easttown,
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You could almost make a better list just out of the omissions.
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every time I see a video list what I think is: Would've been a lock for one of J. Hoberman's annual Village Voice top 10 lists in the 2000s.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
- I saw Fran Lebowitz speak earlier this year & she talked about how Oprah might have encouraged a lot of people to get into reading but she did so by referring to books as mirrors where you should see yourself reflected RATHER than viewing books as windows into the experiences of others.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
- Social media brain rot where we've failed to see that we are human beings connected to other unique human beings and therefore, just because something doesn't reflect my experience, it doesn't mean it's wrong or "bad" or something you can't still read/watch/play, etc.
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
12/ Here’s a crazy part: Kao told the FBI that the company’s government work was of no real value. Its research under his stewardship resulted in products Navatek knew the military would never buy, former employees said. One example: This 3D-printed boat Collins is posing with 👇
Sen. Susan Collins, wearing a blue suit and red shirt, stands in front of a 3D-printed boat while holding a broken champagne bottle during a publicity event. The boat has the University of Maine logo and is emblazoned with the text "3Dirigo." Behind Collins are a group of applauding people, including a woman holding a Guinness World Records plaque.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case you needed another reason to dislike Gavin Newsom, a truly loathsome man, and/or back anybody else in the 2028 Dem primaries.........
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Update: After two strong episodes back-to-back, I think I'm coming around on SEA HUNT. Years of work, down the drain.
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To every sucker who switched from physical media to streaming: Go sit in the corner.
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Someday I will finish my magnum opus of television criticism, which is about why I love HIGHWAY PATROL and hate SEA HUNT.
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I.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mitch McConnell is the only vegetable *not* recalled this year
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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: L.Q. "Sonny" Clemonds will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.
Sonny Clemonds with a replicated, gaudy guitar in an Enterprise D lounge.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026
When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music
Depressed kermit the frog costume guy sitting hunched over on a park bench
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
…This now means that all of Ed Sheeran's remaining opening acts — and his touring band — have just withdrawn from the tour:
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
imagine a divorce so bad it turns you into mickey rourke
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Abolish ICE” was immediately met with eye rolling condescension and after events proved that policy correct, and support *among Democrats* for it exploded to like 80%, it didn’t move party leaders at all. How is this tenable
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Brian Peter Gluckman @bgluckman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Once again, I must point to the official statement from Toyota. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/a...
A clip from the NYT that reads: “Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week. 'It is not our proudest product placement,' he said. 'But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability.'”
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Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thinking about when the Lincoln Enterprises Star Trek catalog defended a typo wherein they had printed "Long Live and Prosper" instead of "Live Long and Prosper" by saying that "Long Live and Prosper" was what Our Infallible Alpha Male Gene Roddenberry had intended all along and thus it was correct.
Now to set the story straight, we have been bombarded with reprimands regarding the wording of Long Live and Prosper. People have said this was not the way it was used in the show and besides it is incorrect grammatically. Right in both cases—here on Earth. However, let it be known that this is the way it was originally written by the Great Bird of the Galaxy, Gene Roddenberry. It is grammatically correct on Vulcan. Somewhere between the Great Bird's office and the sound track it got changed without his knowledge. We have chosen to keep the original intent, so LONG LIVE AND PROSPER!
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Either I'm fully in old man mode or one of the better TV shows of last year was an ADAM-12 knockoff co-created by Dick Wolf's son and starring Donald Bellisario's daughter.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."
The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.
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Defector @defector.com · 11/09/2026
Yes, the cast and crew of 'The Master of Disguise' did hold a moment of silence on set to reflect on 9/11. And yes, Carvey was in full turtle get-up. The impromptu ceremony just didn't actually happen on 9/11. defector.com/master-of-di...
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At The Turtle Club In The Shadow Of 9/11 | Defector
'The Master of Disguise' and its connection to the September 11th attacks have become the stuff of legend.
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Make 'em bone.
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Moose booooogelow @moosebigelow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Lenny from the simpsons changing a sign that says 365 days without charlie kirk saying something racist
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Until a chain of title is re-established, “Christine,” which had previously built an audience on Netflix, isn’t being licensed to streamers or cable. That means it’s getting harder and harder for people to see it." Why physical media, rental stores, libraries are (were) essential to home video.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And just because I'm feeling petty, I want to say it is real grand that during ICE's most horrifically successful summer, No Kings has done absolutely nothing this entire time. No marches. No events. Nothing. All they have now is a landing page vaguely encouraging voting and a email sign up.
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💥Richard with an💥R @rbwaltonthereal.com · 03/09/2026
My wife and I decided we didn't want to have children. We don't know how they'll take it, but we are telling them at dinner...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When you understand the pervasiveness of anti-blackness, a lot of bewildering scenarios are simplified.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Rodney Dangerfield 2026: Take my AI girlfriend, please
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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Werner Herzog's scathing quote about Ai is what I needed this morning.
Werner Herzog response to a question about ai
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Especially if augmented by renting physical media, an option that the streaming con took away entirely.
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Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I was today years old when I learned that the PEOPLE'S COURT theme is a library cue that turns up in old British and Australian TV episodes.
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