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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿

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He/Him, Data Waterbender. 🇮🇶🇬🇧🇺🇸Kurdish Muslim. 🍅 approved critic. Words @ The Nerds of Color, But Why Tho?, io9, The New Arab, Nerdist. Host of The Middle Geeks Podcast. Views do not represent my employer. Pic by SangledHere www.swarasalih.com

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Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 12h
We have no control of who owns who. Business is a never ending cycle. Closing today’s thread, #LooneyTunes has been though thick and thin, and this new era is no exception.
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Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 12h
We are on limited break but sometimes we need to step up so we can assure to fans everywhere there is still a future for these characters. If you need to step offline for a bit, if you want to boycott or cancel your subscription, that’s up to you. Ellison rushed to get this approved.
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Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 12h
It doesn’t mean that the now combined entity will milk the Looney Tunes in their own vanity. Personally, no more Space Jam movies. $6 billion in cost cutting and layoffs, definitely devastating. It doesn’t mean we’ll see the brand get watered down.
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Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 12h
What does it mean for #LooneyTunes? It’s still going to be a flagship brand for WB. Even if Paramount neglects their own classic animation library, Terrytoons specifically, it doesn’t mean Bugs Bunny and company will ever be put out to pasture.
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Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 12h
As a reminder, there are still ironclad licensing deals laid between TCM, Tubi, Weigel Broadcasting and third party networks/platforms.
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Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 12h
You can even go back to when Seven Arts owned WB for a small period of time and that was a failure a couple of years later.
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Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 12h
Response to Today’s News… David Ellison might have won this war but he won’t have oversight of WB forever. Expect nothing much to change for now. If this goes the way of AOL Time Warner or AT&T/WarnerMedia, WB will be rise up again. WB has been under bad ownership before. This is no exception.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 29/09/2026
Huge win for government transparency and accountability! CA Senate Bill 423 was signed into law today, requiring release of 911 calls from ICE detention centers. This critical info will cast light on how ICE is treating people it holds. Congrats to coalition of advocates who made this possible.
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Data from 911 calls at ICE detention centers must be disclosed under new California law
Gov. Newsom signed a law compelling disclosure of emergency calls from ICE detention centers. It followed CalMatters' reporting about alleged rapes at one site.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 11h
"All our olive trees, including the newly planted ones, were uprooted. Also our neighbours', they uprooted them all," Tamimi said, adding that he and his neighbors own nearly 9 acres of land filled with olive trees. "They left us with nothing," he said.
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 11h
Abd Alfattah Tamimi, who owns an olive grove on village land near Ramallah city, watched as a military bulldozer smashed the top of one of his trees and then tore its roots from the ground.
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 11h
Palestinian villagers wailed over the mangled remains of their olive trees on Wednesday after Israel's military uprooted them with bulldozers, days ahead of the annual ‌olive harvest, normally a source of joy for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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Princess Weekes @princesmweekes.bsky.social · 15h
Initially, I didn't plan to do a Star Trek video, but while I was in the shower, an idea popped into my head, and here we are. New Video: youtu.be/wmraygqDEx0
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How Star Trek: DS9 Saw 2024 Coming 30 Years Ago
YouTube video by Princess Weekes
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Noor Lovelace @noorlovelace.bsky.social · 12h
I’m on a full blown mission to get physical media back,specifically shows/movies/music. I do not believe for a second we will have access to it all forever.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
And the school administrators who offered them impunity! This is a much bigger violent betrayal than just seven men.
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lilli 🤠 @lillianbf.bsky.social · 13h
There’s also a part of it (ran out of characters tho) that limits it to just the 7, removing the culpability from the 50 in the chat and however many other people they told.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
It’s especially grating since college students across the country—including at Cornell—used this same language for students expelled for protesting the genocide in Palestine.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
The “Cornell 7” framing rubs me the same way described in this thread. We usually use that language for people falsely accused of crimes. Personally, I’ll be going back to “the Cornell gang rapists.”
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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 13h
I'm glad we put up the fight as much as we could even with this shit outcome. Buy physical media. Support independent news. Support independent art and artists evey single chance you can. Stop all other mergers these oligarchs pursue in the future.
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Lindsay Owens @lindsayowens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Gouged" is OUT! I started this book angry about all the ways corporations are ripping us off. I finished it hopeful, because once you know how they're doing it—you can start to fight back. Thanks to everyone who has been part of this. Now go read it.
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Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social · 14h
Yes, we’re disappointed in this outcome. And @freepress.bsky.social won’t stop working to pass enduring media policy that funds and diversifies our media and safeguards its independence.
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Ultra-Shounen-Kai-Z @mvlakai.bsky.social · 13h
We may lost the fight against the merger between Paramount and Warner Bros, but the fight against media consolidation is growing.
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 14h
Breaking: A federal judge signed off on the disastrous Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. We must do more to prevent media conglomerates and their billionaire owners from amassing so much power. Our statement: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...
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Free Press: Judge's Approval of the Paramount Mega-Merger Is a Call to Action Against Billionaire Control of the Media
Dangerous mega-mergers like this demonstrate the urgent need to enforce the antitrust laws instead of caving in.
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NY Manga @thenewyorkmanga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please help by giving what you can or pass around...
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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 14h
What is the present and future that we aim to make, and how does #StarTrek, per usual, show the way but also not account for everything it can? Another banger from the estimable @princesmweekes.bsky.social. #DS9 youtu.be/wmraygqDEx0?...
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How Star Trek: DS9 Saw 2024 Coming 30 Years Ago
YouTube video by Princess Weekes
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Olive (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @theministy.northsky.social · 14h
Help Mithqal provide for his three children as winter approaches in Gaza. Give if you can, share if you can't! tiny.cc/mithqal
A digital flyer with a light green textured background and decorative floral line art in the
corners In the bottom-right corner is a photograph of an adult man sitting with two boys A
QR code is positioned in the bottom-left corner The text reads Help Mithqal and his family
Life here is extremely difficult filled with exhaustion fear and deprivation—especially for
children who have done nothing wrong except be born into this painful reality Thank you
from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has read our story and chosen to stand by us
Your support is our hope in this darkness
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 20h
🚨 PLEASE DON’T IGNORE AHMED 💔 I’m writing this crying. I’m exhausted and broken, tired of this pain. Ahmed’s fever is 41°C, and he is crying from the sores covering his body. He still has no medicine. We urgently need $140 for his treatment. Please help him. 🙏💔 chuffed.org/project/mahm...
Ahmed lying in bed, with an IV drip connected to his right forearm. He's crying and he has marks, sores and/or bruises on his face and arm skin. A text was added on a black background in the middle of the picture: "Please don't ignore Ahmed.💔😭"
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Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 15h
Please help if you can chuffed.org/project/2029...
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Help save a Gazan Children
Aid us to survive from pain and stay alive in the war. South Gaza, the yellow zone under occupation.
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Spartan 0323 The Phoenix Shall Rise In Silver & Black @thejaklife.bsky.social · 22h
Imagine sleeping in a cold tent, not knowing where your next meal will come from. This is the reality for countless families in Gaza. Your generous support can provide them with hot meals and immediate relief. Please donate today and help us reach another family in need. chuffed.org/project/gkt
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/09/2026
Do not join any organization that tries to haze you. That's an organization for assholes.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/09/2026
Any institution that still hazes people can fuck off forever.
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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 17h
Also, I mean, it's also really cool that we're Latina-owned and have an editorial team led by women <3
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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 17h
If you can donate, even if it's just one time, please do. We use everything we have to pay the people who do the work and put their passion on the page. And if you can't help right now, follow us, share our work, or subscribe to our newsletter! 💸: butwhytho.net/support 📰: butwhytho.net/newsletter
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Doris Roberts: We Support Each Other
ALT: Doris Roberts: We Support Each Other
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But Why Tho? @butwhytho.net · 17h
We have been making an effort to take more pitches, but like every indie site right now, we can only do that if we have the budget to. We should be lifting up every affected writer we can, and YOU can help by donating, subscribing, or just generally sharing our work! ❤️
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Support Us - But Why Tho?
We believe in the power of independent media. By not answering to any VC stakeholders, we shape an editorial voice that champions passion, different
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But Why Tho? @butwhytho.net · 17h
We are only here because of our reader! Every dollar matters and we really could use any help we can get. We have a newsletter (buy ad space!), we have subscriptions w/ ad-free reading (sub!), and we also have a one-time donation option if monthly isn't in the cards. butwhytho.net/support
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Support Us - But Why Tho?
We believe in the power of independent media. By not answering to any VC stakeholders, we shape an editorial voice that champions passion, different
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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 17h
Most of you who have worked with me know how hard I try to give homes for pieces that mean a lot to people. How hard we work to make sure we can commission pieces when they've fallen through elsewhere. It's rough out there and we can really only get through this big ol' mess if we help each other <3
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 16h
Imagine your child crying from hunger—what would you do?😭💔 My dream is for someone to sponsor a monthly meal for my young orphans. My husband was killed in the war, and I have no one to support my children. Please donate and share.🙏😔 Please, do not leave us alone.🙏 ✅molly shah gofund.me/8db2db8db
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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 16h
Pleasr help Om Malik if you can
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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 17h
American Jews believe Israel is committing genocide at a higher rate than the American population at large, especially when it comes to secular and young Jews.
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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 16h
A lot of ‘90s stuff needs to stay way the hell back in the ‘90s, but imo the ‘90s were correct that clear colored plastic is Fun and Cool.
transparently shelled video game systems of a diversity of colorsimac ad with five differently colored shells
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 22h
Please don’t scroll past us. 💔 I’m a mother raising 4 children alone in Gaza. We’re struggling to afford food and basic needs. Any donation, no matter how small, can help us get through this. 🙏❤️ chuffed.org/project/siri...
A very thin girl against a white wall. Her arms indicate she's not being well nourished.Sirin, wearing a black patterned hijab, hugging her two children, a boy and a girl.
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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 18h
Absolutely INCREDIBLE journalism here from @wired.com mapping out the various IOF checkpoints in the West Bank to choke out Palestinian life. Please read and share everywhere. www.wired.com/story/how-is...
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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 18h
Antisemitism is very real and must be stopped. But Zionists are unfortunately muddying the waters of addressing it by claiming everything critical of their genocidal ethnostate as "antisemtic" and have ballooned the number of reported incidents as a result. 1/
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h
9/15 to 10/15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. We encourage you to take part in this year’s observance by building community: learn Hispanic American & Latin American history, organize mutual aid, join a labor union, & stand up for the rights of your neighbors at the local level.
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Please help if you can.
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Spartan 0323 The Phoenix Shall Rise In Silver & Black @thejaklife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I appeal to your humanity. My child Elias is losing his childhood breath. He suffers from severe malnutrition, has a weak immune system, and a severe chest condition. I cannot afford to treat him. Please help my child. Your support is a lifeline. chuffed.org/project/plea...
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James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's newsletter is, of course, about the new trilogy of Star Wars films—and with a familiar set of hands established behind the scenes, some ideas about what the new films need to do to truly go beyond the sequels, and not just rehash old ideas.
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Notes Toward an 'Episode X'
The next chapter of the Skywalker saga is beginning to take shape—but where else can it go beyond the safe pair of hands it's been entrusted to?
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James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wrote, in what is hopefully last blog about the show for a while, about the thing that bothered me most about SNW's finale—and a thing it just cannot stop doing with its female characters.
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'Strange New Worlds' Can't Imagine More for Its Women
As the fourth season of 'Strange New Worlds' wraps up, time and time it runs back to one well in particular for its female characters.
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Topher Kai @topher.gay · 20h
I’ve been a BBC hater since before I can remember but they’re making it so much easier. I’m so glad they’ve got their claws out of drag race, they can literally rot now
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