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Oh, cool. @letterboxd.social apparently has decided to embrace AI slop. Guess the goal of being corporate owned aligns with this. (Mike makes it clear that he's not the source of the slop, obviously).

Wait'll some folks learn that common words involving fences or garden tools can also be racist AF.

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Oh hey, #AEWCollision viewers getting to see Solorato and Griff's new gimmick. Not that they're lasting long.

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Jesus fuck. The only reason anyone knows Thomas's name is because he made a movie about treating an immigrant nicely and protecting him from evil government agents when he was 10. (Taking nothing away from Cloak and Dagger or the Flanagan shows).

Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My mom is specifically that relative for me (though even she's said she thinks his shot has passed and is looking towards Pritzker, Ossoff, etc).

Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

(As much for the audience reaction as what happened in the ring)

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He's Gay

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

BlueSky is the perfect place to find that sliver of the universe of politically engaged left-leaning people who ALSO love baseball, so let me note that the two times the Rays have gone to the World Series we’ve had a blue wave.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"They also worry such actions could be counterproductive, alienating the justice." Oh no. Then he might just enable attacks on the Constitution and on immigrants, given immunity to Trump, or fuck with elections. But surely if we treat him with courtesy that can't happen.

Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The real question is, "do people anyone would ever want to associate with actually brag about their IQ in the year 2026?"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

abolish the death penalty

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Petra Haden - Don't Stop Believing

As a slight aside, the song that put the Glee pilot on the map (Don't Stop Believin') also used a stolen arrangement, just not one with an obvious lyric change as a watermark.

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"Every Democratic senator except Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman" is functionally equivalent to "Every Democratic senator" at this time. Fetterman's a Republican with a D after his name, is all.

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Absolutely no alerts for Alewife Red Line @mbta.com trains, and yet here we are, stopped in the tunnel between Downtown Crossing and Park St for ten minutes.

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Groping Dogs Gushing Blood

I googled, and Nick's an AI con artist (aka AKA "entrepreneur" and "educator"). Also obviously has shitty taste in music, and is willing to have Suno boil half the planet to support it. Anyway, good luck getting AI to come up with anything Die Spitz does.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

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Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

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Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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Post a horror movie with a one word title! 🖤

A demon emerging from the back of a former human in Bava's movie Demons.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.

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All Elite Central @allelitecentral.com · 29/09/2026

Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) comments on PAC's passing, referencing his AEW career and sending best wishes to Tony Khan and the AEW locker room. This is how it should be done. Respect. 🤝

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amy Klobucher is 5'4", but she dunked on Schmitt so hard she smashed the backboard.

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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 29/09/2026

Since WWE's trying to exploit PAC's death, it's time to talk about this: Remember how PAC suddenly had visa issues when AEW started? That's because, when the AEW trademarks were filed, WWE called USCIS to claim he walked out on his visa. After leaving him alone for a year and giving him his release.

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Editor: I need Namor looking like he's traced from an Adrian Pasdar photo. Psylocke needs her entire lower body missing except for her crotch, and look like she's growing out of Namor's tummy. And make Emma's arms merge with her cape, and just fuck up her face. Greg Land: My dream gig!

Uncanny X-Men 517, featuring everything said in the post, as well as Magneto and Cyclops.

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes Google fucks up outside their "AI" search. This is the normal summary thing on the right of my search for "The Tell." It conflates Amy Griffin's 2025 planted and hyperproblematic bestseller, a separate book about a Canadian murder in 1997, and a date (1953) with no connection to either.

Tell. Book by Amy Griffin.

Originally published: 1953
A collection of poems partially based on the Reena Virk murder case. Virk was an Asian adolescent whose drowned body was found in the Gorge Waterway in a Victoria, BC suburb, in 1997. Some of the poems use found material from court transcripts. ... Google Books

Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He regrets people finding out.

Jill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Seriously. Absolutely appalling.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 27/09/2026

I see we’re doing “beg the question” again. In the 80s it meant ”that prejudges the answer to a question still in play“. Now it means “that makes me want to ask the question…” When I was a kid, the second like throwing apostrophes at carrots. Now the first is shouting at clouds. Language evolves.

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I'm assuming he's one of today's lucky 10,000.

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Ten Thousand

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Watched someone double and then triple down on their argument that sex workers are bad people. It seems to be entirely a reaction to Pretty Woman and Sweet Charity being unrealistic, which, duh? The only thing worse than an idiotic argument is someone going full Dunning Kruger defending it.

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Where bad science meets bad journalism.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 26/09/2026

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I wrote about FURIOUS (which I loved), and what it says about the times we're living in even as it takes its narrative template squarely from late 80s/early 90s films we almost never see anymore, for @foreignpolicy.com.

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‘Furious’ Is an Angry Show for the World of Epstein and Trump

A tumultuous TV thriller delves into damage and revenge.

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tl;dr Not being a part of your personal monoculture isn't crime, or a flex. It's part of life and culture now.

In the '90s, my ONLY discovery options were: Radio, TV, friends (in person), opening acts, and occasionally record stores (with a LOT of work). That essentially created a bunch of small music monocultures. Now? I've got all those, plus YT, Spotify, Bandcamp, and the internet write large.

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Like, my favorite band right now is a small punk/alternative band out of L.A. called Unpolished* (the asterisk is part of the name). They've got 5.39K YT followers and 1334 monthly listeners on Spotify, and I discovered them randomly.

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Thinking about that absolutely terrible Ella Langley piece by Moss (who's usually really good!) in Rolling Stone, and it felt like the music version of someone saying, "what do you mean, you don't know about TRACKER, the top-rated network show?" We don't have the monoculture of 25 years ago, period.

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The only reason this isn't true for me is that they made a joke about the song on SNL.

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Second Katseye SNL performance hit and spouse asked if it was a parody and I'm honestly not sure.

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Phoenix926 @phoenix926.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching Katseye on SNL, and man, this a good Ashlee Simpson tribute, I guess? Though at least Ashlee was funny when the lip syncing became obvious.

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Getting mom's permission to flip him off back is hilarious. #AEWAllOut

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Really do not like the splitting of the pre-shows for #AEWAllOut. I'm not going to choose to ignore the matches on the Brawl, but I also enjoy the analysis on the Buy-In. Just seems like a really dumb idea to split them this way.