Reposted by wacky paki George Pearkes @peark.es · 30/07/2026oh boy *UEFA MEMBERS AGREE TO BOYCOTT WORLD CUP 1358455
Reposted by wacky paki EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/20266. Nolan tries to pack a lot of Incidents and Big Ideas into this film, but they do not seem to me to hang together coherently on the level of his own plot and the movie's constructed system of values. Instead, it's foisting a didactic point about Our Times onto the plot without integrating it. 4146864
Reposted by wacky paki EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukEmily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my... 19761581558
Reposted by wacky paki Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/07/2026still the best Odyssey filmstatic.klipy.comO Brother Where Art Thou George NelsonAlt: O Brother Where Art Thou George Nelson 50120589
Reposted by wacky paki videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 23/07/2026macromedia shockwave, print ad (1999) archive.org/details/eu_W... 3238621076
Reposted by wacky paki The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19/07/2026Greek translator Emily Wilson finds the release of Christopher Nolan's film "The Odyssey" both gratifying and unsatisfying.bit.lyNot Greek to them. Scholars question Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'Greek translator Emily Wilson finds the release of Christopher Nolan's film "The Odyssey" both gratifying and unsatisfying. 125913
Reposted by wacky paki D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17/07/2026📌Not news: The best adaptation of the "The Odyssey" is "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Period. 3124844499
Reposted by wacky paki Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable 35183711145
Reposted by wacky paki Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 10/07/2026You could not have a more fake job that being Donald Trump’s Vice president. You are literally on a podcast right now my guy. 522629
Reposted by wacky paki Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The Platner collapse confirms my one immutable rule of politics and running for office: Your first campaign should not be a federal one, especially a high-profile race. 691472153
Reposted by wacky paki Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Me: *Finally gets daughter to sleep. Dickheads with fireworks: 🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨 Me:static.klipy.comThe Shining: Jack Torrance's Iconic StareALT: The Shining: Jack Torrance's Iconic Stare 581765144
Reposted by wacky paki Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I am - with great, world historical reluctance - officially handing it to Harry Kane 3171455
Reposted by wacky paki Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/06/2026Robots, not chatbots, will realise AI’s potential ft.trib.al/OBATPSuft.trib.alRobots, not chatbots, will realise AI’s potentialFactory-floor applications of the technology could significantly enhance rich-world economies 03111
Reposted by wacky paki zlorpl.bsky.social @zlorpl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Why are you minimizing the genocide in Gaza to focus on masking? 021
Reposted by wacky paki marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 21/06/2026arguing with palestinians for not wearing masks on a podcast. genuine wrecker shit 1011657183
Reposted by wacky paki Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/06/2026My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production. 173737888
Reposted by wacky paki SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 01/06/2026according to the spacex filings, their valuation is justified entirely by grok, which will be 90% of enterprise ai, and ai will be 90% of the us economy 801544303
Reposted by wacky paki hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...splcenter.orgDocument by San Diego mosque shooters reveals neo-Nazi beliefsTwo teenagers in San Diego appeared to have been inspired by leaders and figureheads associated with the now defunct Atomwaffen Division. 241385532
Reposted by wacky paki Christian Simmers @xuelder.neocities.org · 26/05/2026I don't think its even a contest... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG...youtube.comThe Killers - Mr. Brightside (Official Music Video)YouTube video by TheKillersVEVO 1271
Reposted by wacky paki Larry (BOB) Dallas @larrydallas1977.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Back in the day a hockey game would be interuppted with the news that someone had tried to shoot The President. Not today. No one is buying this horseshit anymore. 872335392
Reposted by wacky paki Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Uh, guys, cooking at home was never a lifehack. Has everyone been under the impression that restaurant food was cheaper than groceries? 8855645516
Reposted by wacky paki Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran 287111341682
Reposted by wacky paki Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/05/2026hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘He sacrificed his life’: security guard killed in San Diego mosque attack hailed as heroSecurity guard Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad were killed in shooting at Islamic Center of San Diego 6681391846
Reposted by wacky paki Micah @rincewind.run · 12/05/2026"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks 482842526
Reposted by wacky paki Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Telling people, "we're going to have a green energy transition and cheap gas" is the equivalent of posting the "no take, only throw" dog-and-frisbee meme directly into your platform 151031164
Reposted by wacky paki Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026We can easily do without CNN, but TCM is the greatest cable channel of all time. Rest In Peace, Ted Turner. 922816339
Reposted by wacky paki Stephanie Damassa @shdamassa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood 443814498
Reposted by wacky paki possSCREAM @possqueen.dev · 21/04/2026i think the gamecube has the best logo of any console. just look at it. it's a cube that's a G and the negative space in the G is a C 1004389517
Reposted by wacky paki Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/04/2026“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.” - Benjamin Graham 1546
Reposted by wacky paki Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026America is more than its blood and soil. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tuc...mediamatters.orgTucker Carlson is wrong. America is more than its blood and soil. 1845
Reposted by wacky paki Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 07/04/2026It should be noted that she left Congress so she could say stuff like this but without actually having any levers of power to do so. It's all a scam, except for the millions that will die abroad. 1393
Reposted by wacky paki Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026If a mainstream outlet straightforwardly described republican views this way they’d be inundated with criticism bsky.app/profile/leba... 382528333
Reposted by wacky paki Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 31/03/2026Just yesterday the Netanyahu govt adopted a law to hang Palestinians who commit certain crimes in the West Bank but not Israeli settlers who commit the same crimes. Why are we sending a blank check of billions of $ to a govt that pursues these & other blatantly racist policies?theguardian.com‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chiefVolker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, must be repealed 1111676600
Reposted by wacky paki Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all. 273106292374
Reposted by wacky paki 🧟♂️Bryan’s Resident Evil🧬 @bryanfdn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Happy anniversary Chrono Trigger. One of my favorite games. (Put it on a console, cowards)media.tenor.comChrono Trigger Bonfire GIFAlt: Chrono Trigger Bonfire GIF 46939103
Reposted by wacky paki Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war. 27578941556
Reposted by wacky paki Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now 216256596908
Reposted by wacky paki Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I see your TACO and raise you STAR: Some Things Aren’t Reversible 181295198
Reposted by wacky paki Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/03/2026People are like “He just did it because it pays well.” Yeah, and that’s literally the same reason all the centrist politicians you dislike did all the jobs you find disqualifying, too. Up to you whether you find “lobbying for an HMO” or “being a mercenary” a more alarming form of selling out 1752668
Reposted by wacky paki Jonathan @jonathanmb32.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Remember on 24 when they would bring back villains that survived a previous season to inexplicably help out the new season's villains 052
Reposted by wacky paki Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit 753207224382
Reposted by wacky paki Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Kolanovic: Tacos aren’t on the menu this time. 🌮 1841890
Reposted by wacky paki Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 05/03/2026Trump is already spending $1 BILLION PER DAY on his illegal regime change war of choice in Iran. Now, he's going to ask Congress to give him up to $50 BILLION MORE. My vote: hell NO. 46536157
