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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You on "a guy in a plaid shirt, slacks and white tennis shoes dad-dancing behind Grace Jones":

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is even weirder than @xenocryptsite.bsky.social suggests because not only: do voters not change behavior much or split tickets, and yet elections do change but! voters have changed dramatically on region and class, and yet somehow this has mostly come out to 50/50 since 2008. Odd IMO!

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You on "a guy in a plaid shirt, slacks and white tennis shoes dad-dancing behind Grace Jones":

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Reading The Romance", Janice Radway.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The possibility that Trump was also there.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Saw an episode of a mystery show where the biggest guest star by far was not the killer, perhaps the only real twist remaining.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 13/09/2026

My thought when I watched both trailers was that the B&W one looked like what it was: something shot for color & then desaturated It doesn't look like it was lit or composed for B&W, and there was even one scene in the trailer where I wasn't certain what it showed until I watched the color version

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Definitely would say watch "Spider-Noir" in color, it looks great. I don't know if I love the plotting (although famously this can be a weakness with actual noirs too lol).

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Kelsig 3D @kelsig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the color version feels so much more intentional

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Like the stakes of the plot and what the bad guy was trying to do and how to wrap it all up in an action finale (which humorously featured about four different climactic speeches as if they were trying to minimize how much actual action to include), that seemed a little shaky, but it's a fun show.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Definitely would say watch "Spider-Noir" in color, it looks great. I don't know if I love the plotting (although famously this can be a weakness with actual noirs too lol).

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oddly Nicholas Cage really does look strikingly like a noir actor at times.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watching "Spider-Noir". Genuine effort put into this arguably terrible idea, which is really in the spirit of comics. (I wonder if the original Spider-Noir comics are any good?)

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You can't just have a mother named "God" and a father called "The Man" and, voila, it's an allegory now. Or I guess you can but it's not that interesting.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Was a little disappointed by "Is God Is", alas...

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pete (goblin time) @ptmoria.com · 05/09/2026

Oh dang

Guy who looks a LOT like JFK (maybe more like young Ted but still)

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This Reddit thread has some too. www.reddit.com/r/imdb/comme...

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Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In 2017 a bartender in Jordan repeatedly told me I looked like Bashar Al-Assad, which is never really knew how to take

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sort of counts? "Stalin gives you the Stalin Prize, for playing Stalin" is pretty good.

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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

at least in britain they seem to just call them [professional] lookalikes

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not sure, but here's another one

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is there a name for this kind of thing.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 03/09/2026

Stop pushing stories from days ago that I don’t care about and or already read!!!

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Like I'm sorry but I didn't need a notification about this.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is there a way to tune NYT Breaking News Alerts so they're actually important.

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@xenocryptsite.bsky.social In the oldest story we have, GILGAMESH, 3000+ years ago, there's a bit where Ishtar comes to seduce him. He immediately goes, "ah I've heard the stories" and lists off the fates of her lovers. We can't find stories not in conversation with other stories

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wow, definitely have to check this out. It drives me crazy that the Salem Witch Trials are primarily present in fiction as a place where there were real witches, but the reason it was so important is that there were no witches and this was an event that undermined Puritan ideals in the late 1600s

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A notary in Italy is still a title for someone who drafts and witnesses legal documents vs notaries in the US which are much less powerful, so I guess you still see a remnant of this today?

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Every time I've looked at measures of political knowledge of the "can you name your Representative" variety, they've been surprisingly constant.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Models disrupt white-collar work, circa 1400.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Diarra From Detroit" is a comedy mystery where generally the clues are shown to the audience throughout the episode and then Diarra, every episode, makes a reasonable inference to advance the plot. This is Mystery 101 stuff but I feel like many shows don't even do this much.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

i have to remind myself that the detective archetype is exaggerated but based on how people really talked at one time there were actually hard-nosed fellows telling others they had to skadoodle before some dope peddler tried to bribe them with a coupla smackaroos

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

there’s a bit in earl warren’s memoirs where he starts complaining about the “boodlers and the cigarette girls” traipsing about the halls of power in sacramento and it did cause me to read the rest of the book in the voice of a 1930s detective

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Admittedly the show is Diarra Kilpatrick writing herself as a beautiful genius going through an escape room video game world with a revolving harem of hot guys but like...one must take the opportunities that come along in life...

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Had to scroll all the way down on Paramount+ to find it, past "Gunsmoke" and "Paw Patrol" and "The Andy Griffith Show" and "SpongeBob" and...wow they have a really bimodal age distribution huh...

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Starting "Diarra From Detroit" again...not enough people watch it or uh, know it exists at all.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Need to bring one of my favorite basketball tweets over here

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Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

oh have you only just heard of him? yeah he was dynamite! the pun works in local languages too and he steered into it when the situation allowed.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I'm sorry whomst of the Philippines.

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

@xenocryptsite.bsky.social your always mentioning how weird it is that US candidates need to prove they were born in their districts and in the UK you can just parachute in. Ultimate example: people took Jinnah very seri in the 30s when he was trying to become an MP (according to Wolpert)

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

RIP Janice Radway you'd have loved AO3. Oh she's still alive.

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Chris Labarthe @chrislabarthe.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Then when the GE mercury vapor lamp factory opened, it became known as Fluor City

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

TIL Rochester, New York had successive nicknames of "Flour City" and "Flower City".

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I liked how much of it was the killers taking the heroine to dinner over and over.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Reading this first-person mystery about a woman with dementia because I have no sense of emotional self-preservation.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

(The thesis is that most "domestic abuse" is actually not major physical assaults but consistent minor assaults--too minor to be considered chargeable offenses on their own--as part of a strategy to systematically control a woman's life and autonomy.)

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