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Zach W. Lambert @zachwlambert.bsky.social · 14h

If every time I condemn sexism, nationalism, white supremacy, and homophobia/transphobia you assume I’m condemning Christians, that tells me all I need to know about your version of Christianity.

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 21m

aaaaaugh and yay: my favorite Boston Ballet soloist is now a choreographer for the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1h

Check out this fantastic chess-related visual about toppling a king created by an 11-year-old girl:

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4h

I wanna see wall-to-wall coverage of kids holding clever homemade signs. My 11-year-old finished hers last night, and she's excited and ready to go.

My daughter holding a hand drawn sign featuring a rainbow colored pawn toppling an orange and yellow-haired king piece with checkmate written in NYT font above

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Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 2d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 13h

oh nooooo I'm glad you survived that

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 18h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 17h

FIIIIITZ

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 18h

God, the revelation when MacLeod was looking for Methos and he finds this inoffensive-looking grad student listening to music instead. Methos tossed him a beer and MacLeod was flummoxed. (this remained their dynamic for the rest of the show)

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 18h

I'll try to remember more weird ideas we had. That was a long time ago!

Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 18h

Joan Jett and Sheena Easton were two of the women immortals I remember! Sheena Easton played an Irish revolutionary. Joan Jett was a femme fatale

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 18h

idk it made sense at the time! then they brought in women immortals and we were sure we were right! But we weren't.

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 18h

okay so the freaky lightning lifeforce was called the Quickening, and Immies are always foundlings and can't have children, and there were zero women Immies for quite a while, so...some of us invented mpreg

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 19h

OH do you want to hear about our wild fan theories?

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 19h

yeah, we all went bananas when he said that! Fun fact, the most heartwrenching death had Kansas on the soundtrack instead of Queen

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 20h

oh and he liked Queen. At one point he was on Duncan's barge (in Paris. he lived on a barge in the Seine for a while) looking for something to listen to, and he was like "opera, opera, opera...what is this, no Queen?" and threw the CDs down in disgust

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 20h

MASSIVE SARCASM, my god the zingers and roasts.

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 20h

(good immortals were immies, I should add)

Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 20h

oh back in the day we called the bad immortals "Kimmies" because all their names began with K.

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 21h

This weekend I had the ABSOLUTE and WILD pleasure of showing this video to someone for the very first time. I felt like I was showing fire to a caveman or something

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 6d

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 22h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 23h

this is true, but on the other hand, ANGELA BASSETT 😍

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23h

Love this movie right up until the end, where it breaks the plausibility threshold by suggesting that there's a good cop in the upper echelons of the LAPD who doesn't approve of police brutality and will immediately expose it if it's uncovered

Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 1d

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 1d

At a local No Kings rally near Innsmouth, Massachusetts, *every* protester showed up in an inflatable frog costume.

They must be from a different supplier than the Portland frog's costume, though. Bystanders describe the costumes as more like fish-frogs, "batrachian," with an odd, loping gait.

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nightcheeseriot @nightcheeseriot.bsky.social · 1d

Evergreen.

Tweet by @KateHarding that reads, “What haunts me is that I am just not smart enough for so many people to be this much stupider than I am.”

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23h

We have to penalize blatant lying, particularly by public figures. We’ve slid
into a post-truth world and nothing but sheer cultural gruntwork is going to get us out.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 23h

Historians of Black dance/music, help me! It just today dawned on me that tap and rap have A LOT in common...are there scholars of the decline of one and the rise of the other? Because the Cotton Club greats were alive at the dawn of hiphop and I feel sure there were influences going back and forth.

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