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He/Him Host of Shameless Cashgrab on YouTube, Leftist, and frequently suspended on other platforms for mocking TERFs. ;) https://youtube.com/arklestudios https://patreon.com/arklestudios https://linktr.ee/thehumanarkle
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youtu.be/lYCy3Rq8F-Y I really try not to be that type of film YouTuber who spends nearly a whole episode raging, but sometimes you get a movie like this that just really pisses you off on a primal level.
Shameless Cashgrab Season 12 Episode 5: A Very Special Favor (1965)
YouTube video by Arkle Studios
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arkle.bsky.social
These are the people both Leftists and Liberals keep telling me the Democrats could appeal to on class issues.

Good luck with that. 🙄
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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robertbohan.bsky.social
Politicians who meet fascists half way, are just fascists.

Newsom is all about publicity & nothing about integrity.

It’s been depressing watching American ppl hero-worship a power crazed sell-out. It’s not just Kimberly Guilfoyle & cosmetic surgery he has in common with the Trumps. READ this:
erininthemorning.com
1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills
The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.
www.erininthemorning.com
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eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social
So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
absolutely one of the most incandescent talents of his generation. made music for all time. a heavy loss.
flavorflav.bsky.social
R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️
An icon
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quatoria.bsky.social
Gavin Newsom's position is clear: if it costs corporations money, or could cost corporations money, he will veto it, no matter who it protects or who it harms.

The man is another corporate toady, and nothing else. His priorities are CEO priorities, the same ones we see cozying up to Trump now.
criminalerin.bsky.social
"“While I strongly support the author’s goal of establishing necessary safeguards for the safe use of AI by minors, (the bill) imposes such broad restrictions on the use of conversational AI tools that it may unintentionally lead to a total ban on the use of these products by minors,” Newsom said."
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charlie-ashby.co.uk
RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔
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jessiegender.bsky.social
John Oliver is what liberals imagine Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert to be — a genuine critic of America’s systemic failures who stands up for trans people and other marginalized groups, while actually offering real actions and hopeful solutions.
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madamephosphorus.bsky.social
Vetoing HRT stockpiling is so fucking ghoulish.

If trans people make it the next 4 years en masse, it will be from our own strength, not because of the Democrats.

"You can change your name, but you can't stockpile on life saving care!" Kiss my ass.
transnews.network
CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...
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arkle.bsky.social
I have learned that this in fact is a prequel about a younger version of Mark Harmon's character from the main show.

What's next, CBS? CSI: The College Years? Blue Bloods Babies?
arkle.bsky.social
TIL that apparently there's a new NCIS spin-off called NCIS: Origins.

Well, new to me. I bet it's actually been around for 5 seasons already.
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arkle.bsky.social
New Magdalen Rose. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjiU...

Man, learning more about the Pinkertons actually makes their legacy as union busters even worse than it already was, and that is saying quite a bit.
History of the Pinkertons - Justice for Sale 🕵️‍♂️💵
YouTube video by Magdalen Rose
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arkle.bsky.social
Went to go get the link to the ep of SCG where I talked about a movie called Columbus Day, which isn't about Columbus but does have a scene where Val Kilmer goes "You know what? Fuck Christopher Columbus!" and saw that not one episode in Season 4 has cracked 40 views. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Shameless Cashgrab Season 4 - YouTube
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arkle.bsky.social
Honestly, the only piece of writing advice I got re: villains that's held up for me is "don't make your villain racist if the only reason you're doing it is 'cause you're afraid the audience won't hate them enough." Real life taught me that all other "rules" regarding fictional baddies are worthless
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jessiegender.bsky.social
Hey look, an artist responding to criticism like an adult, instead of acting like a child by having a tantrum and attacking minority groups. Who would have thought it was possible?
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junlper.beer
watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
They won't be named or interviewed either. They will be referred to as prisoners, not hostages, despite many of them being detained for no reason and having no charges levelled against them. All because their kidnapper was a brutal, authoritarian regime.
trickycrayon.bsky.social
We are over 10 minutes now on coverage of the hostages being reunited with their families.

There was honestly a less than 30-second spot showing some of the buses coming in with Palestinians.

1700 people were held with no charges or convictions.

No happy videos of reunification there.
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babadookspinoza.bsky.social
“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.
Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
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viridianlakes.bsky.social
@groundnews.bsky.social So, guys, I gotta ask... Is it policy to now list mass shootings under your "transgender" tag? Because if it is, I'm going to have to discuss this.
arkle.bsky.social
The world gets one step closer to being like Connie Willis' novel Remake.

Coming soon to a theater near you: Raiders of the Lost Ark starring Cary Grant as Indy and Audrey Hepburn as Marion. :/
disabilitystor1.bsky.social
I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.
October 10, 2025

4 min read

Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.
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jamellebouie.net
the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people
victorerikray.bsky.social
I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.
blmckean.bsky.social
Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
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elienyc.bsky.social
Taking a swipe at the white gamer bros who support the Republican party is an interesting choice.

But, while we're here, Medicaid is intened for people who CAN'T AFFORD PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE. What you do, or don't do, SHOULDN'T MATTER when it comes to getting health care.
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Mike Johnson says Medicaid is "intended for vulnerable populations, the elderly, disabled, and young pregnant women, and not young able-bodied men without dependents who are playing video games."