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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 4h

The straw hat jolly roger (from the One Piece anime) is the “symbol adopted by [Gen Z] protest movements worldwide” but the hat in this case is a traditional Malagasy hat, made from raffia or reeds. Every region has their own style, and I’m guessing this is from the highlands

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Protesters hang a banner, featuring a symbol adopted by gen Z protest movements worldwide, in front of the city hall in Antananarivo. Photograph: Zo Andrianjafy/Reuters

“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 9h

Pretty much every good horror movie is a 6.5

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 2d

My grand theory is that 6.5 is the ideal rating on IMDb for an interesting movie because it means it alienated idiots. If you’d like proof: Almost every Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie is rated between 6.3-6.9.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · May 9

You ever kinda wonder how it turned out for the guy who got taken down on a chain to long beach and locked in the cell behind the courthouse while awaiting to be heard for his traffic offenses (parking)? Did his mom realize one day that he should have gotten out after all?

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 9h

We had something like this in our (hilly, congested) city but it was only for small business owners, temporary, and poorly advertised. We need to be more ambitious.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 4d

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

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Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates

Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 9h

It comes to you… this stuff just flies through the air. They send this information beamed out all over the fucking place. You just got to know how to grab it. See, I know how to grab it.

“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 16h

Reminded me of Enys Men in a lot of ways, which is unsurprising as both directors share a sensibility (and interest in folk horror) and both films were shot on a shoe-string at the back end of the pandemic

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 16h

In The Earth is a minor Wheatley for me, but it does capture the experience of doing drugs in a forest at a rave featuring a pagan noise musician

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20h

where the security forces come down turns out to be important, exhibit #48596

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20h

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 20h

yeah - I was impressed by the token-prediction as being as powerful as it is, but there's more going on than that and I don't really follow it any more.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 14d

Powerful but ambiguous protest movements spreading randomly from Indonesia to Nepal to Kenya to Madagascar via social media is exactly what we thought the 21st century would be like tbh

Reuters @reuters.com · 14d

Madagascar president dissolves government following deadly protests reut.rs/4nTymTD

Madagascar president dissolves government following deadly protests

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina said on Monday he was dissolving the government following youth-led protests over water and power cuts in which the United Nations says at least 22 people have been killed and more than 100 injured.

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 21h

Rajoelina’s out www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit

Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruption

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 22h

My friend’s theory is that we Northerners are going home and we don’t spend as much as Southerners going back in the opposite direction 🤔

“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly specific middle-class brit complaint, but: why is northbound gloucester services so much noticeably shabbier than southbound?

“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 22h

Latest newsletter from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social (highly recommended btw) explains a strategy for dealing with difficult colleagues that exhibits a degree of carcination with Mel Brooks’ strategy for dealing with studios

none of the team's actual leadership could make it to the trade fair, so I was given the job of negotiating for us. This caused a little trepidation ahead of time, but I got the other analysts together and told them I had a strategy, and they had to do what I said. Trade Fair came and went, and it was the most pleasant experience imaginable for us; we got the best feedback from sales possible and were marked down as a particularly "commercial" and "co-operative" franchise.
The strategy was this. Each team member had a pad of paper in front of them, on which I had written the letters "SYDN". Whenever things started getting tense, or when we were asked something unreasonable, or someone started to recriminate about past promises not kept, I nodded my head, and everyone was to remind themselves of the letters on the paper. Because this was the genius strategy I had outlined in the huddle beforehand.
Say Yes, then Do Nothing.

You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.
I'd learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph
E. Levine, on "The Producers," said, "The curly-haired guy—he's funny looking. Fire him." He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, "Yes, he's gone. I'm firing him." I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of "Blazing Saddles," the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager's office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed "Blazing Saddles" from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, "No farting." I said, "It's out."
That's probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire
scene.
I know. He said, "You can't punch a horse." I said, "You'll never see it again." I kept saying, "You're absolutely right. It's out!" Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, "Good filing." That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That's great advice for life.
It is. Don't fight them. Don't waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They'll never understand.

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 1d

2009 in Madagascar all over again. Time is a flat circle

“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Madagascar’s president says illegal power grab by military is under way

Soldiers from elite Capsat unit have announced they are taking over after weeks of youth-led protests

www.theguardian.com

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 2d

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 2d

In my case I was lucky enough to get to where I wanted to be by requalifying and then moving to the more “corporate” end of my sector, instead of having to switch industries entirely

“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 2d

This was me (common in my sector) - but my values became appreciably more materialistic after having a kid. A combo of lower tolerance for any period of financial insecurity; preemptively keeping up with the jones on kid’s behalf; and just… life becomes far less convenient, and money lubricates that

TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 4d

I took a hefty pay cut to change careers a few years ago. I suspect the horrifying truth is that I just… don’t care that much about money?

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 2d

My read on this is that his wife is subtly insinuating that he is a cuck (in the kink sense of the term), which tracks with what’s been implied about their relationship with Elon bsky.app/profile/atep...

“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 11d

Notably, the matador and the bull are different roles.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 20d

Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 2d

40 years ago today.

The opening panel of Watchmen, with an entry from Rorschach's journal dated October 12, 1985. "Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face."

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 2d

You gotta read the much wilder “full version” adam.nz/lizard-catac... (one of my favourite ever bits of longform journalism)

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 2d

Massive Attack earworm for the rest of the day

A picture of a bottle of Karma Cola, Jamaica and Roma, Karma Cola, Jamaica and Roma

“Captain Video” From Outer Space @atepomegranates.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly specific middle-class brit complaint, but: why is northbound gloucester services so much noticeably shabbier than southbound?