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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 2h

Personalized media kills the one thing that's actually powerful about experiencing art: sharing that experience with other people.

This is Thatcher's "there is no such thing as society" dressed up in dragons and pinups.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

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

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

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

www.scientificamerican.com

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 3h

Exile? Was she marooned?

Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 16h

Hilariously mean.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

www.cnn.com

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

Two Israeli attacks in Gaza today post-ceasefire per Gaza Emergency Services. aje.io/hkwdmc?updat...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

aje.io

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

I don't trust this ceasefire, and my Gazan refugee friends are no better off today than they were two days ago

Please help them, if you can:

Donate to Help me and my family Rebuild their lives, organized by Alma Family

I am alma from Gaza and I am 14 years old. My family consists of 10 member… Alma Family needs your support for Help me and my family Rebuild their lives

www.gofundme.com

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

The Passion of the Christ is the most politically radical blockbuster ever made.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

As my friend Sama'a prepares for the long, hard journey of rebuilding the life war stole from her, she needs all the help we can give

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

Sergio Leone. Brought together Italian and American cinema in five awesome movies.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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safe space☁️🦂🇹🇹🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @peaceofkrys.bsky.social · 2d

happy Indigenous People’s Day

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t do nihilism, but man, optimism about the world feels delusional right now.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 2d

I think they’re worse. At least Disney adults occasionally watch other things and don’t tell you that The Black Cauldron is the apex of mature storytelling.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 2d

Thinking of this term today for some reason; I can't imagine why

Carthaginian peace - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the classic Doctor Who story Inferno with @janet-tzara.neocities.org.

Episode 6 ends with the apocalypse, a mass of explosions and lava.

Janet: 🎶 We’ll meet again / Don’t know where, don’t know when 🎶

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 2d

It was nice of you to take me down there yourself.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 2d

The daughter you didn’t raise was a precocious young child.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 2d

and they never found me

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

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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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton was so good on THE YOUNG POPE that I still regularly think of her standing in the bamboo grove beside Silvio Orlando, or her sudden terror in running from him when he professes his love. Rest in peace to one of the greats.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 3d

I have never heard this kid say a word.

Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 3d

Is Lenny smart?

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