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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 10h

thank you!!

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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 10h

it’s good stuff

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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 12h

also periodically popping in to check on SNL 51, starting with last weekend’s solid Amy Poehler-hosted episode: www.vulture.com/article/satu...

Saturday Night Live Recap: Amy Poehler Is a Great Hang

The veteran cast member is the perfect host to get the season back on track with an episode full of throwback sketches and fun cameos.

www.vulture.com

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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 12h

exciting news: i’m covering The Chair Company weekly! my recap of a wild premiere, which has all the signature features of a Tim Robinson project but feels more reminiscent of Friendship than Detroiters: www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Chair Company Series-Premiere Recap: Not All That Serious

Leave it to a Tim Robinson character to turn a benign public humiliation into a full-blown conspiracy.

www.vulture.com

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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 3d

this fucking idiot sounds 400 years old. Michigan doesn’t claim you!!!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 4d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 5d

more Survivor content!! for @tvguide.com, i rounded up the best players to never win - whether they made it to final tribal council or got cut off earlier in the merge www.tvguide.com/galleries/be...

Domenick Abbate, Cirie Fields, Tai Trang, and Kelly Wiglesworth

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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 5d

more Survivor content!! for @tvguide.com, i rounded up the best players to never win - whether they made it to final tribal council or got cut off earlier in the merge www.tvguide.com/galleries/be...

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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 5d

oh hell yeah

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
20m
From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 8d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 9d

It's been a week since I've seen it, and in that time, Benicio Del Toro's work in One Battle After Another has stuck with me the most. He's so warm and open! Give him awards!

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 12d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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Myles McNutt @memles.bsky.social · 13d

Last call on our subscription drive, everyone. If you're already a subscriber, share it with your networks.

Myles McNutt @memles.bsky.social · 14d

So it's the end of September, which means the end of our 2025 Subscription Drive at Episodic Medium.

Our last ever 20%-off discount. An introductory discount on our Loyal Viewer tier.

If you've ever thought about supporting our work, no better time than now.

Month-to-Month: Episodic Medium's Fall Schedule & Subscription Drive

Our last ever 20%-off deal and an introductory offer for our Loyal Viewers

www.episodicmedium.tv

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13d

Like Scandinavian...but brown.

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respectful huff @alexqarbuckle.bsky.social · 15d

DON DRAPER: I grew up in a haunted house. I would put out bowls of spaghetti and tell visitors it was guts. Grapes, eyeballs. One of the older boys, who would lunge at people in a wolfman mask, looked after me. The only time I wasn’t scared was when I was eating Reese’s Pieces.

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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 15d

I’m finishing up Vida on Starz (never went past season 1) and this show is so good. Mishel Prada creates such a credible and fully formed character with her expressions and body language alone! put her in more things

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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 17d

My first time covering Big Brother! I wrote a piece in defense of the gloriously messy season 27, analyzing its polarized reception in terms of what people expect from their reality TV: www.vulture.com/article/big-...

Bless This Mess

One of the most frustrating Big Brother houses in recent memory is also one of its most entertaining.

www.vulture.com

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 16d

Phone screenshot of the whitehouse website executive orders page edited to look like there is an executive order titled “Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food
of out hot eat the food?”

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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 16d

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You are praising a conman in your own party while simultaneously saying you will fight the conman in The White House. The former is why no one believes you on the later.

Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: Jeffries praises Eric Adams in a statement, saying he has "served courageously and authentically for decades" and that "meaningful progress has been made" during his mayoralty.

Says he will "publicly weigh in" on the mayoral race "well before the start of early voting.”

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boreian 🇨🇦 @boreian.bsky.social · 17d

if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼

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Ben Rosenstock @brosenstock.bsky.social · 17d

My first time covering Big Brother! I wrote a piece in defense of the gloriously messy season 27, analyzing its polarized reception in terms of what people expect from their reality TV: www.vulture.com/article/big-...

Bless This Mess

One of the most frustrating Big Brother houses in recent memory is also one of its most entertaining.

www.vulture.com

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Myles McNutt @memles.bsky.social · 18d

After a couple of fall seasons with delayed reviews, it was time to let @brosenstock.bsky.social have a crack at weekly #Survivor coverage, so he's on the beat for 49 before we swap buffs for Season 50 in the spring.

His take on the premiere.

Review: Survivor, “Act One of a Horror Film” | Season 49, Episode 1

A good enough premiere feels like more of the same, for better or worse

www.episodicmedium.tv

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