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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 6h

1999: someday the internet will be a record of everything that ever happened

2025: someday the internet will be a record of everything that never happened

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 7h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 13h

But but but Charlie Kirk and the new tone!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

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...

Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 17h

Ugh, RIP D'Angelo. That Black Messiah album was killer.

Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 19h

I've tried three times in this life, but I can't finish Moby Dick and I don't think I ever will.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 1d

Does the uncanny valley exist for pop culture? We're about to find out.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

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

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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.

Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump will not let it die, and no matter how much damage it does, no matter how much it puts us behind other countries, not even if you stuck a coal piece in his orange windpipe, he will not let it die.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

Graphs showing coal production (left) and employment in coal (right) for the state of Wyoming from 1983 to 2020 from the linked website. Coal production was rapidly increasing until 2008 and has more or less steadily decreased since. Employment in coal likewise rapidly increased until 2009, was stable until 2012 and has rapidly decreased since.

Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 1d

This is happening in my hood. My city, my neighborhood, my people..... I will never stop being angry at those who applaud this.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 1d

we really really did. now, if you'll excuse me, please get off my lawn .

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 2d

These people literally believe that by defunding USAID, they destroyed the left. The overwhelming need and faith in heirachy blinds them to how reality works.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 3d

Grotesque woman. Vile.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 3d

Never, ever want power, got it.

Ruby Korrigan🏳️‍⚧️ @imperialaxis.bsky.social · 3d

No one, really. Electoralism has never actually accomplished much of anything. It was the marches and the riots, and a little bit of support from a uniquely progressive Supreme Court, that ended segregation more than anything else.

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 3d

The Best.

Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 3d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1g...

Sleeper 1973 Cloning the Nose

YouTube video by United Artist Ltd

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 3d

She was an absolutely wonderful actress- and a rare and fascinating person. Thoughts with her children and sisters. Rest in peace Diane.

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 3d

"Pro-life"

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 4d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 4d

vaxxed?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4d

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 4d

If only!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 5d

My dudes, he, much like his savior, has already risen.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 5d

All this is so blindingly obvious, even a media dedicated to both sidesing a round circle can’t obscure it.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Most Americans say Trump has improperly used his office to:
💠Punish those who say things he does not like (66%)
💠Encourage federal investigations of his political opponents (62%)
💠Enrich himself or his friends and family (61%)

new @pewresearch.org findings

Most Americans think Trump is trying to exercise more power than previous presidents

49% of U.S. adults say Trump is trying to exercise more presidential power than previous presidents and that this is bad for the country.

www.pewresearch.org

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 5d

We're in the part where we're cutting off the arm to save the rest of the body. It's a shame it got to this, but if we don't do it now, we die.

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 5d

It just remains completely wild to live in one of these cities (Chicago) and know in lived experience this is a lie, but that it will never matter. This woman could live my life for a week and still lie.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

which is, as the name suggests, in new york, which the newspaper can look out the window to see very much not taken over by antifa