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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 10h

Connie Willis is one of the most lauded living SF authors out there, and her most prescient book is turning out to be a minor-at-the-time book called REMAKE

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

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

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 10h

TicketBastard wanted to survey me about "events in my city" (which is the Chicago metro area).

Fully half the questions were about visiting NYC. Finally...

Marketing question: "Why did you not consider seeing a Broadway show?"

My response: "What does this have to do with events in my city?"

My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 12h

The Form is an unheralded Twin Cities band of the era. I think they only ever released a single.

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 12h

I went to one of these! Soul Asylum opened.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 1d

I can also confirm that many white people care more about harm to dogs than harm to Black/brown people, so this is not a bad way to draw them in to the evils being done by this regime.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 1d

LOOK AT THOSE LOW RATES!

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 1d

Loins? Girded.

My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 1d

"Jarvis H. Christ, that's hot coffee!"

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 2d

Distance, both of us dropping the activity that brought us together in the first place, and — oh yeah, and a worldwide pandemic — means I haven't had a conversation with CDB in years. So it was nice to hear @hooverstreetrag.org spiel about minutiae I know next to nothing about. As is his way.

What's The Hold Up Podcast @wthupod.bsky.social · 2d

It's time to ruin your childhood with @hooverstreetrag.org , but not really because a lot of things hold up surprisingly well here

Also we don't get into it, but lord if this was made today would the wrong types of folks be so pissed about Roadblock and Scarlett

open.spotify.com/episode/7ud7...

Episode 11 - Arise Serpentor, Arise with Craig (aka HooverStreetRag)

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 2d

I'd watch this movie treatment, and I hope you would too, with distance.

My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 2d

The only Sublime song I have any patience for is their cover of "Hong Kong Phooey"

My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 2d

I often forget that Hostess bought Dolly Madison (a brand I never seemed to see in the wild, despite their ads during all the Peanuts specials)

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 2d

I might hate listen?

I'm having a good time with your ep, though my only point of reference with the show is the Fensler Films PSA remixes

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 2d

I now have a thing against schnauzers because they look like that fucking hippie guy from the Spin Doctors

My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand

1. Raisins. Curiously OK with most other dried fruits
2. Goonies. If I wanted to listen to kids scream at each other I mighta' had kids
3. Two Princes, but anything Spin Doctors, really

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand

1. Pineapple is really repulsive.

2. "Salo" was absolutely the worst date night I ever had

3. There were some strong contenders but then Samhain made me listen to Temporary Secretary

Ava Foxfort @ava.foxfort.net · 2d

Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand

I'm vegan.

I'll sit through dreadful films for fun. But rarely watch things twice.

I really don't like defining myself by things I don't like, but Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. Apparently.

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 3d

Do you like beige?

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 3d

I honestly believe Christians have a spiritual responsibility to shun ICE agents and make them unwelcome in society

This is different from the moral responsibility we all have to oppose the evil they do, and the patriotic responsibility to oppose their crimes

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 3d

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 3d

Me: I'm glad you weren't driving around with me today; I was listening to a Judge John Hodgman that you would find *in-FYOO-riating.*

Spouse: tell me all about it!

Me: So it was this guy--

Spouse: I hate him already

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 3d

Truth or Consequences

(OK, a Pratchett book, maybe)

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 3d

Garden of the Gods

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 3d

goddammit

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 3d

🥌 Well, we have an ICE member at my curling club.

I won't curl with (or against) him; I won't broomstack with him. Old-fashioned Amish shunning.

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Cubs Elimination Day to those who celebrate.

F the Rickettses, and fascism.

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 7d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkZ2...

Psyc2400_Ch03_identical twins muppet clip

YouTube video by Marie Coppola

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My safe word is PASSWORD. My password is SAFEWORD @irritained.bsky.social · 7d

Not canon. This is from The Great Muppet Caper, and this opening number is explicit that they're in a movie.

But yeah, they play *twins*. Later on is this exchange:
Kid: Look dad, a bear!
Dad: No dear, that's a frog. Bears wear hats.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ip4...

Hey a Movie! - The Great Muppet Caper

YouTube video by ZuzuFitzwaller

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