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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 12h

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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mad radhu @madradhu.garbage.computer · 11h

This person will vote to increase ICE funding within one year

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 16h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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UncleEraserheadBabyBilly @lepcyrus.bsky.social · 8h

lol

Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · 5d

THE EROTIC ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL (Ralph Bakshi, 1978)

This controversial X-rated cartoon offered a speculative origin for the relationship of Goldberry & Tom Bombadil that outraged or titillated every Tolkien fan. Nevertheless, it’s cult following has continued to endure.

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Adrian Dogpenis @dingusuhum.neocities.org · 14h

as a translator by trade, i agree in principle, but boy is it a way to sort the skilled translators from the ham-fisted ones, because it's an extremely fine line between "playful modern interpretation" and "cringe borderlands-ass tire fire"

Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 14h

Translators of ancient works written in dead languages should be allowed to explore the space a little and go nuts

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 14h

what are the odds that history would produce 2 terrible christopher columbuses?

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 18h

Second of all, many stories are written in present tense purely to artificially ramp up the tension and make a slow story seem propulsive.

It's a cheap, cynical trick to mimic immediacy and propinquity where there is none.

When I wrote in present tense, I really tried to think of how... 4/

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 18h

...of present tense. Present tense allows the skilled writer to hold back certain information, but also compels the projection of other information, whether or not it's reliable. There is an immediacy and a tension to present tense that, properly employed, can do things that are just impossible...2/

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 19h

We like to pretend the endemic use of the present tense in modern fiction is a stylistic choice. But usually it's a cheap way to disguise mediocre prose, lack of structure, or both. It's like a row of showy petunias planted along a house to disguise cracks in the foundation.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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UncleEraserheadBabyBilly @lepcyrus.bsky.social · 14h

yeeeessss

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 15h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 15h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 15h

i wish we made movies the way these iphone commercials that pretend you can use iphones to make moves make movies

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UncleEraserheadBabyBilly @lepcyrus.bsky.social · 14h

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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 15h

the rare Double Nussy

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 15h

If Pedro Pascal played Gomez Addams they'd have to replace all the seats in the theater

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 15h

“we eliminated smallpox” is the ultimate argument stopper. it’s the shining example of human achievement, a yardstick against which all other initiatives are measured.

“we can’t do [good thing]; it’s unrealistic”
“we eliminated smallpox”

“it’s always gonna be like this”
“we eliminated smallpox”

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UncleEraserheadBabyBilly @lepcyrus.bsky.social · 14h

is it better than the chapters of the iliad where they list the ships? i'll never know because i'm not a native ancient greek/dorian/whatever speaker

maybe though. the voice!

UncleEraserheadBabyBilly @lepcyrus.bsky.social · 14h

so fuckin good

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15h

The chapters in Moby Dick where he just lists facts about whales are good, actually

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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John Howl Boo @jholbo.bsky.social · 14h

I mean: Johnson is, at heart, a Moloch-worshipping LLM. But that doesn't really answer the question. What does he THINK?

Matthew Yglesias tweet: "When you put nice, well-behaved LLMs into competition with each other for sales, social media engagement, or political persuasion they end up learning that the best way to be effective is to lie." Links to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06105

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UncleEraserheadBabyBilly @lepcyrus.bsky.social · 14h

i DID NOT like what his skin was doing in that film

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15d

Sean Penn looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19h

Police departments across the country have gone on wildcat strike in response to the elections of many progressive mayors and prosecutors over the past decade. The question is which mayor can break the cycle

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 15h

In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again they had killed his entire family as psychological torture meant to break him. When he walked up the stairs of his home today, his wife rushed into his arms, with his children and parents beside her - alive, waiting, delirious with joy and relief.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 20h

;3

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 14h

Infinite Jest would have worked better as a slim collection of short stories.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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UncleEraserheadBabyBilly @lepcyrus.bsky.social · 16h

charley dickens going on a reading tour for puckwick papers but after an hour gets derailed because he's still pissed you can only make symmetrical character faces + no warts/cysts in elden ring

UncleEraserheadBabyBilly @lepcyrus.bsky.social · 16h

RIP Charley Dickens you would've fuckin loved elden ring

Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 2d

MARLEY: I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link—
ME: Hell yeah dude you were a blacksmith?
MARLEY: What? No
ME: Oh you made a big chain for fun?
MARLEY: No
ME: Ok well it looks heavy man you can throw it on the chair if you want I’m just gaming
MARLEY: Is that the new Battlefield

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ʝօռ ʍօʀֆɛ @jonfmorse.com · 17h

have you ever tried to get back to brooklyn from the upper west side with your homies after a gang summit went sideways?

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