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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 2h

That’s fair. Honestly, when I posted this I threw it out as a harmless thing then went to my job and found I had 40+ messages on my break. Lol

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

Well, I guess someone leaked details of the operation.

CNN @cnn.com · 3h

President Donald Trump said he authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela to clamp down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs from the South American nation, but stopped short of saying they would have authority to remove President Nicolas Maduro.

Trump details decision to authorize CIA to operate in Venezuela | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump said today he authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela to clamp down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs from the South American nation, but stopped short of saying the...

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

Honestly my take is probably ice cold. My dad just talks about Lovecraft a lot and I feel the urge to rebel.

caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 3h

My Lovecraft hot take is that 99% of Lovecraft hot takes are ice cold, just the same lazy reductive potshots.

Despite what it may seem, this is not a swipe at @liammci.bsky.social but rather some of his reply fellows

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

I did one in Uni where I explored some of the film’s 70s/early techno utopian thinking going on with the early computer age and compared it with Ready Player One using Derrida’s/Mark Fisher’s Hauntolgy as a framework. Lol.

a man in a black striped shirt is looking at another man in a room .

Alt: “Would we call that pretentious or timeless?”

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

James was at least a more dynamic writer. Lol.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

A couple people were assholes but only because I deserve that for being Canadian.

a woman says i 'll accept the punishment in a dark room

Alt: a woman says “I’ll accept the punishment”

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

That’s when the daylight is most vulnerable.

a man wearing a beanie and a black jacket is smiling and holding a piece of food .

Alt: Jesse Pinkman “Yeah, science!”

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

Mother, I have created discourse on the Sky that is Blu.

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 9h

My hot horror take for today is that HP Lovecraft’s influence on cosmic horror, the genre as a whole and just other writers taking on the Cthulhu mythos is far more interesting than his actual work.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

But think of all the daylight you’re saving!

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

MASTER technician? Really? Or was he just aping off of Blackwood, Dunsany and Poe? 🤷‍♂️

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 9h

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

My ideal casting would be sadly Phil Hartman.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 4h

On top of that, I love how even the idea of Jim Carrey as George Jetson feels like it’s 30 years out of date.

Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 5h

At some point we're gonna have to have media that isn't just a rehash of what Boomers had when they were kids

A photo of Jim Carrey overlaid with a Variety headline that says he's in talks to star in 'The Jetsons' live-action movie.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve read excerpts. But not the full thing.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 9h

To be fair, I haven’t read a full one. So I’ll take your word on it.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 9h

My father and ST Joshi’s currently drafting a bounty to put on my head. Lol.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 9h

My hot horror take for today is that HP Lovecraft’s influence on cosmic horror, the genre as a whole and just other writers taking on the Cthulhu mythos is far more interesting than his actual work.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve seen this many times while out clubbing.

Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 9h

When does a cicada have a fuzzy butt? When it's a zombie!

A parasitic fungus replaces cicadas' rears with a spore plug and doses them with a type of amphetamine that turns them into sex-seeking puppets. And there are lots more invertebrate zombies! I spoke to @vox.com about some of my favorites 🧪

What humans might learn from nature’s real-life zombies

Some parasites can bend bugs to their will. Scientists are trying to figure out how.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 11h

Is that where the ghost of Christianity Past lives?

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 11h

I love how Ontario politicians talk about their own jurisdictions and constituents like they’re Gotham City and not you know, the literal definition of the suburbs in the case of Vaughn.

Gil (Guillermo) Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · 11h

Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca who eliminated speed cameras recently, now wants CCTV cameras that will be equipped with automated license plate recognition as "residents are fed up with “scumbag” criminals."

Residents also fed up with drivers killing people. 'Scumbags' speeding, braking the law.

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Stina Dark And Stormy Night Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 15h

holy crap. apparently ireland passed a living wage for artists. this is something every country should have—particularly in the states.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 11h

I doubt it. What could you possibly blackmail him with that isn’t already out there and how could you possibly reign him in in any way?

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 12h

Quite honestly, my assumption is money laundering.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 12h

Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.

We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 12h

The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into 👇 #FBM25

AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears

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