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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · Sep 15

reading less, comprehending little, expecting more: illiteracy and the movies.

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reading less, comprehending little, expecting more: illiteracy and the movies. — maxine aya writes...

scroll on any social media platform after a new movie release and you will get a firsthand look at the media illiteracy crisis – failure to grasp plot, failure to grasp story, failure to grasp perspec...

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 4h

TO THIS DAY!!!!!!!!

LUFFY D. PUDGIE SUCKAFREE👅 @pudgieeeeee.bsky.social · 4h

Nigga…… When Barney pulled out the BARNEY BAG?!?

a woman is laying on a bed wearing a blue shirt that says call on it .

ALT: a woman is laying on a bed wearing a blue shirt that says call on it .

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 4h

there's ALWAYS a long game. we should never think they don't have a long-term strategy. ever.

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 4h

no, because i've been alive since reagan's second term. we should all know the republicans are playing the long game by now.

Teddy Bear B @textntweet.blacksky.app · 5h

So Project 2025 is a thing but do yall have any doubts that they have one for every year that follows?!

I just imagine that they have more versions that are a lot more evil to come over the following years.

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 8h

Oct 16th 1932 - Sammie returns home to his father's church after performing on the opening evening of Smoke and Stack's juke joint

📽️📅 Sinners (2025)

2 Screenshots from the movie "Sinners" (2025): First, a black screen with text reading "Clarksdale, Mississippi October 16, 1932". Second, a dimly lit church interior with a wooden cross above the entrance, where a group of people in white clothing sit in pews, looking towards the entrance where a solitary figure stands silhouetted against the bright outdoors, creating a contrast between light and shadow.

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 7h

MAXIMUM AWE!

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 8h

don’t think i’ll ever forget seeing this moment for the first time in the theater. before we even get to the juke, to me, it’s this moment that made going into the film with no prior knowledge of anything completely worth it.

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 9h

Just one of many moments from SINNERS that lives rent free in my head:

Michael B Jordan in Sinners saying : Hoo hoo, boy!

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 8h

by now would be late, lol. i’d already seen the film 40x by the end of june.

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 9h

october 16, 1932.

SINNERS (2025)

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Lauren Brownlow @lebrownlow.bsky.social · 11h

Here is his GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-reuni...

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GeneHouse Inc. @genehouse.co · 19h

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Teamwork makes the gene work!

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GeneHouse Inc. @genehouse.co · 19h

The Week 6 Word of the Week: “Pancreatic Cancer, aka 1 of the ‘Big Cs’”

Make sure you watch both parts!! Today’s was kinda long but we wanted to get as much info in as we could 💙

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 17h

mmhmm!

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 18h

i would also like to point out that Film Bros™️ and Cinephiles™️ also misread OBAA’s potential word of mouth success — “i expect the legs to be long! everyone is talking about it!”

is “everyone” just critics and your fellow cinephile friends?! 🤣

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

it's like they learned the wrong lesson from Sinners' word-of-mouth success, given how many people who saw it would tell their friends, "trust me, just go see it, don't even read about it"

but like, that's your friend, not the people who made the fucking movie! and even then, it was about vampires!

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 18h

sounds like i need to come around more!

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 18h

so they’ll be forced to join the police or the military.

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 19h

AND IF I’M DREAMINNNNNN
THEN PLEEEEEEEASE
DON’T WAKE MEEEEEEE UP!!!!!

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 20h

🤣

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 21h

for the first time since june 30th and on the night of the juke:

SINNERS. 🔥

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 23h

again i say, if only white people could see how UTTERLY STUPID the government thinks they are. 🤣

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 23h

A FUCKING MONSTER.

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 23h

sure was!

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 23h

i started talking to athletes about this while i was still in college. when your identity is wrapped up in the sport you play, the end is destabilizing no matter what, but especially when you’re attempting to avoid the end at all costs.

princehak33m.bsky.social @princehak33m.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like part of it is players not knowing to do with themselves after a sport has been their entire life focus since childhood. And you are still relatively young after you retire by no. Athlete standards.

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maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 23h

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

maxine maxine. 🇬🇩📚🍉✨ @mminthecity.bsky.social · 1d

just remembered that @chaunceyb12.bsky.social and i had a 3hr conversation about OBAA, lol.