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Joseph Gordon @moonmoneyismine.bsky.social · 4h

yeah he’s the souperintendent

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 7h

I need to know what Bob Hoskins said to Princess Diana in front of Roger Rabbit at the London premiere of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988).

Bob Hoskins meets Princess Diana as a full size Roger Rabbit costumed character stands next to them.

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Joseph Gordon @moonmoneyismine.bsky.social · 6h

me booting up my Dreamcast to play PSO in 2024 vibes

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🕷️🕸️emcEEKayvee🕸️🕷️ @emceekayvee.bsky.social · 6h

Reverse Cowgirl Mortgage

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6h

A famous Dril tweet that reads “issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 7h

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 14h

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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404 Media @404media.co · 18h

For months we followed what happened when a company forced AI into the world of craft beer. Legal threats, people quitting, and beer judges in revolt over being told to use AI.

"It is attempting to solve a problem that wasn’t a problem before AI showed up" www.404media.co/what-happene...

What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer

A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.

www.404media.co

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17h

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21h

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 20h

welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly

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Bloody Mary (mirror entity, not cocktail) @marygillis.bsky.social · 18h

As we start blowing past the tipping points, I'd just like to say that any politician who's still pushing for more fossil fuel extraction is an evil person. A degenerate who should be shunned from the society they're happy to destroy for their own political career. A piece of selfish, depraved shit.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report. The report from scientists and conservationists warns the world is also “on the brink” of reaching other tipping points, including the dieback of the Amazon, the collapse of major ocean currents and the loss of ice sheets. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Joseph Gordon @moonmoneyismine.bsky.social · 19h

this is the exact scene in the White House every night, right after Trump is like “Hey, am I going to hell? Ah, who cares.”

Mr Black, Jimbo, Kearny, and Dolf toasting evil while sipping brandy and smoking cigars

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 1d

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

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Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

The ability to "be natural" in front of, let alone toward, a camera lens is a freakish artificial skill and the demand for it almost certainly has left scammers and sociopaths overrepresented in political leadership; probably not great that we've now organized everyday society around it too

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

It's a sign of how many people (and journalists) live inside a media-created alternate reality that skill in the style of televised public performance associated with Hollywood actors is considered equivalent to 'authenticity'

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

This is an obsession of mine - a huge pathology of the press is coverage suggesting that politicians who are less skilled performers are somehow less "authentic"

Me on Romney coverage in CJR: www.cjr.org/united_state...

Me on Hillary Clinton coverage in The Upshot:
www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/u...