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Odd Hack @oddhack.bsky.social · 10m

A fresh start for my Titans…

Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 33m

Sources: After a brutal start to the season, the Titans have fired coach Brian Callahan.

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Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 1h

This Dominos is in an old Pizza Hut building 😭😭

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Odd Hack @oddhack.bsky.social · 2h

Loses to The Giants once…

Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 2h

Eagles pass-rusher Za’Darius Smith announced on Instagram that he’s retiring.

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Odd Hack @oddhack.bsky.social · 2h

Trying to cancel Comcast is truly beyond parody in terms of Kafka-esque customer service

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Odd Hack @oddhack.bsky.social · 3h

The extended phone/password bit is so fucking good.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 7h

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 5h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 19h

Just incredible from Baker Mayfield.

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Odd Hack @oddhack.bsky.social · 20h

Gotta say... I'm not psyched about the idea of a hell-bound Trump running out the clock on planet Earth

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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Up next on TCM @tcm-up-next.bsky.social · 21h

BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) — 6:00 pm ET — 1h 39m

Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar; directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Nuns founding a convent in the Himalayas are tormented by the area's exotic beauty.

#TCM #TCMParty

Black Narcissus (1947)

www.tcm.com

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Odd Hack @oddhack.bsky.social · 21h

With OJ dead, they’re probably safe

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Odd Hack @oddhack.bsky.social · 1d

Thurl Ravencroft heads represent

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Odd Hack @oddhack.bsky.social · 1d

You can watch Reds and Marvin's Room on Kanopy, which is free with a library card. Looking for Mr. Goodbar was always famously hard to find. Even when TCM would play it, they didn't have the rights to allow people to record it.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 1d

If you're thinking of going back and watching Diane Keaton's great performances, none of the following are available on a major ad-free streaming service: Godfather I and 2, Reds, Annie Hall, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Manhattan, Something's Gotta Give, and Marvin's Room. Garbage future.