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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 57m

The second phase is entirely about learning the various instakill attacks. Once you've learned those, they're easy to avoid and you can beat him pretty consistently

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3h

Now let's talk about woodchucks and groundhogs and whistlepigs

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 3h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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MadAlien Earth @fauxedo.bsky.social · 3h

John Carpenter made some of the greatest movies of all time and then retired to make music with his son and play video games. It’s possible he has lived the greatest life in human history.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3h

There's a scene where the characters play a song that is supposed to be breathtaking and show their deep musical chemistry, and unlike every other movie that tries something like that, the song is exactly as good as the movie says it is

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, it's just a really good movie. Mainly because it has some of the best music ever written for a movie

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Dec 16

Eyeballing Jack Reacher right now. Big guy, obviously, but I don't think he sees me coming. As a henchman, this is the sort of moment that makes or breaks your career. I think I should go for it.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4h

Like, is it ideal that he knew her since 14 and started dating her at 19? No, there's something weird there. But she is almost 40 and continues to be close friends and tour with him, so she at least seems to feel ok about it

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4h

She was 19

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4h

The worst take I've ever seen

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

I saw it off Broadway and then on Broadway with the original cast including Cristin Milioti

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

That is not the plot of Sing Street even a little bit

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

...yet.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5h

They didn’t talk about heaven in Catholic school as much as trump brings it up lately. What did those doctors say to you buddy.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

They're movies about music. Otherwise they are nothing like Once. Also Sing Street is incredible

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

There's a point in one scene where the drummer just accidentally looks straight at the camera, and they left that shot in for some reason. Genuinely top ten movie ever made for me

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

It's such a non-movie that it was originally meant to just be a merch dvd at live shows and it went on to win an Oscar and make its stars world famous

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

rewatching Once. Nothing about it should work. Filmed on a potato with no lighting, looks like shit. Non-actors doing improvised dialogue filmed illegally in public spaces or at friends' houses. Basically no plot. And yet Once is nearly perfect, one of the best movies ever made

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

The thing about police is that they don't seem to understand that literally everyone else hates their guts. No one is pretending you're heros anymore. It's well known what shitty little cowards every single one of you is

David Noll @david.noll.org · 21d

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Brian R. Marvel, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents over 87,000 public safety officers, said he was outraged by the passage of the law.

He said in a statement that he believed that California did not have the authority to regulate federal agents, so it would ultimately apply only to local law enforcement officers, which he called a “troubling betrayal that California’s local law enforcement community will not soon forget.” He said that limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

I am adamantly against the death penalty but I have reached a point where I think we might need some trials that end in hanging to get out of this

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 1d

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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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 8h

Getting the impression that a lot of people think 1. Freedom of Speech is something you have a right to on privately owned social media platforms and 2. Conveniently stops after you’ve announced your opinion, but before anyone else is allowed to say it’s stupid.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 9h

Ep is Donny Talks Toilets

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 9h

Hyperfixed

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