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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 13h

It tickles me that Wallace Shawn has another iconic role. Top tier "recognizable face & voice" actor, on top of just being a solid guy by all accounts.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 14h

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!!

Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn

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Chicago Transport Association @chitransportassoc.bsky.social · 17h

People don’t know what the federal government is doing in Chicago. Share this article far and wide. Not just here but to your friends and family elsewhere

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

'We're not a violent city': Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block reut.rs/4qDiyGV

'We're not a violent city': Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block

The immigration agents' tear gas grenades clinked and then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder.

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 1d

Also…trust them to do what exactly!?

sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 1d

I’d agree w/ that, the Thunder game was competitive-ish until real late, the 2nd half of the Hornets game was just abysmal.

sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 1d

Hornets being the first Bad-Bad game?

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 1d

Also, who would go as Steve McQueen from the Great Escape, you go as Steve McQueen from Bullitt. Will the kids get? Absolutely not! Will you functionally look cool? Probably!

sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking ab it a little further & it's also that every 8/9 months we have to learn ab a new racial or gendered (or both!) anxiety [white] conservatives have & are expected to treat them as normal & not anti-social weirdos.

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting when people outside the US (or even in the US) think that we aren't inundated w/ conservative bullshit 24/7 (and sometimes, almost exclusively).

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 2d

It’s super *funny* how successful & popular the first season of X-Men was (especially considering their limitations) & Fox told them to cut out the serialization crap🙃

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 9d

Gargoyles had a solid fanbase when it was airing. But over thirty years later, its greatest legacy lies in it being proof that if you tell kids stories in a way that respects their ability to comprehend not only plot but sincere emotion, they'll embrace your work forever.

James Harvey @ The World's Finest @worldsfinest.bsky.social · 9d

The "Gargoyles" animated series premiered on this day (Oct. 24) in 1994 with "Awakening, Part One!" One of the best and most influential shows of the 1990s, this fan-favorite cartoon offered-up mature and complex characters, incredible casting, and strong story-telling! #Gargoyles

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 2d

Centrists basically being like Ivan Drago in Rocky III "if he dies, he dies😒"

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 3d

What happened!?

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Panini Princess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 5d

Since your government hates you and doesn’t care if you starve despite you paying taxes into a system that should help you like SNAP…

This is where you can get food if you need it.

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 5d

ESPECIALLY if you remember him at all from his first year or two.

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 5d

Although I really love all the variety of elements of Dandadan (and there’s so much to this comic!), every time I peak into the fandom, I feel like they’re reading something much different than I am😞

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 5d

Dandadan is about two girls who try to get their best friend to date the shy boy in another class (other stuff happens too).

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 5d

It's sort of interesting how he can't change the perception of himself 50 years later & being one of the most prolific American filmmakers ever.

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 6d

I kind of do this w/ my nephews
"do you know about Aang!?"
"ah yes, the sacred texts..."
"🤩"
The absolutely do not appreciate right now that I was full on adult when something like Avatar the Last Airbender came out.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 3

Every time worf hangs out with other Klingons he embarasses them by fangirling about the Klingon version of Goku but they all think he's just a big nerd.

None have the heart to tell him that the ancient legend he is talking about is only 30 years old.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Sep 24

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 7d

Okay:
1. yes, more sports highlights on here
2. this is exactly why Cooper Flagg needs to regularly play w/ a point guard!

Phil @philiptejon.bsky.social · 7d

Like why have I seen this Cooper Flagg and- 1 poster all over my SL yet??

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 8d

It’s bad enough they’re making this without Bernie Mac or Carl Reiner but it doesn’t even look like Soderberg’s involved.

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 9d

a group of cartoon characters standing in front of a sign that says lower decks !

Alt: a group of cartoon characters standing in front of a sign that says lower decks !

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 9d

I really loved the first season of Decode.

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sTEVE Ó Brolcháin @stevelevets.bsky.social · 9d

It’s also why headlines will only mention Damon Jones as “personal coach of LeBron James” without using his own name.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10d

It's because white people can always see the humanity in each other and not in the POC Kirk targeted and actively harmed.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Sep 18

Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.

GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed.

DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true?

GROSS: How would you respond to that?

DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me.

And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in.

I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.

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