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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 6h

Yes. And our film and TV industry should try and make more hit shows and commercially successful films, not the ones that only a few people like.

(People with brains that tell them stuff like this and then act like they’ve cracked some secret system should go to hospital.)

Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 15h

Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees

Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results

If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one

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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is running down a sidewalk with the words let me in written on it .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is running down a sidewalk with the words let me in written on it .

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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 1d

It's #WIPWednesday! I actually managed to get two Death Riders painted this past weekend. Six more to go.

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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 2d

I'm bored. I'm declaring today Educate Gordon Day. What would you teach Gordon.

Gordon the Express Engine from Thomas and Friends. He is annoyed that it's Educate Gordon Day

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 2d

My dad died recently and one of our shared interests was Terry Pratchett. Precisely because our books show years of shared reading they are so special. Mort has a note in the back where my dad wrote the code to my bike lock and they're the most meaningful four numbers in existence @rhi.bsky.social

Final page of Mort with my old bike lock code in my dad's handwriting

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 2d

OK there's my Unhinged Literary Opinion: Pratchett is the greatest humanist/philosophical writer of our era.

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

and since he really does have a quote for everything, in the wise words of Sir Terry Pratchett: “Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

The irony is once upon a time aluminum was more valuable than gold because it was initially much more difficult to refine, thus aluminum cutlery, etc was a sign of significant wealth, also this motherfucker is tacky as shit, with or without casting aspersions on aluminum

Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 2d

I hate to break it to you John, but gold is the new aluminum.

Our dementia-addled President sitting in the ridiculously gold-plated White House.

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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 2d

*offers hand* Here, let me help you back up.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Respect to those who got here first.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 2d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 4d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4d

I have fucking had it with the edgelord leftists who quote post my shit with incitements to violence, like I'm sorry either you're the fucking feds or you're somehow even dumber than they are.

the frogs & the wine moms are doing 100x the work y'all are by dooming and posting nonsense.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 4d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 4d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Shield God @tatenokami.bsky.social · 6d

just saw this on a video about Sovereign Citizens

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 4d

"achillean" always amuses me as a descriptor because does it mean books about gay men being gay or does it mean more like oh you shot me in the leg you shot me in the fucking leg you fuck why would you do that, that's my goddamn ankle, my one weak spot, now I'm going to die you asshole

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations!

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 7d

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION is an INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!!! I'm SO GRATEFUL! Could not be more thrilled about this, I'm physically woozy with joy! Thank you to my co-author Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social & our @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social team!

USA TODAY BESTSELLER LIST with a heart around our title, out of 150 titles, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC co-authored by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes clocks in at 74 its release week, making it an instant BESTSELLER, Leanna drew a blue heart around their placement on the list 🖤

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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 5d

Back on my Sodor fixation. Who wants weird Railway Series facts?

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🎂 Sydney Screams 🎉 BIRTHDAY MONTH @sydneyscreams4u.bsky.social · 7d

porn is not evil.
sex is not evil.
pleasure is not evil.
kink is not evil.

none of them are things to feel shame or embarrassment about.

none of them deserve the heavy-handed censorship that they're facing.

resist oppression (even if you don't partake in what is being oppressed)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

Well, good for DC

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DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely how you do it. No one wants to be a nazi bar.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 6d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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