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Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · Jan 20

your smugness will not protect you

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 7h

Enshittification is gentrification and colonialism for tech.

The fact that it came in the door terrible for certain people is considered the price of business

and folks want to separate it from most of history to justify having. fights with each other over listening to

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11h

AI was born enshittified.

Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 11h

brother it *is* the trap

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

Brides came to support the No Kings protesters. This is Madison, Wisconsin. She took pictures with the frog brigade.
#NoKings #Madison #Wisconsin

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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 5h

If it wasn’t for 40 year olds working at Taco Bell, you couldn’t have Taco Bell at 12:30 in the morning. The teenagers are only allowed to work 4-9. Late night hours are made possible by the people you look down on.

RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 23h

She didn’t place her order clearly at the speaker, I had to retake her order at the window. I guess she heard me complain about it to my coworkers. When I handed her her order she said “I’m 10 years younger than you and I work in corporate and you’re still at Taco Bell, think about that”

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 2d

Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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Nancy Lucía López @cybergata.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings Downtown Albuquerque, Oct. 18, 2025. Video courtesy VisionBroadcast Media LLC. I love my city. #Albuquerque #NewMexico

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

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Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · 2d

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 10h

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,”

Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social

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Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software

FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of ...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 16h

#film
The Hole in the Ground (2019)
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The Hole in the Ground | Official Trailer HD | A24

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Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 16h

#article
Singing the Sublime: A Profile of Donika Kelly
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Singing the Sublime: A Profile of Donika Kelly

In her latest poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things, out now from Graywolf Press, Donika Kelly celebrates joy as a simple yet radical means of resisting despair.

Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 1d

#film
Dead Again (1991)
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Dead Again (1991) Original Trailer [FHD]

YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers

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Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Merchant & Richard Ayoade Take on Dubrovnik
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Stephen Merchant & Richard Ayoade Take on Dubrovnik | Travel Man FULL Episodes

YouTube video by Travel Man

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Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 1d

#podcast
Imaginary Worlds: Music of a Forbidden Planet
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Episode 288: Music of a Forbidden Planet — Imaginary Worlds

In the 1950s, the avant-garde music scene in New York and the movie studios of Los Angeles might have seemed like opposite ends of a cultural spectrum. But they came together (and blew apart) when MGM...

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Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 1d

#article
Long Live the Longer Short Story: Depth Without a Novel’s Commitment
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Long Live the Longer Short Story: Depth Without a Novel’s Commitment

The acclaimed fiction writer unpacks the art of the longer short story—a form with space for ambitious plot and rich characterization, with the pressure and punch of concision.

Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 1d

#article
Q&A: Michelle Aielli Leads AWP
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Q&A: Michelle Aielli Leads AWP

The new executive director of AWP discusses her path from publishing to arts administration and shares what gives her hope for the literary arts.

Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 1d

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Literary MagNet: Dong Li
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Literary MagNet: Dong Li

The translator of Ye Hui’s The Ruins highlights journals that embraced his translations, including Asymptote and Copihue Poetry.

Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 1d

#article
The Written Image: AUTO Books
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The Written Image: AUTO Books

Housed in the trunk of a 1984 Mercedes-Benz 380SL, AUTO Books travels throughout Los Angeles, bringing art, photography, and poetry titles, along with other rare and experimental literature, to neighb...

Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 1d

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Small Press Points: Green Linden Press
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Small Press Points: Green Linden Press

Based in Grinnell, Iowa, and motivated by a mission to support reforestation, Green Linden Press publishes around six titles per year and donates a portion of its proceeds to environmental efforts.

Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 1d

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The Literary Sizzle in Dallas
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The Literary Sizzle in Dallas

New publishing lines, reading series, symposia, and magazine partnerships are springing up in Dallas with support from SMU’s Project Poëtica.

Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 4d

#music
CARELESS WHISPERS (Japanese Version 1984) - Hideki Saijo (1955 - 2018)
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CARELESS WHISPERS (Japanese Version 1984) - Hideki Saijo (1955 - 2018)

YouTube video by sang1ist

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Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 4d

#article
Literary Arts Thrives in Portland
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Literary Arts Thrives in Portland

In spite of the pandemic and other challenges, executive director Andrew Proctor has steered Literary Arts in Oregon through a successful capital campaign, raising over $22 million at a time when the ...

Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 5d

#film
I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987)
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I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987) Trailer

YouTube video by Smeagol

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Thought Portal @thoughtportal.bsky.social · 5d

#podcast
Song Exploder: A-ha “Take On Me”
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Episode 301: A-ha

"Take On Me"LISTEN: APPLE · SPOTIFY · AMAZON · OTHER APPS"Take On Me" by A-ha is an iconic hit of the 1980s. It came out in October 1985 with an equally iconic music video that he

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