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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 3d

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads

They Oz you up, your mandyias.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you vast and trunkless legs
A sunken shattered visage too.
But they were Ozzed up in their turn
By Mandyias upon the sand
Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command.
Oz hands on mandyias to man.
Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can
Ye mighty and despair yourself

20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 2d

Josef and Magda Goebbels feeding cyanide to their children is a triumph of liberal democracy. This is what fascists should always know that they are signing up for: If you don’t intend to leave power peacefully, you will leave it in a box.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism’s most salient feature is its subordination of political argument to violence. Power exerted through violence meets its opposition violently. Not only do you expect liberal democracy to bring a knife to this gunfight, you’ll call them hypocrites for bringing the knife.

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 4d

This eerily accurate Elon impression from @jadomian.bsky.social impressed the crowds at SXSW and our panel. Don't break this one out at the party, though. Someone might mistake you for the real thing and puke. #TeslaTakedownAwards #TeslaTakedown

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 4d

"A lot of women and trans people also notably get off to similar ideas of being sexually ruined. It’s cathartic for sexual shame."

I feel like Catholicism should have gotten a shout-out here.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 4d

Y'all shouldn't hide this behind the subscription page.

20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 4d

You've reminded me that we used to call Herschel products "PM backpacks."

20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 4d

The 9/11 thing about your Uncle Phil hijab is that Moslem he wasn't really in your sharia law family and yet terrorist here you are brown people talking about him like he was.

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sean kuhn @seankuhn.bsky.social · 5d

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer?

Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad.

The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself.

Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits.

Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

This is exactly why I _do_ want to run Mothership: the "are-they-really-dead?" mechanic.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

The contempt these fucking Nazis have for the rule of law.

Humanizing Through Story @yourstorymatters.bsky.social · 5d

Border Patrol Chief Bovino exited the federal courthouse in Chicago today, facing questions over his use of tear gas in communities despite a federal ban without justification. Before leaving, he stood in the truck doorway, fist-pumped, and then placed a CS grenade on the dashboard.

20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

In case you're wondering what the deal is with the woman that Donald Trump recently released from prison, this is well worth a listen:

swindledpodcast.com/podcast/89-t...

89: The Crocodile - Swindled

An aspiring rapper ("Razzlekhan") and her Russian-born husband are accused of attempting to launder billions of dollars in stolen Bitcoin.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

ROAD HOUSE is so much like itself that it is not like anything else. It's ROAD HOUSE's way or the highway. There's a reason Sean T. Collins got an entire book out of how bananas this movie is.

Everything that I've said about it is also true of ZARDOZ, and maybe more so.

20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

ROAD HOUSE makes the cantina in STAR WARS look like RULES OF THE GAME. It's what Robert McKee liked to call a magical universe. It's a crass one, made of fistfights and broken beer bottles and Saturday night things. But it has the consistent self-similarity that is the hallmark of great art.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

ROAD HOUSE's script hits each of its marks dead bang on. Its narrative arc is steady and unstoppable even though it's absolutely batshit insane. The movie is completely, deservedly confident. In Rowdy Herrington's hands WEREWOLF - the one with Joe Estevez - could have been a masterpiece.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

Both have the quality of total commitment to the bit without a clear idea of what the bit actually _is_.

Ben Gazarra gives one of his greatest performances even though nothing he does or says makes any sense. He just knows he's a villain in this movie, and by god he's going to hold his end up.

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 5d

not really how i engage with art, but I firmly believe both ZARDOZ and ROAD HOUSE are Good, Actually

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Jeck @jeckdev.com · 5d

Do you have a favorite "so bad it's good" movie?

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

This was reworked into Cheers as Sam Malone saying, "I could tell right away you were the kind of chick who dug sincerity."

microblap @microblap.bsky.social · 5d

Like George Burns said: "The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made,"

20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

I'll admit, though, this guy is undercutting my complaint that "MAGA dresses like shit - at least the Nazis had Hugo Boss."

20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

The coat really says Otto Skorzeny, though. It'll be good to see him in a mug shot like this one.

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 5d

Educated the expensive way
He knows his claret from his Beaujolais
He'd like to have been Otto Skorzeny
But then nature didn't make him that way

nah, doesn't scan or rhyme.

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 5d

A useful definition might be that an aunt is a female relative who is too old to be groped by Cuomo but not yet old enough to be killed by Cuomo

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 6d

Just keep them in your pockets till they're not?

(I was genuinely excited to find these in a candy store in the Cincinnatti airport once.)

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20,000 years of this, seven more to go @uhhhclem.bsky.social · 6d

You think there's something wrong with molasses and peanut butter?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 6d

Heartened by the return of one of the classic Trump bits, which is when he sways faintly and says "I'd like to see low IQ [person of color he saw on TV] try to pass the test that's regularly administered to me by medical professionals, the famous unbeatable Test To Determine Extent Of Brain Trauma,"

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