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Adam L. Cox

@adamlcox.bsky.social

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KS>IA>NE>BC>UT>NC>MD>FL>SC Appalachian Southerner combined with Kansas pioneer stock. I value both literature and sports. Be sensible, be kind and don’t forget to give the dog treats. Don’t get me started about [INSERT LITERARY FIGURE HERE]

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 9h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 1d

I’m listening to this ASAP. I’ve never seen a DG cover that edgy. I didn’t know that was allowed.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

There’s maybe a good movie in here, a meditation on Gein and Hitchcock, maybe a tight three or four episode show. But just the bones remain, and fragments of skin.

Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not interested in Ed Gein. It’s interested in its own tarted up version of Ed Gein. Hell, its own tarted up version of almost every historical figure it encounters. I can’t even express the level of disrespect. For its subjects, for the audience, you name it.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

The only ready parallel is Zack Snyder’s WATCHMEN, a lovingly crafted movie that totally misunderstood its source material. But there’s nothing loving about this production other than attention to (often gross) detail.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

Also, at least half of these episodes are filler, but the worst possible filler. The appetite for slandering the dead is insatiable. It’s like they read a James Ellroy novel and loved it and took all the wrong lessons from it.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

Continuing our watch of MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY and I think I have not seen quite so many bad creative decisions strung together in this way perhaps ever. This isn’t bad movie bad, this is more like bad ethical decisions bad.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

“New readers? No thank you!”

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

Could have quite a long conversation about the mainstream comics industry’s bizarre inability/reluctance to make any connection with new readers.

There are about a million easy things they could do BUT NO.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

This is fascinating! Would definitely try.

Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

Chef Boyardee, who I have recently learned was a real person. Much to my delight.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 2d

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

Also on display in this clip: the underrated Pacific Northwestern talent for just ignoring rain, with which I am well familiar

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

Cf “Spider-man got married no wait he’s never been married no wait”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

You know, I hate to say this, but I very much believe this will only get worse.

Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

Great piece that may make you a UAB fan.

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s what I wrote about the DILFSASTER last year

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 3d

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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JM =^) @jm539581.bsky.social · 3d

LOL. Baker Mayfield. Come on! 😂

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 3d

Upon examination it’s a pen, a pencil and a highlighter which is even better.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 3d

Brian Schottenheimer has two pens and a highlighter clipped to his visor which I think legally makes him my favorite football coach.

Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 3d

I love Jake Ferguson but NOT NOW

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