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E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog · 8h

This anthology, Palestine -1: Stories from the eve of the Nakba, is out for preorders and looks like a worthwhile bunch of speculative fiction (not that anyone needs my assessment of its worthwhile-ness!).

I also have reliable word that @soniasulaiman.bsky.social has a new story in this anthology.

Palestine - 1 - Stories from the eve of the Nakba | Comma Press

£11.99 (Paperback / Anthology)

commapress.co.uk

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23h

obama ramped up the use of drone strikes (10x more than bush!) and deported a record number of immigrants. he helped maintain and expand the systems trump is now using to do his crimes

Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 1d

I miss the times when the worst thing a President did was wear a tan suit

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"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 1d

What, at the time, seemed like a middling adventure film and a typically hohum Disney live action outing, now feels like a copper bottomed classic by dint of the fact that no one knows how to make this kind of picture anymore.

a close up of a plane 's propeller with the letter g on it

Alt: The rocketeer in flight

media.tenor.com

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 2d

Really funny that a ton of trad guys who make a facile reading of the Roman Republic their entire online aesthetic will act like saying “No Kings” is an outrageous idea

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 3d

Richard Kind as cousin Andy in a screenshot from Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 3d

Ditto, this is just what popped immediately to mind. Ask me in another couple of days and it'll probably have Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar and Dream Theater subbed in; my only constants are Nine Inch Nails and Tool because I'll be a wanky 17 year old til I'm 90.

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 3d

Define your music taste in eight artists

David Bowie
Nine Inch Nails
Tool
Joe Hisaishi
Carly Rae Jepsen
Ghost
Nobuo Uematsu
Summoning

and Weird Al is always warring for inclusion with at least one of those in the near background

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 3d

Define your music taste in eight artists

David Bowie
Nine Inch Nails
Underworld
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Wu-Tang Clan
The Knife
Goldfrapp

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

the mountain goats
jeff rosenstock (and associated projects)
100 gecs
underscores
lady gaga
david bowie
sophie
guns n' roses

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Euronews @euronews.com · 4d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

l.euronews.com

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 3d

love him. sincerely.

Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 3d

Legendary Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu says he’s never used generative AI, and never will.

"I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself."

automaton-media.com/en/news/fina...

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 4d

Flashing back vividly to multiple people yelling at and then defriending me for even tepidly saying you don't have to love on this creep for placing himself in opposition to Trump ages ago.

New York literally deserves better than him even being in consideration for this.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 4d

“It was a mistake to put so many migrants in New York City.” - Cuomo

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 4d

i know i’m mostly yelling to the choir/void here but i really hope that any dem suggestion of keeping ICE is reacted to like the psychopathic suggestion it is. it can’t be another repeat of mumbling boilerplate about reform and then tossing them even more money

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Oculus Imperia @oculusimperia.bsky.social · 5d

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wolfgang fuckface @mustachetoilet.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine being mad at me while I'm just over here looking like this

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 6d

Continuing my B5 rewatch - ah man, I forgot about the TECHNOMAGES. No show today would dare have a cabal of space wizards show up, quote Gandalf directly and then put a curse on a foe's radio to play opera singing all night. We've fallen so far as a civilisation.

A space wizard wielding a black iron staff topped with a quartz crystal, wearing a black greatcoat and standing in a futuristic corridor

A space wizard sneering at someone, garbed in a high-collared black robe with arcane sigils scribbled on his chest

A space wizard holding his black staff in a martial stance, hand out to cast a spell and hood up against a space station backdrop

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 6d

It's easy to go "wow the new crop of nazis are so much more pathetic than the original ones" but you bet your ass that the original nazis would have been doing shit like this if they had the tech. The history of fascism is wretched, sadistic failsons all the way back.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 8d

The real American dream.

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 8d

Stampede ended up being really great. I'm excited for this, the 98 series was one of my first anime shows that I got really into and seeing Milly and her ridiculous gun and the latter Wolfwood arcs are going to be a treat.

TVアニメ『TRIGUN STARGAZE』特報｜2026年1月テレ東系列にて放送

YouTube video by TOHO animation チャンネル

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 9d

RIP Diane Keaton, best known for directing one episode of Twin Peaks.

Close up image of a chess piece with the credit Directed by Diane Keaton superimposed over it

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 10d

I barely even knew who she was before this year but I feel like people's feelings on her for her advocacy are a very good litmus test for whether or not they're a soulless ghoul.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 10d

Nicely done

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 11d

Completely predictable and yet still gave me a visceral disgust response.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 11d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 11d

I kind of unironically love Noah but I'm willing to catch myself in the collateral here

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 11d

POV: you're about to hear about how Darren Aronofsky is just a misunderstood genius bro, come on bro let's put on the Fountain bro there's some really deep stuff in there about the fall of man,

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Aaron Jacobs @ajacobs.bsky.social · 11d

It's legit one of my favourite experiences since watching The Return as it dropped each week. There are two truly succulent sequences that I can't wait for you to get to, and you're going to know them by the soundtrack.

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Merc with a 🫦 full of blood🩸 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 12d

that’ll do, pig

The Wesley Snipes crying while pointing a gun meme, but now it’s Farmer Hoggett.

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