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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 2h

Princess Leia’s Star Wars: A New Hope hologram holds a coffee cup & says “help me caffeine you’re my only hope”

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 1h

Webby is upset.. I know because he is talking and he almost never talks.

Orange tabby exotic short-haired Persian (Webster) at the vet...

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Sarah Appleton @sarahappleton.bsky.social · 6h

Cat’s out the bag, Full Moon Rising: The Charles Band Story is coming soon, directed by yours truly and produced by Chris Alexander. Poster art by Ilan Sheady. More soon…

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1h

Kelly Reichardt’s heist tale THE MASTERMIND announces itself as one kind of movie (jazzy Jarmusch-esque comedy, loosely hung around a crime framework) and then gradually wanders away from that to become something else entirely… an observational Bresson morality study? V good. ★★★★

Josh O’Connor between two paintings in The Mastermind.

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Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 1h

When are the rest of you gonna be ready to eat the rich? Because I'm rearin' to go.

Futurism @futurism.com · 5h

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Alex West @alexwest.bsky.social · 42m

When I don’t blend my contour.

Still from Halloween H20 of Michael’s CGI mask.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 26m

Sticky darkness?

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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 2h

Rejoice, Peachfuzz fans - Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass' THE CREEP TAPES has been renewed for a third season, set to hit Shudder in 2026.

Shudder Renews THE CREEP TAPES For Season 3

Rejoice, Peachfuzz fans - Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass' THE CREEP TAPES has been renewed for a third season, set to hit Shudder in 2026.

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Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social · 1h

On this day in Horror History, HALLOWEEN 5: THE REVENGE OF MICHAEL MYERS was released in 1989.

Michael Myers’s face with a little girl in a clown costume and a knife in the foreground.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 14h

This blog opener from @jhoffman.bsky.social is relatable as hell, and just as brutal. open.substack.com/pub/hoffstac...

MIGHTILY!

On blessings and curses and "Tron" and "One Battle After Another" and other things.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13h

spending the day digging up old essays of mine about horror movies, I guess

Suspiria (2018) | Priscilla Page

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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 13h

A very exciting week for the top horror movies on streaming this week, as scary season is finally underway. It's a mix of classic fright films and brand new additions to the genre, but since there are quite a few beloved terror tales, that means people are watching films from 47 years ago alongside…

Top Horror Movies Streaming This Week

A very exciting week for the top horror movies on streaming this week, as scary season is finally underway. It's a mix of classic fright films and brand new additions to the genre, but since there are quite a few beloved terror tales, that means people are watching films from 47 years ago alongside films...

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Beetlejuice Delores @beedelores.bsky.social · 13h

~$500 behind in bills because a month of doctor appointments and a pub that haven’t paid me. Anything helps!

Beetlejuice Delores @beedelores.bsky.social · 2d

That pub from two months ago STILL hasn’t paid me. Any help would be appreciated. 💜

Related: I think I’m going to finish out this year and figure out what else I can do besides writing… 😭

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 13h

Slowly reading Ta-Nehisi Coates The Message, and if you’re looking for some hope in the world, the third section of the book, Bear The Flaming Cross has it.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 14h

here's a little something I wrote several years ago about Jacob's Ladder, one of my favorite horror movies all time

Jacob's Ladder | Priscilla Page

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Beetlejuice Delores @beedelores.bsky.social · 15h

Timeline Cleanse — we may need it this week

A photo of a grey kitten lying on its back and showing his teefers

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🥀your ghoulfriend gore-igan.⚰️ @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sure they'll fix it soon enough, but one of the clearest tells I've seen in these Sora videos is how the mouths move in a very exaggerated way, like someone lip syncing.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 20h

Generative video is going to destroy the world. Here I am, at a protest I never went to in a city that doesn’t exist being arrested by cops I’ve never met

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

also "retribution" implies he was wronged in some way by the people he's persecuting, subtly justifying what he's doing. bsky.app/profile/reun...

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15h

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

The media coverage does not reflect this AT ALL.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 3d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16h

ICE pulled GUNS on 3 people in the Rogers Park area today.

In just a single Chicago neighborhood today, ICE went after
rapid responders, "pulling guns on at least three people and arresting one volunteer."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

We don't know how many people they took. The last update I got from a source I trust was between three and six, and they weren't even entirely sure about that range. ICE was also far more aggressive with our rapid responders today, pulling guns on at least three people and arresting one volunteer.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 16h

A glorious day of horror at NYCC 😄

Clay McLeod Chapman, Eric LaRocca, Hailey Piper, and Delilah S. Dawson, steeped in shadows at New York Comic-con 2025

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Eric Vespe @ericvespe.bsky.social · 16h

I did a thing. Incredible friends, wonderful location, and a beautiful bride. I’m a lucky guy.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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