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Amos Posner
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Writer, director, occasional actor, Badger, New Yorker.
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · Jun 20
It never feels like the right time to promote anything frivolous, but my birthday is tomorrow and it appears I'll be stuck at home sick, so I posted my short Concept High publicly. It's under 6 minutes and played the Austin Film Fest last year and I dare say it's fun www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05s...
Concept High
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 49m
Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 17h
I hate that Dodgers wiggle dance with the fire of a thousand suns.
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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18h
Does this guy have some kind of Producers situation where he only gets paid if there’s a junta
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h
NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18h
RESULTS: voters in Oklahoma City have passed all 11 ballot measures that make up this package—unlocking $2.7 billion across hundreds of projects. All measures up by gigantic margins.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19h
A set of elections to watch today: Oklahoma City residents are deciding whether to finance $2.7 billion in projects and services, a big chunk to street projects but also large pots for other purposes like funding parks.
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 18h
It's very strange for Southwest to make such a marketing blitz out of assigned seating when every other airline has always done that. It's like going around bragging about having lost your virginity at 30.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20h
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 19h
I was just telling my 17 year old nephew the story of when he was a rather psychotic toddler who, when refusing to eat and asked what he would eat, declared "Eyeballs!" So I brought a bag of lychees I'd peeled at home and offered him an eyeball. Everyone ate one and made yummy noises while he stared
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 23h
I would simply not use a national party body to intervene in a primary race and instead build infrastructure for the eventual nominee, trusting the choice of primary voters, but then again I lack the political acumen of people who have steered the party into its lowest ever modern approval rating.
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 22h
If I were there I'd really have to weigh how much I don't want to be disappeared forever by goons versus how much I wanted to shout "Double or nothing says you can't do it again"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23h
If you saw the sentence "They are loving it like they have not loved a lot of things" you would know who said it immediately. I long to go back to the time when The Apprentice was on, I never saw it, and the only thing I was vaguely aware of was "You're fired!" being the weakest buzz phrase.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Trump opens the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "This is the first time we've been at the new and improved Rose Garden. And people are loving it. They are loving it like they have not loved a lot of things."
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d
The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d
it’s illegal, but, also, this didn’t happen, and if someone *did* tell him this, they were lying
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"
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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d
Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad
My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*
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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d
You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 1d
And generally I just feel a little safer when someone who wants to put me in an oven is someone I could easily shove into a locker.
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 1d
This goes way beyond fat shaming. The fat people I know have at least an iota of style and don't go way out of their way to look like John Boorman villains--and more importantly, don't spew hate for whole groups of "inferior" people.
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 1d
Sure it's shallow and doesn't help the larger issues at hand, but I find it at least a little validating as a Jewish person every time I see a white supremacist whose ass I would kick up and down the floor in either a fistfight or a beauty contest.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d
Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach Sam Douglass, Vermont state senator
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 1d
Even if you're the sort of person to respond to things like this with "He's from a different time," that's another great argument that maybe, just maybe, more of our nation's leadership should be from contemporary times.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Dec 27
"oh, so you're saying--" no. i'm saying the thing i said, not the thing you made up. go back and read the thing i said
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d
I thought this was lovely.
"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion." black text on white background "Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York." A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 2d
I hate that so much
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 2d
"Please, mister website was my father's name. Call me--"
"Nope. This is too familiar already."
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 2d
"I didn't ask for homework." YES.
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 2d
Right? Especially when most people who go out of their way to write nasty reviews of people doing their low-paid jobs are more likely to be reviewing their own mood than anything.
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 2d
Bank: Please leave a review of your experience with us.

Me: I USED AN ATM. IT PROMPTLY GAVE ME THE AMOUNT OF MY MONEY I REQUESTED. PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME SPEND MORE TIME THINKING ABOUT THIS. THAT DEFEATS THE PURPOSE.
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