Arran
@arrannz.bsky.social
Please, Abraham, I am not that man. He/him
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Arran
@arrannz.bsky.social
· Feb 26
I recently made a resolution of sorts to stop aimlessly watching YouTube videos when I'm bored and instead watch a movie I've never seen before. No list of stuff to get through, just browsing a streamer and seeing what takes my fancy. Thus far this has resulted in first-time watches of:
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8 year old kid on Christmas: yayyyyy!!!!!
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
8 year old kid on Christmas: yayyyyy!!!!!
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this clip encapsulates so much of what has been wrong about MSM Trump coverage for the past decade -- treating Trump's lies and bigotry as a valid "side" of a debate instead of calling it out, because calling it out makes it seem as though you're biased
MSNBC reporter presents Trump's shameful racism towards Somalis as merely "a different view"
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
this clip encapsulates so much of what has been wrong about MSM Trump coverage for the past decade -- treating Trump's lies and bigotry as a valid "side" of a debate instead of calling it out, because calling it out makes it seem as though you're biased
Sure, your dogshit company constantly requires massive cash injections just to keep running at a huge loss on a chatbot, but I'm sure you'll figure out this gigantic scientific undertaking and pay for it, no problem
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Sure, your dogshit company constantly requires massive cash injections just to keep running at a huge loss on a chatbot, but I'm sure you'll figure out this gigantic scientific undertaking and pay for it, no problem
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does anyone else notice the giant lady doesnt cut up your hot dogs anymore!?
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
does anyone else notice the giant lady doesnt cut up your hot dogs anymore!?
Fucking clown shit, Johnson.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Fucking clown shit, Johnson.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
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You either grow out of being a Libertarian when you're 15 or you spend your whole life as an intellectual clown arguing things like
*checks notes*
"Maybe allowing war crimes would be great for the drone strike & missile industries."
Libertarianism NEVER leads to utopia; it ONLY leads to despotism
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"Maybe allowing war crimes would be great for the drone strike & missile industries."
Libertarianism NEVER leads to utopia; it ONLY leads to despotism
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
You either grow out of being a Libertarian when you're 15 or you spend your whole life as an intellectual clown arguing things like
*checks notes*
"Maybe allowing war crimes would be great for the drone strike & missile industries."
Libertarianism NEVER leads to utopia; it ONLY leads to despotism
*checks notes*
"Maybe allowing war crimes would be great for the drone strike & missile industries."
Libertarianism NEVER leads to utopia; it ONLY leads to despotism
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Horny nihilist media critics/radical centrist pundits: "whatever else you think of her, Olivia Nuzzi is a brilliant prose stylist"
Olivia Nuzzi:
Olivia Nuzzi:
hands down my favorite line from a book that provides no value add to the written word besides being, possibly, the most narcissistic memoir ever put to paper.
December 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Horny nihilist media critics/radical centrist pundits: "whatever else you think of her, Olivia Nuzzi is a brilliant prose stylist"
Olivia Nuzzi:
Olivia Nuzzi:
Grover listening to Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Grover listening to Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Me, as usual, listening to only the coolest of artists that all the youths are into
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Me, as usual, listening to only the coolest of artists that all the youths are into
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I will never understand why an actual movie director chooses to spend his time and energy behaving like a fifth-tier shitposter. (Also, this is a Hall of Fame bad take.)
Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Most filmmakers know better than to publicly torch another director’s film or an actor’s performance, but Quentin Tarantino has never really played by those rules. On a new episode of Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast, where the pair ran through their top 20 films of the century, Tarantino used his praise of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” as a springboard to lay into one of its key performers: Paul Dano.
Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’ at The Playlist.
dlvr.it
December 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I will never understand why an actual movie director chooses to spend his time and energy behaving like a fifth-tier shitposter. (Also, this is a Hall of Fame bad take.)
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
You think that's bad, wait until you get to the bit where dude's foot is run over by a lawnmower. It looks like this
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
You think that's bad, wait until you get to the bit where dude's foot is run over by a lawnmower. It looks like this
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james cameron every couple of years for some reason:
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
james cameron every couple of years for some reason:
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If you'd like some good news on AI, the last few weeks have seen execs across multiple industries strive to hide AI usage labeling on their products because, as many of us have said FOR YEARS, the audience that *doesn't* want AI is substantial and we will reject your product whole hog for using it.
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you'd like some good news on AI, the last few weeks have seen execs across multiple industries strive to hide AI usage labeling on their products because, as many of us have said FOR YEARS, the audience that *doesn't* want AI is substantial and we will reject your product whole hog for using it.
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
"David Byrne Tiny Desk Concert" feels like something that has always existed, even though it didn't actually appear until today. youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?...
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"David Byrne Tiny Desk Concert" feels like something that has always existed, even though it didn't actually appear until today. youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?...
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Ah, the accusatory “we,” where rather than describing something the author and others do, it means “you,” and it is meant to describe something others, but certainly not the author, do, which is implied to be wrong or unreasonable.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Ah, the accusatory “we,” where rather than describing something the author and others do, it means “you,” and it is meant to describe something others, but certainly not the author, do, which is implied to be wrong or unreasonable.
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Even setting aside not wanting to support him for jacking off in front of people, I feel like the fact that he did it undercut the entire concept of Louis CK as a comedian: that he was a man with repulsive thoughts and urges, but who had attained the self-knowledge that comes with recognizing them
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Even setting aside not wanting to support him for jacking off in front of people, I feel like the fact that he did it undercut the entire concept of Louis CK as a comedian: that he was a man with repulsive thoughts and urges, but who had attained the self-knowledge that comes with recognizing them
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our media is so obsessed with the five famous assholes who unapologetically fucked up instead of all the people who didn't
what about everyone who doesn't "need" a second chance because they didn't expose themselves or assault anyone or move a former student into their house right after graduation?
what about everyone who doesn't "need" a second chance because they didn't expose themselves or assault anyone or move a former student into their house right after graduation?
November 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
our media is so obsessed with the five famous assholes who unapologetically fucked up instead of all the people who didn't
what about everyone who doesn't "need" a second chance because they didn't expose themselves or assault anyone or move a former student into their house right after graduation?
what about everyone who doesn't "need" a second chance because they didn't expose themselves or assault anyone or move a former student into their house right after graduation?
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[watching video after video of middle-aged Chicagoans in pajamas absolutely motherfucking heavily-armed government goons] Time to pay up!
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
[watching video after video of middle-aged Chicagoans in pajamas absolutely motherfucking heavily-armed government goons] Time to pay up!
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is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend