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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 8h

The tightest episodic television writing I've ever seen is THE RIFLEMAN and BLUEY

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10h

BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump's run on Nightwing has been cancelled by DC Comics

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 10h

BOOMERANG-TOOMERANG-SOOMERANG, motherfuckers
#NoKings

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Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter @eveharms.com · 16h

What a coincidence, The Atlantic has no value and lots of functional substitutes.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 17h

Please run, do not walk, to Daenerys exit

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

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

www.scientificamerican.com

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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 17h

That's really wonderful, and it reflects quite well upon Mom💗

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

www.cnn.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 1d

Just learned that my good friend and Kung Fu brother Carlton has crossed the Rainbow Bridge. A lovely guy who could hit like the crosstown bus.

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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Columbu Day to all who celebrate

Franco Columbu (upside down) at Venice Beach with his bestie Arnold Schwarzenegger during the shooting of PUMPING IRON. Franco was from Sardinia, and was very funny and incredibly strong.

Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 1d

Cause of Death: Apnea

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

ceej @ceej.online · 2d

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Most of us know the ….SPACE clip from Command and Conquer but I like how there’s three solid minutes of him being delighted with what he was asked to do

Tim Curry holds back laughter for 3 minute in Red Alert 3

YouTube video by Battle Dreadnought

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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a bit of Taoist wisdom: "AI Slop is for suckers"

This shit aggravates me to no end. It's not worth the alt text. Don't even look at it.

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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 2d

it's a kung fu vampire weekend

LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES is a Shaw Bros/Hammer film collaboration, two great tastes that taste great together

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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 2d

The Passion of the Monkey D Luffy

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 13d

Cover of Oliver Sacks "The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales" edited to read "the man who looked up how to cook chicken for his dog"

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 3d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 3d

it's BAD.

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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 3d

Diane often reminded me of my Mom. Both were effortlessly likeable, and had terrible taste in men

Diane Keaton, one of the all-time great screen presences.

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Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 3d

I'd like a few words with the boorish louts at HBO who scheduled commercial breaks during IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE. You simply do not do that to Wong Kar-wai

Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai in one of the most heartbreakingly romantic films of all time, and HBO executive fuckers decided they needed additional ad revenue.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3d

They think everyone else is as incompetent as they are at building things. They only know how to break things.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · Dec 19

Couple years back I picked up the original art for this inktober piece by @laurieaconleyart.bsky.social. It's just gorgeous. The rainfall and those lights! #artlife #comics #art

Beautiful small b&w illustration looking down a small path/road with trees on both sides and street lights just on right side. It's night time and it's raining. The street lights cause a light circle to appear on path . In middle of center light circle is a small cute little guy with a skull like face. He's wearing a tux and top hat and has bat like wings. He appears to be dancing maybe like a little Singin' In the Rain action.

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