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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 18h

HE’S the one making jokes!

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 21h

Very excited to see ADAMDAM CONOVEONOVER in both Des Moines and Spokane!

A screencap of two instagram posts, side by side, for Adam Conover's comedy tour. The lettering on them looks like it says ADAMDAM CONOVEONOVER, which is funny if you're like me and have the comedy sense of a child.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

[Professor Farnsworth voice]: "Good news, everyone !"

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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alexandernemser.bsky.social @alexandernemser.bsky.social · 1d

TFW someone overhears the idiolect incantation you murmur to yourself all day long in private

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 3d

Every democrat should be talking like this. Not the feckless mueller time version of this that we’ve had for years, but actual promises of actual consequences

As long as it goes unpunished we’ll never be free of this

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 3d

There are a handful of people who taught me early on that gender dictated little to nothing about how you had to look. She meant a lot.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of 79

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent sentence.

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 5d

Trying to figure out if I’m autistic, because my dick doesn’t look like Watto’s face.

Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 6d

100% of the time, without fail.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 6d

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty effin rad.

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 8d

Me (nailing a 95 point Hyundai vehicle inspection to the dealership door): That’ll show em!

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 8d

i know that the months leading up to the lexus december to remember sales event are an exciting time for many of you. it used to be for me, but most dealerships won't let me attend services because i named my kid toyotathon. they won't even let me wield the sceptre. i just thought it was a cool name

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 8d

Fork - sword
Spoon - shield
Knife - greatsword
Chopsticks - dual wielding daggers
Soup spoon - tower shield
Salad fork - short sword
Dessert spoon - buckler

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 8d

if I'm not mistaken, this is the first UBI scheme where they aren't in some stupid endless "study" and finally have enough data to just simply DO it, and of course like all the studies showed, the result is a huge boost for the economy

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 12d

A skeleton walks into a bar.

Bartender: What’ll ya have?

Skeleton: A beer and a mop.

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes you just gotta play the hits.

Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 12d

string: (walks into bar) can i get a beer please

bartender: we don’t serve your kind in here

string: …ok (goes outside, ties self up like a pretzel, messes hair and walks back into bar)

bartender: (grumpy) aren’t you the string that was just in here

string: nope, i’m a frayed knot

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 13d

My dear friends wrote a movie that is actually being produced, and if you know anything about this industry you understand that they’ve basically walked on water. Go get em!!!

Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing @hivemindactual.bsky.social · 13d

The Hivemind have written a movie that will star Daredevil’s very own Charlie Cox! Check out the breaking news report from Deadline for all the details! deadline.com/2025/10/synt...

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 15d

good post

Don House @donniemarvelous.bsky.social · 15d

David Cross folks.

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 15d

Angst (1983) is a wild ride and well worth your time.

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 16d

So helpful to remember that there are movies.

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 16d

If this is true I’m going to be a billionaire.

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17d

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

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Max Isaacson @brosis.bsky.social · 17d

Sometimes, as a treat, I pretend I know you people and we can have a funny back and forth where we lightly rib each other.

But then I remember the odds of that leading to one of you trying to kill my dog or measure my skull for “abnormality”.