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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 19h

tfw your favorite Ringer personality is in 4k on Netflix

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 19h

Please stop making me look at podcasters

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 20h

I would like to offer a service where I point out your monstrous verbal tics and conversational crutches

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re married to a hockey-haired bro from Tuscaloosa come get your man he sucks

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 20h

“Both of us are on that entrepreneur grind, you know. Those videos of us in Portugal paint a picture of us that isn’t really true you know?”

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 20h

Vibes at Stereo are rancid, stay far away. I saw a hardback Pynchon on the counter next to a puck of nicotine pouches and some dude’s bragging about his body count on the patio.

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

You keep pushing this “based on” thing like it’s a binding contract. The character bears some resemblance but she isn’t Assata Shakur, so the premise of these arguments falls apart.

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

I bought my old barber a whole box of these. He shoulda been more grateful imo

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 2d

This is the Ed Gein show
It’s not the Gein Ed show

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 2d

If you're so worried about government waste, you should really be worried about the billions we're spending on capturing a few thousand people.

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 2d

Cops are just CTE-riddled GED cases. We don’t need more of them and we don’t need to make excuses for them either.

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 2d

That last run of WTF episodes proved the show should end lol

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

what is your favorite flavor of boot

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

Is there another oasis show

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

Austin are you British now

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

CTE + GED = APD

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

Come to think of it, this is how the entire field of Classics works at progressive colleges: find a new angle on the troubled text.

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

Could we start thinking about Annie Hall as a miracle of editing? Could we learn about how Ralph Rosenblum Wendy Greene Bricmont salvaged it, reshaped it, changed its genre?

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

Any serious retrospective on Diane Keaton is basically also a Woody Allen film festival.

But: is this how we can salvage canceled art? By seeing it through another lens?

It feels arbitrary and petty to ignore someone's best work over another artist's trespasses.

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty funny that the proliferation of the MFA writing program coincided with a near-total collapse of literary fiction eh

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 4d

Good call. I guess I should have specified “original” franchise because there are a ton of abandoned adaptations (Golden Compass, Narnia, Percy Jackson)

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 4d

Every release feels like a tech demo that no one asked for.

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 4d

Is Tron the only huge budget franchise without a single great movie?

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think ICE is recruiting professionals.

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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 4d

damn who could have foreseen that giving every desperate redneck in america a bonus, a mask, and carte blanche to hassle city dwellers could have negative consequences

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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