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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 5h

To his credit, the man I told this to immediately took off his own hat out of fear of being misidentified as a Christ figure by Peter Thiel

BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 5h

Got to tell someone in real life the other day that there is a man who has put huge sums of money into shaping the government and the nature of public discourse, and he thinks Luffy from One Piece is a Christ figure because his straw hat represents a crown of thorns

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 5h

Fuck that animated id monster rocked

ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 5h

FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

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Humanoid History @humanoidhistory.bsky.social · 8h

ALIEN production still.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 17h

Dreamed last night that Skrillex, an artist I have never listened to and am unsure if he still does stuff, released a CBD drink called Skrelax. “The ultimate in skrelaxation”. Ok

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 8h

So, as basically a non-sports follower, I've still learned "Company outings to sports games: Fun! Ordinary company happy hours: Boring, stressful!"

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 19h

I need you all to remember this as well...that bluesky actively assisted in ethnically cleansing Palestinians

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 19h

Just saw 2 Palestinian accounts vanish right after asking me for help--one a mother grieving her baby daughter who just died of starvation, another begging for help to keep her little sick, starving baby daughter alive. I cannot say what I think of Bluesky admin.

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Sarah M. - Blerdy Baddie @killianfantasy.bsky.social · 17h

With Sinners coming back to theaters, I just think about how that movie unlocked something. And not just in me.

An art piece of two Black people, a man and woman, sitting in a 1930s car. The woman is in the open passenger seat with a small robot on her lap. The man, wearing a brown suit, is sitting on the running board with his hat on his knee. A skinny limbed robot stands nearby, wearing a green fedora and holding a rifle over his shoulder.

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 17h

The part where he methodically explains all of his enhanced interrogation techniques to the bound suspect so that he confesses out of fear before Columbo even lifts a finger are my favorite episodes. Because you never know if he was bluffing or not

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 18h

Is this an issue of the media making high profile actors and other rich public figures the face of trans folk to the broader public?

Violet Velvet @violet-velvet.bsky.social · 18h

There's a harmful idea in society that trans women are wealthy, which is fundamentally untrue. I have never made more than 10k a year in my life, and a lot of trans people I know are in a similar boat.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 19h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 19h

Matt Berry knew enough to distance himself from Glinner in an interview, and say he did not share his views. I guess I hoped Rowling had the same obvious overwhelming stench, but it appears not

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 2d

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

It sounds like if you did it right, it could be wild

BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

In the hipster chocolate milk shop in Brooklyn 99, the cops are shocked and horrified to learn that the hipster chocolate milk is made so that the bitter of the chocolate brings out the sour of the milk, and I'm so curious to try that fictional drink

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

Abolish ICE includes the Keanu Reeves Constantine

BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

It's fuckin' weird in Reeves Constantine movie that he calls demi-demons and angels "half breeds" and talks about deporting them

BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

I guess he smokes and curses God, but that feels like a different brand of edgy

BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

It'd be one thing if this Constantine was supposed to be a bigot or had a consistently not PC sense of humor or something. It seems out of character

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

It's fuckin' weird in Reeves Constantine movie that he calls demi-demons and angels "half breeds" and talks about deporting them

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 1d

I will never get the keys to Trek but if I did I'd do a series set on a Klingon warbird and actually go deep into their culture, they're warrior-poets, and whenever the poet part comes out it's so fucking compelling

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

It would be sick to get some writers who are primarily professional poets rather than screenwriters into the writers room, too. Not just them, you need the narrative TV people, but also have some people who know the poetry craft inside and out in the process

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

Also whole episodes of them trying to meet up and missing each other. I think we all just did our best, and sometimes it was a mess, and then Seinfeld kept the record

BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

There's a Seinfeld episode where George is the lead car to a vacation cabin where only he knows the way, and he gets too far ahead and loses Jerry and Elaine and it's a mess

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

Indigenous Peoples’ Day has never been just a celebration. It is a call to action against the ongoing assault on our sovereignty and existence.

Native Survival Depends on Protecting Both Tribal and US Citizenship Rights

Trump’s attacks on Native sovereignty and citizenship are a deliberate effort to undermine the rights of tribal nations.

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

I think the comic proper's anniversary is next year, btw. This one is in-universe

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 1d

And to be clear, I believe the comic's proper 40th anniversary is next year, unless you count the DC Spotlight preview maybe. I was talking in-universe anniversaries here

BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 2d

Happy 40th Anniversary of Rorschach seeing the city‘s true face to those who celebrate

The first panel of the comic “Watchmen.”

On the top of the panel, text reads “Rorschach’s Journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.”

The rest of the panel depicts an extreme closeup of a city street where a pool of blood runs off into a gutter. On the edge of the gutter there is a yellow smiley face button marred by a single drop of blood that partially obscures one eye.

BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 2d

[It's maybe a little bit repeating the joke, but I think it warranted the actual image]

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