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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5d

Portland Frog gets it

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 3d

Very tired of writers who are considered "quintessential" always being, y'know, white guys. Tired of the archetypal idea of what a writer looks and sounds like, what personality type they have, how they write, what they write about, all being centered around white guys.

It's so f*cking alienating.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 18h

Thought I was fucking losing it then. Turned over to ITV1 and they're showing The Dark Knight again, the second time in three nights. It's a great film but come on, play the game. No wonder broadcast television's on its arse.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 19h

There are so many responses savaging the looks of these men. It's taking the easy way out. There are plenty of people who look like those men and are not racist sacks of human refuse. Something is deficient in their souls. In their minds. In the manner in which they were raised.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 20h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Scotty @whocolour.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to watch Black Mirror's excellent Beyond the Sea without thinking about the chap being called David Ross which is surely a Doctor Who joke, is quite a challenge lol

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 3d

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

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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On Her Majesty's Rail Replacement Bus Service 🔞🦀 (Crab Verified) @ipsumlorem.bsky.social · 20h

I've just seen Drew Struzan described as being "To film posters as John Williams is to movie scores", and I can't think of a more fitting description.

18.03.1947 - 13.10.2025.

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Kippy Woo-ooo-ooo! 🦇🎃👻🧛‍♂️💀🐺🕷 @tygerwhocame2t.bsky.social · 19h

Whodathunkit?

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 19h

Please please please please please DON'T DO THE THING OF REPLYING TO SOMEONE TO PERFORMATIVELY INFORM THEM THAT WHATEVER THEY HAVE MENTIONED IS RUBBISH AND YOU HATE IT. It's so *tedious*.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 20h

Look at the wraparound artwork Struzan did for the Indiana Jones books in the early 90s, complete with hand-drawn titles and author blocks!

16 year old me would stand in a mall B. Dalton and could feel the thunder & hear the music with one of these books in my fat little white suburban hands.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 20h

The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.

Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 23h

Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 19h

A Master.

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 20h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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honkers_enjoyer @epicharis.bsky.social · 23h

they're also killing spotted lanternflies and doing a valuable service to defend the environment, not at all like retired Brits in Spain

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Veronica du Lac (She/Her) @krustyallslopp.bsky.social · 23h

And serve à purpose. Not only are they nature's pest control, they're pollinators and the evolution of the human gut is inextricably linked to wasps. Incredible creatures for whom I have great respect. Unlike retired Brits in Spain

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 1d

I've found they are pretty tame if there's lots of rotten apples for them to feed on in my backyard, as if they're drunk, also kind of like retired Brits in Spain probably.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 1d

"put marilyn monroe in game of thrones" ok but why. why would you do that. how would that make it better. you've already seen game of thrones, you know what happens, how is seeing marilyn monroe instead of lena heady going to improve things you fucking dullard

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain

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🎃Simon Threadgold🎃 @dimwittedly.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly forgotten just how angry that smirking diseased scarecrow still makes me. Kneecapped the nation with Brexit, to get a job he refused to do, and got thousands killed. All while laughing at us.

“Disgraced Former” should be an officially recognised title, with sanctions and prison time.

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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 1d

MESSAGE OF THANKS

A heartfelt thanks from the entire Film is Fabulous! team to everyone who has donated to our cause, shared our posts, and supported us with positivity.

Thank you.

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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 1d

Books should start their story on page 1. All that nonsense where the first bunch of pages of pre-story copyright/publishing metadata & blank pages somehow count despite them only deserving invisible page numbers, only for the story proper to start on page bloody 7 or whatever, can bugger right off.

Page 7 of Doctor Who - Fury From The Deep, aka the first actual page of it

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 3d

My life is linked to Steven Spielberg, in a way. My first movie was E.T. My childhood was Indy and then JP. Schindler when I was 13 and I was opening to the world. Ryan at 18. Munich 26. I saw Bridge of Spies this year and it was like he was talking about the world today. I owe so much to Spielberg.

a man holding a trophy next to a woman with the name steven on the back of his chair

Alt: a man holding a trophy next to a woman with the name steven on the back of his chair

media.tenor.com

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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 1d

“Spider-Man pointing 3 times. Ralph in danger. This is fine dog. Sicko at the window.”

jhazor.bsky.social @jhazor.bsky.social · 2d

I've talked about it before with people, Darmok was actually quite precient. their Language is basically modern meme culture if you understand the reference understanding is immediate and instinctive, if you don't its utterly impenetrable

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Today's newsletter is all about this brilliant ad www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 2d

it’s crazy to think that TRON is still named after Bruce Boxleitner’s character in the first movie, who has not appeared since, rather than Jeff Bridges’ character, who has been in all three. The franchise ought to be called KEVIN

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 2d

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