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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻

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Immersive Experience Design +30yrs -- theme parks, museum exhibits, attractions, MR/AR -- I connect people and stories in physical places. Not the famous music producer. GenX🤘 Queer & married 🇨🇦 Husky dad. Stay kind & curious. http://www.davecobb.com/

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · Apr 15

MEN IN BLACK: ALIEN ATTACK opened 25yrs ago on April 14th 2000 @ Universal Orlando.

I'm so grateful for the opportunity to work with an incredible team on something so groundbreaking -- and truly humbled by the fans who have constantly made it a must-see park favorite for a quarter-century!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

Dismantling the VRA is their plan. An all out attack on black/brown representation that would give Republicans a hammer-lock on power.

A potentially 20-plus house seat shift. Pay attention.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 21h

"Fascists are twelve" seems to be the evergreen statement as of late

If this is how they treat someone that everyone knows when the whole world is watching, well we already have seen how bad it is to those behind closed doors

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 16h

I have been send a bunch of blocklists — let me compile and forward

Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 16h

If I recall, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES in 1983 (below), TRON in 1982 and WATCHER IN THE WOODS in 1980 used “”Productions”, no castle in sight?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

if you're black and 14, you're a man. if you're white and 40, you're just a kid

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 17h

This isn’t creeping authoritarianism, it’s racehorse-quick. Anyone being silent or accommodating right now can refer to history books for a preview of how they’ll be remembered.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 22h

This thread! 🧵

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

One of the funny things about chatgpt pivoting to porn is that Meta already tried that just a few months ago.

Zuckerberg made a John Cena chatbot that would sext with children.

Then, a few months later, Zuckerberg *did it again*. Same results.

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 23h

You can follow all of his exploits here: www.instagram.com/ziggystardog...

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 23h

This thread. 🧵

The fact that people can be shown LIVESTREAMS on social media of these places that AREN’T war zones and still act like this…

…shouldn’t surprise me, because it’s directly disproportionate to the level that they ignore footage of *actual* war zones.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jun 26

Say the words "portland" or "san francisco" to an autoplay-infected boomer and they will tell you this lurid tale of mad max post-apocalypse. They're convinced every city is a warzone.

Everyone *else* is trying to live their lives and these freaks think they're in mad max.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 23h

Look at all those “college aged kids” texting each other “I love Hitler.”

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 23h

Dog is my co-pilot.

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 23h

SNOOT.

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 23h

RIP Drew Struzan, the designer of so many iconic movie posters that are seared into my pop-culture consciousness. I have a few posters signed by him, including this rare one for the Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland. Thank you for these incredible touchpoints for so many stories I love so much.

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 1d

*swoon*

Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 1d

I’m taking some folks’ advice and trying some mute words for awhile instead of deactivating.

If anyone has any well-curated block lists, lemme know (I have a bunch already, but most of that is for the REALLY bad accounts).

Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 1d

Deactivating Facebook a few months ago did wonders for my mental health.

Bluesky is similarly turning to nothing but doomscrolling.

I will most likely deactivate this too at the end of this week.

I can always reactivate accounts later. But for now, it’s nothing but stress & not worth my time.

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 1d

Yeah I may try that first

Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 1d

Hmmm. Something to consider

Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 1d

I’ll most likely be deactivating TikTok too.

I’m still (reluctantly) keeping Instagram for now:

Me: www.instagram.com/davecobb

My dog: www.instagram.com/ziggystardog...

Other: linktr.ee/davecobb