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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 56m

IKR!

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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 8h

A Maryland federal contractor that employs about 1,000 individuals with disabilities is navigating a lot of uncertainty and anxiety during the shutdown. Some employees are furloughed or working without pay.

Federal contractor that hires people with disabilities faces uncertainty in shutdown

During a government shutdown, federal contractors face a unique situation. They have the difficult job of trying to fulfill obligations to their employees, even though the work and funding for federal...

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holdmybooks @holdmybooks.bsky.social · 10h

Renew Pachinko and Little America you twerps.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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The Pixel Project @thepixelproject.bsky.social · 11h

#USA: National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or TTY 1-800-787-3224

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 5d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1669

Paddington in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 20h

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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 1d

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Elphabussy Thropp @dayoftheweek.bsky.social · 2d

OG MCU Baddie, Dr. Karen Jenson.

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Douglas Yung @daigreon.bsky.social · 21h

A versão do EWF pra Gotta get you into my life dos Beatles
youtu.be/MKskYvTGEHE?...

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 21h

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 21h

Yes. Yes I do. 🤌

Albumism @albumism.com · 21h

Do you remember hearing this album for the first time?

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No Hetero Database Wanderer @anagramofbrat.bsky.social · 1d

Honorable mention because the original was featured in an x rated italian film. No I am not kidding go look it up. youtu.be/QTXyXuqfBLA?...

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Andreas Parks @andreasparks.bsky.social · 1d

When Solange put the “Xxplosive” beat over a Dirty Projectors single. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek5W...

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 1d

I mostly dug it but it does have issues

A ★★★½ review of Ballerina (2025)

“Do you like to dance? I know a school where they teach dances. I could take you there if you like.” Ok so on the one hand Len Wiseman’s spun off murder murder murder and then still more murder fest h...

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 1d

I hate these fucking arsonists. Hate the people who spent the before times building houses of matchsticks too.

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t find much on the digital numbers, but as of June the print numbers cratered to below 100k subscribers

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The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 1d

Cutting out minute 11 to minute 31 of BALLERINA (or say from the end of the flashback to the reverse action scene) would improve it by at least a 1/2 star.

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 1d

Many people On Here think that capitalism is uniquely bad, but when you boil it down, their fundamental critique of capitalism is a critique of humanity and power, not a particular economic system.

SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d

What it feels like defending capitalism on Bluesky

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TheeDemFairy510🍁 @theedemfairy510.bsky.social · 1d

One of my proudest parenting moments was when my son's second grade teacher called me to discuss his saying christopher columbus was not a hero and I was like I don't see the problem?

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 1d

The limited entertainment options of our old exurb centric economy, the blockbuster video market and cable carriage fees did so much damage to the industry that too few are willing to admit to. Hollywood has to do better by its audience because both its audience and our options have changed.

Sam Raimi & The Midnight Sons @rochardscott.bsky.social · 1d

“Cineastes” are fake mad because Chloe Zhao understands the tension between art and commerce.

Thankfully it is a vocal minority as always.

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Chloé Zhao on Why Hollywood Is ‘Not Very Good at Preserving the Language of Ambiguity’ and How Neurodivergence Is Her ‘Superpower’ in Filmmaking

During a conversation at London Film Festival, Chloé Zhao got candid about her experience in Hollywood, film financing, neurodivergence and more.

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 1d

This I week I expect to read how this was insanity on Leto grounds as is that Gosling parlayed a FAILURE into TWO 100+ M vehicles. Because my past criticism of Hollywood's business press as being complicit in it's failures by being indifferent to its audience alienating racism/sexism was unfair.

a woman is sitting at a kitchen counter with her arms crossed and looking at her phone .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a kitchen counter with her arms crossed and looking at her phone .

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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 1d

With #PredatorBadlands tickets on sale, it’s also a great time to revisit my deep dive review into #Prey and how its authentic representation sets a high bar. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Prey Is the Best and Most Intimate Predator Movie in Years

Dan Trachtenberg takes the Predator franchise back to its roots with a compelling setting, a great lead character, and some killer action.

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 1d

This.

Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

historian of Latin America here, reminder that Columbus's extreme cruelty to indigenous peoples was known to his contemporaries and got him in trouble *then*

yes this man was so racist that he got chastised for it in *1500*

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 1d

Rather than being a boring cynic critiquing in advance I should be optimistically hoping that the filmed entertainment business press surprises me this time by going in on this miss on “it’s 2025, the feck are studios still setting millions alight trying to make never was 🥛 guys like Leto happen?”

The Playlist @theplaylist.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: ‘Tron: Ares’ Doesn’t Connect With Just $33 Million At The Box Office

‘Tron: Ares’ Doesn’t Connect With Just $33 Million At The Box Office

This was not the opening Walt Disney Studios was hoping for. A little under 15 years since Joseph Kosinski’s “Tron Legacy” debuted to $44 million, the studio unleashed a third installment of the franchise, “Tron: Ares.” Directed by Joachim Rønning and starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Gillian Anderson, and Jeff Bridges, “Ares” opened to just $33 million in 4,000 theaters in the U.S. Continue reading ‘Tron: Ares’ Doesn’t Connect With Just $33 Million At The Box Office at The Playlist.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 1d

Louise with Speedy Schlichter in a still from Diary of a Lost Girl (1929).

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