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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 1h

happy birthday to this little guy!! 3 years ago is fishtopher's intake/rescue date

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, sits and looks out above the camera. He looks happy and his eyes have a bit of a sparkle in them.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 4h

oh cool, another tremendously great decision by the guy who owns the company that fired Alan Sepinwall & drove away from Variety myself & so many excellent industry reporters. Never change, PMC failson in chief!

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h

Scoop: Jay Penske, who owns the Golden Globes, is pitching far-right podcasters with a proposal that they spend upwards of $75,000 to boost their chances of winning this year's inaugural podcasting award.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/golden-glo...

Penske and the Podcasters

Jay Penske’s Golden Globes are debuting a “Best Podcast” award—and documents obtained by Status show he’s trying to sell pricey packages that could boost the chances of right-wing extremists winning t...

www.status.news

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 3h

I note that the Roman Emperor Vespasian made himself immensely popular by completely burying Nero's Golden Palace and building the Colosseum and public gardens on top of it. He was also known for being able to laugh at himself.

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 4h

Free 100% winning message for any Democratic presidential candidate:

“I will undo literally everything that asshole did, as quickly as possible, and prosecute the hell out of his accomplices. And him however and wherever we can.

Minute one: we bulldoze the old man’s stupid ballroom.”

WINNER.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3h

“What do you mean it’s on the record? It’s on Signal with disappearing messages” is the journalism equivalent of “How can I be out of money? I still have loads of checks left”.

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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 1h

No-bod-y beats the Friz [Quadrata],
Nobody beats the Friz!

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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 2h

also look at what Penske is doing to the industry right now. buying up everything he can, shuttering legacy outlets, demanding people coming back into the office, laying off people who can't or won't move their lives across the country.

that company is a vulture.

Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 3h

I guess I just feel like it should be a bigger deal that Penske Media owns the Golden Globes and ALSO Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, GoldDerby, and Deadline, plus 20% of Vox Media

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h

Scoop: Jay Penske, who owns the Golden Globes, is pitching far-right podcasters with a proposal that they spend upwards of $75,000 to boost their chances of winning this year's inaugural podcasting award.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/golden-glo...

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Oct 28

BORIS KARLOFF: there's a sour wind outside... the air generally sucks... the Grinch is coming to whoville.... hes going to fuck you right up...

1970s TV PRODUCER: *smoking five cigarettes at once* keep that tape rolling this is like jazz

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7h

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

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lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social · 6h

Neighbor said a bear ate the pumpkin off her porch. Guess I won’t be putting out my decorative Big Macs this year

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 6h

massive AWS failure is just a snow day for adults

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 6h

No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.

The white house, a gaping wound in the east wing. It looks like a ruin or a mound of garbage

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5h

Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 6h

at least he hasn’t bulldozed the white house to build his gold palace while federal workers continue to go unpaid. lol. can you imagine. [takes a big sip of water]

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 6h

I like the scene where they beat Pennywise by all yelling “YOU’RE JUST A CLOWN” like it’s a slur or something. I’m pretty sure he knows he’s a clown

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1d

It and It Chapter 2: exhausting towers of nothing, in which every change made to the source material obscures the original's power and intent. The anti-Terror. I'm kind of in shock

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 7h

Been wrong before but demolishing part of the White House while prices rise, the government is shut down, and health premiums are about to go through the roof? Might break through

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 6h

The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 6h

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 7h

Reposting myself from FEBRUARY because GODDAM.

CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · Feb 2

Right? I think we need to get in the habit of thinking of him and his maladministration as arsonists. That burning anything and everything is their reason for existing, and to give them not a single atom of benefit of the doubt.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 10h

Life in Hell 1996 comic by Matt Groening.

The title is “Wisdom of the Ages.”

Four panels. A cartoon rabbit character is in each of the panels with the same bewildered look.

Panel 1: Caption reads, “1960s.” Speech bubble reads, “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

Panel 2: Caption reads, “1970s.” Speech bubble reads, “Watergate is proof that the system works.”

Panel 3: Caption reads, “1980s.” Speech bubble reads, “Helping the rich is helping the poor.”

Panel 4: Caption reads, “1990s.” Speech bubble reads, “By being the same as Republicans we can defeat the Republicans.”

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 18h

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

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A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat.

The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 10h

"blockingiscowardly" was fun to block today.

No good comes from engaging with MAGA accounts on Bluesky. They're here to argue. Blocking deprives them of their reason for being and makes them more unhappy than anything else you could do.

Block AF. Cut off their lifeblood. Ya know, if ya want

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 16h

Ludicrous take to say nobody misses the video store. Going to my local video store as a teenager was so fucking good. They had a five movies for five days for five dollars deal that was pretty much the greatest thing ever and a super stoned clerk who had seen every movie known to man

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ceej @ceej.online · 11h

our "smart" coffee machine at work is broken today. I made a joke about it being related to the AWS outage but then we looked in the back and it's plugged into ethernet

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James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · 2d

HUGEST of thanks to the amazing @friendlyashley.bsky.social for recommending @backblaze.bsky.social as data backup. After I came home yesterday to these messages on my desktop, Backblaze and Ashley’s kind guidance got me going on my laptop. $8.25/month is the cheapest work insurance you’ll ever buy.

A Windows blue screen of death that reads, Hard Disk Error. Please run the Hard Disk Test in System Diagnostics.

A Windows blue screen of death error that reads, Boot Device Not Found. Please install an operating Hard Disk.

A Windows blue screen of death error, except even more stark, plain white text on black, that reads, error: no boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed.

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Jess F @jf32flavors.bsky.social · 14h

Old enough to remember how legacy press mythologized the “grass-roots” Tea Partiers, and also remembering the Tea Party movement was funded by the Koch brothers

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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