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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 6h

(Then we just edit our 60% of the surprise hotel inspector's screen time, replace that with a few more scenes in Mexico, and we're damn near perfection)

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 6h

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

Ocean's Thirteen is still solid but Al Pacino is goofy and offputting, drags down every scene. Give me Robert Redford and we have a more serious, menacing foil to take down. Instantly a more suitable conclusion to our best trilogy.

Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 18h

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

The Snowman (2017)
Recast: Detective Harry Hole with Michael Shannon
How it's fixed: Shannon’s unhinged intensity turns this icy mess into a psychological horror. You feel the frostbite and existential dread.

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 18h

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

Mine is "The Godfather- Part 3," recasting Sophia Coppola (great director, but should not have been given this role) with Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 7h

WOW

(gotta get Cameron out the paint too though, gimme Rachel Weisz)

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 7h

Brian and MacDonald, Scottish solidarity

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 7h

I stand with The Man Who Accidentally Sat On A Freshly Painted Bench Before His Job Interview Then Had the Presence Of Mind To Lay Down And Roll Around And Go All In On The Pinstripes.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Hellrazor @sugarazor.bsky.social · 8h

Here's my pitch: you back a Brinks truck to John Carpenter's house and he makes a legacy sequel to THEY LIVE where we willingly put the aliens back in charge. Like we know they're aliens. They're still here. They're trying to kill and enslave us. We all have glasses. And we reelected them anyway.

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 7h

Smoke em if you got em

CNN @cnn.com · 7h

The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world. https://cnn.it/42EJdJ4

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 10h

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 10h

Informing the public about our descent into authoritarianism, top priority of the summer

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 10h

Bijan is almost certainly not even listening!

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 10h

This is the same plot as Dazed and Confused

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 10h

"Journalists have until Tuesday at 5 p.m. to decide whether or not to sign the form. Those who do not must turn in their credentials a day later."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/b...

Why have a credential system at all? Because both institutions got something out of it.

Several News Outlets Reject Pentagon’s Reporting Restrictions

www.nytimes.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 11h

Surely a coincidence

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14h

The man who now owns this magazine was interviewed by the NYT recently.

He “did not have a negative word to say about Trump or his policies. ‘I fully support the president. I think he’s doing a great job.”

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 11h

Vlad Guerrer-O Jr.

Steve Jones @stevejones20.bsky.social · 12h

the greatest moment in tic tac toe history

Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 12h

The fact that you haven't read a book since high school doesn't make other people woke. It makes you an idiot — and digging in with denial and outrage is psychologically easier than being embarrassed and ashamed when you admit to being a willfully uneducated fool.

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 12h

Columbus was always a piece of shit. This didn't change. You were just lied to as a child. Because, well, white supremacy... but also largely because 1492 is a good rhyme, it was a monumental boat ride, and it sucks to tell a 10-year-old their home was founded on genocide, slaughter and cruelty.

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 12h

Many now recognize that Trump Lives In A Permanent 1980s Time Capsule Of The World. But feels like a lot of the "anti-woke" sentiment comes from a similar, deeply aggrieved sentiment from people outraged they've been asked to learn anything beyond what they were taught between 7 and 18 years old.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 23h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 23h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 15h

I still quite frequently have to force quit this app because it just gets hung up or won't load stuff. Thought it might have been my old janky phone but... nope, happens all the time even on an otherwise-well-functioning 2025 flagship.