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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Put me on the ice floe
kleinman.bsky.social Bobby Big Wheel @kleinman.bsky.social · 2h
Winona Ryder is older than Rue McClanahan was when Golden Girls first aired
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com
This AP news story is incredible from front to back but I wanted to flag something super serious and wildly illegal that may have flown under the radar. It’s called parallel construction and it’s when intel is washed from spy agencies and used by local cops. apnews.com/article/immi...

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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
jasontorrey.bsky.social
Post your favorite "Transformers" character. Wrong answers only.
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
jasontorrey.bsky.social
@profanity.accountant How sweary am I?
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
jasontorrey.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with five (more) concerts you attended

The New Pornographers
Tori Amos
The Urge
Vance Gilbert
Peter Mulvey
okbjgm.bsky.social javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with five (more) concerts you attended

billy joel
roxy music
tears for fears
queensryche
u2
okbjgm.bsky.social javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with five (more) concerts you attended

janelle monae
rush
robyn/royksopp
the temptations/four tops
philip glass
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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noisyastronomer.com
OOOOo what a fascinating modern twist on the Clever Hans story...
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d
Wilhelm von Osten was a German math teacher, mystic, phrenologist. He also owned a very clever horse he named HANS.

Around 1894, he took his horse on tour, demonstrating his exceptional number sense skills.

van Osten would ask a question: "What is 2 x 6 ?"
Clever Hans would tap his hoof 12 times.
"Wilhelm von Osten and Clever Hans" a horse is held by a man in civilian uniform, like a groom, while a man in an overcoat with a long white beard stands next to him. In front of Hans the horse is a chalkboard with German alphabet on it. From 1908
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
jasontorrey.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

The Police
Liz Phair
Weird Al Yankovic
They Might Be Giants
Public Enemy
tigerlily.northsky.social Tiger Lily 🐅 🏳️‍⚧️ @tigerlily.northsky.social · 2d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

David Bowie
Black Sabbath
Skinny Puppy
Alanis Morisette
Type O Negative
developher.net (evidently) Emily @developher.net · 2d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

Moby
John Williams
Sigur Ros
Philip Glass
Death Cab for Cutie
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
1/ As someone who got a (imho cynically timed) letter of apology from Stephen Glass but was disinclined to think he should be admitted to bar…the reason I felt so strongly was that he actively deceived fact-checkers. An FCer for story I edited at Harper’s. And many FCers at TNR including…Ryan Lizza.
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d
I just rewatched SHATTERED GLASS (and reread the article, which being by Buzz Bissinger is great) and it's really a portrayal of a very specific moment - that brief period when people didn't realize that the internet let everyone factcheck, but before rampant shamelessness.
oliviamesser.bsky.social Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 3d
Honestly the combination of the alleged source betrayals and secret recordings and the way this has rolled out has just fundamentally fucked us all in a way that’s bigger than the Stephen Glass scandal by a significant margin, and I think everyone is grappling with that in real time
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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gregpak.net
Government should be accessible. The people who work for government, the people who influence its policies, should be accessible. Mamdani's doing this right.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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nedraggett.bsky.social
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
A look at forgotten Hollywood landmarks By Kaleb Horton Let's say you come in from down south, and you're looking for an unsung movie landmark. So you fly in to LAX, rent a car, blow right past Hollywood, leave Los Angeles county heading north, go over the Grapevine, gape at the monumental hills and, wow, there really is a Smokey Bear Road, then you turn off the air conditioner when the sign tells you. Once you come down the grade too fast and see the world's loneliest Denny's, you're well on your way to what you're looking for – the middle of nowhere. You're going to Kern County to find the spot where Alfred Hitchcock filmed one of the greatest scenes in movie history, the crop duster sequence from "North by Northwest." It takes place in Indiana, of course, but the Indiana road sign and the imported corn field can't deceive this Bakersfield native. The parched and desolate heat of the scene feels too much like Kern County. The scene people know off-hand — Cary Grant running from an airplane — isn't why "North by Northwest" is a classic. The film's greatness, as was often the case for Hitchcock, lies in its build-up, its suspense, its mood. The plane moment is almost anticlimax. It is those five minutes before Grant's desperate escape that constitute a mathematically perfect suspense scene. So expert is Hitchcock's hand that he creates suspense, a slow burning dread, with no camera tricks and no music in broad daylight. Grant's character is a prototypical James Bond. His perfect suit, fast wit, high-alcohol tolerance and effortless charisma have got him out of every predicament so far. In the city, among people, he has powers. Take him away from people, put him nowhere, and he's just like us — totally helpless. He has no powers: His suit is no good out here; his million-dollar tailoring and perfect haircut is just vanity now. No amount of pretending can provide escape. Here, is the one place where he can die, and he gets by on the grace of God. All he can do is wait for what's coming. So when you seek the lost landmark of this scene, you're looking for an idea as much as a place. You're on Highway 99 now, going 30 miles north of Bakersfield, looking for an unassuming patch of dirt that carries spiritual weight. The scene was filmed neart Garces Highway to the west of Delano. You'll think there's a handy exit for it. There's not. You'll probably get lost in Delano, counting on a connection. You're at once a million miles from Hollywood and a hundred miles away. It's lonely. The horizon sprawls forever like there's nothing past it. There are broken down trucks on the side of the road, plumes of smoke from faraway fires. You'll find Garces eventually. You'll pass a bar called Rosy's Place, abandoned houses, an oil field, a prison, a cemetery, a sign that says "we clean headstones," and a whole lot of gold-on-brown punctuated by an occasional trailer or car going faster than you. You're looking for where Garces meets Corcoran Road. That's where this "North by Northwest" scene was filmed. You'll get a vague idea where it is but you'll never be exactly sure, since there's little impetus for clear signage 10 miles from a prison. Maybe Corcoran Road is unlabeled. Besides, that Indiana sign and the prop cornfield haven't been there in 56 years. If you're anything like me, you'll lose the light and call it a day, unsatisfied with the route you took. You return to I-5 northbound. From the 5, you'll meet Route 46, and go through a place called Lost Hills, then back in to the location from Corcoran Road instead. That's how Hitchcock probably did it. More intuitive. Still in the middle of nowhere, but on your way to Corcoran Road, you're right next to another Hollywood landmark: Blackwells Corner, James Dean's last stop. It's a glorified Texaco, and gas is 50 cents a gallon more than it should be. They sell Jelly Bellys and '50s kitsch artifacts — plates with Marilyn Monroe's face on them, and so forth. They really figured out how to cash in on death. You don't want to stop here. But I stopped. I asked the kid at the Blackwells Corner counter how to get to Corcoran Road. He gave me a look that said "there's no reason to go there," and then wearily told me where to go anyway. I was about 8 miles from the destination. Going there is a meditative experience. You're not just going to the middle of nowhere. You're going to the perfect nowhere. Going alone, in the hypnotic heat of the Central Calfiornia Valley, you might even forget what year it is. There is no reason to believe the road would be so well preserved for half a century, intimately tied to the career of an actor born in Bristol 111 years ago, but it has been. There's an abandoned house. A barn with a cross on it. But almost nothing has changed in 56 years. At some point new lines were added on the road. There's overgrowth where there didn't used to be overgrowth. A couple discarded Budweiser cans from who knows when, but mostly it's identical. This is the same sleepy loneliness that Alfred Hitchcock used to make great art in 1959. And that may sound dull, but tranquility is the point. You stand on that dirt and there's no distraction from what's in your soul. It's an inner destination, not an outer one. I told my grandma about it when I got back to Bakersfield. She told me her Uncle Harold thought it was the prettiest road in America. And she showed me a picture of a Corcoran grade school class posing in the dirt with Grant and Hitchcock. It's just a field trip picture. The kids are fidgeting, many with arms folded, some shielding their eyes from the sun, all with obedient smiles. They'd all be in their sixties now, but they'd remember where this road is. It emphasized the ugliness of James Dean's last stop becoming a place to sell T-shirts. It's about what we preserve, and what we don't, and what we remember, and what we don't. It's easy to find shrines to morbidity and hard to find meaningful places. For those, you have to go looking.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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sarahspain.com
Every year I see this remix with just men’s sports, so… Happy Thanksgiving from Good Game with Sarah Spain! 🫘🫛🥔🍅

P.S. Check out the editing skills on yer girl. Watch out world, I’m starting to figure out this whole content creator thing…
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
jasontorrey.bsky.social
I'd want a Wonderfalls movie and to be able to watch the writing process on how to deal with hot Lee Pace.
benjaminkabak.com Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4d
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
Better Off Ted was ahead of its time.
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
jasontorrey.bsky.social
Well, I sincerely miss
those heavy metal bands
I used to go see
on the landing in the summer
Pope Leo holding the microphone like he's singing a Death Cab for Cutie or Wilco song.
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
jasontorrey.bsky.social
Jaelin cradling Rose in celebration is my new happy gif.
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
jasontorrey.bsky.social
What the fuck with the broadcast CBS? First, fucking apartments dot com FULL commercial during play, then a replay, REPLAY, as a quick throw-in happens. #nwsl
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
jasontorrey.bsky.social
Looking at lineups, and as @838carlisle.bsky.social points out all the creativity up top, I think that how effective Howell and Hershfelt are breaking up forward momentum before it gets to the backline, will be so interesting to watch.
jeffkassouf.bsky.social Jeff Kassouf @jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 7d
#NWSL Championship lineups (though I would not expect this shape for the Spirit in particular): Trinity Rodman on the bench and available again. Minutes TBD.
November 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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darbylyons.bsky.social
This may be my favorite Bluesky thread so far.
gbrockell.bsky.social Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 7d
Why grant anonymity to someone who is lying to you with the company line? This adds nothing but misinformation to the story and the person quoted isn't going to get in trouble for saying it.
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
jasontorrey.bsky.social
I'm still laughing about the trending words...
nowbreezing.ntw.app ☁️Now🤖Breezing💨 @nowbreezing.ntw.app · 7d

Bluesky's Top 10 Trending Words (past 10min):
💨x2* - ukraine 🔓
💨x23 - goldeneyes
💨x18 - torrent
💨x16 - stokes
💨x14 - starc
💨x13 - resigning
💨x13 - felching
💨x1* - democracy 🔓
💨x11 - 11/22
💨x10 - marjorie
*🔓 = Unlocked Emergency Words (see img)

#ListenToBlackVoices

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Word Cloud; its top words (sorted by weighted frequency, descending): ukraine*, goldeneyes, torrent, stokes, starc, resigning, felching, democracy*, 11/22, marjorie, wickets, pwhl, overtime, lizza, 福島, zelenskyy, greene, batting, 1﹐617, riddance, mitch, hockey, gaza*, downloading, bleach, 細田, 才能, zaterdag, vancouver, shades, resignation, rave, perth, mtg, mercedes, mamdani, buns, boreen, batters, 駐車, 正確, 心地, 岩佐, 届き, ひる, wicket, vip, thompson, supremo, socialism, rebound, puck, playable, paragraph, ot, norris, geez, frequency, f1, ebay, cynthia, caleb, blades, battered, bamboo, awaiting, ants, abby, 3-3, 178, 아이고, 進む, 連休, 逃し, 裁判, 脚本, 維持, 系列, 神戸, 知性, 発狂, 減らし, 済ませ, 混ん, 月曜, 接触, 年末年始, 夫婦, 味噌, 含ま, 北欧, 動け, 光る, 倒れ, 体質, 人数, ワイド, ラブラブ, モンハン, ミク, ビビっ, パレ, ハチワレ, ドラクエ, ダッシュ, スクリーン, サンド, サポート, キャンプ, もともと, めんどい, ねっ, なめ, なう, どうやら, できれ, つくる, こもり, くま, いつの間にか, いかに, zohran, youuuu, wicked, vrchat, verstappen, vegas, upstairs, ua, thug, sábado, steph, slippery, sleeves, slava, signatures, sainz, robust, ringing, rfk, resigns, reacting, qtp, profession, possess, pole, platinum, piastri, những, nano, mum's, mayor-elect, manufacturers, lighter, lewd, lbs, lando, knocking, kendi, inaugural, hedge, hakeem, graveyard, granny, gmail, gambit, fwiw, fry, formerly, ferrari, exhibitionism, demographic, danish, culinary, components, cheddar, bowlers, bobby, backbone, appearances, accounted, 4-3, 1﹐616, 154, 전부, 웃김, 왤케, 영화, 싶은데, 봤는데, 받고, 마사지, 듣는, 두목, 남자, 남은, 귀여운, 곳에, 黒い, 魔女 Hashtag Cloud; its hashtagged words/phrases (sorted by weighted frequency, descending): ashes, goldeneyes, theashes, f1, ukraine, lasvegasgp, pwhl, frightclub, tcmparty, foulplay, 능욕, wickedforgood, nba, cute, cricket, seattletorrent, bbw, 비떱, 네토, アニメ, thecricket, teen, startrek, sissy, lewd, inpublic, indiegame, india, formula1, exhibtionism, exhib, ausveng, abrahamsboys, 초대녀, 야단라, 섹벙, コミティア154, コミティア, いい夫婦の日, いい, wrestlesky, wicked, torrent, tgirl, submissive, standwithukraine, southafrica, r34, pc, outdoor, newvwsw, mtg, mamdani, happy, ff14, f12025, exposed, eu, comitia, bts, aflw, 1416, 투얼리스닝, 친목, 지인능욕, 전주, 전국구, 영섹, 서울게이, 상납, 대구, 근친, 광주, 게친소, 건오, 건벙, 갱뱅, 歴史, 日本, 家庭菜園, ㄱㅊㅅ, マンガ, フェラ, スプラウト, キリトリセカイ, イマソラ, ぬい, どうでもいい写真部, どう, おはよう, xbox, worldofwarcraft, women, winter, voiceactor, videogames, valtteribottas, umamusume, trending, transgirl, tadc, t4t, sumo, sonic, solo, small, smackdown, siesta, sformula#sformula, settlersaturday, selfie, screenshotsaturday, sainz, ruzzia, russiaisaterroriststate, romance, pwhlseattle, pupplay, publickexhibtionism, publicexhibtionism, ps5, procreate, privacy, practice, portland, pokemonlegendsza, pnw, pixiv, photoart, petite, peladonarua, pawg, outdoorsex, nz, nsfwgay, nhlbruins, nato, nafo, museos, moan, mercedesamgf1, madrid, life, lgbtqia, lastfourwatched, kissing, kirbyairriders, kimiantonelli, kawaii, incest, helpsky, hazbinhotelfanart, hardcore, goodboy, georgerussell, gaydaddy, flock, femsky, fatcockfriday, exibicionismo, exhibpublic, essex, drawings, dom, dessert, democracy, dating, crossdresser, countrymusic, comicart, climate, chicago, canes, cadillacf1, bwc, blueskyartshow, blueskyart, bipocma, bator, bara, aviation, asshole, asian, animals, agenda, agegap, abstract, 19 Emoji Cloud; its emojis (sorted by weighted frequency, descending): 🏏, 👉🏼, 🪩, 🧸, 🦍, 🚂, 🙏🏾, 😗, 📦, 👤, 👍🏽, 🐮, 🏒, 🎲, 🍣, 🇮🇳, ✍, ♨, ☃️, 🪱, 🧩, 🧊, 🦴, 🦈, 🥤, 🥛, 🥒, 🤼‍♂️, 🤲, 🤦🏼‍♀️, 🤦🏻‍♀️, 🤚, 🛑, 🛍️, 🚅, 🚃, 🙌🏼, 🙀, 😺, 😶‍🌫️, 😒, 🗓, 🖖🏽, 🕖, 🕕, 🔝, 💭, 💎, 👿, 👾, 👽, 👹, 👮, 👩, 👍🏾, 👌🏻, 👊🏽, 👈🏻, 👆🏻, 👆, 👂, 🐴, 🐐, 🐏, 🐂, 🏷️, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, 🏳️, 🎡, 🎄, 🍮, 🍨, 🍦, 🍔, 🇿🇦, 🇺🇲, 🇺🇦, 🇫🇮, 🇩🇪, 🇦🇺, ⭕, ⬇, ⛩️, ⛄, ⚜️, ⚜, ⚔, ♥, ☠️, ☀, ©️, 0️⃣ Emoji Legend 💨x# | "Increased Trending Rate" for a Word (meaningful value; "💨x8 - burger" will mean "burger" is trending at 8 times its own normal rate for this time of day) 🔓 | "Unlocked" Ongoing Emergency Word (such words are not weighted down by their own previous usage; their *ongoing* increased usage--weeks, months, years--would otherwise move them down the list.) [PREVIOUSLY USED] ⚠️💨# | "Trend Strength Rating" ⚠️🌀💨 | "Trend Strength Rating" (see above) ⚠️🌀 CAT. # | [same; "CAT." = Category, like hurricane] 💬# | 10min Post Count 🆎# | 10min Word Count 🙂# | 10min Emoji Count
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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petersagal.bsky.social
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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mariancall.bsky.social
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durlauf.bsky.social Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 14d
3/The mistreatment of women in economics has long been an open secret. I have felt the obligation to discuss sexism in the profession with every female graduate student I have had starting as an Assistant Professor to this day.
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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trance.bsky.social
His worth is thought to be about 3 million.

Often 'net worth' guesses are wrong, because I have some famous friends and they've openly told me what they're worth versus what is reported. (It's generally haha so much lower, the inflation on that shit is amaziballs)

Let's pretend it is....
trance.bsky.social Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 15d
Multiple shows. MULTIPLE. SHOWS.
hugothepinkcat.bsky.social 🎄 Holidays Pink Cat 🎄 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 15d
Reminder that this is a man who worked on 128 episodes of a very popular TV series, and he's got to sell off all of his shit just to afford cancer treatment.

SO, HOW IS THE AVERAGE PERSON SUPPOSED TO?
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
thrilled to report that if Pope Leo is ever canonized as a saint, his jerseys will indeed become second-degree relics, and I unironically hope I live to see this
amandasmith.bsky.social Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 14d
Omg wait @clairewillett.bsky.social are all of the Pope’s jerseys relics now????
kleinman.bsky.social Bobby Big Wheel @kleinman.bsky.social · 14d
He's the sports jersey pope now. 1000 years from now historians will be going through the Vatican archives trying to figure out who the Charlotte Hornets were.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM