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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

remember when

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry she did what

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton directed this banger music video on top of all her other achievements, RIP to a legend

youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

I heard that Jacob Tremblay acted the shit out of his torture scene so hard it disturbed the other actors.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

Capitol—where the writer is king. Forgot about that!

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

right? I probably never would have noticed if I hadn't just rewatched both movies like a week apart.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out A Serious Man is set in the same world as Burn After Reading.

Michael Stuhlbarg, forehead-desking on his hands in A Serious Man. He’s hearing of his wife’s divorce attorney: “Well, she has retained Barney Silver at Tuchman Marsh.”

Kevin Sussman in Burn After Reading as a lawyer representing Elizabeth Marvel’s character, serving notice to her husband George Clooney. He’s saying the name of his firm: Tuchman Marsh. Tuchman Marsh.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 3d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3d

Realizing why the vibes of the frog man pictures have felt familiar — its this old meme with stakes

Bane and Filthy frank (in pink spandex) facing off, arms spread

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

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Russ Bengtson @russbengtson.bsky.social · 2d

i like that you used a photo from her headlining set at ozzfest

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 3d

His brain is smoother than a marble counter top made by Carlos Santana featuring Rob Thomas.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Rogan on Trump’s cruel mass deportations, racially profiling non-criminals and ripping apart families: “This is crazy. That shows no heart. You’re not gonna get any reasonable people to go along with that. Any kind person would go ‘this can’t be the only way to do this’.”

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3d

It’s easy to make fun of, but watching the president of the United States ask Andy Ngo and Jack Posibiec who the bad guys are so that they can be prosecuted for domestic terrorism is truly fucking terrifying. We have fallen a long way already.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 3d

Work interrupted by noticing my dog having the best time ever out back.

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Adam Smith @asmith83.bsky.social · 3d

Paying out $700,000 so a kid can’t read a book titled, “This Book is Gay“ is not a great ROI on censorship, imo.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3d

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young people and who sought their removal from youth shelves will be paid $700,000 after settling a lawsuit.

Wyoming library director fired amid book dispute reaches $700,000 settlement

"It's been a rough road, but I will never regret standing up for the First Amendment," Terri Lesley said.

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 3d

"Whether it is in fact confusion, or rather a product of deliberate misremembering, this pattern of forgetting who was in charge of the country during some of its darker hours encapsulates the state of vibes-based unreality that many currently choose to live in."

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 4d

More and more people are saying "who was president in 2020" and I wrote about why.

“Who was president in 2020?” is more than a viral meme

GOP politicians and other officials keep making statements that imply the events of 2020 occurred under President Biden. X and Bluesky users are trying not to let them get away with it.

www.fastcompany.com

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 3d

It's one big Discovery tab over there.

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 3d

Someone said this year is like being awake during surgery and… yep

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 3d

Any scenario where people put out of work by tech would be dependent on the benevolence of tech overlords should be laughed off, but instead we hear about it in earnest (from tech overlords) almost every day.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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