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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 6m

lmao just a deeply unserious and unfailingly stupid person www.aol.com/articles/whi...

Whitney Cummings Says Riyadh Comedy Festival Backlash ‘Is Just Racism,’ Claims Stand-Up Comics Who’ve Worked With Live Nation Have ‘Taken Saudi Money’

Whitney Cummings is the latest comedian to defend performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which sparked widespread backlash in the comedy industry for its ties to the Saudi Arabia government. Speaki...

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 6m

RIP--ah, what a loss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCL...

D'Angelo, The Vanguard - The Charade (Live on SNL)

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern.bsky.social · 3m

Heartbreaking
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D'Angelo, Soul's Modern Visionary, Dead at 51

D'Angelo, the soul and R&B great whose three albums — 'Brown Sugar,' 'Voodoo,' and 'Black Messiah' — are all revered as modern classics, has died.

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Nick J Mascis @bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social · 8m

I used to think public mourning for celebs you never met was an unnecessary or odd use of social media, but now I think the collective part of it is one of its more redeemable uses.

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 33m

Monumental. Fucking monumental. youtu.be/IZFgYd62TEQ

Ain't That Easy

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 30m

My non-Bluesky friend, Gillian, with an excellent review of the book.

The Song and Dance Man Who Brought Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Pennywise to Life - Book and Film Globe

As Tim Curry is the first to admit, his best known alter-ego, the inimitable Dr. Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, would have no problem

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 1h

I received the Tim Curry memoir today. One thing he didn't talk about a lot during his lifetime was his pop music career. He does talk about it in his book, but only in so much depth. I always wondered about it, so my 2022 Pop Con paper was an examination of the albums through the prism of one song.

"I Do the Rock": A Stimulating Study of the Song That Defined Tim Curry's Pop Career

Here is the text of the paper (and a portion of the slide show) I presented at the Pop Conference on April 23, 2022. Full title: "I Do ...

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 14h

Saw A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE tonight and man, we should all pitch in and buy that movie an ending

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 14h

Hey look what a prick I am! So I can be the next Republican presidential nominee, right?

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 19h

Now up to 2,400 words...

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 22h

We absolutely, positively DO NOT need to learn to live with anyone who wants some of us FUCKING ERASED. Rowling & her money is doing real harm to trans men & women across the world and she needs to fuck off into the sun at her earliest opportunity. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Into the sun.

Laura 🍁🍄🦇🎃 @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

oh no. no. absolutely the fuck not. fuck off.

a bullshit statement from Keira knightley saying she was not aware of a boycott against jk Rowling before taking a job on the new audio series and that she's "sorry" and "we're all going to have to figure out how to live together and we've all got very different opinions"
She can fuck off.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 21h

It's a lesser issue, but Bari Weiss's vocal fry is off the charts.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 22h

A satisfying takedown of all things Bari, but I especially enjoyed the description of Skydance failson David Ellison as having "resting checking-into-the-White-Lotus face."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Farts "sʇɹɐℲ" Johnson @fartsjohnson.bsky.social · 22h

these dudes are high as hell

Coloring book with Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Frankenberry dancing away from a castle, all looking stoned

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine not only sharing this weak anecdote as your origin story -- a colleague didn't like Ben Shapiro, and I had to hear them talk about it! -- but making it your entire identity.

Jesus Christ.

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 1d

pinned tweet of the shitposter who wrote the story

Olivia Reingold
@Olivia_Reingold
Why I joined
@thefp
:

I knew I didn’t fit in when Politico let
@benshapiro
guest write an edition of Playbook. I told a colleague I was stoked because “this helps legitimize us.” They responded that they were taking a mental health day to process ‘Shapirogate.’

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t usually share links to my old podcast cuz it was a lifetime ago, but Kelly’s fave genre film is the little-seen French heist movie Mise á Sac (Pillaged), and I can definitely see some DNA of that in the descriptions of her new film. Can’t wait to see it. maximumfun.org/episodes/swi...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, I wrote about The Ice Tower, which still has no Seattle dates, but will be opening in Los Feliz on Oct 17 and Austin on Oct 24.

🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 10d

Lucile Hadžihalilović's fourth feature, The Ice Tower, is now playing some US cities, but not Seattle (I don't recall an opening for Earwig either, which I caught up with via screener). In some ways, the new work plays like a sequel or companion to Innocence, her first. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Hans Christian Andersen Meets the Brothers Grimm in Lucile Hadžihalilović's <i>The Ice Tower</i>

THE ICE TOWER / La Tour de Glace (Lucile Hadžihalilović, France/Germany/Italy, 2025, 117 minutes) How beautiful she was. So perfect! --...

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 1d

is this how CBS is gonna work now? using bari weiss's personal blog to launder poorly sourced and lightly edited stories (complete with a misspelling of mamdani's name in the headline) that would never pass muster if reported directly by a real news source?

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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