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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 14h

Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.

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Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · 1d

Nice day for a walk in the park.

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Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · 1d

This is hilarious, but what I really want to know is why no one on social media can spell Sliwa? (Not just this post or its comments, it’s everywhere. Is it supposed to be an intentional slight?)

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 2d

😂😂When redacted has no meaning.

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 3d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 2d

Best cartoon of the week for movie nerds.

A Watchmen parody in which Dr. Manhattan is on Mars thinking, "It is 182. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office. It's 2010. I am twenty-nine years old. Tron bombs at the box office. It is 2025. I am forty-four years old. Tron bombs at the box office."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

genuinely wild the number of quote tweets that see this as an insult toward mamdani rather than as praise for his discipline and skill at translating personal charisma into political appeal

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

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Cross-laminated & Skinned her 👻 🦇 🎃 @nickhasthoughts.com · 2d

sadly blueskyism is real and it’s this

I don't mean this to sound critical, but framing a person of colour as a
"performer" as opposed to prepared and competent comes across a bit paternalistic. I'm sure it's not your intent, but trying to be provocative while leaning into some boarderline racist language is dicy and undermines ur point

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I find this kind of stuff reassuring in a way, because we are never going to win electoral power in America with only smart people on our side.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes we are literally the same person.

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Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · 6d

Can’t speak for anyone else, but it’s definitely not on my agenda.

Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · 7d

The original or the remake?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10d

we would all be much better off if the crimes committed by the rich for their own amusement were treated more seriously than the crimes of desperation and necessity committed by the less fortunate

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Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · 10d

Wow. I desperately want to see Bill and Ted Wait for Godot, but at $1400 a seat, I sure hope it comes to streaming someday.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 14d

People... are allowed to come up with mean names for inanimate objects. If you compare this practice to racial slurs, I'm going to think you believe people of other races hold the same concrete significance and value as inanimate objects. This is one of those slips that does not look good on anyone.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16d

The reason this theory works is because most of our elites and leaders have no real views or opinions, but merely adopt those that they believe will earn them approval. And now they’re all seeking approval on the Internet, where everyone really is 12, or has the mental capacity of a 12-year-old

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15d

The MLM Presidency.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15d

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 17d

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Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · 17d

Say what you will about the people involved, but this is comedy gold.

erik-pbg.bsky.social @erik-pbg.bsky.social · 18d

Time to post the video where an ex of hers is on a C-SPAN panel with her and calls her a sadist to her face

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAIT...

Todd Seavey and Helen Rittelmeyer on C-SPAN2 BookTV

YouTube video by C-SPAN

www.youtube.com

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Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · 19d

I’m just glad it didn’t turn out to be the night of the long knives redux, but yeah, your expectations may be too high. I wish you a speedy recovery.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · Sep 19

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · 20d

Are you talking about the general population or just the Democratic leadership?

Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · 21d

It’s hard to compete on quality when there’s so much underpriced junk.

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Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · Sep 18

Don’t worry, OpenAI is working on that.

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Kyle David Jelle @kylejelle.bsky.social · Sep 5

It is pretty appalling. I don’t recommend being offended, though. They like that and will laugh at your liberal tears. Make it about them being worthless degenerates who don’t even know what they’re trashing.

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