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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

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John Glover @jtglover.bsky.social · 3h

Core memories unlocked? A few words about revisiting SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.

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Something Wicked This Way Comes wasn’t my first encounter with horror, but it did leave a mark. As I’ve written elsewhere, my earliest encounters with monsters came courtesy of Mercer M…

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 6h

this has been quietly incredible.

there's a weird aversion in the US to talking about the nuts and bolts of systems, probably the same fear of unexpected taint that drives so much else of our risk aversion.

but wow! a child's naive idea of storing extra electricity in a big battery now works!

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 13h

It's very sad

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Starting Over

Margot Kidder opens up after she suffered a breakdown, disappeared and turned up filthy and battered in a stranger's backyard

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 13h

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 14h

Welp Imma get some use out of this.

Brennan Lee Mulligan on Make Some Noise saying "over 99% of the town agrees that I've been a good mayor"

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 23h

The demo for the upcoming monster fighter/dating sim I voice Mothman in is out!

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Bad Heroes on Steam

Save the world and romance misfit heroes in the first-ever dating sim and beat-em-up! When a crime wave grips Gloom City, you and your ragtag band of heroes-for-hire uncover shocking truths about the ...

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

I, a child, had the movie tie in comic trilogy which had disquieting art and showed Breathless's origin where she arrived in the city and immediately had to shoot the pimp trying to force her to work for him.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

Beatty still dresses up and goes on tv to secure the rights so he's playing the long game!

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

On this Indigenous People Day, if folks are worried about the erasure of Italian-American culture and heroes, might I point you to Sam Porcello, inventor of the Oreo

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Sam Porcello - Wikipedia

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

Had the most middle aged-ass dreams about forgetting to pick my kids up from school and regretting a house purchase because of unresolved water issues.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

Who amongst us has not turned their face to God and cried out "the whole world is covered in buttons and not one of them is mine!"

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

I was 7 when my parents took me to see this in theaters and it's weird how targeted at kids it was. So much murder and horny weirdness! The original comics were brutal murderfests so it wasn't as if the source material was particularly kid friendly. Nevertheless I had the action figures!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

It was huge! My parents took me as a 7 year old missionary kid to see it in theaters! They got me the action figures!

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.

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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · Jul 7

My daughter asked where "eureka" comes from...then she saw the excitement in my face

"Oh no! The short version, the short version!"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

You pay for my professionalism. The hand acting is free.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 1d

Every JD Vance interview:

REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree?

JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

Casting reminder! When you cast your mayor, you're getting all this talent for a bargain.

Your mayor as the narrator in Monkeyman Productions' Uncharted Zones

Your mayor as Roland in Present Laughter

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The John Wicker Man @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Clayton was released 18 years ago today. Today I reflect on what it says about moral aptitude and what it means to do the right thing.

Michael Clayton

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 2d

On how hosting a game day is about more than the game itself but about curating trust and community

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 2d

I'll stop when Watterson stops.

Rosalyn the babysitter from Calvin and Hobbes being shot at with a dart gun making the sound effect "wap wap!"

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