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Bodybag Jones @daydreamcomix.com · 1d

Sure, it’s an Auntie who uses Facebook type meme, but damn it this means something to me.

The iconic breakfast club poster with all the heads photoshopped to the three iconic masks from Halloween 3, Tom Atkins, and Stacey Nelkin.

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Mark Griffiths @markauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Few things more redolent of an English autumn than the traditional willow diplodocus.

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 16h

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · 19h

The idea of defunding universities on the basis of the sector's set of joke 'metrics' for success is the logical conclusion of the perverse consumer model of UK HE that UUK wanted.

Uni senior managers created this to justify their own salaries.

Now the entire sector will go down.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18h

The idea of linking fees to TEF is clearly an attempt to bankrupt a set of universities. The reputational damage of association of cheaper tuition with lower quality* will ring a death knell.

* of course, TEF does not measure teaching quality

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 1d

Diane Keaton by Annie Leibovitz, 1986

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 21h

So last night's six course taster menu actually had nine courses (including the innovative "pre-dessert") and a trick question - turns out "Two glasses of wine with dessert?" actually meant two glasses each of two different wines.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d

Legendary interview moment with the director of Morbius about Jared Leto’s behavior on the set of Morbius

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I heard a story about filming and I want to see if this is true. Someone told me that Jared Leto was so committed to playing Michael Morbius that even when he had to go to the bathroom, he would use his crutches and slowly limp to get to the bathroom. But it was taking so long between for pee breaks, that a deal was made with him to get him a wheelchair so someone could wheel him there quicker and he agreed to that. Is this true?

Yes.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Masshole57✌🏼 @masshole55.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: A librarian fired in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves just got the last laugh – a $700,000 settlement for violating her first amendment rights. 👏 May this be a warning across the nation.

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 1d

Very sad to hear that passing of the great Diane Keaton (1946-2025). We loved her in many things; but especially crime thriller Looking for Mr. Goodbye (1977). #RIP

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Read the piece on P Thiel's views on the antichrist and the apocalypse and I find it so horrific that someone with so much power and influence via wealth has such barking views, rooted in such cruelty. I can imagine him arguing that many people should die to lower his taxes, and this is "Christian".

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Masshole57✌🏼 @masshole55.bsky.social · 2d

Listen. We only have 4 months to learn Spanish. Here is how you say, “Release the Epstein files.”

"Libera los archivos de Epstein"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

The corruption and self-dealing is staring you in the face. Hello?

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 1d

When fascists discover Greimasian rectangles

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no

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Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ Star, Dies at 79

Diane Keaton, who starred in "Annie Hall," has died. She was 79.

variety.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 1d

in which Archie finds himself in the MacKaye-verse

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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 2d

Now listen, I’m no scientist/professor of public health or anything like that but I don’t think this is how it works?

A picture of RFK Jr. With his arms out giving a speech with the quote “We’re doing the studies to make the proof” posted on IG by Dr. Andrea Love.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

This is the thing about ai. The benefits are nebulous hypotheticals but the costs are very high and immediate

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 1d

faint sounds from the pub, as of revolution or football support

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