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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 4d

Pilot: (on intercom) There are no air traffic controllers today so everybody look out the window and holler if you see another plane

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Andrew Granola @mourningcake.bsky.social · 3h

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 4h

It’s essentially an emergency that you see One Battle After Another in the cinema immediately. Sean Penn will win an Oscar & it has the best car chase in many years. And those aren’t in the top 3 best things about the film. Jesus shitting Christ.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 6h

Living in UK has aspects that are way better than US (NHS, no guns) but on the flip side you can’t watch October baseball live and the sun sets at 2:30 in the afternoon in the winter.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 8h

Oh that’s lovely to hear! x

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 9h

Hahaha started watching Common Side Effects, the superb new (to me) show from Joe Bennett & Steve Hely & then saw this quote from Hely

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 17d

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

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

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah like we needed to be taught that

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"On August 8, masked men in tactical gear surrounded the Van Nuys Community Job Center, and pointed weapons at my coworkers and me."

"ICE has raided our day labor sites at least 14 times since June."

"Refuse to let kidnapping become normal."
#California #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

ICE Is Targeting Day Labor Centers in LA That Hold Contracts With the City

Elected leaders are failing to protect immigrant workers. We must build community power, as only we can keep us safe.

truthout.org

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 14h

In all the horrible news Israel & the US generate when they work together, it is instructive that I learn that Israel’s strike on Qatar didn’t even kill the Hamas officials it was allegedly targeting *from an article about how Trump will personally profit from the ceasefire.*

Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 1d

An underreported aspect of the Gaza ceasefire: The business deals that Trump's family made with Gulf Arab states gave Trump a personal stake in restraining Netanyahu — my piece @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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💀 'hyperbolic vituperations' Cryptid 🎃 @bradicality.bsky.social · 8d

AI at its peak

A red Speak and Spell toy computer from 1980. The Speak & Spell line is a series of electronic hand-held child computers by Texas Instruments that consisted of a TMC0280 linear predictive coding speech synthesizer, a keyboard, and a receptor slot to receive one of a collection of ROM game library modules.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇸https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/unicorn-bride-marries-kenny-from-south-park-at-portland-ice-protest.html

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

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Scouting Report

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 2d

Behind the projection booth doors: a 35mm beauty of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) running through the projector this morning. One of our all-time favourite prints pure, gritty horror, film on film the way it should be. Shows again Thu 23rd Oct at 6:30pm.

🎟️ : tinyurl.com/texaschainpcc

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

I am so sorry.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

Me taking to William: “Incredible work on suicide prevention. Just magnificent. Now here’s how we’ll tear down the monarchy.”

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

My family’s charitable efforts (like where we do actual work beyond donation) is focused on kids’ hospice but I would one day like to figure out how to help fight suicide. I am constantly grateful I have [the recovery community] & wish “normies” had better access to something similar.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

Brutal read but there is a very postive & beautiful development growing out of this tragedy. Rhian Mannings an incredible woman & credit where due; William could spend his days 1000 other ways. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Prince William visibly moved as widow tells of husband's suicide

Prince William's foundation is giving £1m to set up a suicide prevention network.

www.bbc.com

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