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video editor & multimedia designer & music person co-host Cinema720 @cinema720.bsky.social contributor @wavestage.bsky.social youtube.com/@royalsapien benmautner.com ☮️🏳️‍🌈 he/him

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RoyalSapien @royalsapien.com · Jun 19

congrats on your substack. it's weird that you're partnered with that company and i think differently of you now.

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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 15h

There is actually such a thing as not being online enough. Anyone who cares about trans people and civil rights, but doesn’t believe JK Rowling should be iced out of the entertainment industry is not online enough.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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RoyalSapien @royalsapien.com · 19h

we tried to do that but it looks like bsky took away the video button :(

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Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · 20h

Don’t use AI to write your articles. (Or do literally anything else.) It doesn’t know what it’s doing. Because it doesn’t know anything. Because it’s not a sentient thing. The amount of people being fooled by this patently obvious get-richer-quick scam is wholly depressing

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wavestage @wavestage.bsky.social · 21h

This Saturday is Sci-Fi night on WaveStage. Including the premiere of 2RON!

wavestagetv.com

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libby watson @libbycwatson.com · 2d

whenever i see “no kings” i hear it in the voice of Coily saying NOOOO SPRINGS from that mst3k short about how important springs are

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Cinema720 @cinema720.bsky.social · 2d

We're watching Prince of Darkness tonight! Plus lots of waves and the usual vibes. Check the discord for strem link.

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RoyalSapien @royalsapien.com · 3d

what's a House podcaster

New York Times subhead:
President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 3d

yet again using this as a jumping off point to promote the outrageous color work in racer trash and particularly in ellie pritts’ work, every frame undoing decades of sludgy gray-green

The Golden Gate Bridge as seen in a color inverted & hyper corrected shot from vertigo

The Golden Gate Bridge as seen in a color inverted & hyper corrected shot from vertigo, but with the bridge mirrored out to focus on the jumping woman

A heavily RGB shifted image of one of the female principals of horror movie House

An outline of the sand female principal, over a lurid pink-purple background

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RoyalSapien @royalsapien.com · 3d

what's a House podcaster

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ceej @ceej.online · 6d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 6d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Cinema720 @cinema720.bsky.social · 9d

We're watching The Innocents tonight, plus waves and music and good vibes. Hit up the Discord for the link

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 10d

Alberto Giacometti, Walking Quickly under the Rain, c. 1948 (cast 1949)
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136700

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RoyalSapien @royalsapien.com · 10d

this got me up to speed if anyone needs it techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/w...

Waffles eat Bluesky | TechCrunch

A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.

techcrunch.com

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dez👽 @invaderdez.bsky.social · 11d

spent my last night in my lil apt on the river 🥲 bittersweet but ready to gtfo of florida

still could use financial help, if you're able to. shares also appreciated!

check out my ko-fi! great way to support me & get something in return :) FP bundle is available until the end of the year!

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dez👽 @invaderdez.bsky.social · 18d

put together a bundle for all my ko-fi supporters which includes my new project .PIG made for the aesno community showcase. also includes .png files of various projects ive done!

you can donate $1 right now to help with my moving expenses & get some cool art made by me :)

ko-fi.com/post/FREE-PA...

FREE PALESTINE BUNDLE

Dez published a supporter-only post on Ko-fi!

ko-fi.com

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RoyalSapien @royalsapien.com · 10d

@shadowtodd.bsky.social For your list of songs that stop when they say stop, cued to the stop youtu.be/i1_QJsckL1k?...

Miss Missing You

YouTube video by FLAVIA - Topic

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 13d

not possible to regard as a single work but the most interesting thing in film this decade is waves & so long as cinema isn't too long impeded by fascism or AI slopocalypse a whole lot of the best of what comes next will connect back to waves in personnel or aesthetic (in many ways, already is...)

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13d

One Battle After Another has been getting a lot of “best movie of the decade” talk, and I’m inclined to agree but I’m curious — what’s the competition?

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 14d

I feel like Joseph Heller had their number back in the 60's in Catch-22 and I still think of this quote whenever I hear farm owners complaining about socialism or benefits or taxes. It was a short little aside but it stuck with me for like 25 years.

Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. he was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county.

Major Major's father was an outspoken champion of economy in government, provided it did not interfere with the sacred duty of government to pay farmers as much as they could get for all the alfalfa they produced that no one else wanted or for not producing any alfalfa at all. He was a proud and independent man who was opposed to unemployment insurance and never hesitated to whine, whimper, wheedle and extort for as much as he could get from whomever he could.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 16d

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

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Aesthetically Nostalgic @aesnos.bsky.social · 17d

AesNo's AESTHETIC SUNDAY series will be continuing on 10/5 at 3PM PT! come join us for some nice waves and replays as we cool down and make our way into october.

twitch.tv/aestheticallynostalgic

spooky season is quickly approaching...

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Kevin H Bell Esq @kevinok.bsky.social · 16d

Today was my last day as a federal employee, but tomorrow I and my new partner, Ginger Quintero-McCall, open a new law practice, the Free Information Group. We are both FOIA lawyers, and we are very good at suing the government. 1/

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 15d

Reading a recipe that’s like, “marinate overnight, or at least three hours, although even just 20 minutes is fine” and it’s wild to see a chicken curry negotiate against itself in real time.

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Cinema720 @cinema720.bsky.social · 16d

Michael Clayton tonight! Hit up the Discord for stream info.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 17d

It is! I really am working hard to stay objective in telling the news, truly. But if you’re a racist piece of shit then you’re a racist piece of shit.

Spanky Quigman, Esquire, LLC @spankyq.bsky.social · 17d

Is being able to just up and call people pieces of shit when they deserve it one of the best differences now that you’re independent?

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 17d

they’re dabbing on us, folks

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18d

For over a decade, my Foundations of HCI undergrad course has covered “privacy & surveillance” with a (2002) reading about the Panopticon and a once distant warning about how social media sites could create a self-censoring reality. And Ellison is just… owning/celebrating the dystopia.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

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