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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 5h

the hold that a half-baked 00s AV Club essay has on the culture !!

Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 7h

destroyed digital media so he can force you to attend an in-person lecture and listen to his half-baked 2004-era AV Club essays

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 5h

i think that’s a woodpecker maybe

✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 16h

man this sucks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 1d

there is no point in time over the
last two months where i have not had “golden” in my head

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 1d

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 1d

*touches earpiece* folks, i’m hearing that under no circumstances do you have to hand it to them

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 1d

oh god it’s still going???

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 1d

i’m so sorry which baseball is your baseball

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 1d

i find it so soothing when everybody starts doing this. go baseball

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 1d

people are making vage incredulous posts all at once. my sports senses are tingling

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 1d

there is no point in time over the
last two months where i have not had “golden” in my head

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 1d

the joy of state media

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

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 2d

goodnight and good luck

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the full memo.

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 2d

i put off seeing this movie for 20 years! … and i was right to do so

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 2d

this tweet is 20 yrs late but: in a rather mid movie, Gong Li slays the boots house down in Memoirs of a Geisha

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 3d

there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 3d

Similarly describing him as an "expert on antifa" rather than an "antifascism researcher" further legitimates antifa as a proper noun in a way that makes zero sense

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 3d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 3d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 3d

me

The Onion @theonion.com · 4d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.