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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 17h

I believe there may have been a fundamental overestimation of how many people want to hear *more* details about an affair with RFK Jr.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 2d

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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Sudden Deth ☠️ @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 1d

Denying humanitarian aid is A WAR CRIME, not a fucking bargaining chip. Good lord.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 2d

left a hideous little malformed cub in the bookstore at o’hare

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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 1d

That one was my parents' favourite.

Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 1d

Eric Roberts and Mickey Rourke in the Pope of Greenwich Village

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

I don't trust this ceasefire, and my Gazan refugee friends are no better off today than they were two days ago

Please help them, if you can:

Donate to Help me and my family Rebuild their lives, organized by Alma Family

I am alma from Gaza and I am 14 years old. My family consists of 10 member… Alma Family needs your support for Help me and my family Rebuild their lives

www.gofundme.com

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

AI tech will be the asbestos of the 21st century, digging it out of the software it's embedded in will become a well paid job for some. The hideous grinning forced optimism of the AI bubble, however, will disappear with the stock market crash.

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss truly has Ted Cruz level haters. I keep seeing people who are like “I knew her when she was nine and I fucking hated her” lol

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

the more i think about it, bari weiss running CBS is direct proof there’s not really a meritocracy in any real way under capitalism. the opposite is true in this system, failing upwards is the default the more a country becomes an oligarchy

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Lina Morgan @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 8d

Time for the Rock to get back to what made him a star in the first place: Southland Tales.

IGN @ign.com · 8d

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has issued a statement after The Smashing Machine became the Hollywood star's worst box office opening ever.

'You Can't Control Box Office Results' — Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Responds to The Smashing Machine's Disappointing Launch

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 4d

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 2d

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Brian J Hall @owabrian.bsky.social · 2d

The Wind in the Willows is simply a vehicle to promote the worship of the god Pan

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

nobel peace prize goes to Trump’s little extrajudical murder supporting friend

What a pack of fucking loser weirdos that panel is

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 5d

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

A good way to go insane is to reread stuff published in November 2008 www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme...

The Obama administration will have no difficulty in closing Guantanamo. But how can the US atone for the use of torture on Donald Rumsfeld's watch? By ratifying the Torture Convention, for a start. And then by taking an initiative that would, for the first time, provide a meaningful safeguard for its prisoners of war, namely by waiving its right to confidentiality in Red Cross prison visitation reports.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · Sep 5

pardon me, she is "Relic Hunter" star Tia Carrere

Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to report that people are mad in the comments, and it's about the fact that Tia Carrere should be referred to as star of "Wayne's World"

Lilo and stitch star tia carrere gushes over her trans teen son

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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 2d

I interviewed Feist back in the last 2000s during my first job in journalism. I kinda felt bad for him, because he said he really wanted to do a historical novel about American football, but his publisher wasn't keen.

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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 2d

It really shouldn't require the best political journalist in Scotland to point out something as basic as 'Salmond lost', but since it apparently does, thank God for Jamie Maxwell jacobin.com/2025/10/scot...

"For a while following the SNP’s 2011 victory, Salmond looked unstoppable. But he wasn’t. In 2012, he cosigned the Edinburgh Agreement with David Cameron, establishing a “fair, legal, and decisive” framework for a referendum on independence. Two years later, that referendum took place, and Salmond lost.

In his referendum memoir, The Dream Shall Never Die — memorably described by one reviewer when it was published in 2015 as a “sneering oil slick of a book” — Salmond blamed the Yes campaign’s defeat on everyone (journalists, pollsters, civil servants, colleagues) but himself."

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 2d

This anecdote sticks with me:

"After several days of training about customer service at McDonald’s, a young Soviet teenager asked the McDonald’s trainer a very serious question: “Why do we have to be so nice to the customers? After all, WE have the hamburgers, and they don’t!”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 2d

Favourite story about that particular artist: reportedly, someone once criticised the female figures in Julie Bell's paintings for being unrealistic - not knowing that Bell was a former bodybuilder and they were, in fact, self portraits.

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