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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 16h

Red Eye.

BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 17h

What do you think is Wes Craven’s best film that isn’t part of the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET or SCREAM franchises?

I feel like everyone will have a different answer and that’s really interesting to me.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 19h

New research shows bedbugs date back to the time of the dinosaurs. Even more amazing: apparently dinosaurs had beds.

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Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.social · 23h

Keaton

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 21h

Pink and yellow are the best ones! What are they on about?

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 21h

Raw bell peppers
Hobo With a Shotgun
Leader of the Pack

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 22h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 2d

Megan Thee Stallion, bisexual Grammy-winning rapper was announced as this year's recipient of the Trevor Project's Mental Health Champion Award. The award "recognizes influential public figures who use their platform to advocate for mental health awareness and issues impacting LGBTQ+ young people."

Megan Thee Stallion 'honored' to be Trevor Project's Mental Health Champion

The Grammy-winning rapper will receive an award from the nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ youth. Past honorees include Dua Lipa, Dylan Mulvaney, and Janelle Monaé.

www.out.com

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 2d

A memo asking for a memo is peak OFFICE SPACE.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 2d

And still sounding fresh on their newest album! Love to see (and hear) it. Also found out their first album came out the year I was born. Guess we're both aging well. :)

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 2d

New Testament album is 🔥I may need to see them a 4th time when they go on tour to promote it.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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🎂 Sydney Screams 🎉 BIRTHDAY MONTH @sydneyscreams4u.bsky.social · 4d

porn is not evil.
sex is not evil.
pleasure is not evil.
kink is not evil.

none of them are things to feel shame or embarrassment about.

none of them deserve the heavy-handed censorship that they're facing.

resist oppression (even if you don't partake in what is being oppressed)

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 3d

The controversial Riyadh Comedy Fest ended today, to be followed in December by the Saudi capital's music festival Soundstorm with Post Malone, Halsey, Benson Boone, and more

Post Malone, Halsey, Benson Boone, & More Playing Controversial Riyadh Music Festival Soundstorm

The comedy world has been in an uproar over the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which ended today after two weeks of performances in Saudi Arabia’s capital. Extremely popular comics including Kevin Hart, Dave...

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Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics) @markoraassina.bsky.social · 3d

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Blue✨🧚🏾 @jusblue.bsky.social · 3d

You really had to be there…

“𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳…” @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 3d

2009 -2016 Twitter >>>>>>>>>>

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

They look like sungold tomatoes.

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 3d

It’s still Latine Heritage Month! FREE READ!

Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

Today on Fright Girl Summer, we have an excellent short story by A.P. Thayer called "Brainrot." Give it a read!

New Short Story: Brainrot by A.P. Thayer

Today we’re pleased to share a creepy short story from author A.P. Thayer. A. P. Thayer is a queer, Mexican-American writing cross-genre speculative fiction in Los Angeles. His work has appea…

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

Today on Fright Girl Summer, we have an excellent short story by A.P. Thayer called "Brainrot." Give it a read!

New Short Story: Brainrot by A.P. Thayer

Today we’re pleased to share a creepy short story from author A.P. Thayer. A. P. Thayer is a queer, Mexican-American writing cross-genre speculative fiction in Los Angeles. His work has appea…

frightgirlsummer.com

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so grateful for this community. I wrote this wanting to write an action character who was more than a tough woman kicking ass in the streets in steel toe boots and brass rings. She’s also vulnerable. She bleeds.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3d

We need to bring back shoving nerds into lockers

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 3d

There’s so many more in the article…

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Four young men, all Gen Z Tories, posed against a plain backdrop.

Top left: Danny Mosley, 19, with curly hair, draped in a Union Jack flag and holding a can of Dr. Pepper, an ID badge hanging from a blue lanyard around his neck.

Top right: Rhydian Lloyd-Francis, 15, wearing a navy double-breasted suit and striped tie, stands formally with a serious expression.

Bottom left: Harry Cansdale, 21, in glasses and a dark suit with a patterned blue tie and small flag pin, with a blue lanyard around his neck.

Bottom right: Miller Casson, 17, with long hair, wearing a blue plaid suit, lavender shirt, and patterned tie, holding a booklet.

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 3d

My hands are shaking a little as I type this but...ITCH! IS OUT TODAY!!

I'm finally a big 5 published author!

Feminist, formication folk horror with creepy crawlies, ancient traditions, unsolved murders, weird processions, masks, an old pub and an excellent dog.

www.hachette.co.uk/titles/gemma...

Gemma Amor dressed in pink holding a copy of ITCH!

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🪱💀mindy💀🪱 [dirt ceremony era] @garbagesauce.bsky.social · 4d

Minnesota pals do you have recs for any particularly mind-blowing nature? preferably water based but any real good mossy shady wet forest shit would also be great? anything green and damp?

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t make this game worse.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3d

If I was told I couldn’t do a job Meghan McCain did I think I’d become a monk

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 4d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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