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The Tomen 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @tomtificate.bsky.social · 8h

Pastrami man

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1d

something that I've noticed about the right wing claim that woke people always say we should throw out all historical figures that weren't perfect instead of judging them by "the standards of their time" is that these same people very frequently make historical figures sound worse than they were!

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NPR @npr.org · 21h

Jimmy Kimmel's return to airwaves might just point the way forward for late night TV to prove its relevance to American audiences — and to itself.

Media companies thought late night TV was irrelevant. Kimmel proved them wrong

Jimmy Kimmel's return to airwaves might just point the way forward for late night TV to prove its relevance to American audiences — and to itself.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h

this is very important, but not as important as making sure we never have a terminally online administration again

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20h

one thing we can never allow to happen again is making someone president who is rich enough to fund endless frivolous lawsuits

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 13h

Hey, if you're thinking about subscribing to my new efforts at Ghost, this is the week I need you to do it.

The doors are open and the Ghost era is beginning. If you were reluctant because of Substack, please show me I made the right choice by moving.

drewmcweeny.com

The front page of drewmcweeny.com, with a banner image showing Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia, and my current top story, a column called "Try, Try Again."

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The Tomen 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @tomtificate.bsky.social · 8h

THE GREAT KHAN RIDETH

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 11h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13h

so cool how they're pivoting to porn to try avoid the correction looming over their heads like the sword of damocles

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 16h

October 2025
AI gooning is the master of the Internet
Only Claude stands against it
Waifus are now battlefields

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The Tomen 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @tomtificate.bsky.social · 9h

Also LeAnn Rimes’ character has a Norma Desmond thing going on which is pretty neat

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 10h

Every punk band got that one bassist who looks like the first zombie in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

The guy, kind of a long angular face and beak of a nose and raggedy teeth

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vampironique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social · 10h

the way you know this is bullshit is that it got laundered through a STEM publication. i was just at a talk with major vfx supervisors knocking down generative ai in film and tv for a whole host of technical and artistic issues it can’t resolve.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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The Tomen 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @tomtificate.bsky.social · 10h

Watched #9-1-1Nashville after dinner and yup that’s some high octane nonsense. What I want from this franchise

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

Jake Moody looks like Mitch Trubisky with his helmet on. Make of this what you will.

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The Spirit Halloween where Nat Gertler used to be @nat.gertler.com · 1d

So, which one are you going as for halloween?

Free comic strip character masks

Clipping found in Sykesville Post-Dispatch published in Sykesville, Pennsylvania on 8/25/1933. Free comic strip character masks

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Adrian Dogpenis @dingusuhum.neocities.org · 1d

as a translator by trade, i agree in principle, but boy is it a way to sort the skilled translators from the ham-fisted ones, because it's an extremely fine line between "playful modern interpretation" and "cringe borderlands-ass tire fire"

Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 1d

Translators of ancient works written in dead languages should be allowed to explore the space a little and go nuts

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The Tomen 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @tomtificate.bsky.social · 1d

I love him

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2d

Dude I’m calling it, Thiel is cooked. He accidentally dropped a Tangible Detail. Most people didn’t know he existed and now he’s The Billionaire Who Thinks That One Piece Is Jesus.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 1d

The new trailer for THE RUNNING MAN is up. My IT guy will post it. I don't "get" posting on Bluesky. That's okay. I've seen the movie, and it's a balls-to-the-wall thrill ride. The feel is like a modern-day DIE HARD.

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The Tomen 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @tomtificate.bsky.social · 1d

elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

ALT: elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

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The Tomen 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @tomtificate.bsky.social · 1d

Nah I can take him

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Maryanne @colantuono.bsky.social · 1d

I am a school librarian and I would love materials and supplies for the classroom. Please repost. Thanks so much. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 1d

This week’s main story is about Paramount’s decision to name Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, the future of U.S. journalism, and why we think she shouldn’t describe her endeavors as “punk.” Bari, look at us: You are not punk. Joe Strummer would’ve hated your fancy Substack, Bari!

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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