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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

trying to explain how THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS is an interesting exploration of class, racism and inequality to my wife.

“so it’s not about cannibals?”

“oh no, to be clear there ARE cannibals in this film”

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Nazi tat affair useful because anyone doing bizarre prevarications atm re how its totally normal to have a Nazi tattoo, good actually, not a big deal that'd matter in an election, if anything its cringe you care, etc etc, has revealed you never need to take their politics opinions seriously again.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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vanderkalm.bsky.social @vanderkalm.bsky.social · 1d

I love this move!

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A ★★★★ review of I, Madman (1989)

This is a rare, weird gem of a film that I can’t believe has finally been released on Blu-ray and even more, I can’t believe how well it’s aged. I’d only ever seen it on VHS in the early ’90’s and muc...

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🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.social · 2d

Step aside, Hulk Hands!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

I went to the Louvre once and enjoyed it but honestly if I was there and a bunch of French investigators rushed in and said “Sacre bleu! there has been a heist!” I would have had a much better time and would have given it five stars on everything

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 3d

Camping is such a perfect way to remind yourself why we invented houses

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Kris Wernowsky @kriswernowsky.com · 2d

Seeing a Cybertruck drive through my neighborhood is like, "How dare you."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

"Please provide a review of every experience you have" culture has truly peaked, I have just been asked to review the facility where I went to get a Coast Guard-mandated drug screening

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 3d

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d

after 6 weeks in a cast for a broken foot during which he acted like he had been decapitated, my cousin finally went to get the plaster removed, tripped on the carpet on the way out and now has a cast on the other foot and we are all the losers here

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vanderkalm.bsky.social @vanderkalm.bsky.social · 2d

One of the sequels taking place in early WW II, “The Invisible Agent”, has my favorite Universal Monster line delivery:

“You Nazi’s… I pity the Devil when you start showing up in droves.”

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Surprised Face Guy @surprisedface.bsky.social · 2d

I know there’s a lot going on in the world right now but I think it’s important we still take the time to hate on the cyber truck

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 3d

“We put notifications inside your sandwich,” declares Meta CEO to roaring applause. “Now when you bite into that BLT, you’ll taste a WhatsApp message from a user you don’t know!”

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

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way:

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

ZERO arrests at No Kings in NYC. (And the NYPD isn’t notorious for being sympathetic with people anti-Trump.)

This proves what shameless liars Speaker Mike Johnson & Karoline Leavitt are to slander the participants as violent anarchists.

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 4d

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 4d

Got into a pretty brutal fight with some dudes at a biker bar over whether or not Gillian Anderson is British

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Patrick Bromley @patrickbromley.bsky.social · 4d

OCULUS is the best Stephen King movie that King didn’t write, no wonder Mike Flanagan went on to be the best at adapting SK since Darabont

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Derek Faraci @whwoolhat.bsky.social · 4d

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 4d

With alt text, and it is beautiful ☺️

To the Editor:

I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.

I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.

For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.

Jason Jacoby Lee

New York

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world

what a fucking thing, man

that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 4d

I was just served a Kristi Noem DHS ad that was 100% indistinguishable from the ads in Starship Troopers.

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