Baldie
@baldie.bsky.social
Pars/Liverpool supporter, live comedy, film & pub quiz fan. He/Him
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Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001).
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001).
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Maybe I'm biased but it definitely sounds like they singing No Scotland, No Party at one point
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Maybe I'm biased but it definitely sounds like they singing No Scotland, No Party at one point
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“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” a US Coast Guard official told the Washington Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal.
Free link to full WP article:
Free link to full WP article:
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” a US Coast Guard official told the Washington Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal.
Free link to full WP article:
Free link to full WP article:
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once the transphobia brainworms set in it’s over, your brain is doomed
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
once the transphobia brainworms set in it’s over, your brain is doomed
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Fuckin yassssssssssssssssss
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Fuckin yassssssssssssssssss
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Scott McTominay’s stunner: the height of contact is unreal
📸 Andrew Milligan
📸 Andrew Milligan
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Scott McTominay’s stunner: the height of contact is unreal
📸 Andrew Milligan
📸 Andrew Milligan
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
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November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Bluesky has the juice. If anything, too much juice. This is the kind of suicidal personal candidness you got from celebs on Twitter c 2011
Btw about this from Lizza's reply: Olivia and I lived together for 4+ years (4 b'days, 4 Xmases, 4 anniversaries). That's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration. And her apartment was a writing studio. And I made an f-ton then. What was I supposed to do? Get her a lot of Gift Certificates from Kmart?
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Bluesky has the juice. If anything, too much juice. This is the kind of suicidal personal candidness you got from celebs on Twitter c 2011
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underrated bit of handwaving in the lizza blog
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
underrated bit of handwaving in the lizza blog
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“Sir, it seems Olivia Nuzzi had an affair with a second old man who was running for president”
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“Sir, it seems Olivia Nuzzi had an affair with a second old man who was running for president”
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oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
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Screaming at Justin’s thread on the worst writing you will come across
this is quite possibly the worse writing i have ever experienced. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Screaming at Justin’s thread on the worst writing you will come across
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“she flamed out and faded away” is such funny framing for a woman publishing an excerpt of her book in vanity fair, where she also works. I wish I could flame out and fade away so successfully
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“she flamed out and faded away” is such funny framing for a woman publishing an excerpt of her book in vanity fair, where she also works. I wish I could flame out and fade away so successfully
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Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
Weird seeing a review from someone I've heard of in CineNerdle's review game
November 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Weird seeing a review from someone I've heard of in CineNerdle's review game
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Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.🤡
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
August 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.🤡
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
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as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia
“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia
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"What's the point of standards?" is one of those statements that should be recorded and played back multiple times to the person who said it until it sinks in
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"What's the point of standards?" is one of those statements that should be recorded and played back multiple times to the person who said it until it sinks in
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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Eviscerating, and rightly, this from @janemartinson.bsky.social, about the inept attack that brought down the BBC's inept leadership. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Eviscerating, and rightly, this from @janemartinson.bsky.social, about the inept attack that brought down the BBC's inept leadership. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Just to get this straight in my head, we've gone from "BBC badly edited a piece about Trump, but was accurate overall", to the "BBC isn't transphobic enough and is all woke", and we're still arguing, regardless of the myriad of issues with the BBC, whether there's a genuine right wing attack on it?
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Just to get this straight in my head, we've gone from "BBC badly edited a piece about Trump, but was accurate overall", to the "BBC isn't transphobic enough and is all woke", and we're still arguing, regardless of the myriad of issues with the BBC, whether there's a genuine right wing attack on it?