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Ben
@goodiguess.bsky.social
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Tweets about my cat and sometimes movies and baseball. Phding in film studies.
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Might want to check that copy again fellas
"MLB is producing and distributing local games in 2026 for the Cardinals, who will feature familiar faces like Gold Glove-winning shortstop Masyn Winn and All-Star Brendan Donovan" [They traded away Donovan last week]
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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stay tuned for my "Brain Rot Cinema" summer class, starting with Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902) and ending with Red Rooms (2023)
matthiasellis.bsky.social matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social · 6d
Over the past few decades, scholarly consensus has grown that the so-called "panic" caused by Orson Welles' War of the Worlds was largely a myth produced by a newspaper industry attacking its newest competitor and faulty research methods in a Princeton study. But these days I'm starting to wonder...
markpopham.bsky.social abraconagra @markpopham.bsky.social · 8d
according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle
February 8, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Shout out to my winter boots purchased in 2012 still going strong
January 30, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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not Catherine O'Hara!!
January 30, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET
January 25, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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Graffiti in St Louis MO earlier this week
White wall in a park spray painted with black text “Death to Ice Agents”
January 23, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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I've now become the kind of person who needs to look up "what kind of guitar was that" while watching the first scene in Godzilla
January 22, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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zunguzungu.bsky.social
If you want to read something that doesn't make you end by concluding "well, shit, we're cooked," like everything else does, read this
zunguzungu.bsky.social Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 29d
"The first thing I noticed when I got to Minneapolis last weekend was the new language: The work C was doing has a name—“commuting”—a deliberately mundane term for pursuing, tailing, and deliberately irritating ICE agents moving through the city in unmarked cars." slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump and ICE Thought They Knew How to Handle Minneapolis. I Saw Up Close What’s Happening Instead.
ICE declared war on Minneapolis. The city had its own ideas.
slate.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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Transphobia as an extension of white supremacy, from Shawn Michelle Smith's chapter on Muybridge in "At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen"
One of the central assumptions of Darwinian evolutionary theory, according to Siobhan Somerville, "was the belief that, as organisms evolved through a process of natural selection, they also showed greater signs of sexual differentiation." Further, as noted in the previous chapter, the sciences of race intersected with the sciences of sexology in the late nineteenth century, and sexologists adopted many of their scientific practices from race scientists, who had long read the body and its physical forms as signs of interior essence. Race scientists read what they deemed sexual "deformities" as signs of racial difference: The imagined "large clitoris" of the black woman was thought to liken her physically to the black man, and insufficient gender differentiation was taken as an indicator of racial inferiority.
January 12, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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Spent most of this weekend playing with my first electric guitar - highly recommended experience !
Epiphone Les Paul Standard Pro electric guitar in cherry sunburst color in morning sunshine
January 11, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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@magglebutt.bsky.social new Dry Cleaning amazing, yes!!???!
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:

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First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family. This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind, In fact, kindness radiated out of her. Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn't wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine, Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it Where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole. Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles, What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy: And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever. We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns. Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way. We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee's legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love. E
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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😃 seeing a cute dog stick his head out of of the car window

😦 seeing the car’s infowars bumper sticker
January 8, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Lots of bad stuff this year. But I got less depressed and saw movies and took photos and learned how to play guitar, even wrote some of my dissertation and I’m teaching my own summer class next year. And I got to meet a fresh new baby niece!
January 1, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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They’re saying this more and more
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Dec 28
english degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you

coding degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you

film degree: your deep knowledge of behind the scenes stories from Who Framed Roger Rabbit will delight and entertain coworkers in any field for decades to come
December 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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A not insignificant amount of my family's communication is in Princess Bride quotes. Horrific news
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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the Netflixian logic that going to a movie theater and paying for a movie ticket is elitist Big City behavior, but having high speed internet and paying for a subscription streaming service is actually Blue Collar and For The People
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Last fm has got you for stats posting
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Looking at the snow and choosing to not engage
December 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Depressing family interaction where I am vehemently anti-AI and it’s the 20 somethings cousins defending it the strongest 🫠
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Lynne Ramsay!!!!! She just can’t miss. Run don’t walk to DIE MY LOVE. Stay for Ramsay herself singing Joy Division during the credits
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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According to my guitar teacher because I can play this barre chord I am now an INTERMEDIATE guitarist. That’s right don’t freak out but I will be shredding soon?
F barre chord diagram
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Note to self: next time you see a guy walking in the park with a Parrot on his shoulder, stop him and ask to take a photo
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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My nieces get a socialist mayor can I get a hell ya
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM