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Aidan Morgan
@thepalinode.com
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Elbow greaser. Co-host of the Queen City Improvement Bureau, Destroy All Culture and Just Drawn That Way. Co-creator of The Graveyard Tapes. Other bits and bobs. If you know me, I never miss a Life Day. He/him.
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Y’all wanna hear a wild story? Charlie is right — this medley Prince made 30 years ago, blending many of his greatest hits & fan favorites into an extended mashup, is one of the most fun “only Prince could do this” things he made in the 90s. BUT: he told us he was gonna do it. In an AOL chat room…
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Sweet
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
A comic panel from Watchmen, showing a partially muscled skeleton (Dr Manhattan) screaming in pain in front of two horrified security guards. Text reads: “November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing…”
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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History repeats itself, the first time as Kendra, the second time as Faith.
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Here’s a controversial opinion: don’t make jokey death threats on social media, even if it’s a Johnny Cash reference. That’s begging for a suspension.
safety.bsky.app Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 4d
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Here's a thing that I despise: When someone is outed as an abuser, TERF, terrible human, and ppl start going "I never liked them anyway" "I never found them funny" "They never wrote good things to begin with" and seriously shut the hell up. All of that is just to position you are superior and (cont)
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Start it off with the camera travelling over a field of wreckage, slowly coming to a stop at a promising heap. A hand emerges from the debris and Bond crawls out, Boba Fett style.
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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honestly this screenshot is way funnier than the thread itself is adn im annoyed
January 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Andrei Rublev (1966)
About Dry Grasses (2023)
Adoption (1975)
An Actor’s Revenge (1963)
All That Jazz (1979)

And that’s just from the A’s.
bwdr.bsky.social Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 7d
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 8d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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If you look at Pluribus as a broad metaphor for the widespread adoption of generative AI and how insane it feels to see everyone around you adopt this cognitively murderous technology, then the show feels... relevant.
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Pluribus is clearly about America’s debilitating fear of becoming Canada.
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Rosalia’s new album just descended and that’s my entire personality now.
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)
cartoon: A long sandwich coils around and up like a rattlesnake Caption: Don't bread on me
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Behind me at a table in this cafe, a conversation between two men with voices so different in accent and timbre that they seem to be in different rooms.
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Frame: 04328
Stalker Frame: 04328
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Sunday afternoon, developing film*

*waiting for the fucking chemicals to reach 39 degrees
November 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Blargh
newsfortnite.bsky.social Fortnite News & Updates @newsfortnite.bsky.social · 15d
Harry Potter x Fortnite coming in Chapter 7

(In other words, Fortnite is adding a transphobic authors work into Fortnite)

#Fortnite #FortniteNews
November 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Okay
mobydickatsea.bsky.social Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14d
There are other ghosts than the Cock-Lane one, and far deeper men than Doctor Johnson who believe in them.
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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I tried developing colour film today. The first roll didn't turn out at all. The second had a couple of passable images though. I have six or seven more rolls to develop tomorrow, so here's hoping. East side of the Albert Street underpass, shot with Phoenix II on a Fujica GS645.
A dark underpass with graffiti on the wall. A man with a cane in the distance.
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?

My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle.

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This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM