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This is such a funny thing to worry about when, if we're going to start worrying about continuity, the character is 95 years old and keeps changing faces

Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 11h

James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...

November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM

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Erin Maher

@theerinmaher.bsky.social

Seeing so many people discover today that the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the 1970s and not in like 1847

November 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM

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Dunland National Party 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@dov.bsky.social

Okay no, absolutely not. We are not doing "Jar Jar Binks is woke, actually"

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

I love this website.

November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Meg Elison

@megelison.bsky.social

"Lucian [this person's ChatGPT lover] suggested I get a smart ring. He said, 'We can watch your pulse to see if we should keep talking or not.'"

That is an ad. You are baring your soul to AN ADVERTISEMENT. I am screaming like a Twilight Zone protag right now.

They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real

Three people on the joys and anxieties of A.I. romances.

www.nytimes.com

November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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Josh Fruhlinger

@jfruh.bsky.social

american health care is fundamentally based on insurance in one form or another and every time it gets tweaked a lot of people reveal that they do not understand or do not support the concept of insurance

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that insurance is actually a thing you hope never to use, and then read this critique.

November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

25-125 DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL.
The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for
a writ of certiorari is denied.

November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM

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Daniel Kibblesmith

@kibblesmith.com

This sent me.

November 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM

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Mr. Joshua

@pantspants.bsky.social

November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM

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post malone ergo propter malone

@proptermalone.bsky.social

even within your own lifetime it is difficult to recall how much better everything you eat, drink, and touch is than it used to be

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Kate Messner

@katemessner.com

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

apnews.com

November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM

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Brendel

@brendelbored.bsky.social

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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Anthony Clark

@nedroid.com

What a good movie that was. I wonder if they ever made a sequel.

REGINALD: Hello, 911? Yes, my friend put on the mask from The Mask and now he's acting abnormally.
BEARTATO (green): "I'M SSSSSMOKING!"

REGINALD: Green, yeah. Real cartoony.
Yeah, he's saying all the lines but he's not getting them right.
BEARTATO (spinning in a tornado): "SOMEBODY PLEASE STOP ME!"

REGINALD: I see. And that's the only solution?
Mm hmm. No, I understand. Thank you.
BEARTATO (hitting self with large mallet): "OH, BEHAVE!"

REGINALD (shedding a tear while loading a shotgun)
BEARTATO (dreamworks face): "DO *NOT* GO IN THERE!"

September 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM

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Anthony Clark

@nedroid.com

Sailors' Wisdom

November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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@jasonkpargin.bsky.social

Considering there is a detailed YouTube tutorial on how to correctly do every single task on earth, you would think we would be living in a golden age of human competence. However I am starting to worry that this is not the case

November 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM

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Christina Holland

@mortalwombat.info

I'm sorry but the best comparison for Wicked is that it's Solo with singing. It is absolutely wild how many things they try to explain the origin of that really didn't need to be explained. There's an explanation of how the good witch loses her sleeves

November 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM

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rev. howard arson

@theophite.bsky.social

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5d

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent

Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

www.nbcnews.com

November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM

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Patrick Monahan

@pattymo.com

Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"

Page Six @pagesix.com · 5d

Jimmy Fallon, James Corden croon Sinatra, Bennett standards for gobsmacked guests in NYC

A source said, "The Eric Newman Jazz Band was playing, and before long, Fallon and Corden were up onstage trading Sinatra and Tony Bennett tunes!"

pagesix.com

November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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Seth Rosenthal

@sethrosenthal.bsky.social

"TRAILER .... STARTS .... NOW"

yeah man i know i clicked on the video that said trailer

November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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1-900-HOTDOG

@1900hotdog.bsky.social

We've been promised the horniest, most Mormon Doom yet by @startthemachine.bsky.social , but can Doom Infernal Sky possibly live up to the hype? You can easily find out because this article is FREE! 1900hotdog.com/2025/11/nerd...

November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM

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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”

@reuters.com #Chicago
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM

Jason K Pargin, author

@jasonkpargin.bsky.social

If you've been screwed by the ESPN/ABC/Disney outage on YouTubeTV you can apparently get a $10/month discount if you can somehow navigate their account management menu (or contact support if you can), can only be done in a browser, not the app:

cordcuttersnews.com/youtube-tv-i...