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Jason Pontius
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Compassion robot. He/they.

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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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there are simply not that many people who are highly articulate, verbal, and online

most people do not establish and maintain online identities

if you do, you absolutely will stand out

AI slop is being posted largely by people who were never going to participate without it
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The pride of Belize!!
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Hey people I pay attention to on here — not too many of you:

@zas.bsky.social
@eleanor.lockhart.contact
@unavaleable.bsky.social
@hausofdecline.bsky.social
@hausofholes.bsky.social
Ok fine @jamellebouie.net

Anyway the point is
KATE BARR.
@katebarrcanwin
@cantwinvictoryfund (IG)

This is the way
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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HERE IS WHAT IS HAPPENING:

-the public has beliefs about the world

-history tells us those beliefs can be anything, from mundane to horrific, from rational to deranged

-those beliefs are mostly formed by people talking to each other a lot and deciding what feels right based on what they hear
November 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This all feels so right on the fuckin money and I say it tracks for pulp fiction and reservoir dogs too
tarantino films are inert,safe,as long as you believe they are set in their specific time periods and nowhere else

the same is true of star wars,if you think that the galaxy far far away is merely a fairy tale

but if you think there’s a big shared story made up of symbols,they become live rhetoric
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
this is a genuinely kickass argument, thank you for posting it 🙂
the thing that tarantino gets is that his films are arguments using cinematic language that anyone who understands movies is able to read; that allows him to communicate in ways that would not be permitted by studios and also signal that this is what he’s doing

him being an asshole is tangential
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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if you never get a taste for the money they're paying you, they won't be able to pay you for anything you don't want to do
October 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
You guys, @merrittk.com’s book is super good. I’m a nobody on here but I promise you can trust my opinions on literature
September 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
September 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM
@lillywachowski.bsky.social I need to tell you something:

I read Cloud Atlas over the last few weeks, and then I watched the movie immediately after finishing the book. And it all added up to maybe the fullest, richest, most satisfying artistic and literary experience I’ve ever had. Thank you
September 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Cloud Atlas-pilled
August 31, 2025 at 4:17 AM
July 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
What about the Dufresnes?
May 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Idk what I expected Walton Goggins Sr. to look like but he delivered
May 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If you’re under 30, you have a few more lifetimes left before you die so don’t sweat this one too hard
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
May 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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You may think, from the visible caption, that this is a skit about the Oxford Comma. And it is, but oh, it is also SO MUCH MORE.
This is high art
April 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Once in the early 2000s I was beefing with some guy in a bar and he goes “nothing between us but air & opportunity” and I remember being disarmed by how slick that was & then like 10 years later I was watching the Sam Jackson Shaft movie and realized he just took it from that. The power of cinema
April 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM