@redsky68.bsky.social
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Agree 💯% With Jesse.......
February 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Agree 💯% With Jesse.......
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Superbowl ads for the last 5 years have been capital displaying total cultural victory by publicly humiliating celebrities.
All of your childhood heroes work for Uber Eats now. There is no mass culture unless Liberty Mutual says there is.
All of your childhood heroes work for Uber Eats now. There is no mass culture unless Liberty Mutual says there is.
Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. https://bit.ly/4rmRhrK
February 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Superbowl ads for the last 5 years have been capital displaying total cultural victory by publicly humiliating celebrities.
All of your childhood heroes work for Uber Eats now. There is no mass culture unless Liberty Mutual says there is.
All of your childhood heroes work for Uber Eats now. There is no mass culture unless Liberty Mutual says there is.
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A writing experience that seems universal but I've only seen one person write about it (@katemckean.bsky.social - buy her book if you're a writer, it's great) is the sense quite far into a draft where you lose confidence in it.
I think it's very normal, but that's where I am today!
I think it's very normal, but that's where I am today!
February 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
A writing experience that seems universal but I've only seen one person write about it (@katemckean.bsky.social - buy her book if you're a writer, it's great) is the sense quite far into a draft where you lose confidence in it.
I think it's very normal, but that's where I am today!
I think it's very normal, but that's where I am today!
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Did a search on something related to stop motion and it appears to have given Google's AI chatbot a nervous breakdown.
February 3, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Did a search on something related to stop motion and it appears to have given Google's AI chatbot a nervous breakdown.
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I see a lot of women in filmmaker groups say - use AI or get left behind.
Left behind by whom?
How?
I don't buy the argument.
But you do you and I will do me.
Best of luck to you.
Left behind by whom?
How?
I don't buy the argument.
But you do you and I will do me.
Best of luck to you.
February 3, 2026 at 10:21 AM
I see a lot of women in filmmaker groups say - use AI or get left behind.
Left behind by whom?
How?
I don't buy the argument.
But you do you and I will do me.
Best of luck to you.
Left behind by whom?
How?
I don't buy the argument.
But you do you and I will do me.
Best of luck to you.
Author of the Year: 2009
The most significant author who died in 2009.
John Updike (1932-2009)
#Booksky #Authoroftheyear #Johnupdike #rabbitrun #Americannovelists
The most significant author who died in 2009.
John Updike (1932-2009)
#Booksky #Authoroftheyear #Johnupdike #rabbitrun #Americannovelists
February 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Author of the Year: 2009
The most significant author who died in 2009.
John Updike (1932-2009)
#Booksky #Authoroftheyear #Johnupdike #rabbitrun #Americannovelists
The most significant author who died in 2009.
John Updike (1932-2009)
#Booksky #Authoroftheyear #Johnupdike #rabbitrun #Americannovelists
How many times have you seen a struggling restaurant suddenly close "for renovations", never to open again. Same thing.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Kennedy Center crumbles under Trump
After several performers announced they would no longer appear at the Kennedy Center— sorry, The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts —because of ...
www.dailykos.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:39 PM
How many times have you seen a struggling restaurant suddenly close "for renovations", never to open again. Same thing.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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I'm with @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social.
Trump supporters don't have "economic anxiety" and they're not misunderstood.
By their own words, deeds, and votes, they're amoral, racist people lacking the characteristics of decent human beings.
And I will never forgive what they have done to my country.
Trump supporters don't have "economic anxiety" and they're not misunderstood.
By their own words, deeds, and votes, they're amoral, racist people lacking the characteristics of decent human beings.
And I will never forgive what they have done to my country.
We need to withhold our friendship, exclude them from our holiday gatherings, cut personal and professional ties, and, practically speaking, marginalize them.
If we truly believe in bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice at this place and time, his supporters need to become pariahs...
If we truly believe in bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice at this place and time, his supporters need to become pariahs...
February 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I'm with @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social.
Trump supporters don't have "economic anxiety" and they're not misunderstood.
By their own words, deeds, and votes, they're amoral, racist people lacking the characteristics of decent human beings.
And I will never forgive what they have done to my country.
Trump supporters don't have "economic anxiety" and they're not misunderstood.
By their own words, deeds, and votes, they're amoral, racist people lacking the characteristics of decent human beings.
And I will never forgive what they have done to my country.
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The simple fact of the matter is that we have a president that is too lost in the sauce to understand that the country hates all this & all of his viziers are too dedicated to their own projects to give a shit about public opinion. This is what that looks like. Its groupthink at a terminal level.
February 2, 2026 at 1:45 PM
The simple fact of the matter is that we have a president that is too lost in the sauce to understand that the country hates all this & all of his viziers are too dedicated to their own projects to give a shit about public opinion. This is what that looks like. Its groupthink at a terminal level.
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CNN is reporting that Fulton County is preparing to sue the FBI over the seizure of the 2020 Georgia Election Ballots...
Good.
From @cnn.com:
www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...
Good.
From @cnn.com:
www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...
Fulton County expected to sue over FBI’s seizure of 2020 election records | CNN Politics
The county commissioner in Fulton County, Georgia, announced the county will file a lawsuit Monday over the FBI’s search and seizure of 2020 election records.
www.cnn.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
CNN is reporting that Fulton County is preparing to sue the FBI over the seizure of the 2020 Georgia Election Ballots...
Good.
From @cnn.com:
www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...
Good.
From @cnn.com:
www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...
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Got back from Atlanta to bookmail so this week is new one (monumental) by Adam Nevill #it'ssofluffy.. And i completely missed picking up last @brookmyre.bsky.social so picked that up and excited for the new one later this year
February 2, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Got back from Atlanta to bookmail so this week is new one (monumental) by Adam Nevill #it'ssofluffy.. And i completely missed picking up last @brookmyre.bsky.social so picked that up and excited for the new one later this year
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People who thought that an 80 year old winning an election by 1.5% was going to usher in a thousand year reich are going to have to start deleting tweets
February 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
People who thought that an 80 year old winning an election by 1.5% was going to usher in a thousand year reich are going to have to start deleting tweets
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Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US
February 1, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US
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Not sure why but the whole BookBeetel thing is just weird and uncomfortable and I don't want anything to do w/ it.
It makes me think of the Human Centipede for some reason.
Also, brains are weird.
It makes me think of the Human Centipede for some reason.
Also, brains are weird.
It's the future of tech, but can't even do spam emails correctly.
February 2, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Not sure why but the whole BookBeetel thing is just weird and uncomfortable and I don't want anything to do w/ it.
It makes me think of the Human Centipede for some reason.
Also, brains are weird.
It makes me think of the Human Centipede for some reason.
Also, brains are weird.
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My Garage to Stadiums interview about The Doors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYfH...
Their childhoods/early gigs/fame/controversy/legacy with guest Doors biographer Jim Cherry
YouTube video by Garage to Stadiums Music History Podcast
www.youtube.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:29 PM
My Garage to Stadiums interview about The Doors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYfH...
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Auden did something similar with LBJ, iirc, although he ended up accepting the award without a ceremony
WS Merwin wrote “Presidents” in 1970.
In 1971, he declined a Pulitzer, citing the Vietnam War —“too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace, or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel."
In 1971, he declined a Pulitzer, citing the Vietnam War —“too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace, or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel."
February 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Auden did something similar with LBJ, iirc, although he ended up accepting the award without a ceremony
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I was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole.
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the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
February 2, 2026 at 1:06 AM
I was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole.
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AuthorOftheYear: 2010
The most significant author who died in 2010.
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
#Booksky #AuthorOftheYear #JDSalinger #Americannovelists
The most significant author who died in 2010.
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
#Booksky #AuthorOftheYear #JDSalinger #Americannovelists
February 1, 2026 at 8:06 PM
AuthorOftheYear: 2010
The most significant author who died in 2010.
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
#Booksky #AuthorOftheYear #JDSalinger #Americannovelists
The most significant author who died in 2010.
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
#Booksky #AuthorOftheYear #JDSalinger #Americannovelists
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An interminable slog of airbrushed nothingness. A pernicious celebration of the "good immigrant" myth. A ghastly parade of fun-house mirror herstory,
The Melania movie is an American obscenity.
The Melania movie is an American obscenity.
The Melania movie is an American obscenity
The vapid, corruption-soaked film, which celebrates the myth of the "good immigrant," is more revelatory than it seems.
www.motherjones.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
An interminable slog of airbrushed nothingness. A pernicious celebration of the "good immigrant" myth. A ghastly parade of fun-house mirror herstory,
The Melania movie is an American obscenity.
The Melania movie is an American obscenity.
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It still to this day amazes me that GWB sold the American Public "We're not going to let al-Qaeda change who we are" while he simultaneously transformed the USA into a surveillance state.
We have to undo almost everything. Keep only what would have made a difference to prevent 9/11.
We have to undo almost everything. Keep only what would have made a difference to prevent 9/11.
February 1, 2026 at 7:06 PM
It still to this day amazes me that GWB sold the American Public "We're not going to let al-Qaeda change who we are" while he simultaneously transformed the USA into a surveillance state.
We have to undo almost everything. Keep only what would have made a difference to prevent 9/11.
We have to undo almost everything. Keep only what would have made a difference to prevent 9/11.
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Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
February 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
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Burn. Them. All.
February 1, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Burn. Them. All.
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In zero timelines is a $7 million opening weekend against $75 million spent considered a strong box office showing, regardless of genre, and honestly, calling it a "documentary" is disingenuous at best.
February 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM
In zero timelines is a $7 million opening weekend against $75 million spent considered a strong box office showing, regardless of genre, and honestly, calling it a "documentary" is disingenuous at best.