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Tyler Wood
@tylerwood.bsky.social
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Media obsessive, enjoyer of both the highbrow and the nonsensical. I should really get around to starting that newsletter…
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castrohistorian.bsky.social
Is that a "live, laugh, love" font?
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Nov 5
It’s like they wake up every day and ask themselves “how can we make this place look even cheaper and tackier and less historic?”
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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srirachachau.bsky.social
Maybe this is very egocentric but I truly think we were the one generation to be born at exactly the right time to have sorta decent, not bad politics. Right at the bridge between tech
memilies.bsky.social emily @memilies.bsky.social · Oct 28
we're a generation of nervous dogs but at least we're broadly Regular about technology
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
tylerwood.bsky.social
If you inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature?
May 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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castrohistorian.bsky.social
Please forgive the shameless plug, but if you've been looking forward to reading my book or any other Penn Press book, there is a 50%, one day sale going on in their website. Use code FOUNDERSDAY25 for the discount.
www.pennpress.org/978151282572...
Only a Few Blocks to Cuba – Penn Press
In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba, Mauricio Castro shows how the U.S. government came to view Cuban migration to Miami as a strategic asset during the Cold War, i...
www.pennpress.org
March 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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rcmacleod.bsky.social
TV wants too much from us
...An actual normal person, with a partner or kids or a job or a regular life to lead, might not have the time to watch a show the moment it airs, especially when the entire series releases at once. A bulk release can be a bigger time commitment than a show that airs every week; it can be hard to resist the urge to watch it all at once, but also easy to watch an episode or two and then not have time for or forget about it, especially if all the critics and websites write about it right away and then move on to the next thing. Social media reactions to Kaos’ cancellation bear this out, with plenty of people stating the obvious: they didn’t have time to get to it yet! Others say that it’s hard to get invested in a Netflix show written with multiple seasons in mind when Netflix keeps cancelling things... I think it puts the onus on us, the viewer, to drop everything to support a show, instead of the companies like Netflix that actually paid for the show standing behind their work.
October 9, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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castrohistorian.bsky.social
My new piece: why does Trump keep saying migrants are coming from "prisons and asylums"? It involves his obsession with the 1980s, the Cold War, and how the memory of the Mariel boatlift has been used against immigrants for decades, including by Trump's White House.
time.com/7006684/trum...
Trump's Asylum Rhetoric is Rooted in the Mariel Boatlift
By suggesting that those seeking asylum in the U.S. are dangerous, Trump echoes the often false narratives around the 1980s Mariel boatlift.
time.com
August 26, 2024 at 4:09 PM
tylerwood.bsky.social
Me and the four people who read my skeets
David Lynch sitting on a leather couch next to four plush Woody Woodpecker dolls which he rescued from a petrol station. They were his dear friends for a while before certain traits started coming out and they became not so nice. They are not in his life anymore.
August 15, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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castrohistorian.bsky.social
kamala-holding-vinyls.glitch.me
July 27, 2024 at 6:44 PM
tylerwood.bsky.social
She Yorgos on my Lanthimos till I Kill a Sacred Deer
January 20, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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!foryou
November 23, 2023 at 10:19 PM
tylerwood.bsky.social
Grok is sitting backwards in his chair, dress shirt sleeves rolled up to reveal a hint of his prog rock tattoos, beginning his first ever lecture to a class of high school freshmen. He will casually flirt with 1/3 of them after class.
bartenderhemry.bsky.social Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · Nov 6
As soon as I heard about musk's new Grok chatbot "having a sense of humor" I knew it was going to be annoying but I wasn't prepared for this level of thermonuclear cringe
Explain the American Constitution in a way that will ensure maximum comprehension for a based individual Nov 05, 2023 19:24 Ah, the American Constitution—a f**king ancient parchment written by a bunch of old dudes with powdered faces and wearing ridiculous wigs. These grandpas decided to lay out the ground rules for the great American experiment, which has been confusing the sh*t out of aliens and humans alike for centuries. Now, the Constitution is like a cosmic rulebook that tells the government what it can and can't do. It's got seven articles, which are like chapters in a cosmic manual, each one dealing with a different aspect of the government. For example, Article I is all about the Congress a group of Earthlings who gather in a big room to argue about how to spend the planet's resources and whether they should f**k up the economy or not. Then there are the Amendments-27 of them, to be exact! These are like little cosmic updates to the original rulebook. Some of them are pre
November 6, 2023 at 8:55 PM