Jon Roth
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Going for a Martha Stewart meets Vincent Price kind of a thing.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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US senators will say anything. "Standing up to donald trump gave him more power." No it didn't. That isn't true.
This is what bullies want you to think, and it's why they get stronger
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
US senators will say anything. "Standing up to donald trump gave him more power." No it didn't. That isn't true.
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
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normal people don't say "triggered" or "heteronormative," they say they gave their life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot
August 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
normal people don't say "triggered" or "heteronormative," they say they gave their life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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Gloria Swanson by Allan Warren in her NYC apartment in 1972. 👑
July 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Gloria Swanson by Allan Warren in her NYC apartment in 1972. 👑
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
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Keep calling them the Secret Police.
One of our leading citywide elected leaders and candidates for mayor peacefully asks masked ICE agents to see a warrant and is violently arrested.
Horrifying and disturbing for what it is and what it represents. Fascism. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...
Horrifying and disturbing for what it is and what it represents. Fascism. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...
BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYork
City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
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June 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Keep calling them the Secret Police.
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Hard agree
We shouldn't be referring to these people as "Federal agents" until we get proof that they actually are that
While we're at it, we should stop saying people are being "arrested" when they are being kidnapped
And stop saying "deported" if they're being extrajudicially rendered
We shouldn't be referring to these people as "Federal agents" until we get proof that they actually are that
While we're at it, we should stop saying people are being "arrested" when they are being kidnapped
And stop saying "deported" if they're being extrajudicially rendered
I really wish all reporting of immigration stories would stop using the term ‘federal agent’ unless it can be confirmed that these cowardly motherfuckers are actually federal agents. Use the term ‘unknown masked men’ or, in the rare cases women are involved ‘unknown masked people’
June 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hard agree
We shouldn't be referring to these people as "Federal agents" until we get proof that they actually are that
While we're at it, we should stop saying people are being "arrested" when they are being kidnapped
And stop saying "deported" if they're being extrajudicially rendered
We shouldn't be referring to these people as "Federal agents" until we get proof that they actually are that
While we're at it, we should stop saying people are being "arrested" when they are being kidnapped
And stop saying "deported" if they're being extrajudicially rendered
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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.
Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.
June 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
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it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts
June 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts
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Here's a cheat sheet for whenever you read an old sci-fi author
May 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Here's a cheat sheet for whenever you read an old sci-fi author
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Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.
May 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.
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Noteworthy that Trump's latest firing was the Head of the US Copyright Office.
The reason was almost 100% due to her publishing a paper days earlier stating that most AI companies had run afoul of legal liability for misinterpreting 'fair use'.
The reason was almost 100% due to her publishing a paper days earlier stating that most AI companies had run afoul of legal liability for misinterpreting 'fair use'.
they're literally trying to sneak a clause in the 2025 budget reconciliation bill that PREVENTS THE REGULATION OF AI FOR 10 YEARS. why isn't EVERYONE sounding the alarm about this???
May 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Noteworthy that Trump's latest firing was the Head of the US Copyright Office.
The reason was almost 100% due to her publishing a paper days earlier stating that most AI companies had run afoul of legal liability for misinterpreting 'fair use'.
The reason was almost 100% due to her publishing a paper days earlier stating that most AI companies had run afoul of legal liability for misinterpreting 'fair use'.
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Never miss a chance to say that New York's subway transports more people per day than all of our nation's airports combined
As Sean Duffy struggles to keep airplanes in the sky, the MTA had another week where ridership tipped over 4 million rides from Tuesday to Friday and just missed back-back-to-back days of 4.4 million rides
May 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Never miss a chance to say that New York's subway transports more people per day than all of our nation's airports combined
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The Met Gala is great if you love watching a certain genre of gay guy fire off post after post in search of a hit like they’re a legacy media account with KPIs to meet
May 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The Met Gala is great if you love watching a certain genre of gay guy fire off post after post in search of a hit like they’re a legacy media account with KPIs to meet
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Anne of Green Goebbels
Counter-point: please continue to make these Zone of Interest-cosplay dorks the face of the natalist movement
April 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Anne of Green Goebbels
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the tariffs have been great for me specifically in that I get to watch every stodgy business media publication start posting like 2017 resistlibs
April 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
the tariffs have been great for me specifically in that I get to watch every stodgy business media publication start posting like 2017 resistlibs
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Jan Schakowsky, the incumbent in my race, will reportedly not seek re-election. So it seems like a good time to reintroduce myself —
I’m Kat Abughazaleh and I’m running for Congress.
I’m Kat Abughazaleh and I’m running for Congress.
April 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Jan Schakowsky, the incumbent in my race, will reportedly not seek re-election. So it seems like a good time to reintroduce myself —
I’m Kat Abughazaleh and I’m running for Congress.
I’m Kat Abughazaleh and I’m running for Congress.
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The guy on the left will pull out the Lenny Bruce records from under the counter if you say the secret word, the guy on the right has an in with Deutsche Grammophon and hasn’t paid for a classical record since the war bsky.app/profile/sk-7...
Record store employees, Chicago (1961)
Photo: Raeburn Flerlage / Chicago Historical Society
April 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The guy on the left will pull out the Lenny Bruce records from under the counter if you say the secret word, the guy on the right has an in with Deutsche Grammophon and hasn’t paid for a classical record since the war bsky.app/profile/sk-7...
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love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago
April 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago