Kelly Ransford
@kellyransford.bsky.social
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@stephenking.bsky.social Listening to Insomnia (love it!) Is the music supposed to represent different colors of Ralph’s auras, various evil entities or just random music placement?
February 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
@stephenking.bsky.social Listening to Insomnia (love it!) Is the music supposed to represent different colors of Ralph’s auras, various evil entities or just random music placement?
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The halftime show that spawned a thousand dissertations and I mean that as the highest compliment. What a gift of art.
February 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The halftime show that spawned a thousand dissertations and I mean that as the highest compliment. What a gift of art.
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Easily the most self-consciously political performance of pop culture I’ve ever seen. Whoever directed that knew *exactly* what they were doing.
February 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Easily the most self-consciously political performance of pop culture I’ve ever seen. Whoever directed that knew *exactly* what they were doing.
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"We handed control of the government to an 18 year old who did an internship" is the dumbest possible Iraq War boomerang. 2004 on ket confirmed
NEW: OPM — the US govt's HR department — is now being run exclusively by Big Tech lackies, mostly from Elon Musk companies. Reporting directly to the chief of staff is a kid who just graduated high school & was recently a camp counsellor before interning at Neuralink.
From @telliotter.bsky.social:
From @telliotter.bsky.social:
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"We handed control of the government to an 18 year old who did an internship" is the dumbest possible Iraq War boomerang. 2004 on ket confirmed
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Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked, or removed posts from two abortion pill providers.
Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid the providers from appearing in search and recommendations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid the providers from appearing in search and recommendations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked, or removed posts from two abortion pill providers.
Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid the providers from appearing in search and recommendations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid the providers from appearing in search and recommendations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
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They…turned off…National Institutes of Health grants? That’s nearly $50 billion of scientific research.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
They…turned off…National Institutes of Health grants? That’s nearly $50 billion of scientific research.
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I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet
Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.
The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
January 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet
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It took one day for Donald Trump to disband the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for U.S. children, but Trump and the GOP would rather cozy up to the gun lobby than protect our kids.
We deserve better than this.
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for U.S. children, but Trump and the GOP would rather cozy up to the gun lobby than protect our kids.
We deserve better than this.
BREAKING: We’re only two days into the Trump-Vance Administration, and they have seemingly disbanded the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention already—making it clear this Administration works for the gun lobby, not the American people.
January 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It took one day for Donald Trump to disband the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for U.S. children, but Trump and the GOP would rather cozy up to the gun lobby than protect our kids.
We deserve better than this.
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for U.S. children, but Trump and the GOP would rather cozy up to the gun lobby than protect our kids.
We deserve better than this.
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5 years of Netflix US profit: $15.1 Billion
5 years of Netflix exec pay: $652M
5 years of taxes paid by Netflix: $236M
In a 5-year span after Trump's tax cuts, Netflix paid top execs 3x what it paid in federal income tax.
Yesterday, Netflix announced it was raising prices again.
5 years of Netflix exec pay: $652M
5 years of taxes paid by Netflix: $236M
In a 5-year span after Trump's tax cuts, Netflix paid top execs 3x what it paid in federal income tax.
Yesterday, Netflix announced it was raising prices again.
January 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
5 years of Netflix US profit: $15.1 Billion
5 years of Netflix exec pay: $652M
5 years of taxes paid by Netflix: $236M
In a 5-year span after Trump's tax cuts, Netflix paid top execs 3x what it paid in federal income tax.
Yesterday, Netflix announced it was raising prices again.
5 years of Netflix exec pay: $652M
5 years of taxes paid by Netflix: $236M
In a 5-year span after Trump's tax cuts, Netflix paid top execs 3x what it paid in federal income tax.
Yesterday, Netflix announced it was raising prices again.
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Wherein Robert Eggers discusses his own definition of horror, and also does a little puppet dance in imitation of Willem Dafoe!
www.vulture.com/article/robe...
www.vulture.com/article/robe...
The Melodrama of Robert Eggers
The Nosferatu director doesn’t want to represent a modern point of view in his horror-adjacent movies.
www.vulture.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Wherein Robert Eggers discusses his own definition of horror, and also does a little puppet dance in imitation of Willem Dafoe!
www.vulture.com/article/robe...
www.vulture.com/article/robe...
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you don't need a phd in right wing extremism to recognize a nazi salute. what the fuck are we doing here.
January 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
you don't need a phd in right wing extremism to recognize a nazi salute. what the fuck are we doing here.
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Here are the incredible winners of the 2024 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest. mymodernmet.com/2024-ocean-a...
Incredible Winners of the 2024 Ocean Art Underwater Photography Contest
There's a whole other world underwater and these incredible photos are revealing it to us all!
mymodernmet.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Here are the incredible winners of the 2024 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest. mymodernmet.com/2024-ocean-a...
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
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What would Martin Luther King Jr. urge us to do as we celebrate his life and legacy?
Press On.
Press On.
January 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
What would Martin Luther King Jr. urge us to do as we celebrate his life and legacy?
Press On.
Press On.
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By the time RFK Jr. urged the FDA to pull Covid vaccines in 2021, they had already saved an estimated 140,000 lives. It's incredibly reckless that Trump chose Kennedy as Health and Human Services secretary. If Republicans confirm him, they will be signing a death warrant for countless Americans.
RFK Jr. Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout (Gift Article)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
By the time RFK Jr. urged the FDA to pull Covid vaccines in 2021, they had already saved an estimated 140,000 lives. It's incredibly reckless that Trump chose Kennedy as Health and Human Services secretary. If Republicans confirm him, they will be signing a death warrant for countless Americans.
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David Lynch was the artist of our time:
David Lynch Was The Artist of Our Time | Defector
Across the entire spectrum of great American icons, there is no one quite like David Lynch. He was a walking enigma: an artist’s artist who was also somehow mainstream, an unapologetic esotericist…
defector.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
David Lynch was the artist of our time:
An example of what’s to come. What a shite show.
Holy cow. Executives at CBS’s parent company have discussed settling Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News/60 Minutes, because they need the Trump administration to sign off on a planned corporate merger. www.wsj.com/business/med...
January 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
An example of what’s to come. What a shite show.
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My one wish for the inauguration is that there is a gift bag under the seats of Bezos, Zuck, Elon etc, with a single, embroidered , padded knee pad
Need to protect themselves when they are on bended knee, kissing the ring 🤷😆
Need to protect themselves when they are on bended knee, kissing the ring 🤷😆
January 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My one wish for the inauguration is that there is a gift bag under the seats of Bezos, Zuck, Elon etc, with a single, embroidered , padded knee pad
Need to protect themselves when they are on bended knee, kissing the ring 🤷😆
Need to protect themselves when they are on bended knee, kissing the ring 🤷😆
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This conversation b/w @dkthomp.bsky.social & @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social was one of the clearest, most measured discussions yet of the role policy did, and did not, play in LA's recent firestorms. www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla...
The L.A. Fires: How They Happened, Climate Change’s Role, and What the City Must Do Now - The Ringer
With so many confusing narratives unfolding around a fire that is still raging out of control, I wanted to talk to somebody I knew and trusted to get stories like this right. Robinson Meyer is the fou...
www.theringer.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This conversation b/w @dkthomp.bsky.social & @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social was one of the clearest, most measured discussions yet of the role policy did, and did not, play in LA's recent firestorms. www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla...
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was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
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Never forget that David Lynch once directed a PSA for the NYC Department of Sanitation youtu.be/FGl0XFOXrDM?...
PSA Nightmares: New York Department Of Sanitation - David Lynch Nightmare
YouTube video by Joshua Carino
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January 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Never forget that David Lynch once directed a PSA for the NYC Department of Sanitation youtu.be/FGl0XFOXrDM?...
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Over 40 arts institutions, foundations, and donors have launched a growing $12M relief fund to support artists affected by the catastrophic Los Angeles fires.
Art Orgs Launch $12M Fund for LA Artists Affected by Fires
Donors include the Helen Frankenthaler and Ford foundations, the Getty and LACMA, and commercial galleries.
hyperallergic.com
January 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Over 40 arts institutions, foundations, and donors have launched a growing $12M relief fund to support artists affected by the catastrophic Los Angeles fires.
Heartbreaking! consequence.net/2025/01/davi...
David Lynch, Singular Filmmaker and Artist, Dead at 78
David Lynch, the trailblazing filmmaker and artist who made the familiar strange and the unfamiliar terrifying, has died at the age of 78.
consequence.net
January 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Heartbreaking! consequence.net/2025/01/davi...
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The Public Domain Image Archive is another great one, just launched this week
January 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Public Domain Image Archive is another great one, just launched this week