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Ryan Benk
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Producer/reporter for NPR's Weekend Edition. Horror, punk, pop-punk or anything by Sturgill Simpson. Lift heavy things. Cats are rad. SAGAFTRA. DC is a real place.
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At 76, cabaret artist Joey Arias’s resume reads like the movie Big Fish. The tales are almost too tall to believe, but he’s really done them all.

What an honor to help tell this legend's story.

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Joey Arias has plenty of art left to give: 'I want to live to be at least 200 years'
Decades of metamorphosis and drag performer Joey Arias is far from his final form.
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How Oscar Isaac Made Frankenstein New Again
How Oscar Isaac Made Frankenstein New Again
When director Guillermo del Toro asked Isaac to star in his magnum opus, the actor dug deep into his own history—and Prince’s.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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They used to wiretap your phones to collect this kind of information from you but now you pay for a Bluecheck and post it yourself
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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lol oh well that ends the problem, everybody move on
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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There a dude at my gym who I’m eighty percent sure is a twin. Some days I see him, and he looks … slightly, indefinably different. I nod hey to him to test him, but he always passes—maybe both of them recognize me somewhat? Feel like I’m in a PKD novel, here. I’m often very confused. But trying.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Someone you hate writing an outline
the worst person you know just made three points
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Okay but what are they gonna do with all of those hot chili sauce packets tho?
Wendy’s plans to close hundreds of its restaurants in an effort to 'boost its profit and make its remaining stores more appealing'
Wendy's To Close Hundreds Of U.S. Stores
The latest round of closures comes on top of the 240 U.S. Wendy's locations that shuttered in 2024.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I feel like the shriveled fast food French fry caught between car seat cushions, but at least I have an excuse to lay in bed with my cats all day.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Good movie alert: The Things You Kill whips! A quiet and cerebral thriller about hating your family and yourself, and coming around on both www.avclub.com/the-things-y...
You'll never be free of The Things You Kill in this twisty, tense thriller
Canadian Oscar entry The Things You Kill watches a Turkish family implode under the weight of their secrets.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Korn Kremlin
corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I want it to snow so hard this winter. I'm not sure why, but the vibes seem to call for it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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everything is "performative" because we're in a social media panopticon where everything becomes free content for our tech overlords so they can be rich and we can get a strangely unfulfilling but addictive form of attention
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
Oh fuck off
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":

".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."

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Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’
Oscar Isaac was not open to working with Disney after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and will only return to 'Star Wars' if the studio avoids fascism.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
He's bizarro Skyler Gisondo
Trump promotes Brilyn Hollyhand, the GOP establishment’s pick to replace Charlie Kirk
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is Travis Tritt
Was thinking of looking like this, going forward
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
PITFALL (1962)

Why? Aside from its eerie cinematography beautifully contrasting its deep, dark humor, the film is also a really early example of the ghost murder mystery -- when the dead desperately try to solve their own demise.

It's also an incredibly clever commentary on labor relations.

10/10
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I honestly should've watched Lincoln (2012) and then Death by Lightning
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
My fever has broken for now and I'm watching DEATH BY LIGHTNING. Lfg
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM