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Spenglernot
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Massive fan of Our Flag Means Death, good trouble, and the oxford comma. Slava Ukraini! Fuck plutocracy! Keep Canada Canadian!
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Incredible how every step of voting by mail is tracked, logged, and communicated to the voter. Almost like… it’s an inclusive, safe, and transparent method for voting.

#VoteYesOnProp50
#FuckGOPvoterSupression
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Cancelled my Disney+ and Hulu.

Not gonna pay Disney to censor speech. Not gonna pay Disney to enable fascism.
September 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Looks like possibly Latin script, so likely the Revenge. This means someone from the Red Flag boarded the Revenge without Ed’s crew noticing (improbable) and got the log before Stede’s belly flop swim, but the David Jenkins rule of “no one’s gonna care if we tell the story right” applies here.
Image from OFMD S2 E3. Zheng Yi Sao reads a book Auntie hands to her as the two discuss the damaged Revenge ship.
September 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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FCC Commissioner Anna M Gomez on the Skydance-Paramount merger:

“I urge others to take notice and find their courage. And I will continue to call out cowardly corporate capitulation for what it is: a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust.
FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez statement in response to the closing of the Paramount-Skydance merger: “Today marks the final chapter of a dark moment in our nation’s history. After months of cowardly capitulation, including an unprecedented payout to settle a meritless lawsuit in exchange for regulatory approval, Paramount and Skydance have completed their merger, and ‘New Paramount’ will be created. “This will be a new company, born in shame after trading away fundamental First Amendment principles in pursuit of pure profit. It embraced this Administration’s radical notion that discriminatory behavior should be tolerated and even embraced, while efforts to expand opportunity for everyone should be rejected. “More alarmingly, the company agreed to never-before-seen forms of government control over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment—actions that violate both the First Amendment and the law. A government-sanctioned ‘truth arbiter’ will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists at CBS do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. That should alarm anyone who values the core democratic principle of a free and independent press. “All of this is being carried out under the guise of combating so-called ‘media bias,’ a term which, in practice, appears to encompass anything or anyone who disagrees with this Administration. Never mind that those now feigning concern over media bias are the same individuals who have spent the past decade attacking the press and sowing public distrust in journalism. And even if such bias did exist to the extent they claim, the last entity the American people should entrust with defining or policing it is the federal government. “Sadly, this will not be the end of this Administration’s campaign of intervention in media to silence critics, gain favorable coverage, and impose ideological conformity on newsrooms that should remain independent.
August 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I’d like to be hopeful about Paramount for original, inclusive storytelling, but business daddy is already shady as hell:
From a Variety article about David Ellison and the Skydance-Paramount merger. Published 7 August 2025 On July 24, the FCC approved the Skydance-Paramount deal, which officially closed Thursday. Two days prior to the agency’s approval, Skydance’s McKinnon sent letters to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr promising that Skydance would install an ombudsman at CBS to review “complaints of bias or other concerns” and guaranteeing that the merged Skydance-Paramount would not implement any diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. A week earlier, Ellison met with Carr and other FCC officials to lobby for the deal’s approval and promised that Skydance would ensure CBS’s “editorial decision-making reflects the varied ideological perspectives of American viewers.”
August 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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One of my favorite posts during the lead up to season 2.
Image of Vanity Faire's First Look article for Our Flag Means Death, season 2 that was published in early August, 2023. The Twitter poster, says, "they gonna fuck fr.
July 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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In answer to how widespread it could have been? There was plenty of crossover on pirate ship crews
Diagram of connections among Atlantic pirate crews from 1714 to 1727.
July 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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This experience is occurring in millions of small businesses. Make sure to tell these stories everywhere. Trump will blame these hardships on our allies, and set us up for war.
Add to this the reality that many Americans will not view the economic hardship to come as Trump's doing, but rather a result of the rest of the world harming the US maliciously, as Trump tries to—in their mind—stick up for America. This creates a different interpretive frame for many of your fellow Americans, wherein they see their suffering not as a consequence of Trump's tariffs, but of our allies' unwillingness to yield to Trump's reasonable demands. This is how they view it. When economic hardship arrives—as it inevitably will from these policies—it won't be experienced as a policy failure but as confirmation of the narrative that America is being treated unfairly by the world. Each retaliatory measure by trading partners, each market decline, each job loss becomes not evidence that tariffs were misguided, but proof that foreign powers are punishing America for standing up for itself. This creates a dangerous feedback loop: economic pain leads not to policy reconsideration but to doubling down, which triggers more retaliation, which creates more pain, which further reinforces the narrative of victimhood. The worse things get, the more justified extreme measures seem. - The Time of Monsters, Notes From The Circus Substack post 4/9/2025
April 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Fan fic in which Ketchup Entertainment builds so much name recognition, good will, and profit from buying and releasing shit-canned Warner Bros films and cancelled HBO shows that it becomes a powerhouse media production company.
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Ketchup Entertainment logo. All lower-case black letters on a white background with a shiny red dot (a glob of ketchup?) between the first and second words. Canceller and shit-canner of excellent films and television, destroyer of Warner Bros and HBO’s legacies, mortal enemy of fans of animation, DC, Cartoon Network, LGBTQ+ and POC-lead programming, and fans of just quality films and tv in general, perpetual plummeter of WBD stock price who somehow still got paid $400,000,000, and 2022 winner of “The Most Hated Man In Hollywood” NYT award, David Zaslav.
April 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Alt Text for image.
Alt text for originally posted image: A close-up illustration of Donald Trump’s face, drawn to look like a baby’s face. The Trump baby has a Twitter logo shaped pacifier in his mouth.
January 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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There’s no harm in asking politely so, yeah, sending this today.
#OurFlagMeansDeath
#LettersToSeaForSeason3
#Netflix
Envelope containing handwritten letter to Netflix headquarters, requesting Netflix pick up Our Flag Means Death.
January 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Bit of a challenge…
November 15, 2024 at 12:21 AM