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Nick Charles

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Former USAF SF, former fed, current rapscallion husband, & always an entertainer of a martini. (Real Seattle Private Eye)


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Very Very Common Mike Dunford 's avatar Very Very Common Mike Dunford @questauthority.bsky.social
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Also - Dear furry tech people: Heritage is run by people who are connected and well-resourced, although not necessarily all that sharp. So please remember that even if nothing else you did or know about is remotely illegal, it's a felony to lie to the feds and every day is STFU Friday, m'kay?

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Foxfeather Zenkova's avatar Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social
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Siri and Stomp like to plop down and watch me being busy cleaning and bustling about. Pretty sure I'm often some sort of entertaining human aquarium exhibit for these cutest black vulture kids (and our other birds), who seem to enjoy observing me as much as I do them.

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Prime Minister of Shark City's avatar Prime Minister of Shark City @jason1749.bsky.social
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The pic and implied threat of the headline is incredible here.

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ArtButMakeItSports's avatar ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
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Christ Curing a Possessed Man, by Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1856, 📸 by @RobbieJBarratt

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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WBD's stock price has tanked ~78% since David Zaslav was announced as CEO— $32.68 on 05/19/21 to $7.32, today— to say nothing of the brand loyalty, goodwill, & creative talent he's destroyed. It is amazing & genuinely horrifying that anyone could fail this badly, & remain in a position of authority

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Jessica Ritchey 's avatar Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social
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Please engrave this on a blast proof, corrosive proof plate so the aliens who find it know what happened to us.

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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looooooooooooooooooooooooooool

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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David Zaslav is glaring proof that meritocracy is a myth, because someone this blatantly incompetent should never have risen to the position he holds. If you can't even understand not to say the quiet part out loud... (To be clear, I'm glad he did, but c'mon. What a useless shitbag.)

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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“Colored”? They’re going to be causally saying the N word on air by September

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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The Ark Lodge is where I first saw EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, and PARASITE, and KNIVES OUT, and SUMMER OF SOUL, and, most poignantly, THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO. It's the only cinema I've gone to since the start of the pandemic. I want it to survive.

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Trish K's avatar Trish K @tkaz99.bsky.social
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It's called fashion, sweetie. Look it up!

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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(One illness or accident, but yep.)

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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He looks like a tween trying to cosplay, cheaply, as Taron Egerton in the KINGSMAN films.

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Doctora Malka Older's avatar Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social
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highlighting - HIGHLIGHTING ffs - a challenge FOR AI??? reallly?? is that where the challenge is??

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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This is going to continue happening as everything gets hotter. Seattle had problems similar to this during the 2021 heat dome. Climate change is an *infrastructure problem* along with all the other types of problems.

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I literally think this is the primary driver behind NYT going full fascist:

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Joshua Erlich's avatar Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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NYT now reporting that a veterinary expert went to the White House eight times and that Biden has Feline HIV

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

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Reactor (formerly Tor.com)'s avatar Reactor (formerly Tor.com) @reactorsff.bsky.social
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Over the course of 15 months and with 62 Lakota speakers involved, The Avengers has been dubbed fully into Lakota by the original cast:

reactormag.com/the-avengers...

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Melanie D’Arrigo's avatar Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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Very funny that the Times was so certain about the panic they were causing that they set up a little live update election-season scoreboard for it

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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I said it before and I'll say it again: having mike johnson as speaker while biden is president and a Black woman is vice president should make literally everybody who opposes the idea of a christo-fascist dictatorship high-key anxious, literally every day.

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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The press using the white house visitor logs to write up (apparently false) attacks on Biden after Biden published visitor logs and Trump didn't: good illustration of the reward for upstanding and ethical behavior in the current media environment.

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I think we can officially retire the heartbreaking meme now

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Nina Metz's avatar Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social
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Since I'm not seeing other news outlets writing about this, I did Column: Paramount’s new president was fired last year as CEO of NBCUniversal after allegations of sexual harassment

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snipy's avatar snipy @snipy.bsky.social
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Because of the part where he was literally working on a giant bill to combat Parkinson's, you absolute pieces of shit

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Nick Charles's avatar Nick Charles @nickcharles.bsky.social
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You want income generated clicks with yellow journalism to be your legacy? You must be so proud. At this point I wouldn’t be sad if your offices crumbled to obscurity.

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IT’S FREAKY FRIDAY, CHERIE, AND YOU DIDN’T NOTICE.

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The Intercept's avatar The Intercept @theintercept.com
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Former Trump administration officials wrote and edited massive chunks of the manifesto, but Trump has “no idea who is behind” it.

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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HARD AGREE on both posts. This show made so many thoughtful choices and never lost sight of what it was. The cast was perfect. A great procedural, a great re-imagining of a well-known canon, and a deeply compassionate story about people and relationships.

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Thicc Semper Tyrannis's avatar Thicc Semper Tyrannis @scriban.bsky.social
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NYT says their performance on Threads today was an aberration, & not indicative of deeper problems they've had with social media. Unfortunately, that hasn't satisfied many observers whose concerns are growing louder. The stakes are too high. For the good of the news, the Times should step aside

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Movies Silently's avatar Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social
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Americans: Ah! France in the twenties! The romance! The allure! French People: Je voudrais une rocket ship!

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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The only "lesson" that anyone learns from non-voters is that fascists can get away with anything.

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Elisabeth Van Every's avatar Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social
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THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. As with creativity, learning requires a LOT of trial and error, plus knowledgeable guidance *and wisdom* to find where support is needed. The Plagiarism Machine can't provide that. (Also this is about getting rid of human labor that has to be paid & has needs.)

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Patrick S. Tomlinson's avatar Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social
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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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