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Fact Check: Not all markings on ballot make it invalid, election official says

Writing or markings on a ballot, such as initials of poll workers, do not automatically invalidate it, according to a U.S. election agency spokesperson and contrary to social media posts suggesting th...

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Be kind. Make things with your hands. Something. Anything. Make a fucking sandwich. Read a book. Listen to a record from start to finish. Literally anything at all that puts us closer to tipping the scale back toward humanity. It sounds trite, but what else is there?

Exciting news for @stevegreene.bsky.social and everyone else who misses the show formerly known as SCROTAL RECALL and then renamed LOVESICK — these are the Kanopy listings for next month...

Thank you to the people who subscribed to Stream On in the last 24 hours! I hope you enjoyed Greg Davies and Alex Horne of TASKMASTER's recs! (Honestly, that Mads movie sounds *incredible*.) As a treat, allow me to share an unpublished-until-now excerpt from the very start of our interview...

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#Elsbeth spoiler alert: Jonathan Tolins on playing into the "will they, won't they" trope of police procedurals & whether that Elsbeth and Smullen moment actually meant anything: www.givememyremote.com/remote/2026/...

ELSBETH Season 4 Premiere Post-Mortem: Jonathan Tolins on the Unexpected Elsbeth and Smullen Moment, the Return of Claudia, and Familial Arrivals for Teddy’s Wedding Planning - Give Me My Remote

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Thursday, October 8 season premiere of ELSBETH.]

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From the RT review blurbs for Ben Affleck's ANIMALS: A British person describes the L.A. River.

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Greg Davies Touches Alex Horne on Taskmaster

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Spiritually speaking, we have Dylan Meyer's THE WRONG GIRLS to thank for this. www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

Souplantation will return to Orange County in 2027. 'There is a god'

The buffet chain with a cult following will return to Orange County after nearly seven years of closure. More locations could follow.

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Hi friends, if you do not currently subscribe to my totally free weekly streaming recommendations newsletter, you might do so before Friday morning. That way, you'll be the first to read recommendations from a *very* exciting pair of special guests... Link: consequenceofsound.activehosted.com/f/82

Greg Davies Touches Alex Horne on Taskmaster

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this is very true, but flagging for anyone who needs it that local libraries often offer free access to numerous periodicals: Los Angeles Public Library in particular makes it easy to read NYT, WaPo, and WSJ with just a few clicks.

Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · yesterday

there are few more important sites for journalists these days than those archive sites that let you bypass paywalls. less than ideal.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Dir: Leonard Nimoy Released: 11/26/1986 00:44:08.967

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

My precious.

ahahaha oh my THE SOCIAL RECKONING has a Facebook page www.facebook.com/TheSocialRec...

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 4d ago

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

A reminder to the Tubi-addicted that Kanopy is free w a library card, ad-free, and is Not Fucking Around when it comes to genre

The more time passes, the more I think the only good scene in the HARRY POTTER movies is when Harry and Hermoine dance to Nick Cave.

The more time passes, the more I think the only good scene in the HARRY POTTER movies is when Harry and Hermoine dance to Nick Cave.

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

I saw this headline and joked to myself "this list must be eight movies long" and then I clicked to find out I was wrong! (It's 10.)

The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 4d ago

The best Netflix original movies

TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. https://whenweallvote.org/

With the TV season kicking off, a list of all the places you can find GMMR: Instagram: instagram.com/givememyremo... Facebook: facebook.com/GiveMeMyRemo... YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCs7... Amazon deals/affiliate links: amzn.to/3B0iQlK

Apologies to all my loved ones, but I just purchased DOCTOR WHO Seasons 1-4 on Blu-ray and plan to rewatch Season 1 and most of 2 over the next month and a half, so be prepared for that to become my entire personality for a little while all over again.

Christopher Eccleston: Unbearable Pain

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JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 7d ago

The Taming of Sméagol Donato Giancola

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

Life in Los Angeles in 2026: I'm getting better at killing mosquitoes by slamming my laptop shut.

Man, no movie has made me feel like going to bed forever quite the way MUSK just did.

Whatever complaints we might end up having about the upcoming STREET FIGHTER movie, I don't think one of them will be "The filmmakers don't care about the video games!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxTh...

Guile's Theme (from "Street Fighter" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

YouTube video by Leo Birenberg - Topic

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