Meh, the new feature-length Avatar movie was leaked months ago and it's doing fine today. ...But hey! Netflix bad evil punish punish go watch new Nick Cage movie good yes!

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 5d ago

Why a Theocratic America is a bad, bad, very not good idea even for American Evangelicals and Conservative Catholics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4QN... (Nevermind for Muslims, Hindus, Atheists, etc. or even for Mormons...) ___ #fzWebVideos #USPol #Project2025 #Trump #JDVance #ChristianNationalism

What the Founders Feared Most Is Happening Now

YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

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I mean far be it for me to speak ill of the dead... even of the conceptually liminally half-dead...

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 3d ago

Breathe easy, InfoWarriors! Sen. Mitch McConnell just called in with a reassuring update from the space between life and death!

Viktor Yanukovych has been living under a fake name in Russia for over a decade, a Ukrainian YouTube investigation says. Docs show Ukraine's fugitive ex-president uses "Oleg Leonov" — his mother's maiden name — since 2014, and now lives in a Sochi estate with his partner. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine in disgrace in 2014. A new investigation says he now lives in Sochi — under his mother’s maiden name. — Meduza

Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is now living in Sochi and using documents in the name of “Oleg Nikolayevich Leonov,” according to an investigation by the Ukrainian YouTube channel…

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Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

Demokrasi adalah khianat karena demokrasi adalah kompromi. Namun tanpa kompromi berarti berkeras dan terus berperang, karena berkeras tak mundur sejengkalpun! Diskusikan.

Gulagu-net, one of the most prominent groups documenting torture and abuse inside Russia's prison system, has shut down. The reason isn't only Kremlin pressure — its founder cites harassment and infighting within the Russian opposition itself. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Gulagu.net, the Russian prisoner rights group, announces it is shutting down — Meduza

Gulagu.net, a project that helps prisoners, announced on Monday that it was shutting down.

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Yes there's this...:

Jan Adriaenssens@verbeeld.bsky.social · 2w ago

Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”

Feeding the hungry fascist monster machine will always be a risky proposition...

Meduza in English@meduza.io · 3w ago

Ilya Remeslo built his career as a pro-Kremlin blogger by informing on opposition politician Alexei Navalny, claiming his own tip led to a fraud case against him. Now Remeslo himself has been detained, accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Also I spotted this old screenshot I took some time ago. Can't even remember where or whom I "stole" it from. But I feel it still reflects of the mood of Public Combative Social Media today. #DeadInternetTheory #WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings #ScreamingPastEachOther

With #HouseOfTheDragon season 3, I accidentally watched episode 3 right after episode 1, accidentally skipping episode 2. And though yeah I noticed something was a bit off, it almost felt like I wasn't really missing anything important. The story still made sense.

"Citizenship and belonging are not the same thing. Statelessness is not always the absence of a country. Sometimes it is the slow erosion of belonging." Support our July #GVSpotlight series, “Statelessness”: globalvoices.org/2026/06/17/s... globalvoices.org/2026/07/02/i...

I learned the feeling of statelessness in my Uyghur homeland

Feelings of statelessness happen when a people’s language, their culture, their memories, and future no longer have an equal place in the land they call home.

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I wish just one NATO leader (or all of them) would say, "This is unacceptable. The US president has lost his mind. America come get your boy. He's broken and needs to be under a doctor's care back home." I wish someone would tell the damn truth about what's happening.

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

I kinda really want to read John Green's "Hollywood Ending". (Novel. John's novel. Not some abstract end-of-life or anything morbid like that. I want to read the novel.)

I really like this joke and I love it as a "pure joke". But I find it uncomfortable how acknowledging this joke risks heavily implying that Egypt's World Cup defeat was "unfair" or the product of "cheating"/"theft" or somesuch. Yes yes I'm reading too much into the joke.

kyleayers.bsky.social@kyleayers.bsky.social · 4w ago

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

So currently Iran wants Hormuz toll, while Oman does not... *Noted*

Institute for the Study of War@thestudyofwar.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Iran continues to insist on imposing an illegal toll scheme in the Strait of Hormuz despite Omani opposition to mandatory fees. (1/6) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate07...

Don't let Internet curmudgeons yuck your yum. Fuck them.

First weekend box office numbers will not take away what a great story Blade Runner 2049 was and is. (For me personally, and for many, many people as well.) Same with this new James Gunn-produced Supergirl. As far as I'm concerned.

A new-ish photo of my old-ish bike for no particular reason

*bookmarking for watching later*

Polygon@polygon.com · last mo.

Both ABC and Fox failed to see its greatness, but 30 years later, it still enjoys a cult fanbase

I was watching a video-essay a few days ago that Oligarchy in contemporary times can no longer be considered to simple be "rule by the few", but is now inevitably and unavoidably "rule by the ultra-rich"...

'...reminiscent of the rise of Korea (which shares a love for pickled food, weapons and capitalism).' With bison. www.euractiv.com/news/the-remarkable-comeback-of-the-polish-bison/?utm_source=eac&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=euractiv.com

The remarkable comeback of the Polish bison | Euractiv

Which is really a story about Visegrad and the threat of economic decline

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Question. Do I watch a film that will make me laugh, cry and learn something about myself. Or do I continue listening to Til Death Do Us Blart, a podcast about watching Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 every single year till the end of linear time?

The middle class the World over is experiencing death by a thousand cuts... and the ones doing the cutting are ultimately the Billionaires and Centibillionaires and almost-Trillionaires fearing that their fiefdoms are about to crash & burn in a gigantic ball of fire...

If you had to explain why the drawing on the left jumps out as AI before you start noticing the various AI-style errors, what would you note? (feel free to say it doesn't jump out as AI)

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last mo.

EDIT: Woops, it got deleted. Here was the image (I still had the window open)

Shot:

Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social · last mo.

Coming from the most corrupt Administration in American history, this is an honor I'll treasure forever.