Diane Ademu-John
@junkyardmessiah.bsky.social
I write for tv & film. Creator: HBO’s Dune: Prophecy. Writer/EP: Empire, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Originals, Medium, Extrapolations, etc. Love all things sci fi horror mystery & Depeche Mode
Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24h agoThis aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
Tell me the system is broken without telling me the system is broken.
Protect Our Care@protectourcare.org · yesterday"Even medical professionals are skipping health insurance because of high prices." A doctor and a pharmacist in Idaho just dropped coverage for their family of four. Their premium hit nearly $1,600 a month. If they can't afford it, who can?
Zohran post about filling one pothole: We filled our 2,000th pothole! Wow! New York is the greatest city in the world! Zohran post about meeting with the president: Some guy was here and that is now over.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 20h agoHad a productive meeting with the President today at Gracie Mansion.
Every. Clown. In. The Clown Show. Is also. Fucking. Nuts.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 18h ago‘When you have unlimited liability, the only way to deal with it would be to go to the government and say, "We'll give you 50% of our business.”’ ~ Palantir CEO Alex Karp shares his theory on why Anthropic & OpenAI are talking about existential risk. The lawsuits will be so big they need a bailout
Blink sixty three times if you want to be anywhere else but here, Mr. Mayor —
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h agoMamdani stares into the middle distance as Trump responds to a question about his ban on the free press by ranting about his economic record and how great his war in Iran is going
The absolute shame and sadness of this. 😞
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · yesterday"Holy shit that's a nasty surprise. There are things you expect to cost $500, like a Nintendo Switch, or tix to see Ed Sheeran 2 weeks ago 👀... being able to breathe is not one of them." John Oliver on our broken health care system ☠️ people unnecessarily. #MedicareForAllNOW
This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
“I just want to live in peace,” American citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas said following his third Kavanaugh stop this past spring: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he say...
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Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: Leo Garcia Venegas, detained three times by DHS, just won a major victory in his case. The court stayed three DHS policies: Immigration agents can no longer raid construction sites without a warrant, round up workers based on how they look, and refuse to let them go after they show a REAL ID.
I refuse to pay money for any streaming service that forces me to watch ads. You want me to watch ads, then the subscription cost better be $0.
IGN@ign.com · 2d agoDisney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo
DO YOU REMEMBER (Happy Earth, Wind & Fire Day)
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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“The people forced on to planes include those who spent most of their lives in the US, parents detained on the school run, the adult children of elderly relatives who depend on them for care.”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/21/trump-deportation-deals?
Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Disney bought Fox in 2019 so they could compete with Netflix. Since then they have laid off at least 7000 people, jacked up prices, repeatedly introduced ads until they're on every tier, and only last year turned their first streaming profit. The mergers haven't been good for anyone.
IGN@ign.com · 2d agoDisney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo
These are the AI risks we should be worried about and legislating against not freaking out over whether some poorly sandboxed security test leads to Skynet.
Repost: Things you should know but didn't know you needed to know before knowing: A nasothek is a collection of the broken noses of statues and busts. Now you know.
Went out for a coffee and saw three different folks reading oldtimey paperbacks. 📖📖📖
Point and Kill by Little Simz and Obongjayar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvY3...
Little Simz - Point And Kill feat. Obongjayar (Official Video)
YouTube video by Little Simz
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To my friends in the Bay Area: I'm hearing Rob Bonta is about to cave and hand Warner Bros over to the Ellisons. We can't let him do that. Can you show up outside his AG office in Oakland tomorrow at 5pm to reject this backroom deal? Reject the deal. www.mobilize.us/notabovethel...
Block the Merger: Don't Settle with Paramount! · Not Above the Law
Join us to rally outside of the California Attorney General's Oakland office! We need Attorney General Rob Bonta to stand strong against a Paramount-Warner Brothers Merger. A core principle behind a...
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That Godzilla/Barbie composite on the mantelpiece, next to the Edwardian oak buttplug, is by my brother-in-law.
eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
Micah@rincewind.run · 3d agochat is that good
"Since the federal takeover, he spends four nights a week pedaling his bike up and down the same streets, recording agents as they arrest his neighbors. On the scene, he lists rights for people getting arrested and asks if they’d like him to contact anyone..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
He worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.
A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort.
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