Sebastian Midence

I didn't get it, but I did respect the craft.

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

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I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

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I think Joaquin Phoenix is the last one standing.

Yesterday in a Treaty of Waitangi workshop, I learned that the Kiingitanga still exists. I'm not normally a monarchist, but... time for a swap?

Greater-Scope Villain - TV Tropes Nearly every conflict in fiction is caused by the Big Bad, the character directly responsible for the plot and likely sending out various minions and lieutenants to make the hero's life busy. But what...

Like, how is THIS the trope that turns out to be "Truth in Television"???
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Banner featuring the disgraced comedian Chris D'Elia holding a microphone, with the text: GO FOR IT! The Tour - Friday, 27 February, Q Theatre, Auckland

@qtheatre.bsky.social I was dismayed to learn that the disgraced American comedian Chris D'Elia is scheduled to perform at your venue on 27 February. Perhaps news of his sexual misconduct didn't make it down here to NZ? I would suggest you reconsider the booking.
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Seating assignment chart for 6:00 P.M. 30 January screening of the documentary "Melania" at Rialto Cinemas Newmarket. Seventeen seats have so far been reserved. (Between one-fifth and one-quarter of total seats available.)

Do we know how many cinemas in NZ are showing it? Are the cookers having to make a pilgrimage?

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Similar idiom in Chinese: 狗改不了吃屎 = "a dog can't stop himself from eating shit"
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YouTube video by Movieclips Good Burger (8/9) Movie CLIP - Mondo Demise (1997) HD

Of all movies, Good Burger identified the improbability of this trope: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRk8...

This is the message, and it wouldn't even be dishonest. This coalition (and especially the likes of David Seymour) appears to me, as a newcomer to Aotearoa, to be cut from exactly the same filthy cloth as the modern GOP.

The dumbest (and therefore most probable?) outcome: Trump develops a liking for Maduro after spending time with him in person, then lets him go back to being president of Venezuela.

I was thinking the same thing. Surely he would have demanded a last minute re-edit to make Brolin the hero?

A man stands grimly wearing a black-and-white blotted cow costume. On a table in front of him lie inscrutable tools of bovine design and manufacture (perhaps lacking something in sophistication.)

My costume from 2022:

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Sun Tzu ‘Rule Over Ashes’ Quote What sounded like an eerily prescient quote by a Chinese military philosopher about a wish to "rule over the ashes" spread virally in March 2023.

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then use that position to buy his way into the U.S. government and mass-murder millions by denying critical life-sustaining food and medical aid? But in all three cases, one lesson is this: no individual, under any government or economic system, should be allowed to amass that kind of power.

If the Holodomor and the Great Leap Forward are frequently considered significant examples of "deaths caused by Communism", how can it not be laid at the feet of Capitalism that this apartheid mining scion was able to bluster and con his way to becoming the richest person in the world,

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

YouTube video by Riz Ahmed Riz Ahmed - The Long Goodbye (Best Live Action Short - Oscars 2022)

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YouTube video by brian david gilbert A terrible guide to the terrible terminology of U.S. Health Insurance

Please share this with your fellow Kiwis: youtu.be/-wpHszfnJns

Four-panel image meme from "Family Guy". Lois Griffin speaks to a rapt audience at a political rally, first dangling the name "Jeffrey" to pique their interest, then finishing with "Epstein", sparking wild applause.

this better be every democrat until trump is out of office

Lust, lies and empire: The fishy tale behind eating fish on Friday An old myth holds that Catholics eat fish on Fridays because of a secret pact a medieval pope made to sell more fish. That's just a fish tale. The real story behind fish Fridays is way better.

Sadly that story seems to be apocryphal.
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Neil Postman warned us, man. The medium simply doesn't lend itself to substantive discourse.

we like kentucky bourbon neat! no ICE

my fave sign here in Lexington, KY

My family rented this on DVD when it was new. Couldn't get through the movie, but we were surprised to discover the wealth of special features on the disc. It was as though they had interviewed every single cast and crewmember. Sadly we must have missed the featurette where this was discussed.

Sounds like "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. I read it in 2017, and it really captures the MAGA mindset.
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