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Blu Ray Samurai

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Arsenal, film/physical media, F1, and birds. Criterion and Radiance paypig. https://boxd.it/2hFhP

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β€œThe forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

28.02.2026 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2622    πŸ” 1127    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 32
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#lastfourwatched #filmsky #morverncallarbluraybeingOOPisacrime

24.01.2026 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mikel Arteta is the great British manager of his generation Fabio Capello had a problem.

this one's free www.graceonfootball.com/p/mikel-arte...

21.01.2026 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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21.01.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

β€œAbolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.

Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

18.01.2026 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1246    πŸ” 445    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 39

amen

18.01.2026 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#LastFourWatched #filmsky

16.01.2026 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

β€œStudents use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.” - Ronald Purser
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β€˜How do you learn if you can always get the answer from your phone?’ is a problem no one is trying to solve.

30.12.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

1. Bone Temple
2. Bone Temple
3. Bone Temple
4. Magellan

30.12.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing a red jersey with the number 10 on the back ALT: a man wearing a red jersey with the number 10 on the back

Eze hat trick against his lifelong rivals?

23.11.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ebere Threeze

23.11.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.

The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.

They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

04.11.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3460    πŸ” 1100    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 60
When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer?

Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called β€œall of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad.

The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself.

Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits.

Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer? Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called β€œall of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad. The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself. Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits. Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

28.10.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1736    πŸ” 367    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 24

Defector is spittin with this one

01.11.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dan Laustsen on Shooting Guillermo del Toro’s β€˜Frankenstein’: β€˜It’s About Love and Forgiveness’ Oscar-nominated DP Dan Laustsen breaks down how he and Guillermo del Toro shot Frankenstein with Alexa 65, tungsten light, and practical effects.

i saw it in 35mm and thought it looked great. Apparently, it was not shot on film, though. variety.com/2025/film/gl...

01.11.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#lastfourwatched #filmsky

31.10.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

king shit

24.10.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You have to wonder what a Yasujirō Ozu might have done with The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift

17.10.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB

28.09.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Macrohard.

What a stupid fucking time to be alive.

19.09.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 583    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 2

i need it

19.09.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#lastfourwatched #filmsky

05.09.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#lastfouwatched #filmsky

30.08.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ban hamstrings

23.08.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lmao

23.08.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

HE HAS ARRIVED. GYOK TUAH!

23.08.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

#lastfourwatched #filmsky

22.08.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ever y time i see like 200 fireworks going off I imagine that theyre being shot at an aliens ufo just rocking the shit out of his stupid ass

20.07.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3297    πŸ” 390    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 12
stupid sexy calafiori on a cloud

stupid sexy calafiori on a cloud

CALAFRIORI SCORES!

17.08.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 521    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3