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patrickharney.bsky.social
Recovering local news reporter fleeing X/Twitter, major film fan, democracy enthusiast
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I love that the premise of every theme park ride is you embark on a leisurely and totally safe tour of an impossibly dangerous death trap and then within three seconds of sitting down the narrator goes “Welcome aboard! Over to your left that’s OH NO THEY ESCAPED, HANG ON THIS IS GONNA GET BUMPY.”

I might have to stitch "Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel." on a throw pillow or something.

these threads are a lot of fun (still in progress if you’re the sort who wants to wait until things are complete)

national shitstorm service broadcasting a category 5 shitstorm for social media discourse today, remain outdoors

WHAT IS THE CHARGE? EATING A MEAL?! A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL?!

friction, friction, friction

BREAKING: A Federal judge has just ordered the return of an in air plane carrying deported migrants to South Sudan. The Judge says if they fail to comply, he will jail all officials and the pilot, for Contempt of Court.

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

everybody gangsta till the wandering samurai roll up into town and start playing gangs against each other

Wesley Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in journalism say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

This is just a tiny glimpse into the future we could have had

The moneybagses could keep brainstorming about how to grow a liberal Joe Rogan in a vat or they could just make Shari Redstone a better offer, buy CBS, and run a network news operation that covers the myriad fuckups and abuses of the Trump administration without watering it down for fake balance

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

The correct viewing order is- 1) Andor S1 2) Andor S2 3) Rogue One 4) A New Hope 5) That Robot Chicken scene where Vader calls Palpatine to tell him the Death Star has been destroyed.

Editor: You get the pictures for the air traffic controller story? Photographer: Sure did boss. Real fucking sexy just like you asked. Editor: What

guy trying to figure out whether the weird mute six-armed monkeys which fix the HVAC systems on Glorpus III are sentients and thus citizens and taxpayers or animals. then he runs into a roadside stand selling kebabs made out of them

The most interesting sequels story would have been exploring the tension between the New Republic's ideals and the need/desire to restore order to the Galaxy.

I just spent three weeks in Orange County and the rich older liberals here are ready for trench warfare, so, can confirm

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Please spread the correct information about Mayor Baraka's arrest. He had apparently been trying for a few days to visit the ICE prison and was rebuffed. Then the members of Congress tried to visit today and were made to wait in the waiting area for 90 minutes. Then 20 ICE Gestapo showed up...

Overjoyed by the release of another political prisoner.

there has to be a hell for these morherfuckers, like i don't believe in any sentient sense of karmic justice in the universe but

He will be significantly more radical than US liberals in many ways while being simultaneously more reactionary than the US right. He is situated in a tradition that is upstream of modernity and trying to look at it through a vulgar political lens is pointless and frustrating.

Jane Schoenbrun will begin shooting their I Saw the TV Glow follow-up Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma this summer. See new details:

I’ve seen “deep dish body of Christ” like 25 times and every single time it has delighted me.

Octopus Facts

WHAT

Americans need more things that don't map onto partisan loyalties (& that we don't value primarily for that quality)

You know that racist white lady who has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars after calling a 5 year old boy the n word? She's using a Christian fundraising platform that's fine with her racism. That didn't sit right with Kiendria a web developer. /1

Read the whole thread

the chicagope isn't going to be anywhere near as woke as anyone would like, but i am going to enjoy the adult converts losing their fucking minds for years to come

GILLIBRAND VOTES AGAINST MOVING FORWARD WITH HER OWN STABLECOIN BILL. For today at least, crypto isn't the most powerful lobby in Congress. The rest of us are. @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social

I'm definitely not the first person to beg, "can we please have an entire movie about the Choctaw Vampire Hunters?"

Catholicism simply shouldn't be approached through the lens of US politics. There are "liberal" & "conservative" factions in the church hierarchy, but they do not map neatly onto the contours of ideological debates here.

"Chicago Pope" is like a 1994 SNL sketch. Airs at 12:20am, the only gag is that Chris Farley has a mustache and is doing a big accent. David Spade and the guest host (Joe Mantegna) keep breaking during it.

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

Almost every aspect of your life that makes your life enjoyable is due to a relatively small amount of very serious people taking their chosen crafts very seriously.

okay, i think this is my favorite of the series

Should go without saying, but this is indefensible, full stop. All the arguments defending it amount to collective punishment. Nothing, nothing, nothing can justify this, ever, anywhere, at all.

:3 @swilua.bsky.social

“Male loneliness” is kind of the perfect antifeminist complaint, because it articulates the moral logic of patriarchal entitlement very neatly: that men deserve women’s attention, company, devotion, sex, and care, and women should provide these to men even at the cost of their own wellbeing.

It is true that there are cold, pragmatic reasons why we have to pay attention to Cis Men’s Problems (because they’re the demographic that overwhelmingly do the most violence): I also think it’s equally important that everyone else be granted permission to be pissed off about this hostage situation