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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪
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Producer & Director of AR, VR and XR, volumetric video. Director of "The Tent" an Augmented Reality volumetric narrative that premiered at SXSW 2024.

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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · Jan 9
Huge thanks to @toddmartens.bsky.social for writing such a thoughtful appreciation of my new project OUT OF THE ASHES that I am co-directing with Nonny de la Peña. Tomorrow night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion we'll be showing excerpts from the project along with a host of other activations.
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Alright, everyone, we used up all of our bullets so nobody take a shot at us because then we'll... do nothing. So everyone just chill for a bit.
August 5, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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I'm old enough to remember the first 17 times Chipotle's tainted food supply killed its patrons.
jessicanix.bsky.social Jessica Nix @jessicanix.bsky.social · Aug 4
SCOOP! Chipotle becomes the latest Mexican quick-service chain linked to a foodborne illness outbreak... Chipotle pulled its jalapeños from Minnesota restaurants after it learned the peppers may be linked to salmonella. 🎁🔗: @bloomberg.com:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Chipotle Pulled Jalapeños Tied to Minnesota Salmonella Cases
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.
www.bloomberg.com
August 5, 2026 at 2:38 AM
rorymitchell.bsky.social
Picturing a sort of "Terrace House" with a bunch of surly looking spetnaz dudes with crewcuts www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/w...
How Putin Turned Japan Into a Den of Spies
Operating out of a Tokyo high-rise, a military intelligence unit finds the high-tech equipment that Russia needs to wage war.
www.nytimes.com
July 13, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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We need to help these people dammit. -- Unhoused parents want to preserve childhood for their kids: 'I want to give her everything' | LAist share.google/FJH8M4Hz3ms3...
Unhoused parents want to preserve childhood for their kids: 'I want to give her everything'
Homelessness among families with children has been on the rise. Five families share about navigating housing stability and trying to do the best for their children.
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July 1, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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From Josie Stratman (NY Daily News):

“Mayor Mamdani on his "Talk with the Mayor" twitch stream reveals an old username: airnova2112 (after Mars 2112)

Apparently a 15-year-old Mamdani used the username to come to the defense of his director mom, Mira Nair, from haters on online film chat boards”
Re: Being TRUE to Indian Identity by alrnova2112 » 20 years ago (March 12, 2006 10:49 AM) Member since November 2004 “Both Salaam Bombay and Monsoon Wedding were amazing commercially, I dont know how you got that they were failures?” Re: Mira Nair's Box Office Hopes by alrnova2112 » 16 years ago (November 04, 2009 07:42 PM) Member since November 2004 “First off, the first movie, New York I Love You, is a collection of 12 short stories I believe, and so cannot be considered solely Nair's movie, but simply understood as having a short that she directed. Even so, the movie has grossed about a million dollars, and will gross much more on the foreign market and dvds and such. The only film to really compare it to is Paris Je'Taime, the same concept but with a different city, which made 4 million something by the end of its US run, and was considered a success, thus NYILY can hardly be considered a "bomb". Then for Amelia. Although it received pretty harsh reviews across the board, for the most part, it has recouped 9 million and still boasts a place in the top 10, and is 4 in terms of screen averages of the top 10. It looks good to go on to make more money, and then there is the huge foreign and dvd market once again. One should really think before one speaks, or in this case, posts.”
June 26, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Mamdani is close to going 3 for 3 in his Dem congressional primary endorsements, unseating two incumbents and one incumbent's chosen successor. This is a huge moment that confirms that progressive populism is not a fluke among the Democratic base, and Mamdani is the party's legit star and kingmaker.
June 24, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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Musk is the only trillionaire we have and by far the worst.

Perhaps we should ponder how our capitalist system produced such a dangerous lout and hatemonger as its first trillion-dollar-man.
Elon Musk: The world’s worst trillionaire
His wealth isn't the only thing that's extreme.
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June 20, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Support Carey here, if able: www.gofundme.com/f/back-our-s...
June 17, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary

#DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT
June 7, 2026 at 11:59 PM
rorymitchell.bsky.social
Yup. It’s Steyer for me. Abolish ICE.
June 1, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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June 1, 2026 at 6:53 AM
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The L.A. Historic Theatre Foundation's series "Coffee & Conversation" is back with a FREE webinar Saturday morn with a Virtual Tour of the Broadway Theatre District, the 1st and largest historic theatre district listed on the National Register of Historic Places: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Coffee & Conversation: Broadway Theatre District. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Downtown L.A.'s historic theatre district, centered along seven blocks of Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, contains 12 historic theatres dating from 1910 through 1931. It was the first and largest hi...
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May 28, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit.

They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever.

To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · May 21
#BREAKING U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros annoucnes that charges against the remaining members of the "Broadview Six" will be dismissed with prejudice.
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · May 21
Perry: "I'm not ruling at this point on the release of the grand jury transcripts."
May 21, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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a lot of the pundit class is constantly saying "what is the one liberal tenant that democrats must vigorously denounce in order to win the next election???" and the answer at the moment is "mercy"
May 13, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
May 12, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
May 11, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Interesting find at IKEA today 🤔 #yggdsrasil #theworldtree #centralaxisforthenineworlds
May 10, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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archive.org
"Make things as open as possible."

Librarian Chris Freeland explains why Internet Archive's new book, VANISHING CULTURE, is both free to read online & available to purchase in print.

It’s not either/or—it’s and. Open access helps preserve culture.

📚 ⤵️
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May 6, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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lolennui.bsky.social Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · Apr 28
“his exact nature has been disputed”
"Evil" was soon dropped from Grimace's name and he was reintroduced in 1972 as a protagonist where he only has one set of arms. He was then a rather clumsy, but still amiable monster from then on. His exact nature has been disputed: in a 2010 interview […]
April 28, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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palmapolyak.bsky.social
I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap.

I can’t believe it 😭
April 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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Great writing on creative influence and rivalry between the greats at pivotal moments in each of their careers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/s...
What Were Bob Dylan and John Lennon Really Saying in the Back of That Limo?
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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“How can she say ‘No’ when she doesn’t know anything?…. With her crystal ball?” #overheardla a 50-something woman said sharply into her earpiece as she walked around the Silver Lake reservoir
April 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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I wrote about Zuckerberg's texts with Musk and how they undermine the principles of a fair and equal platform for everyone www.platformer.news/zuckerberg-m...
To speak plainly: the CEO of the world’s largest social media company should not make commitments about content moderation — on a contested political question, during a period of active public debate — by private text message to a government-adjacent figure with whom he is deeply commercially entangled. To do so is to replace a content policy based on principles including equality and fairness with one based on oligarchs trading favors in secret.
March 31, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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Trump is just getting clowned by the Iranians mercilessly. Hope that doesn't force him into a shame spiral that leads to WW 3. Oops.
apnews.com The Associated Press @apnews.com · Mar 25
BREAKING: Iranian military spokesperson mocks U.S. attempts at a ceasefire deal, insisting that the Americans are only negotiating with themselves. The comments come shortly after the Trump administration sent a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran through Pakistan.
Iranian military mocks Trump's claim of US-Iran negotiations
An Iranian military spokesperson mocked U.S. attempts at a ceasefire deal Wednesday, insisting that the Americans were only negotiating with themselves. Lt. Col.
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March 25, 2026 at 4:54 AM