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The only map Yarvin has ever seen
Can you count, suckers?! I say the future is ours, if you can count
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The only map Yarvin has ever seen
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) reposted
politics is conflictual; a reality you cannot poll, focus group, or message your way out of.
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Embarrassed to admit that you caught me replying, "but Mrs K is canonically dead"
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Just Add Cabbage™
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Intrepid Museum, The Met for the armor and weapons, guitars, mummies, AMNH for dinosaurs, Museum of the Moving Image or SpyScape, Little Island or The Highline, walk the Brooklyn Bridge into DUMBO, grab a slice, walk back over the Manhattan Bridge to Chinatown for dumplings, Coney Island at night
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Pfffft, what use is discovering penicillin if you can't mass produce it for the war effort? USA! USA!
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I'd actually appreciate that so I could avoid that corner
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Retvr—oh wait, nevermind
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The process of becoming a public figure is that transition. A performative version of yourself that is then uncontrollably iterated on by the public
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The Mississippi River Valley 🤝 The Nile River Valley Love of revivalist cults
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Just the 90's: The Pelican Brief (Pakula '93), Death and the Maiden (Polanski '94—I know but an amazing performance by Sigourney Weaver), Strange Days (Bigelow '95), Insomnia (Skjoldbjaerg '97), Perfect Blue (Kon '98), The Insider (Mann '99)
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They turned out because they wanted to see Paul Walter Hauser take his line back from Jamie Taco
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Needs more dealer plate
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Since I can't actually share the PT software my provider uses, here are my best approximations Doorway Chest Stretch 30, 45, 60 seconds (see attached photo) Sitting Scalene Stretch: youtu.be/BMo8fOpYjFA?... 8 reps, 1 set Sitting Trapezius Stretch: youtu.be/-r0eoFS7_5Q?... 8 reps, 1 set
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Saw it as part of a horror exhibition at MoMA and, man, it has stuck with me like few other films. Great restoration, and Rudolf Hrusinsky is incredible www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
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Letts and Friedkin made solid collaborators. Killer Joe is also really fun
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Easier to see the more familiar you are with Coppola and their relationship!
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Liked Weapons! Don't understand the complaints that it's vague or unfocused. Speaking of unfocused, did not enjoy either Mickey 17 or Mission Impossible as much as I wanted to. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
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You used to have an older cousin, weird uncle, or great grandparent to solve for this "accept that this is just the way things are, shut the fuck up, and appreciate your good fortune. You want to lose any eye like the Vitellil kid down the block? God forbid"
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Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey unsurprisingly the best parts of Jurassic World Rebirth. Can we get Ali his own action-adventure franchise already? Something swashbuckly #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
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If anyone remembers. Lot of hits to the head
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Rhoder Land is sick though
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Topic-based internet better than post-based internet
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Talks a lot of shit about Nazis but still won't leave their bar
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Rashomon is the only situation where "we gotta hear both sides"
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Look at Mister 'Didn't Develop a Trap Impingement from Years of Turning to Look at Chat Notifications on Monitor 2' over here.
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It's been a consistent problem since 2021 with much less enforcement, which exacerbates the problem
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It's too late. What am I, a Spaniard?
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Yes, I would never fly in one. Safer to walk down the middle of a highway
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She survived a helicopter crash at 98-years-old. Satan's great bride
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Is this the Deutscher biography?
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At least Atticus shot that rabid dog!
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And the fucking contempt the Italians have for their lack of sophistication and class
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This is absolutely true. I'm from a family of shittalkers and I got the piss beat out of me more than once as a kid. It's a hard earned lesson that (for idiots like me) sometimes takes more than one teacher
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Paulus watching the Soviet 5th Tank Army encircle him at Stalingrad: "What? A bunch of slavs?"
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My first thought was Green Day but I'm giving it to Tarsem's The Cell—I mean, Peter Gabriel’s 'Us'
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Yeah, the 'anti-Nike' style shot this to the top of my anticipated list. Love the style
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Learned all about Hare Krishnas, Apartheid, Dan Quayle, and, unfortunately, Trump
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I would take Bloom County jokes to my dad and be like "I know this is a joke but I don't understand the specific reference from before I was born" and he'd explain them to me
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Strictly Ballroom asks: would channeling all male angst and resentment into pasodoble change the world (Pan-Pacific Grand Prix Dancing Championship)? #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
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The only material resources I'd like to offer them are the same they'd extend to us: razor wire, tear gas, and lots of double braided rope
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Loving The Gilded Age: BlueSky 🤝New York Theater Actors
Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) reposted
Striking stuff from @pkrugman.bsky.social, who dismantles Trump's Europe deal from top to bottom. It will actually undermine US manufacturing, the "concessions" Trump won are fake, and Trump voters will be hit hard by the tariffs. All on the pod. Don't miss this one: newrepublic.com/article/1985...
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You could change the life of everyone you've ever met with no consequences to yourself. You better believe my old teachers are getting damages for my being a little shit
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I've used a variation of this Chef John recipe for years, just with less sugar. Found success with a lot of kimchi recipes Big fan of Sunomono as well www.allrecipes.com/recipe/23923... www.foodandwine.com/recipes/quic...
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If you're not into pickling them, I really love smashed cucumber salad (tons of variations but sichuan/ mala is my favorite www.seriouseats.com/sichuan-styl...) or a cold cucumber soup with mint, or basil, or whatever as long as it has enough salt and acid
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Me, walking past the Delacorte in the summer. Softball on the lawn! Dogs galloping freely! Shakespeare! In the park! youtu.be/CZFngXSDD0I?...
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Team Bone Tower. I think it'd really help us as a society
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*array operations have entered the chat*
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Every MTA apocalypse reminds me that I should learn to ride a bike but that carries its own risk, namely the embarrassment of learning to ride a bike as an adult
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The Florentines had a 🤌 ligature and everything!
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And then on Ash Wednesday you're like "Dave, really?! Never would have thought"
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It's dangerous to go it alone. Take one of these.
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Combine newsies with alt weeklies so you get morning headlines and your weeknight plans in one go
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As a New Yorker who takes grocery shopping too seriously, I would read a series of articles about the grocery habits of New Yorkers, granny carts, Costco, etc
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In the sense of it being 'anti-police', it'll continue to be attacks on police budget bloat. Woke2 should endlessly mock treating cities like Fallujah and disguise cuts as modernization ie "why do they need a tank and machine guns? Automated enforcement is cheaper and 24/7"
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Embarrassed to admit I live and die by navy shirt/pink tie and pink shirt/ navy or blue tie combo
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Is KPop Demon Hunters the first Disney musical style film from Sony Pictures Animation? It's a great update of the genre. Stoked to see Fernández's Río Escondido tonight! #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
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It's just Jack Ma posting from house arrest on a contraband phone
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Me: *sees a functioning bus route with low loiter times and frequent service* Neat. Them: What are you, a fucking STALINIST?!
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I saw Upstream Color on a first date and all we could talk about for the next two dates was the movie. To the point were we realized the only thing we had in common was Upstream Color
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He's been on an incredible run. His West Side Story is one of the best movies musicals made. The changes he and Tony Kushner made to the book are inspired and great interpretations of the source!
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And RSG is adjacent to so many hobbies. Carlsen or Kasparov? Nureyev or Baryshnikov? Sutherland, Leontyne Price, Maria Callas? Could Fellini do Leone? It's great
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And if you were going to make a salacious movie about Oppenheimer, it would help to have well-written women characters to create any sort of tension. Christopher Nolan has never met a women unfortunately so instead we're left with two amazing actresses looking bored for 3 hours
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1 minimum but maximum depends on use: 1 for general use, 1 in the emergency kit. If you camp? Another one. That said, I think 5 would be too many. Why are you opening so many cans
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Point stands but Nathan Lane is gay
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Had a class my Freshman year where we watched a ton of cold war pop culture and doing '56, '78, '93 and then The Faculty back-to-back was a great exercise into the anxieties of Americans at various moments in the 20th century
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Was the first thing to go during lockdown. My wife was going to beat me to death with it
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That Smith is still employable after Cuomo shows just how bankrupt and useless that crowd is
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The Count of Monte Cristo remains undefeated; Dantes has his revenge and still shows mercy, while all of the evildoers are brought to justice
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Greenaway and Vierny make some of my favorite movies; that movie looks incredible and I'd kill to see it in a theater
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VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.
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The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets. So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
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Thank you, I'm embarrassingly proud of it
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Like watching 90s hockey and wondering when they'll stop warming up
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Fun exercise: Thinking machines are a DISASTER! Weak people made them, Elon's people, AFRIKANERS! SAD! We're bringing back the human mind, the best mind. The Butlerian Jihad is about putting humanity FIRST. The Spice WILL flow!
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"I scored a perfect English!," he screamed around the pistol in his mouth
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"An independent survey" Yeah, an election. It's already scheduled, thanks.
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When I was doing a lot of copy editing and graphic design, I kept a print out on my monitor of alt codes so alt + 0257 for the macron ā
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The prosthetics in this are great. Really love this duo and hope they get another film to meditate on grief in a disgusting and disturbing way
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Healy is dogshit for a lot of reasons but I will never forgive his terrible, terrible theater reviews. Complete incuriousness. Incapable of engaging with material through any lens. Ignorant of the larger history or movements. Also always treated theater staff like trash.
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Add Healy to that list and you're basically done!
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Apocalypse Now in a theater is wild. Still hits as hard as it did when I was a teen. 28 Years Later surprisingly introspective. Loved the low fi aesthetic and the contempt it has for the island folk. It can never be as it was #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
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I really can't wait / hope that design scales up. Would love to see it widespread
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) reposted
people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research
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Turning into a single issue voter for 2028, where the issue is which Democratic candidate will vow to nominate the most rabidly partisan, vengeful and hate-filled AG you can possibly imagine
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I genuinely believe, underneath the deaitrus of careerism and triangulation, she has the capacity for real reform. She has beliefs! She stands for things! I don't quite know what they are but it's there somewhere.
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His literal first job was on the '82 campaign!
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A 90's Wendys then
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DevSecOps? No thank, fish piss in it
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.