Invaluable service (and pretty good with the Family Night recommendations on the side)
Sean Gilman@theendofcinema.bsky.social · 1h agoUp to 1,125 films on my The Chinese Cinema list boxd.it/8RbI
Ol' Chef Dan
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Work-from-home situationist. Agnetha Fältskog photo is unrelated. Return guy for Pyrrhonism. 📍Lyon, France
Sean Gilman@theendofcinema.bsky.social · 1h ago
The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
For the past month I've dreamt of the same place. It's a bay of black rock and blacker waters. Fat obsidian clouds hang overhead menacingly. There's a huge wall and an unfathombly large door set into it. Each time I hear something behind the door, a whispering, but can't make it out
Like if I opened up a donut shop and the only people whoever came was magicians i wouldn’t be like “oh I have got to diversify this” mothafucka I’d be pulling rabbits outta hats every time they walked through the door
When you stay in Brittany, your flat should come with a crab cracker and oyster knife.
The distance Finns naturally take between each other puts them just out of reach of an axe. Coincidence or not?
Trump's soft gelatinous underbelly is his naked desire for approval specifically in the arena of property development and interior design, and any evidence that he's shit at it represents an extinction level threat to his psyche to the extent that he will have the State try to annihilate a bystander
James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
RIGHT: we're poisoning society to death so it can be replaced with one that exists only to enable our violent fantasies LEFT: we must strengthen society by expanding social services and expelling those who seek to kill it CENTER: so... the right gets what? nothing?? come on. let em kill it a little
Trying to imagine how different my youth would have been if there had still been a street car from Mahtomedi to Minneapolis.
Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 3d agoThere was, however, one exception to this: Minneapolis-St Paul. There, a finance bro, the mob, and a crooked lawyer really did buy the trains and sell them for scrap - but that was the exception, not the rule. 12/12
The first three Velvet Underground albums, which were all called "The Velvet Underground" for some reason.
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
✍️ Les populistes européens agitent le chiffon rouge d’une «invasion» venue de l’enclave espagnole de Ceuta. La plupart des candidats à l’exil sont pourtant repartis au Maroc mais une centaine d’entre eux ont péri noyés. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/Oij
If all of those 40k moroccans wanted to and could and did enter the schengen area, this wouldn't matter one bit or be felt at all in a *half a billion* strong european community. This was just a coordinated media attack on spain for that one obvious reason that's irrelevant to migration.
I like when people dismiss punk as “people who can’t play their instruments” because then I don’t have to listen to any of their other opinions.
"You have to in good faith at least concede that xyz..." No I don't. Fuck you. I'm not fucking stupid. I know you're doing a little debate club trick. Suck my dick.
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is true yes and also we know from experience if you give a single inch to any issue the radical center are crying about they will take it. So if we're annoying about it it's because fuck you that's why.
That's why, in this house, we embrace Urgh, A Music War mindset.
Anthony Cougar Miccio@anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 5d agoOoooh this actually reminded me of a take of my own - all that “punk means being creative,” “punk means being moral” stuff wound up with a similar effect, conflating an aesthetic moment with timeless virtues, making it seem more noteworthy at the expense of good stuff that didn’t fit the aesthetic.
The Ceuta thing is terrifying not because of the actual events but the reaction. Other than a logistical challenge for the local authroties there (I don’t envy them) it’s just not that big of a deal. But people’s brains are completely breaking about migration and fundamentally don’t get it.
So good. What was it about this time (and OP could have included Repo Man here) about escaping in a flying car?
Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick.bsky.social · 4d agoWriting about Grease turned out to be a much more interesting task than I expected - I mean this thing is beyond weird. I've made my piece about the film (really about the final 15 seconds of the film) free for all: open.substack.com/pub/bowbrick...
You can trust me on: -food and cooking -The Velvet Underground -the difference between living in France and the US (and a few other places) -being kinda old But I'll post about a bunch of other shit.
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d agocan we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed
"You're My Kind of Climate" - Rip Rig and Panic - (1982) - The Young Ones - musicsky - youtu.be/LFhU3b_gz8s?...
Young Ones, The S01E05: "Interesting" Rip, Rig and Panic - "You're My Kind of Climate"
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“The Fake ‘Invasion’ of Spain: What You Need to Know” 9 things you should know about the so-called ‘crisis’ of Moroccan migrants forcing their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – and the hysterical response from the right in the U.S., UK, and EU.
The Fake ‘Invasion’ of Spain: What You Need to Know
9 things you should know about the so-called ‘crisis’ of Moroccan migrants forcing their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – and the hysterical response from the right in the U.S., UK, and EU.
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Same top five but: 1. ManU 2. Chelsea 3. Spurs 4. City 5. Stoke MLB 1. Braves 2. Yankees 3. White Sox (should be Phillies here but I loved that '93 run) 4. Cardinals 5. Rangers NHL 1. Avs 2. Stars 3. Blackhawks 4. Rangers 5. Penguins
Ian@brocktoon.bsky.social · 6d agoEPL 1. City 2. Chelsea 3. Spurs 4. Man United 5. Stoke (even tho they're not in it anymore the stench still lingers)
Maybe a tie, but live Joy Division is miles better than the studio albums. Martin Hamnet did them dirty.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
People who scolded that we need to allow more and more fascist-friendly Republican ideas in order to win do not have the same energy for actual progressives who actually win. Movement to the right during a time of open fascism? Hey gotta have a big tent. Movement to the left? GET OUT OF OUR TENT.
People want a Wicker Man to make the harvest good again. I think we should put the Nazi guys who deserve to be burned alive in the Wicker Man.
wilp@youaretraffic.bsky.social · 5d agoif voters think democrats are weak on crime, one weird trick to fix it and other problems would be burying miller under the jail
When you read this article it really sounds like Texas is a lawless hellhole and maybe their politicians should stop commenting on NYC which is an incredibly safe place to live. www.espn.com/boxing/story...
Squealing car tires, an abrupt reverse, and Hannah Rapp's life ends in a flash
A bright boxing future is wiped out in an encounter with Texas man with a long record of police arrests
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