Caught up with 2025 best picture nominee Train Dreams, a thoughtful literary adaptation about an ordinary man who helps build the railroads, makes a living as a logger, experiences tragedy and witnesses the steady march of progress, etc. I resisted Train Dreams for much of its runtime - it's
Heartwarming story about an orphaned loon chick being successfully rehabilitated and adopted by another loon family www.adirondackexplorer.org/environment/...
Orphaned loon chick successfully fostered with new family
After being a victim of sibling rivalry, a lone loonlet was rehabilitated and sent to live with a new loon family on a nearby lake.
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Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
Need to schedule a doctor's appointment, so I put my phone on speaker so I can putter about while waiting for someone to answer the phone. I've been on hold for almost nine minutes and counting!
I see there's agrivoltaics discussion happening today. I wrote this last year. www.scenichudson.org/viewfinder/d...
Discovering Solar's Shading Potential on Valley Farms
Hudson Valley Viewfinder is a collaborative digital magazine celebrating the inspirational beauty of Hudson Valley communities and nature.
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more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Put on Disney's Hercules, which I had never seen, for family movie night and I think I enjoyed it as much as my son. As characters go, Hercules is a little dull - but I really loved the animation and lively storytelling.
Checking out the new park/nature preserve next to my son’s school
A friend got me a calendar of paintings by Lockport, NY, artist Joseph Whalen for Christmas. Here’s August.
Watched "My Heart is That Eternal Rose," a gorgeous gangster melodrama/doomed romance from Hong Kong New Wave director Patrick Tam. Stylish, tragic and very beautiful - in this one, every man falls in love with the same woman and is willing to kill (and die) for her, and you understand why.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department moves to dismiss criminal case against ex-Olympian charged with damaging Reflecting Pool.
Sorry, you can literally break into Netflix offices and steal a movie??? The meme has come full circle
Film Stories@filmstories.bsky.social · 5d agoFortitude, a $45m thriller starring Nicolas Cage and from the director of Con Air, has been stolen from Netflix's offices. Now its producer is suing the streamer for $105m. filmstories.co.uk/news/netflix...
24 hours after a historic rainfall of more than 11” inches, what is normally a small creek near my house remains swole. Enjoy a moment of Zen with some slo-mo footage. #hudsonvalley
Visited the Narrows, a five mile hiking trail through Troy. The water in the Wynantskill is still pretty high after yesterday’s storm.
Councilor Scott Doherty, a Republican, said he believes there is a role for federal immigration enforcement, but that ICE as it stands needs to be reined in. "You can't have them killing innocent people, you know." www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...
Scarborough council passes proclamation asking congressional delegation to evaluate local ICE office
The ICE processing office in the town has drawn increased scrutiny since the fatal shooting of a Colombian man in Biddeford earlier this month.
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Watched 2016's Spa Night, a coming-of-age/immigrant family drama about a Korean American teenager coming to terms with his sexuality. This is a personal, richly detailed movie about a demographic not usually depicted in film - I knew it was an LGBTQ-themed story, but not that it was such a
"Because the war is seen as not being worth fighting, any losses are considered to be unacceptably high." From @daniellarison.bsky.social this is 100% correct. This war is stupid and evil and every death is completely unconscionable. daniellarison.substack.com/p/a-deeply-u...
A Deeply Unpopular War
Trump’s war has reached truly abysmal levels in record time.
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“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Happy 6th month anniversary to the 3 day special military operation to denuclearize Iran to all those who celebrate!
"In February, the war began. And this month, she heard the angst creep into Sergeant Swinton’s voice. 'When I did see him on videos, he just looked so tired,' Ms. Swinton said. 'And he would tell me he wanted to come home so bad.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...
Angst, Love and a Longing to Return Home From War (Gift Article)
Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton was killed in recent days, one of 18 U.S. soldiers who have lost their lives since the beginning of the war in Iran.
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Just watched the 2020 Russian animated short BoxBallet, about a ballerina and boxer who fall in love, thanks to a tip from @ani-obsessive.bsky.social that the film is on YouTube. Here's the link to this lovely film, which has the kind of story you might find in www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjtM...
A Boxer Falls for a Ballerina | Boxballet (Oscar® Nominated)
YouTube video by KIS KIS - keep it short
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