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Christine Kelley

@ballardiangorse.bsky.social

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Writer from Harper’s Ferry. TV news producer in Rochester NY. Words at Eruditorum Press. Sportsy Southern futch. Nats fan. Has friends everywhere. Opinions my own. She/Her.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · Apr 3

Seems like an appropriate time to quote my interview with penguin researcher Heather Lynch:

“Penguins are extremely strong,” Lynch said. “A penguin is like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s thigh. It’s a tube of muscle that’s attached to these wings with very sharp edges. It’s like getting beaten to death by an oar.”

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 37m

I don’t do nihilism, but man, optimism about the world feels delusional right now.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 53m

I think they’re worse. At least Disney adults occasionally watch other things and don’t tell you that The Black Cauldron is the apex of mature storytelling.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1h

Thinking of this term today for some reason; I can't imagine why

Carthaginian peace - Wikipedia

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 19h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 23h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 18h

Watching the classic Doctor Who story Inferno with @janet-tzara.neocities.org.

Episode 6 ends with the apocalypse, a mass of explosions and lava.

Janet: 🎶 We’ll meet again / Don’t know where, don’t know when 🎶

Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 19h

It was nice of you to take me down there yourself.

Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 20h

The daughter you didn’t raise was a precocious young child.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 20h

and they never found me

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 22h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton was so good on THE YOUNG POPE that I still regularly think of her standing in the bamboo grove beside Silvio Orlando, or her sudden terror in running from him when he professes his love. Rest in peace to one of the greats.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

I have never heard this kid say a word.

Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

Is Lenny smart?

Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

Al Pacino says in his memoir that after he went bankrupt, Diane Keaton gloriously went off on his entertainment lawyer. “Yeah, you’re going to tell me, ‘Oh, he’s an artist.’ No. He. Is. An idiot.”

“Arthur began to explain that I was insolvent, due to mismanagement of my assets. He didn’t play a part in it, I know that. But the words just washed right over me.
Diane, however, was furious. She got up from her seat, and she started to question him: “How could this happen?” He was hemming and hawing, well, you know, this and that.
She just exploded. She went up to Arthur and was now face-to-face with him. She backed him into a corner of his office, pointed at me, and said, “Do you know who he is?”
He said, “Well, you know.”
She was practically grabbing him by the lapels: “No, tell me who he is.” He started to speak, but Diane jumped in again: “Yeah, you’re going to tell me, ‘Oh, he’s an artist.’ No. He. Is. An idiot.”
I just stood there. What could I say?
Diane went on: “He’s an ignoramus. When it comes to this, you’ve got to take care of him.”

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

"It was a son, Michael! A son! And I had it killed because this must all end!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g9R...

The Godfather: Part 2 (4/8) Movie CLIP - It Was an Abortion (1974) HD

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

For once I am at a loss for words.

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Sam Raimi & The Midnight Sons @rochardscott.bsky.social · 1d

"I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right."- Diane Keaton

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jaime? (Rebanal) 🇵🇸 @firewalkwjaime.bsky.social · 1d

We lost a giant. The Godfather, Annie Hall, Reds, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Something's Gotta Give; it'd be an understatement to say there wasn't anyone else like Diane Keaton.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hell, not Diane Keaton.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Someone share this video with Brett Kavanaugh.

The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal.

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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I was surprised that Deadline claims it asked questions that were actually asked by me and other journalists at this James Gunn press conference. No one from Deadline even *submitted questions* for it (and I know, because I moderated). This is just brazen and sad.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

Even with its reactionary politics, The Lord of the Rings is a tremendously warm, benevolent work. Tolkien fervently believed that every living thing has dignity and grace. The sinner has a vital role in salvation. Tolkien understood and lived the Gospels.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 2d

for a second I misread this as “Jaws the Revenge”

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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