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Dennis Fangg @zizpa.bsky.social · 6h

Merry Christmas!

Hallmark ad for an Empire Strikes Back carbonite freezing chamber Christmas ornament with a bound Han Solo interacting with Leia Chewy and C-3PO as Darth Vader observes.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

I keep putting off his movies for the show for obvious reasons, but I’m really gonna have to bite the bullet at some point and do this and the other 1980s movies.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

(Do I wear baggy pants and vests because I saw Annie Hall when pretty young and impressionable? Well. No regrets.)

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

We covered it a while back for the show:

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Mary Versus the Movies: Episode 87 - Reds (1981)

There's something audacious about making an over-three-hour film lionizing American Communists and the Russian Revolution and releasing it in the same year Ronald Reagan comes to power, but Warren Bea...

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

Reds is one of the most criminally underseen films, one I still think about, and Keaton is absolutely incredible as its center.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so good, seriously worth it.

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

iconic

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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 1d

Some very brief thoughts on Diane Keaton. rest in peace to an icon defined by easy charm and warmth

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 1d

the swingers taking a break from suckin' and fuckin' to watch a guy on stilts ground out weakly to the pitcher is a great image though

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Brawnald Dangerson @brawnald.bsky.social · 1d

A frighteningly large part of this website is just Facebook 2

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes….Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
—Anne Frank, 1943

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great movie, a psychedelic gothic fairytale, and we had a fantastic time covering it.

Mary Versus the Movies @maryvsmovies.bsky.social · 2d

A group of girls headed to an elderly aunt’s haunted house are quickly consummed by the past. This cult classic is one of the strangest films we’ve covered, full of wild video effects and a guy who turns into a pile of bananas.

Episode 205 - House / ハウス (1977)
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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

“Gimme the ‘Vincent Price Villain’.”

“Yes, sir. Looks wonderful on you.”

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Owen Lloyd @owenhlloyd.bsky.social · 2d

Ten minutes of shooting, belies months of planning and working with these swans by @nicolerayner.bsky.social for this shot. One AD200.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

Some day, when all this stupidity is gone, I will get up to Nova Scotia.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

LOOK AT THAT BEAUTY

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I’m a sucker for glossy special interest magazines. Makes me feel like it’s 1998.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

Did i black out and officially join a birding society? Or does my reputation just precede me? Either way, I’m thrilled and surprised. 🪶

A copy of a glossy magazine named LivingBird, with a whooping crane on the cover, walking through an orange marsh on the Texas coast.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

Connections catering to a very particular kind of person today

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2d

no one played this Connections today but in 20 years it will be hailed as a masterpiece

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

Connections catering to a very particular kind of person today

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 1d

I know, I know, but what exactly does he think western countries eat if not flat bread with meat and vegetables? Pizza, strombolies, pitta, fajitas… or are we back to The Swarthy Mediterraneans Are Not White?

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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Cheeky Alpha Monkey @alpha-aurora.bsky.social · 2d

This cannot happen. Most animals and insects are nocturnal. We’ve already lost >70% of insect biomass in last 30 years. They’re a foundational creature for life on this planet!

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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