Kadri Smith
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one of the reasons I think it's hard to believe Catherine O'Hara died is because she was this super rare combination of both poise and chaotic energy and so she didn't seem to have a physical age; she was just oscillating between 40 and 17 and 60 at all times.
January 30, 2026 at 8:35 PM
one of the reasons I think it's hard to believe Catherine O'Hara died is because she was this super rare combination of both poise and chaotic energy and so she didn't seem to have a physical age; she was just oscillating between 40 and 17 and 60 at all times.
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BOTD Jeanne Moreau!!!
MCCT5: 5a)Jules/Jim (Truffaut)/5b Suspended Step (Angelopoulos) 4)Bay of Angels (Demy) 3)Trial (Welles) 2)Notte (Antonioni) 1)Gallows (Malle)
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MCCT5: 5a)Jules/Jim (Truffaut)/5b Suspended Step (Angelopoulos) 4)Bay of Angels (Demy) 3)Trial (Welles) 2)Notte (Antonioni) 1)Gallows (Malle)
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Jeanne Moreau: The cinema icon who defined French cool
She was the woman who lived as passionately on screen as off it, who once said of her work: ‘Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life’
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January 23, 2026 at 2:32 PM
BOTD Jeanne Moreau!!!
MCCT5: 5a)Jules/Jim (Truffaut)/5b Suspended Step (Angelopoulos) 4)Bay of Angels (Demy) 3)Trial (Welles) 2)Notte (Antonioni) 1)Gallows (Malle)
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@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
@clarisseloughrey.bsky.social: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
MCCT5: 5a)Jules/Jim (Truffaut)/5b Suspended Step (Angelopoulos) 4)Bay of Angels (Demy) 3)Trial (Welles) 2)Notte (Antonioni) 1)Gallows (Malle)
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@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
@clarisseloughrey.bsky.social: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
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progs: "you agree with me, but i will browbeat you because you didn't agree with me 100%"
reactionaries: "even if you agree with me 10% I will treat you as if you are in my camp"
has been a real curse over the last 10 years
reactionaries: "even if you agree with me 10% I will treat you as if you are in my camp"
has been a real curse over the last 10 years
January 22, 2026 at 7:17 PM
progs: "you agree with me, but i will browbeat you because you didn't agree with me 100%"
reactionaries: "even if you agree with me 10% I will treat you as if you are in my camp"
has been a real curse over the last 10 years
reactionaries: "even if you agree with me 10% I will treat you as if you are in my camp"
has been a real curse over the last 10 years
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poor kafka, forced to churn out new books from his extradimensional prison
January 22, 2026 at 3:49 AM
poor kafka, forced to churn out new books from his extradimensional prison
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I don't think it's a coincidence that all of this (worldwide) is happening when most of the people who lived through WWII have just died. We need to do a better job of keeping their memories and ideals alive.
January 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I don't think it's a coincidence that all of this (worldwide) is happening when most of the people who lived through WWII have just died. We need to do a better job of keeping their memories and ideals alive.
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disability will either disabuse you of the notion of mind-body dualism or make you really really hardcore committed to believing in mind-body dualism. not much of an in between
January 7, 2026 at 1:10 AM
disability will either disabuse you of the notion of mind-body dualism or make you really really hardcore committed to believing in mind-body dualism. not much of an in between
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Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn't experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate "lockdown" with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
there’s a thread on reddit right now called “was COVID really that bad?” and it is interesting to read people’s accounts five years out
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
January 6, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn't experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate "lockdown" with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
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there is a lot of intentional minimization of the pandemic but i am really more interested in the unintentional sort.
like, how does unmarked grief and suppressed fear sort of get digested and forgotten?
how does the memory of lockdown for most people end up leaving those things out?
like, how does unmarked grief and suppressed fear sort of get digested and forgotten?
how does the memory of lockdown for most people end up leaving those things out?
October 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
there is a lot of intentional minimization of the pandemic but i am really more interested in the unintentional sort.
like, how does unmarked grief and suppressed fear sort of get digested and forgotten?
how does the memory of lockdown for most people end up leaving those things out?
like, how does unmarked grief and suppressed fear sort of get digested and forgotten?
how does the memory of lockdown for most people end up leaving those things out?
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Hate based on ethnicity, religion, sex, gender or race wastes your energy.
Dedicate the hate to people who have actually hurt you instead ✌️
Dedicate the hate to people who have actually hurt you instead ✌️
December 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Hate based on ethnicity, religion, sex, gender or race wastes your energy.
Dedicate the hate to people who have actually hurt you instead ✌️
Dedicate the hate to people who have actually hurt you instead ✌️
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For some people, the logic of victim-blaming seeps into everything, no matter how cruel. And it's often clearly born out of a desire to say "This terrible tragedy was their own fault, which is why it could never happen to me"
December 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For some people, the logic of victim-blaming seeps into everything, no matter how cruel. And it's often clearly born out of a desire to say "This terrible tragedy was their own fault, which is why it could never happen to me"
If nothing else will do us in,pop psychology will.
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If nothing else will do us in,pop psychology will.
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What food mascot has the most punchable face?
December 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
What food mascot has the most punchable face?
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Every young generation explores retro technology because it’s cheap and plentiful and exotic but it’s more alluring when current technology gets actively shittier, more evil and invasive.
December 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Every young generation explores retro technology because it’s cheap and plentiful and exotic but it’s more alluring when current technology gets actively shittier, more evil and invasive.
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I really am not enjoying post 2020 earth because everyone has lost their fucking minds.
December 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I really am not enjoying post 2020 earth because everyone has lost their fucking minds.
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One of my favorites — Saul Leiter, Snow, 1960.❄️
December 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
One of my favorites — Saul Leiter, Snow, 1960.❄️
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Being a California 2 (1?) in the era of popularized TikTok phrenology and still being in possession of a functioning scale of human emotions,whilst actively watching the the world burn just kinda makes me not wanna try anymore,y'know...
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Being a California 2 (1?) in the era of popularized TikTok phrenology and still being in possession of a functioning scale of human emotions,whilst actively watching the the world burn just kinda makes me not wanna try anymore,y'know...
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
Been listening to Elliott Smith lately to retain my soul...
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Been listening to Elliott Smith lately to retain my soul...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.