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Sometimes being good at trivia means people are going to call you a Swiftie for knowing that "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is (supposedly) about Jake Gyllenhaal.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 14h

Last four watched, as per Friday tradition.

Letterboxd recent activity
Pulse (original Japanese) (4 stars)
The First Omen (3.5 stars)
Roofman (3.5 stars)
True Grit (4 stars)

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 17h

we simply do not talk enough about how much of modern capitalism has pivoted away from providing goods and services in exchange for money and into inconveniencing and harassing people with fees, surcharges, and delayed invoicing for long enough that they give you money just to make it stop

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 1d

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 15h

The PDF of my cookbook, which gives ideas on reducing food waste after a Thanksgiving-like feast, is also free. bsky.app/profile/ivac...

🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 24d

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

ivacheung.com

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16h

What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick?

Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.

Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 16h

People are weird. The Omen caused a spike in popularity for the name "Damien."

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 16h

Richard Strauss's "Im Abendrot" from Four Last Songs in Wild at Heart, particularly over the climactic scene.

If opera counts, any of the songs Mario Lanza sings in Heavenly Creatures would be way up there.

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 1d

listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 1d

I know the wrong acronyms because when my 15-year-old said he needed to stay after school to "CNC something" my eyebrows went up.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 1d

LearnedLeague players rejoice:

My quiz on "James" will run on May 5, 2026.

Probably not all about me. Intended to be about other Jameses, unless my ego runs rampant.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 2d

Dithered too long on the Criterion flash sale, so Fast Times went out of stock.

Ended up with an eclectic set:
A Confucian Confusion / Mahjong: Two Films by Edward Yang
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
Bringing Up Baby

Green Tea is a blind buy for me.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 2d

Grew up in Wisconsin. Never heard of Buc-ees until I lived in Washington — where there are also no Buc-ees. I've still never been; closest is Colorado, it seems.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 2d

Erin Kissane says a bunch of smart stuff about the state of play in the open networks/social media space, which I recommend reading.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 2d

There was already a *lot* going on with Bluesky, and now it's under even more pressure. I wrote about how I think about moderation, affordances, expectations, human needs, and powerful trolls for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

www.techpolicy.press/trump-admini...

Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks | TechPolicy.Press

The administration’s antagonistic entry to the platform is best understood as a game of chicken, writes Erin Kissane.

www.techpolicy.press

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 2d

have you seen the price of dirt lately? "Dirt cheap" ain't what it used to be

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 2d

Panic! At the Criterion flash sale

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 2d

"My kids use slang, should I be concerned" seems like a wild approach to parenting, given that kids have always used slang, in part to mystify the adults around them.

(Not attributing that approach to you.)

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 3d

I know it's trite and simplistic, but that old cliche "Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line" also continues to prove itself true.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 3d

Genuinely kind of want a podcast series anchored around Goodhart's Law and how it illustrates why everything sucks now. When a target becomes a metric people lose their goddamn minds.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 3d

Genuinely kind of want a podcast series anchored around Goodhart's Law and how it illustrates why everything sucks now. When a target becomes a metric people lose their goddamn minds.

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