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David Raposa
@balsafinery.bsky.social
· Jan 11
Spectacle Theater Trailer Archive - 2011
A list of some of the films screened by Spectacle Theater ("a collectively-run screening space in Brooklyn, NY") in 2011, based solely on the trailers uploaded to their Vimeo page, ordered semi-chrono...
letterboxd.com
I'm not a @spectacletheater.com volunteer (unless you count my "work" in their early-Covid chat streams), but I am (slowly) working on LTRBXD lists, by year & what's in their Vimeo trailer archive (w/ links), of what's (kinda) played there
here's (part of) 2011: letterboxd.com/falsebinary/...
here's (part of) 2011: letterboxd.com/falsebinary/...
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A collection of storyboard art by Seung Eun Kim for The Boondocks (2005–2014), created by Aaron McGruder, Rebel Base Productions
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A collection of storyboard art by Seung Eun Kim for The Boondocks (2005–2014), created by Aaron McGruder, Rebel Base Productions
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Here’s a Spotify Wrapped for ya:
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Here’s a Spotify Wrapped for ya:
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
Hilary Clinton? The woman that did the Macarena at the DNC?
December 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Hilary Clinton? The woman that did the Macarena at the DNC?
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For most of my life I’ve been saying “the perfect gift doesn’t exist.” “What a strange thing to believe,” people would say. “What’s the matter with you?” they also said a few times. But I never thought for a second that I might be weird and wrong. UNTIL I SAW THIS RING CAT THING
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
For most of my life I’ve been saying “the perfect gift doesn’t exist.” “What a strange thing to believe,” people would say. “What’s the matter with you?” they also said a few times. But I never thought for a second that I might be weird and wrong. UNTIL I SAW THIS RING CAT THING
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I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
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Culture work is like farming. If you only extract and don’t keep putting things back into the soil, one day you will find that everything you grow is a sad mockery of the good years. American studios are in a cultural dust bowl
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Culture work is like farming. If you only extract and don’t keep putting things back into the soil, one day you will find that everything you grow is a sad mockery of the good years. American studios are in a cultural dust bowl
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For the first time a U.S. county is making their guaranteed income program permanent.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program.
Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program.
Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
For the first time a U.S. county is making their guaranteed income program permanent.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program.
Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program.
Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.
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There was an immediate effort to portray every accusation as “MeToo gone too far” but ofc the Depp fiasco pulled that into sharp focus. Ate shit in court until he found one that let his team litigate it on social media and it’s been the playbook ever since.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
There was an immediate effort to portray every accusation as “MeToo gone too far” but ofc the Depp fiasco pulled that into sharp focus. Ate shit in court until he found one that let his team litigate it on social media and it’s been the playbook ever since.
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I suggest that we start using the phrase "Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too." as shorthand to explain how little we want to be at any given terrible event.
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I suggest that we start using the phrase "Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too." as shorthand to explain how little we want to be at any given terrible event.
props to everyone in the New Yorker’s menchies trying to nitpick or “well, actually” anything regarding criticism of CK & his sex-pestery, because I missed blocking complete strangers
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
props to everyone in the New Yorker’s menchies trying to nitpick or “well, actually” anything regarding criticism of CK & his sex-pestery, because I missed blocking complete strangers
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Music writers stop calling union busting “some rough waters” challenge
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Music writers stop calling union busting “some rough waters” challenge
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i wonder why
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i wonder why
RFK2 / **zz* Quarantine Protocols:
Phase 1: keyword muting
Phase 2: muting / blocking folks (mostly journos) that are subposting about the drama
Phase 3: logging off / trying the pencil trick (dealer’s choice)
Phase 1: keyword muting
Phase 2: muting / blocking folks (mostly journos) that are subposting about the drama
Phase 3: logging off / trying the pencil trick (dealer’s choice)
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
RFK2 / **zz* Quarantine Protocols:
Phase 1: keyword muting
Phase 2: muting / blocking folks (mostly journos) that are subposting about the drama
Phase 3: logging off / trying the pencil trick (dealer’s choice)
Phase 1: keyword muting
Phase 2: muting / blocking folks (mostly journos) that are subposting about the drama
Phase 3: logging off / trying the pencil trick (dealer’s choice)
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A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.
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There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.
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CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
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Udo in my living room circa 2001, holding the blow-up doll from Jorg Buttgereit's SCHRAMM (that's Ant Timpson on his right) Thanks to my friend Dave Pikker for unearthing the pic
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Udo in my living room circa 2001, holding the blow-up doll from Jorg Buttgereit's SCHRAMM (that's Ant Timpson on his right) Thanks to my friend Dave Pikker for unearthing the pic
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A while back I was on @severinfilms.bsky.social BluRay of “Viy”, talking about Russian/Soviet horror & scifi. Here’s a @letterboxd.social list of the films I mentioned, plus more. It’s still very incomplete, so I might expand it, but it’s a sort of starter pack to the subject. boxd.it/QjiKI/detail
Russian/Soviet Folk Horror/Sci-Fi
A while back I was an extra to Severin’s Blu-Ray of Viy, talking about Russian and Soviet horror and sci-fi. Some people were nice about it, especially the number of titles I mentioned. So I thought I...
boxd.it
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A while back I was on @severinfilms.bsky.social BluRay of “Viy”, talking about Russian/Soviet horror & scifi. Here’s a @letterboxd.social list of the films I mentioned, plus more. It’s still very incomplete, so I might expand it, but it’s a sort of starter pack to the subject. boxd.it/QjiKI/detail
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When I was in middle school some boys in the locker room said if you laid on one arm until it was numb and then touched yourself with it, it was like being touched by someone else. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
When I was in middle school some boys in the locker room said if you laid on one arm until it was numb and then touched yourself with it, it was like being touched by someone else. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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Steam's practices of banning games with little explanation and no course to appeal frankly Fucking Sucks. I'm trying to finish a video on another game that was also banned this year and, like here, unrelated to reasons with the payment processor fiasco. It's an awful trend.
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Steam's practices of banning games with little explanation and no course to appeal frankly Fucking Sucks. I'm trying to finish a video on another game that was also banned this year and, like here, unrelated to reasons with the payment processor fiasco. It's an awful trend.
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
E.T. dump truck
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
E.T. dump truck