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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 11h

otoh, he looks EXACTLY like a wanna be teacher's pet kiss-ass, and so we can be happy that God rendered him obviously dangerous, like the way a rattlesnake is equpped with the obvious warning of the rattle.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 11h

one could argue that the climax could be strengthened by putting it in the present, and not off screen, as it were, but on the other hand, one could argue that it's simply perfect, and that the sense of the hero's internal dislocation and loss is emphasized by things happening to him, distantly.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 11h

The third act is rue, woe, regret, and ruin. He is Oedipus/King Lear of the London new wave pubs of the late 1970s:
And so it's my assumption/I'm really up the junction."

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk, etc.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 11h

The second act sees our tragic hero enjoying his Paradise, from which he will be ejected. It reaches a blissful summit with: "She looked just like her mother/If there could be another" But then, smash! Gone! Second act cliffhanger wreck: "And now she's two years older/Her mother's with a soldier."

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 11h

For the rest of the first act, it's domestic bliss: Railway arms we're missing... love had got us hooked up... I got a job with Stanley. But then! First act climax brings profound change. He left the house for 11 hours, "she said she'd seen a doctor/and nothing now could stop her"

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 12h

I hereby declare that Squeeze's Up the Junction is a perfect formally constructed miniature tragedy in three acts. It starts with precise scene-setting 'I never thought it would happen/with me and the girl from Clapham..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQci...

Squeeze - Up The Junction

YouTube video by SqueezeVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 23h

thank you Dan, you're very kind. There are also a lot of tables at Dario, Small Hours, and Oro... this is a pretty magical food town, I do say!

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 1d

when I started this little experiment in sending a weekly letter to my internet friends, I had no idea I'd be documenting my own ever unwilling, ever increasing exposure to other people's guns. it's honestly shocking, cumulatively.

www.deardara.com/so/7dPctGSma...

Dara's Guide to Handling Reality, Daily

Lake of the Isles, Minneapolis, where way too many things happen in a night:

www.deardara.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

From the New York Times: Breaking news: U.S. attacks Venezuelan boat for fourth time, challenging legal bounds

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 3d

same. or any of the chuckies, the hockey mask ones, or the Scream ones. Real lfe is very, and often to me, unbearably scary. Why would I want more of it? I mean, I'm happy for everyone else to partake, but for me in this nervous system, no.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 3d

So either: My mindfulness and trying to know and inhabit the real world journey is really starting to pay off! Or I have successfully become a Midwestern Dad. Either way good....

a cartoon character from king of the hill says " i tell you hwwhat "

ALT: a cartoon character from king of the hill says " i tell you hwwhat "

media.tenor.com

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 3d

Last night, despite the weather app and the completely clear sky, I determined: The trees are blowing in a way that feels like rain. I'm going to put the cover on the fire-pit and take the teens many things off the picnic table, I'll just feel better. And now it is raining!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 8d

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords RETVRN

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting
the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
@DilanianMSNBC
Follow
The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

reddit occupied government

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 6d

big tech is ultimately dystopian, we are not equipped even though we were warned for generations

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 6d

I feel strongly that I saw Christian Slater reading poetry about rats at First Avenue, the rock club, once, but I can't find any record of that so I must be wrong. I mean, I'm trying to say that I'd prefer work by Christian Slater exclusively writing about rats.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 10d

wow. the NYPost "shootings" vertical is really... a condemnation of our time. and probably as good a snapshot as we could provide of this moment. it's like the whole country is Chekhov's gun, hundreds of millions of firearms, constantly going off.

nypost.com/tag/shootings/

shootings | Latest News | New York Post

Get the latest news on local shootings and mass shootings across the country on the New York Post.

nypost.com

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 10d

anyway they're shooting us for our failures, like the way a baby cries when it's hungry/tired/got a finger stuck in a cuff/is teething, it's just a very incoherent and deadly expression of god knows what, except pain.

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 10d

I do not think video games "cause" people to become mass shooters. I do think that kids who put all of their lives into video games aren't well, and the video games do not present an in-game solution to real-world problems. We are really failing this generation of kids.
nypost.com/2025/09/25/u...

Anti-ICE gunman Joshua Jahn spent 17,500 hours playing violent videos games — including right before shooting

That amounts to nearly 15% of his entire life — including sleeping hours — on the video game platform Steam over the course of a decade and a half.

nypost.com

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 10d

If you haven't seen the source document where the White House blames every plausible 2028 democratic presidential hopeful for the ICE shooter, it's really quite a document.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Democrats’ Unhinged Crusade Against ICE Fuels Bloodshed

The carnage in Dallas, Texas — where a maniac with “ANTI-ICE” ammo gunned down an ICE field office in an attack clearly targeted at ICE personnel — lays

www.whitehouse.gov

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