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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 12h

I’m moderately confident this is a bit (“nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness” is way too on the nose a description of absurdism to be accidental) but it is still very funny. I think Sammy B would be proud.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 12h

The two areas of England I could more plausibly be described as being ‘from’ also have plenty of these but honestly none of them touch the periodic joy of hearing someone on the tube confidently mangle Leicester Square. Warms the heart.

Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 13h

I live in London and this site has a character limit

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 1d

…there was something to absorb me in all of them. It's sold as 'literary horror' which mostly means light psychological or body horror and various paranormal/otherworldly elements, but unusually for my (limited) horror reading in the last few years I did find several of them genuinely unsettling.

Wole Talabi Reviews Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda

Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda (W.W. Norton & Company 978-1-324-06585-2, $26.99, 224pp, hc) May 2024. Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda’s spectacular debut collection, is an instant classic. These 12 stories f…

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 1d

96: Ghostroots - 'Pemi Aguda. I really loved this debut short fiction collection. It's extremely thematically coherent - mostly around pregnancy, parenthood and intergenerational hauntings - occasionally to the extent of feeling like variations on a theme, but each story is very distinct and (1/2)

From the outside, Madam Oni's house is comprehensible. With Lucky eagerly holding one end of the measuring tape, Arit's site plan and perimeter measurements come together in little more than an hour. She looks up at the house again. The pointed arches of the windows would be better suited to a church, a sanctuary, a building that evil skirts around, passes over.
On the inside, Madam Oni has disappeared, and Arit's calculations still don't add up. She checks and rechecks lengths and widths and heights and never gets the same reading twice. The tape retracts into itself and bites her fingers, again and again.
This uncertainty, this shiftiness, this impossibility, causes a ringing in her head. Unmoored, dizzy, she feels as if the walls are the floor and she is leaning against the ceiling, her torso wedged into a window frame. A fear clunks up her ribs, puncturing her breaths, a fear that nothing is real and everything is upside down and elementally wrong. She turns into another lonely corner, seeking a way out, and the sun is streaming through two slender panes, lighting up the carpet, a holy burning.
What does it mean for a house to be fixed? Arit wonders. To make firm, stable, or stationary // to repair // to set in order or in good condition// to put in a position to make no further trouble // to get even with or revenge upon // to kill, harden, and preserve for microscopic study ...

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 1d

Unexpected honesty from tube announcer: “trains are running with delays, but this is the District line, so you might say that is normal”

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Paul Eggleston @pauleggleston.bsky.social · 2d

I'll never admit that I'm still the one who keeps stopping my wife's 'Man, I Feel Like a Woman' CD, because I've got pausable Shaniability.

#LunchPun

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𝕯𝕴𝕰!-𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔞 @blood-dyke.bsky.social · Aug 16

"Perfect. No notes." - my review of 4′33″

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

This website would genuinely be so much better if there was a special Discover tab for Americans that only show them posts by other Americans so the rest of us stop getting aggro from their most brain fried centrists who seem genuinely bewildered by context and angry that other places exist

Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry folks we're not allowed talk about politics in our respective countries because america is in bits or something

Natasha from America's Next Top Model telling someone offscreen "I just wanna tell you that some people have war in their countries"

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

the thread linked below that Louise is quoting is a screamingly funny new installment of that perpetual classic, “Horrible American Refuses to Take the L,” but also every time I am reminded of Brittany’s porch meltdown on go-sees and Natasha’s attempt at helping, I feel a surge of real and deep joy

Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry folks we're not allowed talk about politics in our respective countries because america is in bits or something

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 2d

“The films you like to watch are emotionally complex with characters who all look kind of the same* and have incredibly complicated and nuanced motivations, and it’s exhausting. What I want to watch is a film where a big shark wants to bite things.”
* they’re faceblind

So we’re watching Jaws today.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

the best answer i got for this:

awaitsync on Threads writes: "Metrognome"

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3d

For just 49.99 a month, we'll deliver a fresh French Prime Minister to your door every week.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

French governmental churn rate currently making Liz Truss look like Tony Blair

Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 3d

Bloody hell. Lecornu out.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

Denying all benefits to non-UK nationals sounds simple but it would mean excluding people who might have lived and paid tax in the UK for many years. And - as the interview shows - it’s not very clear what they should do under the Tory plan.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries

Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

www.theguardian.com

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 3d

genuinely unacceptable levels of emotional damage

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 3d

All human life is there, as long as it has a fake tan

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 3d

what other show could give us such gems of narration as “Britain’s biggest tattoo convention, where people with tattoos go to look at other people with tattoos and go, ‘Ooh. Nice tattoos’.”

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 3d

To be specific, at the point when spouse and I got together I am pretty sure they had seen a maximum of twelve films in their life that weren’t a Jurassic Park, a Star War or a Die Hard.

Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
The Crown
Mad Men
Peaky Blinders
Love Island (but I've read a lot of transcripts thanks to sociolx of gender students)
James Bond (any)
The Godfather
Lord of the Rings
Any Tarantino
Any Cary Grant film

My wife says it would be faster to list the films I have seen

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 3d

I haven’t seen any of the Godfather films in full despite owning a dvd boxset and being a big film nerd, mostly because I found it so entertaining to tell my favourite cishet guy friends for such a long period of time that I had never seen The Godfather.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 3d

Glow Up! Though I appreciate competition shows are a specific subgenre

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 3d

every time we watch a star war one of us also ends up queueing up this vid afterwards so everyone is definitely absolutely fine and not emotionally devastated

Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · Jun 4

#VidRec just put this on the tv and my spouse, they who pledged their life and love to me, yelled “oh, you FUCKING ASSHOLE” youtu.be/eKdugMaB434?...

Star Wars - Once I Was 7 Years Old - Leia music vid

YouTube video by cybridproductions

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 4d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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