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Frame from Stray Dog. Toshirō Mifune and Takashi Shimura are exhausted and share a drink. The subtitles read "I just hate them, that's all. The bad guys are bad."
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The actual NYT coverage isn't far off.
Title: "Five Major Changes Trump Is Making to the White House" - key sentence: "Here is what we know about five key White House renovations"
October 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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But did you save 23% on the subscription? And did you get the free shipping for orders over $200? Thought so!
Screenshot of the order form on the website. If you buy a subscription of papers you only pay $104 instead of $135 for one whole year worth of single paper slips.
October 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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20 songs Steve Albini posted two years ago today exactly (plus a fortnight plus a day). Here as a playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tweet from Steve Albini 2023/09/04: "Did 20 songs, tried not to include any I worked on but made an exception for Nina." Original alt text of the picture list he posted: List of 20 songs I like. I don't wanna go down to the basement - RAMONES, Rock Island Line - Johnny Cash, Barracuda - John Cale, Who is he and what is he to you - Bill Withers, Every Day - Buddy Holly, Mob Clash - Effigies, Rocket USA - Suicide, Superstition - Stevie Wonder, Mich Kriegt Ihr Nicht - Tommi Stumpff, Leeches - Naked Raygun, She is Beyond Good and Evil - the Pop Group, I had a Good Mother and Father - Washington Phillips, Der Mussolini - DAF, Showroom Dummies - Kraftwerk, Big Jesus Trash Can - the Birthday Party, That's When the Brick Goes Through the Window - the Oil Tasters, Hamburger Martyr - Killdozer, Stingray - Didjits, Let's Start Doing (what we came here to do) Clarence Carter, This is What it is - Nina Nastasia, 500 Miles - Proclaimers, Jolene - Dolly Parton, Hospital - the Modern Lovers, Follow That Car - MX-80, Neo-Fascist - Appliances SFB, Brand New Rambler - Smashchords, Romeo - Wipers
September 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Magritte's La trahison des images with "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" replaced with: "This is reminiscent of a pipe. It is certainly pipe-esque. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a pipe, or even a proto-pipe, but I'm beginning to notice a tendency of it sliding in that general direction. With the bowl and the shank and the mouthpiece, there are certainly echoes of something analogous to a pipe, but"
September 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Today, Japan celebrates Mountain Day for the tenth time. The kanji character for "eight" (八) looks like a mountain, 11 like two trees, so naturally August 11 became a new public holiday dedicated to: appreciating mountains.

I just like that.
Panorama picture of the Ligurian Apennines in the hinterland of Genoa, Italy. Soft green hills of woods and Maquis shrubland lined with mule tracks and topped with forts built between and 18th and the 19th century. You see villages nested between the hills, and parts of Genoa by the coast, with a few container ships dotted across the sea.
August 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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posted this upside-down for some reason.
August 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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I took a picture of it last night from yonder the Atlantic, so we got both sides of the moon now.
Digital artifact ridden moon so big it dwarfs the majestic brigantine sailing by below in its rectangle.
August 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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I'll invite everyone to open Google Earth, zoom in on Gaza City or Jabalya or Khuza'a or Rafah or most other larger towns and use the timeslider to see the historical imagery.

The most recent satellite images appear to be a year old, but even then the devastation was harrowing and near-ubiquitous.
As a random example: screenshot of Khan Yunes in 11/2023 and 6/2024 - a densely populated town turned to ruins.
August 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched (doing this by the book for once)
Ace In The Hole, La Chimera, No Other Land, Swing Girls
August 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Seriously, how is there no movie of Sigourney Weaver hunting that fucker down?
picture of an all-farted-up Portuguese man o' war stranded on the beach looking like an angry blue condom melted at the base waving its useless pink wing for a last goodbye
August 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Kurosawa's Kagemusha, Pinter's Landscape & Silence, Banyan's Maggot Brain live, and I sewed on a button the wrong way, which was excellent.
July 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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#lastfour #letterboxdfifthofjuly
A perfect MS Paint rendering of the Letterboxd recent four but across several categories of stuff I loved recently. Movie: Dersou Uzala. Book: Everett's James. Music: Richard Dawson The Ruby Cord Live. Food: Käsespätzle (A Swabian egg-based dumpling pasta served with a selection of melted cheeses, parsley and black pepper).
July 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Just the tiniest complaint about billionaires: If you have so much money to squander and no conscience to guide you to share it with the poor, why don't you, at the very least, use it to will Albert Robida's vision of the future into existence?
Two illustrations from Robida's 1883 Le Vingtième Siècle: the first one depicting a rotating house sitting on a kind of lamp socket atop another building, the second one a docking station for airships, looking like a Mississippi steamship mounted on top of the towers of Notre Dame. In both images many details of elegant men and women in Victorian clothing and small airships carried by fish-shaped balloons.
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Wonderful evening
June 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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This reminds me: Reading Blue Machine, I started logging sites you wrote about, even an estimate of the canoe trip. It really helped me visualise scale, context & the huge terrain (merrain?) you covered. If you ever publish a deluxe edition, I think a large map as an insert would be beautiful.
map clippings of Iceland and Maui with pins and tracks of locations discussed in Blue Machine
May 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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I love the Ursonate. I learned about it as a teenager and it made me even more of a pain in the arse to my schoolmates.
the first page of the Ursonate score
May 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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This one's on you. Bad form. That's a VHS skeet if I ever saw one.
The VHS of 101 Dalmatians
May 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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The literal motto of the EU: United in Diversity
European Union, EU-Flag and the EU-motto: United in Diversity (In varietate concordia)
March 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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The current state of the used Tesla market in Germany
The burnt out hull of a Tesla Model 3 offered for 900€ (757GBP, 36777TRY, 5576BRL).
March 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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22 Feb 1943 - Sophie Scholl's last words: "Such a fine, sunny day and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred into action?"
A young Sophie Scholl, smiling with all the joy in the world.
February 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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(2/2 - Had to split the text in two, because BlueSky formatting made it unreadable.)
second half of the text
February 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Memphis Minnie is the stuff of myths. And she really deserves more attention as a seminal blues musician. I love Langston Hughes' account of one of her shows in Chicago, 1947: "The electric guitar is very loud, science having magnified all of its softness away." (1/2)
First half of Langston Hughes' Here To Yonder, reporting on one of Memphis Minnie's shows. It's a long text I've only found as a gif. If someone with VIP wants to read it, please let me know and I'll find a way to send it to you in plain text.
February 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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"At least 1,426,000 people have demonstrated against the right across Germany since the beginning of the year."
February 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM