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Missy, 40ish, wage slave, fandom old, writer, raconteur. Ballads, Songs and Snatches: The Art of Julian Sands coming sometime in 2026; biography to follow in the future.
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It's amazing how much "alpha" males are afraid of educated women.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The Film Foundation's restoration work was profiled on CBS SUNDAY MORNING in 2023.

youtu.be/ixPBhkmBHKw?... #FilmSky #MartinScorsese
Film restoration: Saving our cinema heritage
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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November 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Leaders of the American Patriots Three Percent (AP3) militia have forged alliances with law enforcement around the US.

Internal files reveal their strategies for building these ties and where they’ve claimed success.

(Published Aug. 2024)
Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia
Rounding up migrants. Lists of “friendly” sheriffs. Debating political assassinations. Internal messages reveal AP3’s journey from Jan. 6 through the tumultuous lead-up to the 2024 election. One membe...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Vanity Fair going for the daily double, I see.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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BOOKMARKED!!
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Ravi Coutinho needed mental health and addiction care. Getting it through his insurance network was nearly impossible. He texted his friends:

“Therapists have been 0-4.”

“Called ten places and nothing.”

“The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.”

(Published Sept. 2024)
“I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network
Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could fi...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I do love that Sami Zayn will not let this die😂🤼
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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For Martin Scorsese's b'day, I donated to his Film Foundation, which has restored 1100+ films.

You can even pick a project to support.

Scorsese said restoration is "more important" to his legacy than filmmaking, especially in its potential to inspire young people.

www.film-foundation.org/donation
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAH.

Never cross a picket line, but especially not a picket line in Pittsburgh.

That means you, Barely Writes.
🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN!

The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Operation Fruit Snacks (2008-circa 2010): A line of assorted fruit-flavored snacks, with shapes based on the "funny" medical conditions in the punny, stressful, surgery-related board game
November 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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All 2026 tour dates and ticket info up RIGHT NOW at
www.weirdal.com/tour
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I always assumed (or hoped) that these kind of banana abominations were joke memes, but sadly this dish is brought to us by the fine folks in the McCall’s magazine test kitchen. Bon appetit!
#VintageFood
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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If you want to be even more terrified about who you are living amongst in the US today, look at the comments on any news station's post on Facebook about the drug boats.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Even Veronica gets green with envy sometimes.
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Soon, you'll finally know if there's beer on the sun. Tjardus Greidanus the director of The Final Sacrifice tells all in this new documentary coming to Kickstarter next week

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rea...

vimeo.com/1131135216/1...
Making THE FINAL SACRIFICE. 10 Days to Go!
The waiting is over! After years of wild rumors & speculation, the director of this MST3K classic comes clean! Make it happen Thanksgiving Day on Kickstarter.…
vimeo.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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First off, my suspension has ended. Got a little harsh with a post a few days ago but I didn’t have my feet on the ground and I’m sorry if I offended anyone. Will try to be more chipper. Knock on wood!
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Miss me with that “Marjorie Taylor Greene is cool now” bullshit.
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM