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Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
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"I Noticed That You Mentioned Silent Films So I Wanted to Come Over and Explain a Film I am Sure You Have Never Seen Called METROPOLIS" by Berthold Woltze
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
get to know your mutuals! list 10 random things you like
Lavender tea
Act Raiser
Glottal stops
Black tomatoes
John Candy
Daffodils
Rocky beaches in the winter
Guinea pigs
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Jordi Savall
Lavender tea
Act Raiser
Glottal stops
Black tomatoes
John Candy
Daffodils
Rocky beaches in the winter
Guinea pigs
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Jordi Savall
get to know your mutuals! list 10 random things you like
Jethro Tull
Fantasy movies made before 1960
Winnie the Pooh
Action figures
Christmas folklore
Time travel stories
Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc
The Legend of Zelda: BotW
Movies that change genre in the 3rd act
Slow Cookers
Jethro Tull
Fantasy movies made before 1960
Winnie the Pooh
Action figures
Christmas folklore
Time travel stories
Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc
The Legend of Zelda: BotW
Movies that change genre in the 3rd act
Slow Cookers
get to know your mutuals! list 10 random things you like
Blink 182’s self-titled album
Dinosaurs
First sip of coffee in the AM
George Romero movies
Lasagna
“Metroid” games
My three cats
Myth and religion
“The Stars My Destination”
Uninterrupted sleep
Blink 182’s self-titled album
Dinosaurs
First sip of coffee in the AM
George Romero movies
Lasagna
“Metroid” games
My three cats
Myth and religion
“The Stars My Destination”
Uninterrupted sleep
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
get to know your mutuals! list 10 random things you like
Lavender tea
Act Raiser
Glottal stops
Black tomatoes
John Candy
Daffodils
Rocky beaches in the winter
Guinea pigs
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Jordi Savall
Lavender tea
Act Raiser
Glottal stops
Black tomatoes
John Candy
Daffodils
Rocky beaches in the winter
Guinea pigs
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Jordi Savall
Another capricious Bluesky ban under the auspices of Lady Plushbottom, it seems.
srsly @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app
@support.bsky.team ? you have porn bots and literal nazi trolls from X all over this site and yet you've suspended
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social/ Sarah Kendzior..
...
are we on X.. twitter or what?
@support.bsky.team ? you have porn bots and literal nazi trolls from X all over this site and yet you've suspended
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social/ Sarah Kendzior..
...
are we on X.. twitter or what?
nooooooo say it ain't so..
Sarah Kendzior pls come back.. we need your voice...
Sarah Kendzior pls come back.. we need your voice...
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Another capricious Bluesky ban under the auspices of Lady Plushbottom, it seems.
Watercolor marathon continues!
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Watercolor marathon continues!
Norma Talmadge was one of the top box office draws of the 1910s and 1920s. She specialized in playing tough dames, from lady gangsters to drug addicts, as well as heavy costume dramas but she did sometimes dip her toes into comedy.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Norma Talmadge was one of the top box office draws of the 1910s and 1920s. She specialized in playing tough dames, from lady gangsters to drug addicts, as well as heavy costume dramas but she did sometimes dip her toes into comedy.
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LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
More Conrad Veidt for your timelines! This ad was released just after Veidt was briefly detained by the Nazis and was released after the British studio he had signed with threw a fit.
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
More Conrad Veidt for your timelines! This ad was released just after Veidt was briefly detained by the Nazis and was released after the British studio he had signed with threw a fit.
Bluesky is busy outing everyone’s native language settings 😝
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Bluesky is busy outing everyone’s native language settings 😝
It is a comparatively minor inconvenience, all told, but Current Times emboldening prequel defenders to try to claim they are actually deep, misunderstood masterpieces is certainly annoying
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
It is a comparatively minor inconvenience, all told, but Current Times emboldening prequel defenders to try to claim they are actually deep, misunderstood masterpieces is certainly annoying
Hey, since Elon Musk was humiliated into pretending he reads books, I guess I should share!
My favorite book is really a short story so does it count? The Nose by Gogol. The humor! The tiny daily details to flesh out minor characters! The whole surreal package!
My favorite book is really a short story so does it count? The Nose by Gogol. The humor! The tiny daily details to flesh out minor characters! The whole surreal package!
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Hey, since Elon Musk was humiliated into pretending he reads books, I guess I should share!
My favorite book is really a short story so does it count? The Nose by Gogol. The humor! The tiny daily details to flesh out minor characters! The whole surreal package!
My favorite book is really a short story so does it count? The Nose by Gogol. The humor! The tiny daily details to flesh out minor characters! The whole surreal package!
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We all deserve a little Conrad Veidt today
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We all deserve a little Conrad Veidt today
Started the pickle process and have the brine going. My whole spice collection pays off! Why yes, I DO have juniper berries and star anise and whole nutmegs!
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Pickled Beef Tongue
Pickled Beef Tongue is kind of like a cross between smoked ham and corned beef. Melt-in-your-mouth tender and deliciously tasty. Definitely worth trying!
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November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Started the pickle process and have the brine going. My whole spice collection pays off! Why yes, I DO have juniper berries and star anise and whole nutmegs!
thehealthyfoodie.com/pickled-beef...
thehealthyfoodie.com/pickled-beef...
Some Decorator Somewhere: “Now, all we need to do is get rid of the books that don’t spark joy, organize them by color rather than subject or author and maybe turn their spines in so they’re all an attractive beige and—“
(Trapdoor opens and drops them in a swampy, gator-filled moat)
(Trapdoor opens and drops them in a swampy, gator-filled moat)
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Some Decorator Somewhere: “Now, all we need to do is get rid of the books that don’t spark joy, organize them by color rather than subject or author and maybe turn their spines in so they’re all an attractive beige and—“
(Trapdoor opens and drops them in a swampy, gator-filled moat)
(Trapdoor opens and drops them in a swampy, gator-filled moat)
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The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
Onto the botanicals section of my watercolor marathon
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Onto the botanicals section of my watercolor marathon
I decided to pickle the tongue! I do love a good brining recipe, so I will be back in two weeks or so to let you know how it goes!
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I decided to pickle the tongue! I do love a good brining recipe, so I will be back in two weeks or so to let you know how it goes!
Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin brawl in MABEL'S BUSY DAY (1914). Normand directed this frenetic comedy and clearly has a ball mixing it up with the boys.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin brawl in MABEL'S BUSY DAY (1914). Normand directed this frenetic comedy and clearly has a ball mixing it up with the boys.
How I enter a room
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
How I enter a room
I’ve been very into extremely limited palettes and triads lately, so I got a swatching stamp. Going to have fun with this!
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I’ve been very into extremely limited palettes and triads lately, so I got a swatching stamp. Going to have fun with this!
New desk organization continues
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
New desk organization continues
THE BLOOD SHIP (1927), which I have been wanting to see for more than a decade and it lived up to the hype! The hype, of course, being a bloody and decadent seafaring revenge tale.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
THE BLOOD SHIP (1927), which I have been wanting to see for more than a decade and it lived up to the hype! The hype, of course, being a bloody and decadent seafaring revenge tale.
This week's reader request was SURE-MIKE (1925), a Hal Roach comedy starring Martha Sleeper. I love Sleeper in her supporting roles with Charley Chase and was excited to see her as the solo star. Reviews were ecstatic and even called her the new Mabel Normand
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Sure-Mike! (1925) A Silent Film Review
Martha Sleeper is a shop girl who dreams of marrying the boss (Mike, her motorcycle delivery man suitor just doesn’t measure up) in this Hal Roach one-reeler.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This week's reader request was SURE-MIKE (1925), a Hal Roach comedy starring Martha Sleeper. I love Sleeper in her supporting roles with Charley Chase and was excited to see her as the solo star. Reviews were ecstatic and even called her the new Mabel Normand
moviessilently.com/2025/11/09/s...
moviessilently.com/2025/11/09/s...
I remain baffled by the ongoing popularity of jelly gouache. They now sell additional doodads to mix it after it inevitably hardens and kill the mold that inevitably grows. If only there was some invention like a "jar" or "tube" to store such paint or dry pans to avoid these issues entirely.
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I remain baffled by the ongoing popularity of jelly gouache. They now sell additional doodads to mix it after it inevitably hardens and kill the mold that inevitably grows. If only there was some invention like a "jar" or "tube" to store such paint or dry pans to avoid these issues entirely.