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hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
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Boy you can just realllllllly fucking tell who's never had to get on the horn with an insurance company huh
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Boy you can just realllllllly fucking tell who's never had to get on the horn with an insurance company huh
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This shit makes me so angry. The reason why corporate plans require less money is because the company has leverage power to force a good rate with the insurance company. The idea that an individual could get a better deal than a collective is a lie.
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This shit makes me so angry. The reason why corporate plans require less money is because the company has leverage power to force a good rate with the insurance company. The idea that an individual could get a better deal than a collective is a lie.
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
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Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
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@louispeitzman.bsky.social's recaps are the best in the business. honestly slightly unnerved by the level of his King knowledge.
The series keeps pulling back each time it comes agonizingly close to showing Pennywise. Just let us see the clown already!
It: Welcome to Derry Recap: Seeing Is Believing
The series keeps pulling back each time it comes agonizingly close to showing Pennywise. Just let us see the clown already!
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
@louispeitzman.bsky.social's recaps are the best in the business. honestly slightly unnerved by the level of his King knowledge.
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This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
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always so funny to me the hysteria that mamdani -- perpetually smiling! light-skinned for a brown man! so pleasant! -- causes in people by suggesting such catastrophic ideas as "give people who need food said food at reasonable prices" and "make the transit system more accessible." real evil stuff
This Washpost oped is every bit as awesome as its headline
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
always so funny to me the hysteria that mamdani -- perpetually smiling! light-skinned for a brown man! so pleasant! -- causes in people by suggesting such catastrophic ideas as "give people who need food said food at reasonable prices" and "make the transit system more accessible." real evil stuff
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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For @letterboxd.social's best of the Fall Fests roundup I wrote about Lucrecia Martel’s NUESTRA TIERRA and Kaouther Ben Hania’s THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/best...
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/best...
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
For @letterboxd.social's best of the Fall Fests roundup I wrote about Lucrecia Martel’s NUESTRA TIERRA and Kaouther Ben Hania’s THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/best...
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/best...
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Just a late night reminder that if you’re getting into the films of Mira Nair, she’s one of the interview subjects of my book CINEMA HER WAY, which is still in stores now and would make a great Christmas gift.
🎁 www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...
🎁 www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a late night reminder that if you’re getting into the films of Mira Nair, she’s one of the interview subjects of my book CINEMA HER WAY, which is still in stores now and would make a great Christmas gift.
🎁 www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...
🎁 www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...
this was an exceptionally good year for film and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
this was an exceptionally good year for film and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
jfc
www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
jfc
Just a late night reminder that if you’re getting into the films of Mira Nair, she’s one of the interview subjects of my book CINEMA HER WAY, which is still in stores now and would make a great Christmas gift.
🎁 www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...
🎁 www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a late night reminder that if you’re getting into the films of Mira Nair, she’s one of the interview subjects of my book CINEMA HER WAY, which is still in stores now and would make a great Christmas gift.
🎁 www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...
🎁 www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...
for the night crowd
For @letterboxd.social's best of the Fall Fests roundup I wrote about Lucrecia Martel’s NUESTRA TIERRA and Kaouther Ben Hania’s THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/best...
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/best...
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
for the night crowd
It’s snowing in Chicago
a woman wearing a scarf and a hat is standing in the snow .
Alt: a woman wearing a scarf and a hat is standing in the snow .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
It’s snowing in Chicago
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evergreen
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
evergreen
evergreen
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
evergreen
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
guess I’m gonna have to GoFundMe my pacemaker replacement surgery next year cuz I can’t afford to pay double for my health insurance (I’m barely able to afford where it is right now)
Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
guess I’m gonna have to GoFundMe my pacemaker replacement surgery next year cuz I can’t afford to pay double for my health insurance (I’m barely able to afford where it is right now)
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oh what’s that? i wrote about all this last year for Defector and made quite a few people mad?
Good, Bad, Or Invisible, CGI Makes Movies Unreal | Defector
In one of cinema’s earliest recordings, Auguste Lumière and his wife Marguerite are seen feeding their baby daughter Andrée. The footage, shot by Louis Lumiére, lasts only about 40 seconds or so. Pres...
defector.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
oh what’s that? i wrote about all this last year for Defector and made quite a few people mad?
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Frankenstein has the Wicked problem: you watch it, and it’s obvious they did incredible work building real, stunning sets and designing extraordinary costumes, and then the cinematography/colouring/VFX make it all look fake anyway
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Frankenstein has the Wicked problem: you watch it, and it’s obvious they did incredible work building real, stunning sets and designing extraordinary costumes, and then the cinematography/colouring/VFX make it all look fake anyway
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but it ended up looking digital anyway…
Guillermo del Toro refused to use VFX for the ship in 'Frankenstein' so they built one from scratch ⚓️
"The ship is a character ... I didn't want the audience to go, 'Oh, this is all digital' ... once you introduce that, it's like a license for people not to believe things"
"The ship is a character ... I didn't want the audience to go, 'Oh, this is all digital' ... once you introduce that, it's like a license for people not to believe things"
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
but it ended up looking digital anyway…
my #1 film of the year. just astonishing filmmaking.
PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK, whose subject, Fatma Hassona, was killed by Israeli forces one month before the film's premiere, is finally in theaters. And it's like nothing you've ever seen. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
The Spectacle of Our Own Helplessness
In Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, we watch a filmmaker’s video calls to a young woman in Gaza and reflect on the things we cannot change.
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
my #1 film of the year. just astonishing filmmaking.
For the night crowd
For @letterboxd.social's best of the Fall Fests roundup I wrote about Lucrecia Martel’s NUESTRA TIERRA and Kaouther Ben Hania’s THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/best...
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/best...
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
For the night crowd