La Donna Pietra
@ladonnapietra.bsky.social
Freelancer writer for Complex.com, The Toast, Lewton Bus, Birth.Movies.Death, /Film, and NTRSCTN.com. Drop, not rolled.
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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
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Today is Sextidi the 26th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pistachios.#JacobinDay
More information on pistachios
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pistachios.#JacobinDay
More information on pistachios
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Sextidi the 26th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pistachios.#JacobinDay
More information on pistachios
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pistachios.#JacobinDay
More information on pistachios
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You could literally do a horror anthology based on the different ways this can go wrong.
AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.
AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.
What if AI dead mom ends up neglected just like one of those digital picture frames. Sold at a digital goodwill for $2.50.
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
You could literally do a horror anthology based on the different ways this can go wrong.
AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.
AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.
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Full article on Tyson's use of Palantir's surveillance tech here: sentientmedia.org/tyson-foods-...
How America’s Largest Meat Company Leverages Palantir's Surveillance Tech
Palantir’s controversial software platform is capable of integrating vast amounts of data — but at what risk?
sentientmedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Full article on Tyson's use of Palantir's surveillance tech here: sentientmedia.org/tyson-foods-...
"Oh, bless" is not quite the right sentiment here.
"RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 10th, 5:10 AM. A fight broke out at the Greyhound station, a pile of cinderblocks which made the Charlotte Greyhound station look like Jerry Jones’ private suite."
miketanier.substack.com/p/the-waywar...
miketanier.substack.com/p/the-waywar...
The Wayward Bus
In which our doughy protagonist drags his poor wife from a romantic getaway into an unscheduled 30-hour bus trip through the heart of America, courtesy of the government shutdown.
miketanier.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"Oh, bless" is not quite the right sentiment here.
Oh, bless :
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Oh, bless :
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Not every night you can step outside, see a faint pink glow over the Sandia mountains, then hold up a phone camera and watch it catch the Northern Lights above Albuquerque
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Not every night you can step outside, see a faint pink glow over the Sandia mountains, then hold up a phone camera and watch it catch the Northern Lights above Albuquerque
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Wright believed the window should reflect nature to the occupants. Beautifully rendered here at the Robie House in #Chicago looking out at the Gingko trees in fall splendor
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Wright believed the window should reflect nature to the occupants. Beautifully rendered here at the Robie House in #Chicago looking out at the Gingko trees in fall splendor
This is such a good book, especially if you watched Boardwalk Empire.
Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is such a good book, especially if you watched Boardwalk Empire.
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Hot Chocolate - such an underrated rose : Roses
The Hot Cocoa rose is a floribunda rose known for its unique, smoky color that blends chocolate, orange, and russet tones, often shifting with temperature. It features medium to large, ruffled, high-centered blooms and with a medium fruity fragrance.
The Hot Cocoa rose is a floribunda rose known for its unique, smoky color that blends chocolate, orange, and russet tones, often shifting with temperature. It features medium to large, ruffled, high-centered blooms and with a medium fruity fragrance.
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Hot Chocolate - such an underrated rose : Roses
The Hot Cocoa rose is a floribunda rose known for its unique, smoky color that blends chocolate, orange, and russet tones, often shifting with temperature. It features medium to large, ruffled, high-centered blooms and with a medium fruity fragrance.
The Hot Cocoa rose is a floribunda rose known for its unique, smoky color that blends chocolate, orange, and russet tones, often shifting with temperature. It features medium to large, ruffled, high-centered blooms and with a medium fruity fragrance.
Me: Oh, hey, new TV show! Set in ABQ!
...
Me: ... okay, was not expecting that level of trauma SET IN MY EVERYDAY ENVIRONMENT.
Jesus CHRIST, Vince Gilligan.
...
Me: ... okay, was not expecting that level of trauma SET IN MY EVERYDAY ENVIRONMENT.
Jesus CHRIST, Vince Gilligan.
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Me: Oh, hey, new TV show! Set in ABQ!
...
Me: ... okay, was not expecting that level of trauma SET IN MY EVERYDAY ENVIRONMENT.
Jesus CHRIST, Vince Gilligan.
...
Me: ... okay, was not expecting that level of trauma SET IN MY EVERYDAY ENVIRONMENT.
Jesus CHRIST, Vince Gilligan.
Seen on the way into work this morning on I-25: a billboard proclaiming "We want you to be happy, Albuquerque!" for Pluribus.
(sadly not the same billboard that Jimmy used for his PR stunt in Better Call Saul, but we can't have everything)
(sadly not the same billboard that Jimmy used for his PR stunt in Better Call Saul, but we can't have everything)
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Seen on the way into work this morning on I-25: a billboard proclaiming "We want you to be happy, Albuquerque!" for Pluribus.
(sadly not the same billboard that Jimmy used for his PR stunt in Better Call Saul, but we can't have everything)
(sadly not the same billboard that Jimmy used for his PR stunt in Better Call Saul, but we can't have everything)
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This is perhaps pedantic, but in a sign of how vapid and superficial these folks' engagement with antiquity is, they're giving a 'Bellator' award with a Latin name - a word the Romans rarely ever apply to their own (or Greek) soldiers - featuring the image of a Greek helmet the Romans didn't use.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is perhaps pedantic, but in a sign of how vapid and superficial these folks' engagement with antiquity is, they're giving a 'Bellator' award with a Latin name - a word the Romans rarely ever apply to their own (or Greek) soldiers - featuring the image of a Greek helmet the Romans didn't use.
This seems less than comprehensive.
(I am now ruining lists.)
(I am now ruining lists.)
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This seems less than comprehensive.
(I am now ruining lists.)
(I am now ruining lists.)
ALERT ALERT
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THE VERSION OF EMMET OTTER'S JUG BAND CHRISTMAS CURRENTLY FREE ON YOUTUBE IS THE *ORIGINAL* 1977 EDIT WITH NO CUTS!
MA OTTER TELLS GRETCHEN FOX TO FALL OFF THE DOCK!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THE VERSION OF EMMET OTTER'S JUG BAND CHRISTMAS CURRENTLY FREE ON YOUTUBE IS THE *ORIGINAL* 1977 EDIT WITH NO CUTS!
MA OTTER TELLS GRETCHEN FOX TO FALL OFF THE DOCK!
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
ALERT ALERT
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THE VERSION OF EMMET OTTER'S JUG BAND CHRISTMAS CURRENTLY FREE ON YOUTUBE IS THE *ORIGINAL* 1977 EDIT WITH NO CUTS!
MA OTTER TELLS GRETCHEN FOX TO FALL OFF THE DOCK!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
THE VERSION OF EMMET OTTER'S JUG BAND CHRISTMAS CURRENTLY FREE ON YOUTUBE IS THE *ORIGINAL* 1977 EDIT WITH NO CUTS!
MA OTTER TELLS GRETCHEN FOX TO FALL OFF THE DOCK!
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
HELL no
No
The Trump administration is considering reopening federal lands around Chaco Canyon to mineral development, the New Mexico congressional delegation is reporting. sfnm.co/4oqLz7c
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
HELL no
There is a bond issue on the ABQ ballot that would get my kid's middle school both air conditioning and an improved pickup/dropoff situation and let me tell you, I have never been such a single-issue voter in my LIFE.
November 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
There is a bond issue on the ABQ ballot that would get my kid's middle school both air conditioning and an improved pickup/dropoff situation and let me tell you, I have never been such a single-issue voter in my LIFE.
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Absolutely wild story this www.bbc.com/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Absolutely wild story this www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oh, bless :
November 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Oh, bless :
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A good time of the year to wander around in Albuquerque's botanic garden. Photo taken on November 2, 2025.
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
A good time of the year to wander around in Albuquerque's botanic garden. Photo taken on November 2, 2025.
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Cafe Latte roses are known for their unique color, which ranges from a light mocha-beige to mauve and sometimes has coppery or pink undertones. They feature a spiraled, vintage-style bloom with layered, ruffled petals and a strong fragrance, often described as sweet and vanilla-scented.
November 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Cafe Latte roses are known for their unique color, which ranges from a light mocha-beige to mauve and sometimes has coppery or pink undertones. They feature a spiraled, vintage-style bloom with layered, ruffled petals and a strong fragrance, often described as sweet and vanilla-scented.