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Rural Pine
@pearlrhein.com
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Actor, musician, songwriter, flightless bird
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Leave it to the NYT to take a side swipe at the people in these jobs in the first fucking sentence. Not everyone experiences a “sinking feeling” when informed that one experienced professional happens to be substituting for another experienced professional
For theatergoers, it produces an all too familiar sinking feeling. You open your Playbill and a little piece of paper flutters out, alerting you that a member of the cast is out and someone unexpected will be performing. For understudies who are finally getting a turn in the spotlight, though, those little slips offer rare moments of recognition. Love them or hate them, they are a Broadway tradition on the way out. A little-noticed provision in the tentative contract agreed to this month between the Broadway League and Actors’ Equity Association would make those inserts — “stuffers” in industry parlance — optional. The deal, which is being voted on by Equity members, allows shows to announce most cast changes through QR codes printed in Playbills, along with either a verbal announcement or a cast list posted in the lobby.
October 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Tim Heidecker in “On Cinema At the Cinema” playing a character who is covered in bandages
September 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Hey when you added this correction to the top of the article you forgot to also correct THE HEADLINE
Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been corrected to say that Costco will 'not sell' mifepristone instead of 'stop selling' the pill in paragraph 1 and removes reference to 'stopping sale' in paragraph 2)
August 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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germanyinusa.com/2019/02/22/w...
Do you ever look at someone and feel like punching them in the face? Well, Germans have a unique word for that face: a Backpfeifengesicht — a face that’s badly in need of a fist. This is one of those strange words that’s uniquely German with no English equivalent. The word Backpfeife means “punch/slap” (on the cheek/face) and Gesicht means “face”. The word Backpfeifengesicht therefore means something along the lines of “a face that’s begging to be slapped” – or punched. Or hurt. You get the picture.
August 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I just started watching “Spenser: For Hire” for the first time (it’s on Tubi!) that describes the three main characters to a T. I’ve been really surprised at the show’s humanity, and some of the storylines feel progressive even today
The three main actors in the 90’s detective series “Spenser: For Hire”: Barbara Stock, Robert Urich and Avery Brooks
May 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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“First, Democrats should express their frustration and disgust with the ways extremists on both sides have weaponized the issue...While there is no moral equivalency between those two sides”
“[First, Democrats should express their frustration and disgust with the ways extremists on both sides have weaponized the issue.] Doing so will immediately signal to swing voters that they are trying to resolve, not exploit, the culture wars. Democrats can make clear that on the right, hardcore conservatives have used this debate primarily to inflict harm, painting transgender people as monsters who seek to change our culture and history. On the far left, progressive activists police our language, attempting to shame those who step out of line or do not agree with every item on their agenda. [While there is no moral equivalency between those two sides] - the demonization by the right is much worse - both extremes are wrong and are adding far more heat than light to this evolving and complex national conversation. Democrats must forcefully…” Portions in brackets have been highlighted by the poster
May 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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“Democrats should express their frustration and disgust with the ways extremists on both sides have weaponized the issue…While there is no moral equivalency between those two sides” I think I found the problem
“[First, Democrats should express their frustration and disgust with the ways extremists on both sides have weaponized the issue.] Doing so will immediately signal to swing voters that they are trying to resolve, not exploit, the culture wars. Democrats can make clear that on the right, hardcore conservatives have used this debate primarily to inflict harm, painting transgender people as monsters who seek to change our culture and history. On the far left, progressive activists police our language, attempting to shame those who step out of line or do not agree with every item on their agenda. [While there is no moral equivalency between those two sides] - the demonization by the right is much worse - both extremes are wrong and are adding far more heat than light to this evolving and complex national conversation. Democrats must forcefully…” Portions in brackets have been highlighted by the poster
May 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Historical photos of people are still easiest for me, thanks to the overly-clear detail on suspiciously symmetrical faces. Even easier when the AI gives a suffragist a hat made of hair
A small clip of an AI-generated fake photo of an historical suffragists. The fingers are wonky, the sign is gibberish, and the computer has confused a hat with a Gibson Girl hairstyle and sort of morphed them together.
May 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Carl Reiner (and Mel Brooks) speak for me:
May 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I save up all my rage for scammers
A text conversation between me and an unknown number: Unknown: Hello Me: Hi, who is this? Unknown: How are you? I’m Susan from Career Group Recruitment Company. I have a job opportunity for you. Me: Great! Is it fucking your mom?
May 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Non-religious people the last week:
A still from the sketch comedy show “I Think You Should Leave”. A white man in his 30’s, Tim Robinson, is speaking at the front of the classroom. The caption is the line “I can’t know how to hear anymore about tables” except tables is redacted and changed to “Catholics”.
April 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Just got a targeted ad for “Age-Appropriate Denim”
A Rembrandt portrait of a very old, very sad man
April 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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omg this bitch killed a nun
Westcott's contention is that he was unable to provide informed consent for the sale due to his mental decline and his use of prescription opiates following a significant surgery. His family is working with him to ensure Perry doesn't own the home, and now they've taken the fight to a new level with this might-be law. This latest legal battle is not the first instance where Perry has found herself in a dispute with elderly real estate owners who go on to seek to block her acquisition. Several years ago, the Grammy nominee faced a legal challenge from a group of nuns who intended to sell their California estate to someone other than the singer. Perry ultimately yon the lawsuit, but it's remembered largely due to the unfortunate collapse and subsequent passing of one of the nuns during the trial.
April 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Ah, the beautiful hand shapes of classical ballet
An obviously AI-generated “photo” of two toddler hands sort of gooing into one
April 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Was your child created in Midjourney? Bring his melting face to Tiny Tunes & Tumbles!
An obviously AI-generated “photo” of a little boy with disturbingly melted edges
April 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Finally, an UES church is offering beginner ballet classes for gummy AI toddlers
An obviously AI-generated “photo” of a diverse group of toddlers holding hands in a dance class
April 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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My god, Amazon Fashion, you’ve done it again
An Amazon Fashion ad for a distressed grey baseball cap featuring a patch of an American flag on the front and an attached fake messy brown knot of hair, like a miniature disheveled Cousin It holding for dear life, at the top
February 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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We all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you
The late great neurologist & author, Oliver Sacks. He is a white man of about 60 with a bushy greying beard, wearing a lab coat and tapping his palm with a reflex hammer.
December 28, 2024 at 6:17 AM
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I humbly suggest REVERSAL OF FORTUNE (1990). Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons play the real-life Claus and Sunny von Bülow. Irons is one sneer away from full camp, and Ron Silver plays his actual appeal lawyer Ron Dershowitz. Surprisingly high quality trash
November 30, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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One of my favorite details about the book is that it’s the author’s only horror. Siddons primarily wrote dishy southern lit fic, the elevated beach reads of her time. Her covers are aggressively pastel. Her novel “Heartbreak Hotel” was turned into the movie “Heart of Dixie”
The cover of the novel “Homeplace” by Anne Rivers Siddons. A watercolor painting of a white porch swing hanging from a lush tree. The cover of the novel “Up Island” by Anne Rivers Siddons. A watercolor of a swan spreading its wings on the surface of a lake, with a simple house in the distance. The cover of the novel “Peachtree Road” by Anne Rivers Siddons. A plain pink cover with a cluster of darker pink flowers in the middle.
November 17, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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A picture of the novel “The House Next Door” by Anne Rivers Siddons, published in the 1970’s. It shows a drawing of a modernist house that looks generally creepy.
November 17, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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repost with a favorite book from your childhood
August 25, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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This press release gets loonier and better with every word
January 9, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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January 3, 2024 at 2:51 PM