Oh man, I just realized the seed art at the State Fair this year is going to be *something*.

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much of my professional travel career involves going onto the Amtrak website to book travel only to find that it's essentially logistically impossible to do what I want to do and only then, reluctantly, turning to air travel as a second choice. forget HSR, just give me more service

BREAKING: Steelers coach Mike Tomlin is stepping down after 19 seasons in Pittsburgh, per source. He just notified the team in a meeting.

this post did something that I didn't think was possible: made me temper my hatred of Aaron Rodgers. for about thirty seconds. STILL defector.com/the-houston-...

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facebooks' spellcheck is auto-correcting "automobility" (which is a term I use a lot) to automcobility, which is not a word as far as I know? What is happening? Actually BS is doing the same thing -- automobility (which is in the dictionary) is red-underlined, but automcobility, not a word, is not.

Phase IV is truly a weird movie. An hallucination, sometimes I'm not sure it objectively exists, or if I just dreamed that I've watched it. www.ianbetteridge.com/of-ants-saul...

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It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Double Indemnity (1944) #FilmNoir

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Get in loser, we're going to put our bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, to make it stop

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1765

TIL about Abel Ferrera‘s 1998 adaptation of a William Gibson story, New Rose Hotel. In the first scene John Lurie and Christopher Walken talk about how governments and corporations are the same in a shady club, then it cuts to Willem Dafoe having group sex in a toilet stall. Schooly D did the score.

costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country

Woodbury man came from Libya to Minnesota for treatment of rare skin condition, then stayed to earn his degree and become a celebrated graduate and IT worker.

Check out Jafar's great Closet Pick (yes, one film) on the Criterion Channel! ✨ BICYCLE THIEVES 🖤

I'm trying to get work done, but it strikes me that I'm really just sitting here waiting for the next reports of violence.

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WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $250,000 needed to resume coverage of Wisconsin state government after suspending operations last month due to financial difficulties.

oh hey that's me, reviewing Jennifer Mapes for @hnetreviews.bsky.social. New American Small Town is of interest to #urbanists and those who live in small towns and think about #urbanism. CC @urbanism.plus @urbanhistorya.bsky.social also @wvupress.bsky.social

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Good sunset much needed

Criterion has an edition of Dead Presidents (1995) directed by the Hughes brothers (Albert an Allen), including a commentary track. Dang this movie is a hidden gem. I still think it's pure chutzpah to make a period piece actioner WITH A VIETNAM TOUR INTERLUDE on a $10m budget. Guts.

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

You’re probably well aware of the seminal Richard’s Bicycle Book and his extensive quoting of Illich.

Kathleen Byron in BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) She was BOTD in 1921

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For you youngsters out there just finding out about him, Jesse Ventura is not "some kind of lake wizard" but was at one time the governor of Minnesota and before that a professional wrestler

BEARS PACKERS PLAYOFFS IN THE SNOWWWW WHATS BETTER

Stop scrolling and drink some water. Eat a banana. Make banana bread. Eat a peanut butter and banana sandwich. Honestly, I have too many bananas. I need help with all these bananas.

bring back the laser loon. As a battle flag.

I am trying to get a chapter draft done by the end of the month, but I accidentally found a new seam of primary source research and now I've fallen down a research hole that I have to dig out of before getting back to the writing, because this research informs this writing. I'M GOING BACKWARDS

Now playing (01:20 AM PST): "Godzilla Raids Again" (1955) By Motoyoshi Oda Runtime: 82 min.

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My jam, this is. Extremely.

I went for a bike ride and there were eagles at the places in the ice where the water was still running.

Extremely cool policy job opening for anyone interested in transportation. Can be fully remote (US only)! www.metroabundance.org/jobs/transpo...

me: it hurts when I do this *looks at phone* doctor: *sobbing at phone* sorry what

Fuck it, I'm going for a bike ride.

The democratic collapse of my country is making it hard to focus on the collapse of my profession

alright time for a distraction. George Carlin obsessives: the internet broadly attributes "why do we drive on the parkway, but park in the driveway?" to Carlin. HOWEVER, I cannot find an actual citation to an album, special, or book. Can anyone provide a specific citation to Carlin saying this?

the publisher of Agricultural History, @dukepress.bsky.social has a 3-month window for free access to my review of Rachel S. Gross' _Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America_, from @yalepress.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...

Remembering the great Jose Ferrer, groundbreaking Oscar-winning Puerto Rican actor & stage, film, and television director, on his 114th birthday, who was one of the most respected, influential and acclaimed Hispanic American actors of his time. He was #BOTD on 1/8/1912.