this is the energy we need, this is the response they deserve, go give these losers a swirlie in front of the whole gym (america)

This weekend we saw both MALCOLM X (1993) and THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) in cinema. Both excellent & it was remarkable how much the latter took its idiom from the former - not derivative, just impressed how much Spike Lee established a language and style that are still in use 30+(!) years later

this came to me in a dream

Ok I was delighted by the Italian pair at the skating gala doing Macarena into YMCA into Cotton Eye Joe, then your lad showed up in a panda costume, hell yes this is what Sport is For

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

ok so that's "H"

Haven Watch is the group that meets people who are being released from Whipple (usually because they were illegally detained), often without coats or phones or any way to get home.

Accidentally started a Red February theme this month so I guess we're just going to keep rolling with it

In 1987 a UK record producer would take this idea and release 4 platinum albums

Dutch speed skating gold medallist Jens van 't Wout is 24 years old, and has the haircut and general mien of a composite of every boy in the soccer team at my Oregon high school in 2002

Friday night rewatch of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990), that translation zoom in and out is so good! so effortless, so confident, so fun! Like, stating the obvious but man that John McTiernan is good at using the language of cinema to tell you what's goin on

I love fancy ice skating so much

I was not prepared for the dancing fluorescent moka pots

watched the HEATED RIVALRY finale, switched to the live team free skate, then ofc had to watch the Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir 2018 medal routine, overall a great evening for deeply horny ice skating

the weekends I would lose to reading alternate Naomi Wolf's blog posts about the Voynich Manuscript

ahhh this is great

god bless whoever decided to make multiple(!) 1970s movies about Al Pacino supporting trans rights and being stressed out of his little mind

love how you can tell from his singing that he was too mad to waste time fucking around with imagery. like, hmm shall I spend another few days on the lyrics for this one? no, I shall get as many E Streeters as I can to my house to yell "ICE OUT NOW" into a studio mic

According to Tacoma, WA area Redditors, this was the work of ILWU Local 91 in Oakland, CA

You should have these anyway - admin is never fun and especially not this, but it's so much kinder to your loved ones to do it yourself, instead of kicking it over to them when they will be grieving. (assuming you have loved ones who will grieve you and you don't want to be unkind to, I guess!)

You can see the modularity of room sizes in the plans This is common in Spanish social housing - it allows rooms to be adapted (a dining room turning into an extra bedroom), but also helps reduce build costs by keeping material sizes consistent

We've created the greatest resistance & mutual aid network this country has ever seen in about 6 days. It's so effective that the government has had to ready an arctic military division in an attempt to thwart it. I don't know how that could instill anything but hope. It's -20 but the sun is shining

hell yes beavers are back back back baby

You know I saw a brilliant piece of public information writing today, a handwritten whiteboard at Pimlico station that read: FAULTY GATES google "autocomplete TFL" Refunds by end of the day Everyone (at rush hour) looked at it and walked through without stopping to ask staff the same questions

on this january 19, @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com asks us to remember not the myth, but the man: just another black church leader living under jim crow, 26 years old, when history called and asked him to meet the moment. now it's our turn. www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-orga...

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Wow this poster from 1941 was strangely prescient, as it's from 1941 and belongs to the commons feel free to have this, do with it what you want

IL GATTOPARDO (1963) was lush in 4K at the BFI today man, imagine being Burt Lancaster and so handsome as to trigger multiple(!) reaction shots of Alain Delon looking insecure!

god can you imagine the delay repay for all those first-class passengers stuck in a snowdrift for two days on the Orient Express, Le Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits Tres Fancy would have been bankrupted

Pythagoras shunning fava beans, accompanying the advice, "Do Not Eat Beans!" from Speculum principis (Mirror of Princes) [fol. 25 recto], French, 1512/1514 (National Gallery of Art)

It's a Wonderful Life is certainly a very humanist, compassionate movie but anyway saying it's somehow 'socialist' has literally reduced 'socialism' to 'rich people bad' which is a case of 'yes but there's more going on here kate'

mentally ranking Christmas films seen this year on an ACAB scale from DIE HARD to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Clarence the angel, divinely sanctioned, bites a cop)

‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis

just watched a beautiful 35mm projection of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and while (as usual) started crying about ten minutes in.... George just make Uncle Billy a non-executive director and stick him in charge of customer retention strategy or something

went to see PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD tonight, a play which despite being set in 1906 rural Ireland is very relatable to today's times because I too would murder a close relative for the chance to get with Nicola Coughlan

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! Yes! YES! YES!!!!!

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

"This is an announcement for the passenger travelling with a group of children... could you please get them to stop pressing the emergency call button" Bless you, station announcer at Tottenham Court Road, for the perfect balance of professionalism and bone deep weariness in that line delivery

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

is is this supposed to be festive

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

did not know this! what a good font!

Went to Costco in the UK for the first time this weekend and honestly it was like teleporting to the US ilu Costco

delighted to have won the inaugural Wittertainment Peace Prize tonight, ty @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social truly honoured beyond words

a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me

One of my favourite parts of walking in a city is overhearing little drifts of conversations from others' very different lives - just on Sunday: "Apparently he's an Anthony not Ant, which he only told me after TWENTY YEARS!" "It was my mother's. I had them size it down. She had really fat fingers"