In re: repost Groningen is a university town with a typically diverse student body, many of whom are immigrants (a very common thing all over the EU). I have fond memories of my visit there (including wee-hours baked cheese from a Febo automat). Lekker!

The racist and xenophobe Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch PVV, was booed and chased out of the city of Groningen last Saturday because many people are fed up with his tirades against immigrants. As a result, he had to stop handing out flyers. In this video, you can see and hear what happened.

Not nearly the most important thing wrong with this, but there’s no border between PA and NYC, “crossed into” is another tell that we’re deep in the AI Uncanny Valley

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Well if this ain’t a gut punch

You *will* understand the opening montage of The Rockford Files

can we at least bring back disco, guys in short shorts, moustaches, and actors with interestingly flawed faces and bodies

I love this! One of the things I miss having lived in West Ridge is taking the Brown Line on the regular, but every time we catch a movie @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social this stop is en route.

Maybe he’s paying his respects to Ivana

Even the most liberal workplaces don’t take mental health seriously, even though they talk about it ceaselessly. *Your* mental health is *your* problem, not your boss’s. One more task you’re responsible for, and can be held accountable for not addressing.

This is the entire ethos of the current administration

I gave up

Heard also played a Trumpian Atlantic City casino owner in De Palma’s SNAKE EYES (1998)

Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.

Please check out @mzspress.bsky.social for books like these (they make excellent gifts!)

As someone whose household lost 60% of our income two years ago, I feel Matt’s pain. His bookstore is wonderful. Here’s a particularly good haul from @mzspress.bsky.social

I have three of Mark’s books in beautiful hardback editions (currently reading his Pictures at a Revolution), all purchased from Matt’s bookstore!

When politicians don't honor their promises, our work is to make them. To do that, we have to build enough power to make them. I understand why people get disappointed but this is unfortunately how things work in politics.

As strange as it is to see Lotte Lenya in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, it was downright bizarre to clock her cameo in Michael Ritchie’s SEMI-TOUGH recently

So begins a fascinating, comprehensive thread exploring Bob Dylan’s reception of the Brecht/Weill ballad “Pirate Jenny” in 1962

Our beloved @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social is ranked pretty high! And the description is spot on www.timeout.com/film/the-100...

A great photographer (incidentally, director of the game-changing 1971 Blaxploitation film SHAFT as well); if I were in London I would visit this expo for sure.

How I arrived on Bluesky

Huh, I always thought Saudi Arabia was around there somewhere

I was wondering when someone would point out that a crippled Iran is good for Saudi Arabia, which has been vying with Iran for control of the region for quite some time now

Yeah, including one of my colleagues, who retired early in part due to the stress of the death threats she got from appearing on a TPUSA list

I’m glad Emily posted these timely meditations. Understanding what she’s saying here is foundational to all of us surviving, frankly.

Who’s she staring down, Annette Funicello?

What if you lived through all that *and* came of age or entered the workforce during the second Reagan administration

I wish *anyone* on the NPR newscast I listened to in the car just now had mentioned this even a little

Beer Hall Putz

BILL DUKE FOR GOVERNOR

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Debbie Harry appeared in the Muppet Show on 25 January 1981. Robin's Frog Scout troop visits the show, getting in everyone's way backstage. They ask Debbie for help earning their punk merit badges, and she teaches them how to do the pogo. #Blondie #DebbieHarry

Robin Vos, the longest-serving Assembly Speaker in Wisconsin history, says this every time there’s a statewide election in Wisconsin

Say, @glennkenny.bsky.social, as an occasional writer for the AARP member mag, any insight into how these Movies for Grownups Awards are determined?

This looks like @faceyouhate.bsky.social at home, TBQH

Can US Olympians boycott their own games???

You couldn’t pay me to put my face in there

Is there a word for the complex of Proustian sense-memories this ad evokes? The cardboard lid folding to reveal or cover the contents, the aesthetic array of the colors, the smell of the crayons, the torque of the twist & resistance of the sharpener blade, thumbnail peeling the paper, the shavings…

Incredible nesting doll of posts

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Cheesecake version

Yep. Mrs. D and I saw him dining alone at the Pizza Capri in Hyde Park once. Hard to overstate the man’s charisma. She found herself unable to take her eyes off him, until he finally caught her gaze and gave a little nod. #RIPJesseJackson

He did his own singing in Tender Mercies, and he even wrote two of them, which i find incredible. A true original with a bottomless well of talent that drew from an array of aquifers. This was one of the ones Duvall wrote.

Sure would have been nice if any of those Jeopardy! contestants last week had known this answer to Final Jeopardy!

Yeah, TCM, that’s why I saw KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social for my birthday

Already got her one for Christmas

Happy Valentine’s Day!