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I have a piece in the new issue of
@newrepublic.com
about the Netflix Warners merger
newrepublic.com/article/2058...
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Netflixâs Conquest of Hollywood is Complete
Movie studios have given inâand the streaming giant now controls the future. Thatâs bad for pretty much everyone.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205818/netflix-conquest-hollywood-complete
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Mark Krotov
11 days ago
One of
@nplusonemag.com
's very best issues ever is almost here, featuring journeys to mountaintops, artificial islands, fish processors, William Gass's interior life, and much more. Subscribe to read it as soon as it's outâ20% off w/ discount code EXCURSIONS.
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n+1
10 days ago
n+1 Issue 53: EXCURSIONS is almost here! Featuring Will Tavlin at Sundance, Mina Tavakoli at sea, Grace Glass in Alaska, Morley Musick in ICE-raided Chicago, Nicholas Dames on William Gass, Dennis M. Hogan on Greg Grandinâand much more. Subscribe by May 4 to read it in print.
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I have a piece in the new issue of
@newrepublic.com
about the Netflix Warners merger
newrepublic.com/article/2058...
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Netflixâs Conquest of Hollywood is Complete
Movie studios have given inâand the streaming giant now controls the future. Thatâs bad for pretty much everyone.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205818/netflix-conquest-hollywood-complete
3 months ago
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I have a piece in the new issue of
@newrepublic.com
about the Netflix Warners merger
newrepublic.com/article/2058...
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Netflixâs Conquest of Hollywood is Complete
Movie studios have given inâand the streaming giant now controls the future. Thatâs bad for pretty much everyone.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205818/netflix-conquest-hollywood-complete
3 months ago
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German translation of "casual viewing" out now from
@woz.ch
www.woz.ch/wobei/26-1/n...
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Im Reich der Kacheln
Filme wie SpĂŒltabs: Wie Netflix sein Streamingimperium aufgebaut hat.
https://www.woz.ch/wobei/26-1/netflix/filme-wie-spueltabs/!5PGM1MSPN48A
3 months ago
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Sean Burns
4 months ago
Reminder that Penske Media employees are obligated to post about the Golden Globes. Youâre not.
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New York Magazine
4 months ago
Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.
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Who Is Mubi For?
Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.
https://www.vulture.com/article/mubi-art-house-movies-streamer-distributor.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=bluesky
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Anna Kornbluh
4 months ago
"The team behind No Other Land was in the middle of negotiations with Mubi for a streaming deal that would have helped support the residents of Masafer Yatta when the Sequoia news dropped. âWe were surprised and heartbroken,â Abraham told me. The deal fell apart."
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Who Is Mubi For?
The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.
https://www.vulture.com/article/mubi-art-house-movies-streamer-distributor.html
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I have a new piece in the latest
@nymag.com
about the crisis at Mubi
www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
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Who Is Mubi For?
The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.
https://www.vulture.com/article/mubi-art-house-movies-streamer-distributor.html
4 months ago
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Columbia Journalism Review
5 months ago
Gaza has shown governments around the world just how much they can get away with when it comes to silencing the press,â Atossa Araxia Abrahamian writes for CJRâs Journalism 2050 Issue. Will other countries follow suit?
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Recipe Book: What the press crisis in Gaza portends.
What the crisis for press freedom in Gaza portends.
https://www.cjr.org/feature/recipe-book-press-freedom-crisis-gaza.php
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Manohla Dargis
5 months ago
a good, smart piece on Netflix
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
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A. S. Hamrah
5 months ago
Online at
@nybooks.com
, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs | A. S. Hamrah
In December 2019, three months before the pandemic, I was standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn when I recognized a prominent older film critic also
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/12/02/a-total-breakdown-of-all-the-easter-eggs/
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I recommended some books for this year's bookmatch. Take the quiz already
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6 months ago
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n+1
8 months ago
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yesâand every student gets a personal chatbot.
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
8 months ago
âThe retired general [said] more than 10% of Gazaâs 2.2 million population had been killed or injured â âmore than 200,000 peopleâ. That estimate isâŠclose to the current figures provided by Gazaâs health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda.â
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âWe took the gloves offâ: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ânot onceâ had legal advice constrained Israelâs military decisions in the strip
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/12/israeli-ex-commander-confirms-palestinian-casualties-are-more-than-200000?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Columbia Journalism Review
8 months ago
For the past year, journalists at CBS News have been up against extraordinary pressure. The network reached a tipping point. Read the report by Adam Piore.
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A Tipping Point at CBS News
âWho would have thought this is the piece that would get me fired?â Bill Owens, the former executive producer of 60 Minutes, said in the screening room. For the past year, CBS journalists have been up...
https://www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-news-redstone-ellison-60-minutes-trump-israel-gaza-tipping-point.php
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â'What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning â that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?' Hsu asks. But what if we donât?"
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/
8 months ago
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Sean Burns
8 months ago
This is the most entertaining thing Iâve read in some time, and extremely insightful about the coroprate bland-ification of American life.
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Lisa Borst and I spoke to
@hamrahrama.bsky.social
about the new Cracker Barrel logo
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The Haunting of Cracker Barrel | A. S. Hamrah, Will Tavlin, Lisa Borst
Semiotically, it's detached from all these kinds of things that it was originally designed for. But this kind of sign was always part of the corporate blandification of the American travel experience....
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-haunting-of-cracker-barrel/
8 months ago
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Manohla Dargis
8 months ago
As long as weâre on the subject of Netflix and movies (however reluctantly!) I recommend this piece by @tavlin.bsku.social about why so many Netflix movies suck:
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/
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Marie Phillips
10 months ago
Fascinating and depressing article on why almost everything on Netflix is shit
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I went to Il Cinema Ritrovato for
@airmail.news
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The Cannes Film Festival of Old Movies
How Il Cinema Ritrovato became an international destination for film fanatics.
https://airmail.news/issues/2025-7-12/cinephilia-italian-style
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southpaw
10 months ago
a political consultancy that does what now?
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If you're near a landlord, go put your hand in his pocket for no reason
10 months ago
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The Daily Beans Podcast
11 months ago
He was detained outside church. âHe was in chains at his feet,â Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. âShoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didnât have his ring, he didnât have his watch. Everything was taken from him.â
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Iceâs âinhumaneâ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry
Friends and family of Moises Sotelo âdisappointed and disgustedâ after respected fixture detained outside church
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/oregon-vineyard-manager-arrest-ice
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Andrew Quemere
11 months ago
A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in
#Lynn
, Mass then took him to a detention facilityâbut first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him.
#mapoli
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Worker arrested by ICE in Lynn, later released, says agents beat him in cemetery
A Massachusetts man said he told immigration agents multiple times that he's a legal resident and that he was brought to a cemetery where they assaulted him.
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/worker-arrested-by-ice-in-lynn-released-a-day-later-says-he-was-beaten-in-custody/3733701/
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n+1
12 months ago
n+1âs 50th issue is out today! Feat.
@hzeavin.bsky.social
, Andrew Liu,
@hamrahrama.bsky.social
,
@richardbeck.bsky.social
, Iman Mersal,
@cgvanderburg.bsky.social
, Gemma Sack,
@sarahlovescali.bsky.social
, E. Tammy Kim, Lisa Borst, Gillian Linden, and Maureen McLane.
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Issue 50
Content filed under the Issue 50 taxonomy.
https://www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/issue-50/
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Rachael King
12 months ago
This was just posted by
@tbretc.bsky.social
on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a âsummer readsâ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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Mehdi Hasan
12 months ago
âFetterman went on to make statements that shocked people. In opposing a cease-fire, he said, âLetâs get back to killing.â A person who heard the conversation told me, âHe said, âKill them all.âââ
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John Fettermanâs Struggle
The senator insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/john-fetterman-struggle-mental-health-clinical-depression.html
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Iâll be speaking about Netflix and Casual Viewing at Stanford shortly. Zoom link here:
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Four L.A.S.E.R. talks: Cell-Free Protein Synthesis, Islamic Architecture, Art in an Algorithmic World, Casual Viewing
https://events.stanford.edu/event/four-laser-talks-cell-free-protein-synthesis-islamic-architectureart-in-an-algorithmic-world-casual-viewing-3501
about 1 year ago
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Akela Lacy
about 1 year ago
SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him.
theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
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Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview â Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/
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The thing about "it's so important to read people who interview people who work at these companies" is the giveaway. The idea that only people who work inside a company can understand it is how journalists become stenographers
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Joshua J. Friedman
about 1 year ago
What a grim paragraph
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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Patrick Chovanec
about 1 year ago
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs.
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Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/04/07/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone/82978891007/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR5PB0ZE0liz72Rb75NG2TSLPWD7bUIm5EZj2xEQ_ctVpjjZKRN0IrUHvzktRw_aem_PyRm1Ws6at0K1h4SOQ1FXQ#iidn78bbi1e7bccbwqbesxh1mmu5wba2
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Prem Thakker ă
about 1 year ago
NEWâDHS claims, without citing proof, Rumeysa Ozturk "engaged in activities in support of Hamas." Among "activity" Ozturk engaged in was co-writing an op-ed urging Tufts to heed student resolutions to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel.
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Brandy Jensen
about 1 year ago
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What's up with Variety doing Wikipedia hagiography for Netflix lately? This reads like an excerpt for a nonexistent boosterish Netflix memoir, several of which already exist
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Netflixâs Origin Story: How the Streamer Killed Blockbuster Video, Snagged âHouse of Cardsâ From HBO and Changed Hollywood Forever
Ted Sarandos, Reed Hastings and other Netflix execs explain battles with Blockbuster and HBO, winning 'House of Cards' and streaming domination.
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/netflix-history-killed-blockbuster-dominated-hollywood-1236342853/
about 1 year ago
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Generally not a great sign when Dan McCrum starts looking at a small discrepancy in your company's balance sheet
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$1.4bn is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for Tesla
When money spent on assets doesnât result in assets
https://www.ft.com/content/62df8d8d-31f2-445e-bfa2-c171ac43db6e
about 1 year ago
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Josh Gerstein
about 1 year ago
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney
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Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-deportation-georgetown-graduate-student-00239754
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Paul Cohen
about 1 year ago
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Laura Bassett
about 1 year ago
From a source: âJust had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. Sheâs a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.â
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Tapping the sign
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about 1 year ago
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Prem Thakker ă
about 1 year ago
SCOOPâEmails obtained by
@zeteo.com
show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
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SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
"I havenât been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."
https://zeteo.com/p/scoop-emails-show-mahmoud-khalil-ask-columbia-protection-ice
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n+1
about 1 year ago
âWorking conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.â New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
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Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/memos-of-blood-and-fire/
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Joel S.
about 1 year ago
Steve Bannon: "The people of Israel got to understand something. The number one enemy to the people in Israel are American Jews that do not support Israel and do not support MAGA. Okay, MAGA and the evangelical Christians and the traditional Catholics in this country have Israel's back..."
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Prem Thakker ă
about 1 year ago
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confusedâthen said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-dhs-detains-palestinian
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Screen Slate
about 1 year ago
Are there tariffs on buying movie rights? Like does it cost 25% more to distribute Atom Egoyan movies now?
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Prem Thakker ă
about 1 year ago
Unbelievable headline
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There's too many quotes and paragraphs to highlight in Hamrah's Oscar column this year. An all-timer
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Oil Paintings at the Dentistâs Office | A. S. Hamrah
I can only take so much messiah talk in science fiction, especially when itâs coming from Javier Bardem and TimothĂ©e Chalamet, both of whom I generally like, but here all I could think about was that ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/oil-paintings-at-the-dentists-office/
about 1 year ago
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