Mad Men. S6 E5: THE FLOOD.♥️

And I fucking hate the caveats especially "NO CRIMINAL RECORD." People who have criminal records ALSO deserve dignity. OK.

Revisited All that Heaven Allows and admittedly Im just in the bag for Sirk, for a multitude of reasons, not the leastof which is how much he values emotional ostentation as a logical result of offending and oppressive societal modifications on the soul... boxd.it/cbwkdX

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

bob's hamburgers sign, meade, kansas, 1993

“The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what ‘works,’ but art opens up what is possible.” Not the damn pope making me tear up.

We lost something as a culture when kids stopped doing weird as fuck Universal Monsters puzzles. #FilmSky #Halloween

Made me think of you for a few reasons @holywellstreet.bsky.social

The gods are taunting me @holywellstreet.bsky.social

This clip aged like fine wine.

Word on the street is that Cole's French Dip is closing next month... here's why Angelenos can't let it happen. esotouric.substack.com/coles

I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era. It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.

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Exactly, years of reactionary centrist hand-wringing have trained the population to see a textbook authoritarian crackdown as merely an overreaction to a legitimate threat. "Sure, foreign students are being disappeared. But weren't they rabid antisemites and aspiring totalitarians?"

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

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The campaign leadership that Vice President Harris inherited from Biden was not great! They shoved this guy in a box!

The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history. Archive is here: web.archive.org/web/20250304... Page was here: www.army.mil/asianpacific... Disgusting.

Your re-segregation of the day.

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

I hate these fascist motherfuckers with every cell in my body and with nearly equal timbre I hate the cowardice of the only people in a position to oppose them who treat it like they were playing crazy 8s over cocktails and watercress sandwiches

drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image

People don’t write songs about jazz vampires like they used to.

The quality of the reporting on this has been disappointing, to say the least, with only the most basic understanding of what the National Archives does. This is bigger than a little spat with a small agency. action.everylibrary.org/we_should_al...

For Black History Month and aviation history, this ebook about the pioneering Black aviator Bessie Coleman, 99 cents on Amazon. O'Hare Airport honors her with its address: Bessie Coleman Drive. #blackhistory amzn.to/40Fm33j

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

This is how federal electeds should be talking to the american people

The best newspaper ad in the history of movie marketing?

Interlibrary loan depends on Federal Funding from the IMLS. Trump proposed eliminating IMLS all 4 years of his previous administration. Our first opportunity to support IMLS for 2025 is RIGHT NOW. Sign the petition today! action.everylibrary.org/imls2025

Ruth St. Denis, a pioneer of modern dance, provided the choreography for Intolerance (1916), which featured dancers trained at her Denishawn school

From salvaging 1914 Orient Express archives for The Last Express to the fight for digital preservation, legendary game designer Jordan Mechner shares why safeguarding our cultural artifacts—like video games—is vital. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/21/v... 🕳️ #VanishingCulture @jmechner.bsky.social

A petition started by Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, co-presidents of the ad hoc group of film professionals Missing Movies, is calling on Academy leadership, including president Janet Yang and Kramer, to rehire the 16 employees who were “summarily fired.” www.thewrap.com/academy-film...