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In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

Between this and the news of the killing of Nurul Shah Alam, just an unbearable amount of cruelty in America today against some of our most vulnerable people. I know we will defeat them in the end, but I’m at a loss right now.

Carry The Zero by Built To Spill remains a perfect song. That outro >>>>>>

I don’t watch the SOTU when it’s a president I voted for, but now? With him? Respect yourself enough to find literally anything else to do. It’s not like we won’t hear about it all anyways. Here, did you know Tubi has a like MST3K live channel? Go nuts

I predict the USMNT is gonna do a speed run this summer of US men’s hockey’s squandering of excitement and goodwill. Trump and co. will be all over the World Cup games and no one on the team is gonna stand up to the them. It’s gonna feel real gross.

Messi in MLS is so weird. He’s the GOAT, but since he does zero press the only time we hear from him off field is when he’s complaining. Whining is a bad look from your superstar on the superteam. So he gets very little goodwill from other fans. Contrast to Son, who everyone likes.

Some start of season #Crew96 thoughts: Feeling more optimistic than I expected after losing Nancy/Nagbe, interested to see what the midfield looks like. Make or break year for Taha, hope he gets at least 1200 minutes How will wingbacks get used, especially after we sell Max post WC?

I think, conservatively, I’ve seen about 6% of all cybertrucks sold. Just the price you have to pay living for in Southern California.

The dream of early 00s Brooklyn guitar bands lives on. Just heard the new single by Brigitte Calls Me Baby on @thesocalsound.bsky.social and it is scratching an itch for me.

Can’t blame Trump for his reaction today. Since he came down that escalator in 2015 every single major institution has bent to his will. Even his impeachments and felony convictions didn’t cost him anything. The media, Congress, they all bend for him. And now a consequence? You’d be frustrated too!

Dramatic clouds tonight

So cool to see one of these kids actually having fun while competing, hope she shows a bunch more kids that there’s another way.

Do you think the skeleton athletes bully the lugers? Cause it has to be tempting for them.

Valentines’s Day date at the Egyptian Theatre, William Wyler’s The Good Fairy, on nitrate!

These Swedish cross country skiers are terrifying, Terminator like in the way they keep attacking the course.

“Like Michael Jordan and most big screen adaptations of Emily Brontë’s sole novel, Fennell says, “Fuck them kids.” This version only focuses on the first half of the novel, jettisoning the part about the next generation and how the cruelty and misery just keeps on going…” Love it

I just went and saw the "unredacted" Epstein files. Hundreds of pages still redacted and I was told that's how the FBI sent them over.

Ilia Malinin is the Erling Haaland of figure skating - a thought that just popped into my head.

My @supportersupply.co anti-ICE shirt just arrived and looks great. A bit different from the usual stuff I buy Trish for Valentine’s but she’s been wanting something to wear to protests. I got Dodgers colors but they have a ton of color combos. I like my country like I like my whiskey, neat, no ice

This is a huge loss for MLS. I have no idea what they’re trying to do anymore. They’re killing their website, hardly producing any coverage at Apple, they’re moving backwards at the worst possible time. However the idea of a unleashed Doyle is pretty intriguing.

This is wild. Picturing a Ritchie Tenenbaum situation while he was competing - “There’s clearly something wrong with him. He appears to have taken off one of his skis” (camera zooms in on his face as he aims the rifle) “Tex, is he crying?”

The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life

These ads are grim as hell, real depressing for America

Always love when the NBC announcers seem genuinely bemused that athletes from other countries aren’t just handing the medals to the Americans. It’s almost as if they have their own motives, weird.

ME: I need a molded plywood splint to reduce injuries suffered by wounded servicemembers in transit CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this

Watching the luge and I can’t imagine going that fast down the ice, terrifying. But! I don’t like at the beginning when they’re scooting along on their fingertips. It’s undignified.

To paraphrase Faulkner - “For every Democratic politician eighty years old, not once but whenever they want it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet twelve o’clock on that November afternoon in 1963” The Kennedy “brand” is dead and tied to the top of RFK’s suv. It ain’t coming back.

Watching the Olympic opening ceremonies and enjoying this tribute to Italian culture, but a concerning lack of Monica Bellucci so far.

One of the most consistent through lines with Trump is that the buck stops far, far, far away from him. He doesn’t know where it stops, but it’s far below him. He then bends the universe to try to make it true

Scooby-Doo strikes again! Whenever a brand is closing or going bankrupt you almost always can find that PE made a major investment in the last few years.

I like when a place knows what it is, there’s no airs of pretension when your sign just says MOTEL. You know you’re not fooling anyone including yourself.

When republicans say “thoughts and prayers” they mean it. That’s all you’re getting from them.

This is a remarkable moment of tv. Ian McKellon recites Shakespeare’s The Stranger’s Case. Skip to 20 minutes in youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

D'you ever get a stupid idea in your head and then you can't do anything else until you get it out? 🎣

Moonrise over Pie Pan, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, by John Pfahl American, 1939-2020 October 1977, printed c. 1981 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/149244

MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it

Deadly Friend (1986) is a bizarre mess of a Wes Craven movie. Obvious reshoots, dramatic tonal changes, it’s got something for everyone. But as far as 80s killer robot movies go, it’s no Chopping Mall.

The Westminster Dog Show just had a tribute to Catherine O’Hara, “She once sang ‘God Loves a Terrier,’ but the world loved Catherine O’Hara.” That’s a good line.

Do we think Apple and MLS have discussed trying to have their own version of Heated Rivalry? “We’d love to have the popularity but can we cut down on the sex and controversy?” Now a NWSL one might melt the internet.

Digging through a storage bin and just happened to find one of my old iPods, still works! Considering giving up all post 2007 tech, cause this was the pinnacle.

I can fix her

Having performers who can actually sing and play instruments at the Grammys, what a concept! Congrats to whoever got Lauryn Hill there on time.

Chotiner - “Would you like some more rope?” Interviewee - “Absolutely” Chotiner - “More?” Interviewee - “Please” Chotiner - “Just say when” Interviewee - “Keep going”

I’m beginning to think that despite what a bunch of people keep claiming, Joe Biden’s mental acuity in the spring of 2024 is not top of mind for most voters. Huh

My feed is practically swimming in Melania reviews this morning. All well written and thoughtful and negative. But I think we’d be better off ignoring it, don’t treat it like a real movie worthy of criticism since it isn’t. Besides, half the people seeing it must have been reviewers.

Incredible, but also reminds me of this Covid era tweet: