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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2h

Remember this when you see photos of goons aiming, say, pepper-ball guns in anyone’s face. Linda was shot by “non-lethal”ordinance *five and a half years* ago.

Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 3h

It is worth noting that when the state has enacted violence on you, that then means you contend with the aftermath forever. One does not simply regrow a cornea or undamage the soft tissue of a brain.

The trauma, like all experiences do, fades. But it returns over and over wrapped in blazing pain.

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 4h

Thursday Picture.
Girls in the Windows, 1960, by Ormond Gigli. Hearing the brownstones opposite his East 58th Street studio were to be demolished, he swung into action to secure permissions, models and even the Rolls Royce. The photograph was taken during a lunch break the day before demolition.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 17h

@decervelage.bsky.social ICYMI

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 17h

“Let me try to articulate” no, thanks

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 17h

This morning, a seasonally cool day with cloudy gray skies and occasional showers punctuated by the early signs of foliage season, I got out of the pool at the gym where I swim and thought, “when it’s snowing, this is gonna be just like LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.”

Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 18h

See the original LET THE RIGHT ONE IN presented in 35MM at the Music Box!

Next Monday October 20th at 9:30pm
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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

I wish this were the main argument about why it’s obscene to appropriate Marilyn Monroe, who *as an artist* so carefully curated her on- and off-screen image, instead of rehashing a cultural fixation on her exploitation.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Every one of these "If only it were possible to..." plugs for AI is animated by an incredibly deep resentment of either talent or authorship.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

As a kid, the “Flying Ace behind enemy lines” sequence of the Great Pumpkin special actually freaked me out…I was deeply affected by the tension and stress even though I had no idea why…I don’t think I could have handled Zombie Frankenstein Snoopy

weloveallthat @weloveallthat.bsky.social · Dec 15

This must be a contender for the greatest "throwaway panel" in Peanuts history tho

Tall zombie Frankensnoopy in a graveyard

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

Also: would not memory-hole Aeschylus for posterity, sorry Soc

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

Bravo, Guy 👏

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 1d

Home to Hinky-Dink Kenna’s Workingman’s Exchange. One of the most important saloons in Chicago history.

gabriel x. michael 👻 @g-x-m.bsky.social · 1d

A transient block survives from old Chicago: light-up pawn shop, liquor store, men-only hotel signs and “La Cocina” with a pagoda — likely the last extant remnant of the city’s old Chinatown here on Clark Street

gabriel x. michael 👻 @g-x-m.bsky.social · 1d

400 South Clark Street

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

This is astonishing

gabriel x. michael 👻 @g-x-m.bsky.social · 1d

A transient block survives from old Chicago: light-up pawn shop, liquor store, men-only hotel signs and “La Cocina” with a pagoda — likely the last extant remnant of the city’s old Chinatown here on Clark Street

gabriel x. michael 👻 @g-x-m.bsky.social · 1d

400 South Clark Street

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

Oh damn, I was late to this. Typical.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

Socrates thought that writing would ruin everyone’s memory, but Plato sure showed him!

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

Jack Kirby: "I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness."

MARK: So the capacity for great good and evil is inherent in everyone?
JACK: Of course. I was dating my wife at the time Hitler was coming on, and I did this editorial cartoon which showed Neville Chamberlain patting a boa con-strictor, and the boa had a bulge called Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain had just given Czechoslovakia to Hitler, okay.
And the boa had Hitler's mustache. I showed it to my boss at the syndicate and he says, "How dare a 19-year-old like you do a cartoon like that? What do you know?" I says "Well, I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness." And Hitler wanted more and more until there was a face-off.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

LOL “Live Free or Die” New Hampshire, the Florida of New England

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Which is, of course, why ICE is trying to deputize local police to do their work for them: the notorious 287(g) agreements.

But if you have a good sense of what US pop density looks like, you'll see that outside of FL, LOTS of ppl live in green (terminated) or blank (never had a deal) areas.

Map of 287g agreements. Red and orange are hard to tell apart, and not a fan of circle size to distinguish things here, but it gets the point across. Source: https://www.ilrc.org/practitioners/national-map-287g-agreements

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a fantastic story I never tire of re-reading.

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 2d

It’s Roger Moore’s birthday
Here’s a classic anecdote about the great man to cheer you up on a damp Tuesday.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

It would be cool if they would go through the motions of impeachment

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

Chuck cheesing a hideously undercooked burger is 😙👌

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

What. A. Dress. Sweet Lord

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, that’s THE IRON ROSE

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

If @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social ever went under, the citizens of Chicago would totally do something like this

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 4d

Goddammit, Clint

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 4d

This is Barbara Bach erasure

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 4d

Alphabetically improbable!

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 4d

This scene gave my wife the courage to become a singer

Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 4d

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

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