Phil
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Great all banger TCM lineup today. The Set-Up is currently on, then it’s Touch of Evil, Scarecrow, Dog Day Afternoon, and High and Low
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Great all banger TCM lineup today. The Set-Up is currently on, then it’s Touch of Evil, Scarecrow, Dog Day Afternoon, and High and Low
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
Read After Claude by Iris Owens today. Impressively nasty if subsequently hard to recommend 70s NY black comedy. It’s a book with an abrasive narrator delivering slur-heavy, self-pitying accounts of being horribly unpleasant to know, with an ending that manages to still seem really harsh for her
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Read After Claude by Iris Owens today. Impressively nasty if subsequently hard to recommend 70s NY black comedy. It’s a book with an abrasive narrator delivering slur-heavy, self-pitying accounts of being horribly unpleasant to know, with an ending that manages to still seem really harsh for her
Have on Once Upon a Time in China while handing out candy, please appreciate this platonic ideal of “British guy in a Hong Kong movie” delivery
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Have on Once Upon a Time in China while handing out candy, please appreciate this platonic ideal of “British guy in a Hong Kong movie” delivery
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photo and caption, cd-rom today, magazine (1995) archive.org/details/CDRO...
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
photo and caption, cd-rom today, magazine (1995) archive.org/details/CDRO...
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official space ghost coast to coast website circa 2000
October 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
official space ghost coast to coast website circa 2000
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Washington Post report details deal that I and other El Salvador watchers have been talking about for years: Bukele made a pact with MS-13, DOJ has known about it, and now Rubio’s State Dept is helping him cover it up by handing over gang leaders in US custody to Bukele to be silenced.
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Washington Post report details deal that I and other El Salvador watchers have been talking about for years: Bukele made a pact with MS-13, DOJ has known about it, and now Rubio’s State Dept is helping him cover it up by handing over gang leaders in US custody to Bukele to be silenced.
Was thinking about how intelligence/military use of AI and similar tech is very hard to gauge actual effectiveness of, because being identified by AI will be taken as proof that you were the person being looked for, true or not, and realized this is just the inciting incident of Brazil
October 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Was thinking about how intelligence/military use of AI and similar tech is very hard to gauge actual effectiveness of, because being identified by AI will be taken as proof that you were the person being looked for, true or not, and realized this is just the inciting incident of Brazil
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Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now
what even happened on the other site this time
October 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now
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IDK the red triangle, but quite the framing here. “Hamas pogrom” as if Hamas has sought out the Jews as an enemy, rather than the Jewish ethnostate brutalizing Palestinians under a flag with our religious symbol on it that has given rise to Hamas. You can condemn the killing without this shit
Inverted red triangle emojis are pretty much an instablock at this point. Overt celebration of Hamas' pogrom that started this war.
Did you miss the reply where she agrees with the suggestion that they return in body bags
October 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
IDK the red triangle, but quite the framing here. “Hamas pogrom” as if Hamas has sought out the Jews as an enemy, rather than the Jewish ethnostate brutalizing Palestinians under a flag with our religious symbol on it that has given rise to Hamas. You can condemn the killing without this shit
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This is the aesthetic of the future
October 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This is the aesthetic of the future
Funny to pick 2002, because having been 10 then, I don’t remember it being quite so carefree what with 9/11 the year before and the run-up to a war, the sort of things that even a kid has a hard time ignoring
This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.
September 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Funny to pick 2002, because having been 10 then, I don’t remember it being quite so carefree what with 9/11 the year before and the run-up to a war, the sort of things that even a kid has a hard time ignoring
Great Robert Ryan anecdote from a Richard Brooks interview collected in Backstory 2
September 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great Robert Ryan anecdote from a Richard Brooks interview collected in Backstory 2
IIRC this was part of Richard Seymour’s argument in the recent Disaster Nationalism
I keep telling people, the best model is probably Modi instead of totalitarian governance
of course it was Carr, this is just straight-up Modi-style coercion bsky.app/profile/theb...
September 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
IIRC this was part of Richard Seymour’s argument in the recent Disaster Nationalism
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Hommage à Eric von Stroheim - 1949 #artbots #magritte
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112187
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112187
September 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hommage à Eric von Stroheim - 1949 #artbots #magritte
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112187
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112187
From the speech by an American fascist dictator that closes Nathanael West’s A Cool Million, commemorating a “martyred” American boy, the unfortunate main character Lem Pitkin
September 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
From the speech by an American fascist dictator that closes Nathanael West’s A Cool Million, commemorating a “martyred” American boy, the unfortunate main character Lem Pitkin
Great movie, and the Arrow Academy disk is highly recommended for supplements and commentary that are a lot of help for a dense, nightmarish, foreign, period-piece satire. Unfortunately I think the booklet, which also had some more helpful background, was limited edition only
A lot of chatter lately about The Death of Stalin, but have people seen the bleak and brutal Russian film "Khrustalyov, My Car!"?
Set in Moscow on the eve of Stalin's death, amidst the Doctors' plot purges, the film is chaotic, violent and sometimes scathingly funny. Recommended.
Set in Moscow on the eve of Stalin's death, amidst the Doctors' plot purges, the film is chaotic, violent and sometimes scathingly funny. Recommended.
September 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Great movie, and the Arrow Academy disk is highly recommended for supplements and commentary that are a lot of help for a dense, nightmarish, foreign, period-piece satire. Unfortunately I think the booklet, which also had some more helpful background, was limited edition only
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[Giuliani's final breath] Tell my family I loved...9/11
September 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
[Giuliani's final breath] Tell my family I loved...9/11
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film flubs: in the movie spartacus (1960), several different characters identify themselves as spartacus. this scene was mistakenly left in the final cut of the film
September 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
film flubs: in the movie spartacus (1960), several different characters identify themselves as spartacus. this scene was mistakenly left in the final cut of the film
Found a good way to improve my mood: jumping rope while watching a Sammo Hung movie (Pedicab Driver, currently on the Criterion Channel). You can just get up every so often and jump some rope and get some intense cardio in
August 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Found a good way to improve my mood: jumping rope while watching a Sammo Hung movie (Pedicab Driver, currently on the Criterion Channel). You can just get up every so often and jump some rope and get some intense cardio in
Finally satisfied a quarter century of curiosity and watched The Beach (2000). Not good
July 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Finally satisfied a quarter century of curiosity and watched The Beach (2000). Not good
They take a number of books to get good, and there are various sub-series around recurring characters within the over-arching Discworld universe that may be more or less to your taste (the city watch books focusing on Sam Vimes were my favorite). Recommend jumping around, don’t worry about order
didn't like the first discworld novel but thought there was enough weirdly interesting stuff to read the second. 40 pages into the second and i'm done.
writing style is "what if the worst reply riff guys formed a voltron"
writing style is "what if the worst reply riff guys formed a voltron"
July 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
They take a number of books to get good, and there are various sub-series around recurring characters within the over-arching Discworld universe that may be more or less to your taste (the city watch books focusing on Sam Vimes were my favorite). Recommend jumping around, don’t worry about order