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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself
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A black and white photo of Pavlov's House in Stalingrad
November 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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A still from Disney's Robin Hood (1973). A fox in a green tunic leans against a tree and blows on his nails. He's wearing a yellow bycocket with a large red feather. There is an arrow through it.
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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"What one man can do, another can do! Say it!!"
Movie poster of The Edge (1997). Poster features Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin looking grizzled. At the bottom, they're fighting a bear
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Maybe a three-term Mamdani could fix it
Screenshot of the BQE renovation timeline showing construction stretching into 2032
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I really like this style of subway signage and I'll be bummed when they destroy this. Managed to get the 4 train blowing by in reflection
A photo of a tiled sign in a Subway Station that reads Borough Hall.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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The Mastermind is gorgeous with really solid performances but, whew, perfectly recreates the tedium of male ennui which makes for a tedious film

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: The Mastermind (2025), One Battle After Another (2025), The Boxer from Shantung (1972), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
October 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I had a chance recently to see some photographs by the French artist François Aubert, who went to Mexico to photograph Maximillian's court. Embarrassed to admit that I was like, "man, utopia deferred would hoot and holler here"
The Scene of the Execution of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, black and white albumen silver photograph by French artist François Aubert The photograph is the exterior of a stone block building on a narrow street, the sky is cloudy and there are men standing in the distance. The Shirt of the Emperor, Worn during His Execution by François Aubert. A black and white photo of a white shirt full of bullet holes and stained with blood
October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Would also accept
Domenico Modugno in a blue tuxedo singing so hard his soul has left his body Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita (1960), wearing a cream suit and looking finnnnnne
October 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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...how is this combination of words rude?
Screenshot of the above post with the rude label
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Forgot the camera work, the physicality in this movie is fantastic. Sean Penn's bowleggedness, Benicio del Toro's is a fluid solid, Leo's clowning, Teyana Taylor moves like a downed powerline. Really good time at da movies

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: One Battle After Another (2025), The Boxer from Shantung (1972), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978), Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2024)
October 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I just take a big gulp of---what do you mean we're out of coffee?
Screenshot of coffee futures at $377
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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I wasn't really connecting with The Boxer from Shantung but then those last 20 minutes are electric—reversed my opinion on the movie

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: The Boxer from Shantung (1972), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978), Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2024), Weapons (2025)
September 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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I used to think I was a rookie poster but now I know I'm trying to play tee-ball in the major league
Screenshot of Reconstructionist (@unavaleable.bsky.social) showing they made 1,124 in the last week
September 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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I know it's part of the joke here but song and performance is a hugely underrated tactic in modern organizing in the US. When you do see it, well, "there [are] no marshals, and no one [to lead] freedom songs".

Or in the words of Lisa Simpson: youtu.be/vt5X8zrHiSM?...
modern armed forces seem to have lost this tradition, probably to their detriment. The songs of the Movement had powerful positive effects on participants. Belting them out with one's fellows "made you bigger," recalled the Freedom Summer volunteer Pam Parker. "It made you large enough that the fear was there but you were no longer your fear, and you were something bigger and you were doing it with others. That sense of collectivity that we weren't doing it just as individuals, we were doing as part of this thing that we called the Movement." Songs even could educate participants in strategy, as with the admonition in "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"—that is, focus on the strategic goal, not on the lesser issues. They also could be altered to fit the circumstance. Bernard LaFayette recalled singing the following verse: I don't know the song but I know the note They're marching in Selma for the right to vote Hold on, hold on, Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on Vocalizing also was a reliable way of maintaining cohesion, keeping the pace in a march, and boosting morale while in difficult situations, such as being in jail. Once, when Andrew Young went to check on a civil rights march in southeastern Georgia, he would be immediately concerned that "there were no marshals, and no one led freedom songs—a clear sign of poor training."
September 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Human civilization is built on cabbage. Would love to know what this Pompeii cabbage was:
From: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02858317 Food Plants known only from Graffiti and Electoral Notices 33. Allium porrum L., Leek; Italian porro — The leek (porrum) occurs twice in a long graffito which lists the items in a bill on the wall of an inn at Pompeii. 34. Beta vulgaris L., Beet; Italian bietola, bieta — The beet (beta) appears in two graffiti at Pompeii recording the purchase or sale of various vegetables; also found in one other graffito at Pompeii. 35. Brassica oleracea L., Cabbage; Italian cavalo — Two graffiti found at Pompeii mention cabbage (colicicum = cauliculus). Cabbage (Brassica) appears in another graffito. 36. Lupinus albus L., Lupin; Italian lupino — In an election notice at Pompeii a lupinarius, or dealer in lupins, supports a candidate. (For references to 33-36 above, see under these plants in the volume The Natural History of Pompeii and the other Vesuvian Sites, in prep.)
September 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Maybe Mamdani can channel Wagner here with Operation Shoehorn II. "1,600 more young people—550 here at Hunter—who will be able to play a vastly more useful role in their community, in society, and in their families. Individual lives will be enriched. The City will be enriched."
Today Hunter is one of the nation's largest coeducational colleges. It is not only one of the largest but also one of the finest. We are proud of it. Hunter is today—and always was—a school with a primary emphasis on scholarship. That tradition continues to be maintained, with a special feature, I am told, which is the personal attention faculty members devote to individual students. Those traditions were the hallmark of President Shuster's administration. They have been carried on by President Meng. Hunter College, like the other colleges of the City University, exists for the students, and not vice versa. This is as it should be. Yet Hunter College also has a record of efficiency and precision. Last year we started Operation Shoehorn, whose purpose was to make room for more students than had ever previously been enrolled—to stretch the facilities of the City University—to give opportunity to additional numbers of young New Yorkers to be schooled and to fulfill their potentials at our City colleges. At the request of the Board of Higher Education, I persuaded the Board of Estimate and the City Council to authorize the additional money required for Operation Shoehorn. In the first year, the target of Operation Shoehorn was 1,600 more freshmen. Of this total, the quota assigned to Hunter was 550. Under the direction of President Meng, Hunter College opened its doors a little wider and increased its admissions not by 548, or 549, or 551, but by exactly 550. An electric computer could not have done better. Operation Shoehorn is proving to be a success. Success, however, is not to be measured just by meeting a quota. Success is to be measured in terms of the opportunity given to 1,600 more young people—550 here at Hunter—who will be able to play a vastly more useful role in their community, in society, and in their families. Individual lives will be enriched. The City will be enriched. This is the motive and purpose behind our community college system in New Yo… This is the reason to cling to and defend our fundamental policy and program of free tuition in all the colleges of our City University. As long as I am Mayor, that policy will be maintained. Moreover, it is my belief that the resistance we have offered in the past to the threatened abolition of our free tuition system has greatly discouraged the attacks against it. There is even a good prospect that our efforts to restore the legislative mandate for free tuition to its traditional place on our statute books will be successful. You may be sure that I will do everything I can in behalf of such a move. Hunter College is one of our prime demonstrations that a free tuition system is compatible with—and even promotes—high standards of scholarship and academic excellence. I know that the City's confidence in Hunter College is fully shared by private donors. In the past, Hunter alumni have been staunch supporters of the college. Financial assistance to needy students, in addition to free tuition, has kept open the doors of opportunity to countless numbers who could not otherwise have had the benefit of a college education—not to speak of a Hunter College education. Now you are responding to an historic alumni cause: a development fund for Hunter's Centennial Anniversary. Today we learn of the good start made toward that goal. But there is a long way to go. Only last September it was my pleasure to announce the generous donation by the Silberman Foundation of the new building for the Hunter College School of Social Work. That gift will enable our City's only public institution of professional social work to triple the number of trained social workers it graduates. This was an outstanding act of generosity not only to the college, but to the community at large. Fortunately, there have been many individuals, as well as foundations, who have recognized the superlative qualities of Hunter. Certainly no one is in a better position to appreciate the lasting value of a Hunte…
September 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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As long as it includes a Forum and a theater, I think I could relax my opinions on grids
City Plan for the Roman city of Timgad, Algeria Map of the Archeological site of the Roman city of Timgad, Algeria
September 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Sanatorium was my first Quay Brothers film. The animation and shot 'magic' is incredible, left my head empty but my heart full. I don't know if I liked it but it's made me want to see more of their work starting with Street of Crocodiles.

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2024), Weapons (2025), Micky 17 (2025), Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025)
September 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The only map Yarvin has ever seen
An ink map of Middle Earth
September 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Retvr—oh wait, nevermind
Philadelphia Flyers logo since 1967
August 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Relatable
Leroux initially was going to be a lawyer, but after spending his inheritance gambling he became a reporter for L'Écho de Paris. At the paper, he wrote about and critiqued dramas, as well as being a courtroom reporter. With his job, he was able to travel frequently, but he returned to Paris where he became a writer. Because of his fascination with both Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he wrote a detective mystery entitled The Mystery of the Yellow Room in 1907, and four years later he published Le Fantôme de l'Opéra.[3] The novel was first published in newspapers before finally being published as a book.
August 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Liked Weapons! Don't understand the complaints that it's vague or unfocused. Speaking of unfocused, did not enjoy either Mickey 17 or Mission Impossible as much as I wanted to.

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: Weapons (2025), Micky 17 (2025), Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025), Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
August 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey unsurprisingly the best parts of Jurassic World Rebirth. Can we get Ali his own action-adventure franchise already? Something swashbuckly

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), Strictly Ballroom (1992), Jurassic World (2015), Predator Killer of Killers (2025)
August 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I mean...
Pubmed headline: Mood and cognitive performance improved by a small amount of alcohol given with a lunchtime meal
August 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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My first thought was Green Day but I'm giving it to Tarsem's The Cell—I mean, Peter Gabriel’s 'Us'
A man in a grey suit stands with arms spread wide against a red background. It's blurry with motion. There's a massive white tear in the shape of a woman to his left. The floor is made of tubes
August 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM