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I have changed my avatar to an 1882 portrait of Ukrainian artist Marie Bashkirtseff, who travelled to Paris and became known for her wonderful portraits of women and feminist writing under the name Pauline Orell. ❤️🇺🇦 Below is her "Atelier de mujeres" (women's workshop)

Absolutely outrageous for Panasonic to announce an updated version of a product only days after I buy it. (It is a AA/AAA charger for their Eneloop brand of rechargeable batteries, with a USB-C port finally replacing the ancient micro-USB port of the current models.) panasonic.jp/battery/prod...

From the Ubisoft school of "our stories aren't political even when there could be no less credible claim about them." deadline.com/2026/10/visi...

You can watch events in real time and still be completely mislead. France has become a playground for American and Russian propaganda apparatuses.

I am old enough to remember when the Jason Borne films were the cool young person’s Bond and those guys are already 55 and 56. And who can take Bond seriously when the UK has been embarrassed by Russian espionage for 15 years and stands feckless in the face of Russian attacks across Europe.

I am old enough to remember when the Jason Borne films were the cool young person’s Bond and those guys are already 55 and 56. And who can take Bond seriously when the UK has been embarrassed by Russian espionage for 15 years and stands feckless in the face of Russian attacks across Europe.

image: union busting shame of France and game developer Ubisoft subtly integrate anti-protest and anti-revolutionary propaganda into their 2015 Assassin’s Creed title "Syndicate". (do not vex. the point is the destruction of property not any support for indiscriminate violence against people.)

I was looking for discussion of a book I am reading (Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I) and came across this gem.

Most of my Google opinions are rooted in pre-AI times but I agree with every word of this thread, and everything implied throughout. (I was working on WebKit when Google pivoted to openly malevolent force by forking the codebase to leverage Chrome for maximum control over the formerly open web.)

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This quirk of English I picked up from years of talking to American Orthodox Jews just got my 12-year-old account banned on another site because the automated dumbshit moderation bots read it as me saying I am currently 17-years-old. The future is here and it is awful. www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/com...

for Cristoffa was a man of his time; so were they all, men of their time.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia for Tax Purposes

I feel a little winded every time I come across someone speaking of the 90s, the 1990s, as the distant past.

A goose laugh is a single syllable cackle.

The perverse irony is that the US was a source influential writing opposing the barbarism of the firing squad. I can't help but think of eyewitness accounts of the 1879 botched execution of Wallace Wilkerson, who lay writhing and screaming for 27 minutes after being shot merely near the heart.

begun, the new culture war has

is a brah left unshaka'd even a brah at all

I would be interested to hear anyone’s thoughts on “the algorithm” serving me two types of content about HBO’s #Lanterns: - women being emotionally invested in every character beat and subtext, including fully crying - men raging over the show disrespecting the characters, primarily Hal Jordan.

Current mood: • down in a hole • try to forget this year’s troubles • darling, we simple MUST unite the rival dance crews to fight for justice

The pope is in France, a genuinely important visit, and I have about .001% the enthusiasm compared to when he was in Lebanon.

I am upset and worried about what comes next for Lebanon as conflict in Iran draws all eyes away from fresh Israeli strikes and continued Hezbollah defiance and belligerence. I will cope with this by posting articles about Lebanon. Que le Liban retrouve sa splendeur d'antan. لبنان رح يرجع

I was asked about this at work today and I didn’t care for it.

my face when the subtitles ignore anything but English and say something like "speaks French"

But they were deceived for there is another Steve Rogers and he will return in Avengers: Doomsday

A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

I have to admit, it isn’t immediately obvious to me how ice cream becomes contaminated with small stones and other hard objects.

Somewhat difficult to not think of this. "Knowledge of the city faded until 1963, when it was rediscovered after a resident of the area, while renovating his home, knocked through a basement wall and found a mysterious room behind it.", en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinku...

All the OSS 117 films with Jean Dujardin

Dead Net's goin' live tomorrow, y'all. Why don't we do a giveaway to help spread the word? Follow us, repost this post, help us get the word out, and I'll put your name in the hat for a copy of Dead Belt (Dead Net's older brother).

Sorry, I just can’t reconcile 25 years of these displays of American sorrow over a single tragedy with the hundreds of thousands of foreign deaths that flowed from that wound as sacrifices to American vengeance and ambition. I feel utterly insane watching this play out year after year.

I guess had forgotten that there is a certain type of woman who will react to you saying you used to do fencing by looking you up and down with a mischievous smile, as though you just said the most alluring thing possible. Because I simply wasn’t prepared.

On paper, Vibes (1988) is amazing. A romantic comedy starring Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Julian Sands, and Peter Falk? Already sold. With Falk as an excentric trying to hire psychics to find the Treasure of the Llanganatis? Ridiculous. Love it. Sadly the execution is neither romantic or comedic.

It is correct to (mis)pronounce mischievous with four syllables because it is objectively the more mischievous pronunciation.

Are you listening to the new Elanor Moss album? If you love achingly beautiful music from softhearted British medievalists, this is destined to be your autumnal jam.

a dissent most her-etical

I didn’t realise Britt Baker had it in her to stride the ring with so much tomboy beanpole swagger. jesus christ. 🥵 #AEWAllIn

I should probably make more of a conscious effort to get back to who I supposedly am, rather than continuing to carry on as this loose collection of memories haunting my own body.

never has there been a tale of more woe than that of my foot and this god damn table upon which I have once more stubbed my god damn toe

I have had Blink sitting unwatched for a full nine years and finally watched it. If Madeleine Stowe as a blind Celtic violinist struggling through "retroactive hallucinations" to help catch a serial killer of women sounds interesting, you will like me be wrong and disappointed.

Land and Freedom ends with her quoting a poem about the multi-generational fight for freedom, pouring over his coffin the Spanish soil her grandfather kept for decades, and joining his surviving friends in a raised fist salute. Did I see this as a child and cry so hard I couldn't breathe? MAYBE

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