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Kim Novak as "Judy" in Vertigo, wearing a green knit top that's an affront to humanity.

Kim Novak as "Judy" in Vertigo, wearing a green knit top that's an affront to humanity.

The saddest film ever made.
"Judy, please, it can't matter to you."
A man desperately trying to resurrect a dead lover, piece by piece.

Not to mention that awful green knit thing "Judy" is wearing. That's a whole level of sadness on its own.

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Ballet Mécanique (1924, 2K Digitally Restored, With Score by George Antheil)
Ballet Mécanique (1924, 2K Digitally Restored, With Score by George Antheil) YouTube video by Journey To The Center Of The Cinema

#cinema #experimental #animation #Modernism #Surrealism #SilentFilm #SyncedMusic
1924
Musical score: #GeorgeAntheil
Directed: #FernandLéger #DudleyMurphy.
Starring: #KikiDeMontparnasse.

Critique: A little too long for what it is, or a little too fast for its length.

youtu.be/oMnZgykH1Bk?...

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barron and melania Trump

barron and melania Trump

#EpsteinClass #greed #corrupt #depraved #Trump

Thinking: The surprising downsides of #empathy: some of us actually felt sorry for #Melania and #Barron.

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Thinking: The mind of creature like this one! When Black kids are diagnosed with ADHD, it's just naturally the fault the parents... because, Black people. With White kids, it's the fault of vaccines... because, FEMA, chemtrails, big Pharma. Have I missed any parts of his cogent thesis?

#RFKJr #evil

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RFK Jr. just lied directly to Congress in his committee hearing
RFK Jr. just lied directly to Congress in his committee hearing YouTube video by Elizabeth Booker Houston

Thinking: This lying, lunatic, Epstein class creep... "re-parenting" ...
the charges:
crimes against children,
crimes against humanity,
lying to the People,
making false & fraudulent medical claims,
racial hate speech ...

#RFKJr #SheerEvil #DrMengele

youtube.com/shorts/fKzr5...

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Hypnosis
Hypnosis YouTube video by Humanfobia - Topic

Must share this track, too, from @humanfobia.bsky.social
an #experimental haunted house duo from Chile

#music #WitchHouse #DarkElectronic #screwgaze

This taps into a genuine aesthetic. The term that strikes me is "balanced". Every sound is exactly where it ought to be.

youtu.be/YBUbRoOMhDg?...

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Mulholland Vampiress
Mulholland Vampiress YouTube video by Humanfobia - Topic

Listening to: #music #WitchHouse #DarkElectronic #screwgaze #dragged by Bluesky's own @humanfobia.bsky.social
an #experimental haunted house duo from Chile.
Crazy number of places to get their stuff (see their bio).
I've had the track below on loop for hours. I'm obsessed.

youtu.be/NFLfYpxrC-E?...

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Or, perhaps even the #comics equivalent of being locked in the world's oldest comicbook store (which is what #Lambiek 's in #Amsterdam happens to be) over Christmas. Yes! The Old World charm of the "Comiclopedia" isn't an accident; it's the cunning plan of the Old World charmers who designed it.

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David Paleo David Paleo is a self-taught cartoonist and illustrator. He published his first strip when he was fourteen years old, then a decade and a half later he started publishing in the USA in magazines and a...

Considering #DavidPaleo ’s work is a great way to introduce 1 of the Net’s free, unsung treasure troves of data of the best kind: engrossing. It’s Lambiek’s "Comiclopedia". It's the #comics equivalent of being locked overnight in a wax museum. This is Paleo’s entry:

www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pa...

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sliver of an full page comic by David Paleo. I won't even try to describe it... ghouls, ghosts, zombies etc.

sliver of an full page comic by David Paleo. I won't even try to describe it... ghouls, ghosts, zombies etc.

R'ding graphic tales aka #comicbooks. B'low is just a sliver excised from a full page panel in #DavidPaleo 's 2007 "The Bums' Chapel", published in The Asylum of Horrors #3 (2013) This is just one of Paleo's compelling styles.
~I like it.
Digital edition available way cheap @ www.asylumpress.com .

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#SpokenWord #RadioGothic #FilmFootage @theprophetobblonge.bsky.social

Consuming this evening: "I did it. It was me" from The Prophet Obblonge's vital work in the important field of anthropologic journalism.

~I like it.

Some strong language.
Link goes to archive.org

archive.org/details/i-di...

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Blooming Rust, by Grid.Bloom 4 track album

#music #Glitch #IDM #FutureBass #Deconstructed #Experimental
Listening to
Artist:Grid.Bloom
EP:Blooming Rust (2025)
Label/Distributor:Webelotrax @webelotrax.bsky.social‬
Art:Chris Hoffmann Design

Track 1 went somewhere unexpected. 2 & 3 wow. 4! Astounding.
webelotrax.bandcamp.com/album/bloomi...

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#music #LoFiElectronic #darktechno #experimental
Listening to
Artist:Masahiro Narita
Album:Dissonance World (2021)
Label/Distributer: @webelotrax.bsky.social

Wow! Where has this album been all my life?
Tracks 2 go_8hi_jpop & 5 Recoil are the cat’s pyjamas.

webelotrax.bandcamp.com/album/disson...

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Ambient Loops 2026 - Jamuary 8th
Ambient Loops 2026 - Jamuary 8th YouTube video by zeropointzen

#ambient #postrock #ambientguitar #decay #guitar #music
Listening to: "Ambient Loops 2026"
by bluesky's own zeropointzen
@zeropointzen.bsky.social‬

youtu.be/bHyF5LswJkI?...

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VARIOUS VIEWS OF RUBBLE AND RUIN AND SMOKE AND FIRE IN TEHRAN

VARIOUS VIEWS OF RUBBLE AND RUIN AND SMOKE AND FIRE IN TEHRAN

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Reading the NYTs. #Netanyahu #Trump #Hegseth #WarCriminals #Tehran

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Looking at rubble and ruins of buildings in Tehran seen from a flat next door, which hasn't any exterior walls now. And a sad tree.

Looking at rubble and ruins of buildings in Tehran seen from a flat next door, which hasn't any exterior walls now. And a sad tree.

Reading the NYTs. #Netanyahu #Trump #Hegseth #WarCriminals #Tehran

Imagine looking out your window and seeing this. I can't.

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Holocaust Survivor Absolutely DEMOLISHES Israel
Holocaust Survivor Absolutely DEMOLISHES Israel YouTube video by Double Down News

Stephen Kapos, Holocaust survivor & activist: "I was shocked how despite their experiences during the Holocaust [the Zionists] were racist against Palestinians. I can't understand it. The use of the Holocaust background as a cover for all this is just unbearable, criminal."

youtu.be/AxLtxX7kPcU?...

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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin's concluding speech from "The Great Dictator"

"Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes... Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men— machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men!"

youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

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Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5) | The American Yawp Reader

Reading: #MarkTwain 's "The #War Prayer" (1905), a bitter satire.

"O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire... help us to wring the hearts of their widows"

www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-am...

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Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees.

Reading about #PartySaucePete & his Wholly War: wholly unnecessary, wholly unprovoked, wholly illegal, wholly unwanted, wholly diabolical, wholly insane...

" #Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus.
The Pope Disagrees."

I'm with His Holiness on this one.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

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Disappearing Act: 7 Architectural Projects That Evade the Eye - Architizer Journal Feast your eyes on these examples of “invisible” architecture.

Reading of: Invisible #architecture "...an illusion of dematerialisation, these projects all seem to dissolve into nothing from the outside."

(Beneath the first article, there's an endless scroll of other beautiful articles on architecture. An astounding collection!)

architizer.com/blog/inspira...

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Twitter Hasn't Been 'Enshittified.' It Always Sucked. There's been much wailing and gnashing of teeth since Elon Musk took over the bird app but it's not like the platform was ever a fun place to be.

All this is leading up an interesting editorial I found at Gizmodo from Dec,2023. The author proposes that Twitter sucked *ab initio*, before the rona& the bot invasions& good ol' Elon M. Grok. Is it true? Was Twitter ALWAYS bad for us? I must try& remember how it was.

gizmodo.com/twitter-year...

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Got sidetracked& didn't finish my thought. Joking aside, the actual public benefit Bsky provided in 2023 was as an open source alt to X, with unique algorithms created by custom-made feeds replacing Tw's horrible central algorithm& relentless frenetic machinelike timeline that was killing us all.

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Antivenom

listening to #experimental #music
@theprophetobblonge.bsky.social

Another amazing composition by #TheProphetObblonge, (and #W.A.Mozart): "Antivenom"

Unfortunately this is just a short snippet, not entirely indicative of the whole. Go to Spotify to hear the rest

open.spotify.com/track/55sFVU...

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Hegseth's wartime firing of top generals stuns officials: "It's insane" The firing of generals and admirals has reshaped the Joint Chiefs, intel agencies and commands.

#Hegseth 's wartime firing of top generals stuns officials: "It's insane"

Insane? You think? With #Trump acting today as if he hadn't made that speech 2 days ago. And apparently "Fraud Czar" #JDVance is going to balance the budget and eliminate the national debt! Ugh.

www.axios.com/2026/04/03/h...

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Boss: "We've got to decentralize to remove the bottlenecks."
One year later-
Boss: "We've got to centralize to be more efficient."

Cartoon Boss: "We've got to decentralize to remove the bottlenecks." One year later- Boss: "We've got to centralize to be more efficient."

Not here to criticise Bluesky. I ❤️ Bluesky! But it hasn't lived up to being decentralised. It was expected that a significant percent of ppl would join thru private servers, but 99% of us are centralised on the bsky. social server, whilst the largest Mastodon server holds less than 25% of its users.

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Public Benefit Corporation: an American form of business recognised in law by 36 states and the District of Columbia. A PBC is a hybrid entity that works in ways like a non-profit / NGO, often providing a free or at-cost / reduced cost service (the public benefit) whilst retaining a corporate financial structure: venture capital funding, shareholders, publicly traded stock and corporate valuation (what the PBC is worth).  A corporation becomes a PBC by stating explicitly in its corporate by-laws that profit (shareholder enrichment) is not its only goal. Some see PBCs as an off-ramp from late capitalism and a vehicle for worker-owned scenarios. However, many state statutes do not define what a "public benefit" is, and make PBCs basically self-defining and self-regulated, with no stated fines or legal remedies for abuse of PBC status as a form virtue signalling, implying a corporate social conscience where none exists. There is usually no tax benefit to being a PBC.

screencapture of the following text Public Benefit Corporation: an American form of business recognised in law by 36 states and the District of Columbia. A PBC is a hybrid entity that works in ways like a non-profit / NGO, often providing a free or at-cost / reduced cost service (the public benefit) whilst retaining a corporate financial structure: venture capital funding, shareholders, publicly traded stock and corporate valuation (what the PBC is worth). A corporation becomes a PBC by stating explicitly in its corporate by-laws that profit (shareholder enrichment) is not its only goal. Some see PBCs as an off-ramp from late capitalism and a vehicle for worker-owned scenarios. However, many state statutes do not define what a "public benefit" is, and make PBCs basically self-defining and self-regulated, with no stated fines or legal remedies for abuse of PBC status as a form virtue signalling, implying a corporate social conscience where none exists. There is usually no tax benefit to being a PBC.

#PBC #PublicBenefitCorporation
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How one small part of the world works

Bluesky Social is a Public Benefit Corporation, a fact we all benefit from: free accounts.

But the haunting thing is, X & the parent company of Truth Social could claim PBC status, too, on the same grounds: free accounts.

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#markzuckerberg #meta #lawsuit #court #social #media
#markzuckerberg #meta #lawsuit #court #social #media YouTube video by mrcodydahler

watching~~~~~ Mr Cody Dahler

@mrcodydahler.bsky.social
@mrcodydahler
(here and at YouTube, too)

#MarkZuckerberg #meta #lawsuit #social #media #SocialMedia

Community Note: It's "porcine-worshipping", not "bovine-worshipping". Other than that, spot on, mate.

youtube.com/shorts/vr65H...

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If Pam Bondi had just done her job—arresting felons instead of covering for them—a felon wouldn't have still been in his job to fire her.

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  Songbird sang same two notes,            
  sang of what a songbird is,                  
  I’Mhere I’Mhere I’Mhere I’Mhere ,           
  said nothing, meant everything.

Screen capture of the text: Songbird sang same two notes, sang of what a songbird is, I’Mhere I’Mhere I’Mhere I’Mhere , said nothing, meant everything.

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The Songbird Fail: I've been picked to advance to the next level of Somewhere Has Talent, but I can only sing the one song I've been singing for years. My #15MinutesOfFame has arrived but I only have 3 minutes of material to fill it with.

I take grey tablets to not think these thoughts.

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