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Daniel Joslyn@djoslyn.bsky.social |
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Attorney in Las Vegas and writer for Watchers: the Virtual Series (thewatcherscouncil.net). All opinions solely my own. General nerdery with occasional baseball and dog pictures is where I picture this going. He/him
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Daniel Joslyn
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I Watched: Paisan (1946) Another totally unique film, in which Italian Neorealism pioneer dramatizes six stories about the Allied Invasion of Italy in WW2 and the relationship between them and the Italians locals. Shot often in the actual rubble the year after the war ended. #Filmsky
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Paul Tobin
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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.
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Daniel Joslyn
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I Watched: Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992) A document of a teenage Black girl in 1990s Brooklyn that feels totally unique as a movie, not least because its director Leslie Harris has never been able to get another financed. Ranges from high comedy to high drama, as teenage life does. #Filmsky
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Popehat
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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Daniel Joslyn
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I Watched: Lola (1961) This Jacques Demy film is certainly a more fun hang than many of its French New Wave contemporaries made by Godard or Truffaut, so light and frothy it threatens to float away. I will remember images and scenes in this movie but almost nothing that actually happened. #Filmsky
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Daniel Joslyn
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There’s a Criterion special feature where they interview Ben Gazzara about his performance in this movie and he says “A lot of people want their movies to be entertaining, but John [Cassavetes] wasn’t going to give them that.” I mean… that doesn’t seem like an unreasonable thing to want?
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Daniel Joslyn
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I Watched: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) My rocky relationship with Cassavetes movies continues with this one, which is basically a thriller/gangster movie, but somehow that made it work even less for me. Much of it takes place in the least sexy movie strip club I’ve ever seen. #Filmsky
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the betsy ross of alexandria, va
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If this was Gregg Berhalter’s last game in charge of the USMNT you have to think the tactical decision that did him in was telling Tim Weah to punch that guy
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Daniel Joslyn
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Past ten minutes on Bluesky word cloud on the day of all the other stuff going in, if you wondered how the USMNT game is going.
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Daniel Joslyn
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Respectfully, I don’t agree. Most people don’t even know this happened today. Step one is spreading the word about how dire it is so we can get the popular will to take the drastic actions necessary.
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Quinta Jurecic
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I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock
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Rosemary Mosco
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Things I've spontaneously said to animals.
Mailing list: buttondown.email/rosemarymosco
Patreon: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon
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Daniel Joslyn
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It hung up on me
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Cinema Strikes Back
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I want to see fake sharks killing actors, not real people killing real sharks
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Daniel Joslyn
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This is like the first honestly good thing I’ve heard all day, I don’t know you but thanks Cait
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Daniel Joslyn
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I would agree with this. I have said many times to people recently that I have recently taken to always predicting the worst case scenario and I have continued to be proven correct. Even I, a very cynical Supreme Court watcher who really thought they had prepared for all bad stuff, was blindsided.
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Daniel Joslyn
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Some of the entries in these memes (not just yours but everybody’s) make me go “yep, makes sense,” and some of them make me go “I bet there’s a story there.”
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Matt Novak
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If you gave me infinite guesses on who owns those Redbox DVD rentals I wouldn’t have gotten it
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Greg Pak
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Look, our elected Ds are a disaster. But we should lean on them as much as we can. Please make this call if you're willing, even if you're out of state. If Durbin gets enough calls, he might finally do something. He might not, of course, but it'll just cost you a minute to call.
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Daniel Joslyn
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I keep waiting for someone to post the sign up sheet for the revolution, like it is happening in the park at 6. I would sign up to bring the snacks. Other people can sign up to bring other stuff. I think people who are better at organizing stuff here need to get on this.
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ArtButMakeItSports
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Carnival Scene, by Giandomenico Tiepolo, 1754-55, 📸 via @TheEuropeanLad
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Meg Rowley
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the part where we're just expected to keep working through all this shit is pretty wild? (tbc, not a complaint specifically about my employer, but more the general vibe)
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Daniel Joslyn
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I Watched: Dolor y Gloria (2019) (Pain and Glory) I think I may be an Almodovar convert after watching this story of a director with health problems reflecting on his life and choices. Antonio Banderas received his only Oscar nomination to date for his performance as the lead. #Filmsky
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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️⚧️
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I adore dinoramas. Especially when a museum puts in a big installation, a piece of prehistoric habitat that takes up an entire room, I like to stay there awhile and wish the creatures to move. This Albertosaurus group is at Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum.
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Michael Hobbes
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Scott
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and even if someone thinks "well I don't like/look at porn so why should it be a priority for me?" it's important to remember that when christofascists say "porn" they also mean age-appropriate comprehensive sex education, media with queer/trans people in it, and picture books about gay penguins.
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Daniel Joslyn
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I Watched: The Last Wave (1977) I feel like I get what this movie is about, in that it's about the disconnect between European and Aboriginal cultures in Australia. But I definitely cannot tell you what actually happens in it. Does the world end? Is there a murder mystery? I am unclear. #Filmsky
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Daniel Joslyn
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I Rewatched: The Bourne Identity (2002) The sequels were heavily influential (not in a good way IMO) on action directing, but the original is just a fairly serviceable thriller starring Matt Damon with a very fun Paris car chase in the middle. I haven’t seen this since it was in theaters. #Filmsky
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Microplastics Sommelier
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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Daniel Joslyn
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I mean, is there is any question? It is a thousand percent the last one, and they will all keep their jobs, because they all belong to the same club, or whatever the New York version of belonging to the same club is.
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Daniel Joslyn
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Zero humans who did not think Biden was too old before this think he is too old now
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Cooper Lund
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Voters: they’re mysterious!
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Comics in the Golden Age
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Martin Mull in the 1977 Wonder Woman episode, The Pied Piper. He played Hamlin Rule, a musician who could control minds by playing his flute. R.I.P.
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Daniel Joslyn
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Update it is 3-0 Brazil at halftime, people are dancing and happy, except for the one Paraguay fan directly behind me who keeps screaming a phrase that I am fairly certain is the word “referee” followed by several Spanish swear words.
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Daniel Joslyn
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I am at the Copa America game between Brazil and Paraguay here in Vegas. I definitely bought a ticket in the “everyone stands and chants for Brazil the whole time” section, this is fun but we will see how long I last.
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Daniel Joslyn
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I Watched: Hitman (2024) The competition is not super fierce but this is my favorite movie of the year so far. Glen Powell is a Great Big Movie Star as a guy who plays a hitman undercover to get proof on potential murderers, one of whom is a hot lady he falls for, complications ensue. #Filmsky
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DaisyFM ✒︎🍉
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Please remember this useful chart when rating things online. How movie ratings work: ★★★★★ - Great! ★★★★ - Good. ★★★ - Eh, Not Bad. ★★ - Mediocre. ★ - Garbage. How Uber/Lyft ratings work: ★★★★★ - Okay. ★★★★ - Fire this person. ★★★ - Fire this person. ★★ - Fire this person. ★ - Fire this person.
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Daniel Joslyn
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Daniel Joslyn
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I recently sat in a Walgreens drive thru prescription line for approximately an hour and a half that it was very clear was solely due to understaffing and vowed to avoid them if at all possible going forward… seems like I’m not unique in this regard
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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look, i was in the gifted and talented program, too, but i spent decades working as hard as i could to kill the parts of my brain that prompt my “well actually” response, at significant cost to the host
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Daniel Joslyn
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Yeah definitely seems like someone had never heard a word before and decided that it must be everyone else who is ignorant not them
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Sotomayor, for the liberals, on the decision that the SEC (and presumably other agencies) can't levy civil penalties on lawbreakers without a jury trial: "Congress had no reason to anticipate the chaos today's majority would unleash after all these years." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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Greg Pak
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Here are the choices they give for different systems. This whitewashes authoritarianism. The last bullet point should read something like "a system in which the president can imprison or kill you just because he wants to." Seriously, those are the real stakes.
www.washingtonpost.com/tablet/2024/...
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Daniel Joslyn
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I Watched: It (1990) This King adaptation was originally an ABC miniseries, now available as a 3-hour movie on streaming. I found the various domestic abuse situations of the children harder to watch than the scary clown, though Tim Curry does a very good job in his role as the latter. #Filmsky
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Peter
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when we first launched 5-4, a serious concern was what to do when we run out of terrible Supreme Court decisions. in retrospect it is very embarrassing that we were ever worried.
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Lost in Criterion
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Terrible to watch every movie while constantly looking for plot, editing, continuity, effects and acting deficiencies. Especially when you could be watching every movie and judging it based on how well it furthers the goals of world communism.
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scottishchee
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Daniel Joslyn
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I also think that if someone thinks there is a need for more "child free bars" all they really need to do is up their tolerance for seediness there are plenty of dive bars with no children lol
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