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little freak library
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Do not scold me about Joe Biden. Go talk to him. He is the president of the United States and I work at the store.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam@theadamglass.bsky.social |
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One of those Marxist Mennonites you hear so much about.
I talk about movies at www.lostincriterion.com
I talk about ska to anyone who will listen
I want to ride my bicycle
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little freak library
@sullivanjones.bsky.social
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Do not scold me about Joe Biden. Go talk to him. He is the president of the United States and I work at the store.
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Ashley Fairbanks
@ziibiing.com
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A lovely Appalachian leftist on TikTok said that folks always talk about what radicalized them in terms of theory, struggle, or rage. But, he says, what about the soft things that radicalized us, too? Grammas that kept us fed, bees, flowers, friends being happy when they could make ends meet?
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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pee wee herman-palladino
@markpopham.bsky.social
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honestly the thing I find really gutting is the combination of the concepts "everyone in publishing has known that Gaiman was a weird creep for decades" with "Neil Gaiman has written essays and introductions for like every major genre reprint and anthology of the last twenty years"
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Declan Gaffney
@greyskiesthinking.bsky.social
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Lost in Criterion
@lostincriterion.bsky.social
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Continuing through the David Lean Directs Noel Coward boxset, this week brings us This Happy Breed, a sort of Ready Player One for the British Middle Class. Remember the Charleston? Remember volunteering as strikebreakers? Remember the expo?
www.lostincriterion.com/e/spine-605-...
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Lost in Criterion
@lostincriterion.bsky.social
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Drawing from the Criterion Channel's list of Synth Soundtracks our June Patreon bonus in on John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13. It's a movie you shouldn't think too deeply about the politics of, which we of course do. It's who we are!
$1 gets you access at www.patreon.com/lostincriterion
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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No shame in feeling scared, overwhelmed and not knowing what to do. To me feeling one's feelings doesn't preclude taking action. These are confusing times. Give yourself some grace.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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Well, Happy Independence Day, I guess.
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Beyond his obvious problems, Biden is the worst possible person to be President in this historical moment. He doesn't speak about Supreme Court corruption because he's a supposed "institutionalist," he convened a "commission" which came to nothing, he has absolutely no fire to rally the country, etc
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Lost in Criterion
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This week we kick off a boxset of David Lean directing the works of Noel Coward with In Which We Serve (1942), a nicely shot piece of pro-war propaganda that quite a few scenes that should be anti-war propaganda.
www.lostincriterion.com/e/spine-604-...
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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There are two doors: one leads to certain death. One guard can speak but not think; the other can think but not speak. One of them gets to be president.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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Hey, c'mon, Predatory Wasp is good.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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This whole "bribery" vs "gratuity" situation would be a lot more clear if they were making tipped minimum, amiright
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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Once again the cheapest solution to houselessness is shown to be the most humane: just give people the resources to live.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
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It's so rare anymore that we're watching the exact same thing at the exact same time and having the exact same reaction.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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I just think Biden should forgive the electoral college debt first.
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Movies Silently
@moviessilently.bsky.social
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Tired: “Frankenstein isn’t the monster” Wired: “William Powell isn’t the Thin Man” Inspired: “Tim Conway and Don Knotts aren’t the Apple Dumpling Gang”
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Lost in Criterion
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Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker's 1993 documentary The War Room is so full of disdainful political operatives that we didn't even have time to get to Rahm Emanuel.
www.lostincriterion.com/e/spine-602-...
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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I would love this (or anything else you want me for).
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Matt Seybold
@mattseybold.bsky.social
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Today is as good a day as any to read James Redpath's Creed from "The Roving Editor." "I am an Abolitionist - & something more. I am in favor, not only of abolishing the Curse, but of making reparations for the Crime." 1/4
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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Still disappointed the Dr Bronner's peppermint chocolate didn't do to my mouth what the peppermint soap does to anything it touches.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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The rest of the evangelicals think Jesus is God, but not a great teacher.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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Relive all the trends of the '20s! The Charleston! Talkies! Communism!
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
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Question the legitimacy of this fundamentalist religion and you're condemned. But worse, members of that religion, drivers in their simulations, don't see those of alternative religions as fully human, just part of a simulation.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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Synthesizing Adorno and Baudrillard, we can see "stroads" (roads built like highways but still containing "the vermin of the street") as an arena of religious conflict, where drivers in their mass simulation are constantly at war other religions - "pedestrians, children, and cyclists."
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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He even names road signs as a form of liturgy, particularly "RIGHT LANE MUST EXIT" as a commandment to be mindlessly followed. Being part of this collective consciousness by its nature eliminates interpersonal contact, but also personal responsibility. You're just keeping up with traffic, after all.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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"The vehicle thus becomes a bubble, the dashboard a console, and the landscape all around unfolds as a television screen." But in Amerique (1984) Baudrillard also describes driving on American highways as a sort of symbiotic collective consciousness, that driving on them is a religious experience.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
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Baudrillard disagrees with the idea of the driver as "demiurge drunk with power" (The Ecstasy of Communication), but does so by describing driving as "the transformation of [the driver] into a driving computer" who can only see the outside world as simulation.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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In Minima Moralia (1951), Adorno speaks of some tech advancements encouraging Fascistic behavior inherently through use. To wit, the car: "which driver is not tempted, merely by the power of his engine, to wipe out the vermin of the street, pedestrians, children, and cyclists?"
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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Legitimately can't gauge if it is funnier that Freddy Got Fingered was on the Criterion Channel or that Freddy Got Fingered is now on Disney+
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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A little research suggests the priest is defrocked and unclaimed by any Orthodox diocese, and so this is definitely a "let them fight" situation for me. But that line is too good.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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"Podcasts are not a Christian way of life."
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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Yes, but you're also feeding the frogs, which is good
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Lost in Criterion
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This week we are very pleased to discuss our second collaboration between director Mikhail Kalatozov and cinematographer Sergey Urusevsky, Letter Never Sent (1960).
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www.lostincriterion.com/e/spine-601-...
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Alyssa Harad
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If you can’t bring yourself to admit that we need masks for wildfire smoke, Covid and whatever the next pandemic will be, I hope you can at least see that this is about intensifying hyper surveillance and comes straight from the cops.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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Of course it's safe, the sign says "Danger prohibited", doesn't it? No place safer than somewhere that's banned danger.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
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Frickin' Dave.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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Ok but you should actually do a Salo episode and invite me on. Because anyone else you invite on will never talk to you again because you made them watch Salo.
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Lost in Criterion
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This week we talk about Otto Preminger's ode to the US legal system and middle finger to the US Production Code: Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
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www.lostincriterion.com/e/spine-600-...
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Shani 🫧🍉
@blerdmommy.bsky.social
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@jpatrickdorgan.bsky.social
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I think it's worth remembering that the purpose of this current "AI" boom is about disciplining labor. It doesn't have to be good or capable because that doesn't matter. The people pushing it just need to be able to point at it and say "don't get uppity or we'll give your job to the machine."
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality)
@henereyg.bsky.social
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People should listen to Wallace Shawn www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
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Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social
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I swear to you this is real.
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Lost in Criterion
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This week's #LostinCriterion squats in an abandoned theater to really understand Chekhov. We're talking Louis Malle's final film, Vanya on 42nd Street.
www.lostincriterion.com/e/spine-599-...
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Lost in Criterion
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This month our #LostInCriterion patreon bonus episode. This month our supporters picked Nine to Five (1980) from our list of films with the late Dabney Coleman.
Just $1 gets you access at www.patreon.com/LostInCriterion
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tyler walk with me
@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
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and to think this verdict came mere days after SNL’s season finale …God is so good to us.
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thingswithwings
@thingswithwings.bsky.social
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lots of jokes like "it's hard to be an abolitionist today," and they're just jokes, np, but honestly? it's not hard at all. the joy people feel is in large part relief, because it is so fucking uncommon within our carceral system for people to be able to even acknowledge the harm of ppl like trump
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס
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Swatting wouldn't be a thing if SWAT teams had any rules of engagement whatsoever.
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SymbiopsychotaxiplAdam
@theadamglass.bsky.social
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I put too many eye drops in and now my pupils are diluted.
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