LarryB

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Semi-retired marketer in career rehab/recovery, occasional writer, chili cook, B&W film, noir, cats, former horse wrangler, political junkie, leftish, anti Nazi.

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Pablo Picasso, Woman's Head, early 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135858

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@somniosus.bsky.social The Punt ~ c.1910 ~ Constance Symonds

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#TakahashiHiroakiShotei (1871-1945) A Starlight Night (Hoshi No Yoru) #japanese #wooodblock

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#HasuiKawase (1883-1957) Azalea garden 1935 #japanese #woodblock

#TCMParty. Them, my fave of the radioactive monster bug movies. Arness graduates from alien plant man to FBI agent

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Cats Fighting — Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

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Joan Blondell in a publicity photo for Central Park (1932)

#TCMParty. It’s a wonder Stanwyck doesn’t set the film stock on fire

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Suck it, losers.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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The Black Panther Party learned that sickle cell anemia was a neglected genetic disease affecting mostly people of African descent. Although disease had been known since 1910, it attracted little govt attention and even less funding. So the Panthers set up a screening program. #BlackSky #Disability

"Approximately 1 in 365 African American children are born with sickle cell, according to the CDC.. Tens of thousands of lower-income families with children suffering from sickle cell disease have applied for SSI. But roughly 76% of those applicants had their requests denied between 2015 and 2020."

Thousands of Black children with sickle cell disease struggle to access disability paymentswww.cbsnews.com New data show how one federal safety net program has been out of reach for thousands of children who need it most.

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I want more folks to know about libro.fm as an alternative to Audible or Spotify or other shady corps. It’s 100% employee-owned and works like Audible, except your credits support an indie bookstore of your choosing instead of Amazon. Go listen to a disabled author for Disability Pride Month! 💙📚

Same audiobooks. Different story.libro.fm Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

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I know the website looks old, but Bonafide Masks is legit. This is where I've been getting my KN95s from for a couple of years. Would recommend.

FWIW, Bonafide Masks is having a 30% off sale right now. This is where I've gotten my Powecom KN95 masks for years now. Not a paid spokesperson, ha ha, just a customer! bonafidemasks.com/powecom-kn95/

Powecom® KN95 - Page 1 - Bona Fide Masksbonafidemasks.com Like the N95, the FDA Authorized KN95 face masks sold by Bona Fide Masks™ are rated to provide 95% ore greater filtration of particles larger than 0.3 µm in diameter such as bacteria, viruses, dust & ...

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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Chuck Berry at Wembley Stadium (1972)

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today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.

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I hate that newspapers make it so easy to subscribe online but don't let you cancel online. So, I guess I am calling the NYT to cancel tomorrow. Despite my love for the recipes and reading the paper since I was a kid, I have to stop subsidizing their crap. transphobia, antivax, now antivoting!

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Ruby Stevens by the De Mirjian studio in NYC, c 1925. She would change her professional name to Barbara Stanwyck the following year.

#TCMParty. I always think there’s a band kid

#TCMParty I love American history, and I love movies, and I still just can't generate any affection for 1776. You can call it a character defect, but I've never been able to watch it all the way through. The songs are flat and the dialog strained. My apologies to the fans.

#TCMParty. RIP Robert Towne. I re-read his scripts for an education in visual storytelling

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Robert Towne RIP

Robert Towne RIP - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Robert Towne has passed. Though Bonnie And Clyde made his name, he continued to do uncredited work in its wake. When Francis Ford Coppola picked up an Oscar for The Godfather, he thanked “Bob Towne, who wrote the very beautiful scene between Marlon [Brando] and Al Pacino in the garden.” That might’ve been the push Towne needed because afterward, […]

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“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

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It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists. See:

Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuaryketanjoshi.co I got some data that analyses how climate deniers have changed their audience size, relative to pro-climate accounts, on Musk's Twitter. It's....not good.

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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

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"All that mattered was not to know, not to be aware- we had to forget we were being led onto the ice."

This passage from Teffi's Memories is never far from my thoughts since I first read it in 2017.

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Undergrowth, 1887 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14202

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A long shot request but: I’m desperately trying to find Mosney brochures/prices from any time up to the 1970s, they’re surprisingly hard to find! I don’t need originals, photos would be grand - and I’d be grateful for reposts to reach more people #speirgorm

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I feel like there were a bunch of guys who read the story and thought “What would it do for Omelas’s stock price if we shoved a bunch more kids down there?”

#TCMParty Hoping to access the memory banks of all here. Working on a writing project that involves the 1918 flu pandemic and its impact on films. The only reference I can recall is the death of Mr Gower's son in It's a Wonderful Life. Any other significant film portrayals you can think of?

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This has been by far my most-read substacky entry yet, which must mean that it's good, I dunno.

A Word About Themopen.substack.com [to say nothing of they]