Melissa

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Writer. VCFA WCYA alum. One day some little fat girl in ohio could be the next Mozart & make a beautiful film on her father's camera-corder -Francis Ford Coppola. rep @LindaRandom she/her

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I don't have a dad anymore so I'm finding the prospect of picking out a new smart tv absolutely beyond me

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Mae West, 1934

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Eva Marie Saint #botd and Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront (1954).

Right before my dad's stone setting last December, a bunch of graves were defaced in Cleveland, too.

This fucking sucks. www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/u...

176 gravestones at 2 Jewish cemeteries vandalized, FBI investigating | CNNwww.cnn.com Nearly 180 gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries in Cincinnati have been vandalized, according to the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati and the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.

as it turns out, living the role of The Best Friend in "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" doesn't get any easier the second time around

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anyway, is everyone good and mad now? fucking stay that way for the next five months, there will be more aggressions and indignities and insults to come. staying mad as hell about it is how we won in 2020 and it's how we'll win in 2024.

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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.

Justice Sotomayor, in conclusion.

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A huge winning message for the Democrats is "you will not have to think about this guy ever again"

Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.

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If there is anything resembling an afterlife, I hope right now, somewhere, Jessica Walter is happily shrieking “Gene Parmesan!”

Martin Mull, comic actor of ‘Clue,’ ‘Roseanne’ and ‘Arrested Development,’ has died

Martin Mull, Comic Actor of 'Clue,' 'Roseanne' and 'Arrested Development,' Dies at 80www.thewrap.com Martin Mull, best known for his roles in "Clue," "Roseanne" and "Arrested Development," died Thursday at age 80.

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oh, DAMN. Not Martin Mull.

I just passed a raccoon eating garbage from the trash can in Central Park followed by a man wearing a T-shirt with Justin Timberlake’s mug shot on it

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I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years. And one thing that's always helped when things look bleak is the knowledge that there is ALWAYS something practical you can do to help make things better -- whether through electoral politics or other kinds of service. For example...

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BREAKING -- New York Public Library for the win! After a massive public backlash, NYC's libraries are getting their funding back -- and will be open on Sundays again. Take a bow, folks -- WE did this.

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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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Right Wing Christians : we need u to remove this version of Anne Frank's Diary and Maus on account of them being antisemitic and violent

Texas school district pulls Anne Frank’s diary after right-wing group’s complaintwww.timesofisrael.com Superintendent removes 676 books, including seminal texts about Holocaust and antisemitism, amid calls from conservative activists

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:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

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Marcellus Williams was cleared by DNA evidence and the prosecutor is trying to vacate the conviction, but the state of Missouri still scheduled an execution date for him. Please sign and share this petition innocenceproject.org/petitions/st...

Stop the Sept. 24 Execution of Marcellus Williams, an Innocent Man - Innocence Projectinnocenceproject.org DNA evidence not available at the time of trial proves his innocence but has not been considered in court. Act today.

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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

excited to read Susan Seidelman's new book letterboxd.com/journal/desp...

Desperately Seeking Cinema: director Susan Seidelman on her new memoir and old New York • Journalletterboxd.com Desperately Seeking Susan and Smithereens director Susan Seidelman chats with Katie Rife about her new memoir, punk movies and music, ’70s New York and making your own luck.

the competition element of HGTV's Zillow Gone Wild show is so unnecessary; I am so happy just to watch Jack McBrayer tour these homes and meet their quirky owners

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The AI trend of “we took this art and expanded it beyond the artist’s intent because *more* of a thing means better” - showing what’s “out of frame” in a shot from a movie, or turning a six word short story into a novella - speaks to what art actually is: knowing what isn’t necessary.

Was listening to a Sixty Minutes segment on AI. The host made it do a short story based on "for sale, baby shoes, never worn" and could not shut up about how good the result was even though it was pure soulless drivel. Think a big key to this racket persisting is not knowing what real writing is.

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"Two months after Dobbs, 22 percent of adults said they were uncertain whether eggs inside a woman’s ovaries have shells (they do not)." *rubs temples*

Abortion Debate Shifts as Election Nears: ‘Now It’s About Pregnancy’www.nytimes.com Two years after Roe was struck down, the conversation has focused on the complications that can come with pregnancy and fertility, helping to drive more support for abortion rights.

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if i had sexyback money i would pay someone to drive me everywhere and a second person to come along and give me a piggyback ride from the parking lot to the front door

apart from everything else, what I don't understand is: if i were as rich as JT the number one first thing i would spend my money on is somebody to drive my ass around 24/7, drunk or not, like figuring out how to get places is the fuckin worst, this is just an incredible unforced error

‘Dumbass’ Justin Timberlake ignored warning minutes before DWI...nypost.com After being warned not to drive, Timberlake was stopped a second time after allegedly blowing a stop sign before swerving his BMW SUV into the left lane.

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There is an entire three-hour documentary called EX LIBRIS about the New York Public Library system, and it is enchanting and wonderful, and if you have Kanopy (which you can likely get through your own library, for crying out loud), I encourage you in the strongest terms to watch it.

Imagine being such a shitty mayor, the Public Library is calling you out.

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never forget that joanne and paul had a spare bedroom in their house they called the "fuck hut," and when their daughter learned about it in letters between the two she just said, "go mom!"

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman at the New York City premiere of Cool Hand Luke (1967)

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The MTA has now paused work on the Second Avenue subway because Gridlock Governor Kathy Hochul paused congestion pricing nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/18/w...

Work Paused On Second Avenue Subway Extension After Congestion Pricing Pause - Streetsblog New York Citynyc.streetsblog.org Gridlock Gov. Hochul has joined the history books as the next governor to stop work on the Second Avenue subway.

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Billy Wilder

Venturing out into the heat dome 🫠

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Take it easy this week if you're under the heat dome, where Vermont will be hotter than Miami. Here's why & what to expect, by @andreatweather.bsky.social 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...

Intense Heat Dome Will Bring Record-Breaking Temperatures to the Eastwww.scientificamerican.com A heat dome is sending temperatures soaring across the U.S. Midwest and East

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Cooling your face, palms of your hands and soles of your feet is an efficient way to cool off when you're hot. Those patches of skin have special blood vessels that shunt blood from arteries to veins directly, bypassing capillaries 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

How to Cool Down Fast in Summer Heatwww.scientificamerican.com Your body has a secret cooling method, and scientists explain how to use it.