PickledRedOnions

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🌪️ PSA: A tornado WATCH means a tornado may be forming soon and you should prepare, whereas a tornado WARNING means it’s here and you need to take cover *now.* To help remember the difference: if it’s a tornado WATCH, you’ve got TIME ⌚️

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Daniel Craig playing an entire geology department himself:

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HAL 9000 watching them stuff AI into everything

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All episodes of Shelley Duvall’s FAERIE TALE THEATRE are on Internet Archive, if you’d like to enjoy the second act pivot that made her iconic for ‘80s and ‘90s kids. archive.org/details/fgtd5r #ShelleyDuvall

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inside view of one of the Boston fire alarm boxes. yep, a clockwork mechanism generates pulses representing numbers!

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"You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical." -Ray Harryhausen #BOTD

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I have reviewed over 700 silent films, plus talkie remakes, silent stars in sound films and movies about the silent era. Here's my silent film review index! moviessilently.com/index-of-mov...

Index of Movie Reviewsmoviessilently.com My complete alphabetized index of over 700 silent movie reviews. Reviews listed in order by title with no divisions for genre or length. I post new silent movie reviews every Sunday and sometimes in b...

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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.

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Alton, Illinois, 2024 abcnews.go.com/US/100-foot-...

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Jeremiah Avery

This has meme potential

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A coffee table book explaining America based on its beer floor-displays at supermarkets. This is my retirement plan.

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(4/n) “If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”

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David Simon is GOAT.

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A friend from Chicago sent this to me: her local branch of Chicago Public Library created an exhibition of left-behind water bottles titled "Thirst: An Exploration of Modern Dehydration," and it made her think of me. We've been friends for 40 years. She knows me well 🥰

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taxes

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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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Got a neat pennant today

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This is really important and deeply concerning — devices that clean the air ARE in place for those working in the White House and Congress, guessing SCOTUS too, but not really anywhere else www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

pay a working public defender to write a bi-weekly column on how the justice system works (and frequently doesn’t work) at a ground level, i don’t need any more constitutional law professor columns, even though i like some of them.

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pay a working civil engineer to write a monthly column about the state of infrastructure in america. like, there are so, so many jobs and topics of expertise in america and millions of knowledgeable experts on them, if you’re going to have an op-ed section why not encourage more curiosity about them

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)

I love mine.

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HEY, MIDWEST! Between JUNE 30-JULY 5, we're hitting four midwest cities to screen RING, RING & a handful of other oddities. Join us LIVE at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social (Chicago), @icfilmscene.bsky.social (Iowa City), Arkadin Cinema (St. Louis), & Stray Cat Film Center (Kansas City)! DATES/TIX HERE:

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