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After fighting backstage, Louise as Lulu seduces her lover and keeper (Fritz Kortner) and then gloats as they’re discovered by his new fiancée (Daisy D’ora) and son (Franz Lederer). A classic scene from Louise’s greatest film: Pandora’s Box (1929).
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Howlin’ Wolf routinely ate raw onions before shows to make himself sweat harder. That drenching presence, coupled with a his roaring voice, redefined the image of a frontman. Wolf unleashed a howl that shook clubs; dancers swore the room got hotter. Source: James Segrest.
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Elsa Martinelli & Marcello Mastroianni during the filming of 'La decima vittima' (1965).
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“Anti-ship ballistic missiles aren't cobbled together by fucking Jihad Cletus in his garage.”
They literally are, that’s the IRGC’s entire design philosophy, because they presumed that we’d just bomb their factories.
That’s the point, it’s why DoD’s brains (barring General Kurilla, who’s never seen a war that he hasn’t wanted to get balls deep in) has pointed out that going to war with Iran is a horrendous idea.
The Iranian military and IRGC are basically just the Houthis with a Masters Degree in Engineering instead of being self-taught from practice and Youtube tutorials.
Their tunnel complexes are bigger; their factories are bigger; their internal security state (as garbage as it is) is bigger — that’s why they woke up, flipped a switch, and started rolling up the cells Mossad has scattered around the country; and most importantly their allies can actually supply them.
planefag@planefag
I'm gonna spell this out just once, so people can link this tweet to the knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, shit-eating simian creatures that whine about BoOtS oN tHe GrOuNd as if America's going to conduct a land invasion of Iran with eleventy gorillion troops and fight in the caves for a generation: Everything that makes Iran a problem comes from a factory, and those factories can be vaporized from the air. Most US casualties in Iraq were caused by sophisticated off-route EFP mines mass-produced by Iran. The rockets fired at Israel in such massive quantities that it threatened to deplete Israeli Iron Dome interceptor stocks and overwhelm their systems? Mass produced by Iran. The drones and missiles the Houthis used to close the Bab-El-Mandab strait, and thus the Suez canal, one of the most economically vital sea lines of communication in existence? Mass-produced by Iran. The SRBMs being fired at Ukraine by Russia? Mass-produced and delivered to them by Iran. The massive heavy MRBM arsenal they've been attempting to mass-murder Israeli civilians with and have used to threaten and coerce everyone else in the region, reaching as far as southern Europe/Italy? Mass-produced by Iran. None of this happens without Iranian mass weapon production, many millions of dollars in fiscal support and Iranian military advisors, leadership and intel support. You don't get the kind of problems in that region from six fucking clowns making home-made grenades out of soda bottles, bathtub explosives and rusty nails. Anti-ship ballistic missiles aren't cobbled together by fucking Jihad Cletus in his garage. Blow up the Iranian military-industrial complex, take out their nuclear program, and these problems go away. Forever. And if they try to build them again? You blow them up again. There isn't a hole deep enough for them to climb in. We built a massive, 30,000 pound bunker-busting bomb to make doubly god-damned sure of it. There is never, at any possible point in time, any fucking reason whatsoever to put a single god-damned fucking "boot" on the "ground" in Iran. Every single "Forever War" in the Middle East is caused and perpetuated by Iran, and the only consequences for us ending it would be a three percent bump in Lockheed Martin stock. And that is *fucking it.*
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The citrus zing of 1910: I have cleaned-up this striking autochrome study by Thomas Shields Clarke, taken at his home Fernbrook in Lenox, Massachusetts, 115 years ago. It is original colour, not colourised.
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Musk claimed 40% of calls to Social Security came from scammers. It was a lie.
Leland Dudek — plucked from a midlevel job to run SS -- got an angry call from the WH.
“The number is 40 percent,” Katie Miller told him. “Do not contradict the president"
nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/…
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Hedy Lamarr in the controversial "Ecstasy" (1933)
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Lockheed S-3B Viking carrier-based used primarily by USN for anti-sub warfare (ASW), surveillance, and later, as key component in carrier fleet support.
Nicknamed Hoover because of distinctive vacuum-like sound of engines, the S-3 Viking was a critical Cold War asset.
187 built
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I once, as manager of an IT department, picked up papers dropped by a trainee receptionist. I was thereafter the plaything of the secretarial section. Humiliating.
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Nothing summarises Keir Starmer on the world stage better than this image.
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Photos from Munich
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Isles class minesweeping trawler HMT Skomer (T 381): Launched 17.06.43.
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Faith Domergue #botd and Robert Mitchum in Where Danger Lives (1952). Faith later said, “After we shot the scene, Robert said to me, ‘I like you. You don't know what you're doing, but you're in there doing it with all your heart!’" Also, Monday.
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Do not open the coffin, for death will strike with its wings anyone who disturbs His Majesty.
This phrase was found written on the coffin of King Tutankhamun when it was discovered.
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