@_RareArt knicks victory would leave NYC looking like Cloverfield hit
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Michael Landes
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Michael Landes
@mcllds
playwright / dramaturg / performer free Palestine
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booktok users are reinventing the immortal science of nouveau roman from first principles
fooler initiative@metroadlib
WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!! WHAT?!!!
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@toomuchistrue Most if not all postmodernists said this at some point!
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There is too much earnestness in fiction.
Mikra Namani@mikra_namani
‘there’s too much comedy, insistent comedy,’ said JCO dismissively yesterday about Pale Fire—as if Nabokov didn’t know what he was doing. Again this allergic anglophone reaction to comedy in fiction. You never hear people say, oh there’s too much earnestness in fiction.
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You know what director has never once acknowledged people being weird about them online because why would they give a fuck?
Yeah you know the one.
Variety@Variety
#JordanFirstman says he felt like "a punching bag" online "for a long time" before premiering his directorial debut "Club Kid" at #Cannes: "People saw something more sinister in me than I felt like I was, but then you wonder, 'Am I that?' It was tough. I was low-level depressed about it since 2021. There was a hum of 'everyone hates me' for a long time." variety.com/2026/film/news…
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@raspberrygirl44 @mcmansionhell @cwfcreatives @GrantaMag “We asked the bullshit machine if someone used the bullshit machine to bullshit us and it said maybe! And surely it wouldn’t bullshit us again!
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i am actually nearly brought to tears that the methods used by @cwfcreatives @GrantaMag were to 1) ask the authors “did you use ai?” and 2) ask ai “did he use ai?”
use your brain? your discernment? your taste? your eyes? all the attributes that supposedly make you an editor?
Addison Zeller@amhcrane87
Granta's response is truly breathtakingly insane
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@capybaroness gotcha I figured I had forgotten an introduction or something similar thanks!
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@mcllds calling it the first line implies you're supposed to skip over the Etymology and Extracts sections!
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the 100 Best Novels of All Time list published by The Guardian today gets the first sentence of Moby-Dick wrong, but that's fine, so does everybody. far more obscene is this:
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@justinboldaji incredible that his conclusion was apparently "i checked and yes, I really am Him"
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This the funniest shit I’ve ever read
Variety@Variety
Matthew McConaughey once exiled himself from Hollywood and lived as Mateo in Peru for 22 days without electricity. “I needed to get my feet on the ground. So I click out. Boom. Go to Peru. I needed to find it, to check the validation. I knew I had it, I just had to go prove it again. But I did question, now that I just got famous, I’ve got all this affiliation for this and that and the other, and I’m trying to decipher which part’s real, which part’s bullsh*t... I needed to meet people who knew me as Mateo. And at the end of 22 days, the tears in their eyes and the tears in my eyes and the hugs we had on the sadness and happiness of saying goodbye were all based off of the man they met named Mateo, who had nothing to do with the celebrity. It reaffirmed my own identity that, ‘Oh, I still got it. This is based on me.’” (via "No Magic Pill" podcast) variety.com/2026/film/news…
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@johnsemley3000 @willmenaker isn’t that the thing Ulysses Everett McGill went on?
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@danwaterfield much respect to both grad students and community college students but this guy is, uh, not doing grad student work
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DO NOT DO AN UNFUNDED PHD
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24
The notion that grad students can't make ends meet is absolutely ridiculous to me. I live a mile away from Harvard. I am essentially a grad student with no stipend and no support. I'm making it work. Why can't they? The people who this screws are me -- marginal admits.
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As I've already said: Lupita is incredibly beautiful but we now know why this part actually really couldn't be anyone else. She's dual cast. She's playing Helen, and her sister Clytemnestra. There is no other A lister, with Lupita's acting pedigree, status in the fashion world,
evan loves worf@esjesjesj
So this is just open racism
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@Empty_America El Gregory is famous for this. All of his stuff looks distinctly 20th century but he made this in the 1500s.
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So there are general rules in art history that *usually* allow you to guess the approximate date of art work.
But usually isn't 100%, and this painting is a great example of one that will genuinely trick you.
Nick Kapur@nick_kapur
Quick, guess which year this painting was painted? (answer in the reply)
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@capybaroness definitely remember seeing at least one or two videos like this but can't remember who it was
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has anyone ever gone into the criterion closet and entirely grabbed blind-buys? "yeah i heard this one's great. heard great things about this one."
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@BODY_W0_WHORGAN when I finally watched it I was reminded why I shouldn’t put so much stock in the opinions of people who primarily debate movies on twitter
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and if I said Possession had the amount of depth that lends itself to memeifying and nothing else...w
tori gaymos@cyrilwoodcock
Thrilled for more people to see THE DEVILS/for it to finally get a full release while also scared of the potential for it to get the POSSESSION treatment from people on here who can't sit with traumatic+uncomfortable material without memeifying it to diminish its power
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@lfitzmaurice First director to make his first film in late style
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Zemeckis levels of surrealist naivete seemingly going on here...more confirmation that John Travolta is one of the most genuinely strange movie stars alive
Film Updates@FilmUpdates
The official trailer for John Travolta’s feature directorial debut ‘PROPELLER ONE-WAY NIGHT COACH’ has been released. Premiering May 29 on Apple TV.
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@insufficentfund feel like this has to be pretty standard with all-english language bookstores abroad, given that most shoppers will be tourists
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@alexskopic pretty sure ordering used copies helps get around this - you risk an annotated copy but i've had better luck that way
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Had a version of this last year when Blurry, Pixelated Emil Cioran showed up. Amazon is actively polluting the book market at this point.
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difference being this is somehow way worse
em@emilyagain
Everyone talks about the LaGuardia airport BBL glowup, but what about Moynihan/Penn Station's glowup? As though in 2011 I didn't see a well-dressed businesswoman do a bunch of poppers and take a huge shit on the floor of what is now a Cha Cha Matcha franchise selling $15 lattes?
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@henribergson666 I think you could feasibly write a potboiler that’s an homage to Ashbery at least
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@lekan_digital @doof_tram it isn't his song though it's something called Gener8ion yung lean is just in the video...
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the song isn’t extremely good, especially if you expect a certain kind of sound from lean, but for any artist, i thought it sounded kind of great if not outright great. bladee is probably the one who still sometimes releases songs that haven’t deviated as much from his older sound.
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