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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cancelling every single one of my plans!!!

Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very smart of WB to embargo talking about any plot elements of DIGGER. Now I have no idea what the film is beyond it being "excruciatingly painful" and "like being stuck inside a tuba for two hours." Can't wait!

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone send Trump a screener link for THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE?

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Marc Edward Heuck @meheuck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Incredible, they got rid of almost everybody and everything on '60 MINUTES' that made it good." "A Bari Weiss decision?" "Huh?" "I said was that a Bari Weiss decision?" "No, not very wise at all!"

static.klipy.com

Statler & Waldorf in Muppet Family Christmas

ALT: Statler & Waldorf in Muppet Family Christmas

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Purchased Harry Styles tickets in a naked bid to win Father of the Year

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Principled politicians should say: Trans girls are girls so they should be able to play sports with other girls. Unfortunately there aren't many principled politicians.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026

A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An otherwise anodyne article about collecting filmstrips includes this wild conjecture about how dye-coupling works. Brother, if your emulsion sloughed off like that, it wasn't the Eastmancolor fading that did it... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/m...

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Dente" directed by Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m less interested in what a law says than in how it’s enforced. Illinois claims to be a sanctuary state, but JB Pritzker arrested more people at Broadview than Trump. And now it turns out our prosecutors are passing on tips to ICE.

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Everyone is excited by the 35mm print of THE DEVILS, but GONE TO EARTH and the Pelechians are the real heaters. Plus SUICIDE NOTE is a major "minor" work.

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

When you come across a 15# bag of peppers, you make peperonata

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“It’s ok that the Obama Presidential Center is taking parkland because the campus will be free and open to the public”

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The American mind simply cannot comprehend that Ireland is smaller than Ohio. They cannot imagine an occupied Cincinnati. And yet!!

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I cannot more highly recommend getting off the red eye flight and heading straight into the sea to reset your body

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Wonderful tribute to Lake St! I only attended a handful of times (once literally running into Ebert in the bathroom), but I often dropped off prints for press screenings ahead of their opening at Music Box back in the day.

rogerebert.com

A Home Away from Home: Goodbye to the Lake Street Screening Room

A loving ode to a place that shaped Chicago film criticism.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.

erininthemorning.com

Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Absolutely blindsided by the existence of Takashi Miike's Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This and David Lynch in the same year. 1946 was wild

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I've had a terrible vision of the future: Pete Hegseth is going to create a US Military Sperm Retrieval Unit if like 5 more soldiers die. "We're a nation of warriors and we need to create the next generation of lethal warfighters," he'll say

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

there’s my president rooting for his future home argentina

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

After this cyclospora is over I’m going absolutely wild on some pad prik king, I tell you what. The second I feel hungry again, we are K I L L I N G this thing

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/07/2026

every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

[To the tune of VU’s Coney Island]: Lindsey Graham died

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/07/2026

Today in pleasing charts

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

if you didn’t dump his ass over the nazi tattoo congratulations you are dumber than a high school junior at a hardcore show. a child with moshpit CTE is dogwalking you morally

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

ICE just spent $1.5 BILLION to purchase two massive prisons in California it was already using for detention, in an effort to avoid oversight from the state, which has been pressuring the private prison company that owned them. CoreCivic will continue operating the facilities.

CoreCivic said it anticipates that the sale of the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego County and the California City Detention Facility in Kern County will bring the company an estimated net proceeds of approximately $1.1 billion.
The sale closed on July 2, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with the federal government paying $739.2 million for the 1994-bed Otay Mesa facility and $732.6 million for the newly-opened 2,560-bed California City facility. The two properties were sold under separate purchase agreements, signed and completed on the same day.

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Apparently I live at the Dee-troit airport now because Chicago “has weather”

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I was going to joke that hundreds if not thousands of hardcore shows at Westcott Community Center finally made this happen, but I think the district “just happens” to not include the neighborhood

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

the 3D Gameday graphics on the MLB app remain the funniest way to watch a baseball game

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Absolutely perfect weekend for the Obama Center to open. Got the new library card and checked out a book, and saw Nick Cave’s sound suits dance to a drum line 10/10 who cares about the actual building or what’s inside

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Hockey Night in Canada. Damn

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

the real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It’s 78 with a beautiful breeze and my calendar looks like this. Summer is finally here

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i think the dark chapter from american history that scooby doo is best suited to mention by name has got to be ruby ridge

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

How in the world are they getting this to pass PCI compliance?

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

CPD said the case was suspended after they exhausted all “investigative leads,” despite video evidence showing the crash and subsequent violent arrest Tuesday morning. A police report said the ICE agent was making a “tactical move” when causing the crash; it was classified as “non-criminal.”

chicago.suntimes.com

Chicago police quickly close investigation of hit-and-run crash during chaotic ICE arrest in Albany Park

A police spokesperson said the case was suspended after investigators exhausted all "investigative leads," despite video evidence showing the crash and the subsequent violent arrest Tuesday morning.

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

If Colts fans still existed, they'd be furious that the Bears are Indiana's Problem Now

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Are we really going to spend all summer with the cops buzzing about the lakefront because they are scared of literal teenagers?

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Can’t really get into a Stanley Cup final with two hot weather teams, but obviously go Canes

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