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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 · 29/09/2026

He's got big skates to fill, give him the big room!

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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!"

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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

That’s it, I’m running for mayor!!!

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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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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Paramount is just exploiting their expiring IP (Tom Cruise)

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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 · 23/08/2026

Asking for less than I expected tbh

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wither the Robs who are now without their Reiner?

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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 · 14/08/2026

This film is *still* the highest attended movie for Cornell Cinema 50 years later. Put up ridiculous numbers back in the 70s that just can’t be matched. Quite literally almost everyone on campus saw it

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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

I remember watching part of TREE OF LIFE from the booth, arriving with my print delivery just as dinosaurs appeared on screen. I turned to Steve with a confused look ("I thought you were showing the new Malick??") and he gave me the biggest "what can ya do?" shrug. A really special place...

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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.

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

I'm sorry, that's not one of the categories! Would you like to vote for "accessibility" paired with installing security cameras instead?

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Douglas McLaren @carbonarc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

As a past Industry attendee, I kept deleting all the Marketplace registration emails (I don't finance films!) expecting an announcement for P&I registrations. Only recently did I realize "Marketplace" *is* P&I... Have to say between that and the shrinking of Wavelengths, I'm blasé about the fest!

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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.

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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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