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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love the polar bear, but the hand-wringing chipmunk in the pink dress? I am SEEN. Thank you for this. 🩷

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Don’t gay men get altitude sickness? They love Machu Picchu.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Now I’m curious about the upright plucked plaster turkey in the background. Also, I know Lisa.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today the line "Do you like canned salmon, Mr. Kirby?" from Kaufman and Hart’s YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU is stuck in my head. 🥫🐟💸

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“I don’t think there’s anyone who I felt closer to in America in the music scene.” I’m so moved by Yusuf / Cat Stevens’s words about Dolly Parton. 🦋💔☮️🚂

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Aw, I have to contribute to this one. 🦋 (My cat wears a wig, too.)

The glorious Dolly Parton in the 1970s, smiling warmly to the camera and holding a sandy-colored kitten

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

William Wyler and whoever else pulled off the chariot-racing scene in BEN-HUR did extraordinary work.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

He also enjoys the work of Tennessee Williams, @jeremyoharris.bsky.social, and David Markson. As well as the criticism of Pauline Kael, but only when she reviews Julie Christie.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Happy #InternationalCatDay! Nigel T. Cat enjoys critical race theory, Lord Tennyson, and novelty gift books about Julia Child.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today I look like Sol, Mr. Hooper's nephew who got a little lit with Susan and Gordon after the store closed and woke up in a canoe behind 123 Sesame Street. #comedy #GenX

Ernie and Bert from Sesame Street wearing life jackets in a rowboat

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The first week of August is the best time to take off with us: 🛫👐🎵 youtu.be/2lrNY05rJ88?...

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take off with us ~ airotica （All That Jazz - movie）

YouTube video by sonnakotoaruka

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Decided I’ll only see THE ODYSSEY if it includes one of these lines: “I made these shorts for you, Dissy. The fruit of my loom.” “How old is that damn dog?” “Shut UP, Cassandra!” 🌊🏺💘

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I can't believe there isn't a mystery book called MURDER AT THE MARRIOTT MARQUIS. #nyc #genius #broadway

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I can’t wait to read it! So excited. 👏🏽💕⭐️📕

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

For serious: DEATH OF A SALESGIRL— a ska musical. #Broadway #theatre #genius

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I don’t believe there ever can or will be a greater star than Miss Diana Ross. 🌟 youtu.be/go6zCSBVsK8?...

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Diana Ross @ Central Park 1983 Day Two - Endless Love

YouTube video by NilesNL69

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I don't like promo codes. That's my #IndependenceDay post. 🌭🍦🎉

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"We went over to their playbox, Haines and I, the plumbers' hall. Our players are creating a new art for Europe like the Greeks or M. Maeterlinck. Abbey Theatre! I smell the pubic sweat of monks." —ULYSSES, chapter 9. Happy #Bloomsday! 🇮🇪🐈

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I don’t have a Tony, but I do have a Cathy.

A three-inch figurine of Cathy the comic strip character.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Funky Jan and the Animal Kingdom have pulled out of the Freedom 250 concert.

Funky Jan the Mouse from the cartoon THE DEVIL AND DANIEL MOUSE

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Let this former professor of Persian help you out: the last syllable rhymes with “doze.” As if you’re saying, “whore, ‘mos!” #straitofhormuz 🇮🇷🏳️‍🌈

Ann Miller dancing fabulously…on a rooftop in Culver City?

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This will be my line for the summer. “Have a good weekend?” “I’ve taken a new lover.” “Find everything you were looking for?” “Yes, I’ve taken a new lover.”

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Excerpt from the book How Democracies Die.

"America's democratic norms, then, were born in a context of exclusion. As long as the political community was restricted largely to whites, Democrats and Republicans had much in common. Neither party was likely to view the other as an existential threat. The process of racial inclusion that began after World War II and culminated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act would, at long last, fully democratization the United States. But it would also polarized it, posing the greatest challenge to established forms of mutual tolerating and forbearance since Reconstruction."

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Chatting with my friend about PRACTICAL MAGIC 2, I was inspired to take this picture.

The eighth edition of E.M. Forster’s A ROOM WITH A VIEW, opened to the signed title page, and the possibly AI-designed cover of the romance novel THE PUMPKIN SPICE CAFE, with a 20% off sticker from Target on it.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I’m tired of being frantic, funny, and coping.

A TV Guide ad from 1987 for the first animated special of Cathy Guisewite’s CATHY comic strip.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

When you have tonsillitis and the President says your entire civilization “will die tonight” if he can’t take your oil: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkByoBjb/

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In the studio with #nellcarter #gimmeabreak #80stv #tvthemesongs #fyp

TikTok video by Ka$h Kade

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Happy belated #WorldTheatreDay! Very happy to have spent it at the @abbeytheatre.bsky.social, witnessing their vast, truly stellar production of The Plough and the Stars. “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”—attributed to Sean O’Casey 🎭🌍✨

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I’ve had Al Jarreau’s “Moonlighting” theme song stuck in my head since 3am. 🌙🩶

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/03/2026

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

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Daniel Rafinejad @dannoway.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I'm still incapable of writing something on here about Iran, and I taught Persian at Harvard.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

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