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As an aside, I grew up in rural Vermont and even in the 80s-90s some people were actively using work horses for things like logging and farming. One time a local logger used his horse to pull our family car out of a muddy patch.

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Looking around online, looks like horse delivery vans, especially for dairy, started to be replaced in the 1950s. I know I have seen them in British movies of the period.

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Brown is such an extremely middle of the road Dem, which is why I don’t understand the Democrats’ hand-wringing about trying to appeal to the other side. No matter what a Democrat does, they will be depicted like this.

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 5h

From the photos I have seen, the movie is set in the early 1950s and the horse and cabby is now a horse and delivery man with a wagon

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I think it was @princessdido.bsky.social who first recommended it to me and it was very enlightening! Also I had just finished reading Sayers’ translation of The Divine Comedy, and there was some really interesting back and forth between her and Lewis about it in here

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 5h

Lewis’s views on women were not static and changed a lot during his lifetime, and a lot of that came about through his friendships with women

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 6h

Since the Narnia trailer I am seeing a lot of people talk about C.S. Lewis and his views on women. Probably the most insightful book on the topic that I have read is Dorothy and Jack by @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 6h

Her cover of Don McLean’s Vincent is a favorite of mine, will have to give this a listen

John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 8h

Started Elder Race on my walk this morning, pretty fun so far!

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 18h

And that bad boy’s name? The great-grandson of Albert Einstein

John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve read a number of his, they’re very fun

Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 21h

Reposted by John Herreid

"Chickens go in, Oreos come out." "What sort of Oreos?"

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 18h

What should my next audiobook be? I just finished a more serious history / religious book, aiming for some kind of dumb sci fi next. Bonus if it’s stand-alone instead of book one of seventeen or whatever.

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I went to a Spirit Halloween a couple of weeks ago and they had some Christmas stuff in there along with Halloween

Hey to be fair this looks exactly like some art that Johnny Depp would make

“I was a child in 2020” A LIKELY STORY

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My son, who is old enough to vote for the first time this year, just got a mailer shaming him for not voting in previous elections

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I keep forgetting he’s no longer in his 50s like he was during Doctor Who

I don’t know who any of these people are but they look like the cast of a terrible Evelyn Waugh pastiche

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Other thought from the trailer is that Daniel Craig looks like a fairly good Uncle Andrew but my ideal Uncle Andrew is still Peter Capaldi

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Surprisingly blasé about torture 🤝 Severian Gonzo

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Movie adaptations I would like to see: A stop-motion Redwall A trilogy of films based on the Tripods books by John Christopher An anime of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe The Hobbit animated film made by Patrick McHale

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My daughter’s one is like a mashup of that style plus some 1930s photos we found of a Halloween party that included decorations

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I have some of those! I think we have that entire top row. And, yes, the ones we made were inspired by them.

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Seems like 80% of the vintage style stuff on Etsy is AI, which is sad because there are good scans of a lot of vintage holiday cards and they are all in the public domain, so it would be easy to make non-AI prints

Her autobiographical movie Lady Bird (which I liked quite a bit) really drives this home. I know quite a few former Lady Birds.

There’s a certain variety of private school kid that gives off the same vibe as certain homeschooled kids, and Greta Gerwig has that vibe

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A lot of these are short transcripts (ai assisted) but they also add a story highlights summary with bullet points, as if reading two or three paragraphs is just too difficult

Why are you trying to do this to me? (Sorry, I know the answer: boomer management thinks everyone desires AI because they have AI psychosis from talking to their phones and pretending they are in Star Trek)

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Yeah, actually I do not need an AI summary of a 600 word local news story from a Cincinnati tv station because I am not a moron with an attention span of less than 20 seconds.

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Like the Trader Joe’s cash registers. They should also gobble in November and jingle in December

Watching the Narnia trailer reminds me that when I was little my family had a carom board with plastic rings and I would take the green and red ones to pretend I was traveling to the Wood Between the Worlds

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I had carefully cultivated a feed that was good, and had stopped following or blocked a lot of people who had been normal back in 2020 or so, but as I decided to leave I realized that I had really ended up with a blinkered view of what the site had become

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I kind of feel like I left Twitter late in the game because the last straw for me was widespread Catholic defense of Calvin Robinson doing a Nazi salute in January 2025, and it seemed like a cesspool then. Can’t imagine how bad it is now

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Lewis / Gerwig handshake meme about lighting themselves on fire if a single person doesn’t get the obvious metaphors in their work

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