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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fascinating! I don't what it means that I immediately go to him being the sexiest damn Lord of Darkness ever captured on film and maybe also the weaselly doctor in Hunt for Red October

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And it was written by Barry Gibb. It was just a monster hit.

One of the loveliest songs to come out of Dolly, Linda and Emmylou's Trio albums is this heavenly cover of To Know Him Is To Love Him. They all sounded so great and looked so happy. (Fun fact: this video was directed by George Lucas, Linda's serious boyfriend at the time.) youtu.be/IRBZN8V2Fa4...

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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC table L-24 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Testify. My wife and I visited Dollywood the weekend I proposed and it was a magical experience. Great food, wonderful ambience. We loved the bald eagle sanctuary..

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I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

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Evil John 2: John By Dawn @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The one thing that brings me solace is that Dolly had many hundreds of unreleased songs, and at least since 2019 she started recording vocals for all of them, hoping that producers would arrange them and release them after she left us. Her art isn’t done with us yet.

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She didn't die. She sailed West, to the Undying Lands and remained Galadriy'all.

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I remember them selling this performance so hard that people were wondering for months if they were actually in love. She was just an unmatched performer.

Jesus Christ, I'm sorry. You deserve better than this horseshit. Thanks for the heads-up. Blocking anywhere I can block.

Also I saw found out recently that Nikos Kazantzakis wrote a sequel to the Odyssey where he pals around with Jesus, Don Quixote and an incarnation of the Buddha, and has him wind up menaced by an iceberg in Antarctica and now I want Scorsese to take a shot at that.

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 30/07/2026

A thing that was criticized a lot was the choice to let his cast speak in their New Yawk accents and what not, but I love the approach. Scorsese said at the time that Deimotic Greek was a working-class accent, and he felt like his choice was more accurate and immediate.

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"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being." Just impossible with this crew.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Steve Jobs was awful in many ways, but his email near the end of his life, summarizing all the things that come from other people that make life worth living - food, clothing, medicine, art, law, language - was an act of humility this crop of techbros is fundamentally incapable of understanding.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I don’t think they’re equating it to the size - obviously this is much worse with a far greater concentration of wealth - so much as the sense of inevitability and the ridiculous plethora of signs that this industry has failed and they’re triaging the shit out of it.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A fair number have been actively bringing up the dot com implosion for at least the last six months. When it happens, it may be when China blows past us in every economic metric. Permanently. The public buy-in is huge bc the govt steers it hard. There won't be a comparable cratering there.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I miss intermissions. The theater I grew up with in Ukiah would put in an intermission in ANY film that didn't have it, whatever the length. (I can still tell you exactly the point they put in the intermission for ROCKY.)

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Typically they update all versions, but you might need to clear out your download and re-download it.

Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

it’s true, but I believe the uncensored version went back up after the outcry, back in 2023. Jen’s point is still vital, though.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I got to see One Battle After Another in true, glorious VistaVision at the Coolidge Corner in Cambridge - they have a full 70mm setup too - and I agree abt their potential as large format venues. It doesn’t solve the problem of not being able to build new IMAX projectors, but it’s still wonderful.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Yup. They're hiring two types of people: the defiantly illiterate who can't even pass an open book test (literally), and people who tortured animals when they were kids and worked their way up.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In terms of daily driving, I admit I'm an automatic guy. But whenever I have to drive a stick, I have to admit, I get kind of an electric charge that I can switch my thinking and tool that sucker down the freeway.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm gonna defend the New York part of it. I don't hate the rest of it, it's sort of meh, but I would've loved the hell out of a version where they never left the city. Them trying to sell "Little Darlin" to an aghast audience was one of the funniest things I saw in the 80s.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

That was literally the first thing we thought of when we heard the news.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

(They handle the pressing of Disney UHD discs now so they have a real issue if they can’t meet the demands of their partners.)

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m torn bc my Switch library is entirely digital - but I felt like that was appropriate for a portable machine. This is a lot more distressing. BTW, the real reason they’re doing it? There’s a huge shortage of UHD media. We’ve talked abt this in movie collector forums. This is a desperation move.

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Your words to whatever superior authority can make this happen ASAP.

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Frightfully plausible, but by the time we get to that, there won’t be a conveyance in America that won’t instantly scan and track you and get you sent to one of Stephen Miller’s re-education camps.

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I’ve never been near a Waymo. I just know that Tesla is exponentially worse on any conceivable metric.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

It's not even like it's a Waymo with a kind of ridiculous amount of miles on the road at this point and much better tech. Tesla can't even keep their purpose-designed robotaxis on the road in Austin bc of how dangerous they are. Imagine what their consumer-grade models are like.

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one thing i find funny is that the founding generation would likely have been very enthusiastic about, say, muslim immigrants and intensely skeptical of all the catholics

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You’re right, they do usually send notifications! That’s why I was deeply surprised when it kept happening without warning. The guy I talked to kept going back to, “it’s our policy.” Maddening. Anyway, right with you on all of this, friend.

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And no commissions to analyze this for two years. It's got to go into effect, like, immediately.

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Yeah. I was grateful to the family of the late, great Denny Laine for being blunt about him getting COVID in 2022, and how the subsequent lung issues from that led to his death.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Yeah. And my lead time is even longer for newspapers. The Boston Globe renewed me at full rate at least three weeks before the term was supposed to expire. Multiple times. As a former customer service guy, I try never to take it out on the person on the phone, but this was the one time I got hot.

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@sisterhyde.bsky.social Your Kubrick box design looks exquisite. You just don’t miss.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Those who are most likely to be victims of these plans are often who most desperately want to sign up. My mom, right before she went into the last three or four years of her final tailspin, would talk obsessively about them, fueled by ads. It was all I could do to steer her away.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Bush put together the task force designed to quickly respond to pandemics, the one Trump dismantled and could've saved the million+ American lives that died of COVID and multiples more internationally. Bush IS a monster, but that alone makes Trump exponentially worse. 21 mil dead on his watch.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Oh, he's apologized for the only sane things he ever said, like calling police thugs, supporting the transition of his friend, and comparing Trump to Hitler. If it made sense, there's no limit to the ways he'll apologize for it.

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Hilariously, I wrote to their suggestions box just a couple weeks ago that The Prisoner would be a great addition to the collection (since they do limited series), so OBVIOUSLY they were taking the hint

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Dimitri LaBarge @ponderer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm kind of the opinion that it's not even the product, it's the salespeople. Like, positivity about AI is now plummeting below 30% in the US. In China, it's above 85%, according to Al Jazeera. (And specifically, less than 10% of the Chinese people polled believe AI will destroy jobs.)