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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

There are precious few certainties in life, yet I think we can *all* agree that were "The Matrix" made today, the role of Mouse would have been played by Pete Davidson.

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Mexican entrepreneurship knows no limits… Behold the ICE officer piñata 🪅

A piñata sold in Mexico in the shape of an ICE officer

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

You're Next (Whenever You're Up to It) #MildHorror

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Excited about Geno's return to the Mariners, but bringing in my love of Vincent Price.

Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes in a screengrab from "The Abominable Dr. Phibes," with a skeletal mask, silky white robe and pants, and white gloves. He is seating at an organ with red translucent panels, and is turned looking back at us. At the bottom is the text, "GOOD PHIBES ONLY" in Seattle Mariner teal.

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Amazing screening tonight at the mostly-full, 999-seat Geffen Theater at the Academy! My first time seeing my favorite director in person, and my first opportunity to see a favorite film on the big screen since I saw it in '99.

A slide on the screen of the David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum for tonight's screening. There's a picture of Al Pacino and Russell Crowe talking in a car in a screengrab from the film. The slide reads:
"BRANCH SELECTS
"The Insider in 35mm
"Selected by the Writers Branch
"Intro video:
"Writers: Eric Roth and Michael Mann
"In person:
"Director Michael Mann and
"Dana Stevens, Governor, Writers Branch
"Wednesday, July 16"

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Cal Raleigh does it! Fantastic Derby performance!

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I wish private equity could buy climate change so it would stop working

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This 30-second Japanese commercial for car stereos featuring Warren Oates and the music of Ry Cooder is better than any film you’ve seen this year.

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I always go back and forth between Schifrin and Goldsmith as the greatest film composer, but really, only Schifrin in all the history of cinema made percussion and brass work for the image better than *anyone* before or after him, and likely anyone in the foreseeable future.

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I can't find any protests tonight, and I don't know where to direct my fury that this absurd country decided to simply throw in the towel 366 days before the tricentennial for no other reason than to turn the billionaires into trillionaires just for funsies.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

No one’s taking this one on, gonna have to eat his contract and DFA him

Hakeem Jeffries posts pic of him holding a baseball bat with the caption: "House Democrats will keep the pressure on Trump's One Big Ugly Bill 💪

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actually its fens monster @cringeunworthy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

if your milk hotel is neutral in times of injustice, your milk hotel has chosen the side of the oppressor.

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al-boo @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 23/06/2025

BREAKING: codebreakers have finally solved the Zodiac’s final cypher. After years of studying and many (MANY) attempts, experts have agreed that the decoded message reflects Zodiac’s last will and testament. it reads: ANDREW CUOMO FOR NYC MAYOR 2025

a photo of the Zodiac’s last cipher which has finally been decoded after all these years

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Tomorrow is the Dobbs anniversary. So many of the Democrats who endorsed Cuomo, a serial sexual harasser & danger to every woman & girl who gets close to him, will issue statements pretending to care about women. But you either support women or you support Cuomo-not both

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This sign above the urinal was a clear indicator that I was too old for the bar.

Sign written with Magic Marker on a bathroom wall that reads "PLEASE DO NOT SPIT ZYNS into the urinal. They MESS with our Plumbing Trash is RIGHT BEHIND You. Thank You."

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Old Fashioned Bologna Salad @bolognasalad.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

One of the ads running on Slant Magazine is by the State of Israel, laying out a deeply stupid and risible case for going to war with Iran. Absolutely appalling and infuriating. I can't find a link to it, but apparently it's been running on YouTube as well.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Hard agree We shouldn't be referring to these people as "Federal agents" until we get proof that they actually are that While we're at it, we should stop saying people are being "arrested" when they are being kidnapped And stop saying "deported" if they're being extrajudicially rendered

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Looking for jobs on Indeed has started to feel like doomscrolling.

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

like i can't even begin to explain to you how many movies came out in the 2000s and had everyone dress like they were in the matrix as if it was the clothes alone that had made the matrix such a huge success and not the groundbreaking script cast action choreography sfx and production design

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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.”

On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use.

On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm.

On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This idiotic curfew contains the whole of the William Mead housing project which is full of people who are already vulnerable to criminalization and profiling. Our folks had to call through all our lists to let them know because the city apparently saw fit to announce it with a text message at 8:07

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Something I've been thinking a lot about recently is how powerful abusers don't really need to convince you of any one lie but rather just flood the zone with bullshit to render it "complex" enough that nobody feels confident enough to intervene on behalf of the victim

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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Who do they want me to marry, though?

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joemag @joemag.games · 09/06/2025

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

Map of LA neighborhoods with a small red circle near the edge of DTLA

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/06/2025

And if you're at a protest and things start to get too scary, listen to your own gut. Don't do things just because some stranger or some "leader" with a megaphone gives an order. You feel sketched out? Don't do it. Don't march into that tunnel. Don't kneel in front of cops. Just bug out.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hey everyone, you want to know a fun factoid? Almost all of the federal agents currently in LA aren’t local, which means they’re staying at a hotel somewhere. Hotels have fire alarms. Wanna know another fun fact? If protests start popping off in other states, they can’t be everywhere at once.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

No big deal, just Anne and I seeing probably the second greatest animated Disney film on 35mm at the New Beverly.

the movie poster for "The Great Mouse Detective" in a marquee frame, outside of the New Beverly Cinema.

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My top four favorite heist movie (well, for right now) #filmsky

Looking down at Tom Cruise hanging on to the outside of the Burj Khalifa with the street many, many, many floors down in the distance, in a screengrab from "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol."

Tuesday Weld on the left and James Caan on the right at a window-side booth at a cafe, in conversation, in a screengrab from "Thief."

David Strathairn, playing a blind man, grinning while information from a dangerous MacGuffin reflects on his darkened glasses, in a screengrab from "Sneakers."

Alan Rickman, looking vaguely concerned, talking into a walkie-talkie, in a screengrab from "Die Hard."

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Watching "Last Week Tonight" every week is a great yet distressing experience. The most horrifying part of it: Max desperately tries after the episode to get me to watch fucking Bill Maher. Zaslav, I will *never* watch that racist shitbird, and him and Oliver are not related politically!

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Wrapping up an excellent birthday weekend of NES, exploring LA (including a cupcake ATM!), a softball walk-off that got us into next week's playoffs, and finally watching my Blu-rays of "Screamers" and "Sansho the Bailiff."

A cupcake ATM by the cupcake bakery, Sprinkles, with a touchscreen on the left, a credit card payment device in the center, and a little door on the right that slides up when the cupcake is ready. It's all pink.

Spadena, the "witch's house," in Beverly Hills, with the garden, including branches with fake crows on them, in the foreground.

My TV showing the Blu-ray menu for "Sansho the Bailiff."

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Probably for the best that there's no analog to Malcolm Tucker in the Trump administration, but wouldn't it be amazing to hear the recordings of him absolutely destroying Hegseth and Waltz?

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Here for tonight's Noir City double feature, "Detour" and "My True Story."

Still on the big screen for Detour as part of Noit City featuring the actor looking through a car window

The Graumans Egyptian sign on the front of the theater with an extra sign above it reading Noir City: Hollywood

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Had a great online hangout with friends, made some food, poured a cocktail, and now it's "Miami Vice" o'clock.

Me holding a cocktail in the forefront of the frame, with the "Miami Vice" episode, 'Phil the Shill,' on the TV in the background.

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Looking at a recipe in a cook-book for people "on-the-go" and all of a sudden I get to a recipe requiring "12 oz angler fish fillet," and, yeah, will absolutely check for that at Ralph's when next I'm there...

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I started a monthly book club but for cult films, using Peary's "Cult Movies" books and Tobias' "New Cult Canon" lists. Just wrapped this month's discussion, with Glazer's "Under the Skin" and Roeg's "The Man Who Fell to Earth." It went wide enough to encompass the "Westphall Theory," so good talk!

Scarlett Johansson, in black wig and brown (faux?) fur coat, driving a van past the blurred visage of a man in front of a Glaswegian brick wall.

A still from "The Man Who Fell to Earth," with Bowie in alien makeup and water tubes around his head and shoulders, standing in front of a partly cloudy sky.

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

For a guy who's just not a power-hitter even in beer-league softball, getting a homer and two doubles in a game sure helps toward climbing out of depression, at least for a little bit.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I've been very hesitant to admit to most people that I was laid off last week. It dawned on me last night that once the anger (mostly) wore off that I've been left with a sense of shame. Hardly fair to myself, that feeling. Hopefully this realization will help me overcome my job search anxiety...

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Walter Chaw is amazing not only because reading his works makes one understand cinema in new and vital ways, but I feel like I get a little better understanding of myself at the same time.

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Henry @phrozen.com · 07/03/2025

Sign even if you aren’t in Beverly Hills or even California!!!

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I did the HK Cinematrix that was pulled for being too difficult, and even got the rarest correct answer for one of them! Cinemasochist Grid No. 2: The Hong Kong Trio I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2387 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play this special game at vulture.com/article/dail...

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Cinemasochist Grid No. 2: The Hong Kong Trio

Can you name a Wong Kar-wai movie released between 1990 and 2000?

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Kyle Smith @radiofreekyle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, your "opposition" party.

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