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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 8h

HALDEMAN: [Long pause] Should we... restrict Dr. Kissinger's access, sir? NIXON: [Unintelligible] I want scotch! And rainwater. Distilled, pure. You never see Henry drink rainwater, do you? I can feel it. A profound, debilitating depletion of my essence every time he briefs me on Cambodia

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 8h

NIXON: That's what the Georgetown cocktail circuit wants you to believe, Bob. They’re in league, those hippy academics and the Bolsheviks. They sit around in those dark little rooms, plotting HALDEMAN: Undermining the reelection, sir? NIXON: My fluids, Bob. My precious bodily fluids.

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 8h

NIXON: [Unintelligible] ...and I told him, Bob, I told him absolutely not HALDEMAN: Yes, sir. The press won't like it, but— NIXON: [Expletive deleted] the press! It's a front. Henry and that bald peasant Khrushchev [Unintelligible] HALDEMAN: Sir, Khrushchev died last year

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"French Gene Kelly isn't real and can't hurt you" Meanwhile, a relentless singing demon stalks you through the 6th arrondissement. You cannot run. You cannot hide. youtu.be/_YLVmvWdkS4?...

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Software engineers only exist in Canada. Otherwise they're just programmers

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He was desperately sweaty for all those PennState Berks and Alvernia students

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was in a similar spot last year and watched: The White Reindeer (1952), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), The Demon (1963), Onibaba (1964), Viy (1967), The Devil Rides Out (1968), Witchfinder General (1968),The Cremator (1969), Witchhammer (1970), Messiah of Evil (1973), Eyes of Fire (1983)

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, soon one ticket will get you into both (maybe, who knows yet)

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Early studio system had a few A-list directors just doing horror (or doing mostly horror) because horror was a big budget genre. That turned into tourism in 60s-00s. Agreed that prestige horror auteur is relatively new

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What, drawn and talk of fucks? I hate the word As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward!

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The wind is howling outside. You just finished doing the dishes. You'd planned to cozy up to Road to Perdition and a cup of tea—but it's too late! You were too slow! Your wife put on Center Stage. Zoe Saldana and Donna Murphy are fighting! Will she set aside her pride and get into ABT?!?

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Captive's War has been a lot of fun. Scratches that same itch

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My unwritten thesis: Jackie Chan movies are MGM musicals in disguise: wide, uncut frames, full-body stunts, rhythmic structure, props as partners, expressive and charismatic 'underdog' with the same emotional arcs youtu.be/vELQBH4UZ-o?... youtu.be/8hs6iXpInTA?... #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: Drunken Master (1978), Every Little Step (2008), Resident Evil (2026), Practical Magic (1998)

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Met Museum Membership Department, may I have your ID please. Thank you for your patronage. Yes ma'am, Member Preview Days are cancelled until further notice. I'm sorry but the Museum is inside out—you can't call me that ma'am, even if you do know a trustee. Yes, the weather has been strange"

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

lol, 'a single infallible strategy'. *chanting is heard, a fist punches through the wall of a crypt in New Orleans* Morphy: "Some fucking idiots need a beatdown?"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my eunuchs and viziers are actually honest and loyal to a fault. don't paint them all with a broad brush just because yours scheme. that's a you problem.

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Brad Bird is actually trapped at the 1939 World's Fair and to escape he must make 100 films with this aesthetic (can't wait, looks awesome)

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have you read Huthmacher's Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism? It's old ('68) but it's pretty solid archive.org/details/sena...

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Senator Robert F. Wagner and the rise of urban liberalism

xi, 362 p. : 25 cm

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?! The US Copyright Office knows!

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mods are asleep. Post Gene Kellys discovering the wonders of broadsheet journalism and American carpentry: youtu.be/Y0tnHNYpRG8?...

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Gene Kelly Solo Dance | Summer Stock | Warner Archive

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My eyes: The Leftovers My brain: *Ann Dowd voice* Kyevan My heart: *Ann Dowd voice* Kyevan My soul: *Ann Dowd voice* Kyevan My mouth: *Ann Dowd whisper* Kyevan

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

dudes rock

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They also can't refer to themselves as engineers unless we add licensing, liability, and standardization to the discipline

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Same, but with Kingdom of Heaven. I like epics, and I like when Hollywood makes them

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And don't tell my great grandmother but I occasionally use wanton wrappers for ravioli. Cross cultural exchange

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Me, when "and Margo Martindale" appears in the title credits of The Americans

Look in meme. A man keans forward in a chair

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why didn't anyone tell me that character actress Margo Martindale was in Practical Magic

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Coyote vs. Acme revives the ancient wisdom: entering and leaving the frame in dramatic ways is funny Saw a lot of my 10-year kitchen stint in Tony. Banderas is phenomenal but I've never met a monastic EC #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: Coyote vs Acme (2026), 9 to 5 (1980), Tony (2026), The End of Oak Street (2026)

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's decent evidence that Biopreparat and Camp Detrick successfully weaponized anthrax but there's also a big step between "the computer supplied the nucleotide" and "bad actors are building BSL environments in their garage"

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We have a dev server at work that prints "GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN" when you connect to it, and everyone under 40 thinks Dr Falken was an egotistical former employee

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Read anything Karpov has ever said and realize very quickly that being good at a game is not that same as intelligence

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

lol

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The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better

There are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.

Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend.

(Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website 🤦‍♂️)
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend.
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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Every Tony Scott movie is the same, and that's okay

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Hunor Deak @hunordeak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Same, especially with how great gaming on Linux is currently

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The food is already so engineered that most fast food could do this

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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself @rustylemon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."

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