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Hide and Seek (1996) dir. Su Friedrich

#hide and seek

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Hide and Seek (1996) dir. Su Friedrich

#hide and seek

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Surveillance exchange

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“I used to be invited to go on television and give a historian’s perspective on current events. I spoke on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, among others. But the experience grew less satisfying over time. As a commentator on CNN for Barack Obama’s inauguration, I patiently waited my turn to speak, only to discover that there were no turns. If I wanted to be heard I had to shout over whoever was then talking. Fox News insisted on a pre-interview before the real thing. This is not uncommon. Producers get a sense of the areas of expertise of the guests. Fox News took it further. Their producer explained what I was expected to say. As a university professor, I was positioned as a liberal. What I told the producer I would actually say didn’t fit the category envisioned for me. The invitations stopped coming from Fox News. MSNBC was more subtle. I have a cussed streak in me that causes me to question the dominant interpretation on just about any subject. The MSNBC talking heads would develop a head of progressive steam, and I would say something like, Hold on, it’s more complicated than that. The hosts would simply not come back to me when it should have been my turn to speak.”

— (2) Politics and history

#on media

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2023 Wrap Up pt. 1

Favorite Books Read in 2023:

This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Rebound by Kwame Alexander

A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud

Favorite Movies Watched in 2023:

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dir. Kwan, Scheinert

Past Lives (2023) dir. Celine Song

Ghost (1990) dir. Jerry Zucker

Join or Die (2023) dir. Rebecca and Pete Davis

Ace in the Hole (1951) dir. Billy Wilder

The Village (2004) dir. M. Night Shyamalan

Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

As Long as We Both Shall Live (2023) dir. Ayuko Tsukahara

#2023 #2023 Wrap Up

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Elizabeth (1998) dir. Shekhar Kapur

#elizabeth

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FLAPPER FANNY SAYS, by Anericn cartoonist, Ethel Hays (1892-1989).

#comics

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©Philomena Famulok  

#form

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CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) dir. Herk Harvey

#carnival of souls

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Carol Kane at the 'William Hunter Hickley Paintings Exhibit' at Crane's Restaurant in New York City, 1987. Photo by Ron Galella.

#art

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LMAO JOJO??

#jojo's fan interactions.... unparalleled #only friends the series

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#taskmaster #i havent laughed like this in ages

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Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430-1479)

"Pietà (Dead Christ supported by three angels)", ca. 1475

Museo Correr, Venice

#art

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#joyful!

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#lmao

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I know it's been a couple of months, but I do well and truly hate the way clicking on people's urls works now. It's impossible to get rid of stupid additions to otherwise good posts now because you can't just click on the url of the previous addition and/or op and get their version of the post now since you're shot to the top of their blog instead. And 99% of the time when I come across an otherwise good post with a stupid addition on the end that I now can't get rid of, I just don't reblog the post. Tumblr has actively disincentivized user engagement with this shitty UI change

#this is a huge reason for my reduced use of the site #its so hard to find peoples orginal tags too #ao i cant find stuff #tumblr

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Katara 🌊🩵

#atla