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Pretty chilling reading on Halloween. https://prospect.org/politics/2024-10-30-what-will-you-do-trump-wins/

Pretty chilling reading on Halloween. https://prospect.org/politics/2024-10-30-what-will-you-do-trump-wins/

This is the first election I have ever lived in a bellwether county. No one has ever cared much about my vote before. I grew up in a blue...

This is the first election I have ever lived in a bellwether county. No one has ever cared much about my vote before. I grew up in a blue town in a swing state, have voted in CA (as GOP) and TX (as DEM).

In PA, 4 people visited my house, got numerous calls (when I told one pollster what I thought of the "father of IVF" she started laughing), 4 postcards to my husband, 50-60 mailers (Joe Emrick's campaign LOVES dog whistle racism, sexism in their ads - what a great dad).

I've seen some seriously weird ads in Allentown. One was a light blue electronic billboard targeting women, said "Fire Her. Hire Him"'; another had a target with a woman's leg sticking out of it and had some BS re: "she" couldn't do the job. Do they realize women still vote or still listening to that liar Vance?

Lots of Burma Shave like signs like "Trump = Good/ Kamala = Bad". This is Space Karen's (#ElonMusk) $$ for neuro-linguistic programming writ large.

#VoteBlue in #USelections for #KamalaHarris

That murderer's hair is very Hugh Grant meets New Romantic 1980s. Somehow I don't think there'll be an epilogue with dancing to...

That murderer's hair is very Hugh Grant meets New Romantic 1980s. Somehow I don't think there'll be an epilogue with dancing to the Pointer Sisters. #TVMysteries

I know so many of us were gutted to hear the news about James Earl Jones. My great uncle struggled with stuttering. When I was about five or...

I know so many of us were gutted to hear the news about James Earl Jones. My great uncle struggled with stuttering. When I was about five or so I learned who Jones was, and that he had been a stutterer. I didn't know the whole story, that he'd been sent to rural Michigan as a boy from Mississippi - I can't imagine how tough that was. But hearing that he'd lived with stuttering, and then developed that magnificent voice, that confidence? That was a powerful lesson that has remained with me. His work has added so much to the world, and so too his willingness to talk about his earlier problems. I know folks will be thinking about Darth Vader, but I say, bless his teacher who fought to give him his voice back. Bless him for developing the strength and courage to share himself like he did.
#JamesEarlJones

David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine: "This week, Stanford University announced a conference on pandemic policy that features several...

David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine: "This week, Stanford University announced a conference on pandemic policy that features several of the usual suspects who spread misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic."
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanford-university-will-host-a-conference-on-pandemic-planning-featuring-the-usual-covid-19-suspects/
#CovidIsNotOver #misinformation

David Brooks, on PBS NewsHour's coverage, recently mentioned an essay he wrote about research on emotional intelligence ("EQ")...

David Brooks, on PBS NewsHour's coverage, recently mentioned an essay he wrote about research on emotional intelligence ("EQ") and rationalism - in a broader discussion of the "EQ" that Kamala Harris has and Donald Trump lacks. If you're interested, the article is here, please feel free to share it with a rational friend or family member who's on the fence: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/opinion/emotions-feelings-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE4.3yBO.bV6_0YJMzr7n&smid=url-share

Going to be harder to enjoy Parker Posey's roles. Who knew this Southern belle wasn't acting in DAZED AND CONFUSED or as Tom...

Going to be harder to enjoy Parker Posey's roles. Who knew this Southern belle wasn't acting in DAZED AND CONFUSED or as Tom Hanks' false romantic lead in YOU'VE GOT MAIL (you know, where HE plays a jerk, too)? I've seen rabid politicos behave with more class than these two actresses did, in response to rather normal questions ... and all to supposedly prove feminist cred while doing a Woody Allen film I'll never be seeing, either. How bubblefied are these folks to not understand that if they act like asses with a camera on them, it will impact who goes to see "It Ends With Us"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2-2RBi1qzY&t=2s

Rest in power Bobby Canales. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/08/12/eddie-canales-dead/

Rest in power Bobby Canales. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/08/12/eddie-canales-dead/

Two things the media is doing a piss-poor job on, currently; 1) investigating more deeply the charge that Trump received a significant...

Two things the media is doing a piss-poor job on, currently; 1) investigating more deeply the charge that Trump received a significant ($10m) amount from Egypt in 2016; 2) JD Vance's already slimed those of us who don't have kids - including those of us who have unsuccessfully spent out of pocket on fertility drugs, IVF and adoption. But these journalists need to crack open a book, dig deeper at his pronatal "thought experiment" where he describes people with children getting extra proxy votes. This is a callback to the 3/5ths rule during slavery. That might sound extreme, but many of us have known kids escaping large quiverfull, pronatalist families (who support TFG). "Heir and spare" jokes aside, those who escaped have discussed on Reddit, etc being created as free labor, cannon fodder. These kids are exploited; Vance thinks their parents should also be able to proxy vote for them.
I don't know how this guy can shave himself in the morning, facing himself without puking.

Gee, as half a million books were yanked from the Internet Archive - thousands of them out of print - we have Paramount *destroy* the entire...

Gee, as half a million books were yanked from the Internet Archive - thousands of them out of print - we have Paramount *destroy* the entire MTV News archive going back decades. (That worked really well for the BBC, idiots... And Star Trek fans, expect them to delete "franchise" materials they don't know how to sell). It's almost as if major media conglomerates want to rewrite history, badly, with the aid of AI, and make us pay dearly for it. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/27/paramount-kills-mtv-news-archives-because-who-cares-about-history/ #startrek #internetarchive

Horribly sad explanation about how the BLAIR WITCH actors have been exploited at length for 25 years. It's also a great example of why...

Horribly sad explanation about how the BLAIR WITCH actors have been exploited at length for 25 years. It's also a great example of why actors, writers, producers need to be willing to invest in formal legal help (and to occasionally read legal guides for people in the industry). You cannot depend on a handshake or a piece of paper you've not had a professional read through, and I say that from experience - not only my own, but things I've seen my friends go through.
Also, the Blair Witch "directors and producers" who refused to comment are cowardly people willing to continue to profit off the people whose labor they exploited for their own gain -- unsavory it may be, but yes, this is why Chris Carter and Gene Roddenberry both had later issues with the actors who made their work famous. https://variety.com/2024/film/news/blair-witch-project-cast-robbed-financial-success-1236033647/ #indiefilm #indie

It's getting hot out there (87F🌡️ where I am) and that brings me to the shocking news (to me) that "Sid the Seagull" in...

It's getting hot out there (87F🌡️ where I am) and that brings me to the shocking news (to me) that "Sid the Seagull" in the "Slip, Slop, Slap" ads was voiced by none other than Shane Porteous, Dr. Elliot of A COUNTRY PRACTICE.
Whether it's true or not, melanoma sucks (my mother and uncle have both had it) so if you've never seen this gem, share with your friends. #slipslopslap #cutebird #cartoon #seagullsgivingsageadvice
https://youtu.be/b7nocIenCYg?si=5oYVWHg1f0f4ji65

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/16/secret-misery-of-women-working-in-tv-television“The onus is still too much on...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/16/secret-misery-of-women-working-in-tv-television

“The onus is still too much on the people who are underrepresented to fix themselves,” she says, “rather than on those with the power to fix things structurally. We should instead be asking decision-makers: ‘Why does their decision-making disadvantage certain people?’”

Truer words...

Rest in power, Paul Alexander. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/paul-alexander-iron-lung-obituary-1.7143057

Rest in power, Paul Alexander. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/paul-alexander-iron-lung-obituary-1.7143057

So a Trek actor disrespected the strike terms at a major event. Yeah, well, RB never left the Lyndon Larouche political cult, it predates...

So a Trek actor disrespected the strike terms at a major event. Yeah, well, RB never left the Lyndon Larouche political cult, it predates MAGA and Q drops and so on. (Read Dr. Janja Lilach's website to learn more about political cults).
In fact, RB was using Ed Asner's death (yes THAT Ed Asner) as an opportunity to promote Larouche just a few years ago.
About 10 years ago, a friend of mine almost died from an aneurysm. She and Ed were friends. I only know he was a staunch supporter during a long recovery. He was the opposite of B - not transactional, passionate. He supported people he loved. As former SAG president Ed would be so spitting mad at B's asshole act. This is a man whose series on CBS was cancelled over his ACTUAL political speech. No way would he be ok with RB's dipshittery.

Nobody's perfect, but RB just reminds me of the old line of "when people show you who they are, believe them". Enjoy the work, ignore the cabbagehead, keep supporting #SAGAFTRAstrike

Goodbye to Robbie Robertson, from a gal (not named Annie) living a couple miles from Nazareth. When we tell people of a certain age that we...

Goodbye to Robbie Robertson, from a gal (not named Annie) living a couple miles from Nazareth. When we tell people of a certain age that we live down the road from the town in "The Weight" they all get it.
And I do appreciate why a few dislike "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" but to me it is an antiwar song, one of the greatest. Robbie's music will live on.

Meet co-conspirator #6 who tried to subvert your votes: Kenneth Chesebro. This boil on the butt of America deliberately misused his own...

Meet co-conspirator #6 who tried to subvert your votes: Kenneth Chesebro. This boil on the butt of America deliberately misused his own mentor's work to undermine legal votes of millions of people. Can't wait until the wheels of justice grind his ability to steal so much as a piece of bubble gum. His memo is nothing but a ghost gun trying to kill our representative democracy.

https://www.justsecurity.org/87498/kenneth-chesebros-misrepresentation-of-laurence-tribe-scholarship-in-his-efforts-to-overturn-the-2020-presidential-election/
#january6
#trumpindictment
#kennethchesebro

Saw Joseph Gordon-Levitt on MSNBC's Morning Joe, about the #ActorsStrike....

Saw Joseph Gordon-Levitt on MSNBC's Morning Joe, about the #ActorsStrike. https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/if-artificial-intelligence-takes-your-job-ai-should-pay-you-argues-actor-joseph-gordon-levitt-189294661872 - please share with family, friends who don't understand AI. Especially those who don't get what's at stake for background artists (or extras) now, everyone else later.

Ever been an extra on a film? I have. It was a highlight for my dad in the 1950s. Selling your image for all time to a production company like Disney, for a day's pay, is insane. Especially when you consider Disney animation has been based on non-actors' movement and data, going back to SNOW WHITE!

I've trained an AI system to ingest data before. He's explaining it in down to earth terms, both on the tech and its impact on all kinds of workers, such as crew like gaffers, costume, art direction, making the entertainment we love. It's important that anyone whose work is ingested get residuals. Definitely check it out.
#aftrastrong #sagstrong #ai #wgastrike

Great video/podcast here on the #WGAstrike and #SAGStrike. I had never heard Nicole Sandler before this; turns out she is a long time radio...

Great video/podcast here on the #WGAstrike and #SAGStrike. I had never heard Nicole Sandler before this; turns out she is a long time radio producer turned host, who got her start on one of Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters stations. She later produced Don Imus, apparently. This is a longform, interesting interview with Frances Fisher, David Jolliffe (Bernie on ROOM 222), and Sean Astin (yes, star of Goonies and LOTR!). It goes into the nitty gritty about how health care and other aspects needed by retirees and jobbing actors, writers, and crew have been gutted. Fisher talks poignantly about a PA (production assistant) fed by writers on a set, once lunch was cut as an unnecessary "perk" for crew. Looking back I barely know how I made rent as an intern, PA, etc. I can't imagine how younger people do it now.
Check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/live/8IY_jVa4TzM?feature=share

Great little video with three easy ways to support the #SAGAFTRAstrike and #WGAstrike. https://youtube.com/shorts/hAUYo0XQpg4?feature=share4

Great little video with three easy ways to support the #SAGAFTRAstrike and #WGAstrike.
https://youtube.com/shorts/hAUYo0XQpg4?feature=share4