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Someone is on a TV series but in a movie. And we go to a movie but watch it on TV, and we attend plays. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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On the one hand, The Time Tunnel ran only a single season. OTOH, that was *thirty episodes.*

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

Today is Irwin Allen's birthday, which is a very special day.

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

The secret to an enjoyable social media experience on here is to make real connections with incredible people, block quickly, and don’t be a fucking creepy asshole bent on destroying everything good in the world.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

Today in "Is Los Angeles Burning?": No.

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all about (or at least a little about) Tonys

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Today is Anne Frank’s birthday. She started her diary on the 13th anniversary of her birth. It is one of the most important, inspiring, moving documents that exists.

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

If Bluesky feels empty to you, maybe get some hobbies and interests and actually talk with people who share those hobbies and interests? I'm absolutely serious. 🤷

submitted 5 hours ago • 29 comments

Yeah, when you think about the Declaration of Independence -- which enumerated a list of grievances about King George III, rejected the traditions of the monarchy and severed political ties with England -- the words that naturally come to mind are "unity, love and respect."

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

today's not random theater photo: Dennie Moore, Jack Gilford, Gusti Huber, Susan Strasberg, and Eva Rubinstein in The Diary of Anne Frank (1955)

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

❤️

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I have seen drunkards Do more than this in sport.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

[narrator's voice] It was not, in fact, a tough one.

submitted 16 hours ago • 31 comments

*taps on sign*

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

I'm sure that there's something conceivably less funny than a joke predicated on the inability to distinguish between Les Misérables and Sweeney Todd, but I'm hard-pressed to think what it might be.

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

Don't mix them up.

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

A thought or two about the Tonys—about the things themselves, not about who got 'em.

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Rough brushwork to match a rough, strong fortress in ruins: Hadleigh Castle, 1828, by John Constable. His day has been today.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Panel members include literal strains of measles and polio.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Jaysus.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

A Tonys thought or two:

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

My relatives keep asking me how we're doing in the riots. I say, you mean the police riots? Cuz no one else is rioting.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

My work here is done

submitted 1 day ago • 237 comments

Double.

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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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