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lindseyromain.bsky.social
chicago-based writer/critic (bylines: bwdr, nerdist, vulture, thrillist, etc.)
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I've been taking early walks in the park to watch and listen to birds for my sanity, and the Merlin Bird ID app has been indispensable for identifying bird songs. Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

watching spielberg’s west side story again and i legit think mike faist gives one of the best performances of the century.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

i am moving soon (just apartments not cities!) and cleaning out my closet. gonna donate most of it but i have some nicer items i'm selling. if you ever wanted to dress like me (lmfao) here's my poshmark closet

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

transcendental nihilist

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

submitted 16 hours ago • 1757 comments

Every photo of Helen Frankenthaler is the coolest photo ever taken

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

the "political activities" section of viggo mortensen's wikipedia page there to validate his status as hottest man who's ever lived.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

HEY MONEY HAVERS: when you see a huge org do something kinda good for once, Eg. Harvard, or a Dem politician, or Human Rights Watch or whatever the fuck, think about how much you want to donate to their "fund" and then donate that to a trans person, a Gazan, an abortion fund, a Black mutual aid org

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

🩷🩷🩷

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just clarifying, though this is not difficult to grasp: Anyone working on an industry project with a notorious transphobic bigot is OK with transphobic bigotry. The end.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

it causes me such pain to see snooty liberals respond to a story about a horrific, incurable, fatal occupational disease like black lung with “but how did they vote????” as if that fucking matters

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

immaculate fits in this movie

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

fun fact, criminals and undocumented ppl also do not deserve to be disappeared into a foreign gulag

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

reading a post on the chicago subreddit about worst dates in the city and i lowkey think the redhead in this story could be me…

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

My pretty mouth will frame The phrases that will disprove Your faith in man

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

And1 more thing

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

reading the female search for love by bell hooks while in line to see eraserhead, women really can have it all

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Viaje de Lady https://www.wikiart.org/en/remedios-varo/viaje-de-lady

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

me when i don’t have the budget to buy both SEVEN SAMURAI and WALKABOUT

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The benefit of being a communist is it makes people scared of you by default

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

kill it with fire and kick it into hell

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

it’s against my principles to drink with the man I’ve diddled

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

fulfilled my dream of getting my portrait taken by anna marie tendler

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

Today is the 35th anniversary of TWIN PEAKS, and next week (April 14th) a documentary I associate produced, I KNOW CATHERINE, THE LOG LADY, is making its Chicago debut at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social. Tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

This probably explains all of the “film buffs“ I’ve encountered who have seen very few actual movies, they just watch clips on YouTube and read the Wikipedia summary

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

probably the only time in my life i’m grateful that i’m too stupid to understand or have invested in the stock market

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

A lot of people seem to be under the belief that the post-war factory jobs their parents and grandparents had were good jobs because they were masculine and tough instead of, say, protected by a union under a progressive tax rate and a massive surplus

submitted 9 days ago • 102 comments

Courtesy of Jennifer Lynch: David Lynch has been laid to rest at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

Spielberg’s mom be like

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments