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mjfleck.bsky.social
Writing, filmmaking. Climate + art. Views my own.
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☹️ We're collecting your most memorable E Street moments. Let us know what you'll carry with you after the curtains close! tinyurl.com/3xfsha3c

“Even if you earned it, you still owe.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL-Z...

We’re creating a list of deals and special offers for District residents impacted by the recent federal layoffs — from discounted drinks to free headshots and career coaching. Help us build this community resource by adding to the list, here: airtable.com/appl7lWf605d...

Huge ad in Dortmund, Germany. "Do the right thing!"

Genuine and clear conversation about the moment: the.ink/p/transcript...

Sources across sectors in climate and energy are unwilling to speak on the record about Trump. “In my own experiences as a reporter, I’ve never found it this difficult to get people to speak with me,” writes @jeva.bsky.social of this current “crisis of democracy.”

A Philadelphia Story screened tonight in DC. There is plenty good to be said about this movie. I will focus on one thing: the dialogue. Watching a movie like this will make you believe contemporary American English is a dying language.

New words today in @wirobooks.bsky.social! Thoroughly enjoyed @egreenberg.bsky.social's debut collection www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/a...

A very good resource right now: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

The outsiders will be insiders, and the insiders will be outsiders

Where is the New Yorker piece about the brotherly shove? I want a 5,000 word feature, interviews with Kelce, Hurts, Jeff Stoutland, Sirianni. The most successful play in football in the past 4 years, too little coverage. #GoBirds

ChatGPT asking me to confirm I am human, no thank you

What does the death of coal sound like? betweenframes.elainemcmillionsheldon.com/p/sam-lees-b... Also, watch King Coal

Thoughts about the Dylan movie after a second watch: This is a movie about the 60s and folk music history, but it's billed as a biopic to fill theaters. Dylan's rise mirrors, or maybe helps inspire, a swerve toward individualism in America.

@jael.bsky.social Do you have any recommendations for books about the energy transition on the local level? i.e., along the lines of your newsletter?

Is COP just a meeting with your coworkers that you forgot you scheduled because at the last meeting you didn't finish talking about what you needed to talk about but everyone wanted to go home

Kellen Moore and the Eagles' passing attack making a statement early. All the more impressive because Pittsburgh must've seen this coming following the bogus news cycle about the Brown/Hurts beef this week. #GoBirds

The thrill of expertise comes the moment when it matters that you know something arcane that someone else doesn't know

Uproar over UnitedHealthcare should show Republicans: Don't repeal and don't shrink the ACA, which is enormously popular because people know that healthcare should be a right, not a product

Where can I find books written in the past 10 years with haughty monologues held by cynical aristocrats?

There are actual advertisements before Netflix will let you watch the fireplace video. This means something, I don't know what, but something icky

SCOOP: One of D.C.'s leading news stations, WUSA9, quietly took down two stories about the health impact of gas stoves to allow one of their advertisers, Washington Gas, to comment. One of the stories remained down for 6 days. The other is still down. heated.world/p/dc-news-st...

Saša Stanišić's most recent book also is the most innovative short fiction I've read in a long time. (Late to his party, I know!) Some short story collections have characters that appear in multiple stories, or plots that span across stories. Stanišić's twist is ... www.penguin.de/buecher/sa%C...

Birds' defense looking porous on these first two drives in LA. But the Eagles coaching staffs since Sirianni took over have been terrific at halftime adjustments. Makes them a queasy team to watch in the first half, but they win a lot of tight games late.

50th anniversary of Chinatown. Is it the best climate movie of the past 50 years? Water shortage in California, unhinged millionaire seizing land for unsustainable development, LA institutions capitulating to monied interests. That grass dies in saltwater is mentioned three times!

Snow falling for an hour = permission to listen to the Charlie Brown Christmas album