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there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter

tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks... that website still lives on

truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that

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France’s highest court has ruled that a man fired by a Paris-based consulting firm for allegedly failing to be “fun” enough at work was wrongfully dismissed.

The man, referred to in court documents as Mr. T, was fired from Cubik Partners in 2015 after refusing to take part in seminars and weekend social events that his lawyers argued, according to court documents, included “excessive alcoholism” and “promiscuity.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/27/france-man-fired-company-drinking-culture/

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notes apps are like:

carrots

yoghurt

bread

history and fate = same force in opposite directions? fate as forward acting trauma??

flour

meds

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Clue (1985) dir. Jonathan Lynn

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I made an actual blog post with all the places I might be found online. Have to add another one, yet again, but...

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Waiting around for things

I spent last week at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, working with writer-directors on their next projects. I don’t want to single out any one script — I’m eager to see all of these movies made. These filmmakers are very talented.

But I often found myself pausing at page 45 asking “What’s happened so far?” and “What am I curious about?” And too often, the answer was not much.

Some of my red flags:

Are characters waiting around for something? Do they take half-steps, then retreat? Do major events (death, abortion, incest) happen off-screen, or before the movie begins? Do people talk about food? Could you swap a scene from page 10 and page 34 without changing much?