Lawrence Carter-Long

How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?

“Just like our English is different from Shakespeare’s English, the songbirds, too, have very different songs from 500 years ago,” Sonia Kleindorfer, a biologist and bird ecologist, said. “I am sure of it.”

YouTube video by ReelAbilities International ReelAbilities x TCM Showcase: Disability in Film - Full program intro + Compensation

Compensation was added to the #NationalFilmRegistry in 2024. On July 28, #TCM & #ReelAbilities teamed up to bring it to national TV with additional context & perspective.
Sharing the intro @eddiemuller.bsky.social and I did for broadcast. Outro coming soon. #DisabilityFilm
youtu.be/3rTQwy2WATQ

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." - James Baldwin

Remembering the highly influential and forever essential writer and civil right activist on his 101st birthday.

#BOTD on 8/2/1924

The Root of All Cruelty? Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse.

Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse.

Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in #Asheville act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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Wow

Uncut Gems: the Letterboxd crew picks their favorite underseen pictures of the past 25 years • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine A quarter into the 21st century, the Letterboxd crew and contributors recommend over 30 of the best underseen films of the last 25 years, including a Claire Denis deep cut, a Barry Jenkins visual poem...

For @letterboxd.social I wrote about Jane Campion's BRIGHT STAR as one of the best underseen films of the last twenty-five years.

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “It makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped by Jeffrey. She had this evil smirk on her face. And she enjoyed it.”

ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

You are a grown ass adult. You can take yourself out for ice cream any time you damn well please.

Off you go now.
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if you continuously "meet in the middle" with people full sprinting right, which direction are you moving?

ep. 69: Back to Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd Ben and Kerr talk about Ben's recent shows in the Adirondacks and NYC, his in-progress recording of scores for a new Arbuckle Blu-ray set, the art and craft of a venue's developing an audience for sil...

I've just posted a new ep. of "The Silent Film Music Podcast" – you'll hear children laughing at Chaplin's "The Kid", an explanation of and an example of my underscoring a key scene in Lloyd's "The Freshman", reports from recent shows, and much more. silentfilmmusic.com/ep-69-back-t...

Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs Workers at a South Carolina site that once made nuclear bomb parts have found a radioactive wasp nest. Officials say there's no danger to anyone.

Reads like the start of a @stephenking.bsky.social novel, or a horror movie.

Only this is real.

#NewsFromCastleRock

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George Washington clutches the Constitution and sighs, “It’s like they didn’t listen at all.” Jesus, hand mid-gesture, replies, “Bro, same.” — The moment when a Founding Father and the Son of God bond over being epically ignored.

The Invention of “the Male Gaze” In 1973, the film theorist Laura Mulvey used concepts from psychoanalysis to forge a feminist polemic and a lasting shorthand for gender dynamics onscreen.

Where did the concept of “the male gaze” come from?

w00t!

Need a poster size print!

Artist Todd Alcott took inspiration from David Bowie Songs and imaged them as Old Pulp Fiction Book Magazine Covers, and comics

When you are getting tired of the heat and start thinking about Fall 🍂 and wearing cozy sweaters...

*Lois Nettleton in The Twilight Zone episode The Midnight Sun (1961) 🌙☀️

TACO Thursday

I've been asked what's my dream event for when POPCORN DISABILITIES drops and I keep saying I'm manifesting a screening of THE VILLAGE where me and M. Night talk about its disability representation and I nerd out about how much I appreciate the film.

YouTube video by James Talarico James Talarico fires up 3,000 Texans at HUGE rally

Watch the full speech here: youtu.be/6mAPHKHFtKQ?...

The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

The Enduring Power of “The Rules of the Game” Jean Renoir’s tragic farce, from 1939, scathingly denounced French society’s frivolity amid threats of war and fascism.

Jean Renoir’s “The Rules of the Game,” released in 1939, is a vision of looming catastrophe, of authoritarian menace from within as well as from without, and of the diabolical complicity of France’s privileged classes, @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.

US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump International non-profit Civicus says ‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’ put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya

You call this winning?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ope, yep ^PG