matthew sekellick

They're useful in remediating soil as well as they can pull up heavy metals, of course then you have heavy metal contaminated sunflowers you have to dispose of

always thought it was incredible that arts advocacy orgs let Biden get away with calling his the "largest NEA budget ever" when this is the reality

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

I am having the SHITTIEST week. My insulin pump broke on Sunday, I fell at work on Monday and today I’m at the emergency dentist for what is likely a root canal.
If you have any extra dollars, I hate to ask but my Venmo is @Kayte-Terry. Thanks!

they solved a problem that doesn't exist by creating a new, even worse problem :o)

they're going with PhAM

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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They played a trailer for Hard Boiled before this, the scenes from that so iconic that memories of them flooded back though I haven't seen it in, like, a long time

inside a dark movie theater, a gold logo of concentric seas on a red striped background is captioned in Chinese text and CINEMA CITY COMPANY LIMITED

when you're about to have the most fun it's possible to have in a movie theater with your clothes on

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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Sometimes when I’m on a plane I get sad there’s no SkyMall catalogue anymore but I guess the entire internet is SkyMall now

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

We Like To Party! (The Vengabus)

I also grind my axe about the uses and abuses of small town life and "upstate New York" here, stuff like details being wrong—"40 miles east of Rochester" puts Cranberry, NY closer to Syracuse—that show a lack of interest in the realities of these towns

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

what a joy to hear @themountaingoats.bsky.social interpolating Philly on the radio. "the Broad Street Bombers" is a great name for a band, and also for a baseball team

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It's only going to get worse

that's right

new PTA is a hit, new Benny Safdie/The Rock film is out tomorrow, Avatar 2 is back in theaters and Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow are screening for the first time in over a decade. The movies are the most back they've ever been!!

Memoria belongs in this conversation but everyone is a coward and also hasn't seen it

In forty years I will still be talking about how hard I laughed at the reading from the Bhagavad Gita

The Zone of Interest, Tár, Perfect Days, Drive My Car

Primary Trust at PTC A dull production that highlights the text's flaws, rather than its strengths

I wrote about the Philadelphia Theatre Company production of Primary Trust, which is not very good. And by being not very good, it makes the weaknesses of the text easier to see playsunpleasant.substack.com/p/primary-tr...

Why would we steal national relics like Eisenhower's West Point sabre from our museums and archives to gift to foreign leaders?

The sacking of America from within?

“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”

the craziest part of this is that NYC seems to function well compared to a bunch of other major US cities

'we assume that if all internal combustion engine vehicles are replaced by EVs, traffic noise in the immediate vicinity of traffic would decline by 7.1 dB on average.'

ooh ooh i have questions