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mopinko's Journalanyone else watching black rabbit?
jude law and jason batemen as brothers who start a popular nyc restaurant, but seem cursed. directed by laura linney. bateman is just a fuck up, but law isnt much better.
it’s disturbing. i almost yell at the screen “dont do that, you idiot”. but they get into stuff where they have little choice.
but it’s also so compelling. i’d rec for ppl who think their siblings r a pita.
miss scarlet (now w/o the duke) on pbs.
i caught the 1st 4 seasons (w the duke) quite a while ago, and caught up w the series recently.
eliza scarlet is the 1st ever female detective in victorian london, determined to keep her late father’s detective agency alive.
stars kate phillips, who was also in peaky blinders. interesting crimes, great characters. well done, high production values. u can almost smell victorian london.
big 👍🏻
bookish on pbs
a postwar english bookseller has a hobby of solving murders. and a secret- he’s gay in a time when it was illegal.
6 episodes, 3 mysteries. touching relationships, quirky characters.
delightful and well done.
my kiddo says it's snowing in the nyc subways.
so, my middle kid lives in brooklyn. works in queens, her bf works in manhatten. checked in w her today. she’s home, but the bf had to work.
i asked how long it took him to get to work.
she- not bad.
me- well, i guess it doesnt snow in the subway.
s- actually, it’s been raining in the subway lately. like, pouring rain. some sections got snow.
this is a disaster waiting to happen. if water is pouring in, concrete WILL fail. dollar signs followed by a b’s flashing through my mind.
and with things the way they r, nobody is gonna do shit until that disaster happens.
life in a shithole country.
something gloria steinem said about jesse jackson that has stuck w me.
she talked about speaking w him in the presence of a bunch of small kids. they were climbing all over him, and he was utterly unfazed.
she thought this was a mark of character that we shd all want in a politician. ever since, this has been a yardstick for me. not my only measure, but 1 that is a must have.
it’s y i love that obama was the baby whisperer. and it’s y i was all in for jb as my gov. his very 1st ad was partly about his efforts to improve early childhood education.
if we dont put children 1st, we’re so fucked.
so, who's taken over for epstein?
saw a meme on fb asking this question. u know the pedo class hasnt taken a vow of abstinence.
i say look at the modeling agencies. which 1s make everyone sign an nda?
and can we ban nda’s for this sort of thing? only high level execs and spies shd b compelled to sign them.
notes from the surveillance state-
ok, this is extremely weird. i just ordered my mom’s death certificate from dupage co, il, which uses something called vital check. in order to prove my identity, they ask some questions.
1 was- which of these ppl have u been associated w, and they give 4 choices.
the only 1 i knew is my ex-husband’s current wife.
where the heck did they get that info? i have no official connection w her. not even fb friends.
they also asked about cities i was ‘associated w’. have only lived in 2. chicago and my hometown of aurora, il. that wasnt a choice. but the town my ex now lives in was.
jeebus. what else do they know about me?
i posted this yesterday on my fb page. troll spotting-
how to spot a fb troll.
so, i’ve been helping out as a mod on a local fb page. here’s some tips on spotting the phonies-
short time on fb. few friends, or a locked friends list. few posts visible. few photos or photos from elsewhere in the world, esp indonesia and india.
sometimes friends r visible, but like photos, from elsewhere in the world. lots of profile pics of said friends r ai slop- smooth skinned young ladies who look asian.
more and more they’re using cloned stolen profiles, usually folks who were never rly active. so most posts r yrs old.
i just looked at the profiles of all the ra ra ice lovers on a thread of a congressional candidate about the latest ice murder. almost every 1 had these hallmarks. so, dont despair about the state of humanity based on what u see in this open sewer.
venezuela wasnt about epstein, it was about jack smith.
and it worked. testimony dumped on nye, then this insanity. not a coincidence.
cuz all we’d all b talking about today, on the anniversary, wd b jack smith’s testimony w/o this colossal distraction. instead, it’s an after thought, even here. even in stories about that day.
it worked like a fucking charm.
eta- since folks r missing the point- i’m talking about the timing here.
snowy owls.
so, i’m in chicago. my ex is in s mich, around benton harbor. lives on a small lake. he texts me his unusual bird sightings.
this morning he says there’s snowy owls on his lake. we get them every few yrs in chgo, but i dont recall them ever being this early.
i’m taking this as a bad sign.
correction- they werent at his beach. they’re in chgo.
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