Barbara VanDenburgh @BabsVan Twitter profile

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Barbara VanDenburgh

5 months

2024 watch #1 : The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Important to remember in the year ahead that the only way we’re making it through the fires of Mordor is with the help of friends.

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Barbara VanDenburgh

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7 months

My dad’s been real, real sad ever since he lost his 17-year-old cat a few weeks ago, within a year of losing both his siblings. So I did a bad thing.

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2 years

Can we please bring back sending nervous women away to the seaside with a bottle of laudanum for months at a time to get some “fresh air” because my ass desperately needs that

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4 years

Respectfully disagree. This is my time to shine. Welcome to my wavelength, everyone, kick back and have a Klonopin.

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4 years

Not the *best* week for people with anxiety.

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7 months

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7 months

I mean how could I not

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7 months

My dad is currently threatening to rename her Shithead McFuckface

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7 months

Settling right in

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7 months

KITTEN ZOOMIES!

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7 months

It’s been 5 hours and she has not stopped playing. She’s currently chasing her tail. Send kitten Xanax.

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7 months

We have finally crashed

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7 months

Literal angel

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5 months

There is an absolutely gutting film to be made about the ravages of fame and familial abuse and how that foundational trauma metastasized to ruin innocent lives, but ain’t nobody going to tell that story.

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5 months

First look at the ‘MICHAEL JACKSON’ biopic. Starring Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson as the musician.

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7 months

Annnnnnnd we have the zoomies again. It is midnight.

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2 years

If Ewan McGregor ever recorded a message to register his disappointment in me, I’d log off forever and meditate on where I went wrong for the rest of my natural life.

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A personal message from Ewan McGregor.

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3 years

If anything bad happens to Bob Odenkirk, I will fight God.

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3 years

Bob Odenkirk rushed to the hospital after collapsing on the set of his show "Better Call Saul"

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7 months

I babysat Miss Junie B. through the night. She slept through till morning (I woke up in the middle of the night to find her purring in her sleep in the crook of my arm). Then she woke me up this morning by attacking my head. Chaos gremlin.

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6 months

Asteroid City is explicitly about how the dollhouse is a safe space - for Wes, for all of us - to broach what we can’t face head-on precisely because we’re suffocating in emotion. It’s a movie about why Wes Anderson makes Wes Anderson movies, and why we respond to them.

Olivia Celine "Olive" Lancaster #FreePalestine🇵🇸

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6 months

Asteroid City's "don't try to understand it, feel it" ethos would be a whole lot more admirable if Wes' micromanaged dollhouses didn't suffocate experiential emotion. As is, there's more to understand and analyze than there is to feel.

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7 months

@ineedmeabackrub He insisted he never wanted another cat again, and here we are.

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11 months

There’s not a woman alive reads those Jonah Hill texts and doesn’t immediately recognize the game he’s playing. It’s fucking depressing in its universality.

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1 year

@nathaliejacoby1 The 401k system - stripping pensions and forcing working class to save enough money for their own retirements out of already paltry paychecks (impossible) while giving the rich tax breaks and Wall St. more money. Then painting non-retirement a failure of personal responsibility

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3 years

@davehill77 I can take them off real quick when I get anxious or embarrassed and the world becomes a comforting blur

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7 months

@miyuyus_

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1 year

I have just gotten a THIRD email from a man upset to be recommended books by female authors: "You seem to only recommend books by women. As I guy I simply don’t read women authors. Could you put some male authors in there please?" My power is only growing. I can't be stopped.

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3 years

Thanks CDC, but this mask stays on so I can continue talking to myself in public without social repercussions

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1 year

@mattxiv So the answer is no then

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1 year

@stanzipotenza Stared at this for a solid 5 minutes, like a magic eye puzzle, trying to spot the problem.

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3 months

They fucked up this house in my historic neighborhood, the inside is all hospital white and Millennial gray. But the bathroom is particularly sociopathic, that is a shower designed to hose off blood followed by a nice relaxing soak in the corner, thinking about your next kill

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2 years

Will Smith is going to end up more punished than Louis CK, you watch.

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2 years

Louis CK won a Grammy?!

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1 year

Ke Huy Quan freaking out with Harrison Ford on stage has ruined me

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1 year

“There would be no rock ‘n’ roll without Tina Turner!” Lizzo pays tribute to the queen on the day of her death in phoenix

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2 years

I’m rewatching Better Call Saul through from the beginning, and I have no idea how absolutely everyone involved with this show doesn’t have an Emmy.

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3 years

Josh Hawley's book is canceled. He called the move by Simon & Schuster "Orwellian." It's worth Noting George Orwell was a committed anti-fascist and 1984 is not about the inconvenience of not getting paid to publish a book after helping to incite a riot.

Sen. Josh Hawley’s book dropped by Simon & Schuster following Capitol Hill riot

Sen. Josh Hawley's book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” has been dropped by publisher Simon & Schuster following Wednesday's Capitol Hill riot.

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2 years

@ByCindiAndrews "Accuracy is too time consuming" is a hell of a bad journalism take.

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3 years

Also, now that we've all realized just how much Bob Odenkirk means to us, can we please give the man an Emmy for Better Call Saul already? Every episode he does God-tier work.

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Barbara VanDenburgh

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4 months

My dad did a brilliant thing. When camcorders were invented, he’d bring his parents to the house, project the silent, 8mm home movies they took when he was a kid, train the camcorder on the projection, and record everyone’s dialogue, remembering the past, as the video played.

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2 years

@PFTompkins My life would be so much easier if I could eat raw tomatoes without gagging. They're in everything!

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7 months

Murder mittens!

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1 month

Sylvia Plath died in the midst of profound despair, in London’s coldest winter - sick, her pipes frozen, unable to sleep for days, terrified of going back to the hospital after botched electroshock therapy. She didn’t die for her art. She very much wanted to live for it.

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Not to be too precious about this but Sylvia Plath has living children who have spoken about how the glib cultural attitude toward their mother’s death is actually extremely painful for them

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2 years

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5 years

I took a semester’s worth of classes during summers at Glendale Community College starting at 16 before transferring to ASU, the college Olivia Jade’s father so dreaded. My dad, though, was thrilled. And now I’m the books editor for USA TODAY.

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Did you go to a community college? Quote tweet this and say which community college you attended and what you're doing today. I'll retweet as many as I can. People who attend community colleges deserve to be as proud as people who attend Harvard.

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7 months

Dad and Junie B. have become fast friends.

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3 years

@disxpix They look like they'd share their White Claw and body glitter with me, I vote we keep them

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5 months

Michael Jackson was a once-in-a-lifetime talent whose psyche was so broken, the portrait in his attic was plainly visible on his face and fully half of us won't confront it because we don't want to have complicated feelings listening to Smooth Criminal. There's a story there too.

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2 years

@ruthmadievsky @zandywithaz This seems structurally unsound

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7 months

@AntiNickname @ineedmeabackrub My cat died suddenly a few years ago and I made it two days before I was at the shelter looking for a new friend. Miss Zuzu here helped me heal

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2 years

@faceyouhate @biscuitkitten Just made the mistake of looking at the Wiki for the Razzie's worst actress "winners," and they gave it to Heather Donahue for Blair Witch? And Kristen Stewart for being in a movie teen girls liked? Finger on the fucking pulse.

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7 years

@dialmformovies The Blade Runner 2049 fight scene in the casino with the malfunctioning Elvis and showgirl holograms. Haunting, beautiful, cool. Give Roger Deakins an Oscar already.

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2 years

What was your dumbest pandemic purchase? Mine was a several hundred dollar camping kit bought in the delusion that I would commune with nature in solitude before I remembered I’m scared of the dark. It’s still unopened in my closet.

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1 year

Fuck April Fools, happy Toshiro Mifune’s birthday

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1 year

@RottenInDenmark I'm only 5'2" and 130 pounds is how much I weighed when I had a nervous breakdown and stopped eating and got down to size 2 jeans while wanting to die.

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7 months

For those insisting we adopt a sibling for Junie B: she has a doggy sister! We are slowly introducing them (here through a closed door with a window), but sweet Ripley grew up with a cat and seems VERY excited and happy to meet a curious and interested Junie.

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10 months

@bartleby_era A steal

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3 years

Do I really want Doc Martens or do I just want to be 16 again

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1 year

Ke Huy Quan's Oscar win was earned and right, he's the beating heart of the film of the year. But Hollywood, you owe this man more than a statue. You owe him a lifetime of rich, rewarding work after this. You write this man parts, you cast him, you keep him booked and busy.

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1 year

We can’t afford to get our teeth fixed, never mind sports cars.

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11 months

Quick, someone ask Emily Nussbaum if she thinks sharing this publicly is uncouth

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‘Zoey 101’ star Alexa Nikolas accuses Jonah Hill of forcing himself on her when she was 16 and he was 24.

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@karenkho I would die before being rude to a parent with a fussy baby on a flight. The lack of empathetic imagination one must have

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@arkangyle This is an incredibly rude and unnecessary thing to say to a stranger

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@false_rumors VIVIDLY remember drinking four cans of Coke and mainlining MTV and Nickelodeon until 2 a.m. the night we spent New Years Eve at my parents' rich friend's house with *gasp* cable. The TV babysat me that night and it was heaven, 5 out of 5 stars.

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@ktagart A beauty! You did the right thing

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The treasures you stumble across opening random drawers in your parents’ house. I need a drink.

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4 years

Seriously though, if you’re struggling with anxiety and depression, go talk to someone. It’s a hard world and there’s no shame in needing help. I avoided it for years and wish I hadn’t.

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1 year

The Passion of the Christ II: The Secret of the Ooze

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‘The Passion Of The Christ’ Sequel Reportedly Begins Filming This Spring:

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1 year

Fully weeping. Ke Huy Quan's speech did more for me than all the antidepressants I've ever taken in my entire life.

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9 months

My dad was a photo booth repairman and my mom was a waitress with a devastating chronic illness, and they paid off a four-bedroom house and always had 2 working cars. I got an education, a career, make so much more than they did combined, and can’t even dream of buying a house.

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2 years

To all the people in my mentions very earnestly telling me a) this was only for rich women, and b) not actually a good thing: I know. It’s a joke. Shit’s bleak, that’s the punchline.

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2 years

The Suns are undefeated at breaking my heart

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2 years

LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO

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BEST DIRECTOR: S. S. Rajamouli, RRR

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7 months

@Alt_ReddTruq Beautiful boy, I’m so sorry for your loss. This was my sweet Link. He died at 10 after a sudden medical event. I still miss him every day, but getting a new kitty was the best decision.

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@mindykaling Mindy, you're rich

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2 years

Only two days a week to do your actual life is a racket

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5 years

@everywhereist I always find myself identifying exits and hiding spots without realizing it.

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6 years

@karenyhan Quick, feed him a mushroom omelette, make him yours

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2 years

@jamiattenberg Window so I can dreamily look out over the planet and have poetic thoughts. (Also, something to lean on.)

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4 years

@MelindaTaub Everything Powell and Pressburger, every single time.

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6 months

@DannyVegito That original book advent calendar wasn’t a thoughtful gift between partners, it was content for TikTok, manufactured for our consumption. The lack of literacy on this is maddening.

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2 years

@JamesOstime Might I humbly submit Daniel Day-Lewis in Last of the Mohicans.

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3 years

@texaninnyc Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung are two of the most beautiful people ever to have drawn breath in In the Mood for Love

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@BabsVan

2 years

@caseyjohnston The "What, wait, really, John Malkovich?" part always felt key to me. He was just famous enough that I knew who he was but not so famous that it made sense, which made it intriguing. I'd likewise watch the shit out of, say, "Being Paul Giamatti."

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2 years

She’s already doing the best acting you can find on TV as Kim Wexler, but tonight @rheaseehorn also steps behind the camera to direct @BetterCallSaul . Lucky me, she talked to me all about it!

‘Better Call Saul’ MVP Rhea Seehorn makes directorial debut: 'One of the great joys of my life'

Rhea Seehorn, who plays Kim Wexler on AMC's "Better Call Saul," makes her TV directing debut with this week's episode.

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4 years

@conor64 Occam's Razor is that a dude with absolutely no impulse control carelessly (or purposefully) exposed himself to his coworkers - which can be pretty traumatic if you have ever been harassed or abused. My empathy is with them.

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4 years

Anybody else doing mostly ok (not sick, still has a job, etc) and still careening toward a mental breakdown?

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3 months

Madonnna’s Celebration Tour is as good as I’ve ever seen her. What really hit me tonight is there’s no playbook for what she’s doing, no pop star who’s played to arenas and stayed relevant for as many decades. At 65, she’s writing the script.

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1 year

So with Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison gone, who's the frontrunner for best living literary novelist?

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1 year

@BretzkyBets @nypost lol Nicole Kidman is never going to fuck you

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I will not buy a $300 cat scratching post, I will not buy a $300 cat scratching post, I will not...

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7 months

LeVar Burton raised us ‘80s kids right.

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"Before we get going, are there any Moms for Liberty in the house? No? Good. then hands will not need to be thrown tonight." Host LeVar Burton kicks off this year's National Book Awards ceremony. #NBAwards

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@johnlevenstein @jamiattenberg Unless you’re a window person with anxiety, then you just sit there in discomfort with a view.

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@fatfatpankocat They practically give these things away!

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@dotinglyricism

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@09Dreamville Fuck off

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@gdlmaster I’m so so sorry. A cat doesn’t make it 20 years without being very loved.

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2 years

Radical idea, how about we try making the Oscars for people who love movies instead of trying to trick the Masked Singer crowd into accidentally watching for 30 seconds.

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3 years

@davidgross_man I am still deeply, profoundly upset that the mother gives birth on a pindrop-quiet farm when they establish there’s a nearby waterfall where the monsters can’t detect their noises. One of like three dozen film-ruining idiot details.

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1 year

Like look, I can't help it if so many of the best books are written by women, it's just our superpower

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Forgive the goofball baby voices but SHE’S HERE

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2 years

@_katiestebbins_ Internet culture has caused a shift toward memeable movie moments, as opposed to just quotable. Think Uncut Gems ("This is how I win"), First Reformed ("Well, somebody has to do something!"), Leo pointing to the TV in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, etc.

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5 years

I'm sorry, does Disney think their core fans are Nazis?

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@priaribi I’m sorry, but why are you in that cat’s bed

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Look at how packed book club was last night. About 100 people took the time to read a book then showed up on a Wednesday night to talk about it. Don’t let anybody convince you print is dead, that community can’t exist, that you can’t make friends as an adult.

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