Dimitri LaBarge
ponderer.bsky.social
Dimitri LaBarge
@ponderer.bsky.social
Filmmaker-type person
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12 ANGRY WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP
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APOCALYPSE NOW YOU SEE ME
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Close Encounters of the Third Kindergarten Cop
October 11, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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This piece by Colson Whitehead is one of my favorite things ever written. I've shared it many times with folks over the years.

It was published two months after 9/11, and I believe it's one of the greatest things ever put to pen about grief, memory, and time.

www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...
September 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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August 26, 2026 at 12:31 AM
One of the loveliest songs to come out of Dolly, Linda and Emmylou's Trio albums is this heavenly cover of To Know Him Is To Love Him. They all sounded so great and looked so happy.

(Fun fact: this video was directed by George Lucas, Linda's serious boyfriend at the time.)

youtu.be/IRBZN8V2Fa4...
August 25, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Testify. My wife and I visited Dollywood the weekend I proposed and it was a magical experience. Great food, wonderful ambience. We loved the bald eagle sanctuary..
If you're thinking about making a pilgrimage, do it. Dollywood is an insanely well-run park set in a gorgeous wooded, hilly landscape, and has a nice split of excellent thrill rides and tamer family fare. Food's good, too.
August 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5.

My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
April 7, 2026 at 2:52 AM
The one thing that brings me solace is that Dolly had many hundreds of unreleased songs, and at least since 2019 she started recording vocals for all of them, hoping that producers would arrange them and release them after she left us. Her art isn’t done with us yet.
August 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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She didn't die. She sailed West, to the Undying Lands and remained Galadriy'all.
🔗: bit.ly/4qC1fWV

Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.

Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video.

📷: Getty
August 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure.

Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
July 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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one thing i find funny is that the founding generation would likely have been very enthusiastic about, say, muslim immigrants and intensely skeptical of all the catholics
me talking to magically resurrected founding father: and so sir you can see how the supreme court has become a deeply illegitimate institution that threatens the very republic you created
founding father: there are *how many* papists on it???
June 30, 2026 at 5:39 PM
@sisterhyde.bsky.social Your Kubrick box design looks exquisite. You just don’t miss.
June 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here
June 21, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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Nicole's best impression of the Joe Rogan-esque podcaster bros out there right now, at the beginning of Armageddon:
April 7, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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This is outrageous. And personally depressing. People over 65 and those with chronic conditions will get sick and die. Just because the younger healthy people don't fear COVID anymore doesn't mean everyone else has nothing to fear. And just because MAHA is stupid and insane that should not happen.
Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine.

They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal.

A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.
April 2, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.
September 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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I like this summary of the Omnishambles à la Douglas Adams
This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation.

I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment.

This summary is just fantastic.
March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
no01.substack.com
March 22, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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It is quite amusing to me how so many people don’t understand scale .

You would have to have a fleet of around 100k trucks running 24/7 down a road twice the size of the M25

Volumes of oil transitioning this strait are around 20 million barrels a day.

Roughly 70% world trade volume
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March 12, 2026 at 8:43 AM
This video from NYC elected official Jumaane D. Williams, a black Tourette Syndrome sufferer, has the most thoughtful, empathetic and humane response to the BAFTA debacle I've seen so far. I think it's important to listen to someone who lives in both words.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgaq...
February 24, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the United States.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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This guy wants children to die of things they don't *need* to die of, "TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS." (I.e., "How many of your kids will die if we refuse to pay for vaccines? *Lots?* Or 'an acceptable cost-of-business' number?" Because they're talking about "cost of doing business" numbers RIGHT NOW. 😡
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
January 22, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests.

This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.

ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
January 15, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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You can't make this up.
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM