Don Quikong

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A text message received at 10:15pm. It reads "Hello my friend I hope you are well, I was wondering if you have any opinions on the best way to organize my library)/bookshelf"
An image of Idris Elba in a sportcoat sitting back with his fingers steepled. He appears pensive. A strategist. Text overlaid on the image reads "Learn to sit back and observe. Not everything needs a reaction."
Intertitle from the 1925 Phantom of the Opera. It reads 'You—you are the Phantom!'
Intertitle card from the 1923 Hunchback of Notre Dame film. The text reads "Swift run the sands of life except in the hour of pain"
India Today headline that reads "Even my building watchman says, lose to anyone but not Pakistan: Jemimah Rodrigues"
Small program notes for Béla Tarr's film The Turin Horse. The synopsis reads "A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse"
A portion of Money Is Fake's profile picture. It's a roundel of some kind related to Stargate. Around the image itself we can see the gray and white checkerboard of a png transparency that was downloaded as a jpeg.
The cover of Michael Ian Black's book "America, You Sexy Bitch A Love Letter to Freedom," which he co-wrote with Meghan McCain. The cover features the two of them standing on soapboxes, smiling and waving.
Still from an ad for a Southern California car dealership. The lot full of new cars is shown in in bright sunlight. The signpost in the foreground has an enormous Chevy logo, and above it is a rotating sign emblazoned with bold blue text that reads "CUMMING"
Screenshot of an imdb trivia factoid that reads: She played the tragic, non-singing Cio-Cio San in the film Madame Butterfly (1932) which led to a brand of Japanese condoms being named the "Sylvia Sidneys".
IndieWire headline that reads "How '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' Brings Back the Franchise's Most Enduring Character"
Title card of Wong Kar-wai's As Tears Go By (the film's title in red text in large chinese characters and again smaller in English) on a television set in a dark room
An owl perched on some dirt in front of a community college parking structure
Screenshot from Blossoms Shanghai. Four men in leather vests and jackets dance in front of motorcycles
Screenshot of an episode of Blossoms Shanghai. Lu Meilin, a woman in a loud gold ensemble says "What? I can't yap? I like to yap."
IMDB plot synopsis of Smokin' Aces 2. Genre tags: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller. The text of the synopsis reads (this is copy/pasted, so consider all typos [sic]): Hords of insane assassins (2 cute) gather in or near a bar waiting to kill an insignificant FBI pencil pusher at 3AM and collect $3M. He's kept in a safe house/bunker nearby surrounded by FBI agents. Action awaits.
Still from the movie "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort". Catherine Deneuve, in a gauzy blue robe stares out the window wistfully. Françoise Dorléac asks her "What's wrong?" "I'm sad and bored," replies Deneuve.
The first paragraph of a review from a UK publication of the recently-released animated movie that I have only heard referred to as Zootopia 2. The review, however, calls it Zootropolis 2, which is apparently its name overseas.
"It’s corrupt, is the word,” said Charles Tiefer, a leading authority on federal contract law and former member of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that the Strategy Group’s role should prompt investigations by both the DHS inspector general and the House Oversight Committee. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer,” Tiefer added.
Imdb trivia factoid that reads: The title "A New Leaf" has a second meaning beyond the fern discovered. "Leaf" is also a synonym for "page" as in "turning a new page" as in a fresh start.
A paragraph from a Variety article that reads "The feature is also a musical, but “not a straight musical,” nor is it a “straight biopic.” Seyfried, who spent a year preparing for the role, sings, possibly for the first time on screen since 2012’s “Les Miserables.”"
A limerick written on a page. It reads: The heartbroken homme de Paris Weeps and wails for his lost belle fille She ran off one day With un homme de Marseilles Our Parisian cries, "Oh! Wow is moi!"
Screenshot from Spotify of the title of the new Lady Gaga album, "MAYHEM".
Kamala Harris parading Liz Cheney in front of a campaign event, as she frequently did in the final month of the 2024 presidential campaign.
Picture of a skeet from earlier in this thread in which the person I'm replying to says something contradicted to the skeet I'm replying to.
Skeet from a jesse singal follow blaming Palestinians for suffering a generations-long campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
A still from the 1951 movie Victims of Sin. A barber smiles approvingly at a man with slicked back hair, a thin moustache, and a cigarette dons a coat with lapels as wide as the Mississippi. Beneath his coat, his pants are riding high--held up proudly by suspenders. His shirt is black. His white necktie is very short and exceptionally wide.
The larval form of Godzilla in the 2016 film Shin Godzilla
Snapshot of the score one hour into day two of the only test of the 2025 women's Ashes cricket series. England have a score of 170 runs. They were bowled out yesterday. Australia are 106/2 and seem like they may well win by an innings, which would really put the cherry on top for England in terms of how humiliating an Ashes series can be.
Screenshot from the wikipedia app of the article about Marlee Matlin. However the picture is a black and white image of someone I should probably recognize. Civil war general type of image.
A black-and-white still from a movie of a young man's face. The subtitle reads "I slit my wrists because they said I suffer from premature ejaculation"
Pictured: a skeet about how tough liz cheney is containing the line "I suspect she is as tough as her old man (not someone to go dove hunting with)"
The New York Times spelling bee not accepted "Rubaiyat" as a valid word in spite of its longstanding presence as a loanword in the English language.
Opening text of the movie Sisu which says "Sisu is a Finnish word that cannot be translated. It means a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination"
Kevin Pietersen tweet asking "what was the best era of cricket? I think it was when we had [a lengthy list of players he played against and alongside]"
A cart perched above a steep-ish downward-sloping wooden walkway descending a couple hundred feet towards a wooden structure
Cricinfo's live commentary on the 30th over of the Pakistan-Australia test match right now. Shaheen Afridi bowls three dot balls to Usman Khawaja before getting him out caught behind on the fourth delivery of the over.
A screenshot from letterboxd of someone reviewing 1927's Wings. They give it two stars saying they don't like silent movies, war movies, or movies that are over two hours.
A page of notes based on the first chapter of Bryan W van Norden's book Classical Chinese for Everyone
A wikipedia page explaining that "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a "grammatically correct sentence in English"
A tweet from Women's CricZone on the other website informing us that Danni Wyatt is pulling out of the Women's Big Bash League season and that her slot as a overseas player is being filled by Lauren Winfield-Hill.
Today's weather. Currently 86⁰. High of 91⁰.
My friend wearing a blue hat, watching a game of cricket in Van Nuys California.
A picture of Australian cricketer Todd Murphy. He looks more like Simon the chipmunk than you'd expect
A television showing a view of a cricket pitch in Sri Lanka, viewed through a fisheye lens
Part of a scorecard for a Major League Cricket game. The current bowler is a man named Cameron Gannon
Australian cricketer Adam Zampa in his fetching purple and gold uniform for the Los Angeles Knight Riders. The sponsor on front of the jersey is a company called Yolo that you've got to assume is like crypto or some other gambling thing. On the back, you can see that Zampa sports the number 420 for the squad.
A poster for the 2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks film. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore stand rakishly in front of a yellow background.
A cartoon image of a be-habitted franciscan friar swinging a baseball bat in what some might consider to be a lascivious manner
Shohei Ohtani getting ready to throw a pitch to Fernando Tatis Jr