Matt Muffley

Team Rizz Member #711

"Goodness comes from within ... Goodness is chosen ... When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."

[Matt Muffley @muffley_matt]

Finally got to see the @StanleyKubrick exhibit. Thanx to @Jewseum for hosting this, it was well worth the wait

[Springfield Thunderbirds @ThunderbirdsAHL]

sliding into the Atlantic Division Finals like 😮‍💨

should we call this “the Romanov slide?!”

[St. Louis Blues @StLouisBlues]

SPRINGFIELD DOES IT AGAIN!!! The @ThunderbirdsAHL get the upset - the largest in Calder Cup Playoffs history - with their series win over the Providence Bruins! #stlblues

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a more prophetic film than Network (🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟). This movie predicted the future. It foretold of the Hell we find ourselves in right now. An impossibly relevant film with an impossibly perfect cast. Between the screenplay, the directing & the acting, Network is as good as cinema can possibly get. Storytelling as a whole doesn’t get better than this. In the wake of Robert Duvall’s passing, there would be no way on Earth that I wouldn’t revisit this movie. I truly believe this perfect filmmaking.

“You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it!” I’m sure I’m not the only person who on random, rainy days goes to YouTube to watch Ned Beatty’s Oscar-nominated, iconic speech as Arthur Jensen. But rewatching Network this time around, Beatty’s brilliance is so, so much more important within the actual movie. This speech means so much more within the context of the overall film. By the time Peter Finch’s Howard Beale comes face to face with Jensen, it’s after a war of attrition in which Beale, Max Schumacher (William Holden), Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway), and Frank Hackett (Robert Duvall) are all fighting amongst each other for some sort of sanctimony: let’s put a bat-shit crazy person on the air, but somehow, we can morally or financially justify it.

But all of that back and forth comes to a screeching halt when Beatty’s Jensen walks in the dark room: “the world is a business, Mr. Beale, it has been since man crawled out of the slime.” In other words, the powers at be aren’t immoral- they are amoral. They aren’t here to hurt you, they simply don’t ever think about you. They are here for the dollar, not for anything more or less significant. You think you’re that important, you think any of this matters? We all bow to the dollar, regardless of who or where you’re from.

This single moment within Network captures exactly where we are as a society right now. Some call it “late-stage capitalism”. I call it “everything is more expensive and worse quality”. That includes journalism, or what’s left of it. Everything & everyone has sold out their integrity just to stay alive in an incredibly difficult financial tumult, with no real resolution in sight. Standards? Ethics? Morals? Those are slipping through the tubes by the minute. Network was the tip of the iceberg. Network said “what happens if we put a suicidal man on TV? What if we really rock the boat??” Well, turn on the news today, scroll through the Internet right now, and you’ll see that chaos is all that is being sold. It’s exclusively on the menu.

Lastly, when I tell you acting in films doesn’t get better, I hope you believe me. This film earned 10 Oscar nominations in total- 5 went to actors. And Robert Duvall was not one of them. Consider that statement. It would be totally impossible for me to try and pick whose performance I find best in this film, but rewatching this in the wake of Robert Duvall’s death, it sort of blows my mind he wasn’t also nominated for an Oscar here. I just can’t wrap my head around how great every last actor is in this film.

One of the most important American films ever made.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The real Ingalls girls (1874): From the left: Carrie, Mary and Laura....

This rare 1874 portrait captures the three sisters whose lives would later inspire one of America’s most beloved frontier stories. The girls grew up during the westward expansion of the United States, moving frequently across Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and Dakota Territory as their family pursued opportunity on the American frontier. Their childhood reflected the harsh realities of pioneer life—unpredictable weather, crop failures, financial instability, and limited access to education or medical care.

Mary, the eldest, became blind at age 14 after an illness believed to have been viral meningoencephalitis. She later attended the Iowa College for the Blind, which was an extraordinary achievement for a frontier family of modest means. Laura would eventually transform her family’s experiences into the Little House book series, published between 1932 and 1943, offering readers a detailed, first-person-style account of pioneer childhood that helped shape popular understanding of 19th-century American settlement life. Carrie, the youngest pictured here, later worked in journalism and typesetting, showing how frontier children often adapted to rapidly changing modern industries.

Laura Ingalls Wilder did not publish her first Little House book until she was 65 years old, proving that her literary career began long after her frontier childhood had ended.

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

Frank Zappa with his parents, Francis and Rosemarie, at his Los Angeles home, 1970. Photo by John Olson. In the background is The Alice Cooper 'Pretties For You' original art on the wall—the band was actually living in Zappa’s house at the time!

[Matt Muffley @muffley_matt]

Stop Mass Surveillance by Automated License Plate Readers – Demand Warrants for Access! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/zgrkuHqyEz via @Change

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

Jack Nicholson and The Monkees on the set of the film Head, 1968. Photo by Henry Diltz. Nicholson co-wrote and co-produced the film, which was a box-office flop at the time but has since become a cult classic for its avant-garde satire of the band's own manufactured image. Have you seen the movie Head?

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

The Joker in the first episode of the original TV series and in The Dark Knight

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Imagine waiting an entire year to see what happened after Hank discovered Walter was Heisenberg.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Jack Nicholson used to grab coffee at a diner on the Strip. One night he showed up late to meet friends, and a waitress cleared his cup before he’d taken a sip, telling the table to leave. That moment was later written directly into Five Easy Pieces (1970)

[Mark Dalton @CardsMarkD]

Cardinals TE Trey McBride leads all NFL players in receptions w 88 (Ja’Marr Chase & Puka Nacua are tied for 2nd w 86).

His 879 receiving yards & 8 TDs lead all NFL tight ends.

McBride is 12 catches away from becoming the first TE in NFL history to record 100+ receptions in consecutive seasons

He is 28 away from the NFL single-season record for catches by a TE (Zach Ertz, 116 in 2018)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them. Perhaps, worst of all, the soon to be out of business New York Times and the Fake News Media won’t issue a word against this genocide. That’s why all the Liars and Pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business! At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony. Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year. South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere, and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

John Candy took this picture of Conan O’Brien while Conan was his tour Guide at Harvard University in 1984.

[St. Louis Blues @StLouisBlues]

Blues Season Ticket Holders Rick and Allie are on a Dad/Daughter Trip of a lifetime, making every stop on the Blues' season-long road trip to the East Coast (Toronto, Philadelphia, Long Island, New York, New Jersey).

Rick called the trip "a dream come true for both of us" - and they're catching a 6:15 a.m. flight back to St. Louis on Thursday morning so they don't miss any of their Thanksgiving dinner. #stlblues

[Lee Patriot Hood @Mofoman360]

She is the woman that has captured the hearts of the world

Iryna Zarutska died in the most horrific way

Leave a ❤️ to show your still thinking of her

#IrynaZarutska

[Tomi Lahren @TomiLahren]

So less than a year ago, the big BO was lecturing black men on how they had to vote for Kamala Harris because she was a black woman. Flash forward a year later he is demanding that everyone vote for the white liberal over the black woman. Amazing.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

EXPOSED 🚨 MSNBC paid hundreds of thousands of dollars through a NGO founded by Al Sharpton

Just 2 weeks later, Al Sharpton then interviewed Kamala Harris on MSNBC giving her a “glowing” interview drawing parallels to her and civil rights icons

Neither disclosed payment. Mainstream Media is pure paid propaganda

Megyn Kelly “MSNBC's going to have to respond. You cannot make a donation to an anchor's charity on the side of $500,000 as a presidential candidate and then go sit with the anchor and he didn't disclose it. This is not a news organization but they continue to masquerade as one.”

Harris’s campaign made two payments totaling $500,000 to the National Action Network (NAN), the civil rights nonprofit founded by Sharpton in 1991. The first $250,000 check was cut on September 5, 2024, and the second on October 1, 2024

Just 19 days after the second donation, on October 20, 2024—two weeks before Election Day—Sharpton interviewed Harris on his MSNBC show, PoliticsNation. The sit-down was described as “glowing” and “fawning” by critics. Sharpton praised Harris’s candidacy as “extraordinarily historic,” drawing parallels to civil rights icons

[Derrick Goold @dgoold]

Masyn Winn -- your NL Gold Glove shortstop.

His 1st Gold Glove is the #Cardinals' 100th as a club.
Fourth #stlcards SS to win Rawlings' finest in the field.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This are simply facts.