Diana Goodman 👓🎥

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Classic movie geek and former cohost of ThirtyTwentyTen podcast. She/They.

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Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· 7d

If you could fight any historical figure, who are you taking on?

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· 17d

At last! A bar for me, someone with vague recollections of Algebra II.

A Yelp listing for a bar called Rise Over Run

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· 18d

I’m disappointed in all of filmsky I was the first to post this.

Aubrey and Maturin in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· 21d

I refuse to believe the rest of us are the same species as Catherine Deneuve.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· 23d

Fun London facts! Photo 1: There is a hotel called The Exhibitionist. Photo 2: This bathroom is not in that hotel. Photo 3: This coffee shop, located in a former public toilet, is less pervy than the bathroom in our hotel room.

A Google Maps page for a hotel called The Exhibitionist

A hotel bathroom with a full glass wall, so you can see the shower and toilet. There is a curtain, but it’s on the outside of the bathroom, enabling all manner of perverts.

The wall at The Attendant cafe, an underground coffee bar, where the counter is built into former urinals and the cistern is now a planter.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jul 8

“Daily Bread” window by Mark Angus, Durham Cathedral. A lot of it is its placement in a cathedral with more standard religious art - really underlines the everyday humanity in Jesus’ story.

A series of larger colored, scribbled circles in two parallel vertical lines along a field of brown with smaller circles in the middle. It’s a depiction of the Last Supper from overhead.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jul 5

Mexico vs. England might be my most “I just hope everyone has fun” game. On one hand, living in England is what got me into the World Cup They used to play “Three Lions” at the club. On the other, my Mexican American neighbors REALLY deserve a W. And my Mexican dog will judge me.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jul 5

There is Yorkshire Burrito - it’s a Sunday roast wrapped in a giant thin Yorkshire pudding.

A burrito made of thin Yorkshire pudding as a wrap, with meat and gravy spilling out

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jul 5

The painting Liberty Leading the People of French Revolutionaries storming the Bastille with Gritty, a shaggy orange monster in front, labeled Liberté, Egalité, Gritté.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jul 4

This comment has been rattling around in my head for three weeks and I would like to propose a new national motto. “No one is a foreigner here.”

A Reddit question asks World Cup tourists about their impressions of the U.S., and a response reads “Very diverse (at least in California) and no one treats you as a “foreigner” if you are not white. You really don’t feel like an outsider as a person of color, which is really nice.

EDIT: Wow, I really didn’t expect this kind of response. I’m trying to read through every single comment, and honestly, they’re warming my heart. Thank you everyone for sharing your experiences and recommendations and for being so nice. As a foreigner, I truly don’t think I’ve ever felt so accepted anywhere else I’ve been so far. This has been such a wholesome experience.”

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jul 4

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jul 4

❌He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
❌He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
❌He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
❌He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
❌He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
❌For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
❌For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
❌For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

❌For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
❌For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
❌For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
❌He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jul 4

In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
❌He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
❌He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
❌He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
❌He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jul 4

The Declaration of Independence, with red arrows marking 16 complaints about King George III that could apply to the current president.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 29

I demand a chapter on the VH1 edit of Showgirls, with its masterful digital bras.

Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls with an MS Paint bra drawn on her.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 24

World War I-era ad exec: Have you finished the new mass transit slogan? Copywriter: Yeah, real fatalistic and bitter like you wanted, boss.

A 1915 poster with an oddly dark nature scene and the words “Why bother about the Germans invading the country? Invade it yourself by Underground and motor bus.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 23

Tell Keir. I want him to know it was me.

A photo of the street sign for Downing Street.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 22

Damn it I love indie cinemas so much. Why be outside when you can watch “Threads,” “Breaking the Waves” and “Come and See”?

The Prince Charles Cinema in London with the marquee “Sod the sunshine, it’s Bleak Week”

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 20

Geez, London! Are England fans bringing the weather from Dallas back with them?

This week’s weather in London: Fahrenheit highs of Sunday 85, Monday 83, Tuesday 94, Wednesday 95, Thursday 88, Friday 92, Saturday 87, Sunday 83

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 15

Steve’s in. But he has an unfair advantage. Don’t DQ the flying doggos. It’s unAmerican.

A tan chihuahua mix launching himself skyward off a bed.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 13

Great, the tarp looks like a tallis. Have my people not suffered enough?

A white tarp with blue stripes being erected over the scaffolding in front of the Kennedy Center.

The back of a tallit, or Jewish prayer shawl, which is also white with blue stripes.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 12

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 10

We don’t usually see each other’s headers. Here’s mine. Quote-skeet with yours (if you feel like it) Bette's got murder in mind. (And because most of the frame's empty, this might end up looking weird on upload.)

Bette Davis looms ominously, the light shining through Venetian blinds onto her face. Let's be honest, she's either just murdered someone or is about to.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 8

Veterans cemeteries recognize way more faiths, and some of the symbols are cool as hell.

The VA page showing emblems of faith for United Church of Christ, Humanist Emblem of Spirit, Presbyterian Church (USA), Izumo Taishakyo Mission of Hawaii, Soka Gakkai International, Sikh, Wicca, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and New Apostolic

The VA page showing emblems of faith for Farohar, Messianic Jewish, Kohen Hands, Catholic Celtic Cross, Christian Science, a Medicine Wheel, an infinity symbol, a Luther Rose, a landing eagle, Four Directions, Church of the Nazarene, and Thor’s hammer

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 8

I had my money on Jehovah’s Witnesses as being the first Christians to get kicked out of the club. Then Mormons. Then Catholics. Now, could the Christian Nationalists explain which of the below is the one that will rule us? Because every denomination exists because of doctrinal disagreements.

A list of the military’s accepted
Christian denominations: Assemblies of God, Baptist, Brethren, Catholic, Church of Christ, Church of God, Church of the Nazarene, Episcopal, Evangelical, Jehovah’s Witness, Lutheran, Methodist, nondenominational, Orthodox and other.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· Jun 1

The google results for the grave of Rush Limbaugh listing it as a public toilet.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· May 31

I’ll show you the liminal space of the mind!

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· May 31

Sometimes living in the future’s not so bad. I don’t have to wonder if my mail-in ballot got lost. Even better is living in a state that actually wants👏people👏to👏 vote👏 (In California, sign up at WheresMyBallot.sos.ca.gov)

A text message reading: Diana G, A message from California Secretary of State on behalf of San Mateo County Registration & Elections Division. Your ballot for the June 2, 2026, Primary Election was received and will be counted. Thank you for voting!

Above it is a partial text message indicating the ballot was received by the post office and will deliver it to the county election office.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· May 30

The Chihuahuan land seal requires your meats and cheeses.

A tan chihuahua with ears back stares into your soul. You must now surrender all meats and cheeses.

Diana Goodman 👓🎥@lecinenerd· May 27

Hour 2: Killed an hour watching a video about my favorite filmmaker (Billy Wilder), and feel the right balance of awake and ready for adulting. Now repairing the car door handle my husband broke with his Hulk-like strength.