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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 7h

Guest speaking today on Beauty and the Beast 🌹

Screencap of Belle holding a dandelion in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

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Bobby™ @schwbby.bsky.social · 18h

It’s also available on YouTube premium!

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 19h

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS has been adopted by @dropout.tv! This indie film is a perfect mixture of silent Hollywood slapstick, Looney Tunes cartoon antics, and Nintendo video game logic. If you already subscribe to Dropout for shows like Game Changer or Dimension 20, please give this a watch!

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Hundreds of Beavers Is Now on Dropout [US Only]

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If Andy Beshear can stand on trans rights in Kentucky, there's no excuse for the transphobia exhibited by Amy Acton in Ohio, James Talarico in Texas, and especially Gavin Newson in California. If a politician opposes trans rights, they should have no place in the Democratic party.

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Echo Fields @e-ellen-sociology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The "subaltern" are being erased, but will not go quietly, in the face of the assault on higher ed, humanities, social science.

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To the four tween girls who skipped class to catch a Monday matinee screening of Tremors: good luck with your coming out journeys.

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Kevin Bacon Scared in Tremors

Alt: Kevin Bacon Scared in Tremors

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Most people don't follow the Billboard charts or any "incessant news coverage" of it. Those same people don't know who Stella Lefty is, either, despite being at #2 on the Hot 100. "Choosin' Texas" is a fine song, but it's only a hit because the charts are deeply boring right now.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want a psychedelic pseudo history of Daniel Defoe’s life starring Willem Defoe

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's important we listen to the man who spent over a billion dollars to make Quibi

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Rev @autistic-ankou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

jeffrey katzenberg has done many a thing, but the thing I always think of is the story about him flipping out at the animators on The Black Cauldron after they had to explain to him that no, they could not in fact edit and re-cut an animated film like a live action one

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Salamis_Dragoon @dragonsnestsal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This guy was never really that smart. He was often called a jerk by his peers. He worked at Disney before leaving because he felt self-entitled to becoming the company president after someone died and didn't get it. Guy often disrespected animation, trying to cut The Black Cauldron. Don't trust him.

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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Promise you’ll bury him with his golden streaming service.

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TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 26/09/2026

While with hindsight, it’s obvious that Quibi was a video platform with no audience and a complete misunderstanding of short form content, it’s important for folks to know that, at the time… it was just as obvious that it had no audience and a complete misunderstanding of short form content.

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ZeldaTheSwordsman @zeldatheswordsman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not only did the arrogant prick waste over a billion making Quibi, he tried to blame its failure on the pandemic. Even though the pandemic was a divine gift to streaming services, and brought record profits to basically any service with something worth watching.

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legal cat 🐾 @legalcat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kim Possible was highly influential for the small shirt big pants crowd (aka me)

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Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ok, hear me out. There are some *great* animated kids shows. Sarah and Duck, MLP: FIM, and the new She-Ra are just a few I’d completely watch on my own. S1 of Rescue Bots had such an amazing storyline. Like I was *into it*. I even bought S2 because Netflix didn’t have it and I needed to see it.

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One animated show and zero toddler, kids, or tween shows, despite them all experiencing a golden age during this period. What a deeply unserious list.

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One animated show and zero toddler, kids, or tween shows, despite them all experiencing a golden age during this period. What a deeply unserious list.

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today, my poem "Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers" comes out at @smallwondersmag.com and I feel a lot of things...It's a piece dedicated to single women who raised children on their own and the young growing without a father. For me, it was my abuela who raised me smallwondersmag.com/piece/single...

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Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers - Small Wonders

Mother: “Where night is full of hungry mouths, / I lost my dream. I gave it to a coyote passing."

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's important we listen to the man who spent over a billion dollars to make Quibi

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When did David Fincher get demoted from "prestige director" to "guy who handles Quentin Tarantino's hand-me-downs"?

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THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just also want to note that trans people and advocates for the unhoused have told people for years that Gavin Newsom is trash. If this is what makes people realize how awful he is, great, but I really hope this is also a wake-up call to listen the first time someone tells you who they really are.

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I did Mechanical Turk labor for a short period. It paid very little, but gave just enough to get me the money I needed. Seeing what sort of jobs came through really opened my eyes to the invisible and exploited workforce that made the modern United States oligarchy possible.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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kinpraw @kinpraw.carrd.co · 16/09/2026

DK Renders! (Sculptober 2024 & 2025) #b3d

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Love this poem about WALL-E by Michele Rosario, from the latest issue of @rattlepoetry.bsky.social 🤖

Michele Rosario
EVE's Garden

WALL-E found my poem. It was garbage. A wrinkled ball tossed away like so many dreams were tossed in my time. I thought it wasn't worth it. I thought I wasn't worth it. Everyone was too distracted to prove me wrong. My wastebasket overflowed and over the cliff went the building blocks of a landfill called Earth. It was the beginning of his shift, and WALL-E was but making a dent on the mountains left to contain and contract. Then he saw a perfect sphere among the sharp edges of trash. He picked up the paper ball gently, opened his chest. My poem was safely kept between a rubber duck and a Rubik's cube. WALL-E worked all day. At dusk, he closed his cooler and made his way home. Home. A bunker full of trinkets where he revived memories of a world long gone. He took each new item found that day and placed it where it belonged. Then, he worked on my poem, opening the cocoon of my words. He saw scribbles of someone who was and was gone. His robotic voice was a gateway for my thoughts. For an instant, I was alive. He sighed when he was done and read it once more. He twirled around with joy. Then, he went to his fourth wall and made space for me. Next to Shakespeare. Next to The Beatles. Next to a guy named Charlie. Next to The Spice Girls and Edgar Allan Poe. He loved my work like I never did. It took the end of the world to find someone who loved me.

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LAL @lindli.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is the hill I will die on forever: children are whole-ass humans, and should be accorded individual civil rights as such Parents are caretakers, not owners

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Deadline this Friday! Submit your application to become the next Editor(s) of JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies online here: buff.ly/T3CIob3.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

New PFP! I commissioned a cartoon version of myself 💕

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

obsessed with this poem by CAConrad. the empire will tax your soul! I prefer the forests making blankets from themselves!!

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My DisNet presentation has been finalized. We're talking Emoji Blitz 💕

Slide reading "ADAPTING CHARACTERS INTO EMOJI," featuring emoji version of Maleficent, Lizzie McGuire, and Broadway Mufasa.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026

The sad thing is, its only going to get worse. This is what these dems are saying before the ad spend cranks up. Just wait until the debates, the ads, the consultants sweep in. Buckle up everyone.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the most famous high school trans athlete in Texan history is by a significant margin Mack Beggs, who pretty clearly would have made everyone happier had he wrestled other boys like he wanted to, and that would also have been better for safety and for fairness

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In addition to the bad framing he also buys into salience by saying “that’s right” when the interviewer says it’s an important issue in Texas. Your opponents are picking on kids, in this case trans kids who are suffering and dying from discrimination. Lead with that or get a new career.

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Like many Republicans, Roger Marshall pretends to be a Christian while ignoring Jesus' teachings. "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give. Do not get any gold or silver or copper to take with you..." - Matthew 10:8-9

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/09/2026

In 2026, there are 26 Dems running for Congress, Senate, Governor, or Statewide Office who have made anti-trans votes or statements. Iowa, New York, Ohio, and Texas lead the pack in anti-trans Democrats. Your EITM candidate guide for this election cycle. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State

These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.

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Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️‍🌈 @svegaard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As always, music is essential. And this is absolutely DELIGHTFUL on its own merits too (h/t @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social who brought this to my feed.)

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I can't emphasize enough how much a comedic choir adds to action-oriented comedy movies 🍿

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Cirice Gray @In Her Image out now! @ciricegray.itch.io · 06/09/2026

New study on transgender women hiring discrimination paints an incredibly bleak picture. If you can't stealth and don't pass your callbacks plummet 32% This is only at the resume stage, back when I was still trying I was getting callbacks all the time. I was ghosted or experienced death by panel

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The Cost of Being Seen: Identity, Non-Passing Appearance, and Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender Women

This paper examines whether hiring discrimination against transgender women arises from gender identity, non-cisnormative appearance, or their interaction. In a

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Three years into the genocide, children in Gaza watch The Lion King together 💔

GAZA CITY, GAZA - AUGUST 30: Palestinians, including children, watch a film screening organized by Little Wings Cinema in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City, on August 30, 2026. The initiative provides children with a recreational space amid the difficult conditions and widespread destruction caused by the war between Israel and Hamas. Omar Ashtawy for Getty Images

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What the hell, @eff.org ??? This is not transformative use. First of all, use of copyrighted work *still requires permission and the associated fees.* Second, AI models are not transforming anything! They are vacuum and regurgitate machines with no actual intelligence. So disappointed by this!

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