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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Interesting going back to the (I think) origin point of such a popularised film lens. As with many 70s feminist essays, some of it has aged well and some has not lol

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rereading Visual Pleasure & Narrative Cinema for uni and these paragraphs made me think of Obsession, which I’ve seen twice and really really do not like.

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

-your friend, is she, y'know, stabbed with a pencil and sent to italy? 👉👈

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I didn’t watch 10 hours last night, no.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Never made it past episode 8 of The Return on my two watches over the years (for existential horror reasons). Went back to it last night and had all manner of unnerving dreams. Such. A. Lot.

Laura Dern as Diane in Twin Peaks the return

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Serendipitous week to write about Nina Power 🙃

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Had quite the Friday. Read all about it here:

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wrote about the Lindsay Clancy media storm and true crime consumption. daisysteinhardt.substack.com/p/lindsay-cl...

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Lindsay Clancy Trial

On true crime, social media, and psychosis.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Interesting. Yeah I imagine that’s the case (making it even shitter than its predecessors). I’m not a computer scientist so its difficult extrapolating what “AI” the branding term means in different contexts.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This piece was difficult on various levels to write, and reminded me why I rarely write capital c Criticism. I’m happy with how it turned out, though. Please give it a read.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I wrote about the beautiful and painful Looking for Mr Goodbar (1976) for @cineredis.bsky.social. Screening on 35mm at @wshed.bsky.social this afternoon.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fuck me, higher education in the UK is going through it. Wonderful time to try get into academia. Please support the striking goldsmiths staff

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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

All of my professors at Goldsmiths are on strike as management tries to force involuntary redundancies and shutter courses. They're running an art raffle to support the striking workers, so if you want to support them you can buy tickets here. www.gucu-raffle.com

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Goldsmiths UCU ART RAFFLE 2026

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

God I miss when Twitter wasn’t broken, it’s so dead over here 🥲

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New from me: I wrote about copyright infringement and the advent of AI dating open.substack.com/pub/daisyste...

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Two stories from this week's internet

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Hey girl, wanna share my Postmodernism or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism epub? We can read by the yellow light of the screen 🥰

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Putting on my frederic jameson hat at the Minions and Monsters (2026) screening

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

New substack alert! I’ve written about some of my favourite things about the modern internet. open.substack.com/pub/daisyste...

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Things I Like About the Internet in 2026

Featuring Scientology speedruns, Wikipedia, and Zoe Bread.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Men in film criticism are the best of us. There should be many, many more of them.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Teenage sex and death at camp miasma

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Getting the 4D early internet experience trying to navigate jiscmail lists

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Obsession is a great film if you like the spectacle of a woman’s abject terror being dressed up as a half baked feminist commentary

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Jamie Loftus did a great podcast episode about the origins of the original backrooms photo, which has a really nice story open.spotify.com/episode/3Pe3...

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the backrooms: a blurry photo that changed the internet

Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) · Episode

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I may have missed discourse on this but absolutely loved the scary movie 6 (or possibly 7) beginning their theatrical trailer with Michael Jackson and the tagline “the only star who truly touched his fans.” Big up fair use for parody

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Really astute examination of entanglements between the individual and collective subconscious. Also makes a great incidental double bill with buffet infinity, which I watched yesterday.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Backrooms is so good. Sooooo good. Really captures the aesthetic and affective allure of the original creepypasta. There’s been a lot of focus on liminality and men in therapy, but the film seems as interested in hypermediacy and our cultural relationship to technology.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

New substack alert! I wrote about thr giant Guinness advert that is Ladies First (2025). open.substack.com/pub/daisyste...

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Lovely Day For a Guinness

In which I share my thoughts on Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest Netflix atrocity

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Ha it’s unbearable isn’t it. Hope you’re well, my Steiner investigation sort of stalled but I have been thinking about it a lot, I’ll let you know as and when I pick it up again :)

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

For professional reasons I have decided not to speak publicly about my tiresome interactions with this person who I used to have a lot of respect for. Subtweeting through these difficult times 👍🏻

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Someone I know, who I will not name despite very much wanting to, waxes lyrical about the dangers of AI in writing, and worries deeply about students using it, only to illustrate articles and produce videos with very *very* obviously GenAI art. Unbearable stuff happening.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I asked the man on the left for a photo of his jumper. I did not ask the man on the right but here he is anyway.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Forgot alt text: two white men. The one on the left is wearing a jumper that reads “MIGA: Make Iran Great Again with a love for America.” The one on the right is draped in a Union Jack flag.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

No worries. I’ll let you know if it surfaces

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If I can find it! Haven’t seen it for years, it’s probably collecting dust at my parents’ house. I’ll have a look next week

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Finding the slow breakdown of Starmer’s government quite amusing. Please no return to the lettuce though. It was funny at the time, then became an infuriating symbol of online liberalism paraded by people more keen to criticise Lady Jane Truss than the then and also now prime minister Keir Starmer.

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I wrote a very 18 year old essay about it afterwards, which I will not be sharing lol

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Daisy Steinhardt @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Saw Deborah Lipstadt giving a talk at the watershed in 2019, in which she compared Jeremy Corbyn with Trump. I was 18 and trying to get my head around international politics at the time, and bought her book, which I thankfully never read.

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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

"The interview is a cynical PR exercise giving voice to a man who has spent his media career taking up air time - a kindness not extended to the multiple women accusing him of sexual violence.” From @daisysteinhardt.bsky.social's new Substack 👇

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"I Feel Like I've Been On Trial My Whole Life"

I Watched Piers Morgan's Russell Brand Interview So You Don't Have To

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sasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

For anyone interested in the anti-trans movement in the UK, here's a thread of all my investigative work on the topic. 🧵 Starting with Bayswater Part 1: How the Tories let abusive anti-trans parents dictate education policy www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

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The parents group at the centre of a rollback of trans rights

A Conservative MP enlisted Bayswater Support Group in push back on trans education in schools

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