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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I vote to stop making "content" in high-traffic public spaces.

Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t get it twisted: FORGOTTEN ISLAND is a win and is good for the culture but speaks to the limitations of stories Hollywood puts on more melanated movies. Read more in my review and watch FORGOTTEN ISLAND in theaters today! 🇵🇭✊🏾 thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/forgotten-...

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An article/essay series that dives into the work of AAPI nonprofit orgs in the entertainment and media industry, who gets access, who's doing the work, and who benefits the most. Would love to hear more thots from the AAPI community... thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/the-busine...

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The Business of Belonging, Part 1: Finding Community, Doing the Work, and Feeling (Un)Welcomed

A moral audit (of sorts): How AAPI advocacy organizations use resources, money, and power to give back to the communities they claim to serve.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It doesn't make sense to make an unemployed journalist pay for a subscription to a newsletter or any other platform to find a job. I mean, I get we all have to hustle, but damn, many journalists barely have enough money to pay rent.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I guess someone needed a documentary about that Raygun person from the Olympics. People just be making shit and thinking they are doing something, huh?

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Interviews with press have boiled down to gimmicks, viral desperation, games, circle jerking, and everything but getting to know about the project the talent is promoting. Sure, it's what the people want -- but it's the only thing the "press" (and I say that with a very lowercase p) is giving them.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So I started watching QUERELLE for the first time...and it's like a gay and slutty ANCHORS AWEIGH.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors... but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor... and when I die, I expect to find him laaaaaaughiiiiing....

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The world is ready for Alaska Thunderfuck and J. Harrison Ghee in OH MARY! And I loved how I got to put the word "Thunderfuck" in a headline. Read more in DIASPORA's weekly wrap up! thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/alaska-thu...

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Alaska Thunderfuck & J. Harrison Ghee Set For 'Oh Mary!', 'Black Panther III' Finds Its Lead; 'Sisters', 'Air Bud', 'I Want Your Sex', and That Prince Musical

A weekly(ish) digest of arts, media, and culture.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The fact that there are queer people who don't know who Divine or John Waters is concerns me.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Taylor Swift wedding is peak white culture for 2026.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Roshan Sethi debut novel THE SIMP addresses the ignorance and lack of accountability in Hollywood that the industry refuses to fix -- all through the eyes of Raj, a struggling, unemployed actor working for a demanding high-profile couple. thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/the-simp-a...

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'The Simp': A Delightful and Painfully Accurate Depiction of Identity Politics, Absurdity, and Caucasity in Hollywood

Issue No. 88: Roshan Sethi's novel feels real... maybe TOO REAL.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Are audiences still interested in listening to new podcasts where celebrities (A through D list) interview other celebrities? Do we have enough? Or do you want more?

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I finished re-reading IN COLD BLOOD this morning and then immediately started re-watching CAPOTE. It's a heavy way to start a Tuesday morning.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I talked about my favorite comfort movies on Rotten Tomatoes's CRITICAL THINKING series! Shout out to Hanh Nguyen, who shared this ep with me!! What are your comfort movies for trash times like these???! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4B2...

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Critics List Their Top "Feel-Good" Movies | Critical Thinking

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Read my thots about MADDIE’S SECRET (In NY and LA this weekend!) via link to the DIASPORA newsletter below! And shout out to Queen Meredith Baxter and the iconic NBC movie of the week from 1986 KATE’S SECRET! 😬❤️ thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/the-specta...

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What would happen if real journalists stopped working for corporate media and started more independent and community-focused news media platforms?

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Have you ever gotten to the point where you had to mute or block your own sibling on social media bc of how delusional they have become?

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

First there was VALENTINE'S DAY.... then there was NEW YEAR'S EVE... and then there was MOTHER'S DAY.... Now there is DISCLOSURE DAY! Get ready to be disclosed. thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/disclosure...

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'Disclosure Day': Because The World Could Use A Bit of Empathetic Spielbergian Cinema

Issue No. 85: E.T. could never!

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Keke Palmer single-handedly reintroduced 2 Girls 1 Cup into the zeitgeist and what's just as enjoyable is Quinta Brunson saying “Keke!” like an auntie who is shocked but also delighted that she brought up a watershed moment in internet history that, as Keke suggested, changed the game! 👯‍♀️🥤💩

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Is it possible just to send the 2 Girls 1 Cup video to everyone in Congress and Senate once every hour?

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I always think of this moment from the 2019 Oscars when Lisa Bonet stepped in to stop her boo of the time Jason Momoa from doing a haka chant at the request of a red carpet reporter. This is just a friendly reminder that culture is not something to be performed at the request of colonizers. ☺️🫰🏾

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Drag Race Tournament of All Stars closes out its first bracket today but this moment is the real winner. 🥇 💋👠💄

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I get so many press releases for the never ending flow of Netflix TV shows and movies and they all look the same to me. But Netflix is like...

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

You can't deny that The Met Gala had beautiful fashion, but fuck the rich. Devour them.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

As a graduate of Texas A&M, I keep receiving notices about this Ring Ventures thing where rich alums invest in businesses and other "ventures" from other alums. How they hell do I get some of this white guilt money for DIASPORA?

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

FYI: Representation is not liberation.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Trans Day of Visibility should be every day! Shout out to all my trans siblings!❤️🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏾

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s wig in the new live- action MOANA was a hot topic this past week and the internet, as per usual, did not hold back! Read more via the DIASPORA newsletter: thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/dragon-mam...

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

THEY CALL HIM U-S... H-E-R... R-A... Y-M... O-N-D.... now tell me baby how he gonna defend a pedo like Diddy?

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Shout out to ZOOM and cast members Pablo, Keiko, and Lynese giving us DEI in 1999. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8d...

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Zoom (1999) Theme Song (Season 1, 60 FPS)

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

HEY ALL: Don't forget to watch the other ANTM docuseries on E! Let's keep the party going!!!! www.youtube.com/shorts/rzsIG...

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Get ready. #DirtyRottenScandals: America's Next Top Model premieres Wednesday at 9/8c on E!

YouTube video by E! Entertainment

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

So horny for Javier Bardem right now...

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

As much shit I talk about the Academy Awards, I love that Conan is hosting again (a fellow Aries -- we share the same birthday, btw).

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I just love how much Alysa Liu loves being from Oakland…

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

If you like to eat bread products on a regular basis, I highly recommend this Trader Joe's product.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Congratulations to Variety -- and the Academy-- for giving us useless breaking news in a desperate attempt to get younger people to watch the Oscars.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

FYI: There are a lot of press junkets where the press who are doing the interviews have not even watched the movie. In other words, they are interviewing talent with out having experienced the movie they are promoting. That's not journalism. That's marketing.

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The first time I saw TiMEHthee ChalaMEH in a movie was in 2017 at SXSW in the movie HOT SUMMER NIGHTS. As soon as I saw him, I said, "Oh lord, this guy is gonna be loved by Hollywood but I know that he is gonna annoy the hell out of me."

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Dino-Ray Ramos @dinoray.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I am not trying to be sarcastic or snarky, but does anyone know of any anti-Oscar events or any events that are an anti-celebration celebration of the Academy Awards in Los Angeles?

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