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what's better than Nancy comic that ends with a shocked face in the final panel? A Nancy comic that ends with THREE shocked faces in the final panel!

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Dr Liam Rogers @liamrogers95.bsky.social · 6h

To celebrate the release of 'Screening Technology, Theorizing Posthumanism', I'm pleased to share that I'll be doing a launch at the BFI Library on Mon 26 Oct 18.30 - where I'll be joined by Prof. Sarah Cooper (KCL)! For those interested, tickets can be purchased via link: tinyurl.com/5xrydjmz

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Buy cinema tickets for New Writings: Screening Technology, Theorizing Posthumanism – Humanness and Embodiment in Science Fiction Film and Television with Liam Rogers | BFI Southbank

2026-10-26T18:30:00.000

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI is clearly a product by and for the kind of people who in ages past bought books by the yard, and who now consult lists like "ten books to make you look smart" before taking a shelfie of their pristine copies of Atomic Habits or Infinite Jest

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The British press have long reported on marches and beacons as if they were quaint folk traditions like cheese rolling or morris dancing. This reflects British indifference to Northern Ireland, but also I think creates it. In England especially there is so little understanding of sectarianism

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whenever this pops back up I'm always delighted by the fact that Saufend-on-sji appears to suggest an estuary accent version of "south" rather than a more RP pronunciation. (also a big fan of how Rochford is rendered)

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Calvin and Hobbes @calvin-and-hobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fairness argument only ever seems to go one direction. #CalvinandHobbes #Relatable

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am someone who has never read any Pynchon but I feel is squarely in the demographic of "person who looks like he reads Pynchon" and so would very much appreciate any recommendations or warnings for a newcomer to the author

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this looks like the monster from a largely forgettable episode of NuWho

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just had a slight Avingon jump scare when "pope in France" popped up in the BBC Breaking news side bar on the telly

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

watching Sonchiriya today is really confirming that the interval in Whole Bloody Affair is poorly managed. QT should have watched some Hindi cinema (and maybe he did before Hateful Eight?)

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another packed day for Widescreen Weekend, with a mix of for work and for pleasure viewings. Zulu to kick the day off, another dacoit film with Sonchiriya, then How the West was Won - In 3 strip cinerama no less! - and one Battle after another in 70mm

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

well the positive of staying through the credits of The Whole Bloody Affair to watch Yuki's Revenge is I have something to add to my Grand Theft Hamlet lecture. The negative is that I had to watch Yuki's Revenge

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

dispatches from the intermission for Whole Bloody Affair - QT has fundamentally misjudged how much the first half of this film needs the ending. On that alone Vol 1 and Vol 2 are the better film.

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Omkara was compelling as an Othello adaptation. Dacoit film context really worked and Iago/Langda was fantastic. A slightly bowlderised print that cut some swearing and violence, but fun nonetheless. The Big Country though was magnificent, a new favourite I think. Old, scarred print but still great

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In Bradford for Widescreen Weekend. Just finished The Big Country and about to watch Omkara - the first of two Indian westerns I'll be seeing. Such a great opportunity to encounter films and formats I wouldn't otherwise be able to see - and great additional prep for my genre model!

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There was a brief period where I made liking Aronofsky's Noah my entire personality. I still really like it, I've just calmed down a bit

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Jeffrey Overstreet @overstreet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone joining the chat about fearful evangelicals protesting Greta Gerwig's radical #Narnia will do themselves a favor by reading what @laurenwilford.bsky.social wrote back when people were similarly incensed over Aronofsky's NOAH. This essay is a major focus of my class on the art of adaptation.

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Sacred Texts and Ruined Childhoods: On Aronofsky's Noah - Bright Wall/Dark Room

Darren Aronofsky’s Noah ruined my childhood, and thank God.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 23,1949

P1 - NANCY SEES SLUGGO DOWNTOWN AND NOTICES THAT HE LOOKS DIFFERENT FOR SOME REASON
INSTEAD OF THE USUAL WELL DRAWN IMAGES, NANCY AND SLUGGO APPEAR TO BE ONLY SKETCHED OUT
NANCY: YOU LOOK VERY FUNNY TODAY
SLUGGO:SO DO YOU
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NANCY: I WONDER WHAT'S WRONG
P3- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE STANDING OUTSIDE OF ERNIE BUSHMILLER’S OFFICE
SLUGGO: HE BUSTED HIS EYEGLASSES TODAY

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Gavin Haig @notquitescilly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I like a nice bench plaque too. This one from Lyme Regis recently...😁

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Robert Eggers: Language is neat and I will spend time attending to varieties of expression that serve to evoke an era and create mood as much as the other formal choices do News Outlet: Director known for using weird old timey words will make film in Olde Aenglish, a term we made because we are lazy

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Friendship ended with Anne Hathaway shutting a refrigerator. Saoirse Ronan's blank eyed stare playing farming simulator is my new best friend

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

if i had a nickel for every time Paramount were involved in an antitrust lawsuit I'd have two nickels etc

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Watching the 50s Lone Ranger series and just notied that they call Tonto's horse Scout. Given the series suggests that "ke-mo sah-bee" purportedly means trusty scout, does this mean Tonto named the Lone Ranger after his horse?

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“There’s a new adaptation of Dracula coming out” does it have the three rich boys who are courting one rich woman who then dies to a Dracula and they team up via the power of friendship and one of them is a cowboy because if not then WHY BOTHER

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Came across these little goobers and I adore them. They're replicas of misericord carvings from the Lincoln Cathedral in England

A knight, seemingly sneaking about with his sword and shield at the ready.

A monk in the fetal position, apparently giggling.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Next Cabin Pressure run through is going to be bittersweet

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To quote one of the programmers of Deep Thought, the second greatest computer: “I think this is getting needlessly messianic.”

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it's all fun and games living in the big ball until some booming voice announces "I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!" and you have to fight a big purple rat

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

'Bladerunner 2049' (2017) dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️

real cat watching Disney's 'The Aristocats' on teevee, Dutchess is saying "you look lonely"

close up of cat in bisexual lighting with a bandage on its nose looking forelorn

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Normally I think the "breaks silence" framing is one of the worst things to happen to journalism (since it typically means "responded to questiom asked in interview") but this is actually really funny. I feel like even saying nothing would be a better look?

Screenshot of news update reading "Ed Sheeran breaks silence on Macklemore tour backlash: 'I am not complicit'

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Personally I would not pick this fight with the youtube guy who demonstrates all the ways he can nail you with an arrow at 200 yards using his feet while wearing 12-inch Pleasers, whose wife can also kill you with her bare hands, and has 9 billionteen followers who are all trans women with swords.

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In awe of Junji Ito's depiction of cute aggression

I will appologise right now for my failure to really caputre this, but will do my best:
photo of a frame from Junki Ito's cat diary, a black and white manga. the image shows a deliberately grotesque self portrait of Junji Ito, an otherwise average looking japanese man with glasses but here shown as a hulking round faced caricature with gaping moutha and roles of fat around his neck. His eyes bulge and are veinty with no pupil. everything is starkly shadded. he proffers a finger to Yon, a cat with a weird face who looks a little concerned. Yon seems to be a white short hairded cat of some description. In two jagged speech bubbles Junji Ito declares "Suckle on me!" and "Suckle, I command you!"

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dr clementine v-a @clemmie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

every AI dweeb talking about how powerful and terrifying their models are sound like that episode of PEN15 where Maya and Anna convince themselves they can do magic

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 12/09/2026

Y'ALL. I AM IN LOVE WITH THE @portlandfire.bsky.social WNBA MASCOT. Every girl in Portland wants a Rose stuffie for Christmas. Including Tall Wife, who literally gasped when she saw Rose. SHE BREATHES GLITTER.

Rose, the WNBA PDX Fire mascot. She is a fabulous hot pink dragon with a crown of roses.

Rose, the WNBA PDX Fire mascot. She is a fabulous hot pink dragon with a crown of roses. She has big wings and a big tail. She is dancing.

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Drawing to end of my big Hitchhikers re-listen with Quintessential Phase/Mostly Harmless and reflecting on how idyllic Arthur's life as Sandwich Maker is

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Oh word? You ready to throw down a hard difference between logic and statistics?" is my favourite *NSYNC lyric

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

oh you're a British novelist of the twentieth century and your writing satirises the cloying social conventions of the aristocracy while at once mourning its inevitable eclipse by a crude and grasping middle class? Wow. Tell me more about your repressed homosexuality

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster

Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I initially thought the reference to blackshorts was just a Wodehouse inspired jab but they are, in fact, wearing shorts. They are dressed in a manner that Bertie Wooster considered ridiculous. I know this is a minor thing but I cannot get past it

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

is it too tinfoil hat of me to beleive that all the stuff about AI folks earnestly beleiving that AI will have crossed some sort of Syknet apocalypse rubicon in the next decade is that they *need* to beleive that. GenAI has not proven to be useful, so they must frame it is powerful?

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