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Lady Horatia

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Film critic living in Italy. I write about whatever I feel like at any moment on my medium profile: medium.com/@lady-horatia

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can buy a huge media conglomerate with money you don't have using leveraged debt you'll never pay off and then immediately start firing its workers, but people will still say that capitalism is compatible with democracy and is capable of "reform" or "regulation"
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
tumblr post:
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Aug 31, 2023
Every time some fash posts about Real Art vs
Duchamp's Fountain it's like lol that urinal has been kicking your ass for a hundred years

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Marcel Duchamp kicked the bucket 55 slutty, slutty years ago and you can't get him out of your head.
You're half as old as he is dead and you are worshiping at his altar, you are drinking his piss. He won.
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"We have so removed, and detached, sex from any semblance of the natural in our media that it has now become common to talk about the “unnecessary sex scene”." #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and the Denaturalization of Sex
Did you know that Deadpool and Wolverine had sex in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’?
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"It is not news that the Empire in Star Wars is fascist. George Lucas modeled the empire after the Nazis, not only in its design and terminology but also in its ideology and function." #Andor #GiftArticle medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘Andor’ and Fighting Fascism
The fight against fascism is never-ending
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"The fact that this movie has survived likely has much to do with [James] Gunn, whose involvement in producing and co-writing the story seems to have been downplayed to not stoke the right wing fanatics who attack him with glee." #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...
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Coyote Vs. Acme: We Are All Sisyphus
One can imagine Wile E. Coyote happy
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"...Do we want to stop believing in love and compassion? Have we become so burned by the world that we have forgotten what drives our passions, what animates our humanity?" #film medium.com/theuglymonst...
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From ‘Birth of a Nation’ to ‘Intolerance’ and Believing in Love
What did D.W. Griffith believe in?
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"If...there is nothing outside the text, then what are we to do with the real harm [D.W.] Griffith unleashed into the world?" #movies #Medium #society medium.com/theuglymonst...
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From ‘Birth of a Nation’ to ‘Intolerance’ and Believing in Love
What did D.W. Griffith believe in?
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
if i ever became a film professor one of my white whales is a reverse-chronological film history lesson plan. i think starting from the present and working our way backwards would be EXPONENTIALLY friendlier to contemporary film novice undergrads than making them watch DW Griffith in week one
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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
panel 1
man thinking: Am I still a good person if helping others also benefits me? 

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disembodied voice from far away: Hey, man

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picture of the entire universe: It's me, the universe

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universe: Be kind, I don't care why
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"...sinners are not humans. In becoming sinners they have been ontologically recalibrated and redefined as sinners, an epistemic category which sets them outside the confines of sympathy or empathy." #books #movies #religion medium.com/theuglymonst...
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Dante’s ‘Inferno’ — Hell Isn’t a Place, It’s A Process
One which produces and reproduces sinners
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"The evidence shows that unhoused people are in grave and persistent danger from the punitive systems of neglect we fund and support. And yet it is unhoused people who are understood to be the danger…to us. I think a lot of us do not believe they are people." www.the-reframe.com/jordan-neely...
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Jordan Neely Was a Person
One Nation Under Fear - Part 1
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Can a film that has removed from the frame almost everything by which the genre is usually recognized be called cyberpunk? And even if the answer is yes, do we deserve such cyberpunk?" #movies #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...
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Mud Instead of Neon: ‘Hard to Be a God’ as Cyberpunk
Frozen eternity, a god whose power makes no history, and the medieval present we deserve
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"[Emily] Wilson begins her review by pointing out the fundamental nature of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ which most of us forget — it is already an adaptation." #movies #ChristopherNolan medium.com/theuglymonst...
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Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ — A Response to Emily Wilson’s Review of the Film
Tell me about a complicated film
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Because The Ugly Monster's writers are GODLIKE, we now have 15,000 followers on Medium. Now read this think piece about The Odyssey. #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘The Odyssey’ and Bourgeois Subjectivity
If Spartacus is the story of ancient proletarian revolutionaries, then Homer’s The Odyssey is the founding myth of the bourgeois
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Art doesn’t have an obligation to anyone, whether that be the artist or the audience. Why do we expect it to now have an obligation to us?" #movies #Medium #TheOdyssey medium.com/theuglymonst...
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Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ — A Response to Emily Wilson’s Review of the Film
Tell me about a complicated film
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Nolan is injecting mystery and humanism back into faith. The beauty of faith is that you cannot epistemically know if it is true. But faith becomes real when it is lived, breathed, felt, and in some cases, yes, seen." #TheOdyssey #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...
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Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ — A Response to Emily Wilson’s Review of the Film
Tell me about a complicated film
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"What does The Odyssey tell us about the wealthy? It portrays them as a solipsistic group that maintains power through lies and brute force." #movies #Medium #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘The Odyssey’ and Bourgeois Subjectivity
If Spartacus is the story of ancient proletarian revolutionaries, then Homer’s The Odyssey is the founding myth of the bourgeois
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Due to Marx’s praise, Marxists — especially orthodox Marxists — would take Spartacus’s name and story as a symbol of a heroic revolutionary proletariat." #movies #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...
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The Radical Political Origins of ‘Spartacus’
The story behind Stanley Kubrick’s ancient epic
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Rick thought he would eventually break free of the cycle by embracing evolution. Morty thought he could free himself from evolution with individual enlightenment. Instead they were both wrong. Community is what freed them." #GiftArticle medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘Rick and Morty’ — Let Evolution Die
The philosophy of the latest season of ‘Rick and Morty’
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"As any description of Spartacus will tell you, the historical record has only a few lines about him, which has led historians to speculate that the Romans were embarrassed by the incident." #movies #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...
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The Radical Political Origins of ‘Spartacus’
The story behind Stanley Kubrick’s ancient epic
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"...the newly elected President John F. Kennedy made a political spectacle of crossing the American Legion picket line at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. on February 3, 1961, effectively ending the Hollywood Blacklist." #film #Medium #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...
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The Radical Political Origins of ‘Spartacus’
The story behind Stanley Kubrick’s ancient epic
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Fans who engage in Database Consumption...do not engage with the media to draw literary meaning from the text. Rather, their engagement is purely consumptive in nature." #RickAndMorty #philosophy #Medium medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘Rick and Morty’ — Let Evolution Die
The philosophy of the latest season of ‘Rick and Morty’
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
means testing is economically and administratively inefficient, but more importantly, *it is morally reprehensible*
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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
feels like the worst time in history to finally feel happy being alive
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"What’s changed between Terminator 2 and One Battle? Exit: cyberpunk dystopian horror. Enter: the hyperreal thriller. What was once a nightmarish vision of the future is taken for granted, caricatured, and treated as more real than reality." #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...
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Terminator vs. One Battle After Another — “What Happens When the Past Invades the Present?”
T2 and One Battle After Another are thematically similar but diverge on the question of Time
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Can you really find Zen when you don’t have a roof to sleep under? Can you accept the loose transience of things when you don’t even have a morsel of food to eat?" #Japan #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘Perfect Days’ — Do shadows get darker if they overlap?
Within the dialectic between shadows and their cause, the unhoused engage
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"In a society where every act of creation must be commodified as a method of financial survival, the removal of art from a product of consumption becomes increasingly difficult." #politics #propaganda #capitalism medium.com/theuglymonst...
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WTF is Art?
Art, Propaganda and the curious definition superposition
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Lady Horatia @mediumacolyte.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I wrote a piece about Luis Buñuel's film The Exterminating Angel and how it is more relevant to our present day than you might think. #movies #politics #mexico #italy #film #philosophy
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"Monstrous fathers abusing children have become a common way to reimagine novels. Conspiratorial thinking is on the rise, and films reflect it back to audiences..." #NoPaywall #film #culture medium.com/theuglymonst...
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Terminator vs. One Battle After Another — “What Happens When the Past Invades the Present?”
T2 and One Battle After Another are thematically similar but diverge on the question of Time
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"The attack on Nul Hutta lets us draw parallels between the New Republic of the Star Wars universe, and the real (purported) American republic." #politics #GiftArticle medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ and the Legacy of Star Wars
The latest Star Wars film is in line with the tradition set out by George Lucas in his 1977 classic
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Jayce and Viktor justify the use of magic by saying that it could save countless lives. And yet when the magic system is finally implemented it is reserved for Piltover, and consequently the wealthy elite." #fantasy #politics #GiftArticle medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘Arcane’ and the Myth of Progress
We like to imagine progress as a perpetual social benefit, but is it really?
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"‘I Saw the TV Glow’ is a tragedy through and through. I knew it from the start. From the very second that the film began crackling onto my screen I knew what was coming." #GiftArticle #queer #horror medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘I Saw the TV Glow’ and Being Trans
“There is still time” was written in chalk on the street. Is this true?
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"The structural forces of American culture breed and induce violence." #horror #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘Christine’: The Violence of Possession
Possession makes you paranoic, and paranoia makes you violent
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Are you a writer on #Medium? Do you love movies and games and comics and books and stuff, but HATE AI slop? If so, come and write for The Ugly Monster. medium.com/theuglymonst...
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How to Write for the Ugly Monster
…and not get rejected
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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
as true today as when it was written
Frank Reynolds (Danny Devito in Always Sunny in Philadelphia) letting you know that you would have to be a real lowlife piece of shit to be proud to be an American.
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Sometimes you can’t think of anything good to write, and that’s a perfectly normal thing a lot of writers struggle with. It just means you committed a great sin and displeased The Lord. It means He has punished you by cutting you off from The Source
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This happened years ago with the death of Jeff Lockhart, and it should have led to the dismantling of this juggernaut of reckless corporate greed
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
You don't really want this. So much of TV is changed and discovered in the process. No master plan survives 13 eps of production. Your actors' abilities and chemistry opens up story paths you never imagined. Other ideas sink like a lead balloon. Master plans are overrated.
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This isn’t some kind of anti parent remark, by the way. It’s just interesting that everyone who has a kid essentially becomes a charity dedicated to one person, such that broader ideas of social goods are easier to dismiss and personal fortunes can be more easily justified
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Daniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A good editor is the perfect combination of ruthless and kind. Professionalism is the ability to recognize that writer and editor are on the same team, and that means honesty.
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
it's very frustrating to see everyone hopping on the "national debt" discourse in complete sincerity. buddy we are still "paying off" debt from the civil war. national economies are not your household budget PLEASE stop falling for bush era propaganda that wasn't even that convincing in 2004
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
public services don't need to turn a profit because they're owned by the entity that invents the money. same goes for medicare/medicaid, and should go for all healthcare, higher education, housing and transit. we do not need to attach profit-seeking a parasite to every exchange of human resources!!!
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Lady Horatia @mediumacolyte.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I wrote an article about why I think the Top Gun franchise functions as propaganda for American imperialism. #politics #movies #america #film
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"Colonialism, and by extension imperialism, function in the same way as fascism — a successor to the former. That is, they rely on the destruction of the other’s will and consent." #Oscars #Avatar #GiftArticle medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ and the Nature of Colonial Violence
James Cameron abandons all nuance for revolutionary fervour
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"Richard Linklater’s semi-rotoscoped animated film about a ten-and-a-half-year-old going to space captures the essence of coming-of-age..." #movies #Medium medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ and the Nature of Coming of Age
Richard Linklater shows us that we are not alone when we grow up
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"According to some calculations the embargo has cost Cuba around $130 billion since its inception." #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘Adiós Cuba’: Why Do Cubans Leave Cuba?
‘Adiós Cuba’ sheds some light on history’s most misunderstood migration
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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"It is no mystery that capitalism frequently subsumes revolution; the reasons, processes, and nature of it are well understood." #Oscars #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...
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‘One Battle After Another’, ‘Eddington’ and the Neo-Silent Cinema of the 2020s
Silence can be both loud and inspire revolution, or quiet and inspire complicity
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