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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Female Gaze at SFFP’s Re:Vision: women-directed films open & close the festival, from Angie Chen’s MY NAME AIN’T SUZIE on Thurs to Bodil Ipsen’s MELODY OF MURDER on Sun, w/ Margot Benacerraf, Sumitra Peries, Karen Sperling (in person!), and more in between. 👉 filmpreserve.org/revision/#program

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh no. A true master of the documentary form. The Battle of Chile films are among the best ever made.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

expect me to be smashing this button ad nauseam in the months to come

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Looks amazing! Of note, 2 preservations Block Cinema had a hand in: NANCY, HENRI AND ELIZABETH (1973), uncovered for our Trans Portraiture series & restored by USC; and THE WAITING ROOM (1973), Karen Sperling's dreamlike feminist feature, preserved from U-matic after the negatives/prints were lost.

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

this is the phone i read your posts from

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/08/2026

Meta is unsatisfied with this metaphor and is actually working to shift its data centre infrastructure to being actual air pollution, too fortune.com/2026/03/27/m...

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Meta orders 10 gas-fired power plants for its Hyperion AI campus in rural Louisiana—more than triple the initial plans | Fortune

The Meta AI complex represents an over 30% increase to Louisiana’s total power grid capacity.

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hands down one of the best to do it - support Muscle Distribution’s vital work for film culture.

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Liz @schlockvalue.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

only $2500 to go

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ren they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ @renzaro.com · 24/06/2026

First I’m hearing that the DNC has resources, volunteers, and infrastructure

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/06/2026

SpaceX goes public tomorrow. A wonderful moment for cynical shills and Patagonia gargoyles to roll in the filth of the dodgiest company to list since Enron. This is the last exit route for capital for a minute. A big win for horrible people, but a brief one before a dark era for Silicon Valley

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Anyone out there know anything about Odeon Films, Inc.? Documentary/educational distributor in the 1970s, distributed JANIE'S JANIE, Tsuchimoto's MINAMATA, among others. Seems like they were in the milieu of Tricontinental, New Day Films, etc.

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Chicago folks May 19th-22nd I'll be in town presenting some special films: 5/20: Robina Rose's NIGHTSHIFT (1981) at Doc Films/ 5/21: rare 16mm Kodachrome print of WANDA (1970) at Northwestern's Block Museum Cinema / 5/22: Barbara Loden & Joan Micklin Silver's educational 16mm shorts, Block. Links ⬇️

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Slightly diminish a book Life: A User Review

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/05/2026

OpenAI’s CFO has a backstory that radiates with evil www.wsj.com/business/ope...

She did an internship at a gold mine in Ghana but has said she felt she didn't feel welcome given the lack of
women who were there. She went to work for McKinsey, which sent her to South Africa just after apartheid ended. She calls the period a major influence in her life.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“California is preparing to share with an outside organization detailed information about driver’s license holders, including immigrants who do not have legal authorization to live in the U.S. That breaks a promise the state made a decade ago…”

calmatters.org

California ‘betrays’ 1 million immigrants with move to share driver data, say advocates

California's DMV is sharing data about 1 million unauthorized immigrants so its driver licenses will still be accepted at airports.

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 20/04/2026

So Americans are paying a foreign oil company to shut down clean energy projects here at home, using money that was never supposed to be spent this way, with zero strings attached. That is illegal, unethical, and a scandal hiding in plain sight.

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

what kind of "-pilled" is it to think war in Iran is Actually Good* b/c it will hasten an AI bubble pop, which will be Actually Good** b/c it will bankrupt Oracle, which will be Actually Good b/c Trump's ability to retain power against popular backlash hinges on Oracle's mass surveillance program***

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Sam Altman looking like Temu Paddy McAloon lipsynching “Appetite” at Sanremo in 1986

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 11/03/2026

rogue states led by war criminals

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

did you know robert wyatt and tracey thorn duet on a latin jazz/sophisti-pop anthem written in solidarity with the victims of the pinochet regime? didn’t think so m.youtube.com/watch?v=cNTd...

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Working Week - Venceremos (We Will Win) (1984) full 12" Single

YouTube video by sipsun8

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

aljazeera.com

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate

US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

screening on 16mm for free this friday at block cinema at northwestern! www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2026/...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I feel resentful of these governors like Walz and Pritzker when they ask citizens to do this risky work against federal agents but then let their own state police and municipal cops arrest, beat and jail their citizens while doing this risky work they’ve been asked to do

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danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

pretty incendiary stuff, kinda surprised it’s just sitting there on Tubi. I’d say something banal like how this is a ‘movie for our moment’ but it’s from 2018 so it’s more about how nothing has changed in our post-Patriot Act police state

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Back in September, we screened Amos Poe's THE FOREIGNER, and Amos and I recorded a conversation to preface the film. Amos and partner Claudia Summers sent tons of amazing stills to edit into 8-minute introduction to the film, one of my all-time faves. RIP to an original. vimeo.com/1149513348/b...

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amos poe intro

This is "amos poe intro" by Block Museum on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.

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SCMS Gender & Feminisms Caucus @scmsgfcaucus.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The Transgender Media Portal (TMP): an award-winning, trans-made film database is in the final stretch of its fundraiser. Lehman-Stamm Family Fund is matching donations and TMP seeks your help to raise final 25% to fight trans invisibility and sustain this resource. Scan the QR code to donate!

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 17/12/2025

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them. That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

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