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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Well I think I've just definitively dated the arrival of the very first enslaved people from Africa to an English colony in the Caribbean - the exact day which launched a slave plantation system that would see 3.5m people trafficked in its wake. And it seems that 400 year anniversary is upon us.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Lee Grant in her first role, where she doesn’t even get a name and is just listed as “Shoplifter”, won Best Actress at Cannes and was nom’d for Supp Actress at the Oscars. comic relief in a drama and has maybe 10 minutes of screentime, her final scene is a hoot. memorable debut #noirvember

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Detective Story (William Wyler; 1951) #noirvember a fight for the soul of a policeman across a single day in a busy precinct. fun (and award-winning) ensemble around Kirk Douglas, though its stage origins are evident. wish all “Oscar bait” were this good

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

dialogue writing in the classic noir age was something else #noirvember

Kirk Douglas in a screenshot from Detective Story, directed by William Wyler. The dialogue goes, "I ought to fall on you like the sword of God."

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

yep yep, let’s talk then. like, I genuinely wouldn’t mind watching the next part in this world even with all these problems I had

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann; 1949) #noirvember classic man comes into town and causes havoc tale. post-war noir that takes a surgical knife to the facade of valour and glory that built reputations post WWII

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

without spoiling anything, it has the same problems I've had with most Phase 2 onwards MCU movies. but yea, watch and see

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (Dominic Arun; 2025) #DesiWatch

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Cry of the City (Siodmak; 1948) found its moralising slightly annoying, esp for a noir movie, generally more textured even if the Hays Code keeps things tight. Mature and Conti play a good cat-and-dog game. reminded me of Scorsese crime movies for obvious reasons #noirvember

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise; 1959) #noirvember we finally get a Black person as the lead in a classic noir when the era of classic noir has almost ended. Harry Belafonte's coolness really is the perfect foil to Robert Ryan's edginess

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Hindi films and songs referenced by the Mamdani campaign and victory speech at some point. 1) "We made the impossible possible" youtu.be/YYRWKBIc88w?...

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Amar, Akbar, Anthony (English Subtitles)

YouTube video by PeacefulAutistic

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

"oh this is gonna end up so badly for everyone involved" - me everytime I watch a classic noir #noirvember

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

made a @letterboxd.social list for noir movies from the classic era. it has 142 films for the timebeing. do suggest if I'm missing out on any good ones #noirvember boxd.it/jBTX4

A screenshot of my Letterboxd list, Classic Noir Rolling List for Noirvember, with my notes:

A list containing films that can be considered as classic-era noir as LB doesn't have a genre tag for noir.

I've not watched all these films, so I can't necessarily speak to their quality, but mostly if I've added an unwatched film here, it's because I've seen LB mutuals collectively rate it 3 and above.

There are a few pre-1940 and a few post-1959 that seem to fit the noir mould, so I've left them in.

Contains a few films from other countries too (India, Argentina, France, UK, Japan, among others)

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

honestly, I wouldn’t think it possible that Hitchcock would name the killer in one of his movies Keller. that feels too on the nose even for Hitchcock (I’m watching I Confess…) #noirvember

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray; 1950) #noirvember I'd liked this on a first watch but Bogart's character was so hateful that it kept me at a distance. this time around, I'm fully turned. between this and Sunset Boulevard, screenwriters in 1950 were really going through it huh

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

finally began #noirvember (yes, yes, ik it's only the second day of the month), that too on a bangin' note The Naked City (Jules Dassin; 1948)

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

People hating on and trying to abolish wfh also seem to think its just "lazy" people who work from home who started during COVID. But the reality is that its revolutionary for sick/disabled employees, people who commute long distances, caregivers and parents. But all employers care about is control

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

enjoyed the first Nightmare movie so much that I decided to go back for Craven's only other installment in the series #Spooktober

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I've written 4 short stories so far. just one published. 3 of the 4 deal with housing/houses/homes. 2 of those 3, including the published one, are about the hazards of living on rent 💀💀

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

2 things I love about this almost-5k word short story: 1. it's not dialogue heavy, which is generally how my writing goes. even my published one is heavy on dialogue. feels like a little progress on the writing front 2. first story I've written in first-person

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A House of Dynamite (Bigelow; 2025) just not much to this film; should've been an email, or should've been Bigelow telling us to rewatch Lumet's Fail Safe. if this is a new-century upgrade to Fail Safe we're just better off with that instead. also, cowardly to end it how it does

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

a little flummoxed at anyone being want to write 12 stories a year

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

oh yea, just a week to go. Which means I need to sort stuff out this weekend. I'll check out Strange Pilgrims, thanks for that

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

wow, you've actually made it a habit of writing (which is obviously good only) I wanted to send out to the Commonweath thing (which is why the 5k hard stop), but now I have to figure out which to send, and what to do with the other. I guess one goes to CW, the other I'll have to search journals

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

ah but see that's the problem. mine is a good run right now, then I'll go two years not writing a thing. at least you know you'll get out of writer's block sooner or later

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

update: everyone manifest publication again, cuz I have inexplicably written a second short story, a 2.7k-worder black comedy

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

received a nice text from a friend today

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

update: everyone manifest publication, cuz I have finished writing the short ended up at 4,978 words. had a hard stop at 5k. phew

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few small beers after another @mrnarci.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

thinking of scrapping the short story I was writing and starting a new one about a person who goes on a killing spree after a night of no sleep due to the constant bursting of firecrackers

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

That Louvre heist better have included a 28-minute-long wordless sequence or I swear

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