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Michael Sicinski

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1h
This came up on my YouTube feed and my god what planet is this from.
Predictions of the 10 2027 Best Picture nominees, with universally despised turd DIGGER among them. Also PROJECT HAIL MARY for some reason.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 18h
A new film that's worth looking out for: DIE ANDERE SEITE ("The Other Side") by Mariko Minoguchi. A rare contagion film from the perspective of the infected rather than the "unsullied." Typically great performance by Nina Hoss. Seems like the kind of film that might show up in next year's ND/NF.
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At a certain level, only God-given talent could produce this type of answer. It just can't be taught.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If anyone asks, we met at the Kroger on Hillcroft.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ANY LEFT-LEANING OPINION: virtue signaling ANY RIGHT-LEANING OPINION: sincerely held belief
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The framing of all this shows how skewed right the media is. Why don’t we ask pop-country fans what they think of the rest of us? We know where Morgan Wallen stands.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Contemporary country music is often openly racist and MAGA but yes, it’s the people who don’t listen to it who are “virtue signaling.” This is the same logic by which the GOP is entitled to rule, and Dems and liberals are just arrogant elitists who pretend not to hate immigrants for clout.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Halfway through MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: EXILE, and it is frustrating on a number of levels.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
MAX HEADROOM: “I F-F-FUCKED TILLY N-N-NORWOOD!”
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alas, the Greatest TV Show of the 21st century was never made, because the showrunner brought an iced coffee into her pitch meeting with HBO.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
HA-CHAN, MY CAR! vs KHROUSTALIOV, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Netanyahu spent about half his childhood in the US. He went to high school in the Philadelphia area and college at Harvard/MIT. After graduating, he worked with a young Mitt Romney at Boston Consulting Group. He *is* a white American Republican.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes Dems need to focus on affordability but they can also clarify that the GOP is now dominated by people who are explicitly against family planning, for infant mortality, and want to reduce literacy rates.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Watching part two of THE LIFE OF JORGE LUIS BORGES and how come nobody told me Llinás reads Texas to absolute filth? "For this they took half of Mexico?" LOVE IT.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tommy Tuberville is a fucking moron.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Any 2028 POTUS candidate who doesn’t promise to roll back the massive corruption of the Trump years should be laughed out of the room. Job One: outlaw Kalshi. None of this “weeeellll that’s just how things are now, can’t turn back the clock.” NO.
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Spork loves you @strivingally.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also the way they’ll do word for word transcription if they think it’ll make AOC sound more ditzy, but they’ll paraphrase and cherry-pick Trump’s deranged ramblings to hide his impaired cognition from the public.
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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
my second dispatch from NYFF is up! featuring a 5.5 hour documentary on a famously concise author, three experimental hybrid docs from Currents, and apparent gay armageddon Club Kid: capybaroness.substack.com/p/nyff-dispa...
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NYFF 64 Dispatch #2
feat. Club Kid, Life of Jorge Luis Borges, Everything Else is Noise, Hanabi, Overt Listening, and At Night
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Have we decided whether it's bad manners here to link to your own work? I'm not sure if self-promotion is X-ishly déclassé, so apologies in advance. But I wrote about TIFF Wavelengths for MUBI Notebook. mubi.com/en/notebook/...
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Toronto Dispatch: The War Against Memory
Short films and features from the festival’s Wavelengths section propose alternative ways of remembering and archiving.
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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Excuse me Mr Carney: we didn’t vote for a less grim version of Stephen Harper. Why are we getting harsh neo-liberalism rammed down our throats under the pretext of “defending Canada”. This is *attacking* Canadians to defend capital.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FAVORITE FONTS OF PROGRESSIVE METAL Coheed 0% Cambria 100%
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dennis Skinner’s words should be forcibly broadcast in every media suite and pundit-show green room. youtu.be/xRNyU-gQ5F8?...
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Dennis Skinner schools a journalist
YouTube video by spiderfran286
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Almost, one could say, in an echo chamber
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It would hardly solve everything, but the world would be a much better place if Elon Musk were dead.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
MAURICE WHITE: Do you remember the 21st night of September? PHIL COLLINS: I remember! I remember, don’t worry worry worry worry…
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If the Dems were running in 1939, they would strongly assert that they will NEVER allow Jews to own businesses or property.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Even more that rank cowardice, the Dems sacrificing trans rights are afflicted with Beltway Brain. This is a failure of the political class. These morons think everyone outside their bubble is steeped in culture war bullshit. Most people just want civil rights and to be able to pay the rent.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
Too many have forgotten that the civil rights movement was fought over, among other things, bathrooms and locker rooms
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Viennale trailer just dropped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB-f...
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Viennale-Trailer 2026: RAIN SET ACTION by Kelly Reichardt
YouTube video by FilmFestivalViennale
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s weird to me that “all hands on deck” remains the go-to example for metonymy, when “under our roof” is a much better example. (It doesn’t mean you are literally in the attic!)
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm discovering that a new generation of filmmakers in less concerned with coherent allegory and more interested in establishing a field of signifiers that can float around each other, dipping into irony but also drifting back into sincerity. It's something of a camp miasma.
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Sophie Bee @pogform.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Short form video enjoyers should see fuckin Mothlight.
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ICE Murders Citizens🔞 @apocolyte.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I don't want Democrats to unite with Republicans. I want Republican politicians collectively removed from office and imprisoned for treason.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY. Fucking loved it.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A perfectly normal nation with Western values. www.middleeasteye.net/news/far-rig...
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Far-right Israelis call for NAZA co-director to be hanged in protest outside parents' home
Dozens of Israelis amassed outside the family home of Rachel Szor as backlash over Gaza documentary intensifies
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT ALL OF THE MOVIES AND I SIMPLY CANNOT.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is there any other minority group aside from trans people who are so constantly debated in the political sphere with no MSM representation or policy advising position? What other group is so absolutely objectified?
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
if you think the way PBS is framing this issue (see QT below) is a joke, please read & share my latest essay, which flips that framing, exposing its many flaws: juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 13/09/2026
arch manning has never chased the bus and that’s literally all the reason i need to hate somebody
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 14/09/2026
Adèle Haenel draws a connection between speaking up about sexual abuse & speaking up about the genocide in Palestine & the silencing of both, caused the whole episode to be wiped, thus proving her point as she said. Wd be a shame if everyone watched & shared. www.instagram.com/reel/DdH32Ai...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You don’t get points for being a musician or actor who is generally a standard issue lib you have to be explicitly for trans people and Palestine or who gives a shit.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I spoke with the great Sky Hopinka about POWWOW PEOPLE, now showing at BAM. inreviewonline.substack.com/p/reverence-...
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Reverence and Irreverence: An Interview with “Powwow People” director Sky Hopinka
Michael Sicinski goes deep with filmmaker Sky Hopinka about what goes into extracting the tourist’s eye from Native rituals, and uniting stewards of Native culture’s past, present, and future.
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Right wing pundits like Ann Coulter and Steve Bannon routinely talk about “good” and “bad” Jews. It has never been about antisemitism. It’s about the tradition of social justice (aligned with “bad Jew” Marx) vs those who have overcome ressentiment (Nietzsche’s term) and embraced the will-to-power.
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Princess Rebecca Frizzle (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️💕🦕👸🐱 @rebeccabluestone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Robert Kraft is a fucking maga trump piece of shit, and reportedly a sexual abuser of women. fuck that garbage human. It'd be terrible of a guillotine happened to find Kraft's head in it.
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