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avril @sego.li · 11/09/2026

today I'm gonna watch Decalogue X, which means I get to log both that *and* the complete Decalogue. a twofer. a tenfer

a screenshot of my recent activity on letterboxd. from most recent to least, I saw Julie & Julia (2/5), Decalogue IX (3/5), Honeycomb (1/5), and Decalogue VIII (4/5).

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avril @sego.li · 14/08/2026

good week for seeing Louise Weard on various screens

a screenshot of my recent activity on letterboxd. I watched Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (5), F for Fake (4.5), 3 Idiots (2.5), and Castration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You! (3.5)

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avril @sego.li · 24/07/2026

some real heavy hitters this week. btw: follow me boxd.it/2gSJb

a screenshot of my letterboxd recent activity. starting from most recent, I've watched Persona (5/5), Come and See (5/5), T2 Trainspotting (4/5), and The Rider (3.5/5).

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avril @sego.li · 19/07/2026

there's an episode of The Animated Series where they get de-aged for a bit. baby Uhura is adorable:

a screenshot from Star Trek: The Animated Series. a child version of Uhura sits on a desk, while a woman holds her in place.

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avril @sego.li · 18/06/2026

oshawott thanks you

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avril @sego.li · 13/06/2026

apparently Jesse Eisenberg turned down playing Mark Zuckerberg again because people keep coming up to him acting as though they are the same person, which isn't *that* unusual as a thing that annoys an actor, except that this isn't even the first time he's had to deal with this

JESSE EISENBERG: "People on the street say mean things to me."
INTERVIEWER: "Like what?"
JESSE EISENBERG: "I get called Napoleon Dynamite because I have curly hair. I live in New York City and I ride a bicycle. I always bike down 9th Avenue and there’s this kid who goes to school there named Abraham. Every time I pass him, he calls me Napoleon Dynamite. He screams it out and his friends laugh. That was a fine movie but I wasn’t in it."
INTERVIEWER: "What do you say back?"
JESSE EISENBERG: "I say, 'Please Abraham, I’m not that man.'"

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avril @sego.li · 24/05/2026

something that is achievable at this level but is still wildly improbable is getting a score of 69,420. I've done it exactly once with probably thousands of games ending close but not quite there

a Threes game over screen with a score of 69,420

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avril @sego.li · 11/05/2026

she's like laundry?!?!?

Metro Slice, a calico cat, is in a laundry basket. it's as though she's laundry

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avril @sego.li · 23/04/2026

saw some folks doing this. here's mine.

an "about me: movies" grid. here are the categories and the films I listed:
favorite movie: Summer Wars
favorite director: Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
favorite screenplay: Before Sunset
favorite cinematography: Where Is the Friend's House?
favorite editing: Speed Racer
overhated: Megalopolis
underrated: Immaculate
overrated: Amelie
needs a sequel: Hot Rod
criminally overlooked: Sacco & Vanzetti
favorite actor: Synecdoche, New York (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
favorite actress: Tar (Cate Blanchett)
best score: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
best songs: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
not usually my thing, but...: Presence
"it's just so much fun": Wet Hot American Summer
best with friends: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
best old movie: Bicycle Thieves
best long movie: Lawrence of Arabia
everyone should watch: Memories of Murder

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avril @sego.li · 22/04/2026

it was right in front of our eyes all along

the poster for hit feature film Ella McCay. the poster shows Emma Mackey, who plays the similarly named title character, posed in roughly a mirror image of the sheeh pose.

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avril @sego.li · 19/04/2026

my roommate is playing Tomodachi Life and allowed me to make one important addition to their little island

D'Vana Tendi from Star Trek: Lower Decks in the game Tomodachi Life. she has the "go-getter" personality and is outgoing, sociable, optimistic, and passionate.

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avril @sego.li · 03/04/2026

2 stars is good.

my ratings curve on letterboxd. all the scores between 1 and 4 are pretty close to level, with noticable dips at .5 and 4.5, and a slight dip at 3.5.

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avril @sego.li · 29/03/2026

they put Carol Sturka in the video game

a photo of a TV showing the game Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. there's a Mii of Carol Sturka. her top three foods are butter cookie, paella, and fried egg.

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avril @sego.li · 24/03/2026

one more that I don't think qualifies as "underrated" but is just nice:

Roger Ebert Hails Human Existence As 'A Triumph'

April 4, 2013
CHICAGO—Calling the overall human experience “poignant,” “thought-provoking,” and a “complete tour de force,” film critic Roger Ebert praised existence Thursday as “an audacious and thrilling triumph.” “While not without its flaws, life, from birth to death, is a masterwork, and an uplifting journey that both touches the heart and challenges the mind,” said Ebert, adding that while the totality of all humankind is sometimes “a mess in places,” it strives to be a magnum opus and, according to Ebert, largely succeeds at this goal. “At times brutally sad, yet surprisingly funny, and always completely honest, I wholeheartedly recommend existence. If you haven’t experienced it yet, then what are you waiting for? It is not to be missed.” Ebert later said that while human existence’s running time was “a little on the long side,” it could have gone on much, much longer and he would have been perfectly happy.

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avril @sego.li · 24/03/2026

I can't narrow it down to just one, so here are a few favs that I think are deeply underrated:

Kidnapped Teen Freed, Though Freedom Is Its Own Kind Of Prison, Is It Not?

BEDFORD, IN—The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Wednesday that Jessica Paulsen, a 15-year-old who went missing last month, has been freed from the home of two men accused of kidnapping her, although isn’t freedom itself, as both a figurative concept and a state of being, merely another kind of prison, one that entraps us all?

Wendy's To Phase Out Unpopular Hamburger Sandwich

DUBLIN, OH—Representatives for the restaurant chain Wendy’s announced Tuesday that due to the item’s continually dismal performance, the company would be discontinuing the widely disliked hamburger sandwich.

Arby's Now Charging $2.99 To Let Customers Go Behind Counter, Grab Handfuls Of Roast Beef

ATLANTA—During a press event at Arby’s headquarters last week, the company officially launched its new $2.99 Grab-N-Go Meal Deal, which allows patrons to go behind the counter at any franchise location and grab as much roast beef as they can with their bare hands.

“We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new dining option that lets customers step right into our kitchen and dig hands-first into our famous slow-roasted beef,” spokesman Gavin Milne said while standing in front of a cardboard cutout that depicted Oven Mitt—the Arby’s mascot—cupping a steaming mound of beef slices. “As soon as we ring up your transaction, you have 15 seconds to grab all the meat you can carry, and however much you manage to bring back across the counter is yours to eat—all for under $3! Who could resist?”

17-Year Cicadas Horrified To Learn About 9/11

May 7, 2013
NEW YORK—Following their synchronized emergence this week after gestating underground since 1996, a colossal swarm of 17-year cicadas were horrified today to learn about the events of September 11, 2001. “Holy shit, are you serious?” said one member of the East Coast brood of winged insects, expressing its continued shock and horror about the coordinated terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 3,000 people. “They just flew the planes right into the fucking buildings? Man, oh, man. People must have just been completely freaking out. Christ, I know I would have been.” At press time, the 17-year cicadas were beginning to express serious doubts about how two structures supported by reinforced concrete and steel beams could just collapse like that.

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avril @sego.li · 15/03/2026

my Oscars chili this year is a few small beans

an assortment of chili ingredients. at the front of the photo is one can of Modelo.

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avril @sego.li · 26/12/2025

it's important that you arrange your Christmas Eve and Christmas Day viewing in strict worst to best order. organization is critical.

my recent activity screenshot from letterboxd. I gave Tokyo Godfathers a 5, The Holdovers a 4.5, The Muppets Christmas Carol a 4, and Die Hard a 3.5. the first three were rewatches.

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avril @sego.li · 18/12/2025

best part about Christmas lights is unplugging them for the night and being reminded that this poster I own is glow in the dark

my apartment with all the lights off. there's some light coming in through a window, but the only thing that's really visible is a glow in the dark poster for the movie Dance Freak.

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avril @sego.li · 10/12/2025

I have something controversial to say: they should make these with space for seven cups arranged in a circle, with one in the center. it wouldn't be that much harder to carry and would frequently allow a group order to fit in just one container instead of requiring one in both hands.

product photo of cardboard cup holder. it holds four cups in a rectangle

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avril @sego.li · 13/11/2025

he made lieutenant in at least one universe! good for him.

lieutenant Harry Kim from Star Trek: Lower Decks

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avril @sego.li · 17/10/2025

could be anyone, really

the anonymous source from the quoted post discusses making a movie called The Abyss in 1988 that involved working with submersible systems.

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avril @sego.li · 25/09/2025

this is the perfect score for me. if you look at games with a metacritic score of 55 it's universally games where you're like "I had absolutely no idea that spinoff existed! wow, the GBA truly had it all, huh," and if that's not me I don't know what is

a rating of my influence on bluesky. I got a 5.5! wow

a metacritic score for Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. it got a 55. wow!

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avril @sego.li · 14/09/2025

I was thinking about this prompt and then I remembered the best tumblr blog of all time

each of these four images is a ghostly, ethereal image of Bender from Futurama with text overlaid. each post has "little-bender-things.tumblr.com" in the corner.

the text on this one reads:

"Shampoo doesnt expire, baby!" - Bender in my Vision

The episode where Bender has to choose between his simply life on the farm and moving to the big city to stay with his socialite aunt. A story, about growing up.

Bender's fleeting pleasure in shallow indulgences

He doesn't have to sleep. He doesn't have to worry if he is disappointing his parents.

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avril @sego.li · 06/09/2025

if I had a fifth slot it would be Hot Rod (2007)

a screenshot of my letterboxd favorite films list. it's Summer Wars, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Eyes Wide Shut, and Evangelion 3.0+1.0.

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avril @sego.li · 15/08/2025

as a bonus, here's the five giftable copies of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch I have in my Steam inventory. you can't even buy HL2DM on its own anymore, and you DEFINITELY can't buy gift copies of games just to store in your inventory indefinitely

a screenshot of my Steam inventory showing four unlabeled "steam gift" items, five copies of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, and one copy of Mount Your Friends

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avril @sego.li · 15/08/2025

my first five steam purchases ♫ one of these things is not like the other ♫

screenshot of my first five Steam purchases. Left 4 Dead 2 on December 12, 2010, The Rockstar Collection on December 20, 2010, Half-Life Complete on January 2, 2011, Counter-Strike Complete, Garry's Mod + Team Fortress 2, and Geometry Wars on January 2, 2011, and Penny Arcade Combo Pack on January 28, 2011.

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avril @sego.li · 05/07/2025

kalbika is about to take flight

kalbika, a yellow cow squid plushie, is at the top of a bag sitting behind an airplane seat.

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avril @sego.li · 04/07/2025

a good July so far

a screenshot of my recent activity on letterboxd. I watched Ran (5 stars), Hamlet (the 2009 one with David Tennant, 2 stars), Scream (the 1996 original, 4 stars), and Master and Commander: Far Side of the World (4.5 stars)

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avril @sego.li · 08/06/2025

I'm pleased to announce that the most cursed camera input of all (phone camera to USB C to HDMI to USB A to USB C) *is* recognized as a real, working camera by the Switch 2. it's not high enough resolution to be used, though I suspect that's due to my phone's weird aspect ratio.

a USB C to HDMI adapter is plugged into an HDMI to USB capture stick, which is plugged into a USB A to USB C adapter. the whole setup is sitting on a Magic playmat featuring the art of River Hoopoe by Ryan Pancoast, and a Joy-Con 2 can be seen at the side of the photo.

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avril @sego.li · 04/06/2025

Kalbika is a gamer?!?

Kalbika, a yellow squid cow plushie from the TV show Baby Assassins Everyday, is propped up facing a Steam Deck at the chapter select screen for Deltarune, with chapter 3 selected.

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avril @sego.li · 01/06/2025

there's a character named Raymond Chandler in The Stepford Wives, and I couldn't recall whether the real author would've been alive when it came out (1975), so I searched for it. it turns out that Google is so desperate to not create fake idioms now that it's lying in the opposite direction

a Google search result for the words "raymond chandler stepford wives." there's an AI-generated result that reads as follows:

"The query "raymond chandler stepford wives" is a bit of a mix. Raymond Chandler was a famous author, primarily known for his hard-boiled detective fiction, not for writing about "Stepford Wives." The concept of "Stepford Wives," as in the novel and films, is from the work of Ira Levin. There is no connection between Raymond Chandler and the Stepford Wives story.
Elaboration:
Raymond Chandler:
He was a prominent American writer, best known for creating the private detective Philip Marlowe and for his influence on the crime fiction genre.
The Stepford Wives:
This is a novel and subsequent film adaptation that explores a dystopian society where women are replaced with robotic look-alikes.
No Connection:
Raymond Chandler's writing style and themes are entirely different from the premise of "The Stepford Wives," and there is no evidence of him being involved in the creation of the story."

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avril @sego.li · 21/05/2025

yesterday was the 30th birthday of California condor 123, who I had the enormous privilege to meet in 2010. he was one of the first pair of condors to raise a chick in captivity after their near-extinction. I'm so grateful to all the people who have helped preserve these beautiful birds.

A 3/4 perspective photo of California condor 123 on a cliff face by the Grand Canyon.

A photo of me from 15 years ago wearing a hat and smiling with California condor 123 in the background.

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avril @sego.li · 15/05/2025

to be clear, my answer to this one is all ten of the mountains from the @themountaingoats.bsky.social Secret Lair, but I picked these four as particularly representative of what I like about the set. crossing my fingers that y'all brought him back to write more for Return to Lorwyn!

a Magic: the Gathering card. it's a mountain with art by Victor Adame Minguez, with flavor text written by John Darnielle: "2. Our days of idle pleasure winnow down; their sweetness doubles as their numbers dwindle." the art depicts several pillars around an amphitheater, and a goat stands atop the tallest one.

a Magic: the Gathering card. it's a mountain with art by Warren Mahy, with flavor text written by John Darnielle: "Here and there an oracle who sees the night ahead: the rude glimmer of it, tucked into the corners of our sky." the art depicts a winding path through a valley, with the cliff face of a rocky growth jutting over the path, and a statue partially buried in the grass.

a Magic: the Gathering card. it's a mountain with art by Fred Fields, with flavor text written by John Darnielle: "8. Night gathers where the flamekin wail, its fingers at their throats. Our compact with the darkness was for nothing." the art depicts the massive entrance to a cave in the side of a cliff face, lit brightly with a flame deeper within the cave. just outside the entrance is a carved stone covered in swirling shapes.

a Magic: the Gathering card. it's a mountain with art by Ron Spears, with flavor text written by John Darnielle: "9. One day, the day will find its furthest limit, the place beyond which no days are imagined: a place long sealed away, lost within the endless mountain range. One day, the night will find this place, and breach it." the art depicts a huge doorway in the side of a mountain with statues of animals on all sides and an elaborate carving in the door itself.

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avril @sego.li · 01/04/2025

one of my favorite things in older movies is watching the ways that characters hold wired telephones; having an extremely long wire that stretches around a doorframe is pretty good, but my favorite thing is when a character just walks around cradling the base of the phone.

a screenshot from the movie Possession (1981). Mark (played by Sam Neill) is in a small kitchen, and he's holding the base of a yellow phone in his right hand close to his waist and the handset in his left hand up to his face. a subtitle reads, "Now I must find her - maybe it's her fault."

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avril @sego.li · 24/03/2025

Bill Watterson?!? BILL WATTERSON???? does Seth Rogen have a genie who grants wishes for him?

a screenshot of a Deadline article with this text:

"Seth Rogen has unveiled the massive group of Hollywood A-listers who will appear in his upcoming Apple TV+ comedy series, The Studio.

“I kind of viewed it like I was putting a band together,” Rogen described of the process in a video released Monday morning.

The full list of guest stars includes:

Aaron Sorkin, Adam Scott, Anthony Mackie, Antony Starr, Arthur Keng, Bill Watterson, Bryan Cranston, Charli D’Amelio, Charlize Theron, Chris Gann, Courtney Pauroso, Dan Black, Dave Franco, David Krumholtz, Derek Wilson, Devon Bostick, Dewayne Perkins, Erin Moriarty, Greta Lee, Ice Cube, Jean Smart, Jen Statsky, Jessica Clements, Jessica St. Clair, Johnny Knoxville, Josh Hutcherson, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Kit Hoover, Larry Brown, Lil Rel Howery, Lisa Gilroy, Lucia Aniello, Martin Scorsese, Matt Belloni, Nicholas Stoller, Olivia Wilde, Owen Kline, Parker Finn, Paul Dano, Paul W. Downs, Peter Berg, Quinta Brunson, Ramy Youssef, Rebecca Hall, Rhea Perlman, Ron Howard, Sarah Polley, Steve Buscemi, Sugar Lyn Beard, Ted Sarandos, Thomas Barbusca, Trevor Tordjman, Zac Efron, Zack Snyder, Ziwe, and Zoë Kravitz."

Bill Watterson's name is highlighted.

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avril @sego.li · 23/03/2025

something incredibly dangerous is happening.

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avril @sego.li · 22/03/2025

I will cherish my new friend forever.

a Kalbika plushie from the show Baby Assassins Everyday. it's a yellow squid with a black and white cow pattern face, black and white hooves to its side, and yellow horns.

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