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Tom Kessler @tomkessler75.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don’t sleep on “FORGOTTEN ISLAND.” It’s not just the first Hollywood animated family film that’s a deep dive into Filipino culture that I’m aware of. It’s also a total blast of artistic chaos that, while you see obvious influences, manages to be proudly sui generis. youtu.be/f7mFVeWnVLw?...

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Forgotten Island | Official New Trailer

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What a truly excellent series of acting choices this fifty seconds of television presents…

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 21/09/2026

I’ve been releasing music DIY for 25yrs and I believe that should always be a viable option for artists. The double sale of Bandcamp was a wake up call so earlier this year, I joined Subvert.fm, a member-owned music distribution platform. As a co-op, Subvert can’t simply be sold to investors. 1/

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today's review covers THE DOCTOR (1918), a Danish film about a scientist who struggles to develop a cure for a raging epidemic. He is smeared in the press by his rival and the public turns against him due to a wave of misinformation as the death toll rises. moviessilently.com/2026/09/21/t...

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The Doctor (1918) A Silent Film Review

A scientist in a fictional European capital works tirelessly on a cure for a deadly epidemic but is stymied by a jealous rival and mass panic as the disease takes hold.

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M.R. Turnage @gamookie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Shout out to my famous artist uncle! John Thornton decided to make a YouTube video about him. youtu.be/8Ioel1qlpsY?...

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John Paul Turnage, Painting San Francisco

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Tom Kessler @tomkessler75.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I saw “TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME” opening night at Fox Sun and Surf in Ocean City, MD. Radio ads were playing for it all week long on Ocean City’s top 40 station. End your vacation by joining David Lynch for some late summer fun. #TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Annihilation is about a summer in a beautiful wilderness on the coast that brings four strangers closer together as they work for a crusty old lighthouse keeper.

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juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The White House fired me for being transgender. In 2013 I became the first CIA officer to successfully transition. I worked for Mike Pence for a year. Then I volunteered to serve the second Trump White House.

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The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

house of leaves, the most interesting footnote

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Ipecac Recordings @ipecac.com · 11/08/2026

LUSTMORD + DAVE LOMBARDO = LUSTMORD LOMBARDO THE PULSE OF ATOMS, OUT OCT 2 PRE-ORDER AT: lustmordlombardo.lnk.to/pulse

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 08/08/2026

As someone pointed out downthread, the through-line between these figures is "the world ended but I still have to go to work smdh" Which is, of course, the Millennial condition So bravo, filmmakers

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

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𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡: 𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙰𝚇 𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙰 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I had not seen Danny Boyle's TRAINSPOTTING since the theater in 1996. God damn does that one hold up! (Also some notes on revisiting Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS.)

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Trainspotting (plus some notes on The Frighteners) | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA

July 19, 1996 (U.S. release date)

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Minions gathered in their masses

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Thing about working with famous epics is that they're famous epics for a reason. Tons of people have had opinions about them for millennia. If you're going to work with one, you know your version is going to piss some people off. Even a *sedate* famous epic inflames some of its audience.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I wrote a tribute to Kaylee Hottle, the deaf actress whose performance as Jia was the heart of two of the Legendary Pictures Kaiju films, Godzilla vs Kong and Godzilla x Kong. Killed at 18 in a car wreck. A staggering loss. www.rogerebert.com/tributes/wha...

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What Could Have Been: Kaylee Hottle (2007-2026)

From Jean Harlow and James Dean through Simone Battle and Anton Yelchin, entertainment history is filled with instances of performers dying just as audiences

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Meet our honorees: Afro Charities Then buy your ticket to our Legacy Gala: shorturl.at/6erUC

Seven people stand smiling behind gold shovels and white hard hats at a groundbreaking in front of a brick building, under a black banner reading "LEGACY GALA HONOREE AFRO CHARITIES."

Baltimore Beat Legacy Gala poster honoring Black newspapers and journalists, describing newspapers' role in educating and documenting Black communities and announcing a July 24 tribute to AFRO American Newspapers and Afro Charities.

Poster for the Baltimore Beat Legacy Gala summarizing AFRO American Newspapers’ history since 1892, Afro Charities’ archival work since 1963, Savannah Wood’s leadership since 2019, and the archives’ move to West Baltimore’s Upton Mansion in March 2027.

Promotional quote graphic for the Baltimore Beat Legacy Gala emphasizing archival access: "I think about how difficult it can be to get into some archives, and that's the exact opposite of what we want for our collection." —Savannah Wood, executive director of Afro Charities

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It is very surreal that I can now say I've written a booklet essay for a Criterion Collection release. It was an absolute joy to work with everyone at the company. You can read the essay now on their website: www.criterion.com/current/post...

a still image of Dil from the crying game with the headline THE CRYING GAME'S LEGACY AS TRANSGENDER REPRESENTATION BY WILLOW CATELYN MACLAY

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/07/2026

Cuba suffers second island-wide blackout in a week amid Trump fuel blockade aje.news/w274gl

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MovieJawn @moviejawn.com · 06/07/2026

*JUST ADDED* THURSDAY, July 9: Find us on the lot of @mahoningdit.bsky.social for the special 35mm presentation of FREAKED as part of their Thursday Thread-Up! series Tickets here: MahoningDIT.com

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Colin Warriner @colinelmustard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks.
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

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doseone @doseone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

doseone & Height Keech “Wood Teeth II” OUT NOW! doseone.bandcamp.com/album/wood-t...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/07/2026

Is DC okay? This looks more like an attack than a fireworks show.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Now friends, this has been a post full of schadenfreude We've all had a good time here What if I told you the best was yet to come What if I told you that after waiting for HOURS--miserable, soaking wet, desperate and disappointing hours--our view of the fireworks was.......this

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Like many families across America, Jess and I are with family, laughing, giggling, smiling, huddled around the soft glow of a phone screen reading news about the weather in D.C.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It's easy to forget that the current anti-trans moral panic, for instance, is only four or five years old. That doesn't mean it's not ruining real people's lives and it won't take a while to fix, but it's completely artificial and brand new because, ironically enough, it's not natural.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Can you imagine how ridiculous this would have looked in a movie in the Before Times? Absolute Captain Obvious-directed culture critique

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Matthew Cheney (@melikhovo.bsky.social) examines what we can learn from Clive Barker and Joel Lane, two very different queer writers who began carving out new spaces in weird fiction and horror in the dark days of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis. reactormag.com/poetry-from-...

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Poetry From the Plague Pit: The Early Stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane - Reactor

At the height of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis, two queer British horror writers began carving out their unique visions...

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Tom Kessler @tomkessler75.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Are Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett expanding The Guest Cinematic Universe (TGCU) with “ONSLAUGHT?” Because that sure looks like what this is. Or it’s a remarkably similar concept with callbacks to their earlier movie that it’s remarkably similar to. #TheGuest #Onslaught youtu.be/L24CYVpQ-LI?...

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Onslaught | Official Trailer HD | A24

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

You can show me all the charts you want saying the economy is fine but if Serpentor is selling his throne because it won't fit into his new studio apartment, shit is not fine

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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 22/05/2026

Feast your eyes on our new summer sandwich: a plant-based pit beef piled with heaps of tender seitan, slathered with a horseradish mayo made with the help of the vegan sauce geniuses at Baltimore’s worker-owned Plant Bliss, and topped with red onions.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/05/2026

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

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Tom Kessler @tomkessler75.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The benches were just normal men; just innocent men!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My latest: I wrote about Trump's Golden Statue. And as a former Christian, let me hold y'all's hand when I say...the Trump figure is not the modern version of "golden calf". If you know your Bible, the statue represents something far worse. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...

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Trump Is Not the Golden Calf. He’s King Nebuchadnezzar.

Trump’s Golden 'Don Colossus' is a yet another warning sign of America's imperial decline.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 17/05/2026

The vampire hunt is ON! Do you have a beat up VHS, film print etc of the 1922 Nosferatu? Alexandre O Philippe and our team are making a doc about our global treasure hunt called IN SEARCH OF NOSFERATU. More info here, or email us at albingraufilms at gmail dot com deadline.com/2026/05/in-s...

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I regret to inform you that Mother Mary is one of those movies that feels like how it is to live inside my brain, and, thus, I am never going to shut up about it. Do you have well-reasoned qualms? Some minor issues? I'm sorry, but you don't anymore.

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Theme park for Gen X’rs where they use robots to recreate 1990s Seattle: Pacific NorthWestWorld

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I have decided in my august wisdom to refer to all video-based social media platforms collectively as "the videodromes." There will be no further comment at this time.

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