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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Last night we watched Perfect Days (2023) and the ending just knocked me on my ass b/c it contained every human emotion in the span of two minutes. I'm tearing up thinking about it

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 12/10/2026

the male reading thing is way simpler than most people make it. men typically don't like reading books about women whereas the opposite isn't true because women typically see men as subjects and men typically see women as objects

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I very occasionally write and read scary short stories and I did another one that, like all of them, is based very loosely on a real thing that happened to me! sites.libsyn.com/485205/sanct...

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The Uncanny: Sanctuary

A cavernous dark building and an isolated country road can both hold unpleasant surprises.

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My opinions about David Mamet would get my account suspended

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I guess in some ways it's a great pick for 2026 but goddamn

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Local big theatre is doing Oleanna and I can't think of a worse pick for 2026, Jesus Christ

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My favorite character, Anime Protagonist

An AI-generated image of what was probably supposed to be Goku but has fucked up hands and feet and kind of just looks like Some Guy

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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 01/09/2026

my deal is i pray every day that someone will text me "hey man that weird japanese movie you have on there from somewhere between 1955 and 1992 was actually so good i'm glad i checked it out! i don't even need to ask for Wedding Crashers again now"

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bobo tucci @no-flashlight.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I feel very confident in saying that not all reading is created equal

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Go ahead and read whatever kind of books you enjoy, but I have to say that reading this filled me with a deep dread and sorrow unto death

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Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 09/09/2026

If you write "I work for Anthropic and I think it might kill humanity" and I'm not reading it off of a Dropbox manifesto after you painted the walls of the HQ I'm inclined to think you're not being sincere

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I regret to inform you that popping the tony did not work

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New low (?) point: I referred to my partner's kid taking a melatonin gummy before bed as "popping a tony"

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

hey, I was born in the 80s or 90s and I'm looking for a morally acceptable way to continue to like Harry Potter?? you see, I have this special condition where I just... stopped. somewhere along the way, i let the growth inside me die and i gnawed a hole in the past, and there i sit, and there i rot

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The theme of this show is ultimately "nostalgia is a trap"

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ABOOnchio👻 BOOlchetti👻 @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

The many dogs of NOROI (2005)

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/08/2026

being upset about this is millennial cringe

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"To anyone else heading for Tau Ceti IV after us... Do not come. Do not come."

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Genuinely, whom amongst us can't relate

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Andre never acknowledges the waiter!!!

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My partner's young son is telling us about Star Wars (which he just recently watched) and when asked if he thought Yoda was cute, he said "NO, he's BALD."

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If I'm being honest, the version of The Odyssey that comes to mind first whenever I think about the story is the Wishbone version

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My friend who is a union organizer said that the ability to pay for a second family is a pitch they have (I presume jokingly) made to workers for why union membership is important

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This guy is obsessed with dying painfully (swallowed two socks and a big cat toy last night; he's fine now)

A brown and black German Shepherd mix dog lays on a carpeted floor with his head up and tongue out

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

You will likely feel much better very quickly

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

puppy summoning anubis to bring his human back

painting of a puppy in a cemetery invoking Anubis by reading words in a book in front of a magical sigil next to candles and a zombie hand comes out of the tomb

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 07/07/2026

this pattern will keep repeating until people stop framing "shooting brown foreigners for money" as "an adventure"

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Here's my stance on cheering for the US soccer team

Screen capture of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's iconic sermon where he said "God damn America"

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

They don't let you into heaven if you chanted "USA USA" at or about sports

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Like it was this visceral atavistic horror, like the fear of a rodent for some large predator it's never seen before

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We started watching The Dark Crystal (1982) the other night and I can't believe how unpleasant I found looking at the protagonist

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

God, I love Bluesky. If I'm thinking about literally any topic and want it to be connected somehow to the president, I just have to view a reply and there he is

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth (he got neutered this morning)

A black and brown German Shepherd-like dog wearing a blue vinyl cone around his neck lies on the floor looking dejected

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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 17/06/2026

RIP Bone Bone. He taught me it was OK to be "weird."

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16/06/2026

Discourse on Colonialism is really one of the most important things I’ve ever read.

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

For work we were visiting another organization and when we left the guy showing us around said "drive fast and take lots of chances on the road"

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What a joyful, delightful experience watching this was! Go watch it if you haven't seen it

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

And it also made me sad b/c I think the future looked so bright for the Soviet people; they had seen radical transformation of society, experiments in art and invention, new ways of being, and they could expect that to continue and even speed up! I was sad b/c I want that for us now

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I was also deeply moved by seeing people who weren't as self-conscious about being filmed yet; they're the same as us now. People is the same

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

John Berger has this bit about the paintings in Chauvet Cave that's basically "painting emerged fully developed" and I kept thinking about that with what Vertov and Svilova and Kaufman were doing with this one

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We watched Man With a Movie Camera (1929) last night and the whole time I was struck by a few things, but mostly by how Advanced the filmmaking was for how early in the history of the medium it was

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