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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 2h

Come back, Jewel, all is forgiven.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 3h

Also call me when Taytay gives us something as iconic as PHANTOM OF THE PARK.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 3h

bUt ShE gIVeS uS SO mUcH of hErSElf...

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 5h

"~10,000 protesters marched in Udine, Italy, against the Israeli football team ahead of the Italy–Israel World Cup qualifier.

The crowd waved Palestinian flags&chanted slogans calling for peace & justice. The demonstration reflected strong regional solidarity...."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVOb...

LIVE: Massive Protest in Udine Against Israeli Football Team Before Match | DRM News | AD1F

YouTube video by DRM News

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 5h

Re the Politico leak of GOP staffers' messages:

The reason we all bought into the postwar capitalist consensus, was the lie that we all had an equal chance if we played by the rules. "I too could be Rockefeller!"

Now, the lie is not about wealth but power. "I too could be Hitler!"

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 6h

Looks like he's walking away from the barn after successfully fucking the goat.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 8h

The best Gang of Four track, hands down.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 8h

The tweet equivalent of an Adam Curtis clip showing women dancing in the club to represent decadence. Miss me with that crap.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 9h

Seems like, as they say, “shitting where you eat.”

Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 10h

“For another perspective on this issue, we now turn to Butch. He’s an ex-boyfriend of Lana Del Rey and he joins us from his rec room in San Bernardino. Welcome, Butch.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Mike Johnson says Medicaid is "intended for vulnerable populations, the elderly, disabled, and young pregnant women, and not young able-bodied men without dependents who are playing video games."

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

The only way I can *maybe* see justifying the use of AI in filmmaking is by using it the way just-intonation composers use sound. That is, using it against itself, making it play "wrong notes."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people are saying, the ball is under the middle cup. I mean, a lot of good people are claiming that to be the case.

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𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 1d

a screengrab from the above video showing Starmer walking back to his position, back turned to the camera, head bowed

a screengrab from the end of the Blair Witch Project, with one of the protagonists facing a bare brick wall, back turned to the camera, head bowed

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

Some favor prism reform, but I am more of a prism abolitionist.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently it's SWIM TO ME en Ingles.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

For the "real heads know" file: There's a new Dominga Sotomayor film on Netflix, fresh from the Donostia/San Sebastian IFF. It's called LIMPIA.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

Well put.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it's weird. It's not like I need strict narrative for recall. But there's something very "present" about his films that seems to make them evaporate afterward. (I used to feel the same way about Bresson, but less so now, due to repetition.)

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

Jen called Charlie (who is a girl) "Charles." I don't, but have no objection to it. Anyway, there is a ramshackle liquor store near our home called Charles Beverage. And that was that.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

Cool!

(Actually her real, full name is Charles Beverage. It's not a long story, but a dumb one.)

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

They are very slippery films! Even when I try to watch them with rapt attention I find them hard to recall. Seems to be a feature of Rivette and not a bug.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

Fragile indeed!

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

The much more camera-shy Charlie XCXAXTX.

My cat Charlie. The Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror was triumphant, was fought in 1066.

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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 1d

Socks sez whassup.

My cat Socks looking down from a shelf. Excess sodium has been known to increase hypertension.

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