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Akira K
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Writer, drummer, archer, dreamer. Big geek energy in tiny tired body. They/them.
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Over on Whatever, I'm doing a series on movies I consider "Comfort Watches" - not the greatest movies of all time, necessarily, but some of the most rewatchable. I'm starting the series with easily the most rewatchable movie of 2025: K-Pop Demon Hunters!

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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day One: K-Pop Demon Hunters
A couple of years ago I did a series of movie reviews about the movies I enjoy rewatching — not the best movies of all time, or the most important movies, but the ones I’m happy to spen…
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December 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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The Benoit Blanc movies work because they know what you want out of a detective:

Someone who is weird as hell but morally strong and, by the end of the story, we've learned nothing about them except that they're still weird as hell and morally strong.
December 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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we're all thinking it
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Thread.
So a lot of people who have never seen silent movies might wonder how we can get so absorbed in them.

Well, the opening scenes of UP are essentially silent and people are still talking about how touching they are. That’s the power of visual storytelling
December 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Witch of the Way

Original available at bad-king.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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This week on Dropout...
🍹Tuesday: @dimension20.bsky.social Animated + @DirtyLaundryShow.bsky.social w/ Pat Cassels, Brian Huskey, Nick Kocher, & Hayley Marie Norman
🌀Wednesday: Dimension 20 Live: Quangle Quest Trailer
🌭Thursday: @vipeopleshow.bsky.social w/ Rekha Shankar (season premiere)
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December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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dig this guy's taste in art

IG casitamxhome
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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On your deathbed, you will probably not be thinking, "at least I totally owned those trolls on social media," and if you are it's unlikely there will be anyone there to hold your hand as you go
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Good morning
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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There’s a thread going around about the horrors of teaching first-year English right now, and I fully believe that it’s true in many cases… but if you saw that thread and you’re sad, I just want to say… my students have never been smarter, more engaged, more passionate. I’ve never felt more hopeful.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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It drives Israelis crazy that Palestinians are the most resilient indigenous People in the world. Look at this
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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A touchstone, as I try to convince those I care for (including myself) that we are precious & loved separate from labor or even effort.
Re-reading Becky Chambers’ *A Psalm for the Wild-Built* for class & moved again by:

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, & I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world & marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live”
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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And this is why voice actors are fighting so hard for AI protections in their contracts.
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Amazon Rolls Out AI Dubs and They're Even Worse Than You Think - G33K-HQ
Amazon is testing AI dubs with "Banana Fish" and "No Game, No Life," and the results are... bad. Really bad.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Good morning
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Reminder to treat zionists the same way you would treat a nazi. If you don't think a nazi deserves a 1 million dollar acting career than the same is true for zionists.
There are two outspoken Zionists on Stranger Things who have suffered zero consequences for publicly stating genocidal nonsense during the past 2 years. If you can't manage to boycott, or at least pirate that show, you can go to hell
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Remember this:
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I think life would be better if more people read books and spent time looking up at the stars
November 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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We have fascism. We have long covid and cognitive damage. And we have also destroyed structural motivation to do anything but deliver product and receive results. It began with standardized testing, and "AI" is just the nail in the coffin.

WE MUST FIGHT THIS.

Study must be meaningful.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM