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Akira K
@akirak.bsky.social
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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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patricknessbooks.bsky.social
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.
ulycia.bsky.social pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 13h
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-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading. From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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mgosketches.bsky.social
we're all thinking it
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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robinjames.bsky.social
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
neilpollyticks.bsky.social Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 18h
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Thread.
moviessilently.bsky.social Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 7h
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

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December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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bfletcherwatson.bsky.social
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.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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dropout.tv
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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dieworkwear.bsky.social
dig this guy's taste in art

IG casitamxhome
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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scalzi.com
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
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 2d
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!!!!
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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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richardkadrey.bsky.social
Good morning
You have been visited by the Permit Crab. You may do one bad thing today.
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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mruthrobinson.bsky.social
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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lexialex.bsky.social
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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gwillow.me
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
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 8d
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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friede.bsky.social
A touchstone, as I try to convince those I care for (including myself) that we are precious & loved separate from labor or even effort.
ryancordell.org Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 3d
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”
A page from a novel reading: 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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ryogarocket.bsky.social
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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richardkadrey.bsky.social
Good morning
conservative tweeter: Why is Christianity the only religion that faces so much backlash? Real question. Reply: Buddhists aren't trying to take my wife's rights away or lower the age of consent in 14 states.
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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anibundel.bsky.social
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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yourlocaltranny.bsky.social
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.
lexialex.bsky.social الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d
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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robdelaney.bsky.social
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Remember this:
IF YOU EVER FEEL HEAVY BECAUSE YOU CARE DEEPLY ABOUT NUSTICE, SUFFERING AND Y ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION Corella REMEMBER THAT AA TRILLION-DOLLAR A PROPAGANDA MACHINE WAS BUILT TO MAKE YOU NUMB AND IT DIDN'T WORK ON YOU.
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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garethlpowell.bsky.social
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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juliettewade.com
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.
jesbattis.bsky.social Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 4d
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