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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 9h

adorned for the holiday

An adorable cat with a festive decorative mini-pumpkin on his hip. He is not delighted.

Reposted by Alex Koppel

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 19h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 16h

I feel incredibly lucky to have seen Alucarda on the big screen (at @meakoopa.bsky.social's Dumpster Raccoon series)—it's such a striking film, one I'll definitely see again.

Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 1d

Juan López Moctezuma’s Alucarda (1977) is irreplaceably peak exploitation horror, the proudly Mexican parallel to Jesus Franco and Jean Rollin. Half-forgotten dream memories of Universal’s gothic rules and tropes brought to demonic life in cavernous ruins. Loved how hostile this is?

A young woman licking blood off of another’s breast

A crucifix of Christ exploding into flame

A demon clasping to women’s hands together

Alucarda (1977), Juan López Moctezuma

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 18h

Merry Canadian Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! And a good and powerful Indigenous People's Day too

A cheddar scone and iced late on a table

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 1d

Just remembered I have a copy of Hello Sunshine that's been waiting for me at @thebeguiling.bsky.social! 👏👏👏

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 19d

Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics

Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...

cover of hello sunshine featuring alex laying in a red flowers with eyes. red hands reach up from the ground to touch him. in the background the other four kids and cass the dog stand in a line in a field of daisies

a photo of alex with his back to the camera facing a red monster with daisies for eyes on the ceiling

the protagonists from hello sunshine sitting in a row looking nervous with the daisy eyes monster behind them in the darkness. in the center of the panel is an inset panel showing a cassette tape

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 2d

He is! He'll (unhappily) be Godzilla later

Hell.be

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 2d

He's afraid of losing out on government patronage, after watching what the Trump administration has done for his rival Larry Ellison

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 3d

folks what did the Pope JUST warn us about

NPR @npr.org · 3d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

n.pr

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 3d

Bribing the cat into he likes or at least tolerates the costumes we got him

A cat licking a treat spoon while in a green dinosaur costume

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 3d

They have made a movie out of that game! And apparently it's really good. Looks like it'll have a 2026 North American release.

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 3d

I was bummed to miss Exit 8 at TIFF, saw promotion all over Japan, and literally just now realized the title refers to the amazing Japanese system of numbering subway exits so you can pop out closest to your destination. (Can't wait to see the film.)

youtu.be/emZZexEJO8c?...

Exit 8 | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Umbrella Entertainment

youtu.be

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 3d

I only shout that on express trains!

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! Wish we could have had more vacation but it is good to be back!

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 3d

every flight should come with a little kid who shouts "oh gosh wow" as the plane ramps up for takeoff

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