Claire Vaughan
@pixieglas.bsky.social
🏳️🌈📽️ 'A puffed-up orb of a woman with a gaping mouth'.
Enthusiast. She / her / hi.
Shift Cardiff // Reframed Film // Chapter Cinema Cardiff.
Views personal are mine alone. No SWERFs or TERFs or Tories os gwelwch yn dda.
Enthusiast. She / her / hi.
Shift Cardiff // Reframed Film // Chapter Cinema Cardiff.
Views personal are mine alone. No SWERFs or TERFs or Tories os gwelwch yn dda.
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Very easily. Every person in there is miserable and doing an impression of what they think is a cool and self-actualized person looks like. It must feel like being surrounded by ghosts
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Very easily. Every person in there is miserable and doing an impression of what they think is a cool and self-actualized person looks like. It must feel like being surrounded by ghosts
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I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
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I don't think I'm being biased when I say that several long-running WFMU DJs have permanently transformed days of the week. Sunday afternoons are associated w/garage rock (Bill Kelly), Saturday afternoons are associated w/greasy RnR (the Hound), and Sunday mornings have long been reggae time (Jeff).
WFMU's legendary DJ Jeff Sarge has announced that the last episode of his Reggae Schoolroom radio show on WFMU will be this Sunday, November 30th. Join Jeff to show your appreciation for this outstanding 41-year run!
November 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I don't think I'm being biased when I say that several long-running WFMU DJs have permanently transformed days of the week. Sunday afternoons are associated w/garage rock (Bill Kelly), Saturday afternoons are associated w/greasy RnR (the Hound), and Sunday mornings have long been reggae time (Jeff).
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Moonstruck (1987)… Cher, Nicolas Cage, genuine romance, and italian vibes. what a film!
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Moonstruck (1987)… Cher, Nicolas Cage, genuine romance, and italian vibes. what a film!
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I’m so grateful to all the people I’ve been seeing in videos from around the country putting their bodies on the line to prevent the disappearing of their neighbors.
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I’m so grateful to all the people I’ve been seeing in videos from around the country putting their bodies on the line to prevent the disappearing of their neighbors.
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Oh what in the absolute fuck is this garbage...jeebus.
Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Oh what in the absolute fuck is this garbage...jeebus.
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These people suck so badly that they’re even ruining taking mushrooms
Not like u should need another red flag but Live DJ Set By Grimes is one
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
These people suck so badly that they’re even ruining taking mushrooms
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We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales.
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
Special report: Who are Reform in Wales?
We dived into the wild world of Reform UK in Cymru
willhaywardwales.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales.
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
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Stranger Things fans complaining they don’t have access to the Broadway play should be thankful they don’t get what they wish for
One of Netflix’s Biggest Hits Is Now on Broadway. It Might Be the Worst Show I’ve Ever Seen.
It’s so bad, it actually makes the TV series worse.
slate.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Stranger Things fans complaining they don’t have access to the Broadway play should be thankful they don’t get what they wish for
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Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
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Watched The Secret of Kells with the fam last night and goddamn that movie is good. Still buzzing this morning.
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Watched The Secret of Kells with the fam last night and goddamn that movie is good. Still buzzing this morning.
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Rough notes on the visual language of silent films
'Thief!'
&
The Thief
'Thief!'
&
The Thief
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Rough notes on the visual language of silent films
'Thief!'
&
The Thief
'Thief!'
&
The Thief
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The - very enjoyable - film version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern was on Prime recently so go check if it’s still there if you’ve got a subscription. Imagine Tim Roth and Gary Oldman as Laurel and Hardy trapped in a Beckettian farce in the middle of Hamlet. A great great film of a great great play
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The - very enjoyable - film version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern was on Prime recently so go check if it’s still there if you’ve got a subscription. Imagine Tim Roth and Gary Oldman as Laurel and Hardy trapped in a Beckettian farce in the middle of Hamlet. A great great film of a great great play
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RIP Tom Stoppard. He left a fantastic body of work - playful with language, and serious about ideas of democracy, liberalism and freedom.
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
RIP Tom Stoppard. He left a fantastic body of work - playful with language, and serious about ideas of democracy, liberalism and freedom.
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now that knifes out 3 is out proper i am reiterating my belief that there should be like 50 benoit blanc movies. they should have a columbo-esque legacy of running on sunday afternoons when their millennial audience all starts hitting 60.
November 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
now that knifes out 3 is out proper i am reiterating my belief that there should be like 50 benoit blanc movies. they should have a columbo-esque legacy of running on sunday afternoons when their millennial audience all starts hitting 60.
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i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things
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if you needed some Weird Cinema to watch, i'd recommend THE SHOUT (1978), over on Criterion. Great little movie with a real weirdness running through, based on a great weird short story written by Robert Graves. really fun, extremely strange.
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
if you needed some Weird Cinema to watch, i'd recommend THE SHOUT (1978), over on Criterion. Great little movie with a real weirdness running through, based on a great weird short story written by Robert Graves. really fun, extremely strange.
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This is the most embarrassing thing I've read today. "Has been sending millennial cinephiles into critical paroxysms" followed by “mumblecore Shakespeare for the TikTok generation.” Generational mad-libs.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The new film “Hamnet” offers up a vision of William Shakespeare as “Marlon Brando in Elizabethan drag,” writes Drew Lichtenberg. While this character may appeal to some, it “played to me like mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation.”
The new film “Hamnet” offers up a vision of William Shakespeare as “Marlon Brando in Elizabethan drag,” writes Drew Lichtenberg. While this character may appeal to some, it “played to me like mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation.”
Opinion | ‘Hamnet’ Reimagines Shakespeare for the TikTok Generation
Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get his life so wrong?
nyti.ms
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This is the most embarrassing thing I've read today. "Has been sending millennial cinephiles into critical paroxysms" followed by “mumblecore Shakespeare for the TikTok generation.” Generational mad-libs.
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“It makes me so happy. To be back at the beginning, knowing almost nothing.” -Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, zichrono l’bracha
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“It makes me so happy. To be back at the beginning, knowing almost nothing.” -Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, zichrono l’bracha
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Fucking hell I just want to read the article!
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Fucking hell I just want to read the article!
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Remember when he called the Lakota a "dead end society" and implied they just didn't fight hard enough and that was a driving motive behind Avatar? Just no reason. Just bringing it up again.
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Remember when he called the Lakota a "dead end society" and implied they just didn't fight hard enough and that was a driving motive behind Avatar? Just no reason. Just bringing it up again.