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Talia Lavin
@swordsjew.bsky.social
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journalist, author, sword collector. haggard and unblest. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: [email protected]
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Nov 11
time to unleash The Grilled Cheese Essay (which personally made padma lakshmi cry) on the newskies

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 3h
my favorite thing besides the wild concepts is getting to the end of the description and finding out what they're the mascot for
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 4h
Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.
A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.
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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 7h
Holy crap the @pemalevy.bsky.social interview is not to be missed. An eye-opening look at the Nazi-esque dual-state that SCOTUS is enabling
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 1d
📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d
"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16h
nothing is scarier than an angry bloke you loved and are trapped with
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 22h
a super hard trick to pull off and the director crushed it
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 22h
for me, bc i have basically 0 visual imagination, horror books aren't very scary, but horror movies are *terrifying* and i had to slowly work up to watching them
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 22h
they're different, but doctor sleep the movie is very much a love letter to the shining while also being its own thing
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d
Here's a super thoughtful take on "One Battle After Another" from @davidjroth.bsky.social ... he puts it in the context of 1970s thrillers whose style informed the film. Then he identifies what makes it different. And maybe more hopeful. Only on @flaminghydra.com! flaminghydra.com/winning-isnt...
Winning Isn’t Everything
It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching m...
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
anyway Jack Nicholson does an incredibly good job in this version of the story, which, irrespective of supernatural elements, is basically the story of the terror and isolation of domestic abuse
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
I think the scene where he says "I would sell my soul to get a drink" and then more or less does sets it up pretty effectively
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
it's overly sentimental, and also the final conflict is.... ridiculous to say the least
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
the movie trims most of the treacly guff out
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
the book Doctor Sleep is total dogshit but the movie is great, Rebecca Ferguson eats her part like a prix fixe tasting menu and she plays an eldritch horror who looks incredible in a top hat
a woman in a top hat sits on a wooden platform
Alt: rebecca ferguson shimmying in a dress and top hat looking amazing
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
the miniseries is dog shit-- you might as well just read the book. the kubrick version is good as hell but undeniably scary
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
they were *traumatized*
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
seriously
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
he really got hard done by in the movie
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
ive only seen the extended
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
right - i think it was also an active addict imagining the pure horror of sobriety
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
have you watched doctor sleep? it's both a great sequel and a love letter to kubrick, and squares the book/movie differences brilliantly
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
movie!Jack has a shorter arc (from contemptuous asshole to murderous asshole) but Nicholson is so damn good

and Duvall is deeply underrated, people mock her but she plays the hell out of a basically decent person who believed in and loved her husband, and was betrayed
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
stephen king did a very unfortunate miniseries as a rebuke to kubrick and it just... does not translate to film

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The Shining Miniseries Best Scene (Jack Torrance vs the Topiary)
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
we're doing a double feature with the criminally underrated sequel, Doctor Sleep (which is so much better than that book it's not worth comparing)
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23h
im rewatching The Shining for the millionth time and while i think the book does some things better (getting us into Jack's head) the book is a story about a good man swallowed by ghosts and Kubrick's story is about a family annihilator, and thus much, much scarier
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d
This is the kind of full and unequivocal defense trans people deserve to hear from more candidates for office
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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