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Ard Vijn
@ardvark23.bsky.social
Writer and editor for ScreenAnarchy.com and Dutch genre movie magazine Schokkend Nieuws.
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So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.

Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?

It is Profumo on stilts
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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I remember Joe Manchin being absolutely effusive that the Inflation Reduction Act would bring millions of dollars to create jobs for renewable energy in West Virginia.... now Trump is killing these opportunities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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housing should cost next to nothing. you should just get a place to live, contribute to its power, water, taxes, and a bit aside each month towards upkeep and thats it.
November 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
If you need a gigantic stocking-filler for a Blu-ray collector this Christmas, check out what Australian distributor Imprint has done with Michael Man’s THE KEEP: screenanarchy.com/2025/09/pret...
Pretty Packaging: THE KEEP Cross Replica Limited Edition Is A Keeper
Physical media may be considered a niche market nowadays, but if you're part of that niche, life is rich (or at least you'll need to be...). There is no shortage of great editions available in differe...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN has now been seen by lots of people, so the ScreenAnarchy website asked its writers: “What did you make of it?” screenanarchy.com/2025/11/scre...
Screen Anarchists On Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN
While Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein passed me by during its limited theatrical run, it sure arrived on Netflix pretty fast. I checked it out, discussed it with colleagues, and notice...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Russia's economic collapse is progressing nicely. Russia's railway monopoly is $51 billion in debt and needs a bailout.
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Fascinating deep-dive into the Chinese strategies at play in Eastern Russia and Siberia, taking advantage of Putin’s quagmire in Ukraine. Combination of soft and hard power by China as it slowly digests historically Chinese areas that are now Russian, back into China-

youtu.be/cxuSjPQ5YRk?...
Why China is Suddenly Turning Against Russia
YouTube video by Paul Warburg
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The Dutch thriller MEAT KILLS (VLEESDAG) is marketed as an unrelenting gore fest, but that is underselling it. The film plays a lot smarter than that. My review: screenanarchy.com/2025/11/now-...
Now Streaming: MEAT KILLS, Or Rather Misguided People Do...
Hailed as "the bloodiest Dutch horror movie ever" and proudly touting the NC17 rating it got during its States-based festival run, Martijn Smits' Vleesdag a.k.a. Meat Kills seems to be gunning for the...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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'Het gaat om vrouwen die zich niet ‘westers kleden’ of die binnen het gezin vooral ‘huishoudelijke dingen’ doen.

IND blijf bij opvatting dat deze vrouwen zich kunnen schikken naar de leefregels van de Taliban.'
October 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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You know how I know that isn't a REAL orgy dome? Because there aren't thirty awkward dudes standing around waiting for a woman to show up.
Oh no some sad breaking news from Burning Man…the Orgy Dome has been destroyed by the wind/dust storm 😢….sending thoughts and prayers to all affected 🙏
August 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Not kidding here, Oblivion Remastered is a huge upgrade of the old game, and its Skyrim-like leveling system fixed most of the problems I had with it, ages ago. And, even unmodded, it looks absolutely gorgeous.
May 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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So the Romanians just voted out their Putin Problem Child Sycophant, electing Nicusor Dan, to be the new President.

Dude has a PhD in Math from the Sorbonne, & twice won the Maths Olympiad.

Gotta love a country that elects a genius to run it, but he’s also a soft spoken, hard working, decent guy.
May 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Always appreciate it when Sasha is able to encapsulate how dumb an economic blunder has been. He's on form here-
youtu.be/BBQBWgWQUYw?...
Trump Tariffs Just Collapsed The Stock Market
YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin
youtu.be
April 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.
April 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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These fucking guys just dont want to accept that there are parts of the world, (ones with longer life spans,) that dont want their food pumped full of shit that helps you make more profits but kills you faster.
LUTNICK: Europe won't let us sell beef, Australia won't sell us sell beef

BROWN: Because of hormonal chemicals

LUTNICK: That's not why! It's bc they just wanna protect-- they want to say, Oh, the seeds are different? Other people in the world are using seeds that insects-- c'mon, this is nonsense.
April 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I can't get enough of crap movies with unnecessarily violent animals. One can dream about the movies being half as good as the box art though...

Crocodile was probably my first purchase from @synapsefilms.bsky.social

#horror #filmsky #crocodile #moviesky #physicalmedia
April 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Seriously considering starting a 13th (?) playthrough of HORIZON: FORBIDDEN WEST. I only tried ultra hard once; the escape from Thebes took so many tries which was so frustrating, & then I could not get past the fight with Regalla, so I gave up, but maybe I’ll try again. I miss Aloy & Kotallo.
March 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Crockett: This is not what we should be doing. I don’t even know why we’re fighting with Greenland. We’re fighting with Greenland, Canada, and Mexico—yet we’re in love with Putin?!
March 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Who could’ve imagined that the solution to high rents is building more housing
Austin rents are down 22% from their peak because of a massive amount of home building over the last few years according to Bloomberg News.
March 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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March 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM