Nick Kouhi
@nkouhi.bsky.social
Freelance critic and programmer, based in New York. Can be found in Screen Slate, The Brooklyn Rail, and Journey Into Cinema, among many other places.
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Please read this Facebook post from Darnella Frazier about her sister Rekeya, who is in federal custody.
For those who don't know, Darnella was the girl who shared the first viral video of George Floyd's murder.
For those who don't know, Darnella was the girl who shared the first viral video of George Floyd's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Please read this Facebook post from Darnella Frazier about her sister Rekeya, who is in federal custody.
For those who don't know, Darnella was the girl who shared the first viral video of George Floyd's murder.
For those who don't know, Darnella was the girl who shared the first viral video of George Floyd's murder.
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If for some reason I were ever asked to explain the concept of comic timing I would just show someone this scene. As perfect a self-contained masterpiece as Steamed Hams youtube.com/watch?v=H7vk...
"Lick My Love Pump" Scene from This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
YouTube video by Nathaniel Noah
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December 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
If for some reason I were ever asked to explain the concept of comic timing I would just show someone this scene. As perfect a self-contained masterpiece as Steamed Hams youtube.com/watch?v=H7vk...
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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Not just Jared but almost all the gulf monarchies plus a pass through entity for the ccp.
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Not just Jared but almost all the gulf monarchies plus a pass through entity for the ccp.
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bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
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CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
Israel’s military is continuing to pound the Gaza Strip in violation of the October 10 ceasefire agreement. Al Jazeera reports Israeli ships opened fire toward the coast of Khan Younis, while air raid...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
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All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
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Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places.
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
Good morning to fuckers in our neighborhood kidnapping our neighbors! Can you see the city skyline? No? You’re wondering if Minneapolis burned down again overnight? Oh no, sweetie. That’s ice crystals in the air . It looks like it will get to around -8F without windchill! Please enjoy your stay!
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places.
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
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Armando Iannucci eat your heart out.
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Armando Iannucci eat your heart out.
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Check out the #Creatives4Sudan auction to raise £££ for Sudan Solidarity Collective through skills-sharing & gorgeous arts!
I'm offering 2 x 1/2 hr mentoring sessions on creative non-fiction – article, essay, book proposal! Let's develop your big idea! Bid now👇
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
I'm offering 2 x 1/2 hr mentoring sessions on creative non-fiction – article, essay, book proposal! Let's develop your big idea! Bid now👇
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Check out the #Creatives4Sudan auction to raise £££ for Sudan Solidarity Collective through skills-sharing & gorgeous arts!
I'm offering 2 x 1/2 hr mentoring sessions on creative non-fiction – article, essay, book proposal! Let's develop your big idea! Bid now👇
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
I'm offering 2 x 1/2 hr mentoring sessions on creative non-fiction – article, essay, book proposal! Let's develop your big idea! Bid now👇
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
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November 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
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Trump considering his options
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Trump considering his options
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Yash Chopra's KAALA PATTHAR, one of the best movies ever, is on Netflix! You can read my thoughts on it over at Screen Slate:
www.screenslate.com/articles/kaa...
www.screenslate.com/articles/kaa...
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Yash Chopra's KAALA PATTHAR, one of the best movies ever, is on Netflix! You can read my thoughts on it over at Screen Slate:
www.screenslate.com/articles/kaa...
www.screenslate.com/articles/kaa...
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
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I got to write about one of my favorite movies of all time for Perisphere! www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/m...
Memories of Summer – Perisphere
|Harry Mackin| Spoilers for His Motorbike, Her Island—watch the movie before you read this! We meet several different versions of His Motorbike, Her Island's protagonist, Koh. First, we meet Koh the n...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I got to write about one of my favorite movies of all time for Perisphere! www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/m...
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Delighted and honored that my first piece for @reverseshot.bsky.social is an interview with Sepideh Farsi on her excellent new film PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK. It opens at @ifccenter.bsky.social this Friday.
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Sepideh Farsi
While we were conversing, I think it was important to give her all my ears and my being, myself, to listen to her. This was really key because we differed in our points of view about certain things. Q...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Delighted and honored that my first piece for @reverseshot.bsky.social is an interview with Sepideh Farsi on her excellent new film PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK. It opens at @ifccenter.bsky.social this Friday.
@kinolorber.com
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@kinolorber.com
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I'm not for policing words but I do think that if you don't do the writing, you're an AI promter not a writer as:
1) the writing isn't yours
& more importantly
2) you're a scab
1) the writing isn't yours
& more importantly
2) you're a scab
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I'm not for policing words but I do think that if you don't do the writing, you're an AI promter not a writer as:
1) the writing isn't yours
& more importantly
2) you're a scab
1) the writing isn't yours
& more importantly
2) you're a scab
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Mamdani is going to implement Sharing law. You're gonna have to give me just a bite of that, because it looks really good. And you should try this, it's amazing.
Mamdami is going to implement Shakira law. Hips caught making false statements to Wyclef Jean will be subject to fines.
Mamdani is gonna implement sharpei law. The state will now issue every family their very own wrinkle dog.
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Sharing law. You're gonna have to give me just a bite of that, because it looks really good. And you should try this, it's amazing.