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Love learning how to research and read on different history topics | Frequent visitor of rabbit holes | Raised folk catholic | ritual atheist | I am mortal and make mistakes
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When I was a kid, the only Native representation I saw in cartoons was A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special.
I made Pow! to show that modern, funny Native characters deserve to be seen too. Watch us on FNX. If you like it, review us on @letterboxd.social and tell your friends!
I made Pow! to show that modern, funny Native characters deserve to be seen too. Watch us on FNX. If you like it, review us on @letterboxd.social and tell your friends!
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
When I was a kid, the only Native representation I saw in cartoons was A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special.
I made Pow! to show that modern, funny Native characters deserve to be seen too. Watch us on FNX. If you like it, review us on @letterboxd.social and tell your friends!
I made Pow! to show that modern, funny Native characters deserve to be seen too. Watch us on FNX. If you like it, review us on @letterboxd.social and tell your friends!
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"To see if you are civilised enough, if you can act like a human being."
Disgusting dehumanization of Indigenous people. Eye contact can't determine someone's ability to parent! Nor do any of the questions Keira talks about! FKU test also includes an ink blot test
bbc.com/news/articles/c1wlw2qj113o
Disgusting dehumanization of Indigenous people. Eye contact can't determine someone's ability to parent! Nor do any of the questions Keira talks about! FKU test also includes an ink blot test
bbc.com/news/articles/c1wlw2qj113o
November 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"To see if you are civilised enough, if you can act like a human being."
Disgusting dehumanization of Indigenous people. Eye contact can't determine someone's ability to parent! Nor do any of the questions Keira talks about! FKU test also includes an ink blot test
bbc.com/news/articles/c1wlw2qj113o
Disgusting dehumanization of Indigenous people. Eye contact can't determine someone's ability to parent! Nor do any of the questions Keira talks about! FKU test also includes an ink blot test
bbc.com/news/articles/c1wlw2qj113o
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Nel blu di pinto di blu
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Nel blu di pinto di blu
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Slowly but surely, word of mouth for Train Dreams is spreading. Unlike many other films this prestige movie season, it returns to my thoughts regularly. It's a grower!
Train Dreams is a remarkable drama, one that will languish on Netflix because its inexorable, meditative power is not suited to streaming. Go see it in theaters while you can.
Train Dreams Is About the Kind of Man Who Rarely Gets the Epic Treatment
In this moving adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella, the filmmakers never strike a false note in a logger’s quiet search for meaning and joy.
washingtoncitypaper.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Slowly but surely, word of mouth for Train Dreams is spreading. Unlike many other films this prestige movie season, it returns to my thoughts regularly. It's a grower!
Train Dreams is worth watching when it comes out on streaming. I should have brought tissue paper. Beautiful film and one of my favorites this year.
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Train Dreams is worth watching when it comes out on streaming. I should have brought tissue paper. Beautiful film and one of my favorites this year.
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Extremely sad to hear of the death of Nakadai Tatsuya, one of the great actors in cinema. I was honored to bring him to Yale in 2016 (photo), interview him on camera, and visit his acting school Mumeijuku. He was supremely devoted to the act of acting and will be sorely missed.
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Extremely sad to hear of the death of Nakadai Tatsuya, one of the great actors in cinema. I was honored to bring him to Yale in 2016 (photo), interview him on camera, and visit his acting school Mumeijuku. He was supremely devoted to the act of acting and will be sorely missed.
I can't get this film out of my head. It's just gorgeous and heartbreaking at the same time. The hardest thing about growing up is that people or stories you idolize aren't what you think they will be.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9DZf...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9DZf...
The Ice Tower / La Tour de glace (2025) - Trailer (French)
YouTube video by Unifrance
m.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I can't get this film out of my head. It's just gorgeous and heartbreaking at the same time. The hardest thing about growing up is that people or stories you idolize aren't what you think they will be.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9DZf...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9DZf...
This isn't unusual here in the US, or in Mexico, as folks have used the holiday to bring awareness to community problems through social protest. From Chicanos bringing awareness to gang violence back in '73 to remembering those who died in ICE custody and from COVID-19 it's part of the heritage.
Mexican-American Artists Celebrate Day of the Dead Amid ICE Attacks
Artists in New York City are using their art to strengthen the Mexican community in the face of federal immigration raids.
progressive.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This isn't unusual here in the US, or in Mexico, as folks have used the holiday to bring awareness to community problems through social protest. From Chicanos bringing awareness to gang violence back in '73 to remembering those who died in ICE custody and from COVID-19 it's part of the heritage.
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Happy 🎃 #Halloween!
Remember:
Someone else's culture is not your costume.
Friends don't let friends engage in cultural appropriation.
Remember:
Someone else's culture is not your costume.
Friends don't let friends engage in cultural appropriation.
October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Happy 🎃 #Halloween!
Remember:
Someone else's culture is not your costume.
Friends don't let friends engage in cultural appropriation.
Remember:
Someone else's culture is not your costume.
Friends don't let friends engage in cultural appropriation.
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One day left of this really cool online comics fair!!
Grab some comics while you can! ❤️😍
Grab some comics while you can! ❤️😍
It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!
Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!
And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.
www.shortboxcomicsfair.com
Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!
And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.
www.shortboxcomicsfair.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
One day left of this really cool online comics fair!!
Grab some comics while you can! ❤️😍
Grab some comics while you can! ❤️😍
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A reminder, if you need something to read for Hallowe'en.
Someone asked:
"So... public domain cosmic horrors that aren't Lovecraft. What do we got?"
The tradition that gave us Lovecraft & co. is rich and deeply weird. While they aren't all cosmic horror, they all informed it.
So. 1 like = 1 public domain weird story that isn't by H. P. Lovecraft.
"So... public domain cosmic horrors that aren't Lovecraft. What do we got?"
The tradition that gave us Lovecraft & co. is rich and deeply weird. While they aren't all cosmic horror, they all informed it.
So. 1 like = 1 public domain weird story that isn't by H. P. Lovecraft.
October 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A reminder, if you need something to read for Hallowe'en.
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"I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Remembering the incredible work of the late great Bernie Wrightson on his birthday 🖤
Remembering the incredible work of the late great Bernie Wrightson on his birthday 🖤
October 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Remembering the incredible work of the late great Bernie Wrightson on his birthday 🖤
Remembering the incredible work of the late great Bernie Wrightson on his birthday 🖤
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![[ID: a digital painting depicting an
oil rig worker suspended by a harness and rope from a support beam, wearing a hard hat and reflective work gear. The worker looks off into the background, where a siren perches on a metal frame. The siren is depicted here as a creature with the upper torso of a woman, her arms taloned and scaled like a bird's claws. Another worker dangles limp in her hand, and blood is smeared across her mouth. The siren's long dark hair hangs down into the mist alongside the dead worker's severed rope. The worker in the foreground is in focus and drawn in muted oranges, and the rest of the artwork is done in shades of teal. End description. ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eegzdk4brqbd77rlxoijqyiq/bafkreif5z4nhhcbxn6u3dlnrfijrnrwsjqq6onvhdbh4ciluoxuoowf7oe@jpeg)
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Because anti-trans sports bans inaccurately define sex as a narrow binary, many intersex people are prevented from experiencing the joys and other benefits that come from athletic participation.
Everyone deserves the freedom to be themselves and play the sports they love.
Everyone deserves the freedom to be themselves and play the sports they love.
How trans sports bans threaten intersex athletes like me
If I was competing in high school or college athletics today, I would have much more to worry about than just being teased for looking different.
interactadvocates.org
October 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Because anti-trans sports bans inaccurately define sex as a narrow binary, many intersex people are prevented from experiencing the joys and other benefits that come from athletic participation.
Everyone deserves the freedom to be themselves and play the sports they love.
Everyone deserves the freedom to be themselves and play the sports they love.
I am glad that I've taken the chance and watched Pupi Avati's L'arcano incantatore (Arcane Sorcerer) for AFI Fest. I enjoyed the way the supernatural and uncanny were presented in this film. My gut feeling of "since you like History of Magic and Religion you should give this film a try" paid off.
October 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I am glad that I've taken the chance and watched Pupi Avati's L'arcano incantatore (Arcane Sorcerer) for AFI Fest. I enjoyed the way the supernatural and uncanny were presented in this film. My gut feeling of "since you like History of Magic and Religion you should give this film a try" paid off.
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Ok, so let's talk a little bit about how the Romans understand magic and why they think putting phallus-shaped objects (fascina, sing. fascinum) are witch-craft related and how that connects to our word 'fascinate.' 1/
Hmmm: Borrowed from Latin fascinātus (“to enchant, bewitch, fascinate”) [makes sense so far] from fascinum (“a phallus-shaped [lol wut] amulet [wait what] worn around the neck [WHAT THE TARPEIAN FUCK] in Ancient Rome; witchcraft”) ... itself of obscure origin.
October 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Ok, so let's talk a little bit about how the Romans understand magic and why they think putting phallus-shaped objects (fascina, sing. fascinum) are witch-craft related and how that connects to our word 'fascinate.' 1/
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This.
If we only exist as gotchas in your imaginary tug of war over clout... well we have enough humans that don't see us as people
If we only exist as gotchas in your imaginary tug of war over clout... well we have enough humans that don't see us as people
Don't use what's happening to Indigenous people in Alaska to get "orange man bad" points in social media and actually do something.
In all my years I've never seen a majority of these people care when the land is destroyed or they threaten to bring harmful mining and pipeline under Dem presidents
In all my years I've never seen a majority of these people care when the land is destroyed or they threaten to bring harmful mining and pipeline under Dem presidents
October 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This.
If we only exist as gotchas in your imaginary tug of war over clout... well we have enough humans that don't see us as people
If we only exist as gotchas in your imaginary tug of war over clout... well we have enough humans that don't see us as people
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Obtaining lucrative government contracts to manage and provide security for ICE detention centers brings money to an Alaska Native community--as well as anger and uneasiness about going against traditional values. alaskapublic.org/news/politic...
Lucrative ICE detention centers bring money — and anger — to an Alaska Native community
NANA Regional Corp. is supposed to uphold Iñupiat values. Some shareholders say its role in Trump’s deportation machinery makes a mockery of that.
alaskapublic.org
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Obtaining lucrative government contracts to manage and provide security for ICE detention centers brings money to an Alaska Native community--as well as anger and uneasiness about going against traditional values. alaskapublic.org/news/politic...
A reminder that Coca Cola with Cane Sugar is still unhealthy. Both contain glucose and fructose. There is not much difference. The same cane sugar product has affected the country's health with you guessed it, diabetes and obesity.
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A reminder that Coca Cola with Cane Sugar is still unhealthy. Both contain glucose and fructose. There is not much difference. The same cane sugar product has affected the country's health with you guessed it, diabetes and obesity.
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ICYMI
The surprisingly connected origins of "flu" and "influence".
youtube.com/shorts/HGVoe...
#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #flu #influence #influenza #astrology #flushot
youtube.com/shorts/HGVoe...
#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #flu #influence #influenza #astrology #flushot
Flu/Influence #Etymology
YouTube video by Alliterative
youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ICYMI
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In “Indigenous Archives,” Floridalma Boj Lopez examines how Mayas in diaspora forge Indigenous belonging in the face of displacement from their ancestral homelands. Read the intro for free now, and pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon FALL25: buff.ly/7JwP8jl
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In “Indigenous Archives,” Floridalma Boj Lopez examines how Mayas in diaspora forge Indigenous belonging in the face of displacement from their ancestral homelands. Read the intro for free now, and pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon FALL25: buff.ly/7JwP8jl
Now that I have unlocked Mega level digimon I should evolve several to fill out the Field Guide while I am at it. Evolves Angewomon to a Mega. Notices there is a mode change for a specific digimon, selects the option. Accidentally reveals a future boss fight and plot point. I spoiled it for myself.
October 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Now that I have unlocked Mega level digimon I should evolve several to fill out the Field Guide while I am at it. Evolves Angewomon to a Mega. Notices there is a mode change for a specific digimon, selects the option. Accidentally reveals a future boss fight and plot point. I spoiled it for myself.
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My friend Ahmed reports: "After we rejoiced at the ceasefire, hoping for survival and life, the sky is now raining gunpowder on Gaza. The bombing continues, brutally. The agreement was merely ink on paper."
October 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My friend Ahmed reports: "After we rejoiced at the ceasefire, hoping for survival and life, the sky is now raining gunpowder on Gaza. The bombing continues, brutally. The agreement was merely ink on paper."