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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 19h

Big, if true!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 20h

I fucking love buying books.

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 22h

Just complete abasement

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 22h

My students are *showing up* this semester. Great, urgent conversations about creative labor, and an ongoing (new) conversation in Film History I about the depiction of trauma and the cultural inability to process it in old films.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 8d

With full knowledge that “masterpiece” is a flawed category

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 8d

Some “this is their masterpiece” films:

Céline Sciamma - Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Claire Denis - Beau Travail
Chantal Ackerman - Jeanne Dielman (or News From Home, IMHO)
Ida Lupino - The Bigamist

—tag, you’re it, friends

Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 8d

Some "this is their masterpiece" directors:

Georges Franju - Eyes Without a Face
Robin Hardy - The Wicker Man
Joseph Sargent - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Jaromil Jires - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Dennis Hopper - Out of the Blue
Michael Almereyda - Nadja
Jake Kasdan - Walk Hard

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 9d

Who are "this is their masterpiece" directors, and who are "here, start with this one" directors?

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 8d

I’ll grant the hairdo some points for this one

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 8d

Buster Keaton for the fascist era.

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 8d

Bedtime reading books aloud is a highlight of parenting! So fun.

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 8d

In case you were in doubt, the rollout of abominable AI “performer” Tilly Norwood proves that AI is very much about the extraction & exploitation of workers’ labor.

SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 11d

SAG-AFTRA Statement on Synthetic Performer www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-st...

SAG-AFTRA Statement on Synthetic Performer

SAG-AFTRA has released the following statement on the announcement of “Tilly Norwood,” an A.I.-generated “actor” that is reportedly seeking representation:

www.sagaftra.org

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 9d

Wow that is high praise indeed, nice ✨

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 9d

Brilliant read of the dystopian merging of media and rw politics. On the monetization of “debate” as spectacle.

Gift link. “Mourn, or Else” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 10d

I ran a global replace on Moby Dick changing ";" to "lol". It's much better now.

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the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over lol he rears his
enormous head, and with wide expanded jaws snaps at every-
thing around him lol he rushes at the boats with his head lol
they are propelled before him with vast swiftness, and some-
times utterly destroyed.

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 10d

The dispassionate notices seem fine and the blamey ones seem likely to backfire?

Fish and Wildlife Service instagram notice.

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 10d

Felt like Thursday

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11d

A better world is possible

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12d

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

Paris passe le cap des 300 rues piétonnes près des écoles pour être « plus accueillante aux enfants »

La municipalité, qui a organisé samedi une fête dédiée, tire un bilan positif de ces espaces piétonnisés aux abords des établissements scola

leparisien.fr

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 11d

Happy #SilentMovieDay to all who celebrate!! Five silent films just added to the "screening room" of the NFPF Website--including Clara Bow in POISONED PARADISE (1924), OAKLAND NEWSREELS (1914-1921), & a frozen north saga starring Corinne Griffith. 🎞️🎶🤩

www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2025/9/...

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 12d

We can do both! New stories are needed. Heat pump stories can refer back to old radiator storytelling.

Radiator Lady from David Lynch’s Eraserhead

Diagram: How does a heat pump cool and heat?

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 13d

Been hearing this here and there for a few weeks now…

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 14d

There’s also the great & pivotal home movie scene in Ozu’s I WAS BORN, BUT…

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 14d

If only. Bucket list.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 15d

New album!

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 15d

The Dirty Three *are* actually touring now

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@jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 17d

Who are these people who post 300+ times per week?! That’s even too much to automate

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