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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 1h

sooooouppppp

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 56m

yes!

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 2h

I didn't know that Ivar "torture the queer and autism out of them" Lovaas, the monster who invented conversion "therapy"/ABA, was also a literal Nazi, but this is the least surprising fact ever.

H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 2h

"Lovaas was a member of the NS Youth League, patterned after the Hitler Youth and named after the Norwegian Hirden paramilitary organization... Both he and his father are listed in Norway's "National Treason" files documenting Nazi collaboration."

He also said the Nazis inspired him to behaviorism.

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 2h

there's discussion of whether miracles exist, could happen. why did God choose me (to suffer, to be healed)?

That they actually got permission from the church to film at Lourdes!

it's not exactly a happy movie. it's contemplative. it doesn't answer it Christine experiences a miracle or not.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 2h

but i also feel better for having watched Lourdes again. It does lend itself well to re-watching! So much is communicated through body language and in the background of shots.

all the religious ritual, the occasional Ave Maria in the soundtrack. I don't know how to express what in me grabs onto it.

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 2h

like, mentally/emotionally better, lol, not physically (i wish!!)

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 2h

it really is incredible to me how every time I'm feeling less than great and have SoupTime, I start feeling so much better. Is it dopamine from *doing* something, or is soup just that magical.

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 4h

Lourdes on Letterboxd boxd.it/108q

i love it so much 😭💖💕

Lourdes (2009)

In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.

boxd.it

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 5h

Strike a pose (Common Grackle) #birds 🌿

Iridescent black bird with bright blue neck and head, yellow eye and pointy, downward curve beak. Bird is perched on the edge of a concrete bird bath with beak pointed skyward. Background is soft focus green and pink.

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 4h

ahh noticed a line i think i missed before?? and the way it gets delivered and when. about the loneliness of disability/chronic illness.

i love this movie so much 😭

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 4h

i love this shot. It starts medium, then closes in on Christine. Something like 20-30 seconds total? and organ music, i can't remember the name, just that it is sacred music that gets used for halloween lol

A screenshot from the movie. It's a space with squat columns, extraordinarily fat ones. The camera is set up just behind a column so it blocks the left half of the screen. Christine sits in a plain wooden chair, pale blue jacket and red bucket cap. She's facing left and her legs are hidden by the column - she's almost hidden, too. Behind her and in the distance are more of the columns.

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 5h

I don't want to spoil the character arcs for anyone yet to see it, but the way the secondary and background characters are shown is great. and so much is done without dialogue, or only a few lines?

Sylvie Testud is really good. and Elina Löwensohn as Cécile!

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 5h

decided to watch during SoupTime. good choice, me. this time, I'm paying attention to the other pilgrims, not so much the central drama between Christine and Lea Seydoux's character.

There is a lot of different ways they relate to their illness/disabilities, how they react to Christine.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 1d

idk why but somehow this week has me feeling like i need to watch LOURDES again.

i mean, i know why it has come to mind, but idk why the need to watch. (i love that movie so much, but I'm not really someone who rewatches things!)

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 20h

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

phys.org

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 13h

in that half-waking state before my sleep, when my mind was wandering, i kept going back to ballet exercises at the barre. and my leg muscles kept twitching, trying to activate. probably every muscle at least once, and my toes, too. I'm sure, now, why my ballet dreams are so fatiguing. 😅

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 17h

what the heck how did 8am happen again?! who authorized it?!

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Monkeytime @tmorman.bsky.social · 18h

Should be a huge and ongoing news story - U.S. citizens having their packages destroyed because of a backlog of government paperwork. If Biden had done this it would be front-page NYT and WaPo news for days and days: www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 20h

I've tried searching a few different ways, but, naturally, descriptions of the sculpture with the known identity are vastly more common, or else I don't know what magic search terms to use.

(my assumption is the author of the book was accurate for 1892, but maybe she erred!)

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 20h

ahh this is the kind of thing i need a Egyptologist to answer.

Three Vassar Girls in the Holy Land describes the seated statue of Nofret as Nefret, the *sister* of Ra-hotep (1892). what's the history there about how we learned she's his wife instead??

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 1d

also the synopsis about "Christine makes a pilgrimage in hopes of a miracle" is wrong! She is taking advantage of a Catholic pilgrims program to travel to different places, free and with nurses/carers.

that's part of what makes it interesting, the *business* of the church vs faith

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 1d

sorry to tangent at you, but are you able to watch movies/with subtitles?

because i was reminded of the French movie LOURDES this week, and I feel like you would appreciate it, too? if you've seen it? (it's one of my favorite movies ever) (the way it depicts Catholicism is 🔥, also disability)

The Kanopy listing for the movie Lourdes, from 2009. The top photo is of a woman in a red bucket hat in front of a row of prayer candles. She has a neutral expression, maybe even resting bitch face.

The synopsis:
Afflicted with multiple sclerosis, Christine makes a pilgrimage to the holy site of Lourdes in hopes of a miracle. Among thousands of ailed visitors, she proceeds through the well-oiled machinery of the religious tourist destination until the unbelievable happens: she is suddenly able to walk. As Christine becomes the object of wonder and envy, bolstering and testing the faith of her fellow pilgrims, the question remains whether all is as it seems.

A personal favorite of Martin Scorsese, Jessica Hausner's acclaimed third feature distills the central theme of her filmography: the contentious gray area between faith and fact.

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 20h

For those who are maybe not familiar with the significance of Fr. Dowling and the Eucharistic Procession in Chicago the other day, rah explains it good (also helpful for me, i had forgot some of it! catholic school kind of dulled the sense of importance of some things tbh)

end of thread is here!

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Because boy, howdy, nobody knows ritual and symbolism like the Catholic Church, and having it turned squarely back on the Very Bad Catholics who have been the public standard-bearers of wielding it for evil for so long is really good to see.

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 20h

i kind of resent how miserable the weekly Mass, occasional Adoration, and def the Stations of the Cross were for us in school. Because yeah, times like you describe, or attending a special holy day Mass, was really special.

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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 21h

HMMMM what do you think Champney is getting at, I couldn't possibly guess from all these facts. 🙃

oh, and one more! "her father was not pleased with America" i think is supposed to be indicative, too?

Do you think she'll be converted by the end of the book, taking bets now.

keri @keristars.bsky.social · 21h

5. She doesn't attend Bible study! (a popular voluntary thing?)
6. When asked to join Violet's trip abroad, she says "what you call the Holy Land" when declining the invitation
7. Her brother, graduating from Harvard this season, will have a job at a bank
8. also her name is plain weird

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