Shelagh Rowan-Legg
@shelaghrowanlegg.bsky.social
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https://shelaghrowanlegg.com Film scholar | Filmmaker | Poet | Programmer, Wench Film Festival | Contributing Editor, @screenanarchy.bsky.social | OFCS, AQCC, Fipresci | based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
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I am delighted to announce the world premiere of DANS LES PINS at @nouveaucinema.bsky.social included among other great Quebec & Canadian shorts. Screenings at Cinémathèque Québécois, Sat Oct 11th at 21.00 & Tue Oct 14th, at 19.00. Tickets on sale, September 23rd.
nouveaucinema.ca/en/films/dan...
Festival du nouveau cinéma | Dans les pins
In letters to her mother, a young woman tells of her job at a hotel in the Laurentians, where she is courted by a wealthy man.
nouveaucinema.ca
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theharvestmaid.bsky.social
Hemingway ruined prose writers forever
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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ptklein.com
I am being intentionally absurd here, so let me be clear: whether AI boosters are true believers or not, they’re part of a philosophical project that sees human thought and labor as simultaneously exploitable and expendable. Their gratification matters more than the lives of writers or performers.
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lalegault.bsky.social
I should explain why I have so much experience with white supremacists 🧵.

A few years ago you may have seen the convoy take over Ottawa. I was among a group monitoring their rise & informed law enforcement 2 weeks prior to their arrival in Ottawa. Law enforcement did nothing so I began publishing
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anna-orridge.bsky.social
I can't do this (only use bsky on desktop), but yes, this is a good way to show your displeasure at the way Palestinians and others have been treated.
massimovl.bsky.social
Anna, this is unacceptable. Could you leave a 1-star review for bsky? Just access the site from which you have dowloaded it and explain the reason. It is the only way to sink this platform. In 3 weeks it went from 2.8/5 to 2.4/5 on the Play Store.
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thetrudz.photo
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, cinematographer for Sinners, The Last Showgirl, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Loki & more, photographed by Romer Pedron for Vogue Philippines.
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, cinematographer for Sinners, The Last Showgirl, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Loki & more, photographed by Romer Pedron for Vogue Philippines.

She is standing to the side of a Panavision camera, with her hair down. wearing a dark brown leather jacket with dark brown turtleneck underneath, against seamless grey background.
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
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babadookspinoza.bsky.social
“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.
Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
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philnobilejr.bsky.social
A reminder to the Tubi-addicted that Kanopy is free w a library card, ad-free, and is Not Fucking Around when it comes to genre
A photo showing the very horse selection available on Kanopy A photo showing the very horse selection available on Kanopy A photo showing the very horse selection available on Kanopy
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emrazz.bsky.social
Here’s what every woman knows and what many American women are compartmentalizing:

Men will do 10% of whatever they want to do to you in front of others. This is why the cardinal rule is to never be caught alone.

Now apply this to what you’ve seen ICE do to women while you’re watching.
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outspokenpress.bsky.social
👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀

$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press

Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com
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dryad.technology
If you are a Canadian citizen or resident, and you hate "AI"¹, please fill out this survey.

ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

The survey questions are *extremely* biased, so this will not be a fun experience, but I think it is worth it.

¹ (And if you like "AI"… how have I not blocked you yet?)
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...
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shelaghrowanlegg.bsky.social
seated for Lav Diaz's MAGALHÃES (MAGELLAN) at @nouveaucinema.bsky.social and at 160 minutes it's going to feel reeeaaally short for a Diaz film. (yup just checked letterboxd and he has made 20 films that are longer)
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
We absolutely, positively DO NOT need to learn to live with anyone who wants some of us FUCKING ERASED. Rowling & her money is doing real harm to trans men & women across the world and she needs to fuck off into the sun at her earliest opportunity. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Into the sun.
tricksyliesmith.bsky.social
oh no. no. absolutely the fuck not. fuck off.
a bullshit statement from Keira knightley saying she was not aware of a boycott against jk Rowling before taking a job on the new audio series and that she's "sorry" and "we're all going to have to figure out how to live together and we've all got very different opinions"
 She can fuck off.
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hannibalbrigade.biz
Israel is still murdering Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Tweet from Mosab Abu Toha:
A civilian named Khaled Barbakh was killed by Israeli gunfire in central Khan Younis.
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braegrosz.com
I love when Sam does a list

Early Women Writers of the Gothic 🧵
romgothsam.bsky.social
1) Ann Radcliffe

Let's get on of the big names out of the way! Most famous for her mid 1790s novels: 'The Romance of the Forest', 'The Mysteries of Udolpho' and 'The Italian'. She was a key figure in the popularising of the Gothic and received lots of contemporary praise. 1/
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lexialex.bsky.social
Support the resistance.

Boycott Israel.

Liberate Palestine.
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slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social
GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.
thevoidencore.bsky.social
The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem
shelaghrowanlegg.bsky.social
the new 'getting to know you' question:

what would your inflatable animal protest costume be?
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willbunch.bsky.social
The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats
shelaghrowanlegg.bsky.social
We love you and our hearts break for you. We have been shouting for you. We hope now you can build again a world in which you, your families, and all Palestinians are free. We will keep fighting for you.