@blacklightnz.bsky.social
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Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
www.newyorker.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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December 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is fabulous!
Kate is an extraordinary human and a joy to work with. Couldn’t be happier for her 👻
Kate is an extraordinary human and a joy to work with. Couldn’t be happier for her 👻
Kiwi Kate Hawley crowned inaugural Costume Designer of the Year
Kiwi Kate Hawley crowned inaugural Costume Designer of the Year
Kate Hawley has won the award from the British Fashion Council for her work on Frankenstein.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This is fabulous!
Kate is an extraordinary human and a joy to work with. Couldn’t be happier for her 👻
Kate is an extraordinary human and a joy to work with. Couldn’t be happier for her 👻
Can’t beat getting back to your core objective for narrative. This should be fun.
@rianjohnson.bsky.social's back-to-basics approach in #WakeUpDeadMan is the moral of the new film in action, writes @amamelia.bsky.social: "Clarity, trust, hard work, and genuine emotion beat pompous pageantry six out of seven days of the week"
Rian Johnson goes back to the foundations of the genre in new Knives Out
It’s almost astonishing how Wake Up Dead Man totally eschews the flashy genre switch-ups and narrative tricks so core to the first two films.
go.weareflicks.co
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Can’t beat getting back to your core objective for narrative. This should be fun.
No work tonight. Not asleep (yet). Just a flash back to some happy noises…
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
No work tonight. Not asleep (yet). Just a flash back to some happy noises…
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Second only to Angular Momentum (which remains the most exquisite moment, my fave for oh so long).
What a wondrous thing today’s @xkcd.com is. Thank you again Randall. Hope and love are so important to retain.
xkcd.com/3172/
What a wondrous thing today’s @xkcd.com is. Thank you again Randall. Hope and love are so important to retain.
xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Second only to Angular Momentum (which remains the most exquisite moment, my fave for oh so long).
What a wondrous thing today’s @xkcd.com is. Thank you again Randall. Hope and love are so important to retain.
xkcd.com/3172/
What a wondrous thing today’s @xkcd.com is. Thank you again Randall. Hope and love are so important to retain.
xkcd.com/3172/
Very COOL — Boooom Tissssh!
The US ice core research community, with international partners, has recovered valuable records of past climate from the Arctic & Antarctic since the 1950s.
Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.
Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Very COOL — Boooom Tissssh!
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Film, documentary maker Costa Botes dies after nearly a decade with cancer
Film, documentary maker Costa Botes dies after nearly a decade with cancer
New Zealand documentarian and filmmaker Costa Botes found fame creating Forgotten Silver alongside Peter Jackson in the 90s.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Film, documentary maker Costa Botes dies after nearly a decade with cancer
Vale Costa.
Thank you for challenging me, and for an amazing gentle, determined, and expansive night talking about dogs… but really about being humane. Class.
Thank you for challenging me, and for an amazing gentle, determined, and expansive night talking about dogs… but really about being humane. Class.
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Vale Costa.
Thank you for challenging me, and for an amazing gentle, determined, and expansive night talking about dogs… but really about being humane. Class.
Thank you for challenging me, and for an amazing gentle, determined, and expansive night talking about dogs… but really about being humane. Class.
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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I love how the 80s discography of The Cure is basically the story of a depressed goth who finds his soulmate and discovers genuine happiness and joy.
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I love how the 80s discography of The Cure is basically the story of a depressed goth who finds his soulmate and discovers genuine happiness and joy.
Every. Single. Time.
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Every. Single. Time.
Lots of Pōneke fun this week!
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Lots of Pōneke fun this week!
Awesome thread. Awesome film.
Great use of my render time!!!
Great use of my render time!!!
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was released 18 years ago today. One of the most successful movies of the Coen brothers, and acclaimed as one of the great book-to-screen adaptations of the 21st century, missing the story of how it came to be is like losing a Chigurh coin toss…
1/38
1/38
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Awesome thread. Awesome film.
Great use of my render time!!!
Great use of my render time!!!
Good day to search on Rosalind Franklin, based on most of the headlines I’ve seen…
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Good day to search on Rosalind Franklin, based on most of the headlines I’ve seen…
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Legendary Ngāti Porou filmmaker Lee Tamahori dies
Legendary Ngāti Porou filmmaker Lee Tamahori dies
Tamahori made his directorial film debut with the ground-breaking Once Were Warriors.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Legendary Ngāti Porou filmmaker Lee Tamahori dies
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
For all my mates heading into the #BATS and #RadioActiveFM fun / fundraiser tonight blow the roof off those zones. Figuratively that is 😎.
For the rest of us there’s the livestreams on www.radioactive.fm to look forward to 👻
For the rest of us there’s the livestreams on www.radioactive.fm to look forward to 👻
RadioActive.FM | 88.6FM
Worldclass and Worldwide since '77. Broadcasting in Wellington, NZ, on 88.6FM - and online, all the time, at radioactive.fm
www.radioactive.fm
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 AM
For all my mates heading into the #BATS and #RadioActiveFM fun / fundraiser tonight blow the roof off those zones. Figuratively that is 😎.
For the rest of us there’s the livestreams on www.radioactive.fm to look forward to 👻
For the rest of us there’s the livestreams on www.radioactive.fm to look forward to 👻
For this reason alone, I am re-posting 😜
This is now the most popular social media post I have ever been responsible for! Amazing.
My wife has discovered origami cats and now they all want to be fed.
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
For this reason alone, I am re-posting 😜