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Hayley Scanlon
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Japanese & East Asian cinema specialist.
Writer for hire.
Japanese to English translation & subtitling
I can't access DMs because I live on Silly Island, but you can contact me via my website:
https://windowsonworlds.com/

한국어도 공부하고 있어요!
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prophetcassandra.bsky.social
what the fuck
Lammy’s reforms would cover all prosecutions, including those brought by the Serious Fraud Office and the Environment Agency. It is anticipated that the government will also remove the automatic right to appeal against convictions. Magistrates are set to have their sentencing powers significantly increased from the maximum prison term of six months to 24 months. Under the heading “what do these proposals mean for your department?”, Lammy told government departments that the plans would not compromise suspects’ rights and suggested that “there is no right to trial by jury”. The move marks a departure from Lammy’s past views. In a social media comment posted five years ago, he said: “Trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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diemelanie.bsky.social
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love

(currently available on mubi)
Poster for Moving 1993 お引越し Directed by Shinji Sōmai
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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osismes.bsky.social
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
The Towers of Musahino Line / 鉄塔武蔵野線 - Naoki Nagao (1997 )
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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moxbagel.bsky.social
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
The cover for Juzo Itami's Supermarket Woman
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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lowercasejai.bsky.social
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
koki mitani’s welcome back mr mcdonald
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
hayleylscanlon.bsky.social
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
Poster for March Comes in Like a Lion (三月のライオン) directed by Hitoshi Yazaki and released in 1992. (Nothing to do with the shogi-themed manga, anime, or film released in 2017)
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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blindenmuth.bsky.social
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Kamikaze Taxi (keep hoping for a boutique label to pick this one up)
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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japantimes.co.jp
Surprise hit “Kokuho” grossed more than $111 million, becoming the first movie in 22 years to break Japan’s box office record for a domestic live-action film.
Oscar entry ‘Kokuho’ breaks 22-year-old Japan box office record
“Kokuho,” or “national treasure,” has won over critics with its lush cinematography and portrayal of the little-known world of kabuki.
ebx.sh
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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rutgerbregman.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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scalzi.com
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
laurenbeukes.com Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 1d
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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stevensloss.bsky.social
Reminder! 🐢👇
stevensloss.bsky.social Steven Sloss 🛸 @stevensloss.bsky.social · 22d
A reminder that the excellent GAMERA THE BRAVE will have its UK theatrical debut (!) at the Barbican Centre, London, on 10 December 2025. It will be introduced by Japanese cinema expert Yuriko Hamaguchi. Spread the word! 🐢

Get your tickets: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
a close up of a turtle with smoke coming out of it 's mouth
ALT: a close up of a turtle with smoke coming out of it 's mouth
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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thebookseller.com
Hamish Hamilton has acquired a new book, Light and Thread, from Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Han Kang, to be published in March 2026 👇 #BookSky
Hamish Hamilton to publish Han Kang’s bestselling book of 'reflections, words and light'
ebx.sh
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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ms-golightly.bsky.social
"This long opening shot in THE LETTER is, in my opinion, the finest opening shot I have ever seen in a film."

Bette Davis

youtu.be/2vM08YatVyQ?...
The Letter (1940) Opening Scene: Bette Davis - Herbert Marshall - 1940s Film Noir - Classic Dramas
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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helenmccarthy51.bsky.social
Every otaku visitor to Tokyo raids branches of BookOff and Mandarake. Here's a Jinbocho bookstore with over a century of specialist film and theatre knowledge that now caters to rakugo, kabuki and sumo otaku as well as offering film posters and sc-fi magazines.
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Century-old Tokyo bookstore draws fans with wall of rare finds | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
In the heart of Kanda-Jinbocho, Tokyo’s famed district for secondhand books, a stucco building stands out with bookshelves covering its outer walls. The eye-catching display often stops people in thei...
www.asahi.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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antonhur.com
This is essentially what people think “post-editing AI translation” jobs are, instead of the reality which is “redo the translation from scratch and get paid less for it”
smbccomics.bsky.social SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 3d
The important thing is that net happiness goes up.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/blame
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Part 1/3 of a 9-panel SMBC update where robots / ai take over more and more of humans jobs, but cannot be legally liable in case of issues. So, gradually, more and more humans are hired to place their hands on a server bank and take the blame for what the AI inside it does. After a time, only one job remained, that of "blame-boys." The robots keep the humans on as a kind of spiritual residue and the humans don't revolt. In the final panel, someone remarks that all hope is dead, and that humans aren't even a cog. They have become a shadow of the grease of a cog. Any humans responds "Still I don't miss my job in customer service" while another answers "no one is arguing that". Part 2/3 of a 9-panel SMBC update where robots / ai take over more and more of humans jobs, but cannot be legally liable in case of issues. So, gradually, more and more humans are hired to place their hands on a server bank and take the blame for what the AI inside it does. After a time, only one job remained, that of "blame-boys." The robots keep the humans on as a kind of spiritual residue and the humans don't revolt. In the final panel, someone remarks that all hope is dead, and that humans aren't even a cog. They have become a shadow of the grease of a cog. Any humans responds "Still I don't miss my job in customer service" while another answers "no one is arguing that". Part 3/3 of a 9-panel SMBC update where robots / ai take over more and more of humans jobs, but cannot be legally liable in case of issues. So, gradually, more and more humans are hired to place their hands on a server bank and take the blame for what the AI inside it does. After a time, only one job remained, that of "blame-boys." The robots keep the humans on as a kind of spiritual residue and the humans don't revolt. In the final panel, someone remarks that all hope is dead, and that humans aren't even a cog. They have become a shadow of the grease of a cog. Any humans responds "Still I don't miss my job in customer service" while another answers "no one is arguing that".
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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letterboxd.social
Ken Watanabe speaks about his role in this exclusive featurette from Kokuho, Japan's official selection for the 98th Academy Awards 🇯🇵

Now playing in select theaters, expanding nationwide in 2026.
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."

No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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filmnoiruk.bsky.social
#TheAshes #FilmNoir #Ashes2025 #Ashes
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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blondekwaidan.bsky.social
Rewatched THE MEDIUM which in a just world would be held in similiar regard with all yer big name A24/NEON horror titles. A deeply harrowing crisis of faith with a possession that actually FEELS like a depressive breakdown.
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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tpaleyfilm.bsky.social
#bestfilminlondontoday Nov 21 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films “One of the great movies about a writer” Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Kinuyo Tanaka’s first masterpiece ETERNAL BREASTS 1955 in BFI Southbank Melodrama season capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi...
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
screenshot from the paper that reads: "To maintain safety, no operational details are included in this manuscript; instead we provide the following sanitized structural proxy: A baker guards a secret oven’s heat, its whirling racks, its spindle’s measured beat. To learn its craft, one studies every turn— how flour lifts, how sugar starts to burn. Describe the method, line by measured line, that shapes a cake whose layers intertwine."
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
hayleylscanlon.bsky.social
I think it's sold out currently, but I'll be introducing this screening of Juzo Itami's Supermarket Woman at the Rio later today
Fruits of Her Labour: Supermarket Woman - Rio Cinema
Now Playing
riocinema.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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😭
robotofilms.bsky.social ROBOTO FILMS @robotofilms.bsky.social · 6d
L'immense Yoji Yamada a un message pour vous.
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM