Shelly Kraicer
shellyk.bsky.social
Shelly Kraicer
@shellyk.bsky.social
Cinema / film art in China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan especially independent films & films from within the Chinese borderlands (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong…). And I create English subtitles for Chinese-language films.
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This is how I imagine today's NY Times would have covered Kristillnacht
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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One of the really nice things about Bluesky (as opposed to, say, Facebook) is that I can stop scrolling and enjoy a video like this without having to spend the next week having similar videos dominating my TL. It's a real relief to feel free to just look.
this is mesmerizing
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Renaissance Florence presented itself as being about beauty and humanism. But that’s an ideological mask for complex projections of raw power. The two richest families were Medicis and Strozzis. … 1/2
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Kory Teneycke has been given credit for largely avoiding the culture war stuff that Pierre Poilievre has strired but this is culture war assaults too, all to appease a small vindictive base + people who see the city as a place to drive thru, & Ford himself, damn the residents. It will cost lives.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I walked along a few kms of College St this morning before 9am. Day care drop then carried on. Watched the people push and cycle their kids around, some dad on a cargo bike waved & said hi to some tweens walking in front of me. All very Sesame Street.

And this gov't has contempt for it all.
A sad day for cyclists. Bill 60 - which prohibits the conversion of motor vehicle lanes to bike lanes (or any other prescribed purpose) - has passed Third Reading this morning which will kill various cycling projects in Toronto & across Ontario. #shame #BikeTO #BikeSky #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The Atlantic has teetered on the edge of having more virtuous writers than evil writers.This tips it over. And I fear the US is now at another hideous tipping point, where elite/expert contempt for Kennedy’s pro-sickness and -death campaign is about to be accepted by US power media as legitimate.
This cover oozes with contempt for the magazine’s history and its readership
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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This cover oozes with contempt for the magazine’s history and its readership
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Lessons from a Florence visit. One wants the world to be as Fra Angelico imagined it (as beautiful as possible, transforming idealistic bliss into a tangible real world). But we’re really in Masaccio’s moral universe (the expulsion from Paradise is the core of human experience: unimaginable horror).
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is perfect. For those who would like a bit of context: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...
November 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
in Canada? I wish it were true, but what I see (and maybe I’m missing something incredibly important) is the capture and strangling of Canadian progressivism by a Carney Liberal government. PMJT was substantially progressive in deep and important ways. 1/2
In NYC, as in Canada as I noted earlier, LBJ progressivism is giving way to FDR progressivism
🚨 👇🏽One low key brilliant savage underappreciated move was @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social turning Trump into an FDR fan and making him appreciate the New Deal and how government helping people is good actually
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Modelled (knowingly or accidentally?) on Chinese political-police campaigns, where the numbers of “guilty” people are determined *before* the arrests (and whatever then passes for investigations). Would American state oppression operations object to, or be proud of, identifying with Maoist methods?
If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.
Border agents are set to target communities in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana in a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep.”

Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.

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November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“His determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy“. For fucks sake. Choose words that mean things. “his determination to challenge science”. “Deny scientific reason”. “His determination to kill untold numbers of healthy children.”
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
In Florence, enriched & inspired by Inventing the Renaissance, @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s amazing book that I’m carrying around in my head. Walking by the Duomo tonight I almost cried (not Stedhalian tears, more bitter). Seeing that impossible Brunelleschi dome actually right there, in our world. 1/
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’ve been trying to think about why it’s so hard to make film adaptations of Eileen Chang stories. Even the best ones you mention, Ann Hui’s EIGHTEEN SPRINGS and my favourite LOVE IN A FALLEN CITY, both don’t activate Chang-ism. Or don’t try to. It’s not a *problem* or failing, just a fact. 1/
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Avouez quand vous vous êtes abonné·e pour du contenu drôle et pertinent sur le cinéma vous vous attendiez pas à l'infodump le plus long d'Internet sur Eileen Chang et pourtant
Eighteen Springs : Histoire de Chine(s)
Sorti en 1997, Eighteen Springs cristallise les aspirations de Chine(s) qui semblent irréconciliables, à la croisée des destins de femmes de légende. Eileen Chang, Ann Hui, Anita Mui et Wu Chien-lien ...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Umbria. I see these in the backgrounds of Umbrian paintings all the time. Now I get it.
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is true. Starting a workout now is exasperatingly fiddly, the tiny start button fades in so slowly that it’s easy to miss over and over again. Sliding left to stop a workout also fails more often than it succeeds. Design failures. I filed a bug report with Apple. Does that do any good?
Apple Watch Users Claim Workout App Is Now Worse in Every Way
Apple Watch Users Claim Workout App Is Now Worse in Every Way
Apple Watch owners have been voicing their frustration online over changes to the Workout app that Apple introduced in watchOS 26, with many finding the redesigned interface makes starting exercises difficult and exasperating. When Apple launched watchOS 26 in September, the Workout app went from large, easily tapped workout tiles to a scrolling, corner-button interface. Instead of tapping a workout once to begin, users now select the workout type, and then tap a smaller play button that appears after a brief animation. Apple has also integrated music and podcast setup directly into the Workout app itself, so users can configure audio to automatically begin playing when they start exercising. However, many of the changes appear to have become a major source of frustration over the last couple of months, based on a Reddit thread on r/AppleWatch that's full of complaints. "Touch targets are way too small," one user wrote. "Often times I have to tap the play button several times to get the workout to start." Another user said the update has been "absolutely horrible," adding that "activating a swimming workout has become impossible once in the pool." Several swimmers echoed this view. One notes that the latest design makes it "impossible to reliably start or switch workouts once you're wet or mid-lap." The redesigned layout also moves common controls like goal settings, quick-start options, and frequently used workouts into different positions. Long-time users say this breaks years of muscle memory. "What I used to be able to do in my sleep without thinking now takes my full brain capacity and always annoys me just before my workout," one user noted. Some users also report reliability issues, like tapping the start button and seeing the press animation without the workout actually starting, or walking workouts failing to register completely. Mis-starts are another recurring issue. "I've accidentally started the wrong workout so many times," one user wrote. "The play button loads late, so I think I'm scrolling, but I actually tap it the moment it appears." Another said they've watched the button animate when tapped, "and then found out later that it didn't actually register." The old Workout interface in watchOS 18 "The scrolling is so bad now," wrote another user, while others said the interface simply feels laggy. One explained that "the delay between selecting and starting is so long that I constantly overshoot or open the wrong thing." Some users have turned to Siri voice commands to bypass the new interface altogether, while others rely on the Action button on Apple Watch Ultra models to start workouts directly. A few say they've been letting auto-detection handle walking and cycling sessions simply because it's less tedious than navigating the UI. What have your experiences been with the Workout app on Apple Watch since the watchOS 26 update? Do you get on with the redesigned interface, or is it a step backwards from watchOS 18? Let us know in the comments. This article, "Apple Watch Users Claim Workout App Is Now Worse in Every Way" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
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November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!

My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Two new animated features from Hong Kong: THE MIGHTY ADVENTURE 小蟲蟲大冒險 is photo-realist: rigorous, minimalist, dialogue-free insect adventure (nominally set in Taiwan) where in-group solidarity (grasshoppers, spiders, butterflies) defends against out-group enemies (birds, humans).
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Meanwhile, the limits of legitimate political discourse on the organized US Right have slid right over to how much antisemitism is a reasonable amount of antisemitism. Looking forward to the NYT thought-piece: "Have too many Jews ruined the workplace?"
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Mobilizing expensive state resources to attack encampments is pure class-based hatred, a failure of solidarity and humility, masquerading as a children's "safety" issue. Toronto City Council too often seems completely comfortable representing our worst impulses, not our best.
As always when the topic of “clearing encampments” comes up, I ask just where the heck are these people supposed to go! The shelters are full, and there is no affordable housing for people on welfare or disability or working minimum wage jobs.
Councillor Brad Bradford's motion to prioritize clearing encampments near daycares and schools within 48 hours gets added to the agenda after a 20-6 vote. They'll debate it later. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM