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Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

It speaks to how normalised the Republicans' fascism has become that a sitting senator can just casually refer to a Muslim Democrat as a jihadist and expect little to no media blowback.

Tweet from @tedcruz: "This seems like an easy one, New York City."

Picture of a ballot with two options, one saying "A DEMOCRAT. Just a Democrat," one saying "AN ACTUAL COMMUNIST JIHADIST. A literal Karl Marx-quoting, America-hating jihadist."

November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Favourite first-time watches in October:

Cure (1997)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Die My Love (2025)
Possession (1981)
Silent Friend (2025)
Candy Mountain (1987)
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
Twinless (2025)
I Love You, I Leave You (2025)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Le Chantier (2025

November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Favourite first-time watches in October:

Cure (1997)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Die My Love (2025)
Possession (1981)
Silent Friend (2025)
Candy Mountain (1987)
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
Twinless (2025)
I Love You, I Leave You (2025)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Le Chantier (2025)

November 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

After hearing your blurb-hunting tale, I'm assuming you're also familiar with the movie LEGEND hiding the Guardian's two-star review on the poster, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social.

October 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Literaturübersetzung am Anschlag.

VORBEMERKUNG DES UBERSETZERS
Zur Ausgabe von 1932
Da die Handlung dieses utopischen Romans nicht an den Ort gebunden ist, erschien es dem Ubersetzer ratsam, sie vom englischen auf deutschen Boden zu verpflanzen. Denn es ist ganz einerlei, ob einer seinen Somarausch in London oder Berlin mit einer in Dahlem oder Bloomsbury aufgenormten Beta erlebt.

October 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Good timeline moment.

October 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Martin Scorsese having a book club and sending a book he liked to Jennifer Lawrence is such a lovely detail.

The film is an adaptation of Ariana Harwicz's 2012 novel Die, My Love. In 2020, Martin Scorsese sent the novel to Excellent Cadaver (run by Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrochi) after reading it in his book club, envisioning an adaptation with Lawrence in the lead role.

October 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Favourite first-time watches in September:

Topsy-Turvy (1999)
The Secret Agent (2025)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Mirrors No. 3 (2025)
No Other Choice (2025)
The Mastermind (2025)
Shifty (2025)
One Battle After Another (2025)
Flavors of Iraq (2024)
Lesbian Space Princess (2025)
Jinsei (2025)

October 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

TFW you're coming out of another bloated prestige drama. #ZFF

September 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

I'm sorry, but this is comically awful casting.

September 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Shoutout to whoever designed the torrent website in the "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy clip.

September 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Richard Hanania

September 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Underrated Homer and Marge faces.

September 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

This is a valuable point to bring up – both to push back against the most insufferable of doomerist discourse and to highlight the right-wing and centrist hypocrisy this will spawn – but I also think the change in US government since July 2024 is a complicating factor here.

September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Jaja, ich weiss, ich krieche der Galaxus-Marketingstrategie auf den Leim, aber das ist einfach ein zu gutes Beispiel für das Ziehen falscher Schlussfolgerungen aus Statistiken.

Galaxus-Werbung: "Essen Millennials wirklich 53.6% aller Süssigkeiten?"

September 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Perfection.

September 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Look, I'm not saying the @lrb.co.uk has the best political coverage out there but… maybe I am?

LEON FESTINGER's concept of cognitive dissonance was born in the 1950s out of research into what happens when there's a doomsday cult and doomsday fails to arrive. A tiny minority of cultists have their warped worldview confronted by reality. How do they deal with it? They rationalise the unreasonable. They cherry-pick information. They deny the evidence of the data. In the second Trump era, the cultists are running the show and it is the majority of people in Europe, including Ukraine, who are in denial. Perhaps doomsday hasn't actually arrived. Maybe America is not now ruled by arrogant, vengeful, petty, patri-archal, racist imperialists. But where's the evidence?

September 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Favourite 21st-century first-time watches in August:

It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Yes (2025)
Colours of Time (2025)
Blue Heron (2025)
Weapons (2025)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Mare's Nest (2025)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

September 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Favourite 20th-century first-time watches in August:

Johnny Guitar (54)
Police Story (85)
The Passionate Friends (49)
Time Without Pity (57)
Odd Man Out (47)
The American Friend (77)
Obsession (49)
Simon and Laura (55)
Colours of Time (25)
Night and the City (50)
Passport to Pimlico (49)

September 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM

Alan Mattli

@alanmattli.bsky.social

Hey, SRF, von der furchtbaren Erklärung, was "transgender" bedeutet, mal abgesehen: Man hätte hier vielleicht auf das rechtsradikal gefärbte Manifest hinweisen können, anstatt implizit die "Trans-Terror"-Rhetorik von Trump und Co. zu befeuern.