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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Aug 11

Just horrific and enraging www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Aug 11

Horrific

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 10

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · Mar 27

Fuck the Oscars.

Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · Mar 27

AMPAS has issued a new statement that basically says: “we will continue to say nothing.” they don’t even bother mentioning Hamdan Ballal — an Oscar winner!!! — by name.

“Dear Academy members,
At the heart of the Academy's mission is a commitment to honoring excellence in the motion picture arts and sciences and connecting the world through the power of cinema. We do this through our work on the Oscars, our exhibitions and programs, our preservation and
education efforts, and so much more. We believe deeply in the ability of film to illuminate, to provoke thought, and to bridge divides by offering a window into diverse human experiences.”

“We fundamentally believe that film has the power to enlighten global audiences and highlight different perspectives - and we encourage our members to use their art to do so.
The Academy condemns harming or suppressing artists for their work or their viewpoints.
We are living in a time of profound change, marked by conflict and uncertainty
- across the globe, in the U.S., and within our own industry. Understandably, we are often asked to speak on behalf of the Academy in response to social, political, and economic events. In these instances, it is important to note that the Academy represents close to 11,000 global members with many unique viewpoints.”

“We are, however, united in a shared belief in the importance of storytelling, in the value of empathy, and in the role of film as a catalyst. As an
organization, our focus continues to be the celebration of creative voices that make up the global film community - and supporting your freedom to create, to challenge, and to imagine.
We remain steadfast in this work, and we are grateful to walk alongside each of you in it.
Bill Kramer and Janet
Yang”

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · Mar 18

Israel killed 412 Palestinians in 12 hours. If this isn’t genocide, then genocide as a concept doesn’t exist

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David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Mar 18

Amazing! Thank you!

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Art Beauty @appreciatebeauty.bsky.social · Mar 18

Bathers at the Pond (1920-1921) by Duncan Grant

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David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Mar 4

"Cinema style porno videos" implies artistry, scale and characterisation. A true auteur.

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Ron Athey @ron-athey.bsky.social · Mar 3

One last walk through the Leigh Bowery show at the Tate Modern. Feeling this season so much 💖💖💖💖

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WIRED @wired.com · Feb 27

Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in tatters, along with other livesaving efforts like AIDS treatments for children.

The USAID Emergency Waivers Aren’t Working, From Ebola to AIDS

Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in tatters, along with other livesaving efforts like AIDS treatments for children.

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David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Feb 26

Image from Thomas Roma’s photobook, In the Vale of Cashmere; a cruising ground in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park mainly frequented by Black and Latino men. G. Winston James wrote that for many men, the park was “a final destination” not “a way station to the greater gay world”.

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David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Feb 24

The plaques Ligon installed in public spaces looked like historical markers in tourist areas of the city but they were inscribed with ephemeral memory traces of cruising and desire.

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David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Feb 24

Lest We Forget (1998) by Glenn Ligon. Series including cast aluminium or bronze plaques.

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Dr John Gilmore @gilmorejnurse.bsky.social · Feb 19

Delighted to see this piece based on our World AIDS Day expert roundtable published!

Great to work with @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social @benvyle.bsky.social @edftmxxx.bsky.social & colleagues

DoxyPEP: thinking towards implementation - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

DoxyPEP: thinking towards implementation

The rise in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates over the last three years has renewed discussions about innovative approaches to prevention. Among these, doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (...

www.thelancet.com

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David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Feb 18

I love this quote from Anohni.
atmos.earth/anohni-queer...

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Feb 14

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Feb 14

JGP has a great chapter here about the purging of street queens and radicals from the queer movement in the 1970s. While it was certainly a campaign of trans misogyny waged by gay men, it was first and foremost a campaign waged against working class radicals and leftist priorities

A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson’s richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai’i to tell a r...

www.versobooks.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Feb 14

Miss Major Griffin-Gacy, one of the Black trans women who was at Stonewall on the night of the first riot - she fought back, got knocked out and spent the rest of the night in the Tombs - is still fighting for trans rights. She spoke with @samtlevin.bsky.social in 2023.

‘Get off our backs and let us live’: Miss Major is still fighting for trans rights after 50 years of resistance

The survivor of the Stonewall riots and mother to countless trans women has built a refuge for her community in the south: ‘I make joy here’

www.theguardian.com

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Feb 14

The Stonewall Memorial website has removed mention of trans people

www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm

“By the time of Stonewall...we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later...1500.”
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement.“By the time of Stonewall...we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later...1500.”

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David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Feb 10

I love this quote from @andycampy.bsky.social on the series: “Because the connect-the-dot designs are left unconnected, they function as spaces for imaginative and wild projection […] The numbers on this field of erotic possibility are always becoming, and bristling with potential”.

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David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Feb 10

Sameshima’s Numbers series is based on the connect the dots pages in 70’s/80’s Drummer magazines, where readers could follow the numbers to get a final pornographic image. John Klamik designed the original erotic dots. They’re also a nod to the canonical cruising novel Numbers by John Rechy (1967).

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David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Feb 10

Numbers 1 (2015) by Dean Sameshima.
Acrylic on canvas.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · Nov 23

Adorno: "Lies have long legs, they are ahead of their time. The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power not only suppresses truth...but has attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false..."

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David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Feb 7

Absolutely.

David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social · Feb 7

I believe it is a single jacket that has two collars. Still absolutely no need though. No need at all.

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