Cactus
@cactusakic.bsky.social
Scotsman in exile. Misanthropic, introverted, mildly opinionated pop culture sponge. Authority/go-to guy on Marvel’s Jack Of Hearts & CapWolf, so I’m told. Militantly anti-slabbing.
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January 3, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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The numbers themselves are not a surprise (and are also inaccurate, as there were 7 films not on LB to log), but the Most Watched Actor and Director are.
#Letterboxd #Filmsky
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#Letterboxd #Filmsky
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January 3, 2026 at 8:28 AM
The numbers themselves are not a surprise (and are also inaccurate, as there were 7 films not on LB to log), but the Most Watched Actor and Director are.
#Letterboxd #Filmsky
🍿🎬📽️🎞️🎥🎦
#Letterboxd #Filmsky
🍿🎬📽️🎞️🎥🎦
Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: Parasite
2021: Titane
2022: RRR
2023: Past Lives
2024: The Substance
2025: One Battle After Another (*)
*I’ve yet to see Hamnet, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams, all of which I have high hopes for
2020: Parasite
2021: Titane
2022: RRR
2023: Past Lives
2024: The Substance
2025: One Battle After Another (*)
*I’ve yet to see Hamnet, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams, all of which I have high hopes for
Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: First Cow
2021: Petite Maman
2022: Top Gun: Maverick
2023: Past Lives
2024: Radical
2025: One Battle After Another
2020: First Cow
2021: Petite Maman
2022: Top Gun: Maverick
2023: Past Lives
2024: Radical
2025: One Battle After Another
Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
2021: The Worst Person In The World
2022: Aftersun
2023: Past Lives
2024: The Outrun
2025: No Direction Home
#FilmSky
2020: Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
2021: The Worst Person In The World
2022: Aftersun
2023: Past Lives
2024: The Outrun
2025: No Direction Home
#FilmSky
January 2, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: Parasite
2021: Titane
2022: RRR
2023: Past Lives
2024: The Substance
2025: One Battle After Another (*)
*I’ve yet to see Hamnet, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams, all of which I have high hopes for
2020: Parasite
2021: Titane
2022: RRR
2023: Past Lives
2024: The Substance
2025: One Battle After Another (*)
*I’ve yet to see Hamnet, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams, all of which I have high hopes for
Final Pop Culture Consumption Totals for 2025
Movies - 560
TV Shows - 1118
Games Completed - 6
Books - 58
Comics - 1142
Podcasts/Audiobooks - 1114 hours and 4 minutes
Movies - 560
TV Shows - 1118
Games Completed - 6
Books - 58
Comics - 1142
Podcasts/Audiobooks - 1114 hours and 4 minutes
January 1, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Final Pop Culture Consumption Totals for 2025
Movies - 560
TV Shows - 1118
Games Completed - 6
Books - 58
Comics - 1142
Podcasts/Audiobooks - 1114 hours and 4 minutes
Movies - 560
TV Shows - 1118
Games Completed - 6
Books - 58
Comics - 1142
Podcasts/Audiobooks - 1114 hours and 4 minutes
December reads:
5 books/1 Audiobook
The Green Mile was a reread (after over 20 years) everything else was new.
King - 5⭐️
Murakami - 3⭐️
Welsh - 3⭐️
Do The Right Thing - 3⭐️
Paul’s Boutique - 3⭐️
Elton - 4 ⭐️
📚 #BookSky
5 books/1 Audiobook
The Green Mile was a reread (after over 20 years) everything else was new.
King - 5⭐️
Murakami - 3⭐️
Welsh - 3⭐️
Do The Right Thing - 3⭐️
Paul’s Boutique - 3⭐️
Elton - 4 ⭐️
📚 #BookSky
December 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
December reads:
5 books/1 Audiobook
The Green Mile was a reread (after over 20 years) everything else was new.
King - 5⭐️
Murakami - 3⭐️
Welsh - 3⭐️
Do The Right Thing - 3⭐️
Paul’s Boutique - 3⭐️
Elton - 4 ⭐️
📚 #BookSky
5 books/1 Audiobook
The Green Mile was a reread (after over 20 years) everything else was new.
King - 5⭐️
Murakami - 3⭐️
Welsh - 3⭐️
Do The Right Thing - 3⭐️
Paul’s Boutique - 3⭐️
Elton - 4 ⭐️
📚 #BookSky
“How will you enter 2026?"
Me:
Me:
December 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“How will you enter 2026?"
Me:
Me:
Happy St Andrews Day!! 🏴
November 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Happy St Andrews Day!! 🏴
November reads:
5 books/1 Audiobook
The Cellar & Beast House were rereads (although 30 years later, so may as well have been first time reads) everything else was new.
Laymon/Cellar- 3⭐️
Laymon/Beast - 3⭐️
Laymon/Midnight - 1⭐️
Krieger- 4⭐️
Benchley - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
5 books/1 Audiobook
The Cellar & Beast House were rereads (although 30 years later, so may as well have been first time reads) everything else was new.
Laymon/Cellar- 3⭐️
Laymon/Beast - 3⭐️
Laymon/Midnight - 1⭐️
Krieger- 4⭐️
Benchley - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
November reads:
5 books/1 Audiobook
The Cellar & Beast House were rereads (although 30 years later, so may as well have been first time reads) everything else was new.
Laymon/Cellar- 3⭐️
Laymon/Beast - 3⭐️
Laymon/Midnight - 1⭐️
Krieger- 4⭐️
Benchley - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
5 books/1 Audiobook
The Cellar & Beast House were rereads (although 30 years later, so may as well have been first time reads) everything else was new.
Laymon/Cellar- 3⭐️
Laymon/Beast - 3⭐️
Laymon/Midnight - 1⭐️
Krieger- 4⭐️
Benchley - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
8 days off work starts RIGHT GODDAMN NOW
a sign that says open hangs from the ceiling of a building
ALT: a sign that says open hangs from the ceiling of a building
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November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
8 days off work starts RIGHT GODDAMN NOW
No lying or making yourself out to be a cool kid.
Post the first record you bought.
If you can remember the shop or circumstances add that too. Local color appreciated.
Roko - Hammersmith Odeon, Dec 2nd 1990 - Support act for Magnum. I was 10, taken along with my parents.
Post the first record you bought.
If you can remember the shop or circumstances add that too. Local color appreciated.
Roko - Hammersmith Odeon, Dec 2nd 1990 - Support act for Magnum. I was 10, taken along with my parents.
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
No lying or making yourself out to be a cool kid.
Post the first record you bought.
If you can remember the shop or circumstances add that too. Local color appreciated.
Roko - Hammersmith Odeon, Dec 2nd 1990 - Support act for Magnum. I was 10, taken along with my parents.
Post the first record you bought.
If you can remember the shop or circumstances add that too. Local color appreciated.
Roko - Hammersmith Odeon, Dec 2nd 1990 - Support act for Magnum. I was 10, taken along with my parents.
Rebuilding my home office, ready to return to work tomorrow after 9 days off, and I am, once again, reminded of the most accurate tweet of all time…
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Rebuilding my home office, ready to return to work tomorrow after 9 days off, and I am, once again, reminded of the most accurate tweet of all time…
October reads:
4 books/2 Audiobooks
King, Ellis and Brite were rereads everything else was new.
Ellis - 5⭐️
Brite - 3⭐️
King - 4⭐️
Scott - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
4 books/2 Audiobooks
King, Ellis and Brite were rereads everything else was new.
Ellis - 5⭐️
Brite - 3⭐️
King - 4⭐️
Scott - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
October reads:
4 books/2 Audiobooks
King, Ellis and Brite were rereads everything else was new.
Ellis - 5⭐️
Brite - 3⭐️
King - 4⭐️
Scott - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
4 books/2 Audiobooks
King, Ellis and Brite were rereads everything else was new.
Ellis - 5⭐️
Brite - 3⭐️
King - 4⭐️
Scott - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
Ross - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
I have officially reached the age/volume of comics where “Filing Day” is no longer a single day.
It’s taken 2 days to schlep all these boxes downstairs. Then tomorrow I’ll do the actual filing. Then Wednesday and Thursday (and maybe even Friday) I’ll schlep them back up.
Time for a SERIOUS purge.
It’s taken 2 days to schlep all these boxes downstairs. Then tomorrow I’ll do the actual filing. Then Wednesday and Thursday (and maybe even Friday) I’ll schlep them back up.
Time for a SERIOUS purge.
October 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I have officially reached the age/volume of comics where “Filing Day” is no longer a single day.
It’s taken 2 days to schlep all these boxes downstairs. Then tomorrow I’ll do the actual filing. Then Wednesday and Thursday (and maybe even Friday) I’ll schlep them back up.
Time for a SERIOUS purge.
It’s taken 2 days to schlep all these boxes downstairs. Then tomorrow I’ll do the actual filing. Then Wednesday and Thursday (and maybe even Friday) I’ll schlep them back up.
Time for a SERIOUS purge.
Just learned my Uncle Frank died last night.
He and I had been largely estranged for the last 20 years due to family drama, but I always thought fondly of him.
He was the fun uncle that let me watch films like The Shining, Silence Of The Lambs and Children Of The Corn at far too young an age.
RIP
He and I had been largely estranged for the last 20 years due to family drama, but I always thought fondly of him.
He was the fun uncle that let me watch films like The Shining, Silence Of The Lambs and Children Of The Corn at far too young an age.
RIP
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Just learned my Uncle Frank died last night.
He and I had been largely estranged for the last 20 years due to family drama, but I always thought fondly of him.
He was the fun uncle that let me watch films like The Shining, Silence Of The Lambs and Children Of The Corn at far too young an age.
RIP
He and I had been largely estranged for the last 20 years due to family drama, but I always thought fondly of him.
He was the fun uncle that let me watch films like The Shining, Silence Of The Lambs and Children Of The Corn at far too young an age.
RIP
9 days off starts RIGHT GODDAMN NOW!!
an older man wearing sunglasses and a red shirt is sitting in a car .
ALT: an older man wearing sunglasses and a red shirt is sitting in a car .
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October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
9 days off starts RIGHT GODDAMN NOW!!
For the last couple of weeks, the new Spider-Man has been filming about a 10 minute walk from my front door.
No big deal, I thought, probably just 2nd Unit stuff
Nope, Spidey himself, Mr. Tom Holland was there filming yesterday!!
No big deal, I thought, probably just 2nd Unit stuff
Nope, Spidey himself, Mr. Tom Holland was there filming yesterday!!
October 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
For the last couple of weeks, the new Spider-Man has been filming about a 10 minute walk from my front door.
No big deal, I thought, probably just 2nd Unit stuff
Nope, Spidey himself, Mr. Tom Holland was there filming yesterday!!
No big deal, I thought, probably just 2nd Unit stuff
Nope, Spidey himself, Mr. Tom Holland was there filming yesterday!!
Today is the 25th Anniversary of the release of this masterpiece.
Quarter of a century and I’m still playing it regularly.
And @pinkalpacas.bsky.social and I are going to see a screening of *Nosferatu* (1922) soundtracked by Kid A and Amnesiac at the end of this month.
#Radiohead
#KidA
Quarter of a century and I’m still playing it regularly.
And @pinkalpacas.bsky.social and I are going to see a screening of *Nosferatu* (1922) soundtracked by Kid A and Amnesiac at the end of this month.
#Radiohead
#KidA
October 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Today is the 25th Anniversary of the release of this masterpiece.
Quarter of a century and I’m still playing it regularly.
And @pinkalpacas.bsky.social and I are going to see a screening of *Nosferatu* (1922) soundtracked by Kid A and Amnesiac at the end of this month.
#Radiohead
#KidA
Quarter of a century and I’m still playing it regularly.
And @pinkalpacas.bsky.social and I are going to see a screening of *Nosferatu* (1922) soundtracked by Kid A and Amnesiac at the end of this month.
#Radiohead
#KidA
September reads:
5 books/2 Audiobooks
King, Easton Ellis and Nabokov were rereads everything else was new.
Easton Ellis - 4⭐️
Decameron - 4⭐️
Nabokov - 4⭐️
King - 3⭐️
Reed - 1⭐️
Hanstock- 4⭐️
Kermode - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
5 books/2 Audiobooks
King, Easton Ellis and Nabokov were rereads everything else was new.
Easton Ellis - 4⭐️
Decameron - 4⭐️
Nabokov - 4⭐️
King - 3⭐️
Reed - 1⭐️
Hanstock- 4⭐️
Kermode - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
September 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
September reads:
5 books/2 Audiobooks
King, Easton Ellis and Nabokov were rereads everything else was new.
Easton Ellis - 4⭐️
Decameron - 4⭐️
Nabokov - 4⭐️
King - 3⭐️
Reed - 1⭐️
Hanstock- 4⭐️
Kermode - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
5 books/2 Audiobooks
King, Easton Ellis and Nabokov were rereads everything else was new.
Easton Ellis - 4⭐️
Decameron - 4⭐️
Nabokov - 4⭐️
King - 3⭐️
Reed - 1⭐️
Hanstock- 4⭐️
Kermode - 3⭐️
📚 #BookSky
If you see this, post a robot
September 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
If you see this, post a robot
