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Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 2d

How exactly does one hoot a nanny?

Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 5d

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge, Day 3

Simian Cinema: “Grab a six-pack of bananas and watch a primate film. Something…apeeling.”

Humans are also primates, so virtually any movie could count for this challenge ;-) But this one has a man with a gorilla heart!

#scvpsychochallenge

Poster for Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)

#filmsky

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Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 6d

By the way, if anyone is looking to spice up their movie watching this Halloween season, I recommend Psychotronic Challenge, put on by Scarecrow Video.

I'm currently watching Anaconda (1997) for their day two challenge.

Scarecrow Video @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social · 6d

The #SCVpsychochallenge continues with Day 2: Fangs for Watching - ”Charm your senses with an anguine flick (of, relating to, or resembling a snake)"...ok what sssssstuff are you watching? 🐍 🎬

scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...

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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 7d

Self care. #art #oilpainting

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 6d

This almost brought a tear to my eye. A small but important victory.

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Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 6d

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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 7d

Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like
"I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social · 9d

Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

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Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · 12d

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Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 8d

Wow, The Boy and the Heron looks insane in 4K

A trick photograph of a young man sitting at a table with his arm resting on the table; another young man is positioned immediately behind the arm and gripping the arm through the bottom of his own shirt. This makes it appear as though the second man is a bird perched in the arm of the first man.

#filmsky #anime #miyazaki #meme

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Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 11d

Hah, I was wondering that myself

Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 11d

Lots of great stuff happening in #Asheville today. Definitely make some time to swing by this great charity event. They have an awesome raffle going and some great food vendors.

Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 12d

What was your favorite of these?

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Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 12d

Llamas are what happens when God looks at sheep and thinks "These aren't nearly ridiculous enough."

Photograph of two llamas at Vinacunca in Peru. Both have been adorned with plastic sunglasses and are decked out with multi-colored pom-poms and other fabric arts. But the llamas look plenty ridiculous without these decorations, with their long, knobly legs and sleepy eyes.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 16d

Reflecting on the steep decline in the quality of #Reddit over the past year, and thinking #IPO actually means "It's practically over"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20d

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

theonion.com

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Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 20d

Happy Happy Death Day Day to those who celebrate!

Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 20d

Sep 18th 2017 - A hungover Tree Gelbman wakes up on her birthday in a strange dorm room. On her way to a party that evening, she is murdered, and immediately wakes up, starting the day again in a time loop.

📽️📅 Happy Death Day (2017)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Happy Death Day" (2017): First, a blonde woman with wavy hair sits on a bed in a dimly lit dorm room with posters on the wall, looking tense, subtitle reads “Am I in a dorm room?” Second, a hand holds a smartphone showing the lock screen at 9:01 on Monday, September 18, with notifications visible, the phone resting above a cluttered desk with papers and objects. Third, a figure in a dark hoodie wearing a creepy baby-faced mask stands outside at night near a construction light, partially illuminated against the shadows.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21d

as usual, Margaret eloquently summarizes the thoughts that have been drifting around in my head this week. @margaret.bsky.social

I'm not afraid of the fallout of last week's news because everything bad that might come out of it was already being planned. They've already been scapegoating trans people for everything bad in this country and are trying to criminalize our existence. They've already been talking about declaring "Antifa" a domestic terror organization. They're already funding a genocide (and were before the current administration) and they were already ramping up ICE infrastructure as fast as they possibly can. I don't know that there's any further acceleration available. The fascist pedal is already to the fascist metal.
That's not to say that things aren't going to get worse: they are going to get worse. They're just, as far as I can tell, getting worse as fast as they already can. Our actions aren't going to someh convince the fascists to get even more
fascist. There's an odd sort of freedom in that realization. We can—and should-collectively stop saying shit like "oh if you behave a certain way, it will just embolden the fascists." They're already as bold as they can get.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Sep 11

From Dan McQuade: Mariah Carey’s Glitter has the grimmest Wikipedia page for a film I’ve ever seen and then it’s a picture of the twin towers burning behind a billboard for the film

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Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · 22d

I'll say it. Robert Redford was probably the most kissable man in Hollywood. Not the hottest, but the highest on the intersection of beautiful and non-threatening.

Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · Aug 28

Awesome. Can't wait to get SWAT'd by a computer program that can't even count.

futurism.com/openai-scann...

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

futurism.com

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Scare-ahhhhh! 🎃 @sourcitruslady.bsky.social · Aug 3

Saw this on a light pole two minutes ago.

We Have Enough Dead Friends
BY LENA OLEANDERSON

Come over. The doors are open,
my flat's a mess and so is my heart
but the doors are always open.
Come over. I will make soup,
probably from frozen
but the important thing is
we will both eat.

You don't have to be dying,
but if you are,
or you feel like you are,
or if living's been hard,
call me, and I will show up
It doesn't have to be that bad.
it doesn't have to be bad at all,
but if it is, please call.

Do you want me to do the groceries?
Do you want me to mop the floors?
Do you need to be held;
you don't have to be dying to be held.
If you want me to be there, I want to.

I'm on the bathroom floor again,
and breathing is hard
and eating's been hard, and sleeping
the world is a laden thing
rolling around on my chest lately.
Just being alive is heavy tonight,
but we have enough dead friends.
Come over.

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Peter H @genre-and-justice.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ordinarily I would marvel at PubMed, at least for medical research, but given that it relies on federal funding...

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