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Lady Horatia
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Film critic living in Italy. I write about whatever I feel like at any moment on my medium profile: https://medium.com/@lady-horatia
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Lady Horatia @mediumacolyte.bsky.social · 21d
I attended the Ibero-Latino Americano Film Festival for the second year in a row. And it was incredible. You can read my piece on it here.

#film #cinema #filmfestival #latinamerica #latin_america #trieste #italy #movies #art #philosophy #politics #humanity

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The Beautiful and Exuberant Faces of the Ibero-Latino Americano Film Festival of Trieste
This vibrant, optimistic, and radical film festival was human and touching
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Impossible to even describe how many versions of this he could do. He could be the patron saint of the entire world. Instead, they'll have to bury him in a secure location because of how many people will try to piss on his grave.
mguariglia.bsky.social Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 6d
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"‘Zafari’ is about the slow degradation of society, but in particular the bourgeois."

#Venezuela #movies #FilmFestival #Medium

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‘Zafari’: The Bourgeois Will Eat Itself
If there is nothing left to consume, the bourgeois will transform
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December 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
mediumacolyte.bsky.social
I wrote an essay about 2025's most political films of the year.

#movies #film #philosophy
December 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"Debt is a tool of exploitation, oppression, and value extraction. If ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ can realize the nature of debt, why can’t we?"

#gaming #money #GiftArticle

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‘Red Dead Redemption 2’: Should we pay back our debts?
What’s the difference between Arthur Morgan, the Mafia, and the bank?
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December 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"The Mafia will break your legs if you don’t pay your debt back, meanwhile the bank will leave you homeless."

#RedDeadRedemption #gaming

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‘Red Dead Redemption 2’: Should we pay back our debts?
What’s the difference between Arthur Morgan, the Mafia, and the bank?
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December 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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heyraguio.bsky.social
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out

pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"Journalism became an effective weapon not despite [Rodolfo Walsh's] revolutionary activities...but because of them."

#movies

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‘Escritor’: Writing as a Weapon
Rodolfo Walsh was the father of investigative journalism, but he was also a revolutionary
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December 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"It’s not new to compare vampires to capitalists. The metaphor is right there. Vampires are soulless husks who must perpetually consume the life blood of humans to keep themselves alive."

#horror #Sinners #GiftArticle

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‘Sinners’: Vampires are Consumers
Ryan Coogler turns the George Romero ‘zombie-as-consumer’ trope on its head
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December 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"...people are convinced with emotions and not with reason."

#journalism #Argentina #movies

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‘Escritor’: Writing as a Weapon
Rodolfo Walsh was the father of investigative journalism, but he was also a revolutionary
medium.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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jordanmaison.com
Never forget that Neo canonically won at #TheGameAwards and immediately tried to jump off a roof.
December 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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hmsnofun.bsky.social
and here i was thinking my video about streamers pivoting to user generated content after the wga/sag strikes missed the mark! i just didn't foresee AI as being such a big part of the picture. but it makes perfect sense-- what better way to avoid paying unions than to not have to pay humans at all?
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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johntheduncan.bsky.social
Open AI is in a cannibalistic deal with Microsoft and is constantly on the brink of collapse which will be probably trigger the collapse of the AI bubble. Disney trying to give it a lifeline to keep extracting the labour of artists and undercut Disney's labour costs
December 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"Throughout the film we return time and time again to the night of the massacre; ala Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’ we see the events from the different POVs of those who survived the night."

#journalism #LatinAmerica #movies #Medium

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‘Escritor’: Writing as a Weapon
Rodolfo Walsh was the father of investigative journalism, but he was also a revolutionary
medium.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
mediumacolyte.bsky.social
I wrote a piece about Andor way back. And it is as relevant as ever.

#andor #starwars #fascism
theuglymonster.bsky.social The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 17d
"Life under fascism is a constant battle. There is always an enemy for fascists to fight, and this enemy is always the scapegoat for all of society’s ills."

#Andor #scifi

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‘Andor’ and Fighting Fascism
The fight against fascism is never-ending
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December 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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apolicious.bsky.social
this question drives me absolutely bonkers. 9 times out of 10 the strangest art you see was made by someone stone-cold sober.
drewtoothpaste.bsky.social drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 21d
"what kind of drugs would you have to be on to make something like this?" store brand advil
December 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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We need to permanently retire "get that bag" and bring back the shame of selling out!! Sorry!!
December 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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6-fold ward against AI-induced psychosis
the machine does not know what it is doing to you the machine does not know what you are using it for the machine does not know who you are the machine does not understand you the machine can only say what you want to hear the machine is controlled by men willing to risk your children's lives this is how we destroy ourselves narcissus and icarus in one, agreeing ourselves to death
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
mediumacolyte.bsky.social
I attended the Ibero-Latino Americano Film Festival for the second year in a row. And it was incredible. You can read my piece on it here.

#film #cinema #filmfestival #latinamerica #latin_america #trieste #italy #movies #art #philosophy #politics #humanity

medium.com/theuglymonst...
The Beautiful and Exuberant Faces of the Ibero-Latino Americano Film Festival of Trieste
This vibrant, optimistic, and radical film festival was human and touching
medium.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"Human connection is born through shared recognition..."

#FilmFestival #LatinAmerica #Medium

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The Beautiful and Exuberant Faces of the Ibero-Latino Americano Film Festival of Trieste
This vibrant, optimistic, and radical film festival was human and touching
medium.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"Did you know that the festival employs migrant labour? Maybe you did, or maybe you didn’t. But it does. These are the people which maintain the apparatus which ensure that the festival can even exist."

#FilmFestival #GiftArticle

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Palestine, Aliens, The Rock, and Neoliberal Cowardice: My time at the 82nd Venice Film Festival
In the city bathed in the bright light of the Adriatic sea, I glimpsed a shadow
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November 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"Within the environment which produced the dangerously sharp phrase “survival of the fittest”, there exists the conditions for cooperation and coexistence."

#movies #FilmFestival #Medium

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‘La invención de las especies’: A Reaction to Evolutionary and Christian Transformation
Whether it be through Christian or evolutionary means, transformation is a choice
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November 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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hmsnofun.bsky.social
all the obvious external factors aside, my biggest problem with generative "AI" is that it's not being used to free up creators, unleash their potential, open up new avenues of expression the way it was advertised. it's being used to skimp on labor costs, cut corners, and maximize efficiency.
caseyexplosion.bsky.social Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · Nov 17
Why am I so against generative AI in games?

Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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mediumacolyte.bsky.social
Did you know that RAI censored a film on it's own platform? And they did that recently? Well you can read my piece on it to find out more.

#censorship #italy #RAI #politics #animation #movies #film #fascism #cinema

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‘Allegro Non Troppo’ and the Censorship of Italian Film and Television
What happens when you can’t call a fascist a fascist?
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November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
mediumacolyte.bsky.social
Did you know that RAI censored a film on it's own platform? And they did that recently? Well you can read my piece on it to find out more.

#censorship #italy #RAI #politics #animation #movies #film #fascism #cinema

medium.com/theuglymonst...
‘Allegro Non Troppo’ and the Censorship of Italian Film and Television
What happens when you can’t call a fascist a fascist?
medium.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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theuglymonster.bsky.social
"We have so removed, and detached, sex from any semblance of the natural in our media that it has now become common to talk about the “unnecessary sex scene”."

#movies #DeadpoolAnd Wolverine #Marvel

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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and the Denaturalization of Sex
Did you know that Deadpool and Wolverine had sex in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’?
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October 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM