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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 14h

There’s lot of Covid going around at the moment, again. I don’t qualify for NHS jabs, which are now very restricted, but I just paid £90 for one at my local pharmacy. As a freelancer, that’s a lot less expensive than having to take a week or two off if I get ill, let alone risking long term issues.

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 22h

Every smartphone in the world contains a CPU descended from one designed by a trans woman in the 1980s. The Matrix is one of the most influential movie franchises of all time. Electronic music was pioneered and popularized by a trans woman. I could go on

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

i think my favourite part about being a trans woman is how much of an impact we have on culture. a friend reminded me today about a popular meme format she created. another friend today casually told me about how she was the most notorious roblox hacker when she was a child.

just a day in the life!

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Andra Filipescu @musingoddity.bsky.social · 11h

The biggest injustice was this brilliant film not getting a theatrical release, run don't walk and watch it in its proper glory on the big screen!

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 14h

You will soon stalk, hunt, and take down Prey in theaters:

reactormag.com/prey-predato...

Prey Is Finally Getting the Theatrical Release Director Dan Trachtenberg Says It Was Made For - Reactor

The 2022 film is showing as part of a Predator double feature.

reactormag.com

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 14h

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 12h

With alt text. Last photo repeated to complete alt.

In July 1945, when I was four and a half years old, Utsunomiya, the city I lived in got bombed. So, well, it's no use going into details. Since this is the memory of a four year old, I think I created a large part of the story while I was recalling it over and over.
When I woke up in my futon, I mean, I was awakened because of the air raid, it was midnight, but the sky was dyed in red, no, pink, like an evening glow. Even the inside of the house was pink. So, since it was a big house, we went into the shelter made in the corner of the garden, but we were told that it was dangerous even there. I have three brothers, but my youngest brother hadn't been born yet at that time, my younger brother was a baby, I was four, and my older brother was six years old. My mother carried my younger brother on her back and my father held my hand.
And my other uncle, I think he was also working for the munitions plant, he held my older brother's hand, and we evacuated to under the railroad bridge of Tobu Railway. It was under the bridge, outskirts of the town, and there were lots of greens, so we thought bombs wouldn't be dropped there. Actually, it was cloudy, and the firebombs, called oil and fat incendiary bombs which contained oil in them, were raining from the sky and the town was already on fire.

Then, we thought being there might still be dangerous.
That day, my uncle brought the company truck to the house. It was a very small Datsun truck, smaller than today's light car. It was a troublesome truck since the engine was hard to start, but my uncle went back home through the town in the fire to get that truck. He went back and found that the fire was coming right up next to the truck, but the truck wasn't burned yet, and when he tried to start the engine, it immediately started since it was warmed well by the fire. Well, (it was a kind of truck) you have to crank (the engine) up by hand. And he came back through the fire, and we decided to evacuate to outside of the town riding on this car. My mother holding my brother sat in the passenger's seat, my uncle was in the driver's seat, and it was full since it was such a small car. And my father, my older brother, and I sat on the loading platform, covered by a futon, since we had to run through the fire, and anyway, we started going.
Then, there were several people taking shelter under the railroad bridge, and I don't remember clearly, but I surely heard a woman's voice saying, "please give us a ride." i don't know whether I saw her myself, or I thought I saw her, since I heard my parents talking about her later, but anyway, a woman holding a girl, who was one of our neighbors, came running towards us, saying, "please give us a ride." But the truck just took off. And her voice saying
"please give us a ride" gradually died away in the distance... Well, that was made up in my head like a drama.

If there had been a kid who could say "please let her ride," I think maybe a mother and a father would have stopped the car at that moment. I mean, if I'm a parent and my kid says so, I think I would do so. There were many reasons that you couldn't do that. If you had stopped (the car), more people might have come and created more confusion. I understand that well, but I still wish I could've said so then.
Or I wish my older brother could've said so. Of course, it would have been better if my parents had stopped (the car).
Actually, this story about the truck has very little to do with the essence of the war. Even if I satisfy my conscience by doing so, how about the issue of the munitions industry?
Or, comparing the issue of some being burnt by the air raid and some not and the issue of, for example, Japan as a nation doing many horrible things such as massacres in China, the Philippines, or other countries in South East Asia, I have to conclude that Japanese as a whole were perpetrators, so the problem isn't that simple. But after all those years, | realized that I wanted to make an animation with a kid who can say "please stop the car" in such a situation, not (giving up since) humans can't say so after all.

So, offering a girl a tissue flower and saying "please accept my love" might sound unrealistic. A four year old kid asking his parents, "please stop the car" might be unrealistic. But if there is a kid who can say so, and if we can feel "oh, it's OK to say so in such a situation," I think that would be better. At least, I see myself as a person who can't make a movie in any other way. I saw many movies which depicted the dark side or stupidity of humans and made the audience feel that they were the ones who were accused and then go home depressed, and I think there is a significance to such movies, and we have to watch such movies from time to time, but I want to make something like, "I wish things are like this." It was so in Panda Kopanda. It was so in Totoro. Well, most (of my movies) were like that. I think I have no choice but to keep making such movies.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 12h

Two conflicting thoughts about this:
1. Damn.
2. I think even with the best team and the most consistent thoughtful approach, Ubisoft would have handled this is a very weird way that would have been off putting at best.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 14h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Canadian Snark Lady and Potato Lover @kristadb1.bsky.social · 12h

OH THANK GOD.

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 14h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 22h

And THIS is why every person involved in either harry potter films, tv, games or other are chosing to actively be a part in the attack on trans people

Shes openly saying her intentions are to ensure a win for the bigots against scottish government

Screenshot of a post from twitter

@jk_rowling
"SNP ministers have failed to pay their £250k bill, six months after the Supreme Court ruling. The rumour is that they’re trying to stop ⁦
@ForWomenScot
⁩ taking further action against the government, but that plan has a rather large flaw. Me."
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 6d

No one, and I mean NO ONE, in Hollywood is talking about Tilly Norwood except over drinks for a chuckle. Actors are such an important part of the creative process - you want an actor who can surprise you every take, not one whose performance you dial up and down on a laptop. This is an ad campaign.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 15h

Seeing a LOT of people with socialist, progressive or leftist in their profile description running defence for Bluesky and aggressively attacking any critique of the company for having ties with billionaires, transphobes and the far right.

Infiltration is a right fucker, innit...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 17h

This sounds rad

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 17h

Dan Trachtenberg's 2022 sci-fi horror hit PREY will hit theaters for the very first time this November as part of a double bill with PREDATOR: BADLANDS.

Dan Trachtenberg’s PREY Coming To Theaters With PREDATOR: BADLANDS Double Bill

Dan Trachtenberg's 2022 sci-fi horror hit PREY will hit theaters for the very first time this November as part of a double bill with PREDATOR: BADLANDS.

dlvr.it

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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 21h

In November the 2nd & final #curae anthology is published by @renardpress.com with all profits, as in 2023, to @carerstrust.bsky.social and Carers UK. Beyond? I’m establishing the Curae Foundation to offer a substantial scholarship for online creative writing study or research for an unpaid carer!

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 1d

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom.
Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan

illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.

Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

These drugs are transformative for many people and the judginess is exhausting. It’s fine for people to take medication to make them healthier! It’s also fine if they’re taking it because they’d prefer to be slimmer! That’s their business!

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 1d

When judgy people like to judge Ozempic users, I always cite my pal James who was *not well* and now is. (Also he thinks he looks hot, no question) www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

I’ve lost 4 stone on Wegovy. Now I look like a weedy nerd

At 38 James Ball was overweight, suffering from sky-high blood pressure. Fifteen months later, he’s buying a new wardrobe — and has no plans to give up his jabs

www.thetimes.com

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 28d

Reviewer: The worst part is, they made the monster hot!

Me, kicking my feet: Oh no omg they made the monster hot?? Wow ahaha I can’t believe they did that, so uh how hot did they make the monster 👀

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · Sep 8

Has ANYONE read the fucking book?

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Andra Filipescu @musingoddity.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you so much! I'll check it out. It's also about reach, my mum is disabled so going too far isn't an option. At least we can still get the flu shot and being mostly housebound means the risk of infection is lower but it's still stressful.

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 1d

I illustrated this excellent piece by Katie Goh for @natlibscot.bsky.social about libraries in pop culture. Was extremely fun to get to draw the Scooby Gang! Can someone hire me to draw a Willow comic please?

You can read the article here: www.nls.uk/collections/...

An illustration of the five leads from 1985's The Breakfast Club

An illustration of the Scooby Gang from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

An illustration of 1961's Breakfast at Tiffanys

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 2d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Andra Filipescu @musingoddity.bsky.social · 19h

Are you in the UK? Where did you get yours done? I'm so stressed out about both myself and my Mum possibly not being able to get our shots. It's like the government wants people to get infected.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Andra Filipescu @musingoddity.bsky.social · 20h

Andy, I would love to follow your newsletter unfortunately it's on Substack and I avoid that site due to its massive fascism problem.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

We’ve known for years that many viruses are oncogenic in nature… there’s ample evidence to suggest Covid is as well.

Yet another reason to wear a good quality mask like an N95, get boosted, clean the air and keep fighting for paid time off & better mitigations!

Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 1d

That’s…not good.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40813533/

SARS-CoV-2 infection heightens the risk of developing HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer - PubMed

SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with elevated risks of HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer, irrespective of age or race. The findings underscore the importance of understanding the interplay b...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 1d

I felt like this was harmless until I saw someone mention they had no problem killing the Geth anymore after experiencing LLMs.

That is bad! That is a story specifically intended to broaden your empathy and challenge you and you're no longer experiencing complex human feelings about it!

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d

"this is a bad thing that you should not be promoting because it is actually based on realworld racism and is used like realworld racism" is apparently the anti-woke position on bluesky right now, and everyone is rushing to show that they don't agree with it

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