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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 7h

A friend of mine (white American) told me he took his parents to see Get Out and they didn't cringe at the "I Would Have Voted for Obama for a Third Term" line, instead they said "me too" out loud. Unironically. This lives rent free in my head because someone on here reminds me of it daily.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 7h

One of the most accomplished and dramatically precise debuts in years, Sophy Romvari’s “Blue Heron” is a powerful film about the tragic weight of memory. observer.com/2025/10/tiff...

Screening at BFI London Film Festival: Sophy Romvari’s ‘Blue Heron’

By the time the film’s credits roll, you may feel more spiritually connected to yourself and those you’ve lost.

observer.com

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Dave Scheidt @davescheidt.com · 1d

Thanks so much for FANGORIA for the kind words about RACCOON CITY PUNKS. Preorders are live! square.link/u/p4AYAuGj?s...

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 12h

I assembled a list of short films you can watch right now for free this Halloween. Scary, strange, surreal, and sometimes funny, this list includes live action, stop motion, and animated films from around the world and from filmmakers you've never heard of before

Some Strange Things You Should Watch for Halloween

20 short weird, scary, funny, and surreal films you can watch right now.

buttondown.com

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 9h

Kochikame is so good that decades later I think of every single 'Loan Sharks are after Ryotsu on his Salary Day' story and crack up.

Timeless classic.

That, Doraemon, and Shin-chan were the greatest anime in my house when I was a kid.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Larry Ellison:
—Second‑richest man on Earth
—Gave $16.6 million to Friends of the IDF
—Hosted Netanyahu on his private island
—Trump plan makes him co-own TikTok
—Son, David, just spent $150 million to buy The Free Press & make Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS
—Wants Warner Bros (CNN, HBO)

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

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.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9h

Die, industry, die

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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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 12h

This is also how guys show up in a George Akiyama comic btw.

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 12h

Bro popped out of a Gintama episode

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 18h

FYP blessed me with this upon opening TikTok it was meant to be @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 12h

This is wild lmao

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Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net · 12h

New on the blog: "Serendipity" – www.adityab.net/serendipity/

Serendipity

I just finished reading the excellent book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs, whose blog I’ve been following for years, and he’s talking about the importance of serendip...

www.adityab.net

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stew pitt bi @2501zoe.bsky.social · 14h

this movie probs has the best character acting animation ive ever seen n at least half of it is from hana my emotionally gifted expressive queen

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 19h

Pencil and final animation: Tokyo Godfathers (2003), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse

Animation by Shinji Otsuka

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 23h

deep sea dream

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Spoopy Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social · 23h

Signing off...

drawing of femme bird lying on the floor listening to records.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21h

You are telling every fat person in your life that they disgust you, that their bodies are comical or degenerate or useless. You are telling every fat person in your life you don't respect them.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21h

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 18h

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

three panels from the nausicaä manga depicting ohmu & giant insects

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 14h

Western media has spent two years denying Gaza’s genocide, platforming Israel’s lies, and enabling ongoing violence through silence & distortion, writes Assal Rad ⬇️

Gaza genocide: 2 years of Western media stenographing for Israel

Western media has spent 2 years denying Gaza’s genocide, platforming Israel’s lies, & enabling ongoing violence through silence & distortion, writes Assal Rad.

www.newarab.com

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 14h

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I’ve Endured Two Years of Genocide. But I’m Still Here.

The world before October 7, 2023, is a distant memory. But we carry on, fueled by the determination that this land will become a place of life once more.

www.thenation.com

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 16h

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 1d

Raised by faeries, Aimé has grown too old to stay with his godmothers. With his dog Anatole, he must travel back to the human world to find his place among the humans he has forgotten. The fae, however, are never far...

'Aimé' is a wonderful new 132-page comic by L. Adassovsky, available now!

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 22h

Since it's now news within our immediate circles, I can share: my partner got abruptly fired from his job (we had no idea it was coming; his boss chose to circumvent the normal steps you're supposed to go through to fire him while we were in Hawai‘i).

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 4d

just kidding times two, my partner and I got blindsided by some pretty bad news the day I posted this, I'll be fully back in office and online here on Monday.

if, in the meantime, you feel like supporting me by reading Keeping Time or joining my Patreon/SubStar, that would be a welcome reprieve.

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 7d

just kidding, I'm still pretty under the weather, so I'm extending my out-of-office until Friday!

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bones 💀 @riotbones.bsky.social · 23h

My comic 'War and the Maiden' is out now at this year’s
@shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social
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In a library at the end of the world, a historian meets War herself, and together they reflect on myth, memory, and what remains of humanity.

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