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@sparrowpost myna.social/@nicole/1096037880 🙇‍♀️

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I watched A Touch of Zen (1971) last night. boxd.it/SFm 🥰

Oh, mad 💞 for the lordly women of this film, who fling knives and soup, arrange marriages and ambushes; for the loyal retainers who dramatize royally; for the humble bookworm whose learnings actualize gruesomely; and, of course, for the goon-flicking buddhists who stand taller than all the rest.

Originally, two films, here stitched together, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was three or more: it includes its own prequel, sequel and prologue within it. Lovely, lovely photography, with some delightful nature intercutting during later fight scenes that would be difficult or impossible to articulate with today’s hyper-realistic language.

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@tillybridges @rooster and now that I’ve had coffee, the actual thought I meant to add:

Sometimes you have to put distance between yourself and the people you’ve known to make room for the people you will come to know. That goes for families as well.

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@tillybridges @rooster 👆 What Tilly said cannot be overstated.👆

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@sparrowpost Thank you! That was amazing—I can’t believe I’d never seen it before!

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@theconfusedyeti@tech.lgbt I think like this sometimes too. :)

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@tillybridges 🙉Can’t wait Can’t wait Such a fabulous show! 🙉

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@h5e @pry I always assume I’m going to have a hard time getting back into something that I’ve put down, but months—or even years—later, I’ll pick a book back up and within thirty pages be right back in the thick of it.

Wish I had the same level of recall for books that I’ve _finished_. 🙄

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@tillybridges That’s most of us, I think. Approved!

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Tilly Bridges

p l e a s e

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@rooster that sweater is just the best. 🏆

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Ah. Lovely . Sleepy coastal Californian town with gentle sloping wooden boardwalks, and, snuggled just behind, a 19th century Chinese temple dedicated to Kwan Tai, the God of War.

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Ron Gilbert (100% AI free)

Ars Technica’s best video games of 2022. We're in good company.
arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/12

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Lurid 1970’s Samurai Cinema 

I finished up the sixth, and final, Lone Wolf and Cub film last night. I am in awe of these films. They are somehow adjacent to both El Topo and Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetary Man), but also Sanjuro, Once Upon a Time in the West, and … Troma? 🤷‍♀️

Extremely difficult to describe without spoiling, they build on one another in ways both subtle and overt, such that I have to recommend the series as a whole as one art object. (Though, the structure of the fifth film should be called out as particularly interesting).

I watched one a week for six weeks, and that ended up feeling just right: close enough in time to one another to catch the visual and narrative rhymes, but not so close as to wear the repetitions bare .

Best Film Series ever?

Well, certainly my favorite yet!

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jessica by the bay

Non-trans folks: trans women who underwent testosterone puberty don’t have any voice changes from HRT.

Some do many hours of mentally exhausting voice therapy to find a new voice. Some do not.

I am not asking but demanding that you respect both choices. :heart_trans:

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Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater 🏳️‍⚧️

My kids are watching this classic scene from Sesame Street and are just as confused as the Yip Yips. They have absolutely no conception of what this thing is. The humor of the scene has truly come full circle.

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Natalia Panferova

I recently discovered that if we add an image name to the Localizable.strings file in a #SwiftUI project, SwiftUI will automatically use the localized string as the image accessibility label. We don't even have to apply the accessibilityLabel() modifier to the Image view.

I also added a quick tip on my blog about this: nilcoalescing.com/blog/ImageAc

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Midnight Eye

More #Films about #Japanese #Ghost and #Horror Stories of Edo Period at boxd.it/jQyZy

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Jasmine 🏳️‍⚧️

Remember, if you want to be a girl you can just be a girl. If you want to be a boy you can just be a boy. If you want to be a time traveling space elf, well, you can do it, but you might want to look into an engineering degree and/or sewing classes.

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@DavidBFox Gorgeous skies!!

I’m heading up to Mendocino this weekend. Looking forward to some stormy weather as good background for holiday reading. ☔️📚📖

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