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nicole

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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Scrümbled Eggs :verified_red:

All jokes aside, remember what Christmas is really about, people.

Rich people being terrorized by spectres until they agree to pay their employees a living wage.

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Uncle Duke :verified:

when you stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back at you because the abyss has to poop

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Brendan Kinney

Earlier this year I built a spreadsheet of sci-fi book recommendations from my followers on Twitter.

For 2023, I've committed to reading one book each month from this list.

I want to share this list with my new friends on #Mastodon and invite you to submit your own favorites to the list!

Here's the spreadsheet where you can review the recommendations and submit your own --> docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

I hope you'll boost to help spread the word!

#SciFi #books #sciencefiction

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nicole

Oh dear. That is quite some packaging.

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nicole

When I was in last weekend, we went to a gallery showing of original artwork inspired by the .

This was my favorite piece. Unfortunately, someone had already beat me to it!

Mystery Purchaser, wherever you are: well played.

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Lil Bit :verified:

We asked my 8yo if she knew what "ambidextrous" meant, and as she tried to figure it out, we heard her mutter under her breath, "It's not when two girls like each other...that's lesbians."

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Princess of Whales :bc:

Guys - I fuckin hate being made to feel things - but go and watch the J&B whiskey ad about transgender acceptance - dammit I cried tiktok.com/t/ZTRq2mhr2/

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Witchy, Blinky Things

Selfie 

I just want to thank #AubreyPlaza and #DanMurphy for #TheChristmasWitch - finally, justification to bake Christmas cookies in wildly impractical Halloween costumes with dramatic sleeves.

#TransJoy #TransJoyIsReal

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nicole

anti-trans rhetoric; allies; photos 

I was in a couple of nights ago when my friend Ra (she/her) bummed a cigarette off of a stranger. While they chatted, I wandered a little ways off with our party’s third.

After a few minutes, it was clear that the conversation between Ra and Mister Cigarette had become heated. I rushed over to provide Ra with support, only to find her staring down Mr. Cigarette as he unfurled an anti-trans screed—one that was disturbingly premised on prison rape analogies. 🥺

I stayed in the conversation just long enough to realize that neither rationality nor empathy had a place, and then gently guided Ra away and onto a better night.

Meanwhile, our party’s third, snapped a few photos of what being an ally can look like.

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progress of pauline

Zoë Heller on Shirley Hazzard:
“The portrait of the permissive era that emerges from these stories is a rather somber one. Eros is less the bringer of carnal fun than a dark and rather dangerous force on which men and women (but mostly women) pin their romantic hopes at their peril. Hazzard’s female characters are not constrained by conventional sexual morality, inasmuch as they engage in premarital and extramarital sex without compunction or shame, but they evince none of the antic libertinism or experience-gathering curiosity of, say, Mary McCarthy’s women. Sex remains for them a solemn rite, a significant act of surrender, and their inability to divorce the act from higher feeling leaves them horribly vulnerable to the emotional sadism and moral carelessness of men.”

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Awww. A little one stopped by my table to compliment my hair clips. Love the mini wins. 🥰

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My greatest presentation successes to date are avoiding gendered titles entirely, basking in the radioactive background noise of the “sirs” and “ma’ams” around me, while fending off only the occasional targeted “you.”.

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The research fairy

Hijacking one of those deepfake AIs to make a version of The Expanse but where the cute boys kiss

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Arriving at at 15:00 on a weekday is my new favorite travel hack.

Absolutely empty. No lines. No waits. Just a quiet corner table at the reasonably overpriced wine bar.

Two hours later: the zoo fills.

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Sigma ζ (she/her)

It is endangering to society to create an out-group that you’re going to allow people to attack for no reason whatsoever.

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ZealProphet27

Hey...

Do me a favor.

Unclench your jaw.
Take a deep breath.
Walk around and stretch.
Drink some water.
Have a snack.
Don't forget your meds!

Remember how amazing you are. You've got this. You'll be okay. I'm proud of you.

I'm so so glad you're here. <3

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Scott Barolo

CW: Sexual harassment in STEM 

Re-posting this 🐤 thread from 2018 which, sadly, is still relevant:

#WomenInSTEM who talk about #harassment and sexual misconduct get a lot of antagonistic & unhelpful replies.
@shrewshrew and I (a woman & a man in science) tried to categorize them. #9ReplyGuys

THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS 🧵

#1: THE LIFE COACH

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Florence Ashley

✨The people at Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity chose my work on the myth that 80% of trans kids ‘grow out of it’ as the lead article for their latest issue, making it available for free! Make sure to read and share!🌈

psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-80

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Anne Helen Petersen

Okay am I really going to use this, this time around?

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