nicole @nicole@myna.social

Today’s read is @mjohnharrison ‘s Nova Swing.

Its predecessor, Light, gently gutted me a few years ago. I had come to identify with aspects of the furious intelligence, Seria Mau, once human, now a space ship, who is cut free from her physical form in the final pages.

“In the micro-cameras she saw herself for the first time in fifteen years. She was this small, broken, yellowish thing, its limbs all at odd angles, curling and uncurling itself feebly against the pain of the open air.”

At that exact moment in my life, this was a #trans allegory, and the resolution had me sobbing quietly in the dark.

@nicole Yes it’s my little Friday night ritual! 😁🎞️🍶 I love Japanese movies and sake (I’m training to be a sake sommelier rn) so it’s fun to do. I usually post them on here or on Instagram, if you ever want to see more! 😃

https://instagram.com/films.and.sake?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

I have tracked anti-trans legislation for 3 years. Every day, people have asked me where to move or how at risk they are in their state.

So I created the anti-trans legislative risk map.

This is my final map of 2022.

Please subscribe, support my work.

https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/the-final-anti-trans-legislative

La Jetée 1962
Directed by Chris Marker

#Timetravel, still images, a past, present and future and the aftermath of World War III. The tale of a man, a slave, sent back and forth, in and out of time, to find a solution to the world’s fate. #French #Cinema #Shortfilm #Movies

been seeing many trans siblings (and some cis friends too) with family who don't respect you, who intentionally hurt you with their words and actions, and I just want to say:

YOU DO NOT NEED TO KEEP SOMEONE WHO HURTS YOU IN YOUR LIFE

YOU DESERVE BETTER

YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED

have never felt so much kinship with a bluetooth device

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

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!

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.

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.

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: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/ImageAccessibilityLabelsFroLocalizableStringsFiles/

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