I have a three-minute video of a praying mantis taking a leisurely stroll over my head. I’d post it, except it glaringly shows how thin my hair now is.
Corey Redekop
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Canadian author, SHELF MONKEY, HUSK, assorted literary sundries. Socially friendly, emotionally distant. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758661.Corey_Redekop
Downplay a book or movie: The Lesser Deityfather
Marcas Grant@marcasg.bsky.social · 3d agoDownplay a book or movie: Undergrads of the Universe
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Marcas Grant@marcasg.bsky.social · 3d agoDownplay a book or movie: Undergrads of the Universe
The Reasons Why Scientists Get Angry at Shark Week - Washingtonian | How fictional animals, obsession with shark sex, and Nazis get in the way of actual discovery.
The Reasons Why Scientists Get Angry at Shark Week - Washingtonian
The 28th edition of Discovery's Shark Week started Sunday night with three new documentaries about everyone's favorite aquatic predators. Discovery, which launched Shark Week in 1988 as an earnest…
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A content analysis of 32 years of Shark Week documentaries | Reminder- when I talk about Shark Week being a dumpster fire of lies, nonsense, and pseudoscience, I’m not guessing here. We checked.
A content analysis of 32 years of Shark Week documentaries
Despite evidence of their importance to marine ecosystems, at least 32% of all chondrichthyan species are estimated or assessed as threatened with extinction. In addition to the logistical…
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150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
Decided on a rewatch after reading Josh Malerman’s excellent memoir Watching Evil Dead: Unearthing the Radiant Artist Within. It’s a lovely read, all the more remarkable for being an ode to artistic imagination that revolves around such a gory, balls-to-the-wall horror classic. boxd.it/fq9LBF
A ★★★★★ review of The Evil Dead (1981)
Decided on a rewatch after reading Josh Malerman’s excellent memoir Watching Evil Dead: Unearthing the Radiant Artist Within. It’s a lovely, sensitive read, all the more remarkable for being an ode to...
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BOOK #30, 2026 FERAL AND HYSTERICAL, Sadie Hartmann (2025) A fantastic book of recommendations of horror novels written by women. Sadie Hoffman—better known as Mother Horror on the sosh meeds—she KNOWS her horror, and her passion for the subject comes through in every entry. 💙📚
The Hammer QUATERMASS films are inarguably (imo) the best films they ever made, whole LEAGUES more interesting than most of their Dracula/Frankenstein flicks. If Quatermass had been played by Cushing or Lee, I bet this series would be far more appreciated. 🎥 #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/fgZ7Qz
A ★★★★ diary entry for The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
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For a movie set in a small spaceship, there are WAY too many handguns and grenades. boxd.it/1soc
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
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The Hammer QUATERMASS films are inarguably (imo) the best films they ever made, whole LEAGUES more interesting than most of their Dracula/Frankenstein flicks. If Quatermass had been played by Cushing or Lee, I bet this series would be far more appreciated. 🎥 #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/fgZ7Qz
A ★★★★ diary entry for The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
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Another one of those movies I had on VHS and watched until the tape wore out. Sweet poster art by Boris Vallejo. #filmsky
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju... A great actor and just a lovely guy. RIP, Sam Neill.
‘He made wine and he shared it. What more do you want?’: Sam Neill remembered by his co-stars
The actors Lindsay Duncan and Charles Dance, alongside director Peter Webber, pay tribute to a practical joker, unpretentious craftsman and ‘very cool guy’
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At this point, JK Rowling has spent more time and energy writing about how much she hates a vulnerable part of the human condition that never did one goddamned fucking thing to harm her than she ever did writing Harry Potter.
"What the federal government has been doing to people assumed to be immigrants is different from normal police brutality. It is a targeted campaign. We are witnessing, for the first time since Jim Crow, American death squads."
America’s Death Squads Are Real
Sometimes you can’t see the world clearly from the inside.
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BOOK #29, 2026 A PERFECT SPY, John le Carré (1986) 💙📚
I’ve been asked why am I, a grown adult among so many grown adults, am still devoted to the 63-year-old kids show #DoctorWho. Three reasons: a) it’s the ultimate travel fantasy -- anywhere, anywhen! b) the fantasy that a good person without a weapon can save lives and fight monsters c) the ACTORS 👇🏼
Has any movie series had such a tonal switch per flick than the original EVIL DEADs? The Evil Dead: pure, nihilistic horror. Evil Dead 2: repeat the original, add puns, inside jokes, Three Stooges-level slapstick. Army of Darkness: fuck it, it’s Monty Python and the Necrocomicon. Other examples?
Five living writers that you’ve read five books by each. Gemma Files @gemmafiles.bsky.social Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Hailey Piper @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Nathan Ballingrud Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social
Kris / Khuruuk@khuruuk.bsky.social · 4w agoFive living writers that you’ve read five books by each Kate Milford Malka Older Martha Wells Tade Thompson Annie Bellet
The metaphors just keep piling up. Or oozing out as the case may be.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w agoCDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country
It's the same reason per capita GDP comparisons between Canada and the US are so bogus. Super-profits of US tech oligopolies certainly lift US GDP & apparent productivity. Yet the median Canadian has more income & wealth, better health, and lives longer. centreforfuturework.ca/2025/05/06/p...
Per Capita GDP is a Deeply Flawed Measure of Economic Performance and Living Standards - Centre for Future Work
During the recent federal election, some business and political commentators used data regarding Canada’s relative performance in growing its “GDP per capita” to argue that Canadians have experienced ...
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