Shakespeare’s Jacobean plays are so deliciously challenging. There’s stuff in Twelfth Night I’m still getting my head around. Nuts that people flocked to playhouses to see this stuff.

Fun stuff from @davidehrlich.bsky.social on the diminished role of critics in the arts and Taika Waititi’s metamorphosis into Uwe Boll. www.indiewire.com/features/com...

Taika Waititi’s Delusional ‘Klara and the Sun’ Instagram Post Exemplifies the Dangers of a Growing Divide Between Critics and Artists in the Digital Age

Why Taika Waititi's 'Klara and the Sun' Instagram post shows the dangers of a divide between critics and artists in the digital age

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Reading Twelfth Night. Lot of ships in Shakespeare get split in half. Many engineering disasters in the Renaissance. And yet they hadn't fixed the Ships Getting Split In Half problem by the time the Titanic sank. Britain is a deeply unhealthy country.

seeing unprecedented numbers of good dogs today

I just saw a man who was way too tall.

I do not understand why we as a society have not collectively gathered up all the YA authors and [REMAINDER OF POST REDACTED FOR LEGAL PURPOSES)

Haley Stevens is doing a public service by reminding us that Dems serve the same nationalist hypercapitalist imperialist agenda as the GOP.

lmfao why do you look like that

Rewatching my favorite picture. Wendy Torrance is a great mother.

Can anyone recommend a good open-source alternative to Google Docs? I've been getting a divorce from big tech and Proton Docs isn't quite doing it for me.

Still angry that Mike Flanagan turned Carrie into X-Men.

So many extraordinary performances. I Claudius. Tinker Tailor and Smiley's People. Excalibur. Hamlet with Derek Jacobi. TNG. X-Men. The audiobook of The Last Battle. Hell, even Ted or Robin Hood: Men in Tights. He always gave it his all. An enormous, crushing loss.

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6d ago

Most people knew Patrick Stewart through his justly famous role as Jean Luc Picard, but to me he'll always be first and foremost the tyrannical Praetorian captain Aelius Sejanus from I, CLAUDIUS, a performance so effortless and natural it felt like he might reach through the TV and get you.

Most people knew Patrick Stewart through his justly famous role as Jean Luc Picard, but to me he'll always be first and foremost the tyrannical Praetorian captain Aelius Sejanus from I, CLAUDIUS, a performance so effortless and natural it felt like he might reach through the TV and get you.

Wow

I'm consistently and pleasantly surprised by how much I still enjoy the first two Narnia films. Very decent family films, especially considering the rest of Disney's Aughts live-action output. Respectably intense for that sort of film.

I expect this Narnia project to be, as the kids probably don’t actually say, lit.

Christine Kelley@ballardiangorse.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm thrilled to announce Shadowlands Revisited, my retrospective of C. S. Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia, which is coming to Patreon soon and to Eruditorum Press thereafter. www.patreon.com/ballardiango...

I'm thrilled to announce Shadowlands Revisited, my retrospective of C. S. Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia, which is coming to Patreon soon and to Eruditorum Press thereafter. www.patreon.com/ballardiango...

Patreon update + Narnia project | Christine Kelley

Patreon is finally making me switch to monthly billing. I'm not sure when the new plan starts, but it looks like our new monthly tiers will

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WHERE DID TUMNUS GET THE PARCELS?

Storgē ain’t shit; we’re celebrating eros, gang

This sucks.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · last wk.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

To the lowlife bastard who stole my debit card information, leading to the bank failing to issue me a new card right away and ensuring I can’t buy groceries: I hope a bird shits in both your eyeballs.

Took a break from my C. S. Lewis research to read The Exorcist. In one scene Pazuzu references The Screwtape Letters and Surprised by Joy. I can't escape.

his name is Michael Gothard because when I saw him in The Devils (1971) I uhh- well, I uh... hm.

Preview of my next project:

It Was Just An Accident (For Tax Purposes)

Grant@syncingsinking.bsky.social · 3w ago

In the spirit of the phrase "resident alien for tax purposes" and me thinking Resident Alien sounds like a movie, add "for tax purposes" to the end of a movie title The Spy Who Loved Me For Tax Purposes

Those of you who remember the NSO Group/Pegasus saga will doubtless be thrilled by this latest chapter of the Israeli surveillance horror show. www.wired.com/story/nightm...

‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads

Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.

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Greta Gerwig is clearly trying to destroy me by giving Jadis a wolf cut. I will not survive Jadis with a wolf cut.

"The new law prevents large grocery retailers and delivery services from using personal information — including race, gender, Google searches and social media history, among other things — to manipulate prices customers pay."

Seattle Becomes First U.S. City to Ban Surveillance Pricing

A new law prohibits large grocers from using shoppers' personal data to set individualized prices.

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My worst fear is Mike Flanagan‘s The Devils. We cannot allow that to happen.

I still can’t believe Mike Flanagan turned Carrie into fucking X-Men.