This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
Eric Henderson
@ephender.bsky.social
Minneapolis. I am a man who is married to a man. 🏳️🌈 Garage house. Cult movies. Mocktails. Community organization. Letterboxd snark: https://letterboxd.com/ephender/
Lynch/Frost is TV, not cinema. But honestly, it's covered by everyone else just fine. Comedy tonight.
BITTER CHRISTMAS is less self-examination than self-pity, and it arguably feels like outright theft from the lives of people close to Pedro Almodóvar. Read @ephender.bsky.social's #TIFF26 review.
'Bitter Christmas' Review: Almodóvar's Navel-Gazing Confession
'Bitter Christmas' commits a strange act of creative trespass: turning what appears to be a close friend's real pain into fodder for a film.
slantmagazine.com
this is exactly what i think the “ai will end humanity” talk coming from silicon valley execs is all about. selling cybersecurity measures to protect you from what they might unleash
Politico@politico.com · last mo.EXCLUSIVE: Sam Altman met with top power utilities to discuss ways to secure the electrical grid. He also offered one possible solution to the cybersecurity risks: OpenAI’s own cyber services.
Watching it now, Barbara Kopple’s AMERICAN DREAM, writes @ephender.bsky.social, plays less like history than prophecy, one that Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, and seemingly everyone after it, was only too happy to fulfill. Now available on Criterion Blu-ray. bit.ly/4x1i0fN
Dolly... I can't even find words.... How lucky we were to be graced by you...
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
nytimes.com
This ad taut me everything I know about proofreading.
this is getting hate but i'm glad Cronenberg finally opened the breakfast burrito place he's been talking about for years
Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are all dogs locked in god’s hot car
If cinema is the national subconscious the dream being had is THE BILL IS DUE
Morgan Freeman: I Don't Give a Shit (Shawshank)
Alt: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION sucks. And it always will.
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Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco!@ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhats a movie everyone fucking loves that you despise? It doesnt have to be objectively bad, you just objectively DID NOT. Heres one for me since Ive been on a Barbara Loden kick lately-
David’s list is excellent too, for those of you doing last-minute cramming for the National Film Registry:
David Robson@houseofsparrows.bsky.social · 2mo agoswapped out The Big Chill (placed in the Registry last year) for your first nom The Warriors, otherwise same as last year. We've maybe 10% overlap as usual: I prefer WORKING GIRLS to BORN IN FLAMES but will be delighted if either gets Borden into the Registry. letterboxd.com/houseofsparr...
New dispatch from Hell:
have you ever been to, uh, a restaurant??? because, if so, wow do I have a brand new multimedia bonanza exactly for you fresh up today @pudding.cool — the story of the American restaurant *plus* a database of 5000 explorable historic menus pudding.cool/2026/06/menu...
A History of Menus is a Menu of History
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
pudding.cool
Legit thought that's what we have been doing the whole time.
Mike X. Nichols@mikexnichols.bsky.social · 3mo agothey should bestow a special Oscar to whichever movie carries the discourse the longest each year
I think what makes this so enduringly compelling is Holland is not performing it as camp, there’s no winking, no sense that performing a woman’s song and routine is beneath him or something funny or transgressive or uncomfortable. He is completely serious and completely comfortable.
Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3mo agoAlso where are my manners?
"one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real"
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3mo agoToday's threads (a thread) Inside: AI solipsists and AI cynics; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s... #Pluralistic 1/
Remember my epic thread of films I nominated to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry last summer? I'm making another one! This time more abbreviated: 25 posts, featuring two films per day, one pulled from last year's list and one I didn't nominated last year (or, in many cases, ever).
Brian Darr@hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · last yr.August 15 is the deadline to submit nominations to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. I don’t know who will be making the selections this time around but I’ll be submitting as if it were Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress controversially fired in May. www.loc.gov/programs/nat...
Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here's a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.
I never considered this, but now I think this idea is the best.
Eric Henderson@ephender.bsky.social · 3mo agoFascinating to think of all the things that would not be happening today were we to add an amendment to the Constitution forbidding anyone who previously lost a presidential contest to have another go at it.
Fascinating to think of all the things that would not be happening today were we to add an amendment to the Constitution forbidding anyone who previously lost a presidential contest to have another go at it.