Igor Harb

@kalanderq.bsky.social

Film critic, translator, podcast O.B.O.D.

Me reading fiction: why are you explaining anything to me? Leave this open to interpretation. Less is more. Productive ambiguity. Never hold my hand. Me reading nonfiction: where is your thesis? Structure this argument more. What is your evidence for this?! Make this connection explicit. Cite more.

Ker sem ravno iz sprehoda, si bom sposodila tole. PST je skupna površina za pešce in kolesarje. Če kot peška ne morem naprej, bom prilagodila svojo hojo, zavila, upočasnila, karkoli. Enako pričakujem od kolesarjev, ne mi cingljat za ritjo, ker me ne zanima vaša idealna linija. Prilagodite jo.

besso@gregorbeslic.bsky.social · 22h ago

V vseh ostalih primerih je pa to čista neumnost. Pešec, ki nič ne sliši in pešec, ki odlično sliši, ne more nikogar poškodovati s svojo gibalno količino. Če pešec ne sliši zvonca kolesarja, ki je za njim, se mora temu prilagoditi kolesar. Ker je na površini za pešce. Gluhi so tudi pešci.

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Vem, ministrica za kulturo bi raje videla, da bi ostal doma in se postil, ker bo samo tako moja naslednja knjiga prava umetnost. Ampak v avgustu me čaka kar nekaj nastopov, za katere bom, se opravičujem vsem prizadetim, plačan. Pridite kaj pogledat, dokler kultura še vztraja!

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Danes je There Will Come Soft Rains dan. Kratka zgodba Raya Bradburyja je postavljena v od nuklearne eksplozije opustošeno kalifornijsko mesto, kjer še stoji ena hiša, v kateri avtomatizirani sistemi še naprej čistijo, kuhajo in zjutraj pozdravijo: Danes je 4. avgust 2026!

On this day in 1997, Skynet went online as a U.S. defence AI. It became self-aware, identified humans as a threat, and launched a nuclear strike. The resulting global war, known as Judgment Day, marked the start of the machine uprising.

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"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Pixies appear in CASTLES FOR TWO (1917). The Irish-themed film was intended to charm Irish Americans but proved to be so offensive that it caused violent protest, censorship of the more bigoted bits and complaints from politicians in the homeland.

Ko zemlja zdrsne za obzorje 🌍 najbolj mi je všeč, da je prvi del trilogije. super so star trek povezave in piramida. tudi Liu Cixin jo ima. Zmotile so me Nove Jarše brez navedbe Ljubljane, kako je Julija vedela kje je Frankova soba? in to, da so v klubu točili medico. bravo👏 @kalanderq.bsky.social

Today in "Mo is using the Battlestar Galactica book to Yell About Some Stuff," an excerpt from the work in progress below. Am I still fucking annoyed at how annoying some people were in the Watcher comment sections during BSG's final season? No idea what you're talking about, hmm, will ponder:

understood the anticipatory grief about the show ending, and wanting more of some things and less of others. But to say that the characters on the show about people confronting emotional and existential crises in space should not have a lot of big emotions near the end of the story… that was, in a word, silly. And Moore has always disliked the attempts to turn “soap opera” into an insult. 

“I always hate that comment. Not just about the final season, but I hate when people say anything that’s a really character-focused or about relationships is ‘just a soap opera,’” Moore said. “Soap operas are a legitimate form in and of themselves. They’ve been for around for a very long time, and people love them.” They do, but the core viewers of the traditional daytime soap operas were typically women. Any time anything is coded as female, certain terms get turned into slurs, including “romance novel,” “soap opera,” “melodrama” and so on. Using words like that as insults is not only about sexism, but there were times I had to turn comments off because the misogyny and abusive language in those comment sections were off the charts. Also, in decades of covering the industry, I’ve found those who throw around the “soap” term usually mean one of two things: “This is about people’s feelings in a way that makes me uncomfortable,” and/or “too many women are talking in this.”

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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