Julian Singleton

hey @bsky.app why was @scumbelievable.bsky.social suspended? considering the timing (she just put a new book out) it feels like someone is weaponizing your safety features in a targeted manner

I can’t stop thinking about it! But I think the next Weapons viewing on Friday might be the tiebreaker

Top 5 of the year so far?

THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING (Tie)
WEAPONS (Tie)
SINNERS
EEPHUS
BLACK BAG

Fantasia Fest Review: 'Mother of Flies' When it comes to low-budget, DIY-minded horror, few filmmakers are doing it as well or as consistently as The Adams Family

A Stunning Dark Fairy Tale - popheist.com/fantasia-fes... Fantasia Fest Review: ‘Mother of Flies’ Is a Stunning Dark Fairy Tale - popheist.com/fantasia-fes... Thank you, @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @popheist.com, for such an elegant review, rooted itself in some gorgeous existentialist gold. 🖤

Saw this from Tumblr and it really resonated with me. If you engage with/talk a lot about HP stuff, you can and should do better. I don't think people realize how much referencing this stuff continues to give her power and makes the trans people around you uncomfortable.

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

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Oh WOWIE ZOWIE. I immediately wanna watch that again. (And Supporting Performance campaign begins now for one person) #WeaponsMovie

Finally ❤️

The titles need to be on par with the length of an isekai anime. Something like "The Crimson Devil Wore White Gloves and Spoke in the Raven's Voice at Midnight"

Sweet Moses this is exciting news.

WHAAAAAAAT

You’d think there would be a 4K out there already if I DID have it

I’m not sure if there’s been any updates in the last decade or so but this was the info Scorpion put out when they were prepping their (now OOP) Blu via Kino Lorber

The Apple fucking rules. I’m still crushed that I missed out on the last public screening of the longer premiere cut here in Austin before someone allegedly stole the print.

Who among us doesn’t spend our waking hours doing a business

All of these AI bizs just expose the craven VC/CEO dream that they *might* get infinite money if they didn’t have to deal with the actual realities of workers/work. They desperately want to hide that they must rely on other people. See also the “one great mind” trope pushed by bios, films, etc.

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Texas leadership hates Texas cities because, despite all of our flaws, we still represent everything good about the state. The queerness. The diversity. The mutual aid. The attempts, on a grassroots level, to fight for ourselves when the rest of the country writes us off.

Texas could be so great.

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.

dunno seems like this might be a bad company run by bad people that should be shunned and boycotted by everyone?

(It’s the Girl Scout Cookies)

There’s a moment in this first episode that reminds me of why I love this show so much. It pierces the instinct to be hostile to change, and shows how keeping kindness and grace at the forefront of a changing world has such a lasting ripple effect in those around you.

This NYFF Main Slate is absolutely bananas

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.

Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.

“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

Really like this list. Greatest hits, all, and a diverse gateway into these films!

YES!!!

Becca’s answer is Mia Goth in A Cure for Wellness and I’m so happy I’m married to this woman

Probably watching Lady Macbeth twice in 24 hours because Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, and Naomi Ackie all had the juice

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.