Derek Jenkins

Ghostwatch, Messiah of Evil, Return of the Living Dead, Island of Lost Souls. All very different and brilliant in their own ways.

Me toooooo

I owe everything to ILL.

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

@evanhill · 11m Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

Neon Genesis Evangelion was first broadcast thirty years ago today.

I'm going to attempt to articulate its impact - not just on me, and the different reasons I keep coming back to it, but on how it lands hard and lasts for a lot of people.

Thoughts incoming, throughout the day...

Amid These Words I Can Know | The Brooklyn Rail Alice Notley (November 8, 1945–May 19, 2025) was an American poet, widely considered among the greatest (and most loved) writers of narrative, epic poetry of her time. She was the author of more than ...

Terrific poems & remembrances of Alice Notley at The Brooklyn Rail by Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos, Eileen Myles, Brenda Coultas, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Evelyn Reilly, The Friend, & Lee Ann Brown.

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I saw this quote out of context and unattributed so I thought it was about fan fiction

Not a Girardi guy, but he got way more out of far shittier teams.

Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time

We’re in San Francisco where @derekbjenkins.bsky.social’s film “Letter from Blackhawk Island” is on the Crossroads 2025 program! www.sfcinematheque.org/crossroads/c...

I contributed a brief remembrance of Alice Notley to the new issue of The Poetry Project Newsletter

Full piece, & remembrances by Eddie, Eileen, Elinor, Peggy, Marion, Joel, Andrei, Simon, Anne, & Harris, here:

www.poetryproject.org/publications...

It’s true I half listened but grasped most of the essential stuff

True bummer for underrated guy

I have a healthy fear of death-by-stupidity, which I can only hope protects me from that outcomes. Problem is I’m pretty stupid.

Come hang out with us! Let’s talk about books!!

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told Israel's Army Radio that Washington does not oppose Israel's plan to move forward with "massive" settlement construction in the E1 area east of Jerusalem. Observers warn the project would completely sever the West Bank and destroy Palestinian territorial contiguity. The United Nations has said it would "drive a stake through the heart of prospects of a two- state solution." Information first reported by Middle East Eye

My quasi-daily reminder that Christian Zionism is the dominant form of Zionism today and one of the most dangerous ideologies of the past few decades.

The best Mexican restaurants: Hello

What’s another way of saying “final operational plan”

The University of Arkansas at Monticello has given Trump nothing

Statistics suggest downtown isn’t significantly more dangerous, but Hamilton’s core struggles to shake unsafe reputation Increased police presence and crime data point to progress — but visible violence and stigma continue to hold the core back.

How do you write about "safety" & "dangerousness" while acknowledging that there isn't an increase in "violent crime", & not name the years of racialized folks saying that more police does not make us feel safer, & prejudiced ideas of danger are not about it either? 🤦🏾‍♂️
www.thespec.com/news/crime/s...

Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul: Joel DeMott’s 'Demon Lover Diary' (1980) - Split Tooth Media DeMott's classic 1980 documentary is a volatile portrait of a crew trying, and often failing, to summon a horror movie out of very thin air.

Incredibly sad to hear that Joel DeMott passed away last week. DeMott's films 'Seventeen' and 'Demon Lover Diary' are absolute classics. I wrote more on her work at the link below but seek out the films. They deserve so much more attention!
www.splittoothmedia.com/demon-lover-...

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Inside an inner-city mall in Hamilton, you'll find this exhibition of experimental film | CBC Arts The Dandelion Film Collective presents the work of Toronto artist Midi Onodera at a storefront pop-up gallery in Jackson Square.

Really proud of what my film collective is doing in downtown Hamilton www.cbc.ca/arts/inside-...

Tops list of major leaguers who could play Superman

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.

"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.

Here's the trailer:

Billy Woods on the Lyrics That Changed His Life The semi-anonymous indie rap legend and Backwoodz Studioz co-founder pays homage to songs by Nas, MF Doom, Fela Kuti, and more.

One of Backwoodz Studioz founder and indie rap mainstay Billy Woods's great talents as a writer is balancing the scholarly with the streetwise. Dylan spoke to him about how the music of Nas, MF Doom, The Juggaknots, and Fela Kuti have inspired him

I’d vote in that reader’s poll but unfortunately I don’t qualify 😢

Gaza Strip was approximately 2.227 million. The Garb report includes maps displaying IDF estimates for the populations remaining in what are considered the three primary enclaves. The numbers are as follows: Gaza City: 1 million Mawasi: 0.5 million Central: 0.35 million The total of these official estimates is 1.85 million people. Simple arithmetic reveals a horrifying gap: 2.227 million minus 1.85 million leaves 377,000 people unaccounted for.

A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza.

That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed.

Genocide.

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