Ranylt Richildis

“Why I Will Never Go on a Cooking Competition Show,” by Ranylt Richildis

(That, and my allergy to public attention.)

Pretty sure the Venn diagram of Project Runway contestants who can’t sew and people who think the slop they produce with GenAI is “art” is one big, naked circle.

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

Yup. Radu Jude himself is opposed to the Sequoia funding, but his films are still on there. I’m trying to support HIM rather than Mubi.

Re the names, it’s ridiculous. I remember being big mad when Mubi changed from The Auteurs. I hate tech nonsense names with a passion.

Mubi has a $1 a month for 3 months on right now, so they’re only getting $3 from me while I finally see The Substance, Die My Love, etc. That said, it’s Tubi that’s owned by Fox/Murdoch. I think Mubi is British-owned?

4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2008) Romanians may have sensed what stirred on their domestic film front in 2005 with the release of Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, but the rest of the world only whisp…

(Gotta rewatch an old fave now) ranylt.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/4...

Best thing I’ve seen in awhile: Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. WOW. Not shocked, given my big Romanian New Wave love affair back in the aughts. 📽️

(Got some more recent Romanian stuff catching up to do, @nmkennedy.bsky.social, clearly. Partly on Mubi nowadays for it.)

Super hoping this means the Boursin folk will start shipping their dairy-free version up to Canada again. 🤞

PSA to the Shudder crowd (who probably already noticed this): A bunch of Jean Rollin 70s surrealist/fantastique vamp flicks are now there for the streaming.

Content warning: boobies boobies boobies all the boobies

I’ve also been comparing AI to asbestos and radium—technology that had a bunch of benefits but then turned out to be deadly. The only difference is we already KNOW AI is killing people and they’re shoving it into everything anyway

B&W illo rendition of Carpenter’s They Live (talking head before massive OBEY subliminal message).

Thinking that about 75% of my Fiction of Horror or Science Fiction course lectures would be illegal in Florida now. 🤷‍♀️

(I have my Romanian cookbook to thank for this, btw. I was too curious not to give polenta another chance. Now I am slavering just thinking about making moar moar moar.)

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I hated fish, tofu n eggplant in my youth bc they were prepared by inept cooks. Fortunately, this was rectified in my 20s and they’ve since been among my favourtie foods.

Alas, only recently did I finally get on the polenta train for the same avoidable reason. Damn your eyes, inept cooks!

One of the frustrating things about “mainstream” reporting on these right-wing alt-media outlets is they describe them as “partisan” or assume they’re trying to get Poilievre elected

If you actually listen to them, they tell you exactly what they’re trying to do – namely normalize extremist ideas:

Jivani is a big reason I held my nose and voted Lib last election. He would have likely been minister of justice had PP won. That thought terrified me (and still does).

!!!!!! Huge.

Geothermal heating! Nonflammable jet fuel! Improvements in assistive medical devices! Generative watermarking!

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Finally watched Saltburn because Disk Horse.

The people who think the bathtub scene was just there for empty shock value need a robust lesson in semiotics. And primogeniture.

Like, c’mon.

Injured seabird desperately pecks at hospital door for help An injured seabird sought help by pecking on a German hospital’s emergency room door. The black cormorant had a triple fishing hook stuck in its beak when it showed up Sunday at a hospital in the nort...

Do the rescuers get three wishes now, or does one of them end up with a beautiful post-metamorphosis, post-curse groom or bride? apnews.com/article/germ...

French police launch murder inquiry after far-right activist’s death in Lyon Quentin Deranque, 23, who was on sidelines of a protest, died from a brain injury after attack that has fuelled political tensions

Us folks on the egalitarian, human rights, “live and let live” side of things really have run into a moral quandary in recent years, haven’t we? 🤷‍♂️
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I haven’t even had my first watch of that one.

Rewatching Ben-Hur. Past me would be shocked to say this, but younger Heston, surface-wise, is not un-hot (if Schwarzenegger and Dafoe had a lovechild…) in certain scenes. wth 📽️

The last AI discourse was AI boosters claiming not using AI was classist and ableist, artists were the ones with the power and privilege, historical disabled artists weren’t “actually“ disabled, and so forth

I agree, it’s impossible to have a reasonable discussion about AI because AI boosters are 🥜

Bud Cort, ‘Harold and Maude’ Star, Dies at 77 Bud Cort, who starred in 'Harold and Maude" and "Brewster McCloud," died Wednesday. He was 77.

RIP Bud Cort
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Yup yup yup.

BUD! 💔

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay