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Hand holding zine with text “it's just like that sometimes THE MOVIES OF 2025 a zine by Lee leedoesstuff.com” and black and white dot images of movie characters

Zine page with a crossword grid

Laying flat on a table: sticker sheet with handdrawn stickers on a yellow background, the movie zine, a yellow patch with block print saying “watch movies, eat soup, pet cats, fight fascism” and a blue paper with the same print stamped on

Screenshot of blog post, text: And now the top 5...I actually had a few days when I was planning on calling this a five-way tie for first because I couldn't decide on the order. For a long time (like, most of the year) | had Sinners at number 1. In the end, l rewatched all five of these, and I landed on a weird order based partially on wanting my list to be uniquely mine, hah! Twinless is the one that rose up the highest above the first viewing—I liked it a lot out of the theater, but I hadn't even had it in my top 10 most of the year! My rewatch was, like, so good - it was better than I remembered and I just absolutely loved it and basically want to spread the word so everyone knows it's worth checking out. Anyway, all five of these are fantastic and basically tied and you should see all of them!! 5. Weapons. So ridiculous. So much fun. Just a bonkers time. 4. The History of Sound. Beautiful and heartbreaking and thoughtful and there's mending even.

I posted yesterday about my 2025 movies zine and my favorite 30 movies of 2025!! leedoesstuff.com/2026/02/10/m...

The reality is: those of us on the academic side who have been saying that this is a fascist secret police engaged in ethnic cleansing operating unaccountable death camps for the last 5 to 6 months have been right and everyone trying to downplay that have either been doing so in bad faith or lying.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Thanks everyone who bought a hat pattern — donation to PIRC has been sent!

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Lee wearing knit hat with words

Lee wearing knit hat with words

Lee wearing knit hat with words

Lee wearing knit hat with words

Free FCK Fascism hat pattern is now up on my free patreon, ravelry & payhip:

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Portland’s ICE facility is in a residential neighborhood. I couldn’t imagine living there right now

And ICE shot out the windows of apartments nearby. They used this munition to do it. They also shot people with this.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Last day to join my patreon and get this movies zine! It has TWO big movie trivia crosswords!! Plus tons of recommendations and more

Last day to buy this pattern with 100% donated to PIRC!

Zine cover with black dot images of characters from movies, text: it's just like that sometimes THE MOVIES OF 2025 a zine by Lee leedoesstuff.com

Inside page of zine with a big crossword grid

2025 movies zine has gone out to patreon members! Join any paid tier (lowest is just $2!) to get screen & print files! www.patreon.com/LeeDoesStuff

Get more from Lee Does Stuff on Patreon Posting stuff I do & things I make, and helping you to do & make

Also, for non-knitters (and knitters too!) my big puzzle-filled 2025 movies zine is just about finished (peek in that post above) and you’ll get it if you sign up for my patreon before the end of the month. Only $2 for the digital tier! www.patreon.com/LeeDoesStuff

Multiple Knitting Patterns, Movie Zine Peek, and Fuck ICE Hi! I’d say happy new year but we’re a few weeks in and it feels like years’ worth of horror already, so I’ll just say I hope you’re doing okay. If you want to wear a …

I posted about my latest knitting patterns — only a couple of days remain to get my Antifascism hat with 100% of the sale going to PIRC! (More details in the post) leedoesstuff.com/2026/01/27/m...

I’ll be donating 100% of sales of this hat pattern to Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) at the end of the month, on ravelry and payhip as well.

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Watch this video. It is so fucking scary and important.

Freedom Now!: a starter pack of 24 films about the Civil Rights Movement and Black liberation • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Robert Daniels recommends 24 films that shed light on the Civil Rights Movement and the ongoing fight for Black liberation in America.

For MLK Day on @letterboxd.social I decided to do a list of essential Civil Rights and Black Liberation movies.

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

This.

These fucking monsters. Monsters.

Lee wearing a bright red knit tee against a bright blue background, modeling convertible mittens folded down into a loose fingerless style

Lee wearing a bright red knit tee against a bright blue background, modeling convertible mittens folded down into a buttoned fingerless style

Lee wearing a bright red knit tee against a bright blue background, modeling convertible mittens worn up and buttoned loosely into a partially-closed mittens style

Lee wearing a bright red knit tee against a bright blue background, modeling convertible mittens worn up and buttoned twisted closed into a mittens style

Stimson also just went out to knit-tier patreon members—if you join the patreon you'll get this pattern now plus a very fun zine I'm hard at work on that'll come at the end of the month! patreon.com/LeeDoesStuff

Stimson pattern by Lee Meredith Note that the new version of this pattern went out to patreon members for the January pattern, so if you join the patreon in January you’ll get this plus other fun patreon stuff!!

Stimson mittens pattern is released! This was originally for a magazine ten years ago, but now it's updated and self-published. These cozy convertible mittens are very versatile and the pattern includes a schematic and a photo tutorial for the edging. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

journalists never take the cops at their word 2026 challenge

I just want it to be really clear, to people from out of the area, if they see pictures of fires in Minneapolis: THEY WERE STARTED BY ICE. NOT BY PROTESTERS. NOT BY RESIDENTS.

A "coin" with a skull on it, held in a gloved hand.

Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests.

This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.

ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Good thread from @mattcameron.bsky.social on how much what we are seeing ICE do now is different from anything the agency has really done before.

it's not just that they're supporting out-of-town ICE shock troops against their own community; it's that they're being paid with money you would rather have spent on buses and schools and parks and social services. I feel like in the year of our Mamdani 2026 that's an argument we can push harder

I’m old enough to remember the late 2000s, when redpill dudes were starting to mobilize online

various feminists and queer activists and historians wrote fairly regularly about misogyny as the canary in the coal mine of fascism

I can still hear the crickets