My 15yo convinced my 11yo to watch The Fly with him. Apparently she loved it so much she wrote a review.

I have a fraught relationship with the term “body horror.” Yet I couldn’t resist writing about it for @criterion.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...

Our GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC conversation with @violetlucca.bsky.social on David Cronenberg's THE DEAD ZONE, released on this day in 1983:

It’s kinda funny to get fired by your homely older brother. Rest in piss, Andrew!

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

It’s actually really exciting what a human brain can do compared to a large language model with rigid rules

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

scrolled down @criterion.bsky.social’s list of underappreciated Altmans to see if anyone got to Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. @violetlucca.bsky.social did not disappoint.

things kind of stink now but you basically dont have to hear that pearl jam song "jeremy" anymore ever unless you actively want to hear it. it used to be you would be hear eddie vedder hooting like five or six times a day and you were powerless to stop it

there are no nice women married to these terrible men. Melania Trump is a collaborator, not a hostage. Cheryl Hines is perfectly happy with her husband's 'car that smells like death from transporting roadkill home to put in his fridge to eat later' and she's absolutely fine with your child dying

When you need to be writing but can’t stop writing everywhere else besides the word document

I wrote about Charlie Kirk and the videos you really shouldn’t watch. No, really. Don’t watch it. open.substack.com/pub/violet/p...

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

AI is even fucking over the Gestapo: “officers on raids have gone to wrong addresses following leads that relied on artificial intelligence, increasing the chances of picking up the wrong person or putting an officer in danger.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I think @machete.gay summed up the motivation of the recent mass shooter best with this line in a conversation: “The only "authentic" message in the whole pile is the "there is no message" written on a pistol.”

It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates

No. We are not doing this anymore. It is 2025. Usha Vance stays with her husband because she agrees with him. There is no evidence that she loathes him at all. Yale-educated women can be fascist too.

So close to finishing writing something. And yet, every time I look, there are more posts to read!

David Lynch animated DUMBLAND with Flash!

This is just deeply depressing: women who spoke up during #MeToo often found their lives upended, as powerful men used defamation suits to target them, e.g. Roy Moore is still suing many of his accusers. What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

if he picks up and says hello don't get freaked out. it's not a fax machine

From 2023: Andrew Cockburn’s shitty piece about Dem primary challengers, which included a lengthy section burnishing RFK Jr.’s reputation. Love it when people fall for gish gallop, especially from a fucking lawyer!

Future corvid historians will be perplexed by the seeming abruptness of the Silicon Age Collapse.

HE’S RIGHT

I wish people who didn’t have kids understood how important and daring Ms Rachel is for taking a stand on this. There are so many—more and less famous than her—who don’t. I don’t think posting makes you a hero (and I’m childless), but I’m aware of the place she holds in childrens’ hearts.

Watching Trump answer questions about Epstein is like the part in a Looney Tunes cartoon when the character is in a giant stew pot and they’re cutting vegetables

Similarly the guys who make a big show of Not Knowing Why Everyone Is Upset when they discuss heritability of IQ. The reasons are really fucking obvious and well-founded, and if you were talking about that topic in good faith you would probably be willing to acknowledge that and assuage concerns!

▸ @violetlucca.bsky.social on David Cronenberg, Stan Douglas @nytimes.com, Agnès Varda @newyorker.com, Jeff Wall and Pedro Costa @ Electra, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor @berlinartlink.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

You’re not imagining things: Elon Musk’s anime waifu is exactly like THE SHROUDS. I discuss the film, weapons contracts, and emoting on my Substack. violet.substack.com/p/wild-hunny...

Shoutout to Shane for creating a game-changing piece of software!

You’re not imagining things: Elon Musk’s anime waifu is exactly like THE SHROUDS. I discuss the film, weapons contracts, and emoting on my Substack. violet.substack.com/p/wild-hunny...

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

Austin friends! Please keep your city weird come through to see me discussing my book at a screening of CRASH at @austinfilm.bsky.social on the 27th. The event is co-sponsored by the venerable First Light Books so you know it’s good! www.firstlightaustin.com/events/viole...

“Good Luck!”

I wish Bluesky had less discourse about Twitter.

I don’t want people in Gaza, the West Bank, Iran, or Iraq to die. I don’t want Israelis or guest workers in Israel to die. I already lived through 2002 once and it was horrible. Fuck the media’s complacency, fuck the bootlicking Republicans, fuck the Holden Bloodfeasts.

Groimes we hev to git to Mars roight NYEOW

Spent last night canvassing the Upper East Side in the rain for this guy—and I wouldn’t have it any other way. (I’ve also been to Inwood, Parkchester, and Norwood.) We’ve got a chance to make life easier for millions of New Yorkers! Sign up: www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/si...

Were you confused by THE SHROUDS? Unsettled? Outraged? Hungry? I attempt to explain what the fuck is happening in the year’s most beautiful and bizarre film: defector.com/the-shrouds-...

I know I shouldn’t worry about things I can’t control, but I really wish I knew who the Sea People of our era will be.

I went long on THE SHROUDS because Cronenberg and his (actually surprising) movie are worth it. defector.com/the-shrouds-...

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SEATTLE! I’ll be at Third Place Books tomorrow at 7 talking about my book about David Cronenberg. I promise it’ll help you understand/enjoy THE SHROUDS more. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/violet-luc...