I used to pitch cinema literacy by repeating the saying that an image is worth a thousand words only if you know a thousand words to describe it. We need to screen those 50k movies and talk about ICE and the genocide with anyone willing to listen.

Pooja Rangan @p8ja.bsky.social wrote a whole bunch about this exact phenomenon! From the call center documentaries to disability related captions. Whose speech needs captions? And what do the captions reveal about the desired audience?

GOD BLESS TRANSSEXUALS 🪬🍀

Stop the socialist nonsense of giving away free transgenders for everyone! You want a transgender? you gotta pay for one!

Nothing to lose but our chains

“there’s no difference between an acetaminophen scaremonger like RFK Jr & an anti-trans obsessive like J.K. Rowling. Neither are docs, both have been poisoned by online propaganda & disinformation... it’s just that [some] feel icky about the idea of trans ppl & so are more likely to listen to lies”

No justice, no peace!

I’m not a big numbers fan, but i like this score! My alt text rating score is 100.00% ☺️ 579 posts analyzed, 34 contain images, 34 have alt text... Get your Bluesky alt text rating here: cred.blue/alt-text

Imagine being stuck in traffic for Palestine! :)

They’re all free to download!

This was my favorite rapture post

Timely publication on social media, trans disinformation, the Far Right, and how it weaponized digital anti-trans disinformation to bolster authoritarianism in the US. Open access too! Congratulations @averyeverhart.bsky.social

A Jewish prayer for the High Holidays

Throw your complicity into the ocean!

שנה טובה May it be the year we shut down the U.S.-Israeli war machine, and rebuilt life for Palestinians in Gaza to thrive.

NYT has been spreading dangerous transphobic misinformation disguised as journalism for quite some time, but it took the Kirk coverage for all to see that they’ve abandoned serious reporting. If you want investigative reporting in the age of fascism check out @assignedmedia.org @democracynow.org

Lifesaving care

I went from getting nonstop transphobic comments in my replies and multiple death threats a week to none after moving from Twitter to bluesky.

The Dutch don’t fuck around, they call it how it is!

“watching a massacre unfold, and trace the social construction of a genocide that is publicly recognized but continues apace with the active support of our increasingly authoritarian ruling class”

Used to…

They’re firing comedians in fascism

📺✨ This Thursday! Step back into 1970s San Francisco with a screening of not one, but two episodes of THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO (6–8 PM, Sept 18). These classic episodes—partially filmed right here in the Tenderloin—capture the grit, drama, and atmosphere of a city in transformation.

Grand Karlovy Vary Hotel

Whenever I teach intro to film theory, I open with a screening of Waking Life.

Predatory technology

Brilliant idea! @democracynow.org @assignedmedia.org

Best show!

Best speech!

Mainstream media in a nutshell

Bluesky today *is* the angry goose meme

Postdoc job in fashion just published at my department! Talk to Tommy about it @tommytse.bsky.social

Whose lies matter?

📣 louder for those in the back!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 THERE’S NO “TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY”!!!

So you’re telling me that after 180 years of pain inflicted by racism and misogyny someone listened to women?? Who knows, maybe one day they’ll even seriously research Black, disabled, trans, and enby folk’s pain! Congratulations to the PhD candidate and the Master’s student at TU Delft!

“Free DC. Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time.”

First week of classes in the books. Opened the thesis writing workshop seminar with some human generated emotions on writing. There’s been a fair share of crying. The kids are alright! Ty comrades @anthonymoser.com @cgsunit.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social

My teen crush 😍

Hope.

This text is now part of our departmental BA Thesis seminar’s course manual guidelines on AI use. I intend to read it out loud with all students on the first week of all classes this year. Highly recommended for film and media classes imho.

Shrooms after the rain 🍄‍🟫

“Undocumented people are being kidnapped without access to their medications or treatments” #DisabledRage

If you listen to Palestinians, you don’t need to wait for the Israeli intelligence data.

When you listen to women you don’t have wait for some files to be revealed by the gov

"For transgender and gender-diverse adolescents, gender-affirming health care is not optional—it is lifesaving. This is not rhetoric; it is evidence-based medicine." Powerful piece on the "Moral Injury of Denying Gender-Affirming Care" published in JAMA Pediatrics. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

University of Amsterdam’s new library opening day! @uvahumanities.bsky.social 📚💙

Congratulations @jacobengelberg.bsky.social & @ffreibert.bsky.social! I can’t wait to read this!

There are at least 3 better candidates.

Yesterday was the 70 year anniversary of 14 year old Emmett Till's death. I don't think people realize how recent that actually is. That was within my dad's lifetime. Within the current president's lifetime. It's not ancient past.

Trump: I hate the homeless and bringing back ugly laws! Newson: This is CA, I will not have this! I hate the homeless even more and *I* will bring back ugly laws to Californian!