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Peripatetic postdoctoral scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.
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standing in the garden looking at planets through the binoculars, yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

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#Ramadan decorations in Gaza. Via Reuters/Ramadan Abed.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Particular shout-out to the Korean Film Archive for uploading lots of older Korean films to YouTube with English subtitles for free. I love what you do. #LetterboxdFriday 📽️

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

bumblebee!

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This is crucial and being missed in a lot of reports. Öcalan didn't say that the PKK should lay down arms immediately, he said they should put the option on the table if certain conditions are met.

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finally getting to the good stuff in dbz: bulma waking up in a pile of garbage and immediately chugging a beer

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

why does notepad, the program I use to write lists/notes/copy-paste things etc etc, want me to rewrite my shit with ai

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

NEW Pompeian ELLS attn: @greenleejw.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

spotted this at the gay bar in NOLA over the weekend and i’ll never stop thinking about it as long as i live

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

Designing something new...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I'm starting to see why people's reactions to learning I'd not seen Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) was to yell at me.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

#LetterboxdFriday I love kino 📽️

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 8 days ago • 108 comments

Pigeon and cherry blossoms being very aesthetic in Taipei:

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

close enough welcome back George W Bush

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t want no scrub / a scrub is a biome defined by a lack of trees / usually a risk of fire / when the soil’s drier / known in French as ‘maquis’

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

So hard to ID a bird retrospectively when it moved too quickly for a good look, let alone even a bad phone photo, but I maybe saw a grey wagtail on today's walk. The longer body, the contrast of black and yellow...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I've resigned from the UK Society of Authors

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

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PSA: All of David Lynch's features have just dropped at archive dot org, including Industrial Symphony No 1, Hotel Room, and the Duran Duran concert

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

I'm watching Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and feeling exactly the same way about Michelle Yeoh and Pierce Brosnan as I did as a teenager, except now I know that feeling is "bisexuality" and not "????"

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

getting fired from my closed captioning job for writing "[speaking English]" for all English dialogue

submitted 205 days ago • 27 comments

These are resourceful times

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Every single population transfer of the 20th century was a fucking catastrophe and a crime.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Official Taiwanese poster for "Nausicaa" (in cinemas there on March 6). www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fuR...

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

The Search (2009), a film I'd love to see in higher resolution than its internet archive upload, about a director trying to assemble a cast for a film version of a classic opera, and the love stories along the way. Every glimpse of storytelling enthralled me.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments