film programmer at @mixnyc, formerly nssr, american in canada, political theory PhD student
Victoria, British Columbia
Joined January 2022
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a beloved trans sister of mine is going through an impossibly rough time rn after her trans household suddenly lost a beloved roommate and community member. If you could find a few bucks to throw their way during the holidays it would mean the world to me mealtrain.com/gz5y3m
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It fucking sucks so hard that our money is going to line these people's pockets.
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The Brewers regarded smoking cigarettes before games as a good luck charm and their motto was ‘if we smoke heaters in the cage, we will smoke heaters in the game’
Christian Yelich on this:
“You walk by the cage and see the cigs lit and you’re like, the boys are ready to rock.”
(Via @JeffPassan)
having to get up when it’s still dark outside is like being shot in the face with a gun ten thousand times
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Labour Bans Andreas Malm fron entering Britain. An appalling decision. Here is my statement as Chair of Verso, Malm 's publishers.
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just attended my first organizing meeting using roberts rules in like 8 years and had a pavlovian heart rate spike in response to hearing “point of order”
after a few months of being an American living in Canada and teaching Canadian politics to Canadian undergrads it’s hard to overstate how so much of things is just this meme
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One thing I realized seeing THE DEVILS again is that it is, more than anything else, a political film. Ken Russell has said as much, and I think its message is urgent and always will be
New post up on my substack on THE DEVILS and some other sights and sounds: evangrillon.substack.com/p/s…
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Patrick Stewart's entire body of work, but as Picard in particular, is something that connects the person I am today with who I was as a kid. It collapses time for me. I still have the same awe and fascination with his performance and belief that it represents the best of us.
this is like watching someone go big on real estate investment in January 2007
college freshmen right now are navigating the one two brain punch of COVID interrupted primary schooling and rampant AI use among their peers. I genuinely feel awful for them.
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“Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, & it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police & the other specialized detachments of the state’s monopoly...”
