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tithonis [she/her]

@ tithonis @hexbear.net

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  • Becoming Chinese

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  • 威汉布? 伪华乌?

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    Sonic x Shadow - Trans Megathread from February 2nd to February 8th 2026

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  • Your mom falls into the "is blind" category, then. Mine took a couple of years to realize she had a daughter, but she figured it out. There's no gene, no biology, that'll ever change a transphobe's mind. Insert the Sartre quote about antisemites here.

    At some point you're going to very visibly be a woman. You will be a woman socially, maybe legally, and eventually the transphobes in your life just look like doddering fools. Why are you calling your daughter, your son? Are you experiencing dementia?

    There is no evidence good enough, especially not for family like that. You could wake up a literal zebra tomorrow and they'd still be calling you human. Either your people respect you for who you are, who you show yourself to be, or they're not actually your people. Transition puts into sharp focus who actually gives a shit about you and who was just tolerating you because you played a particular role for them. Now that you're not, they'll try and shove you back into that role. They're not worth keeping in your life. If they do realize what they're doing and why it's fucked they will come back and make amends.

    I've seen 90+ year old grandmothers who were set in their ways accept their daughters for who they are. What excuse does anyone younger and of sound mind have?

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    Sonic x Shadow - Trans Megathread from February 2nd to February 8th 2026

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  • Sexgender in humans is (1) socially constructed (2) phenotypically, entirely mediated by hormones. You know you were meant to be a girl because being a girl doesn't make you recoil in horror. You are a woman because you have the body of a woman because you are a woman. Yes, the reasoning is circular. Why do we need proof that we are who we are but cis people just get to skate by on self-assertion? A woman with CAIS isn't any less of a woman. A man with an SRY translocation isn't any less of a man.

    We learned exactly one thing from the human genome project: genes are destiny in the fuzziest possible way. Gonads aren't really destiny, either, especially not with widely available, effective hormonal treatments. Who give a shit? Why do we need that external validation for who we are? I'm just some weird trans lady on the internet but I can make a certificate or something suitable for framing. A gender diploma?

    My own experience has been that given enough time it becomes an afterthought. I am me, I am a woman, anyone who doesn't grasp that is blind or does grasp it and is just being an asshole. Mostly the latter. And it's always been thus. It took a while to internalize this for myself but it's true.

  • Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday "What's Japanese for 'deja vu?'" - A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)/Floating Weeds (1959) @ 1600 EST/2100 UTC/2200 CET

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  • A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) is done, Floating Weeds (1959) starts in a few minutes. Join us! https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

    @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net @Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net @IvarK@hexbear.net @tithonis@hexbear.net @AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net @AernaLingus@hexbear.net @Erika3sis@hexbear.net @CARCOSA@hexbear.net @Cherufe@hexbear.net @ClathrateG@hexbear.net @context@hexbear.net @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net @Eco@hexbear.net @el_principito@hexbear.net @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net @Kaputnik@hexbear.net @marxisthayaca@hexbear.net @MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net @Mindfury@hexbear.net @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net @PurrLure@hexbear.net @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net @RNAi@hexbear.net @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net @Tervell@hexbear.net @ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net @viva_la_juche@hexbear.net @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net @Wmill@hexbear.net @Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net @Zoift@hexbear.net @wombat@hexbear.net @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net @WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net @HarryLime@hexbear.net @Grebgreb@hexbear.net @BeanisBrain@hexbear.net @iie@hexbear.net @CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net @Lussy@hexbear.net @Alaskaball@hexbear.net @Arahnya@hexbear.net @buh@hexbear.net @FunkyStuff@hexbear.net @asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net @Vingst@hexbear.net @buckykat@hexbear.net @Wisp@hexbear.net @QuietCupcake@hexbear.net @autismdragon@hexbear.net @Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net @gramxi@hexbear.net @Rom@hexbear.net @Ath3ro@hexbear.net @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net @Sulvy@hexbear.net @halfpipe@hexbear.net @corkboard@hexbear.net @Guamer@hexbear.net @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net @LeninWeave@hexbear.net @Camden28@hexbear.net @Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net @hungrybread@hexbear.net @SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net

  • Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday "What's Japanese for 'deja vu?'" - A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)/Floating Weeds (1959) @ 1600 EST/2100 UTC/2200 CET

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  • A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) followed by Floating Weeds (1959) in about 10 minutes! https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

    @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net @Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net @IvarK@hexbear.net @tithonis@hexbear.net @AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net @AernaLingus@hexbear.net @Erika3sis@hexbear.net @CARCOSA@hexbear.net @Cherufe@hexbear.net @ClathrateG@hexbear.net @context@hexbear.net @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net @Eco@hexbear.net @el_principito@hexbear.net @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net @Kaputnik@hexbear.net @marxisthayaca@hexbear.net @MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net @Mindfury@hexbear.net @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net @PurrLure@hexbear.net @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net @RNAi@hexbear.net @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net @Tervell@hexbear.net @ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net @viva_la_juche@hexbear.net @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net @Wmill@hexbear.net @Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net @Zoift@hexbear.net @wombat@hexbear.net @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net @WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net @HarryLime@hexbear.net @Grebgreb@hexbear.net @BeanisBrain@hexbear.net @iie@hexbear.net @CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net @Lussy@hexbear.net @Alaskaball@hexbear.net @Arahnya@hexbear.net @buh@hexbear.net @FunkyStuff@hexbear.net @asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net @Vingst@hexbear.net @buckykat@hexbear.net @Wisp@hexbear.net @QuietCupcake@hexbear.net @autismdragon@hexbear.net @Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net @gramxi@hexbear.net @Rom@hexbear.net @Ath3ro@hexbear.net @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net @Sulvy@hexbear.net @halfpipe@hexbear.net @corkboard@hexbear.net @Guamer@hexbear.net @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net @LeninWeave@hexbear.net @Camden28@hexbear.net @Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net @hungrybread@hexbear.net @SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net

  • Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday "What's Japanese for 'deja vu?'" - A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)/Floating Weeds (1959) @ 1600 EST/2100 UTC/2200 CET

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  • A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)/Floating Weeds (1959) @ 1600 EST/2100 UTC/2200 CET! We'll start watching around 15-20 minutes past the hour.

    Join us @ https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine in about 8 hours for some spiritual dismemberment. Nobody dies, nobody is physically dismembered. Floating Weeds (1959) is Ozu's In Bruges (2008). I will not elaborate.

    • A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) starting at ~1615 EST
    • Floating Weeds (1959) starting at ~ 1800 EST

    @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net @Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net @IvarK@hexbear.net @tithonis@hexbear.net @AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net @AernaLingus@hexbear.net @Erika3sis@hexbear.net @CARCOSA@hexbear.net @Cherufe@hexbear.net @ClathrateG@hexbear.net @context@hexbear.net @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net @Eco@hexbear.net @el_principito@hexbear.net @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net @Kaputnik@hexbear.net @marxisthayaca@hexbear.net @MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net @Mindfury@hexbear.net @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net @PurrLure@hexbear.net @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net @RNAi@hexbear.net @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net @Tervell@hexbear.net @ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net @viva_la_juche@hexbear.net @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net @Wmill@hexbear.net @Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net @Zoift@hexbear.net @wombat@hexbear.net @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net @WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net @HarryLime@hexbear.net @Grebgreb@hexbear.net @BeanisBrain@hexbear.net @iie@hexbear.net @CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net @Lussy@hexbear.net @Alaskaball@hexbear.net @Arahnya@hexbear.net @buh@hexbear.net @FunkyStuff@hexbear.net @asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net @Vingst@hexbear.net @buckykat@hexbear.net @Wisp@hexbear.net @QuietCupcake@hexbear.net @autismdragon@hexbear.net @Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net @gramxi@hexbear.net @Rom@hexbear.net @Ath3ro@hexbear.net @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net @Sulvy@hexbear.net @halfpipe@hexbear.net @corkboard@hexbear.net @Guamer@hexbear.net @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net @LeninWeave@hexbear.net @Camden28@hexbear.net @Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net @hungrybread@hexbear.net @SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net

    As always let me know if you want on or off the pinglist!

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    tithonis [she/her] @hexbear.net

    Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday "What's Japanese for 'deja vu?'" - A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)/Floating Weeds (1959) @ 1600 EST/2100 UTC/2200 CET

  • WEEKLY BLOOMER THREAD: If you have some good vibes to share, share them here!

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  • What the fuck is happening to me? My life is suddenly very busy, frantic, even. Things are happening. A year ago I thought I'd be rebuilding my life from scratch, eking out some kind of meager existence, and I'm just not. I say "what the fuck" a lot these days. It's always with love in my heart. It's always because I got good, unexpected news. I've been taking solid Ls for 5 years and my luck has turned around.

    I must be vague, but everything is beautiful. The best days of my life have all been in the last six months. I'm old. I'm finally getting my shit together. It rules.

  • Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday - Uruguayan Ennui edition: 25 Watts (2001) and Whisky (2004) @ 1630 EST/2130 UTC/2230 CET

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  • Whisky (2004) just starting! https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

    @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net @Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net @IvarK@hexbear.net @tithonis@hexbear.net @AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net @AernaLingus@hexbear.net @Erika3sis@hexbear.net @CARCOSA@hexbear.net @Cherufe@hexbear.net @ClathrateG@hexbear.net @context@hexbear.net @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net @Eco@hexbear.net @el_principito@hexbear.net @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net @Kaputnik@hexbear.net @marxisthayaca@hexbear.net @MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net @Mindfury@hexbear.net @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net @PurrLure@hexbear.net @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net @RNAi@hexbear.net @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net @Tervell@hexbear.net @ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net @viva_la_juche@hexbear.net @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net @Wmill@hexbear.net @Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net @Zoift@hexbear.net @wombat@hexbear.net @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net @WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net @HarryLime@hexbear.net @Grebgreb@hexbear.net @BeanisBrain@hexbear.net @iie@hexbear.net @CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net @Lussy@hexbear.net @Alaskaball@hexbear.net @Arahnya@hexbear.net @buh@hexbear.net @FunkyStuff@hexbear.net @asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net @Vingst@hexbear.net @buckykat@hexbear.net @Wisp@hexbear.net @QuietCupcake@hexbear.net @autismdragon@hexbear.net @Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net @gramxi@hexbear.net @Rom@hexbear.net @Ath3ro@hexbear.net @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net @Sulvy@hexbear.net @halfpipe@hexbear.net @corkboard@hexbear.net @Guamer@hexbear.net @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net @LeninWeave@hexbear.net @Camden28@hexbear.net @Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net @hungrybread@hexbear.net @SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net

  • Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday - Uruguayan Ennui edition: 25 Watts (2001) and Whisky (2004) @ 1630 EST/2130 UTC/2230 CET

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  • We're starting in a few minutes with a little musical appetizer. Check out the Uruguayan Beatles and the Uruguayan Rolling Stones with us before 25 Watts (2001) and then Whisky (2004)! Music starts sometimes after 1600 EST/2100 UTC/2200 CET, movies start ~1645 EST/2145 UTC/2245 CET

    @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net @Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net @IvarK@hexbear.net @tithonis@hexbear.net @AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net @AernaLingus@hexbear.net @Erika3sis@hexbear.net @CARCOSA@hexbear.net @Cherufe@hexbear.net @ClathrateG@hexbear.net @context@hexbear.net @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net @Eco@hexbear.net @el_principito@hexbear.net @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net @Kaputnik@hexbear.net @marxisthayaca@hexbear.net @MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net @Mindfury@hexbear.net @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net @PurrLure@hexbear.net @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net @RNAi@hexbear.net @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net @Tervell@hexbear.net @ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net @viva_la_juche@hexbear.net @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net @Wmill@hexbear.net @Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net @Zoift@hexbear.net @wombat@hexbear.net @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net @WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net @HarryLime@hexbear.net @Grebgreb@hexbear.net @BeanisBrain@hexbear.net @iie@hexbear.net @CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net @Lussy@hexbear.net @Alaskaball@hexbear.net @Arahnya@hexbear.net @buh@hexbear.net @FunkyStuff@hexbear.net @asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net @Vingst@hexbear.net @buckykat@hexbear.net @Wisp@hexbear.net @QuietCupcake@hexbear.net @autismdragon@hexbear.net @Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net @gramxi@hexbear.net @Rom@hexbear.net @Ath3ro@hexbear.net @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net @Sulvy@hexbear.net @halfpipe@hexbear.net @corkboard@hexbear.net @Guamer@hexbear.net @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net @LeninWeave@hexbear.net @Camden28@hexbear.net @Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net @hungrybread@hexbear.net @SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net

  • For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, 8PM EST, it’s Southern feminist friendship saga Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Brazilian Carnivale star-crossed romance Black Orpheus (1959)! (CWs inside)

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  • I am going to try so hard to be there for Black Orpheus. Fantastic flick.

  • Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday - Uruguayan Ennui edition: 25 Watts (2001) and Whisky (2004) @ 1630 EST/2130 UTC/2230 CET

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  • Starting tonight around 1630 EST/2130 UTC/2230 CET - Uruguayan Ennui night. No death, only spiritual dismemberment tonight. https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine Join us in about 6 hours! 25 Watts (2001) and Whisky (2004)

    @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net @Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net @IvarK@hexbear.net @tithonis@hexbear.net @AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net @AernaLingus@hexbear.net @Erika3sis@hexbear.net @CARCOSA@hexbear.net @Cherufe@hexbear.net @ClathrateG@hexbear.net @context@hexbear.net @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net @Eco@hexbear.net @el_principito@hexbear.net @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net @Kaputnik@hexbear.net @marxisthayaca@hexbear.net @MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net @Mindfury@hexbear.net @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net @PurrLure@hexbear.net @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net @RNAi@hexbear.net @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net @Tervell@hexbear.net @ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net @viva_la_juche@hexbear.net @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net @Wmill@hexbear.net @Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net @Zoift@hexbear.net @wombat@hexbear.net @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net @WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net @HarryLime@hexbear.net @Grebgreb@hexbear.net @BeanisBrain@hexbear.net @iie@hexbear.net @CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net @Lussy@hexbear.net @Alaskaball@hexbear.net @Arahnya@hexbear.net @buh@hexbear.net @FunkyStuff@hexbear.net @asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net @Vingst@hexbear.net @buckykat@hexbear.net @Wisp@hexbear.net @QuietCupcake@hexbear.net @autismdragon@hexbear.net @Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net @gramxi@hexbear.net @Rom@hexbear.net @Ath3ro@hexbear.net @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net @Sulvy@hexbear.net @halfpipe@hexbear.net @corkboard@hexbear.net @Guamer@hexbear.net @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net @LeninWeave@hexbear.net @Camden28@hexbear.net @Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net @hungrybread@hexbear.net @SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net
    tithonis [she/her] @hexbear.net

    Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday - Uruguayan Ennui edition: 25 Watts (2001) and Whisky (2004) @ 1630 EST/2130 UTC/2230 CET

  • Maestro returns! We're finishing Albert Barillé's 1994 educational cartoon "Once Upon a Time… The Discoverers" on Blorptube @ 10:30 PM CET / 4:30 PM EST (+ Plans for the coming Wednesdays)

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  • "Inaccuracies that drive some of our viewers up the wall" that's half the fun of watching Maestro at work!

  • Cud & Tith’s Death and Dismemberment Thursday Movie: Classic Japanese Ghost Movie Kwaidan (1964) at 5PM Eastern US Time

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  • Cud will be hosting tonight, I'm just the messenger! Kwaidan (1964) in 9 hours! Join us https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

    @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net @Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net @IvarK@hexbear.net @tithonis@hexbear.net @AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net @AernaLingus@hexbear.net @Erika3sis@hexbear.net @CARCOSA@hexbear.net @Cherufe@hexbear.net @ClathrateG@hexbear.net @context@hexbear.net @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net @Eco@hexbear.net @el_principito@hexbear.net @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net @Kaputnik@hexbear.net @marxisthayaca@hexbear.net @MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net @Mindfury@hexbear.net @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net @PurrLure@hexbear.net @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net @RNAi@hexbear.net @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net @Tervell@hexbear.net @ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net @viva_la_juche@hexbear.net/ @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net @Wmill@hexbear.net @Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net @Zoift@hexbear.net @wombat@hexbear.net @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net @WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net @HarryLime@hexbear.net @Grebgreb@hexbear.net @BeanisBrain@hexbear.net @iie@hexbear.net @CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net @Lussy@hexbear.net @Alaskaball@hexbear.net @Arahnya@hexbear.net @buh@hexbear.net @FunkyStuff@hexbear.net @asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net @Vingst@hexbear.net @buckykat@hexbear.net @Wisp@hexbear.net @QuietCupcake@hexbear.net @autismdragon@hexbear.net @Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net @gramxi@hexbear.net @Rom@hexbear.net @Ath3ro@hexbear.net @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net @Sulvy@hexbear.net @halfpipe@hexbear.net @corkboard@hexbear.net @Guamer@hexbear.net @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net @LeninWeave@hexbear.net @Camden28@hexbear.net @Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net @hungrybread@hexbear.net @SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net

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    tithonis [she/her] @hexbear.net

    Cud & Tith’s Death and Dismemberment Thursday Movie: Classic Japanese Ghost Movie Kwaidan (1964) at 5PM Eastern US Time

  • Hair tips?

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  • Hair pins work really well for keeping bangs/long hair out of your face. Practice with tucking them behind a layer of hair from further back towards your ears until it gets easy. Pin it back, leave a little bit of hair out so that it covers the pinned-back hair. That's the most discreet way to do it. They're good for wrangling hair in general, get a set, they wind up being handy.

    Clips are an option as well and if you poke around you can find some cute ones that work as accessories too.

    A lot of this is just trial and error. Play around in the mirror until you find a look that you like!

  • Electromagnetism - Trans Megathread from December 29th, 2025 to January 4th, 2026

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  • You sound like me when my marriage was imploding. Being trans was the least of the issues with that relationship, it just brought into clarity exactly how my partner saw me (it's not good!)

    I haven't spoken to my ex since before the divorce was even final. Life is way better now and I don't know how.

    But at the time I felt like I was dying. Like I was having to strangle a puppy to death with my bare hands. Getting punched in the gut 24/7 for a while. It was the worst 12 months of my life. But out of the ashes of that I've been able to build a life I never thought I'd be able to. Life is fucking strange.

    If you have anyone outside your marriage you can talk to about it, do it. I promise it gets better.

  • Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday New Year's Kinoabend: The Machine that Kills Bad People (1948/1952) and All Screwed Up (1974) @ 1630 EST/2130 UTC/2230 CET

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  • Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday New Year's Kinoabend: The Machine that Kills Bad People (1948/1952) and All Screwed Up (1974) @ 1630 EST/2130 UTC/2230 CET

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  • We're finishing up Love-Lore as a musical aperitif and will be starting The Machine that Kills Bad People any minute!

    https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

    @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net @Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net @IvarK@hexbear.net @tithonis@hexbear.net @AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net @AernaLingus@hexbear.net @Erika3sis@hexbear.net @CARCOSA@hexbear.net @Cherufe@hexbear.net @ClathrateG@hexbear.net @context@hexbear.net @Dort_Owl@hexbear.net @Eco@hexbear.net @el_principito@hexbear.net @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net @Kaputnik@hexbear.net @marxisthayaca@hexbear.net @MelaniaTrump@hexbear.net @Mindfury@hexbear.net @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net @PurrLure@hexbear.net @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net @RNAi@hexbear.net @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net @Tervell@hexbear.net @ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net @viva_la_juche@hexbear.net @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net @Wmill@hexbear.net @Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net @Zoift@hexbear.net @wombat@hexbear.net @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net @WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net @HarryLime@hexbear.net @Grebgreb@hexbear.net @BeanisBrain@hexbear.net @iie@hexbear.net @CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net @Lussy@hexbear.net @Alaskaball@hexbear.net @Arahnya@hexbear.net @buh@hexbear.net @FunkyStuff@hexbear.net @asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net @Vingst@hexbear.net @buckykat@hexbear.net @Wisp@hexbear.net @QuietCupcake@hexbear.net @autismdragon@hexbear.net @Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net @gramxi@hexbear.net @Rom@hexbear.net @Ath3ro@hexbear.net @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net @Sulvy@hexbear.net @halfpipe@hexbear.net @corkboard@hexbear.net @Guamer@hexbear.net @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net @LeninWeave@hexbear.net @Camden28@hexbear.net @Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net @hungrybread@hexbear.net @SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net

    It's the first Blorp of 2026! As always, please let me know if you'd like on or off the pinglist.

  • Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday New Year's Kinoabend: The Machine that Kills Bad People (1948/1952) and All Screwed Up (1974) @ 1630 EST/2130 UTC/2230 CET

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  • 90 minutes, give or take, until Death/Dismemberment night. I'm gonna start playing Love-Lore by Deerhoof around 1600 EST/2100 UTC/2200 CET because I can. https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/album/love-lore

    The Gains of Love-Lore’s Lost Futures

    Everyone knows that phonography changed everything. If I were to point to the specialness of the late 1960s, it would not be to suggest that earlier moments of phonographic history—such as the global flood of proletarian and rural musics that rose up and swirled endlessly on wax in the years after 1925—were any less significant to the experience of the twentieth century, but rather simply to notice the cultivation of a new kind of listening, one that moved across the field of genre with relative ease and enthusiasm, and that—most importantly—put that stereo jockey into a new kind of relation to the “fine art” music that might find its way onto the platter: collegiality, equality, criticism.

    There were plenty of precursors, of course (I think immediately of Charlie Parker’s brilliant interpolation of Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite” into his solos on “Koko”), but a series of interlocking transformations—including the massive expansion of public education in the US and the UK, the perfection of vinyl as a medium and the transistor as a technology, the rapidly increasing bloat of the entertainment industries, the decolonization process in Africa and Asia, and the new social movements in what used to be called the First World—undermined the authority and permanence of those masters of the written score. You didn’t need to go to school, you didn’t need to take lessons from the maestro to join them as a certain kind of co-equal participant in the development of an “advanced” musical language. At the same time, the projects of modernity that had motivated and underwritten various accredited avant-gardes throughout the century had begun to come undone from the pressure of new historical subjects who told other stories of the destructive effects of European modernity and coloniality. Pan-European modernism has been provincialized, and global artists committed to social transformation are exploring zones that speak to other possibilities.

    I was thinking about all of this around the time that Thomas Fichter invited me to collaborate with him on the curation of the Time:Spans festival in 2019. We wanted to think about the history of the avant-garde—or, more specifically, that slice of it referred to as “experimental music”—through many lenses, as practiced by many different kinds of subjects drawing on distinct yet frequently intersecting traditions. (In addition to Deerhoof, that mini-festival inside the bigger one also included work from Matana Roberts, Okkyung Lee, Raven Chacon, Olivia Block, and Sarah Hennies.) I had a great time tossing around ideas with Deerhoof and our old friend, the composer Luciano Chessa, who joined us for our earliest conversations. My first idea was to ask the band to perform a complete album, start to finish, but not one of their own. We thought a complete cover version of an old record by Mauricio Kagel or Luciano Berio might be fun. Ultimately, the band settled on a much better idea, which turned into the medleys that you hear on this release. I loved this solution because it highlighted the active role of listening, the participatory dynamic of the vernacular, and the almost pedagogical quality of musical arrangement: “Here is how we hear this one!”

    That concert, in August 2019, in a small hall on the west side of Manhattan, was a special event that I will remember for the rest of my time. I suspect the other 180 people there had a similar feeling. In the first minute or two, I might have caught a fleeting glance from Satomi that wondered, “What have we gotten ourselves into?,” but if such a doubt did exist, it faded quickly. The concert was not brief but it went by in a dazzling flash; I am still amazed that these musicians—all of them, but especially Ed—memorized one hour’s worth of music for a single performance (that’s a lot of notes). At the time, I experienced both of these elements (Satomi’s doubt and Ed’s recall) as contributions to a greater treatise on risk: any real hazard requires uncertainty, demands focus, and invites a response. Hearing that program again, now as a recording, brings to mind nothing if not Sonic Youth’s 1999 record, Goodbye 20th Century, another album that I hold dear. While Sonic Youth worked from scores by Cage, Wolff, and other composers, Deerhoof takes a more vernacular approach, learning the music of their predecessors by ear, straight off the record, and then revising it in practice. If Sonic Youth cultivated a certain reverence for the ancestors, Deerhoof seems both more skeptical and less respectful—a measure, perhaps, of how the last twenty years have affected our relationships to the modernist projects of futures past.

    Benjamin Piekut, September 2020

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  • Cud 'n' Tith's Death and Dismemberment Thursday New Year's Kinoabend: The Machine that Kills Bad People (1948/1952) and All Screwed Up (1974) @ 1630 EST/2130 UTC/2230 CET

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