Andrew Bettridge

I love her line, "Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war."

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

Julia Ducournau tackles grief, shame and the AIDS crisis in Alpha Four years after winning the Palme d’Or for Titane, French filmmaker Julia Ducournau returned to the Cannes Film Festival with Alpha, a haunting and unexpectedly tender meditation on grief, generation...

"If you’re expecting a big scare and you end up in tears, it’s not a bad bargain. Maybe it’s even better."

My interview with director Julia Ducournau about moving from 'Titane' to 'Alpha' – now screening around Australia as part of the French Film Festival – is up at @thecurbau.bsky.social:

this is going to become a thread of guys competing at the houston rodeo

there's a guy named "fulton rutland" competing in bull riding rn

Midnight screenings can be a bit disruptive for my old ass, but Music Box have Riki-Oh and Fulci's The House By the Cemetery coming on 35mm. I mean, I've got to. I have no choice in this matter.

Two protesters arrested on first day of Queensland’s ‘from the river to the sea’ ban Arrests occurred after pro-Palestinian activists gathered outside state parliament within hours of new laws taking effect

Good work Queensland cops, you have arrested someone for a t-shirt www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Get this to the High Court asap, these laws are so unconstitutional it's embarrassing

Milo, lying down to sleep on a large page of sheet music

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

man in a suit and a gorilla mask, holding an umbrella

Goodnight.

Self Portrait with Gorilla Mask, Shoji Ueda, 1975

A still from 1981's FANGS (aka ANYAB) featuring a woman in dramatic vampire drag standing next to a dude in a disco leisure suit.

In the latest @midnightmasspod.bsky.social, I mentioned an Egyptian knock-off of ROCKY HORROR titled FANGS (aka ANYAB) from 1981. It's truly wild: Couple ends up at castle, owned by Dracula instead of Frank, disco numbers ensue. The queerness is navigated around, which makes it feel...more queer?

The El-Amam Brothers - Anyab/Fangs Song [Egypt, Musical] (1981) From the musical horror film, "Anyab", better known as the Egyption Rocky Horror. You may notice some *slight* visual similarities between this scene and "There's a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)".

The El-Amam Brothers - Anyab/Fangs Song [Egypt, Musical] (1981) From the musical horror film, "Anyab", better known as the Egyption Rocky Horror. You may notice some *slight* visual similarities between this scene and "There'
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10 Best Bad Horror Movies

Blood Freak
Blood Feast
Black Devil Doll From Hell
Maniac (‘30s)
Plan Nine from Outer Space
The Horror of Party Beach
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Troll 2
Evil Come Evil Go
Cats

#badhorror

We apologise to people with screen readers: this is a flowchart aimed at answering the question "Which Greek Philosopher Are You?" First question is: "Do you prefer the indoors or outdoors?" If you choose "indoors", the next question is "Do you feel disdain for the common man?" If Yes, you're Plato. If No, you're Aristotle. If you reply "Outdoors", the follow-up is "Do you enjoy masturbating in public?" If yes, you're Diogenes. If no, the next question is, "Do you like crowds?" If yes, you're Socrates. If no, you are asked "Porch or garden?" If your reply is "Porch", you're Zeno; if it's "Garden", you're Epicurus.

Couldn't trace this back to a definitive creator, but: Epicurus all the way, bro

I could do with a holiday from being me.

Good morning! Yes, this is he

I really don't want to litigate this any more because it is simply a fact that we are in the midst of a massive moral panic that's being used to strip us of our rights. I've been reporting on this political and legal effort for a decade and I'm not going to go back and forth on Bluesky over facts.

Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."

*Just in the LAST WEEK*:
- Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them
- Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license
- Scouts agreed to ban trans kids
- Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids
- SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

Read my full piece here which gets into all of this.

that sound you hear is the deafening laughter of trans people

“You should all just work hard so your bosses can buy more homes and build their futures while you rent from them, but also all of your problems are because of immigrants” - genuinely the message being sold to everyone by political parties and the media.

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

Queensland newspapers leaning all-in for war.

I’m watching “Operacion ‘69” and it’s impossible to convey to today’s audience the importance to action movie of skuba.

Grace Jones, with a red… thing… on her head, wearing a pair of grey tights, left arm raised, and a microphone in her right hand, singing while a hula hoop twirls around her waist.

Was there. Bang on.

Grace Jones review – chaos, nudity and endless costume changes: the disco legend’s show has it all Sydney Opera House Forecourt The 77-year-old is one of our greatest living performers, doing sit-ups, hula-hooping and even flashing the audience – but her rich voice is the true revelation From her island life as a young girl in Spanish Town, Jamaica, to her art groupie days in New York City, to the towering androgyne Bond villain who could turn La Vie en Rose into a disco hit: Grace Jones is one of our greatest living performers – a disco legend and true party girl, with a penchant for fabulous hats. With the Sydney Opera House forecourt her dancefloor and the Monumental Steps her nightclub balcony, the mad hatter claimed dominion of the night on Saturday – even though her concert happened to coincide with the 48th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and the first of two Bad Bunny stadium shows in Sydney Olympic Park. Continue reading...

Grace Jones review – chaos, nudity and endless costume changes: the disco legend’s show has it all

I don’t know what my point is but the government killed 100 children on the first day of bombings and there are members of Congress still supporting more bombings and that is a grotesque level of inhumanity I cannot reckon with.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.