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A Brief Survey of Concerns Expressed by the Films of 2025 - Reactor A closer look at the varied films of 2025, and what they have to say about our shared humanity...

(just barely) in time for the Oscars, I've teased out some of the common themes and worries that popped up in the movies of 2025.

I'll admit that when I hit play on Happy Gilmore 2 I wasn't expecting to put it in conversation with No Other Choice, but here we are.
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A photo of a copy of the 2019 Johnathan Cape edition of Nobody by Alice Oswald. The cover image is Into the West by Gary Fabian Miller.

"There is a channel where an old sea-god swims
on translucent wings
five miles down in deep unflowered
midnight where it snows and heaps up salt
this goblin-god with ghost-grace frictionlessly
moves
or hangs like a pickled heart in the sea-jar

nothing I say sinks down that far"

holy shit that's fantastic

I say let's keep it going with the Ws, still a lot to cover in this book!

oMG that sounds so delightfully spicy sweet

This sounds a bit Shakespearean in hindsight

To think of it though, maybe it's not a great surprise that he wanted you for a bi confirmation test run, considering that he didn't know you're a guy. Sunny star kid gets infatuated with Saturnian paper-sharp personality

a white hand holding a small square linoprint. The print is in black and has a stylised crow perching on a human skull regarding a houseplant with heart-shaped leaves and tendrils

*Marge Simpson voice* I just think they're really neat!

"herbalism" signed, numbered original limited-edition linoprint

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Theatre 😂

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

I'm so in awe of your artistry, good god

a white hand holding a linoprint, which has a sky coloured gradient on it. Into this is cut the shape of a goblet made of squiggles, with a mugwort leaf emerging from the top, an eye on its side and is flanked by two stars

REALLY happy with how these have turned out. Once they're dry I'm going to hand-paint the pupil of the eye gold

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Utterly unsurprised that old folks in these places divined and believed in Ragnarok

An aerial landscape of glacial streams in Iceland

An aerial landscape of glacial streams in Iceland

An aerial landscape of glacial streams in Iceland

Stunning new photos of the ghostly outline of an Icelandic glacier by Dani Guindo 🧊 🌫️

www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/dani...

it feels kinda wrong to yell at this man, he is literally a German peasant being confronted with the totality of the US

like the salsa thing is funny, but then you see this

Cornell University told her Ōlelo Hawaiʻi did not meet language requirements to graduate. She pushed back, and won. Cultivating Culture Q&A Kaylah Toves spoke with Cultivating Culture about her work in language revitalization and what she's learned living between cultural and academic settings. Kaylah Toves took…

Kayla Toves, who is Kanaka‘ Oiwi and Acoma Pueblo, needed a language credit to graduate from Cornell. She fought to have her Indigenous language of Ōlelo Hawaiʻi count and won!

I lost Dad, my source of support, and now I take care of my sick mother and younger siblings. Despite feeling overwhelmed, I excelled and was accepted to study medicine, my late Dad’s dream. But I can’t continue without your help. Please support me

gofund.me/d16d54e74

that said, I think maintaining a boundary between writing as magical craft and writing as art for purely personal motivations can be useful, to help in grounding after the big stuff, but that's a matter of discernment for the craftsperson themself rather than a rule

probably just a skill issue on part of the Fancy Witch who said this. the rest of us small-timers can work things out just fine

You can read my 80 page refutation to this by pre-ordering my book 🪱

UH

I think this might be on to something, and I suspect it lurks behind Labour’s current rhetoric of “tough choices.” A leader is the one who’s willing to hurt others for the greater good. So if you’re not hurting someone… you’re not a leader?

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

let’s pull together on this one, you guys, i know we can do it. vouching for reed all the way, this is a really hard situation involving back rent.

v: reedeliot

Two pairs of beavers released in Cornwall by wildlife trust Wildlife experts say the release is a "landmark" for nature recovering in Cornwall and nationally.

Enjoy a full minute of beavers being released into the wild in Cornwall. These little fluffbutts are the first to swim in these waters in a very, very long time - the last official records of beavers in the wild in England are from the 1300s. BBC buff.ly/BnMwCOx
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Book cover for the forthcoming book The Scarlet Ball, by Nghi Vo. An Asian woman in a red Gilded Age ballgown faces the viewer defiantly holding a mask made to resemble a white woman's face. There are dark smoky hands reaching for her out of the darkness, grabbing her arms and caressing her face.

NEW COVER NEW COVER NEW COVER!

I've been dying to show off this incredible piece of art by Martina Fačkova, and here it is!

On October 6, 2026, you're all going to meet Judith Ban, and I cannot wait.

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

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a pink-to-orange gradient linoprint showing a creature that has the body of a donkey, butterfly wings and a strange humanish face leaping through a galaxy of star shapes

couple left of this signed & numbered limited edition linoprint: "fairy ride" 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/fair... #art #printmaking #witchsky