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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Any discussion about rights for transgender people that starts with the roster choices on children’s sports teams is a bullshit discussion. It’s incendiary rhetoric designed to unsettle people who have never engaged with transgender people.

The counter-argument for that should be “do you know how many kids that affects? This is not a serious issue. You know what is? Trans victims of discrimination and hate crimes. That’s what we should be talking about, not some kids’ soccer league.”

Start treating this talking point like the ridiculous corner case that it is and pivot to the real problems.

 

Original title (ES): Camino de lava

Afibola (Afibola Sifunola Umoya) and Olorum (Olorun Sile) live in a house in downtown Havana. She is an afrofeminist poet, activist and queer, he is her eight-year-old son. Afibola sees her son's safety diminishing with comments outside the home. She worries that it is something he will always carry with him. In the intimacy of the spaces where they live together, they reflect on the difficulty of raising a black child in a racist and discriminatory society.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1095258-camino-de-lava

 

A bitter man (Tobias Forrest) must enlist the help of his cantankerous neighbor Robert (John W. Lawson) to transport the four-year-old daughter he never knew he had to live with her maternal grandparents on the other side of the country.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1186509-daruma

 

The past and present mysteriously collide as a struggling artist (Alexander Calvert) grapples with guilt over what happened to his first love.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1195535-double-exposure

 

Claire (Rebecca Hall), a popular English teacher, begins to hear a low humming sound that no one else around her can hear. This seemingly innocuous noise gradually upsets the balance of her life, increasing tension between herself and her husband, Paul (Prasanna Puwanarajah), and daughter, Ashley (Mia Tharia). But despite multiple doctors, no obvious source or medical cause can be found.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/247034-the-listeners

 

A documentary that chronicles the making of The Boy and the Heron, filmed with exclusive access to Studio Ghibli across an astonishing seven years.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1292585

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 day ago

Spoiler: It's a bunch of embedded twitter posts, without the courtesy of providing screenshots. If you have twitter blocked, nothing is visible.

 

Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school. While no one knows what actually happened between the two boys, the incident triggers a series of events, forcing parents and school staff into a captivating battle of redemption where madness, desire and obsession arise.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1144681-armand

 

Dr. Amy Larsen must navigate an unfamiliar world after a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life. She can rely only on her estranged 17-year-old daughter, whom she remembers as a 9-year-old, and a handful of devoted friends, as she struggles to continue practicing medicine, despite having lost nearly a decade of knowledge and experience.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/255055-doc

 

Original title (KO): 사흘 (Saheul, Three Days)

When Seung-do (Park Shin-yang), a heart specialist, and his wife find their daughter So-mi (Lee Re) showing strange symptoms by the day, they decide to attempt an exorcism ritual. Upon arrival, Priest Ban is sure there is the devil inside her, and the ritual seems to drive it out successfully, but ends in So-mi’s sudden death. As her funeral begins, Seung-do, who notices some strange signs in So-mi's body, confronts his conviction that she may not be dead yet, and her heart is still beating.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/660355

 

During the United States' 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, a group of female soldiers posing as medical relief are sent back in to rescue a group of kidnapped teenagers caught between ISIS and the Taliban.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1043905-dirty-angels

 

Liam (Robert Timothy Smith), a likable 6th grader, writes to Santa asking him to prove that he's real. But Liam is dyslexic and accidentally sends his letter to Satan (Jack Black) instead, who shows up at Liam's house, excited to have his first fanboy letter and wanting a little of Liam's soul.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1097870-dear-santa

 

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere) was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1113583-oh-canada

 

Original title (ES): Campamento con mamá (Camp with mom)

Patri (Natalia Oreiro) is an overbearing mother who struggles to connect with her teen son, determined to move in with his father. In an attempt to prove she's cool and keep him under her roof, she offers to take her son and his friends on a camping road trip while vying for his affection.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1191611-campamento-con-mama

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

fucking hell i hope not

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

Historical blessings from the internet of yore.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I chatted with Boeing strikers about this.

The contract proposal was announced on Halloween, with the strikers getting contract details in a conference call that night (while many were either out trick or treating with their kids or otherwise having fun). The vote was scheduled for Monday, the day before a massively monumental election.

They didn’t get the pensions they wanted most. This entire thing was timed for maximum anxiety and distraction.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Where are you shopping?

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is what voter suppression looks like.

I grew up in Missouri before moving to Washington state. When I reached voting age, it was (and still is) ridiculously common to see polling places in rural and suburban areas with no waiting to vote. Meanwhile, in the cities (which happen to vote more democratic), you’ll see loooong lines extending outside. When voting facilities and staff are not proportionally distributed to accommodate voter density, you get shit like this; voters in different districts receiving different treatment. And people who live there never know any better to ask for something different.

This all blew my mind after living first in a suburban area, then an urban one, and now living in a state that has done voting my mail for decades. I love voting by mail. It’s unconcionable to me at this point for people to stand for in-person voting anymore.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

It’s about time I got my hves back.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I see Pitch; I up-vote.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Regarding the state house candidate in question (Ashley Brundage):

The political newcomer grew up as a Republican but switched parties following Florida laws impacting the LGBTQ community.

Da fuk?

I know we’re supposed to ease up on our liberal purity tests and everything, but this is implying that this person was a Republican until the last few years? That seems…. noteworthy.

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