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Totoro spoilers
Re the quoted post from @…:
The very first time I saw My Neighbor Totoro, it was because a friend cajoled me into attending the student anime club’s showing with absolutely no context whatsoever except “you •have• to see this movie, Paul.” I had no idea what genre it was. I had no idea that it was a movie considered suitable for kids. The last anime I’d seen was IIRC Ghost in the Shell; I was ready for anything.
When Mei went missing, I thought, “omg, is this a tragedy? I think this story is a tragedy!” The whole time they were looking for her, I was absolutely terrified. I thought for sure they’d found her sandal. I still tear up when they find her now, on every rewatching.
I’m so glad for that first viewing. It’s a much better movie that way. When you’re expecting an innocent movie about cute forest plushies, you see that. But when you see that it could be a tragedy — the mother’s shadowy illness, the lost child — it hits hard. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/114792748619083661

today's distracting mindblow: samuel delany & karen dalton shared bills at cafe elysee, plus fred neil, tim hardin, & other notables. (can't find any other details/documentation of the west village venue of that name.) https://archive.org/details/motionofli…

The motion of light in water : sex and science fiction writing in the East Village : Delany, Samuel R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
572 p. ; 24 cm

Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…

#today will be surfing the #NewScientist article splurge, getting ready to 'onboard' my friend as RA (Research Assistant) to help me find a good solutiion for a particularly knotty issue, and going to the dentist. (The last may not be good since I've had a persistent issue for a coup…

@… my friend should be bridged from @kaludiasays.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy but they do not appear! I can't find a good place to ask why and track down nay issues.

I made a new friend today in Albion Europe.
ZairGT...I think native language is Spanish but also speaks English.
I found this Tree T4.3 in a blue zone and I went to it back and forth. At one point I find ZairGT(both him and me unflagged, no FW) there...and the gathering duel was "short and bloody" and I realized I have no chance to take that.
I admitted defeat and often went there and did the 1 sign and WP...
part 2 soon...

I find myself thinking about a long-lost friend a lot lately. Sometime in the late 90s, we both accepted that our friendship had run its course. I had come to embrace fairly low-key socialism and he was increasingly angry about the media's "liberal bias." The common ground we had once shared was gone. I imagine him cheering now, even as I recall his father, a deeply conservative Marine colonel, remarking that only authoritarian regimes used the military against their own citize…