Aaron Hunter
@aaronhunter.bsky.social
Movie doctor: Trinity College Dublin
Women and New Hollywood, Polly Platt, Hal Ashby
he/him, dad, drummer
Women and New Hollywood, Polly Platt, Hal Ashby
he/him, dad, drummer
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Aaron Hunter
@aaronhunter.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Hi new bsky users and followers - welcome!
One way to keep this place free of trolls is not to feed them. Block, report if necessary, and move on.
Your mental health and the wellbeing of this space will benefit!
One way to keep this place free of trolls is not to feed them. Block, report if necessary, and move on.
Your mental health and the wellbeing of this space will benefit!
I block all kinds of random here, to make it better for me. People who post pictures of meat; anybody who does ‘x thing you love is so old now’; overposters; both siders, etc. If they do it once, they might again, and I’m just not interested in seeing any of that. My bsky is pretty good as a result😃
1. I don’t agree with those who slam the engagement experience here on Bluesky. I can’t speak for others’ experiences, but mine is 98% positive & constructive.
2. A key to that for me is immediately blocking negative, insulting or toxic sources.
3. I don’t like block lists. I make my own judgement.
2. A key to that for me is immediately blocking negative, insulting or toxic sources.
3. I don’t like block lists. I make my own judgement.
January 9, 2026 at 8:41 AM
I block all kinds of random here, to make it better for me. People who post pictures of meat; anybody who does ‘x thing you love is so old now’; overposters; both siders, etc. If they do it once, they might again, and I’m just not interested in seeing any of that. My bsky is pretty good as a result😃
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The relevant law allows for significant fines for companies, and for fines and up to 14 years in prison for directors or officers of companies that commit offences with their consent, connivance or neglect. There's no gap in the law here. X needs to be subject to criminal investigation.
January 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The relevant law allows for significant fines for companies, and for fines and up to 14 years in prison for directors or officers of companies that commit offences with their consent, connivance or neglect. There's no gap in the law here. X needs to be subject to criminal investigation.
I joined the @social-democrats.bsky.social a year ago. I've contacted party headquarters (and my branch, which isn't on X) and requested that they leave X.
I've also contacted all my TDs. Most of them are pretty dormant, but they're still present on the platform.
Staying on X legitimises X.
I've also contacted all my TDs. Most of them are pretty dormant, but they're still present on the platform.
Staying on X legitimises X.
January 8, 2026 at 12:47 PM
I joined the @social-democrats.bsky.social a year ago. I've contacted party headquarters (and my branch, which isn't on X) and requested that they leave X.
I've also contacted all my TDs. Most of them are pretty dormant, but they're still present on the platform.
Staying on X legitimises X.
I've also contacted all my TDs. Most of them are pretty dormant, but they're still present on the platform.
Staying on X legitimises X.
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Ring your TDs and leave a message asking them to leave X. The script is simple: You are a constituent, by posting on X your representative is supporting a company which deliberately set out to promote image based abuse, and this is unacceptable. (You can also mention Musk's support of Dublin riots.)
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www.contactyourtd.ie
January 8, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Ring your TDs and leave a message asking them to leave X. The script is simple: You are a constituent, by posting on X your representative is supporting a company which deliberately set out to promote image based abuse, and this is unacceptable. (You can also mention Musk's support of Dublin riots.)
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Women's Aid said that it will no longer maintain a presence on X.
"This online violence against women and children - especially girls - has often devastating real-life impacts and we no longer view it as appropriate to use such a platform to share our work.
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
"This online violence against women and children - especially girls - has often devastating real-life impacts and we no longer view it as appropriate to use such a platform to share our work.
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Minister wants X meeting over 'disturbing' Grok concerns
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Niamh Smyth has requested a meeting with X over concerns that the AI tool Grok is being used to create sexually explicit images of adults and children.
www.rte.ie
January 8, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Women's Aid said that it will no longer maintain a presence on X.
"This online violence against women and children - especially girls - has often devastating real-life impacts and we no longer view it as appropriate to use such a platform to share our work.
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
"This online violence against women and children - especially girls - has often devastating real-life impacts and we no longer view it as appropriate to use such a platform to share our work.
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Less than a week left to submit your abstracts for this!
In case you missed it, Film @tcddublin.bsky.social & Dr Corey Cribb have a CfP out for an international conference on French Theory and Contemporary Screen Studies next June @tlrhub.bsky.social. Abstracts due in January. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...
www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...
January 6, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Less than a week left to submit your abstracts for this!
Planning this term’s Punk Cinema class, and so stoked to get this Shellshock Rock package from @cherryredrecords.bsky.social in the post today. Includes John Davis’s original’79 film, 3cds of music & a 70page booklet w/write-ups on all the bands and old magazine clippings about the NI punk scene.
January 6, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Planning this term’s Punk Cinema class, and so stoked to get this Shellshock Rock package from @cherryredrecords.bsky.social in the post today. Includes John Davis’s original’79 film, 3cds of music & a 70page booklet w/write-ups on all the bands and old magazine clippings about the NI punk scene.
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Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Movie stills in dialog (Being There 1979 / Stranger than Paradise 1984).
January 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Movie stills in dialog (Being There 1979 / Stranger than Paradise 1984).
Yes, good thread. Ramped up misogyny is one of several battles the ‘revanchist’ right is waging against 20th-cent gains of fairness and respect. They feel like they’ve lost … something, so it’s fear and violence on every front.
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Yes, good thread. Ramped up misogyny is one of several battles the ‘revanchist’ right is waging against 20th-cent gains of fairness and respect. They feel like they’ve lost … something, so it’s fear and violence on every front.
How much do I know to talk out of turn?
You might say that I'm young, you might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know, though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never forgive what you do.
You might say that I'm young, you might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know, though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never forgive what you do.
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 PM
How much do I know to talk out of turn?
You might say that I'm young, you might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know, though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never forgive what you do.
You might say that I'm young, you might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know, though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never forgive what you do.
January 2, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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MTV music channels in UK and Ireland have now closed. End of an era 📺
December 31, 2025 at 8:22 AM
MTV music channels in UK and Ireland have now closed. End of an era 📺
I don't know, it seems the cool kids on bsky don't dig Jesse Welles, but I think he's great, and this new one is lots and lots of good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR15...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR15...
Masks Off
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
www.youtube.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I don't know, it seems the cool kids on bsky don't dig Jesse Welles, but I think he's great, and this new one is lots and lots of good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR15...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR15...
55 today, feeling it. But my mum tells me 55-65 were the best ten years of her life. We’ll see, but I’m looking forward to what comes next. 🤞
December 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
55 today, feeling it. But my mum tells me 55-65 were the best ten years of her life. We’ll see, but I’m looking forward to what comes next. 🤞
Bit of a haul -
Happy Christmas everyone!
Happy Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Bit of a haul -
Happy Christmas everyone!
Happy Christmas everyone!
Absolutely amazing from @criterionchannl.bsky.social here (and everybody at her archive at Indiana U). Jessie Maple's work as a cinematographer and director is a vital part of American film history and it's been next to impossible to see her feature films. Fantastic achievement!
Jessie Maple: Pioneering Indie Filmmaker | Now on the Criterion Channel
YouTube video by CRITERION
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Absolutely amazing from @criterionchannl.bsky.social here (and everybody at her archive at Indiana U). Jessie Maple's work as a cinematographer and director is a vital part of American film history and it's been next to impossible to see her feature films. Fantastic achievement!
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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theatrical release for mid-budget movies in 2026!
December 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
theatrical release for mid-budget movies in 2026!
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Dec. 21, 1925: "Battleship Potemkin," Sergei Eisenstein's groundbreaking movie that celebrates a naval mutiny in Czarist Russian times as a stirring portent of the Bolshevik Revolution, premieres in Moscow. The defining masterpiece of the silent era is far from an instant sensation. 1/9
December 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Dec. 21, 1925: "Battleship Potemkin," Sergei Eisenstein's groundbreaking movie that celebrates a naval mutiny in Czarist Russian times as a stirring portent of the Bolshevik Revolution, premieres in Moscow. The defining masterpiece of the silent era is far from an instant sensation. 1/9
Don't know if you've seen the JLaw/Theo Actors on Actors thing, but at one point, when talking about One Battle, she's like "you'd look great with a teenage daughter," and damn, girl! Also, she's just absolutely so much more prepared than him. It feels bone dry, but she's pullin a lot.
Leonardo DiCaprio & Jennifer Lawrence | Actors on Actors
YouTube video by Variety
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Don't know if you've seen the JLaw/Theo Actors on Actors thing, but at one point, when talking about One Battle, she's like "you'd look great with a teenage daughter," and damn, girl! Also, she's just absolutely so much more prepared than him. It feels bone dry, but she's pullin a lot.
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The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
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Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist, was born on Dec. 16, 1770 (d. 1827). #LudwigvanBeethoven #Beethoven
The first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata inspired the song "Because".
Beethoven, "Because" and John Lennon (posted May 28, 2019)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeG9...
The first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata inspired the song "Because".
Beethoven, "Because" and John Lennon (posted May 28, 2019)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeG9...
Beethoven, "Because" and John Lennon
YouTube video by CultureSonar
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist, was born on Dec. 16, 1770 (d. 1827). #LudwigvanBeethoven #Beethoven
The first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata inspired the song "Because".
Beethoven, "Because" and John Lennon (posted May 28, 2019)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeG9...
The first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata inspired the song "Because".
Beethoven, "Because" and John Lennon (posted May 28, 2019)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeG9...
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There is so much for which to remember Rob Reiner. In my family, we have long treasured this one bit he did with Carroll O'Connor on "All in the Family." It has always made me laugh, no matter how many times I've watched it. And we all could use a good laugh these days
All in the Family - Sock and a Sock, Shoe and a Shoe
YouTube video by Scarlett OHara
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
There is so much for which to remember Rob Reiner. In my family, we have long treasured this one bit he did with Carroll O'Connor on "All in the Family." It has always made me laugh, no matter how many times I've watched it. And we all could use a good laugh these days