Farouk
@faroukk.bsky.social
Sharing things I think matter. Writer and Cultural Critic with words in various places (currently @ Endless Mode). Game Dev at Play Underground Games working on a secret unannounced project.
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Farouk
@faroukk.bsky.social
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2025 Grant Recipients — Chicago Film Critics Association
The Chicago Film Critics Association & Rotten Tomatoes Emerging Critics Scholarship supports up-and-coming voices in film and media criticism in the Chicagoland area.
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Excited to share that I've received special recognition as a "Writer to Watch" as part of the @chicagocritics.bsky.social / @rottentomatoes.com Emerging Critics Program. Congrats to all the writers recognized this year, and looking forward to the festival! chicagofilmcritics.org/grantrecipie...
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Opening my online store back up again for the holidays ❄️ Could use some help so consider checking it out 🙇🏽
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November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Opening my online store back up again for the holidays ❄️ Could use some help so consider checking it out 🙇🏽
angelaramones.bigcartel.com/products
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Watching the new Tatsuki Fujimoto anthology show and realizing he's anime/manga's equivalent of Paul Thomas Anderson
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Watching the new Tatsuki Fujimoto anthology show and realizing he's anime/manga's equivalent of Paul Thomas Anderson
Benny Safdie is Bowser Jr.
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Benny Safdie is Bowser Jr.
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CEO of Nexon, Junghun Lee, defends use of AI in extraction shooter Arc Raiders following controversy and backlash. www.endlessmode.com/article/idio...
Idiot CEO: “It’s Important to Assume Every Game Company Is Now Using AI"
CEO of Nexon, Junghun Lee, defends use of AI in extraction shooter Arc Raiders following controversy and backlash.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
CEO of Nexon, Junghun Lee, defends use of AI in extraction shooter Arc Raiders following controversy and backlash. www.endlessmode.com/article/idio...
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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If you see this, post your bird art!
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
If you see this, post your bird art!
I had a chocolate chip cookie from costco today it was good
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I had a chocolate chip cookie from costco today it was good
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Been in touch with a medical provider in Gaza who says “this ceasefire is even less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire” — nothing’s getting in, no one’s getting out, people are still being killed and badly injured every day
“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers.”
The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Been in touch with a medical provider in Gaza who says “this ceasefire is even less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire” — nothing’s getting in, no one’s getting out, people are still being killed and badly injured every day
with Josh Hutcherson playing Rachel Sennott's boyfriend in I Love LA, the show is basically what would've happened if Peeta and Katniss had succumbed to the temptations of the capitol lifestyle in Hunger Games
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
with Josh Hutcherson playing Rachel Sennott's boyfriend in I Love LA, the show is basically what would've happened if Peeta and Katniss had succumbed to the temptations of the capitol lifestyle in Hunger Games
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Listening to the new Rosalía album and I can’t stop crying
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Listening to the new Rosalía album and I can’t stop crying
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It is increasingly clear that there is a crisis of trust in legacy media, five-alarm fire stuff. It is bad for any news outlet to have a reputation that wards off people it should be talking to, and the wary are growing in number
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It is increasingly clear that there is a crisis of trust in legacy media, five-alarm fire stuff. It is bad for any news outlet to have a reputation that wards off people it should be talking to, and the wary are growing in number
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Just saw Predator: Badlands and I have to ask, why are the predators always men? Let the ladies give it a try! #WomenCanBePredatorsToo
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Just saw Predator: Badlands and I have to ask, why are the predators always men? Let the ladies give it a try! #WomenCanBePredatorsToo
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!! Wanted to say I’ve been thinking about this one for a while so I’m very grateful to have gotten to write it, and also really happy to see that it’s resonating with so many people!
With the loneliness epidemic on the rise, we could use the Nintendo 3DS's StreetPass feature and the sense of togetherness it fostered more than ever. @faroukk.bsky.social on the decline of physical community in gaming:
I Miss Nintendo 3DS StreetPass, and Games as Physical Community
With the loneliness epidemic on the rise, the Nintendo 3DS StreetPass and its sense of in-person community is sorely missed.
www.endlessmode.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!! Wanted to say I’ve been thinking about this one for a while so I’m very grateful to have gotten to write it, and also really happy to see that it’s resonating with so many people!
My latest essay for @endlessmode.bsky.social: I wrote about the games technology of the past that incentivized being in community with one another, and how those tools could prove useful in our current political moment.
www.endlessmode.com/article/i-mi...
www.endlessmode.com/article/i-mi...
I Miss Nintendo 3DS StreetPass, and Games as Physical Community
With the loneliness epidemic on the rise, the Nintendo 3DS StreetPass and its sense of in-person community is sorely missed.
www.endlessmode.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My latest essay for @endlessmode.bsky.social: I wrote about the games technology of the past that incentivized being in community with one another, and how those tools could prove useful in our current political moment.
www.endlessmode.com/article/i-mi...
www.endlessmode.com/article/i-mi...
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With the loneliness epidemic on the rise, we could use the Nintendo 3DS's StreetPass feature and the sense of togetherness it fostered more than ever. @faroukk.bsky.social on the decline of physical community in gaming:
I Miss Nintendo 3DS StreetPass, and Games as Physical Community
With the loneliness epidemic on the rise, the Nintendo 3DS StreetPass and its sense of in-person community is sorely missed.
www.endlessmode.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
With the loneliness epidemic on the rise, we could use the Nintendo 3DS's StreetPass feature and the sense of togetherness it fostered more than ever. @faroukk.bsky.social on the decline of physical community in gaming:
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interviewed one of my absolute favourite filmmakers in the world, lynne ramsay, about die my love. she is extremely lovely, quite shy, and a total genius, imo lwlies.com/interviews/l...
Lynne Ramsay: ‘I love pushing people as far as I can’
One of Britain’s most iconic and beloved directors on her striking new film, Die My Love, and why she is drawn to extreme material.
lwlies.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
interviewed one of my absolute favourite filmmakers in the world, lynne ramsay, about die my love. she is extremely lovely, quite shy, and a total genius, imo lwlies.com/interviews/l...
Back to back weeks of Elle Fanning movies in theaters starting today. It's Predimental Value time
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Back to back weeks of Elle Fanning movies in theaters starting today. It's Predimental Value time
It’s nice that people are getting to see Lynne Ramsay’s new movie but it should be happening to me also
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It’s nice that people are getting to see Lynne Ramsay’s new movie but it should be happening to me also
*Kamala Harris voice* we did it zo…
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
*Kamala Harris voice* we did it zo…
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Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.
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Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
unprecedented levels of aura emanating off this guy
Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
unprecedented levels of aura emanating off this guy
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Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
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