Fopling
@fopling.bsky.social
Baker of bread, maker of wine, lover of philosophy
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Fopling uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 316 films watched. Favorites: The Lighthouse (2019), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), The Forbidden Room (2015), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989). ...
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I support lots of diversity in film, but for partially self serving reasons. I'm just face blind enough that I can't tell a lot of middle aged white guys apart. It would really help me if actors all looked extremely different from one another.
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I support lots of diversity in film, but for partially self serving reasons. I'm just face blind enough that I can't tell a lot of middle aged white guys apart. It would really help me if actors all looked extremely different from one another.
The marketplace of ideas can remain irrational longer than you can remain relevant
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The marketplace of ideas can remain irrational longer than you can remain relevant
What's up with directors making movies about how dangerous conspiracy theories are for both individuals and society at large which then end with the conspiracies all being true?
It is both hack and obvious and also completely undercuts the message.
It is both hack and obvious and also completely undercuts the message.
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
What's up with directors making movies about how dangerous conspiracy theories are for both individuals and society at large which then end with the conspiracies all being true?
It is both hack and obvious and also completely undercuts the message.
It is both hack and obvious and also completely undercuts the message.
Causing myself severe psychic damage by learning about the state of contemporary finance and crypto betting. It's so unbelievably bad
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Causing myself severe psychic damage by learning about the state of contemporary finance and crypto betting. It's so unbelievably bad
Watching Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. In some ways this is an even worse Lieutenant.
Watching Bad Lieutenant. Can confirm that's a really bad lieutenant
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Watching Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. In some ways this is an even worse Lieutenant.
"Vampires are lucky, they can feed on others. We have to feed on ourselves." - Unnamed character in Bad Lieutenant 1992
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"Vampires are lucky, they can feed on others. We have to feed on ourselves." - Unnamed character in Bad Lieutenant 1992
Watching Bad Lieutenant. Can confirm that's a really bad lieutenant
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Watching Bad Lieutenant. Can confirm that's a really bad lieutenant
A NYC DSA member looking around at the apartment of a billionaire who fled New York after the election
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A NYC DSA member looking around at the apartment of a billionaire who fled New York after the election
Party Time by The Northern Boys is one of the greatest songs about the unity of the death drive and the pleasure principle ever made. Self destruction exactly through the symbolic act of creation.
November 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Party Time by The Northern Boys is one of the greatest songs about the unity of the death drive and the pleasure principle ever made. Self destruction exactly through the symbolic act of creation.
I wish the people who invented cryptocurrency understood economics better. Decentralized currency is genuinely a good idea, but there are two things that were missed. First, money should be quick and easy to spend. More importantly, you don't want a currency to be radically deflationary!
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I wish the people who invented cryptocurrency understood economics better. Decentralized currency is genuinely a good idea, but there are two things that were missed. First, money should be quick and easy to spend. More importantly, you don't want a currency to be radically deflationary!
There is some fun irony that the quest for immortality in the face of death provides meaning to a seemingly large number of people's lives. A meaning which would rapidly disappear if the quest was ever successful.
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
There is some fun irony that the quest for immortality in the face of death provides meaning to a seemingly large number of people's lives. A meaning which would rapidly disappear if the quest was ever successful.
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“Men are from Hesperus, Women are from Phosphorus”
October 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Men are from Hesperus, Women are from Phosphorus”
I don't think I've ever been in a more welcoming space than a filk (the i isn't a typo) convention. It's amazing to walk into a room filled with older folks you've never met before and have them all light up with joy that someone new is there to share music with them.
October 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I don't think I've ever been in a more welcoming space than a filk (the i isn't a typo) convention. It's amazing to walk into a room filled with older folks you've never met before and have them all light up with joy that someone new is there to share music with them.
It's worth noting, the far left and the far right occasionally do think more similarly to each other than to liberals when it comes to international relations. But that's generally because they both have something like a realist view of IR. Liberals don't like thinking about naked power relations.
I think it's a mistake to look at this particular case for proof of a horseshoe. Neither the left nor silicone valley capitalists have a unified view on China. Fear of Chinese competition is a large part of the alliance between parts of silicon valley and the Trump administration.
🧲 We’re seeing the horseshoe event horizon when the lefties cheering on China because they see it as a counterforce against the US align with the Silicon Valley tech titans high on China as an advanced Sino-topian techno-surveillance state.
October 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
It's worth noting, the far left and the far right occasionally do think more similarly to each other than to liberals when it comes to international relations. But that's generally because they both have something like a realist view of IR. Liberals don't like thinking about naked power relations.
I think it's a mistake to look at this particular case for proof of a horseshoe. Neither the left nor silicone valley capitalists have a unified view on China. Fear of Chinese competition is a large part of the alliance between parts of silicon valley and the Trump administration.
🧲 We’re seeing the horseshoe event horizon when the lefties cheering on China because they see it as a counterforce against the US align with the Silicon Valley tech titans high on China as an advanced Sino-topian techno-surveillance state.
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I think it's a mistake to look at this particular case for proof of a horseshoe. Neither the left nor silicone valley capitalists have a unified view on China. Fear of Chinese competition is a large part of the alliance between parts of silicon valley and the Trump administration.
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Looking for some spooky poetry this Halloween? The SF&F Poetry Association is hosting their annual reading series: I have a poem featured at the bottom, but you should check out all the amazing work by other artists, too!
sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...
sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...
Halloween Reading 2025 – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
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October 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Looking for some spooky poetry this Halloween? The SF&F Poetry Association is hosting their annual reading series: I have a poem featured at the bottom, but you should check out all the amazing work by other artists, too!
sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...
sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...
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swing voters don't want your fancy booklearning, they care about kitchen table issues like the metaphysics of embodiment
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
swing voters don't want your fancy booklearning, they care about kitchen table issues like the metaphysics of embodiment
These light and fluffy buns hold a secret: they are 25% masa harina so they taste like corn tortillas
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
These light and fluffy buns hold a secret: they are 25% masa harina so they taste like corn tortillas
There is some irony in the Republican party definitionally not being Republicans in the global sense. They are actively trying to move away from a Republic as the American form of government.
October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
There is some irony in the Republican party definitionally not being Republicans in the global sense. They are actively trying to move away from a Republic as the American form of government.
Stayed up until 4 AM last night watching movies and discussing philosophy with a friend from out of town. Really excellent, it's good to catch up with old friends
October 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Stayed up until 4 AM last night watching movies and discussing philosophy with a friend from out of town. Really excellent, it's good to catch up with old friends
The unity of means and ends is by far the most interesting and theoretically difficult part of anarchist political theory. It's also the part critics of anarchism need to grapple with the most as it is arguably the core reason anarchists disagree with MLs.
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The unity of means and ends is by far the most interesting and theoretically difficult part of anarchist political theory. It's also the part critics of anarchism need to grapple with the most as it is arguably the core reason anarchists disagree with MLs.
Kind of depressing that technically the highest paid science fiction authors of my generation are guys who run conspiracy theory blogs. They're making 7k a month writing short stories about Nikola Tesla inventing time travel and how the government is fighting a secret war in space.
October 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Kind of depressing that technically the highest paid science fiction authors of my generation are guys who run conspiracy theory blogs. They're making 7k a month writing short stories about Nikola Tesla inventing time travel and how the government is fighting a secret war in space.
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Both continentals and analytics try to go beyond Kant's limitations, but continentals do it in a deeply Freudian way. They feel like they are betraying daddy, so they spend 20 pages either apologetically justifying themselves, or ranting in childish rebellion.
July 29, 2023 at 3:12 PM
Both continentals and analytics try to go beyond Kant's limitations, but continentals do it in a deeply Freudian way. They feel like they are betraying daddy, so they spend 20 pages either apologetically justifying themselves, or ranting in childish rebellion.
Get Guy Maddin to direct the next wolverine movie, let it be the most Canadian comic book movie ever
One thing I ADMIRE about X-men is how often being Canadian is important to a Wolverine story. Like he goes to Winnipeg to uncover a secret more than you’d expect someone to ever do that.
October 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Get Guy Maddin to direct the next wolverine movie, let it be the most Canadian comic book movie ever
There is something ethereally beautiful about this image, the reflection in the window glass adds so much to the already perfect framing of the flashlight.
October 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
There is something ethereally beautiful about this image, the reflection in the window glass adds so much to the already perfect framing of the flashlight.