JDH Doveton
@jdhdoveton.bsky.social
Opinion haver. Writer. Filmmaker. PG Researcher in Fantasy and Class. Among other things.
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On Wilful Media Illiteracy in Sci-Fi Discourse, or How Westworld is Not Really About Robots.
Ellis Rosen for the New Yorker Spoiler Warning: Contains descriptions of the plots of Westworld (2016) and The Creator (2023), which may spoil your faux-naïf misinterpretation of these texts. A few…
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I have a new post on my blog, which started out as a letterboxd review of The Creator (2023) and expanded out into a diatribe about men who don't seem to understand science fiction. jdhdoveton.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/o...
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The inhumanity is accelerating.
There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”
There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The inhumanity is accelerating.
There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”
There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”
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This was the first test that had many trans people worried the Greens would fold. That they didn't is an excellent sign and a rare show of actual support for trans people from a political party that isn't just empty words.
More of this @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️
More of this @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️
🚨 NEW | Anti-trans hate group "Green Women's Declaration" have been formally barred from Green Party conference.
The group sought a stall at conference, but their bid was denied by the party. Green leader Zack Polanski recently affirmed the party's support for trans rights.
The group sought a stall at conference, but their bid was denied by the party. Green leader Zack Polanski recently affirmed the party's support for trans rights.
October 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This was the first test that had many trans people worried the Greens would fold. That they didn't is an excellent sign and a rare show of actual support for trans people from a political party that isn't just empty words.
More of this @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️
More of this @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️
This is important. I learnt stuff. I sobbed. Please watch it. You will not regret it. Thanks @lindsayellis.bsky.social Still got my Team Lindsay pin.
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
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September 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is important. I learnt stuff. I sobbed. Please watch it. You will not regret it. Thanks @lindsayellis.bsky.social Still got my Team Lindsay pin.
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Video essayist, doctoral researcher and Techne scholar.
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July 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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They really should separate baby health and safety guidance into:
• Bad habits to get into, that are fine to do once or twice but have longterm risks, and
• Things that might kill your baby if you do them even once.
I understand that people still wouldnt be able to discern the difference, tho.
• Bad habits to get into, that are fine to do once or twice but have longterm risks, and
• Things that might kill your baby if you do them even once.
I understand that people still wouldnt be able to discern the difference, tho.
July 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
They really should separate baby health and safety guidance into:
• Bad habits to get into, that are fine to do once or twice but have longterm risks, and
• Things that might kill your baby if you do them even once.
I understand that people still wouldnt be able to discern the difference, tho.
• Bad habits to get into, that are fine to do once or twice but have longterm risks, and
• Things that might kill your baby if you do them even once.
I understand that people still wouldnt be able to discern the difference, tho.
When my partner was pregnant the midwife told them to not eat mangoes because they are unhealthy. Fresh fruit is unhealthy.
July 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
When my partner was pregnant the midwife told them to not eat mangoes because they are unhealthy. Fresh fruit is unhealthy.
Joy, including: Joy, Sadness and Sadness. Anger, including: Sadsad
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
July 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Joy, including: Joy, Sadness and Sadness. Anger, including: Sadsad
See how easy it is to say the right things about Palestine? Turns out you don't need 20 months to write an agonizing wishy washy essay. Or 12 months to make a video essay.
WHY DID SHE POST THIS
YouTube video by HasanAbi
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July 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
See how easy it is to say the right things about Palestine? Turns out you don't need 20 months to write an agonizing wishy washy essay. Or 12 months to make a video essay.
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is like:
First half: fun boys adventure story with a gothic mansion, kidnapped on a ship, fighting pirates, surviving on an island, hiding from the English, trekking the Highlands.
Second half: homoerotic fan fiction about a historical Jacobite soldier.
First half: fun boys adventure story with a gothic mansion, kidnapped on a ship, fighting pirates, surviving on an island, hiding from the English, trekking the Highlands.
Second half: homoerotic fan fiction about a historical Jacobite soldier.
July 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is like:
First half: fun boys adventure story with a gothic mansion, kidnapped on a ship, fighting pirates, surviving on an island, hiding from the English, trekking the Highlands.
Second half: homoerotic fan fiction about a historical Jacobite soldier.
First half: fun boys adventure story with a gothic mansion, kidnapped on a ship, fighting pirates, surviving on an island, hiding from the English, trekking the Highlands.
Second half: homoerotic fan fiction about a historical Jacobite soldier.
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From @jdhdoveton.bsky.social, a useful insight to keep in mind whenever a columnist claims a paradoxical indulgence while condemning it, which is quite a lot
July 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
From @jdhdoveton.bsky.social, a useful insight to keep in mind whenever a columnist claims a paradoxical indulgence while condemning it, which is quite a lot
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So if anyone here is reading this and has similar feelings I'm begging you to go and find local leftist groups that you fit in with and help them, because if you think the left has done nothing but be online and complain then you simply don't know what the left is doing right now.
July 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
So if anyone here is reading this and has similar feelings I'm begging you to go and find local leftist groups that you fit in with and help them, because if you think the left has done nothing but be online and complain then you simply don't know what the left is doing right now.
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reactionary centrists have a totally incoherent theory of politics whose primary upshot is that they validate and legitimize the far right
July 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
reactionary centrists have a totally incoherent theory of politics whose primary upshot is that they validate and legitimize the far right
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This is extremely disappointing. When you've just admitted that a genocide is happening, it's bizarre to spend the rest of your post criticizing the manners and motives of the people trying to stop it.
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July 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is extremely disappointing. When you've just admitted that a genocide is happening, it's bizarre to spend the rest of your post criticizing the manners and motives of the people trying to stop it.
"Vote for the slow and gentle genocide party, or you're a fuckin traitor!"
Beyond satire.
Beyond satire.
One genocide comes faster and harder.
July 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"Vote for the slow and gentle genocide party, or you're a fuckin traitor!"
Beyond satire.
Beyond satire.
Mmmm nice I haven't had a long Sunday nap since... the last Dune film came out!
First photo for ‘DUNE: PART 3’ from Denis Villeneuve
Filming has now begun.
Filming has now begun.
July 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Mmmm nice I haven't had a long Sunday nap since... the last Dune film came out!
I don't know why I was surprised by Death Comes to Pemberley being fanfic. It's a fan fiction.
July 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I don't know why I was surprised by Death Comes to Pemberley being fanfic. It's a fan fiction.
@benlitherland.bsky.social Hi Ben. Would you consider doing an episode of your podcast on so-called "aspirational media" and its supposed effects?
July 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
@benlitherland.bsky.social Hi Ben. Would you consider doing an episode of your podcast on so-called "aspirational media" and its supposed effects?
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I have a new post on my blog, which started out as a letterboxd review of The Creator (2023) and expanded out into a diatribe about men who don't seem to understand science fiction. jdhdoveton.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/o...
On Wilful Media Illiteracy in Sci-Fi Discourse, or How Westworld is Not Really About Robots.
Ellis Rosen for the New Yorker Spoiler Warning: Contains descriptions of the plots of Westworld (2016) and The Creator (2023), which may spoil your faux-naïf misinterpretation of these texts. A few…
jdhdoveton.wordpress.com
July 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I have a new post on my blog, which started out as a letterboxd review of The Creator (2023) and expanded out into a diatribe about men who don't seem to understand science fiction. jdhdoveton.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/o...
Agree. I count as the dad under such laws so I was only entitled to 2 weeks, and it sucks. 2 weeks is nothing. Eurgh.
‘Dad strikes’ in London and Edinburgh demand better paternity leave
‘Dad strikes’ in London and Edinburgh demand better paternity leave
Hundreds of fathers protest with children to call for two weeks’ statutory paternity leave to be increased
Hundreds of fathers took to the streets of London and Edinburgh on Wednesday to demand better paternity leave, in a protest that was billed as the world’s first dad strike.
They came with babies in papooses and pushchairs, as they brandished placards and dad jokes to call for an overhaul of the meanest paternity leave system in Europe. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Agree. I count as the dad under such laws so I was only entitled to 2 weeks, and it sucks. 2 weeks is nothing. Eurgh.
Every term my university slaps me in the face by inviting me to submit my work to a competition an arts researcher will never win.
May 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Every term my university slaps me in the face by inviting me to submit my work to a competition an arts researcher will never win.
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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
April 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
If I went back to school now I'd be one of the students who gets extra time. It's funny, I was sent to learning support a few times because they couldn't understand why someone who got As in their coursework was getting Cs in exams. I was only getting through 1/3rd of the paper. Extra time helps!
Extra exam time: why do so many schoolkids suddenly need it?
Every year, more pupils are granted special ‘access arrangements’ to give them a fairer chance in GCSEs, A-levels and other exams. But with more than 600,000 arrangements in England alone, can the sch...
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
If I went back to school now I'd be one of the students who gets extra time. It's funny, I was sent to learning support a few times because they couldn't understand why someone who got As in their coursework was getting Cs in exams. I was only getting through 1/3rd of the paper. Extra time helps!
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This is the British Medical Association 👇
April 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is the British Medical Association 👇