Kerry
@kerrypolka.bsky.social
known to one and all as a guy who is just around.
she/her, us/uk. movies, theatre, london. current: N19. previous: naarm melbourne, pōneke, pdx, the bay. cities are good 🚆🕎
she/her, us/uk. movies, theatre, london. current: N19. previous: naarm melbourne, pōneke, pdx, the bay. cities are good 🚆🕎
god bless whoever decided to make multiple(!) 1970s movies about Al Pacino supporting trans rights and being stressed out of his little mind
February 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
god bless whoever decided to make multiple(!) 1970s movies about Al Pacino supporting trans rights and being stressed out of his little mind
love how you can tell from his singing that he was too mad to waste time fucking around with imagery. like, hmm shall I spend another few days on the lyrics for this one? no, I shall get as many E Streeters as I can to my house to yell "ICE OUT NOW" into a studio mic
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 10:13 AM
love how you can tell from his singing that he was too mad to waste time fucking around with imagery. like, hmm shall I spend another few days on the lyrics for this one? no, I shall get as many E Streeters as I can to my house to yell "ICE OUT NOW" into a studio mic
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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According to Tacoma, WA area Redditors, this was the work of ILWU Local 91 in Oakland, CA
January 27, 2026 at 8:50 PM
According to Tacoma, WA area Redditors, this was the work of ILWU Local 91 in Oakland, CA
You should have these anyway - admin is never fun and especially not this, but it's so much kinder to your loved ones to do it yourself, instead of kicking it over to them when they will be grieving.
(assuming you have loved ones who will grieve you and you don't want to be unkind to, I guess!)
(assuming you have loved ones who will grieve you and you don't want to be unkind to, I guess!)
A grim but practical suggestion: if you’re going out to protest, you should have logistical plans for what your loved ones should do if you get critically injured or die
Advanced directives, wills, etc.
This would be a devastating/traumatic time to leave them with a million difficult decisions ❤️🩹
Advanced directives, wills, etc.
This would be a devastating/traumatic time to leave them with a million difficult decisions ❤️🩹
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
You should have these anyway - admin is never fun and especially not this, but it's so much kinder to your loved ones to do it yourself, instead of kicking it over to them when they will be grieving.
(assuming you have loved ones who will grieve you and you don't want to be unkind to, I guess!)
(assuming you have loved ones who will grieve you and you don't want to be unkind to, I guess!)
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You can see the modularity of room sizes in the plans
This is common in Spanish social housing - it allows rooms to be adapted (a dining room turning into an extra bedroom), but also helps reduce build costs by keeping material sizes consistent
This is common in Spanish social housing - it allows rooms to be adapted (a dining room turning into an extra bedroom), but also helps reduce build costs by keeping material sizes consistent
January 24, 2026 at 7:57 AM
You can see the modularity of room sizes in the plans
This is common in Spanish social housing - it allows rooms to be adapted (a dining room turning into an extra bedroom), but also helps reduce build costs by keeping material sizes consistent
This is common in Spanish social housing - it allows rooms to be adapted (a dining room turning into an extra bedroom), but also helps reduce build costs by keeping material sizes consistent
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We've created the greatest resistance & mutual aid network this country has ever seen in about 6 days. It's so effective that the government has had to ready an arctic military division in an attempt to thwart it. I don't know how that could instill anything but hope. It's -20 but the sun is shining
January 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
We've created the greatest resistance & mutual aid network this country has ever seen in about 6 days. It's so effective that the government has had to ready an arctic military division in an attempt to thwart it. I don't know how that could instill anything but hope. It's -20 but the sun is shining
hell yes beavers are back back back baby
Beavers are back in London 🦫
Here's how (and why) we did it ⬇️
Here's how (and why) we did it ⬇️
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 AM
hell yes beavers are back back back baby
You know I saw a brilliant piece of public information writing today, a handwritten whiteboard at Pimlico station that read:
FAULTY GATES
google "autocomplete TFL"
Refunds by end of the day
Everyone (at rush hour) looked at it and walked through without stopping to ask staff the same questions
FAULTY GATES
google "autocomplete TFL"
Refunds by end of the day
Everyone (at rush hour) looked at it and walked through without stopping to ask staff the same questions
January 19, 2026 at 10:58 PM
You know I saw a brilliant piece of public information writing today, a handwritten whiteboard at Pimlico station that read:
FAULTY GATES
google "autocomplete TFL"
Refunds by end of the day
Everyone (at rush hour) looked at it and walked through without stopping to ask staff the same questions
FAULTY GATES
google "autocomplete TFL"
Refunds by end of the day
Everyone (at rush hour) looked at it and walked through without stopping to ask staff the same questions
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on this january 19, @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com asks us to remember not the myth, but the man: just another black church leader living under jim crow, 26 years old, when history called and asked him to meet the moment.
now it's our turn.
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-orga...
now it's our turn.
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-orga...
We Have Organized, and More Must Do So
Minneapolis has shown us the path.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:42 PM
on this january 19, @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com asks us to remember not the myth, but the man: just another black church leader living under jim crow, 26 years old, when history called and asked him to meet the moment.
now it's our turn.
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-orga...
now it's our turn.
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-orga...
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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Wow this poster from 1941 was strangely prescient, as it's from 1941 and belongs to the commons feel free to have this, do with it what you want
January 16, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Wow this poster from 1941 was strangely prescient, as it's from 1941 and belongs to the commons feel free to have this, do with it what you want
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If a guy with one of the most visible media jobs in American life can put his name on a statement like this, we all can do a little more. And we should.
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
If a guy with one of the most visible media jobs in American life can put his name on a statement like this, we all can do a little more. And we should.
IL GATTOPARDO (1963) was lush in 4K at the BFI today
man, imagine being Burt Lancaster and so handsome as to trigger multiple(!) reaction shots of Alain Delon looking insecure!
man, imagine being Burt Lancaster and so handsome as to trigger multiple(!) reaction shots of Alain Delon looking insecure!
January 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
IL GATTOPARDO (1963) was lush in 4K at the BFI today
man, imagine being Burt Lancaster and so handsome as to trigger multiple(!) reaction shots of Alain Delon looking insecure!
man, imagine being Burt Lancaster and so handsome as to trigger multiple(!) reaction shots of Alain Delon looking insecure!
god can you imagine the delay repay for all those first-class passengers stuck in a snowdrift for two days on the Orient Express, Le Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits Tres Fancy would have been bankrupted
January 1, 2026 at 9:53 PM
god can you imagine the delay repay for all those first-class passengers stuck in a snowdrift for two days on the Orient Express, Le Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits Tres Fancy would have been bankrupted
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Pythagoras shunning fava beans, accompanying the advice, "Do Not Eat Beans!" from Speculum principis (Mirror of Princes) [fol. 25 recto], French, 1512/1514 (National Gallery of Art)
December 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Pythagoras shunning fava beans, accompanying the advice, "Do Not Eat Beans!" from Speculum principis (Mirror of Princes) [fol. 25 recto], French, 1512/1514 (National Gallery of Art)
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It's a Wonderful Life is certainly a very humanist, compassionate movie but anyway saying it's somehow 'socialist' has literally reduced 'socialism' to 'rich people bad' which is a case of 'yes but there's more going on here kate'
December 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
It's a Wonderful Life is certainly a very humanist, compassionate movie but anyway saying it's somehow 'socialist' has literally reduced 'socialism' to 'rich people bad' which is a case of 'yes but there's more going on here kate'
mentally ranking Christmas films seen this year on an ACAB scale from DIE HARD to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Clarence the angel, divinely sanctioned, bites a cop)
December 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
mentally ranking Christmas films seen this year on an ACAB scale from DIE HARD to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Clarence the angel, divinely sanctioned, bites a cop)
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‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis
December 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis
just watched a beautiful 35mm projection of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and while (as usual) started crying about ten minutes in.... George just make Uncle Billy a non-executive director and stick him in charge of customer retention strategy or something
December 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
just watched a beautiful 35mm projection of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and while (as usual) started crying about ten minutes in.... George just make Uncle Billy a non-executive director and stick him in charge of customer retention strategy or something
went to see PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD tonight, a play which despite being set in 1906 rural Ireland is very relatable to today's times because I too would murder a close relative for the chance to get with Nicola Coughlan
December 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
went to see PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD tonight, a play which despite being set in 1906 rural Ireland is very relatable to today's times because I too would murder a close relative for the chance to get with Nicola Coughlan
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! Yes! YES! YES!!!!!
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! Yes! YES! YES!!!!!
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
"This is an announcement for the passenger travelling with a group of children... could you please get them to stop pressing the emergency call button"
Bless you, station announcer at Tottenham Court Road, for the perfect balance of professionalism and bone deep weariness in that line delivery
Bless you, station announcer at Tottenham Court Road, for the perfect balance of professionalism and bone deep weariness in that line delivery
December 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"This is an announcement for the passenger travelling with a group of children... could you please get them to stop pressing the emergency call button"
Bless you, station announcer at Tottenham Court Road, for the perfect balance of professionalism and bone deep weariness in that line delivery
Bless you, station announcer at Tottenham Court Road, for the perfect balance of professionalism and bone deep weariness in that line delivery