Martin O'Leary
@strangetea.bsky.social
London based filmmaker working on folk horror, weird shit, punk sci-fi satire and stuff that exudes a cosmic darkness. Progressive humane human. Obsessed with phantasmagoria, perpetually dreich. Sometimes a numpty, always the odd one out. He/him.
Third viewing of Frankenstein tonight. So that's once on IMAX (looked GORGEOUS) and twice on Netflix (image much diminished and flat). There's been a lot of talk about the Netflix look recently, how everything looks bland, washed out and uncinematic. I think I've figured out what it is.
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Third viewing of Frankenstein tonight. So that's once on IMAX (looked GORGEOUS) and twice on Netflix (image much diminished and flat). There's been a lot of talk about the Netflix look recently, how everything looks bland, washed out and uncinematic. I think I've figured out what it is.
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She is beating his ass like she’s Muhammad Ali. Goddamn, Joyce.
![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
She is beating his ass like she’s Muhammad Ali. Goddamn, Joyce.
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Feel like there's a straight line between this shot from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN to Mike Mignola's art career.
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Feel like there's a straight line between this shot from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN to Mike Mignola's art career.
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The Devils (🇬🇧 1971) dir. Ken Russell
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The Devils (🇬🇧 1971) dir. Ken Russell
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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This makes me think of Wandering Earth and Wandering Earth 2, which are both propaganda for the idea that Chinese leadership will better serve the globe in the scenario where it is under catastrophic threat from climate change
"Oil demand and emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere by 10%, as the production of plastics and other chemicals surged."
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
#China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries?
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This makes me think of Wandering Earth and Wandering Earth 2, which are both propaganda for the idea that Chinese leadership will better serve the globe in the scenario where it is under catastrophic threat from climate change
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Why did Bluesky suspend Sarah Kendzior? What the fuck. I haven't ever seen her be hostile to people here. She's actually quite civil and measured. Fuck this shitty ass app.
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Why did Bluesky suspend Sarah Kendzior? What the fuck. I haven't ever seen her be hostile to people here. She's actually quite civil and measured. Fuck this shitty ass app.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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What the hell @support.bsky.team? @Sarahkendzior.bsky.social is one of our most important writers and thinkers. What is the deal? Why is she suspended?
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
What the hell @support.bsky.team? @Sarahkendzior.bsky.social is one of our most important writers and thinkers. What is the deal? Why is she suspended?
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The democrats voted to destroy what’s left of the judiciary last night btw.
"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The democrats voted to destroy what’s left of the judiciary last night btw.
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I would very much like to know what this is about,
@support.bsky.team. Sarah Kendzior has been a valuable voice during these dark Trump years.
@support.bsky.team. Sarah Kendzior has been a valuable voice during these dark Trump years.
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I would very much like to know what this is about,
@support.bsky.team. Sarah Kendzior has been a valuable voice during these dark Trump years.
@support.bsky.team. Sarah Kendzior has been a valuable voice during these dark Trump years.
The far right are everywhere these days and will tolerate no dissent. We're going to have to build our own media ecosphere, our own newspapers, video sharing portals, online media and social spaces. These places are no longer safe places for progressives, if indeed they ever were.
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The far right are everywhere these days and will tolerate no dissent. We're going to have to build our own media ecosphere, our own newspapers, video sharing portals, online media and social spaces. These places are no longer safe places for progressives, if indeed they ever were.
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In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
4:20am. I've been stress eating continuously since 8pm.
If the night terrors don't spirit me away in my sleep, the gastronomical pain will.
If the night terrors don't spirit me away in my sleep, the gastronomical pain will.
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
4:20am. I've been stress eating continuously since 8pm.
If the night terrors don't spirit me away in my sleep, the gastronomical pain will.
If the night terrors don't spirit me away in my sleep, the gastronomical pain will.
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Happy Birthday to the late Debra Hill, co-creator of Halloween (she was raised in Haddonfield, NJ) and the force behind such sleepover classics as Clue, Adventures in Babysitting, The Dead Zone and Big Top Pee-Wee.
#debrahill #clue #halloween
#debrahill #clue #halloween
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Happy Birthday to the late Debra Hill, co-creator of Halloween (she was raised in Haddonfield, NJ) and the force behind such sleepover classics as Clue, Adventures in Babysitting, The Dead Zone and Big Top Pee-Wee.
#debrahill #clue #halloween
#debrahill #clue #halloween
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Could you even imagine something like this being broadcast on British television now?
Terry Jones, Michael Moorcock, and Anthony Wigens talk anarchism:
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Could you even imagine something like this being broadcast on British television now?
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Started getting serious replies about who the BBC can and cannot select, like I was actually suggesting that the evil spirit of Oswald Mosley would be an actual contender and not making a fucking joke.
Labour are going to drag the tormented, insane spirit of Oswald Mosley up from hell for the BBC Director General job. It's official.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Started getting serious replies about who the BBC can and cannot select, like I was actually suggesting that the evil spirit of Oswald Mosley would be an actual contender and not making a fucking joke.
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Solidarity with all who are suffering in America right now. Your government (and all the enabling lickspittles) is ruining my country as well as yours.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Solidarity with all who are suffering in America right now. Your government (and all the enabling lickspittles) is ruining my country as well as yours.
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Every signing should end dramatically with that shell headed ape being dragged away by his aides after he's tried to strangle a protester.
John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Every signing should end dramatically with that shell headed ape being dragged away by his aides after he's tried to strangle a protester.
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Nothing would please me more to stop being afraid of America and the Americans.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Nothing would please me more to stop being afraid of America and the Americans.
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Yes, there are more pressing matters tonight but actually this is all part of the same problem. We are seeing a handful of corporations that now own everything but are starting to consume themselves during the death throes of late stage capitalism. So they cut and reduce and diminish standards.
This is a Netflix promo for a Netflix film on a channel run by Netflix and the sound is terrible because they are using a shitty influencer grade mic, capturing terrible sound that need to be heavily cleaned up in post. Ten years ago you would have used a 416 or something. Standards are decaying.
The cast shares what it was like working with Guillermo del Toro on FRANKENSTEIN.
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Yes, there are more pressing matters tonight but actually this is all part of the same problem. We are seeing a handful of corporations that now own everything but are starting to consume themselves during the death throes of late stage capitalism. So they cut and reduce and diminish standards.
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Also, I'm loving the respect bestowed upon Blade II's name in this interview. It's become the height of fashion to shit on this important, foundational work of comic book mayhem and I won't stand for it.
Just seen this interview. When talking about the CEO of Netflix, GDT says "Let's see if we can get him to the Mountains". I wish he had other options beyond the tepid home cinema of a lacklustre streamer but I'm happy he's still keen on making Mountains of Madness.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Also, I'm loving the respect bestowed upon Blade II's name in this interview. It's become the height of fashion to shit on this important, foundational work of comic book mayhem and I won't stand for it.
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This stupid, dumb, cowardly, right wing fuck. By resigning over a non issue, you've made the case for Trump's legal actions. Now he won't be happy until his cronies run our public broadcasting. And yes, Labour would allow this to happen. Of course they would.
BREAKING | Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC
Outgoing BBC News boss hit backs at Trump over claim broadcaster ‘corrupt’: Live
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This stupid, dumb, cowardly, right wing fuck. By resigning over a non issue, you've made the case for Trump's legal actions. Now he won't be happy until his cronies run our public broadcasting. And yes, Labour would allow this to happen. Of course they would.
This is what every day was like in the 90s. Hatred, testosterone, male entitlement and a chocolate box view of the past. Why are we returning to this just because Keir Starmer and Farage are ordering us to do so?
The rememberbus
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This is what every day was like in the 90s. Hatred, testosterone, male entitlement and a chocolate box view of the past. Why are we returning to this just because Keir Starmer and Farage are ordering us to do so?
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A bus full of pissed up flag wankers. That's exactly why we fought two World Wars. Makes you want to weep patriotic tears, doesn't it?
*starts singing Jerusalem*
*starts singing Jerusalem*
The rememberbus
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A bus full of pissed up flag wankers. That's exactly why we fought two World Wars. Makes you want to weep patriotic tears, doesn't it?
*starts singing Jerusalem*
*starts singing Jerusalem*