Thomas Kotarba-Gow
@thomasgow.bsky.social
PhD candidate, Film Studies instructor, and ordained Dudeist Priest. Settler studying colonial and anti-colonial narratives. Pretending to be a film scholar when I'm not procrastinating. He/him
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CANADIANS!
Please sign and share this Parliamentary Petition backed by MP Heather Richardson re returning IDF soldiers and HESEG.
*Don’t forget to check for an email from ourcommons and confirm yr signature.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Please sign and share this Parliamentary Petition backed by MP Heather Richardson re returning IDF soldiers and HESEG.
*Don’t forget to check for an email from ourcommons and confirm yr signature.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
January 8, 2026 at 7:38 PM
CANADIANS!
Please sign and share this Parliamentary Petition backed by MP Heather Richardson re returning IDF soldiers and HESEG.
*Don’t forget to check for an email from ourcommons and confirm yr signature.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Please sign and share this Parliamentary Petition backed by MP Heather Richardson re returning IDF soldiers and HESEG.
*Don’t forget to check for an email from ourcommons and confirm yr signature.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.
Absolutely wild to have just finished Lucky McKee’s May for the first time and log on to see this moments later
At 61 years old, I had lost volume and wanted my younger body back quickly. Donor fat seemed like the best option.
I Got My BBL From a Cadaver
At 61 years old, I had lost volume and wanted my younger body back quickly. Donor fat seemed like the best option.
www.thecut.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Absolutely wild to have just finished Lucky McKee’s May for the first time and log on to see this moments later
This is really disappointing. I have not and will never use AI for anything but I do think there’s probably a level of AI use that is tolerable - if someone wants to ask ChatGPT for feedback as they prep an internal presentation, that can’t really be stopped or policed. But concept art?!?!?
NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’
‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is really disappointing. I have not and will never use AI for anything but I do think there’s probably a level of AI use that is tolerable - if someone wants to ask ChatGPT for feedback as they prep an internal presentation, that can’t really be stopped or policed. But concept art?!?!?
This take brought to you by the admirable but misplaced generosity being extended to Ian Bogost right now
We need to come up with a ratio of caveats to words at which someone’s take can be dismissed outright. For instance, if someone posts a 150-word thread and the only honest response is “he’s right about x but wrong about z, y, and a,” that would be a ratio of 1 caveat to 50 words. Not worth engaging
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This take brought to you by the admirable but misplaced generosity being extended to Ian Bogost right now
We need to come up with a ratio of caveats to words at which someone’s take can be dismissed outright. For instance, if someone posts a 150-word thread and the only honest response is “he’s right about x but wrong about z, y, and a,” that would be a ratio of 1 caveat to 50 words. Not worth engaging
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We need to come up with a ratio of caveats to words at which someone’s take can be dismissed outright. For instance, if someone posts a 150-word thread and the only honest response is “he’s right about x but wrong about z, y, and a,” that would be a ratio of 1 caveat to 50 words. Not worth engaging
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1) Yes, obviously this is what this is actually about.
2) Academic freedom and, more to the point, standards are supposed to render this approach ineffective. Their abandonment in order to throw trans people under the bus is catastrophic.
2) Academic freedom and, more to the point, standards are supposed to render this approach ineffective. Their abandonment in order to throw trans people under the bus is catastrophic.
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
1) Yes, obviously this is what this is actually about.
2) Academic freedom and, more to the point, standards are supposed to render this approach ineffective. Their abandonment in order to throw trans people under the bus is catastrophic.
2) Academic freedom and, more to the point, standards are supposed to render this approach ineffective. Their abandonment in order to throw trans people under the bus is catastrophic.
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
I’m a card-carrying AI hater so I’ve been waiting for the bubble to pop but…this is going to BAD bad, isn’t it?
From the people who brought you the financial crisis, Theranos, and Juicero: say hello to data center financial engineering!
I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m a card-carrying AI hater so I’ve been waiting for the bubble to pop but…this is going to BAD bad, isn’t it?
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meanwhile the words: "Every time one of these murderers dies w/o having faced consequences for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death."
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UChicago professor posts vile social media comment on Dick Cheney hours after his death
UChicago professor posts vile social media comment on Dick Cheney hours after his death
A University of Chicago professor who was recently arrested for aggravated assault at an anti-ICE rally unloaded on former Vice President Dick Cheney upon the news of his death.
www.fox32chicago.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
meanwhile the words: "Every time one of these murderers dies w/o having faced consequences for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death."
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Woke up today to the news
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Woke up today to the news
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It should go without saying that the disclosure of personal demographic information that was promised confidentiality to a government committee by the Tri-Council would be the most fundamental breach of ethics and pose a genuine danger to the safety of Canadian researchers.
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It should go without saying that the disclosure of personal demographic information that was promised confidentiality to a government committee by the Tri-Council would be the most fundamental breach of ethics and pose a genuine danger to the safety of Canadian researchers.
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"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
My Grandma, who passed away in March at age 100, was a longtime Blue Jays fan. I am choosing to take the Jays making the World Series as a sign!
October 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
My Grandma, who passed away in March at age 100, was a longtime Blue Jays fan. I am choosing to take the Jays making the World Series as a sign!
The Shining
The Babadook
The Thing
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Babadook
The Thing
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Alien
The Innocents
The Thing
Hereditary
The Innocents
The Thing
Hereditary
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.
Get Out
The Honeymoon
Scream
It Follows
Get Out
The Honeymoon
Scream
It Follows
October 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The Shining
The Babadook
The Thing
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Babadook
The Thing
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
To echo the chorus a bit: some really talented folks are involved in the Vertigo relaunch, and I’m sure some of the books will be good, but there’s pretty much nothing there that promises to be as new or transgressive as a GFM-penned horror comic would have been.
October 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
To echo the chorus a bit: some really talented folks are involved in the Vertigo relaunch, and I’m sure some of the books will be good, but there’s pretty much nothing there that promises to be as new or transgressive as a GFM-penned horror comic would have been.
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No shade to any of the Vertigo relaunch writers, but this is what the lineup looks like with me no longer in it, lol.
October 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
No shade to any of the Vertigo relaunch writers, but this is what the lineup looks like with me no longer in it, lol.
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I gotta say, it's a bit rich relaunching Vertigo, "Comics! They're not just for kids!", after being lily livered cowards who hurled a trans writer under the bus for making a Kirk joke.
October 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I gotta say, it's a bit rich relaunching Vertigo, "Comics! They're not just for kids!", after being lily livered cowards who hurled a trans writer under the bus for making a Kirk joke.
The new issue of our journal is out now! It’s been a long road but I think this issue is a really special contribution thanks to the hard work of our outstanding contributors and of the guest editors, Hugo Ljungbäck and Christian Balistreri.
Synoptique: An online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies
@synoptiquejournal.bsky.social
· Oct 3
We are thrilled to announce the release of Synoptique issue 11.1, "Teaching Media Archives," edited by Hugo Ljungbäck and Christian Balistreri! You can read the issue in open access on our website: www.synoptique.ca/issue-11-1.
Issue 11.1 | Synoptique
Issue 11.1 - Teaching Media Archives
Edited by Hugo Ljungbäck and Christian Balistreri!
Synoptique, An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies.
www.synoptique.ca
October 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The new issue of our journal is out now! It’s been a long road but I think this issue is a really special contribution thanks to the hard work of our outstanding contributors and of the guest editors, Hugo Ljungbäck and Christian Balistreri.
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DC comics planting their flag on the moral high ground on the side of a white nationalist, transphobe while dutifully carrying on his rotten work in the firing of Gretchen Felker-Martin.
The characters of the DC universe would find this despicable.
The characters of the DC universe would find this despicable.
Breaking: DC Comics has cancelled the Red Hood comic book series.
www.thepopverse.com/comics-red-h...
www.thepopverse.com/comics-red-h...
DC Comics cancels Red Hood comic book series
The first issue of the 17+-rated Batman spin-off comic book series went on sale September 10, but DC Comics has informed retailers that orders for all future issues have been cancelled.
www.thepopverse.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
DC comics planting their flag on the moral high ground on the side of a white nationalist, transphobe while dutifully carrying on his rotten work in the firing of Gretchen Felker-Martin.
The characters of the DC universe would find this despicable.
The characters of the DC universe would find this despicable.
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it's boycott time if you have the courage of your convictions.
Breaking: DC Comics has cancelled the Red Hood comic book series.
www.thepopverse.com/comics-red-h...
www.thepopverse.com/comics-red-h...
DC Comics cancels Red Hood comic book series
The first issue of the 17+-rated Batman spin-off comic book series went on sale September 10, but DC Comics has informed retailers that orders for all future issues have been cancelled.
www.thepopverse.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
it's boycott time if you have the courage of your convictions.
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It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.