Ana de Castro
@decastro.bsky.social
Law graduate, writer, human being. 🇧🇷 nordestina. Contact: adecastrow @ gmail .com.
We mourn. We remember. We identify Nazi symbols for what they are. #RemembranceDay
January 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We mourn. We remember. We identify Nazi symbols for what they are. #RemembranceDay
The one. The only. The greatest. David Lynch showed us what cinema was and how to feel it. Rest in peace, coffee and cherry pie. I'll be crying in my weird dreams.
January 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The one. The only. The greatest. David Lynch showed us what cinema was and how to feel it. Rest in peace, coffee and cherry pie. I'll be crying in my weird dreams.
Like Adam Sandler once said, a happy, happy, happy, happy Hanukkah!
December 27, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Like Adam Sandler once said, a happy, happy, happy, happy Hanukkah!
Moore: "Elections that decide the fate of millions are conducted in an atmosphere more suited to evictions on I’m a Celebrity …, in which contestants who are insufficiently amusing are removed from office. Saleability, not substance, is the issue."
Alan Moore: fandom is “wonderful” & necessary but also a “blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement. Perhaps this statement still requires some breaking down.”
Here is where he does it—it’s brilliant and correct
Here is where he does it—it’s brilliant and correct
‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump
Enthusiasm can be a productive force for good, but our culture has rapidly become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Moore: "Elections that decide the fate of millions are conducted in an atmosphere more suited to evictions on I’m a Celebrity …, in which contestants who are insufficiently amusing are removed from office. Saleability, not substance, is the issue."
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A stunning Washington Post editorial cartoon tonight, by Ann Telnaes, titled "Democracy Dies in Darkness."
October 26, 2024 at 1:52 AM
A stunning Washington Post editorial cartoon tonight, by Ann Telnaes, titled "Democracy Dies in Darkness."
Best 5-star review of The Apprentice
October 15, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Best 5-star review of The Apprentice
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"The people on the boat with the swastika flags can be heard saying 'Sieg heil, heil Trump.'"
I just can't find the words to express my visceral fear of a second Trump administration.
I just can't find the words to express my visceral fear of a second Trump administration.
Swastika flags flown during Donald Trump boat parade in Florida
A boat bearing Nazi symbols alongside Donald Trump flags was hosed down after trying to join a Trump event in Palm Beach County.
www.newsweek.com
October 14, 2024 at 3:12 PM
"The people on the boat with the swastika flags can be heard saying 'Sieg heil, heil Trump.'"
I just can't find the words to express my visceral fear of a second Trump administration.
I just can't find the words to express my visceral fear of a second Trump administration.
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New: Federal, state and local officials leading the Hurricane Helene relief efforts are facing vicious antisemitic online hate and real-world threats, fueled on Elon Musk's X, where anti-Jewish conspiracy posts are racking up tens of millions of views. Gift link: wapo.st/4eQKjFd
Officials face antisemitic attacks over Hurricane Helene response
Report finds Elon Musk’s platform is fueling falsehoods and conspiracy theories that risk undermining rescue efforts — and preparations for Hurricane Milton.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 8, 2024 at 1:21 PM
New: Federal, state and local officials leading the Hurricane Helene relief efforts are facing vicious antisemitic online hate and real-world threats, fueled on Elon Musk's X, where anti-Jewish conspiracy posts are racking up tens of millions of views. Gift link: wapo.st/4eQKjFd
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Breaking news: Donald Trump secretly sent coronavirus tests to Vladimir Putin during 2020 shortage, a new Bob Woodward book says.
Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says
“War,” by Bob Woodward, traces how Trump and Biden responded to international crisis and concludes that Trump is worse than Nixon, the president exiled by the Watergate scandal.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Breaking news: Donald Trump secretly sent coronavirus tests to Vladimir Putin during 2020 shortage, a new Bob Woodward book says.
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Elon Musk quietly gave tens of millions of dollars to groups with ties to Trump aide Stephen Miller and supporters of Florida gov. Ron DeSantis’s presidential bid, per WSJ—the first time these donations have been reported. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
October 2, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Elon Musk quietly gave tens of millions of dollars to groups with ties to Trump aide Stephen Miller and supporters of Florida gov. Ron DeSantis’s presidential bid, per WSJ—the first time these donations have been reported. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Outlets will mention Downton Abbey and Harry Potter in the headlines and leave Gosford Park (2001) for the last paragraph. I get it, obviously. But it's perhaps the closest a non-Agatha Christie story will get to Christie's brilliance. And Dame Maggie Smith is the heart of the film. Don't miss out.
September 27, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Outlets will mention Downton Abbey and Harry Potter in the headlines and leave Gosford Park (2001) for the last paragraph. I get it, obviously. But it's perhaps the closest a non-Agatha Christie story will get to Christie's brilliance. And Dame Maggie Smith is the heart of the film. Don't miss out.
One of the greatest. It was an honor to grow up with your work, ma'am. Gosford Park remains my favorite. British cinema will never be the same.
LONDON (AP) — Publicist says Maggie Smith, acting great known to millions from Harry Potter and 'Downton Abbey,' has died at age 89.
September 27, 2024 at 1:23 PM
One of the greatest. It was an honor to grow up with your work, ma'am. Gosford Park remains my favorite. British cinema will never be the same.
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #252,139!
Aw, I made it 😌
Aw, I made it 😌
September 21, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #252,139!
Aw, I made it 😌
Aw, I made it 😌
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“I have concepts of a plan!” sounds like something sweaty William H. Macy yells into a phone to buy time in “Fargo”
September 11, 2024 at 2:39 AM
“I have concepts of a plan!” sounds like something sweaty William H. Macy yells into a phone to buy time in “Fargo”
I read the words "far-right win" three times today in headlines about different events and the sun hasn't even set yet
June 9, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I read the words "far-right win" three times today in headlines about different events and the sun hasn't even set yet
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On Truth Social, Trump already declared the trial a sham an hour ago, so not sure what else there is to say
May 30, 2024 at 9:21 PM
On Truth Social, Trump already declared the trial a sham an hour ago, so not sure what else there is to say
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As you can see, the rise in profanity on Taylor Swift albums (left) is having the unusual effect of causing a dramatic rise in installed solar power capacity.
April 22, 2024 at 7:48 PM
As you can see, the rise in profanity on Taylor Swift albums (left) is having the unusual effect of causing a dramatic rise in installed solar power capacity.
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It's hard to talk about something if we can't see how insidious ideas got there in the first place.
A history of antisemitism to illuminate where harmful anti-Jewish tropes remain alive in our discourse today-- and how to pull them out of legitimate political conversation.
My latest:
A history of antisemitism to illuminate where harmful anti-Jewish tropes remain alive in our discourse today-- and how to pull them out of legitimate political conversation.
My latest:
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
April 15, 2024 at 8:39 PM
It's hard to talk about something if we can't see how insidious ideas got there in the first place.
A history of antisemitism to illuminate where harmful anti-Jewish tropes remain alive in our discourse today-- and how to pull them out of legitimate political conversation.
My latest:
A history of antisemitism to illuminate where harmful anti-Jewish tropes remain alive in our discourse today-- and how to pull them out of legitimate political conversation.
My latest:
*deep breath*
"Which verse? Which verse before it was cu-...interrupted?"
"It's unclear"
"Goddamnit!"
"Which verse? Which verse before it was cu-...interrupted?"
"It's unclear"
"Goddamnit!"
Viewers erupted in anger on Sunday night after CBS abruptly cut their broadcast of Billy Joel’s 100th show at Madison Square Garden right in the middle of “Piano Man.”
Fans Livid After CBS Cuts Billy Joel Special Mid-‘Piano Man’
After weeks of promoting the special, CBS started the show late and ended it early—in the middle of his most famous song.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 15, 2024 at 3:44 PM
*deep breath*
"Which verse? Which verse before it was cu-...interrupted?"
"It's unclear"
"Goddamnit!"
"Which verse? Which verse before it was cu-...interrupted?"
"It's unclear"
"Goddamnit!"
Kidnapper: Now, lady, you don't know your own passwords?
Mom in her 50s: For that you'll have to kidnap my daughter.
Mom in her 50s: For that you'll have to kidnap my daughter.
April 14, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Kidnapper: Now, lady, you don't know your own passwords?
Mom in her 50s: For that you'll have to kidnap my daughter.
Mom in her 50s: For that you'll have to kidnap my daughter.
When my grandmother was born, her mother chose her name but her father went to the town's office to register the baby by himself. The employee looked at the baby & suggested a different name. Her father agreed without telling anyone. My grandmother was called by the other name until she was 10.
Tell me something funny about someone important to you who’s passed on. Anecdote, factoid, excellent one-liner—dealer’s choice.
April 10, 2024 at 5:05 PM
When my grandmother was born, her mother chose her name but her father went to the town's office to register the baby by himself. The employee looked at the baby & suggested a different name. Her father agreed without telling anyone. My grandmother was called by the other name until she was 10.