Florian Schaefer
@fschaefer.bsky.social
bio-scientist
science fiction & fantasy aficionado
books / movies / shows / games
preferably sociological storytelling and politics
https://letterboxd.com/fschaefer/
science fiction & fantasy aficionado
books / movies / shows / games
preferably sociological storytelling and politics
https://letterboxd.com/fschaefer/
Have never seen a German cabinet do such regressive politics like the current one. There is all this talk about how we must get the economy back up but no game to back it up. The main guy thinks it's a good idea to bully workers for allegedly not working enough, being sick all the time, or lazy.
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Have never seen a German cabinet do such regressive politics like the current one. There is all this talk about how we must get the economy back up but no game to back it up. The main guy thinks it's a good idea to bully workers for allegedly not working enough, being sick all the time, or lazy.
Any European leader who still deploys the anti-China rhetoric while under DIRECT threat of the US is absolutely unfit to lead the EU towards a sovereign future. We are vassals to the US and our leaders are incapable of recognising a real threat when it is staring us right in the face. Shameful.
China and Russia must be having a field day. They are the ones who benefit from divisions among Allies.
If Greenland’s security is at risk, we can address this inside NATO.
Tariffs risk making Europe and the United States poorer and undermine our shared prosperity. (1/2)
If Greenland’s security is at risk, we can address this inside NATO.
Tariffs risk making Europe and the United States poorer and undermine our shared prosperity. (1/2)
January 19, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Any European leader who still deploys the anti-China rhetoric while under DIRECT threat of the US is absolutely unfit to lead the EU towards a sovereign future. We are vassals to the US and our leaders are incapable of recognising a real threat when it is staring us right in the face. Shameful.
Rewatched a classic which I did not appreciate at the time: Fargo (1996)
Time passed, watched more movies, personally engaged in visual arts and writing, and suddenly you see a movie with different eyes. This has everything I love: stunning images, tight structure, sharp script.
★★★★★❤️
📽️🍿
Time passed, watched more movies, personally engaged in visual arts and writing, and suddenly you see a movie with different eyes. This has everything I love: stunning images, tight structure, sharp script.
★★★★★❤️
📽️🍿
A ★★★★★ review of Fargo (1996)
Long ago, I watched this for the first time and didn't get it; had not seen enough to process it the right way. Well, of course it is a great movie. The cinematography of Fargo is as superb as it is s...
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January 3, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Rewatched a classic which I did not appreciate at the time: Fargo (1996)
Time passed, watched more movies, personally engaged in visual arts and writing, and suddenly you see a movie with different eyes. This has everything I love: stunning images, tight structure, sharp script.
★★★★★❤️
📽️🍿
Time passed, watched more movies, personally engaged in visual arts and writing, and suddenly you see a movie with different eyes. This has everything I love: stunning images, tight structure, sharp script.
★★★★★❤️
📽️🍿
First watch of the year: Jay Kelly (2025)
I enjoyed the cinematic production of the film, and it hits that easygoing vibe while working with serious topics at the same time. Still, I found it lacking in the way it handled the meta aspect and the satire lost its punch in the second half.
★★★½
📽️🍿
I enjoyed the cinematic production of the film, and it hits that easygoing vibe while working with serious topics at the same time. Still, I found it lacking in the way it handled the meta aspect and the satire lost its punch in the second half.
★★★½
📽️🍿
A ★★★½ review of Jay Kelly (2025)
Despite dealing with some difficult topics the movie is easygoing and very pleasing to look at. I like the journey in self-reflection combined with a real physical travel aspect. Still, I felt a lack ...
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January 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
First watch of the year: Jay Kelly (2025)
I enjoyed the cinematic production of the film, and it hits that easygoing vibe while working with serious topics at the same time. Still, I found it lacking in the way it handled the meta aspect and the satire lost its punch in the second half.
★★★½
📽️🍿
I enjoyed the cinematic production of the film, and it hits that easygoing vibe while working with serious topics at the same time. Still, I found it lacking in the way it handled the meta aspect and the satire lost its punch in the second half.
★★★½
📽️🍿
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
If you use Unhook for YouTube and a new UI update just bricked your sidebar, which leads to hidden History, Playlist, Watch later, etc. uncheck "Hide Explore, Trending" in Unhook.
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If you use Unhook for YouTube and a new UI update just bricked your sidebar, which leads to hidden History, Playlist, Watch later, etc. uncheck "Hide Explore, Trending" in Unhook.
Enjoyed catching up on Pluribus, but the shallow discourse I have seen so far, it boils down to "it's about AI", shows a disturbing lack of media literacy. There is so much, but in the purest sense the show grapples with the clash of individualism vs collective action. This is highly topical. 1/3
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Enjoyed catching up on Pluribus, but the shallow discourse I have seen so far, it boils down to "it's about AI", shows a disturbing lack of media literacy. There is so much, but in the purest sense the show grapples with the clash of individualism vs collective action. This is highly topical. 1/3
Currently, most of the time, when I feel the need to post something it comes from a point of negativity and needing to complain about something. So here is something against that: I watched 'The Princess Bride' tonight and it was as heartfelt and honest as ever. Nips any cynicism in the bud.
November 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Currently, most of the time, when I feel the need to post something it comes from a point of negativity and needing to complain about something. So here is something against that: I watched 'The Princess Bride' tonight and it was as heartfelt and honest as ever. Nips any cynicism in the bud.
Just realised the full episodes of @lastweektonight.com on YouTube are now accessible in Germany without having to make a quick trip to France every time. W John Oliver. Seems like Bernd pulled some strings behind the scenes.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just realised the full episodes of @lastweektonight.com on YouTube are now accessible in Germany without having to make a quick trip to France every time. W John Oliver. Seems like Bernd pulled some strings behind the scenes.
Faker is the Greatest Of All Time in any sports.
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Faker is the Greatest Of All Time in any sports.
Well, today would be 875 in my Duolingo streak, but the energy update hit and I just can't take this aggressive enshittification anymore. Every step this app took, over the last two years, was regressive in the name of greed. What a way to turboblast your app into the trash pile of digital nonsense.
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Well, today would be 875 in my Duolingo streak, but the energy update hit and I just can't take this aggressive enshittification anymore. Every step this app took, over the last two years, was regressive in the name of greed. What a way to turboblast your app into the trash pile of digital nonsense.
Wish Germany had the same integrity and conscience as Spain and Italy right now. In 20 years our weasels will obviously claim they have always been against this.
September 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Wish Germany had the same integrity and conscience as Spain and Italy right now. In 20 years our weasels will obviously claim they have always been against this.
Ineos car hits spectator on yesterday's Tour de France stage, and carbrained German broadcast goes with victim blaming: driver could not have swerved, he would have hit a moto, and he was probably looking left at the riders, "nothing he could have done there." Eh...maybe hit the brakes earlier? 1/2
July 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Ineos car hits spectator on yesterday's Tour de France stage, and carbrained German broadcast goes with victim blaming: driver could not have swerved, he would have hit a moto, and he was probably looking left at the riders, "nothing he could have done there." Eh...maybe hit the brakes earlier? 1/2
Hautacam today, hell yeah! Hopefully in for some exciting bike racing. Finally the tour arrived in the Pyrenees mountains. Let's go and good luck for a safe race to everyone #TDF2025
July 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Hautacam today, hell yeah! Hopefully in for some exciting bike racing. Finally the tour arrived in the Pyrenees mountains. Let's go and good luck for a safe race to everyone #TDF2025
Wonder if Gen Z is aware Blizzard was once a respectable game developer, not this late-stage capitalist money extraction scheme preoccupied with farming a reputation for squeezing their products dry by depleting them of any entertainment value while producing more unique in-game assets to buy.
July 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Wonder if Gen Z is aware Blizzard was once a respectable game developer, not this late-stage capitalist money extraction scheme preoccupied with farming a reputation for squeezing their products dry by depleting them of any entertainment value while producing more unique in-game assets to buy.
Finished "The Studio" (Apple TV) in 2 sessions, which really says something for me. I struggle to sit down and stay focused in today's streaming landscape. Haven't had this much fun with a show in a long time. I loved the style, the format, the cast. Happy to hear it's going for a second season.
July 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Finished "The Studio" (Apple TV) in 2 sessions, which really says something for me. I struggle to sit down and stay focused in today's streaming landscape. Haven't had this much fun with a show in a long time. I loved the style, the format, the cast. Happy to hear it's going for a second season.
One of the most annoying things of AI in creative fields is that one can't enjoy a bad movie anymore without people going "such bad writing, chatgpt wrote that script 🤓"...as if shlock in art just appeared out of nowhere in the 2020s. Was watching Guy Ritchie's "Fountain of Youth" btw.
July 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
One of the most annoying things of AI in creative fields is that one can't enjoy a bad movie anymore without people going "such bad writing, chatgpt wrote that script 🤓"...as if shlock in art just appeared out of nowhere in the 2020s. Was watching Guy Ritchie's "Fountain of Youth" btw.
Hell yeah! Denis Villeneuve is on a generational run with his filmography. Amazon, please don't screw this up!
Denis Villeneuve Directing Next James Bond Film
Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next James Bond film for Amazon MGM Studios, the studio abruptly announced on Wednesday.
deadline.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Hell yeah! Denis Villeneuve is on a generational run with his filmography. Amazon, please don't screw this up!
Monetization in f2p games like Hearthstone will always come with simping in the name of whales who keep the game free. But come one, it'd be more believable if corporations would actually allocate the resources to fix their games and preserve fun formats instead of funding the next round of shinies.
June 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Monetization in f2p games like Hearthstone will always come with simping in the name of whales who keep the game free. But come one, it'd be more believable if corporations would actually allocate the resources to fix their games and preserve fun formats instead of funding the next round of shinies.
Oh wow, is this what waking up to good news felt like? Congrats to Zohran Mamdani and New York City. In times like these I will just go ahead and claim this as a W from across the pond. Hope this can create some ripples.
June 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Oh wow, is this what waking up to good news felt like? Congrats to Zohran Mamdani and New York City. In times like these I will just go ahead and claim this as a W from across the pond. Hope this can create some ripples.
New #Netflix UI arrived on my device. A total of 4 tiles visible at a time and the selected tile is a blown up thumbnail. Apparently no obvious way to open secondary pages with tiles sorted in grid view. Scroll animation is also painfully slow. Combined this makes finding things on “My List” a drag.
June 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
New #Netflix UI arrived on my device. A total of 4 tiles visible at a time and the selected tile is a blown up thumbnail. Apparently no obvious way to open secondary pages with tiles sorted in grid view. Scroll animation is also painfully slow. Combined this makes finding things on “My List” a drag.
The statement by Rafe Judkins on the cancellation of the Wheel of Time show is the definition of tone-deaf. How can you produce a show like that, and when asked 'What went wrong?' answer with 'I don't know.'
June 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The statement by Rafe Judkins on the cancellation of the Wheel of Time show is the definition of tone-deaf. How can you produce a show like that, and when asked 'What went wrong?' answer with 'I don't know.'
80 years later and "Davon haben wir nichts gewusst" ("We knew nothing about that") will turn into "I've always been against this."
May 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
80 years later and "Davon haben wir nichts gewusst" ("We knew nothing about that") will turn into "I've always been against this."
SPOILER WARNING Andor Season 2
Tony Gilroy is such a baller. Holy shit. I have never been this much on the edge of my seat for someone giving a speech in a fictional show. And they actually went there and used "genocide". Cathartic moment. This 7-9 arc was goosebumps all the way.
Tony Gilroy is such a baller. Holy shit. I have never been this much on the edge of my seat for someone giving a speech in a fictional show. And they actually went there and used "genocide". Cathartic moment. This 7-9 arc was goosebumps all the way.
May 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
SPOILER WARNING Andor Season 2
Tony Gilroy is such a baller. Holy shit. I have never been this much on the edge of my seat for someone giving a speech in a fictional show. And they actually went there and used "genocide". Cathartic moment. This 7-9 arc was goosebumps all the way.
Tony Gilroy is such a baller. Holy shit. I have never been this much on the edge of my seat for someone giving a speech in a fictional show. And they actually went there and used "genocide". Cathartic moment. This 7-9 arc was goosebumps all the way.
Andor Season 2
Episode 1: "Huh, I don't know how I feel about some humour in my favourite political TV series."
Episode 8: "..."
Fuck.
Episode 1: "Huh, I don't know how I feel about some humour in my favourite political TV series."
Episode 8: "..."
Fuck.
May 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Andor Season 2
Episode 1: "Huh, I don't know how I feel about some humour in my favourite political TV series."
Episode 8: "..."
Fuck.
Episode 1: "Huh, I don't know how I feel about some humour in my favourite political TV series."
Episode 8: "..."
Fuck.