Posting for the first time in 3 months to say happy birthday to @podaboo.bsky.social 🫶🏾

I put cat sitter first in my bio because that is the part of my life that brings me the most, unequivocal joy.

Guillermo del Toro says he’d ‘rather die’ than use generative AI

“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features”

(via NPR)

A photo of Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, sitting down, holding a photo of herself

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, who went viral on the "Humans of New York" account by sharing stories about her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970s, has died

Nicole Kidman picks Satine from ‘MOULIN ROUGE’ and Celeste from ‘BIG LITTLE LIES’ as her favourite characters she got to play.

(www.vogue.com/article/nicole-kidman-no...

Girl group The Three Degrees — Fayette Pinkney dressed in a short white halterneck top and light-coloured flared trousers, Valerie Holiday in a short dark-coloured halter, dark-coloured jeans and newsboy hat, Sheila Ferguson in a short light-coloured halter and light-coloured trousers — captured standing together on a pavement, Holiday facing the camera, flanked by and linking arms with Pinkney and Ferguson, both in profile, faces turned toward the camera, all smiling, in a full-length black-and-white shot taken on a street in London

The Three Degrees in London, 1974

if alcaraz and lamine yamal both win today……

alcaraz PLEASE force a 5th set #frenchopen

Theo James for Dolce & Gabbana. 📷

Thank you, friend!! 🖤🖤

happy birthday daniel day-lewis 🎉

Val Kilmer (1959–2025)

RuPaul in drag holding the hand of Liza Minnelli as she sits on a royal throne for the ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 17 finale.

Liza Minnelli will appear in the ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 17 finale.

She is set to be honored with the ‘Giving Us Lifetime’ Achievement Award by RuPaul.

The Ebert Fellows on True/False 2025 | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert The Ebert Fellows report from the True/False Film Festival.

This year’s Ebert Fellows attended the True/False Film Fest, one of the most essential non-fiction cinema events of the year.

Here are their reports:

this is terrifying actually

you was made for me 🤌🏾

OF THIS I AM CERTAIN OF

finally watching last week’s severance episode. nature is healing.

Happy Birthday to Liza Minnelli who turns 79 today. Pictured here in Cabaret (1972).

I'm Still Here wins Best International Feature Film at the #Oscars

This is the first win for Brazil in this category.

2024/2025 awards season is officially over.

Liza Minnelli, Cabaret, 1972.

Cover of my book CINEMA HER WAY: VISIONARY FEMALE DIRECTORS IN THEIR OWN WORDS with an image of Michelle Rodriguez in Karyn Kusama’s GIRLFIGHT

Introduction to my book CINEMA HER WAY: VISIONARY FEMALE DIRECTORS IN THEIR OWN WORDS with images of Angès Varda, Lina Wertmüller, and Alice Guy-Blaché

Sample chapter of my book CINEMA HER WAY: VISIONARY FEMALE DIRECTORS IN THEIR OWN WORDS with an illustration of director Gillian Armstrong lounging on a couch eating ice cream

Appendix of my book CINEMA HER WAY: VISIONARY FEMALE DIRECTORS IN THEIR OWN WORDS which lists out a further 365+ women directors if you want to spend a year watching the work from a different director each day for a year

my book CINEMA HER WAY: VISIONARY FEMALE DIRECTORS IN THEIR OWN WORDS is out in tomorrow!!!

pre-order link and book tour dates here: maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/

that other app may be dead, but we’re mutuals forever ☝🏾

@podaboo.bsky.social happy birthday, my friend!! 🥰

a coonvention

Happy Black History Month

now watching 😌

my late-20s revelation is that david bowie was the hottest man to exist