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  1. #tercinema

    Ghostland

    Eu gostei do filme por ser bem agoniante e ter um plot twist interessante mas não tem um enredo sensacional nem nada e é bem transmisógino, então eu não assistiria de novo e nem recomendo!

    boxd.it/h5Uw

  2. Probing the many benefits of GLP-1 receptor agonists

    RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 05 October 2026 Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are approved for the treatment of type…
    #NewsBeep #News #Medication #Biomedicine #Biotechnology #CA #Canada #CancerResearch #general #Health #MedicinalChemistry #MolecularMedicine #Pharmacology/Toxicology
    newsbeep.com/ca/922092/

  3. #tercinema

    Filme que gostei mas não assistiria de novo: Bring her back

    Eu acho um filme de terror ótimo e a atuação da sally hawkins tá absurda mas é um filme com muitas cenas agoniantes (envolvendo crianças, o que eu odeio), outras bem estressantes pique arrancar o cabelo, então eu não passaria por esse sofrimento de novo

    Recomendo dar uma passada no does the dog die antes de checar!

    boxd.it/Hxlc

  4. I've honed my CV to near perfect over the years, pixel by pixel. Every interviewer, in the before-ATS times, told me it looks great. I edit it for every job application, agonising over how to keep it on just two pages. I even rebuilt it in html->pdf but, no, that won't do at all. Fuck sake.

  5. Gazing into the Abyss

    OT301, Thursday, November 26 at 07:30 PM GMT+1

    Genre: Doom, shoegaze, noise
    Line up: Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Crashing, Farer
    Open: 19:30 - 01:00 hrs
    Tickets: € 10

    A night of doom + shoegaze + noise
    Hidden Since the Foundation of the World · Crashing · Farer

    The abyss is loud, and it gazes back.

    A night of loud and heavy music at OT301 with bands from across the Dutch underground, each arriving from a different direction. Farer build doom out of two bass guitars, no guitar, and a voice used as a primal scream. Crashing play reverb-soaked shoegaze and alt-rock in the spirit of Dinosaur Jr. and My Bloody Valentine. Hidden Since the Foundation of the World sit in between: electric violin, fuzz and feedback, somewhere between early Sabbath and spaced-out noise, inside a wall of fog.

    Slow where it needs to be, loud throughout. Three bands from 20:00, finished by 23:00. Entry €10.

    Bring earplugs.
    Artists

    Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
    Neo-psychedelic doom — Amsterdam, NL
    Hidden Since the Foundation of the World began, fittingly, at an academic panel on exorcism, where founding members Blev Lavoux (vocals, violin) and Joel Bordeaux (guitar, electronics) first met. By 2025 the two Americans had added a Dutch rhythm section — Ivar van der Heijden (bass) and Kareem de Vries (drums) — in Amsterdam, and built something that refuses to sit still inside doom: electric violin, fuzz and feedback pulled from early Sabbath out to spaced-out noise, funeral doom and sludge, melody and post-punk restlessness riding on top. Live, synced films and samples dissolve into unpredictable, improvisational transitions inside a wall of fog.
    Website · Bandcamp · Instagram · YouTube

    Crashing
    Inspired by shoegaze and alt-rock giants like Dinosaur Jr. and My Bloody Valentine, Crashing indulges in noisy reverberated hooks, intense live performances and raw unfiltered volume with a strong emphasis on DIY culture. Be prepared for immersive noise and hard hitting tracks crafted not only to be heard, but to be physically felt. Crank up the gain. Nail the kick drum to the floor. Bring earplugs.
    Instagram · Spotify · 'Tuco' video · Linktree

    Farer
    Dutch doom/noise trio Farer create an imposing discord of severe, caustic bass textures, harrowing vocals and winding drums. The band, featuring members of Ortega, was originally founded as MENHIR in 2013, but chose Farer as their new moniker mid 2019, after spending two and a half years of writing and recording their debut record Monad. By taking time to further explore the possibilities of being a band with two bass players and the absence of a guitar, the record exhibits the bands evolution into a new entity thoroughly. Meaning, carefully crafted, drawn-out, oppressive and compelling songs.
    With their debut, Farer made a committed and captivating testament to suffering. Heavy grinding riffs and deep pulsating rhythms; a restless stirring. Amidst all these layers you can hear the voice as a primal scream – the shock of being. The dissonance of forces vying for existence and the harmony of lightless oblivion. An agonising story of something or somebody coming in contact with the singularity Monad and thus creating an incomprehensible cycle of violent creation and destruction. Out of nothing, nothing becomes.
    Bandcamp · Instagram · Facebook · Streaming

    Doors open: 19:30
    Live shows: 20:00–23:00

    offbeat.amsterdam/event/gazing

  6. Why I Have a Newfound Love for Horror 😱👻🎃

    Horror never used to be our thing, when we were younger we thought it was a bit crap. Cheesy and not scary. But in recent years we’ve opened up to it all and now consider ourselves growing horror buffs.

    It helps that the last three years has seen a resurgence for the genre. There have been some incredible horror films, books, and video games that have come out and, as far as we’re concerned, the genre is revitalised. Thus, as Halloween beckons, let us put on our spooky hats and delve on into the mayhem.

    Why I Now Love Horror

    Now, in England the whole Halloween shindig wasn’t a big deal when we were growing up. We know Americans have that pelted into them from day one, but it’s only become a corporate pastime in the UK over the last 10 years or so.

    Yeah, we guess we were a bit snotty about the genre, dismissing it as low-brow. We’re not impressed with ourselves about that and we apologise.

    There’s no doubt some horror texts rely on cliched cheap shocks and unnecessary levels of violence, but when done right it can be just goddamn outstanding. And a big turning point for us recently was with Ti West’s modern classic Pearl (2022), such a clever film and with a phenomenal central performance by Mia Goth.

    This has been the big breakthrough for us, the wealth of brilliant independent horror films over the last five years exploring meaningful psychological dismay through horror.

    That peaked in 2026 with the surprise smash hit Obsession, a film so laden with dread it’s agonising to watch.

    Plus, last year we had the fantastic dark comedy/drama Weapons. The guy who wrote and directed that, Zach Cregger, then came back in September 2026 with his take on the popular Resident Evil games. And it’s fantastic fun.

    This spate of activity in the film industry, alongside our first readings of some Stephen King books, plus delving deeper into very smart people’s take on the genre, has sealed the deal. We’re all on this.

    One is N.J. Gallegos who is a “horror author by day, ER doctor by night” (see the brilliant and darkly amusing Eat Your Heart Out, which launched earlier in 2026). As with many modern writers, she’s tied her love for horror in with the queer community to write impactful new texts. For us, it highlights what horror is often actually all about and why it’s been so liberating for people.

    Another is Dr. Mark Kermode, who has a PhD in all of this. He’s the UK’s leading film critic and co-host of the podcast Kermode and Mayo’s Take. His favourite film is The Exorcist (1973) and horror is his favourite genre, he’s even done a Secrets of Cinema documentary about all of this. Behold!

    In a March 2024 feature for The Guardian, Dr. Kermode argued horror can be a positive force in a world filled with fear:

    “Whatever their nightmarish trappings, all of [Wes] Craven’s finest works can be read as down-to-earth allegories, often dealing with failing families and social inequality. In The Hills Have Eyes (1977), which took inspiration from the legend of Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean, the tables of ‘savagery’ and ‘civilisation’ are turned when a suburban family meet their mirror-image match while touring across the deserts of Nevada. Similarly, in 1991’s The People Under the Stairs (on the set of which I saw first-hand how much care Craven took of his young cast), the gothic horror masks a satirical tale of gentrification, greed and class conflict. No surprise that, alongside his genre films, Craven also directed Music of the Heart (1999), a moving biopic of Roberta Guaspari, a music teacher celebrated for her pioneering work in Harlem, which earned Oscar nominations for best original song (Diane Warren) and best actress (Meryl Streep).”

    As with other film genres, horror is a legitimate way to explore and study the human condition.

    That’s the scholarly side of it all, then, but why now for Mr. Wapojif into his 40s? Let us peel off the bandages and examine what went from a life of purity to a deranged world of axes and screaming.

    Why Neurodivergent and Progressives Turn to Horror

    You think back to the early ’70s when the Rocky Horror Show was on in London’s Soho district. Then it got its famous 1975 film adaptation, did nothing at the western box office, then was resurrected by progressives into a subversive smash hit famed for its midnight screenings.

    Inspired by Tim Curry’s gloriously bisexual outsider Dr. Frank-N-Furter, it gave the “unconventional” people of the world a voice. One where rigid, repressed Conservative ideologies of “traditional values” and other social norms aren’t a reflective structure for life given human complexity.

    You can think of all those queer people over the last 50 years who’ve watched Tim Curry’s performance of Sweet Transvestite and felt empowered. It’s a glorious thing (even if some of the film’s wider messaging now feels a little problematic).

    In that world of unusual monsters, screaming, and gore, progressives (notably left-wing leaning folks) have found something that resonates. And if you’re neurodiverse, as I am (Mr. Wapojif), in the autism community, in horror there’s a sense of the “monster” as an allegory for the philosophical concept of the Other.

    If you feel alienated in a right-wing capitalist society that we live in, where the Extrovert Ideal and obnoxious behaviour is celebrated and rewarded, in horror you can find a cultural outlet.

    Various figures across horror break bodily, behavioural, and sensory norms. For neurotypical people, we can watch a “monster” get punished in horror films simply for existing. It doesn’t look like normal stuff, its behaviour is a bit weird, so it must be punished.

    We’ve seen this recently in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, where the cyclops Polyphemus will be viewed by many cinemagoers as an antagonist. He eats some of Odysseus’ men after they invade his space, but then is savagely attacked by them and injured. We’ve seen many online comments sympathising with the beast, a shepherd who enjoys making cheese, whose life is ruined by a marauding bunch of battle hardened egomaniacs.

    Not that this is about letting evil characters off the hook.

    In Pearl, returning to that again, Mia Goth’s character is mentally ill and needs help. She’s wallowing in a world of delusions, convinced she’s going to be a famous Hollywood actress, but what’s important to stress is you understand why she’s doing what she’s doing. The societal support structures aren’t there to help her.

    The film is set in the 1950s and it’s lucky she isn’t institutionalised. Her mother seems to be wary of that and trying to protect her from the state, urging her to lead a lowkey and mundane life. It goes wrong and Pearl goes on an insane killing spree.

    This is political. Conservatives are very keen to blame the individual and tout “personal responsibility” as the solution, but how can there be personal responsibility when support structures are so lacking, as they have been across the last century and inro modern life.

    It’s notable, too, in the 1980s our prime minister Margaret Thatcher moved to essentially ban horror, introducing the Video Recordings Act 1984 to crack down on “video nasties”. Tabloids such as The Daily Mail and Christian activists like Mary Whitehouse argued horror films corrupted kids and threatened societal collapse.

    This is a key part of the genre for me, it’s not about providing answers to societal woes and revelling in gore for the sake of it. More, it’s examining the consequences of a failed state. Whether its Annie Wilkes in Stephen King’s book or Pearl, this is what happens when there’s systemic rot and when people just don’t give a damn.

    Is there any coincidence I suddenly became interested in all this after getting my autism diagnosis in 2022? Seems much more than that, I’d argue.

    Horror is an uncompromising genre where themes of bodily autonomous loss, alienation, isolation, gaslighting, and more are explored in candid fashion. Viewers are encouraged to feel massive emotions during a viewing, which is why people are prone to screaming during certain films.

    It’s scary, sure, but there’s something rewarding coming out of that and processing your feelings.

    Closing Thoughts: Spooky Subversions as a Cathartic Release

    The subversion of social norms I think is where everything is at. A lot of neurodiverse people are left-wing. Not all. I’ve come across some severely horrible far-right people online who are autistic. Yet in horror films you’ll frequently find “radical” politics served as a Trojan horse, with capitalism critiqued alongside patriarchal control and other outdated societal structures.

    Plus, me being a big fan of absurdity and subversive dark humour, the genre is packed with it.

    Alongside the ability to explore human psychology, and deconstruct rigid/oppressive socioeconomic and political structures, I can now blood splatter my way further into the genre and likely come out the other side beaming. Wish me luck.

    #autism #essay #Halloween #History #Horror #LeftWing #Lifestyle #mentalHealth #misfits #Neurodiversity #Philosophy #pogressive #Scary #Spooky
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