Stay entertained thanks to our Weekly Tracker giving you next week's Anticipated Movies & Shows, Most Watched & Returning Favorites, and Shows Changes & Popular Trailers.

Anticipated Movies

• Arco
• Hedda
• Sisu: Road to Revenge
• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
• Regretting You
• ☆ Bugonia
• Shelby Oaks
• Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
• Queens of the Dead

Anticipated Shows

• Haha, You Clowns
• The Monster of Florence
• Mob War: Philadelphia vs. the Mafia
• Harlan Coben's Lazarus
• Allen Iv3rson
• On the Run
• ☆ Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order
• The Asset

Returing Favorites

• Tracker — Season 3
• QI — Season 23
• The Kardashians — Season 7
• Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake — Season 2
• Nobody Wants This — Season 2
• Married at First Sight — Season 19
• ☆ Mayor of Kingstown — Season 4
• Trigger Point — Season 3

Trending Shows Status Changes

• Solar Opposites — Returning Series → Ended
• Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy — Returning Series → Ended

Most Watched Movies this Week

• new The Woman in Cabin 10
• -1 The Conjuring: Last Rites
• = The Fantastic 4: First Steps
• -2 The Lost Bus
• +1 Weapons
• -2 Play Dirty
• +1 Superman
• -3 Caught Stealing
• new TRON: Ares
• -3 Nobody 2

Most Watched Shows this Week

• +1 Gen V
• +1 Tulsa King
• +2 Slow Horses
• = High Potential
• +1 Only Murders in the Building
• -5 Peacemaker
• new South Park
• -1 Task
• = Invasion
• -2 Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Popular Trailers

• Yaksi Gozen Teaser – Season 6 — Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
• MISSION: 40 – Season 3 — SPY x FAMILY
• IN THEATRES NOW! get tickets or get smote. — Good Fortune
• The pressure is on. — After the Hunt
• Only in Theaters Now — Black Phone 2
• Season 4 Character Trailer — The Witcher
• A Storm Is Coming — Wicked: For Good
• #1 Movie in the World — TRON: Ares
• Ready to see some magic? — Now You See Me: Now You Don't
• Love, loss, and second chances. — Regretting You

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El camino de la sencillez es el correcto, pero es poco transitado.

aunque en un tiempo los consideró misteriosos poco a poco comprendió que eran simplemente su propio reflejo como cuando se ve un pájaro o una nube en el espacio

We’re going tomorrow and finally sleeping around midnight for once. Even at the lows I wanna be with her.

And what if it lasted like all day long and into the night? And more than one ship, too.

The universe will let me go easy this time. The universe will let me go easy this time and moving forward. The universe will let me go easy for the rest of my life.

In Summary: * A normal Saturday in October: college football games, monster movies, and little else of any consequence.

Prayers, etc.: * My daily prayers.

Health Metrics: * bw= 216.83 lbs. * bp= 131/79 (68)

Exercise: * kegel pelvic floor exercise, half squats, calf raises, wall push-ups

Diet: * 08:15 – 1 banana, 1 peanut butter sandwich, 4 boiled eggs * 09:30 – toast and butter * 13:30 – cottage cheese and applesauce * 16:30 – baked chicken, baked beans, mashed potatoes, whole kernel corn

Activities, Chores, etc.: * 07:30 – bank accounts activity monitored * 07:50 – pray, read, follow news reports from various sources, and nap * 12:05 – now listening to the Radio Network of the Michigan Wolverines as they broadcast today's college football game between the Wolverines and the Washington Huskies * 14:30 – after the Michigan win, I've now tuned into the Hoosier Sports Network to listen to this afternoon's game between the Michigan St. Spartans and the Indiana Hoosiers. Go Hoosiers! * 16:30 – watch old game shows and eat dinner at home with Sylvia * 17:10 – back to football. * 19:00 – tonight's Svengoolie

Chess: * 12:50 – moved in all pending CC games

Saturdays in October often find me enjoying college football games and monster movies. Today, for example, I listened to the live radio broadcasts of the Michigan Wolverines vs. the Washington Huskies, and then the Michigan St. Spartans vs. the Indiana Hoosiers.

And tonight Svengoolie will be providing my monster movie fare with the hilarious “Young Frankenstein” (1974) followed by the original “Frankenstein” (1931).

Will I be able to stay awake long enough to watch both Frankenstein movies? Don't know, but I am gonna try.

The adventure continues.

On Bandcamp. On MusicBrainz.

This post goes up a bit late because I have been busy playing Pokémon Legends: Z‐A, which is set in the Pokémon version of Paris. I don¦t have any Parisian music to recommend, but Vagabon is Cameroonian and fluent in French, so maybe that helps?

Sorry I Haven¦t Called is Vagabon¦s follow·up to her self‐titled second album (and Nonesuch Records debut), which was quite well‐received critically. In comparison, Sorry I Haven¦t Called is a bit less conceptual and a bit poppier, which makes it easier to listen to and, in my opinion, a little more cohesive in terms of sound. This is a great album to put on and just chill to in the background, but it is still sonically interesting enough to reward careful listening.

Favourite track: “You Know How”. I love how minimalist this song starts, and the trancey synthy vibes of its chorus. This is a great song to put on all of your lesbian shipping playlists.

#AlbumOfTheWeek

I’ve found a way I can personally handle tasks and tickets at work.

The problem is that most of the time, no matter how much I’m into a task, I forget plenty of things. I don’t know why. So I came up with a simple structure and Obsidian.md as a tool. On how I can express my thoughts on such topics and also save them for later.

The flow is that I make a personal refinement for the task. Write a short text on what I understand and what needs to be done. After this, I'll work on a numbered to-do list, starting with the first step and so on. In this to-do list, I really write each tiny point down. Mostly to visualize the tasks, which helps to go into more detail. My brain's cache seems not that big. 😅

After I'm done with the ticket, I write a short summary and make a small internal retro with myself.

This costs a bit of time and mostly discipline to get it done, but I think the benefit is bigger than the effort it takes.

Bonus: if the ticket comes back to you, for whatever reason, you have all the information stored and can argue about decisions I made or just check on what went wrong.

Sure, I could do the stuff also inside the ticket itself to document everything. But, for me, it feels like not the right place to do it there. Important stuff related to the ticket still goes into the ticket. 👋

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42 of #100DaysToOffload
#log
Thoughts?

The latest issue of our newsletter was rooted in memories of 2011. When we looked at the photo stream from that year (isn’t it great that memories are automatically saved these days if you regularly take photos), we were amazed by all the exciting things we did in just one year. In hindsight, it was also the last year of youthful carefreeness, a peak when life stopped growing and started shrinking. There is no bitterness to this, only a realization that comes with getting older and losing people around you.

Reflexões críticas sobre dominação, agência e silenciamento

A proibição da burca revela a persistência de estruturas de dominação e silenciamento. Spivak ajuda-nos a questionar quem fala, quem decide e quem é silenciado.

A recente aprovação da lei que proíbe o uso da burca em espaços públicos suscita debates acesos sobre liberdade, segurança e identidade. Embora apresentada como uma medida destinada a garantir a identificação facial e a proteger o interesse público, tal legislação revela camadas mais profundas de controvérsia, sobretudo quando analisada à luz da teoria crítica de Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak sobre subalternidade e silenciamento. No ensaio Pode a subalterna tomar a palavra? (Orfeu Negro, 2021), Spivak problematiza precisamente as formas como o discurso ocidental “fala por” mulheres do Sul global, silenciando-as sob a aparência de emancipação. A questão que se coloca, portanto, não é apenas jurídica, mas também ética e política: quem decide sobre o corpo da mulher e que vozes são efetivamente ouvidas neste processo?

Fotografia: Burca afegã, de Steve Evans (2005). CC BY 2.0 – (Wikimedia Commons)

A justificação oficial da lei — centrada na segurança e na necessidade de identificação — mostra-se frágil quando confrontada com práticas quotidianas: capacetes de motociclistas, máscaras policiais, balaclavas ou até disfarces carnavalescos continuam a ser permitidos, mesmo cobrindo integralmente o rosto. Esta incoerência sugere que o alvo real não é o ato de cobrir o rosto, mas a expressão religiosa e cultural de determinados grupos, revelando motivações ocultas como a islamofobia e o racismo institucional. A seletividade da legislação expõe a hipocrisia dos seus proponentes, que, sob o pretexto de proteger a sociedade, acabam por reforçar estereótipos e marginalizar ainda mais comunidades já vulneráveis.

É inegável que a imposição social da burca pode constituir uma forma de opressão sobre o corpo da mulher, reproduzindo padrões patriarcais que limitam a sua autonomia. No entanto, a proibição estatal não representa uma libertação, mas sim outra modalidade de dominação: o Estado, ao legislar sobre o que a mulher pode ou não vestir, perpetua o controlo externo sobre a sua corporeidade. Assim, a mulher que usa burca é duplamente dominada — primeiro pelo mandato social do seu contexto cultural, depois pela intervenção estatal —, sem que a sua voz seja realmente considerada no debate público.

Spivak, ao questionar “Pode o subalterno falar?”, alerta para o perigo de se falar pelo Outro, apagando a sua subjetividade e agência. No caso da proibição da burca, repete-se a ironia que a autora aponta reiteradamente ao longo da sua obra: “os homens brancos estão a salvar as mulheres morenas dos homens morenos”. Esta frase denuncia não só a arrogância do Ocidente ao tentar “libertar” a mulher muçulmana, como também evidencia o silenciamento sistemático a que ela é sujeita, tanto pelo patriarcado local como pelo poder colonial e estatal. Em vez de escutar as mulheres afetadas — as suas razões, escolhas e desejos —, o discurso dominante apropria-se da sua narrativa, tornando-as subalternas cuja voz é traduzida, distorcida ou eliminada.

A proibição da burca, longe de ser um gesto emancipador, revela a persistência de estruturas de dominação e silenciamento. O verdadeiro desafio reside em criar espaços onde as próprias mulheres possam expressar as suas experiências e decisões, sem mediações paternalistas ou autoritárias. Só assim será possível avançar para uma sociedade onde a agência feminina seja respeitada e a subalternidade, tal como denunciada por Spivak, possa começar a ser efetivamente combatida. O debate sobre a burca exige menos tutela e mais escuta, menos imposição e mais diálogo.

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Referência bibliográfica

Spivak, G. C. (2021). Pode a subalterna tomar a palavra? (Trad. António Sousa Ribeiro). Lisboa: Orfeu Negro.

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24 September 2025

“The problem with ideas is, the idea is often simply a way to focus your interest in making a work...a function of the work is not to express the idea...the idea focuses your attention in a certain way that helps you do the work.” – Jasper Johns

🇺🇲 The Fragile Republic: A Warning from the Watchtower

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Silent Sentinel — October 2025

Empires don’t fall in a day.

They rot in plain sight while the people grow used to the smell.

History does not repeat itself so much as it rehearses — quietly, methodically — until the next generation forgets the script of freedom. And by the time they realize what’s missing, the stage has already changed.

We are not watching the collapse of a nation in one dramatic act.

We are watching the slow corrosion of conscience — one compromise, one distraction, one silence at a time.

The republic still stands, but the scaffolding trembles.

And those from the watchtower can see it:

The normalization of lies.

The erosion of accountability.

The elevation of personality over principle.

The applause that follows power, no matter how cruel the performance.

This is not new.

Every empire that rose before us thought itself immune to decay.

Each believed that its wealth, its armies, its rhetoric would keep it standing.

But the rot always begins in the same place — the heart.

When truth becomes negotiable, justice becomes optional, and the people become spectators rather than stewards, the republic ceases to be a covenant and becomes a corporation.

And yet, the watchmen do not despair.

They stand, not to predict collapse, but to call for repentance.

Because a nation’s salvation has never come from policy — it comes from people who still believe in integrity when it costs them something.

“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” — Psalm 11:3

We can do what we have always done.

We can stand.

We can speak.

We can refuse to get used to the smell.

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The Erosion of Memory

The greatest threat to liberty is not tyranny — it is amnesia.

When the people forget what freedom demands, they will sell it cheaply for comfort, or surrender it willingly for belonging.

We are living in a time when memory itself is being rewritten.

Facts are reshaped to fit loyalty.

History is edited to flatter the powerful.

And truth has been reduced to whatever the loudest crowd agrees upon.

The republic weakens not because of what the enemies outside may do,

but because of what the citizens inside stop caring to defend.

Once the people cease to hunger for truth, they will eat lies like bread —

and call it sustenance.

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The Counterfeit Gospel of Power

A counterfeit gospel is rising — not from churches alone, but from the soul of the nation.

It promises greatness without goodness, strength without sacrifice, and victory without virtue.

This new creed of dominance disguises itself as patriotism.

It wraps greed in a flag and hatred in prayer.

It demands loyalty, not to principle, but to personality — and it calls that faith.

But true love of country has always meant holding power accountable to truth.

Anything less is idolatry dressed as devotion.

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The Duty of the Watchmen

The watchmen are not prophets of doom.

They are keepers of memory.

Their calling is not to curse the darkness, but to remind the nation that the light still exists.

They do not shout for attention; they cry out for awakening.

They do not seek to win arguments; they seek to restore conscience.

And while the world scoffs at conviction, calling it naïveté,

the watchmen understand something eternal — that silence is complicity, and apathy is assent.

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” — Matthew 5:14

So they remain at their posts — through ridicule, through fatigue, through uncertainty —

knowing that their endurance is not in vain.

For even in the fading light of empire, truth still burns.

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The Benediction

Do not despair, people of conscience.

The noise of corruption may be loud, but the whisper of righteousness is stronger.

Stand your post.

Guard your heart.

Speak truth, even when it trembles.

Because a republic is not sustained by rulers — it is sustained by the ruled.

By ordinary citizens who still believe that character matters more than charisma,

and that freedom without virtue is just a slower kind of slavery.

The dawn is not lost — it is only waiting for enough of us to remember what light looks like.

So stand.

Not in anger, but in clarity.

Not in vengeance, but in vigilance.

“The watchman has spoken.

Let the sleeper awaken.”

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#TheFragileRepublic

#SilentSentinelWrites

#TruthBeforeTribe

#FaithBeforeFear

#WatchmenOnTheWalls

#MoralMemory

#AwakeningOverAmnesia

#ConscienceIsPatriotism

#StandForTruth

#SleepersAwaken

© Silent Sentinel, 2025. All rights reserved. Excerpts may be shared with attribution.

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🇺🇸 La República Frágil: Una Advertencia Desde la Torre de Vigilancia

Silent Sentinel — Octubre 2025

Los imperios no caen en un día.

Se pudren a plena vista mientras el pueblo se acostumbra al olor.

La historia no se repite tanto como se ensaya — silenciosa, metódicamente — hasta que la siguiente generación olvida el guion de la libertad.

Y para cuando se dan cuenta de lo que falta, el escenario ya ha cambiado.

No estamos presenciando el colapso de una nación en un solo acto dramático.

Estamos viendo la lenta corrosión de la conciencia — una concesión, una distracción, un silencio a la vez.

La república aún se mantiene, pero el andamiaje tiembla.

Y desde la torre de vigilancia se puede ver:

La normalización de la mentira.

La erosión de la rendición de cuentas.

La elevación de la personalidad por encima del principio.

Los aplausos que siguen al poder, sin importar cuán cruel sea la función.

Esto no es nuevo.

Cada imperio que se levantó antes de nosotros se creyó inmune a la decadencia.

Cada uno confió en que su riqueza, su ejército, su retórica lo mantendrían en pie.

Pero la podredumbre siempre comienza en el mismo lugar: el corazón.

Cuando la verdad se vuelve negociable, la justicia opcional y el pueblo pasa de ser guardián a espectador,

la república deja de ser un pacto y se convierte en una corporación.

Y aun así, los centinelas no desesperan.

No se levantan para predecir el colapso, sino para llamar al arrepentimiento.

Porque la salvación de una nación nunca ha venido de sus políticas —

sino de su pueblo, que aún cree en la integridad cuando cuesta sostenerla.

“Si fueren destruidos los fundamentos, ¿qué ha de hacer el justo?” — Salmo 11:3

Podemos hacer lo que siempre hemos hecho.

Podemos mantenernos firmes.

Podemos hablar.

Podemos negarnos a acostumbrarnos al olor.

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La Erosión de la Memoria

La mayor amenaza para la libertad no es la tiranía — es la amnesia.

Cuando el pueblo olvida lo que la libertad exige, la venderá barato por comodidad o la entregará por aceptación.

Vivimos en una época en la que la memoria misma está siendo reescrita.

Los hechos se moldean para ajustarse a la lealtad.

La historia se edita para halagar a los poderosos.

Y la verdad se ha reducido a lo que la multitud más ruidosa acepta.

La república no se debilita por lo que los enemigos externos puedan hacer,

sino por lo que los ciudadanos internos dejan de cuidar.

Cuando el pueblo deja de tener hambre de verdad,

comerá mentiras como pan —

y lo llamará sustento.

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El Evangelio Falso del Poder

Un evangelio falso está surgiendo — no solo desde las iglesias, sino desde el alma de la nación.

Promete grandeza sin bondad, fuerza sin sacrificio y victoria sin virtud.

Este nuevo credo de dominación se disfraza de patriotismo.

Envuelve la codicia en una bandera y el odio en oración.

Exige lealtad, no al principio, sino a la personalidad — y lo llama fe.

Pero el verdadero amor a la patria siempre ha significado exigir que el poder rinda cuentas ante la verdad.

Cualquier cosa menos que eso es idolatría vestida de devoción.

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El Deber de los Centinelas

Los centinelas no son profetas de fatalidad.

Son guardianes de la memoria.

Su llamado no es maldecir la oscuridad, sino recordar a la nación que la luz aún existe.

No gritan por atención; claman por un despertar.

No buscan ganar debates; buscan restaurar la conciencia.

Y mientras el mundo se burla de la convicción, llamándola ingenuidad,

los centinelas entienden algo eterno: que el silencio es complicidad y la apatía es consentimiento.

“Vosotros sois la luz del mundo. Una ciudad asentada sobre un monte no se puede esconder.” — Mateo 5:14

Así que permanecen en su puesto — a pesar del ridículo, del cansancio, de la incertidumbre —

sabiendo que su perseverancia no es en vano.

Porque incluso en la luz menguante del imperio, la verdad aún arde.

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La Bendición Final

No desesperen, pueblo de conciencia.

El ruido de la corrupción puede ser fuerte, pero el susurro de la rectitud es más fuerte.

Mantén tu puesto.

Guarda tu corazón.

Habla la verdad, incluso cuando tiemble.

Porque una república no se sostiene por sus gobernantes — se sostiene por sus gobernados.

Por ciudadanos comunes que aún creen que el carácter importa más que el carisma,

y que la libertad sin virtud es solo una forma más lenta de esclavitud.

El amanecer no está perdido — solo espera a que suficientes de nosotros recordemos cómo se ve la luz.

Así que mantente firme.

No con ira, sino con claridad.

No con venganza, sino con vigilancia.

“El centinela ha hablado.

Que el durmiente despierte.”

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#LaRepúblicaFrágil

#SilentSentinelEscribe

#VerdadAntesQueTribu

#FeAntesQueMiedo

#CentinelasEnLosMuros

#MemoriaMoral

#DespertarSobreAmnesia

#LaConcienciaEsPatriotismo

#DePiePorLaVerdad

#DespiertenLosDurmientes

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Kemal Sunal war ein Armenier.

Ich liebe Kemal Sunal.

Her Biji Kemal Sunal.

Ich liebe Armenier.

Ich liebe Malatya Türken, weil sie Armenier sind.