"As a teenager, that space, emotionally, is all about a lack of control. You don't have your own money or freedom or the ability to do anything. You're just stuck" - Emma Higgins on Sweetness https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025-03-14-interview-with-emma-higgins-about-sweetness-feature-story-by-paul-risker #SXSW #film #cinema #movies

Dope Lemon @ #sxsw

Two parents desperately try to reach their daughter after she causes a potentially fatal car accident in Hallow Road https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/hallow-road-2025-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #SXSW #film #horror #movies

If you missed @molly0xfff's #SXSW conversation with @mike about digital sovereignty, you missed out — one audience member said it was "worth the badge alone." Luckily, it's now available on the SXSW site. Check it out here:

https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP147154

We're working on editing all the #FediverseHouse panels and talks, and we'll post them and let you know here as soon as they're ready!

@mike's terrific fireside chat with @molly0xfff on digital sovereignty, aka technological self-determination (taking control of your digital life and data), is up on the SXSW site. Don’t sleep on this talk, especially if you’re a writer or other kind of creator. With plenty of high-quality Q&A too, one person in the audience said it was “worth the badge.”
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP147154

(We’re working on getting all the panels and talks from the #FediverseHouse edited and posted. We’ll be back when they’re up.)

Remember when we used to talk about #SXSW on #twitter?

Now we don't, we do new things, better things.

We grow.

"It's definitely one of those movies that I wish I had growing up as a queer kid" - Siobhan McCarthy talks She's The He https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025-03-13-interview-with-siobhan-mccarthy-about-shes-the-he-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #SXSW #film #lgbtq #movies

Nor does the German Music Haus. Always discover great artists at both. #sxsw

The British Music Embassy never fails to disappoint. Nor surprise. #sxsw

Every venue mixing desk is a tablet app and the sound guy is in the mosh pit. #sxsw

I think we all need this right now.

Hachiku at #sxsw. Awesome! Performed at 13thfloor.

Question - how much of a tip should you leave for housekeeping when you check out?

2nd Question - how much more of a tip should you leave if you happen to be a horny 8 foot tall werewolf who may have some people over for fun and dinner? In that order.

OK AUSTIN! That's enough SXSW for me. Dr. Maddkap is pulling out. Make sure you clean up after.

Here's an extra $20 for you.

we out #sxsw

"There's a saying that I've heard: our elders have the visions but the young people have the dreams...To be able to build stories around some of those visions, I think helps us have more hope" - Paige Bethmann on Remaining Native https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025-03-12-interview-with-paige-bethmann-and-jessica-epstein-about-remaining-native-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #SXSW #film #indigenous #movies

‘80 years of lies and deception’: is this film proof of alien life on Earth? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/12/age-of-disclosure-ufo-documentary #Documentaryfilms #Alienlife #Festivals #SXSWFilm #Culture #Science #Film #SXSW #UFOs

A few more shots taken in-between sessions at the #FediverseHouse on Monday.

Little known fact: @evan and I worked at a startup in 2020 that never launched. It wasn't a great experience for me, but I loved the team we had hired, including Evan. I didn't know much then about #activitypub or the social web.

I went back to @Flipboard in 2021 and in 2023 I started to learn about #federation because of @mike's vision. Fast forward to 2025, Flipboard + @surf are organizing #SXSW's first #FediverseHouse. Evan was one of the first people to sign on, which created a snowball from there, which helped the event be a success.

This week, we got to meet IRL for the first time! So when I think about "the purpose" of that hard 10 months at that startup, I now know what it was.