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Adam Murray

@admagnetic77.bsky.social

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Film programmer + write about film - Bristol Black Horror Club UK - All things Horror/Dystopian Fiction/Genre Cinema "A Cosmic Perspective"...

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Adam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social · Jul 2

A big thank you to @cineredis.bsky.social for the opportunity to write about a real gem 💎 My top pick out of an already stunning line-up at this year’s Festival. Excited to attend! 📽️

Very special thank you to Tarah Judah @maddyprobst.bsky.social @markcosgrove.bsky.social @hardiewrites.bsky.social 💜

Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · Jul 2

Made at the height of the Civil Rights movement, the pioneering One Potato, Two Potato receives its UK Premiere at @wshed.bsky.social on Sat 26th July 18:10.

Read Film Critic and writer @admagnetic77.bsky.social reflections on this historic feature for our @letterboxd.social HQ - link in bio.

On a grainy light blue background, a black and white image of a man holding a baby. Black text ‘ Reflections on One Potato, Two Potato (1964) An article by Adam Murray.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 2h

🦋 Announcing for pre-order… 🦋

Little White Lies 110 – The Frankenstein issue.

A hand-crafted shrine to @realgdt.bsky.social’s masterwork of imaginative and personalised literary adaptation.

Cover screen print by LWLies’ art director @boglio.bsky.social featuring Oscar Issac and Jacob Elordi.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 15h

If it surprises you in the slightest that Israel violated the ceasefire, you haven’t been paying attention.

This isn’t the first violation of a ceasefire. They’re using all of this as a justification for ethnic cleansing, and we keep giving it to them every time we refuse reality.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 2h

I struggle to fully allow myself to be politically hopeful on account of being burned over and over again for my entire adult life, but god it does feel good to see Zack Polanski on all the horrible shows calmly and articulately telling the horrible presenters that bad things are actually bad

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

IDF is still shooting people in Gaza

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

I feel thrown by the widespread proclamations of a glorious, lasting peace in Gaza. A lot even treats “now that it’s all over” as the unquestioned premise.

It still looks like a disaster to me. Am I way off? Are my domestic politics distorting my view? Either the consensus is wrong or I am.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 4h

'rightwingers want their message to go mainstream'

yeah you've been platforming them for nearly a decade you dorks.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

The not-so secret language of fascist fashion

Today’s rightwingers want their message to go mainstream, so it’s coming to a store near you

www.theguardian.com

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 4h

Contrasting the censorious hostility of the contemporary corpo-technofascist internet toward human sex work/porn with its embrace of machine-generated synthetic sex 'content' is so illustrative of the labour-breaking/disenfranchising underpinnings of the 'AI' project.

The Verge @theverge.com · 22h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6d

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 12h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 1d

“We have to do something. We can't just sit in silence. And we can't let the congregation just stay at home.”

news.sky.com/story/i-dont...

'I don't remember feeling this unsafe': Frightened worshippers too scared to walk the streets

Frightened worshippers are turning to volunteers to walk them home because they don't feel safe, as religious hate crime recorded by police in England and Wales hits a record high.

news.sky.com

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta fucking tax these people man. You can't let people get this rich.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

The world's richest man, and owner of one of the largest social media platforms, is funding white supremacists seeking to undermine democracy everywhere he can. www.huffpost.com/entry/tommy-...

Far-Right UK Activist ‘Tommy Robinson’ Says Elon Musk Is Funding His Latest Legal Fight

Musk recently appeared by videolink at a massive London rally hosted by the anti-Islam activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

www.huffpost.com

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 10h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 7h

I wonder if his mother has seen this clip

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 8h

The 'protect our women thugs' standing outside Asylum Seeker residences threatening women with rape while the Police do nothing.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4h

Lib Dem's Daisy Cooper calls for an assessment into the threat Elon Musk poses to UK democracy after Tommy Robinson said Musk is paying for his legal fees

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si oppington (fat general, antifa 3rd battalion) @stillwellgray.ca · 2h

modern life is just seeing yet another potato faced jackass brag about how they're gonna make things suck for other people

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 3h

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 1h

taps sign

bsky.app/profile/tony...

Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 27d

If you’re not antifa then I’m sorry, you’re profa

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 1h

yeah, go fuck yourself mate

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Caroline Churcher @newforestchild.bsky.social · 44m

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1h

I spent a day talking about the history of the British empire, with some clever kids. My new book for children, Journeys of Empire, is out now on Puffin now. www.sathnam.com/empire

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23h

So you want to reduce non white immigration by setting … an exam? In 20 years you’ll be complaining (again) that there are too many Asians.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · 1h

I can only see it as fundamental insecurity. A scarcity mindset that means that for them to have something, others cannot have it. Or if others have it, there's not enough for them. Rights, love, money, power - they always think there's not enough. Why? God only knows...

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 2h

Why is everything zero-sum with these people?

“In order for me to succeed I need everyone else to fail”

“In order for everyone else to fail I need to spread fear and hatred”

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2h

www.gq.com/story/dylann...

“Or crackers or white trash,” I interjected, saying the words he didn't want to say.

He grimaced but acknowledged them.

“That would almost be socially acceptable to say those things. It just shows you how alienated they are. And these poor white working-class guys, they must realize this. See? So maybe Dylann's family is a good example of downward social mobility. And Trump showed us this, that we underestimated how vulnerable and precarious self-esteem is for white, working-class people in this society. They not only see the white elites, but then they see…”

“They see us, black people, coming from behind, eclipsing them.”

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