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johncarvill

@realjohncarvill.bsky.social

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“Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide" Likes: Old movies, old music, old books Dislikes: Fascism, Zionism, Centrism, Racism, Islamophobia, Transphobia, Misogyny, Bigotry, Monday

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · Dec 16

Bogart. Yes, again. Can't have too much Bogart. He fought fascism and was as cool as any man who ever lived. This is a worthwhile documentary on the great man. Here's looking at you, Kathryn, Eleanor, and @mickmahon.bsky.social

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Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes review - a Hollywood legend, warts and all

It might be a push to call this documentary a feminist slant on Humphrey Bogart, but it wouldn’t quite be a shove. Northern Irish filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson’s work has often concerned itself with iden...

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 2h

Ok so the story is Cummings on Cummings, as per. Some day the real story of that little gremlin will come out - now *that* will be worth headlines.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 3h

Yes remember the wikileaked diplomatic cables: relelation was that they said mildly insulting stuff kind of as you imagined they might except not as harsh or funny.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 3h

Can you catch me up? Cummings? China? Data? What's the gist?

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 13h

Lovely writing. Brings her character to immediate life. You need to write a book on (silly) old Hollywood. Haven't seen this film. I see it was adapted from Hans Falllada's 'Alone in Berlin' - a great book that should be an echo from history but is all too relevant today.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 1d

I wish it were so. Sadly this is his worst book, worse even than Bleeding Edge.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 1d

It's dreadful. Ever since he handed the writing over to Neil and Rob Gibbons, Partridge has been shit. Why do the media continue to pretend this is not the case?

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 2d

“You wait. Time passes.”

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 2d

Dickhead. Unfollow.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 4d

Isn't McSweeney supposed to be politically savvy? Can he really imagine a world in which Kier Starmer is PM after the next GE? I mean, shit happens, right - "Events, dear boy!" - so we can't say for certain it'll be Farage. But we can be 100% sure it won't be Starmer. FFS.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4d

Grimly fascinated by these people’s maniacal commitment to utterly, abjectly humiliating everyone who has ever spoken a kind word in their favour

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.s... • 20m
I think the McSweeney strategy is the right one, because most marginal seats are
Labour-Reform contests
McSweeney sees the current political battlefield as a fight between Labour and Reform. He does not believe that moving to the "left", which includes these days moving to a more pro-EU position, is the way to keep voters who are tempted to abandon Labour for the Lib Dems, Greens and the Corbyn-Sultana party.
McSweeney's view is that Labour should focus on voters who are tempted to defect to Reform, and that presenting the next election as a choice of prime minister between Starmer and Farage will also keep enough of the left onside.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for the warning

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 4d

I’m old enough to remember Labour winning a landslide and me being naive enough to think they’d do something about Murdoch but instead Blair ended up baptising Murdoch’s spawn in the Jordan, then riding his wife.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 5d

A tad click-baity. Quantick gonna Quantick.

It is a shame they've censored a key song (which Dave doesn't dare name) due to the 'n' word. Ridiculous.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 5d

Sick as a pike, eh? Drifting into the arena of the unwell?

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 5d

Cool

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 5d

Thing is: Pynchon (like Dylan) contains multitudes. Why you like him can be v different to what I look for, and v versa. I miss the poetic prose, and the late style cutesy dialogue gets on my nerves. Milwaukee section was ok, Europe a frantic bore, finale strove for gravitas but fell flat.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 5d

Oboy! I thought it was terrible.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 6d

It wos Pynchon wot should have won it

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 7d

Ta, la. I *am* simplistic: I see people as either for or against Genocide. Colour me reductive! Kisses x

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 7d

Simon is a rabid Zionist.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 7d

Genocide Rock! Party on.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 7d

At last! A critically acclaimed film I actually enjoyed. Insightful writeup from @grahamfuller.bsky.social too.

57 year old man + 161 minute film + no pee break = Rave Review

theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 16d

★★★★★ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - #LeonardoDiCaprio #TeyanaTaylor and #SeanPenn star in a rollercoasting political thriller, as #PaulThomasAnderson satirises America's culture wars - 'It might be the best Hollywood film of 2025', says @grahamfuller.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/film/one-bat...

One Battle After Another review - Paul Thomas Anderson satirises America's culture wars

Paul Thomas Anderson’s frantic One Battle After Another is a storm warning for a fascist America and both a lament and a rallying call for revolutionary fervour.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 9d

But I love Vineland and am currently half way through yet another reread of it. It’s underrated.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah I recognise some of what you’re saying. But I think the book just doesn’t work, it runs out of momentum really early on. And then it’s just diminishing returns. Shadow Ticket is like that only more so.

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 9d

Yep. That and their Zionism. I can't buy the paper any more.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 9d

They were all in on smearing him, in cahoots with Mandelson, McSweeney etc. Denied it for ages, then eventually ran a big article crowing about it - how they conspired with the Right to rid Labour of all progressive policies and people.

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