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András Forgács W

@andraswf.bsky.social

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Hungarian-born British screenwriter. Same hat size as Ralph Fiennes, same shoe size as Anthony Eden As seen on the Bird App A national security threat, according to Donald Trump IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3416508

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · Jul 9

My movie 'The Whip' ceases to stop being relevant

Watch as Sadie, a full-time carer for her sister teams up with an unlikely bunch of characters to stop a devastating welfare reform - and ultimately to bring down the government

For free on the link below:

youtu.be/vboUAIibXPo?...

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 34m

Still more popular than Kier Starmer

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10h

It was backing Robinson (ditching Farage over his exclusion of Robinson) that took Musk to 80% disapproval in Britain - as that was how he secured majority disapproval from Reform, who had been the only group who approved, to go with his toxicity to Conservatives & centre-left voters

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 53m

are you sure you are not Justin Theroux

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 54m

That's hurtful, Jo

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

Cheap fucker

Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 1h

🤔Here’s Viktor Orbán bowing to Ilham Aliyev in Egypt. Their close ties date back to 2012 when Orbán sent home Ramil Safarov, who murdered an Armenian officer with an axe, to Azerbaijan—where Safarov got a hero’s welcome. Meanwhile, $7 million was wired from an Azeri fund to a Hungarian bank.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 9h

well, we *could have* put Karel Gott in an evening suit on the flight deck of the Minsk

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 9h

ohthankgod it's not just me

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 9h

Also sorry but Cher giving a concert on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri was the absolute PEAK of the American post-war Empire.

S-Tier military and cultural power projection.

With hindsight, it was downhill from there.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 9h

All the tsar's horses and all the tsar's men

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 10h

there is a gesture in certain circles in hungary* for whenever you hear about another batshit thing done or said by a brit: you just half-roll your eyes, sigh and mutter "island" under your breath

*well, at least one circle

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10h

He's one of those small c cunts we all encountered when we moved here: small men (sometimes women) with just enough power in their hands to make your life miserable. An unkind manager, a nosey landlord - that kind of thing

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10h

That desire to find order in a chaotic world ushered him to the land of fairy tales, with the sophistication of a mid-2000s Law&Order episode.

It's easy to see where the soft support of Reform UK comes from

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10h

The complex socio-economic workings of the European Union is completely beyond his capacity to understand.

He needs this as a crutch, because he sees the world as chaos. Telling lies to himself (and now us) makes the world an orderly place.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10h

We all are being fucked in limited and specific ways

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10h

The thing is for the Edwards, we never were really people.

We are just mindless drones of a continent-wide marionette play

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10h

See, Edward is spinning a yarn here, not something that's *actually* a real thing that happened, it's what he put together from things he'd heard somewhere. A narrative, if you will. Something that pleases his preconceptions and the stereotypes he believes in

AnnaCupani @annacup.bsky.social · 10h

On the Eurostar back home, still thinking of this.
I don't remember this "rite of passage" vibe (maybe I'm not middle-class enough, I came on a scholarship!), what I think we felt was a sense that an entire continent was now our home. We did what many Brits did, came to London, to stay, maybe.

Posts by user Edward Barrow. "A couple of years in London was absolutely a rite of passage for a section of middle-class European youth (as it was/is for Australians on the working holiday visa). They came in enough numbers to be a very noticeable demographic - when they were here, and when they had left."
"Tehy weren't planning on settling or making careers here - so took fairly menial hospitality jobs. Same as young Brits going to ski resorts. Its effect on London in particular was noticeable. Maybe only S. London?"

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10h

no, the problem is it wasn't *me*

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10h

I don't run this world, Manny, I'm just trying to scrape by

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 11h

Whitehall 10-10

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 11h

Edward, you are not following, what you described is simply not true

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 11h

Oh no

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 11h

How tall is a knob?
Ask Jeff Bezos how tall is he

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11h

Column: How tall is a knob? What about a dome?

The Post's Department of Data determines what separates a hill from a mountain, and if it changes as you go west.

Column | The real height at which a hill becomes a mountain, according to data

We found a dataset that allows us to measure what separates a hill from a mountain, and maybe even see if it changes as you go west.

www.washingtonpost.com

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 11h

Bródy Sándor utca 5-7

Miska Bácsi Levelesládája

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 12h

The only phone numbers I know by heart anymore:

- mine
- my wife’s
- my landline number from when I first moved to LA
- my childhood home
- a Philadelphia community helpline that advertised on local TV with the jingle “CALL for ACT-ION! GREENwood SEVen five THREE one TWO!”

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 14h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 11h

Still

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