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Bertrom.

@bertrom.bsky.social

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In a past life, I was a film teacher, photographer, theatre director and film editor. Now a psychogeographer and Jungian explorer searching for my Anima, and some purpose.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 2h

Very rare indeed.

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Me too!

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Michael J. Pollard

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 14h

From a Joseph Campbell perspective I’m at the Return with the Elixir stage.

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Been acorn picking.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 15h

My Nan was a classical music lover, and my uncle was a painter. We were all crammed into a run down terraced house beside the local pit and canal. No precedent for this or for my careers later in life. Where does it come from?

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 15h

Carrie Fisher sitting on a stool and watching her mum Debbie Reynolds on stage at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas in 1963.

Lawrence Schiller.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 19h

Here is the assumption that ordinary people are unable to grasp anything challenging or complex. It is a wretchedly patronising claim imposed upon working-class people by middle-class gatekeepers who define what is “relevant” and have no grasp of working-class history.

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Art isn’t too complex for the working class – that’s elitism — The Observer

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 20h

Youth clubs, Warren points out “can protect against divide-and-rule, offering deep, long-lasting and protective relationships and training in togetherness”, and thereby deliver something quintessentially modern.

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Opinion | Britain’s youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What’s most revealing is that few seem to care — The Guardian

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot believe it.
A lovely vibrant funny woman.
How terribly sad.

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Diane Keaton: a life in pictures

Diane Keaton, who has died aged 79, started her stellar career in The Godfather and Woody Allen’s early comedies, before going to appear opposite just about every major star in Hollywood. We look back...

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 2d

This is definitely the definition of fascism.

#USDemocracy

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

Phil Maxwell.

His portraits of the heroic old ladies of Spitalfields and Whitechapel.

“There is a kind of magnificence about them.”

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

Where writers really get their ideas.

Tom Gauld.

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Pleasure 😊

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Some of his other work.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 1d

It does Cathy.

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John D ❌👑 @everythingisjake.bsky.social · Jul 26

When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.

From “Patriot”, by Alexei Navalny

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 2d

Peck said that language involves leaders telling lies, misleading nations in violent conflicts and convincing citizens to turn on each other in exchange for a mythical past that may not have even existed.

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New documentary

A new documentary uses author George Orwell's diaries and archival footage to cast him as a modern-day prophet amid Trump-era free speech and authoritarianism claims.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 2d

If the story of her teens and early 20s was of service to others, her late 20s are about Yousafzai choosing happiness for herself. I think she deserves it.

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‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her — The Guardian

The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen wi...

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 2d

Drivel.

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Alan Partridge is back.

Really?
What utter tripe.

Am I in some souless postmodern echo chamber?

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 2d

No and that’s why it’s so disgusting. It’s expected. If one of us behaved that way…

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Nicolas Roeg.

A visionary. He astonished me many times, and there are very few
directors in the history of cinema who were so innovative with their use of film form.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 2d

Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes.

1959.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 2d

The beautiful Nick Drake.

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Northern Sky

YouTube video by Nick Drake - Topic

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