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Glen

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Likes to talk about movies, sometimes even sees them. Frequent pusher of road cases, occasional pusher of faders. He, him

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Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · Jun 29

Muttering, "There's no discharge in the war," every time life is even trivially beleaguering.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

The city's Maratha Mandir has been holding daily screenings of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge since it released in 1995.

Iconic Bollywood romance marks 30 years of nonstop run at Mumbai theatre

The city's Maratha Mandir has been holding daily screenings of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge since it released in 1995.

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Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 2h

Guessing Jim Jarmusch saw this before he made his first few features?

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 10h

...you know what, Killer of Sheep lets me leave the house later.

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 10h

Killer of Sheep is playing at GoMA, Platonic Sex are playing a set at Sonic Sherpa, and I am still paralysed by indecision.

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 2d

You could hear the woman on the other end of the phone and lemme tell you, there was a PAUSE.

Also her boss was in the lift too.

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 2d

Did a gig earlier today at the top of an office tower. Tradies were working on floors in between so we rode the lift with them. One apprentice was on the phone to WorkCover telling them she didn't want to progress her claim because, "Her boss was just going to pay it out as overtime."

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Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 2d

A fun message to get - while making dinner before heading out to a shift that starts at 11pm - is one telling you the start time for the next day's shift has been moved up.

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 2d

Complaining about imported culture while rocking a Sherlock avi! (I guess it's publicly funded and thus not so commercial?)

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 2d

(I should really catch up with First Cow some time.)

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Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 2d

(I haven't always been Reichardt's number 1 fan but Showing Up was excellent and Josh O'Connor as a shitty art thief sounds like a great time.)

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Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 2d

The Reveal reviewed The Mastermind so I looked it up, fully expecting it to be the usual Australian January/February prestige release... but it's actually out next Thursday!!!

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Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 4d

(Mind you, still not as bad as when the teacher who supervised my first prac showed his Year 9 history class a white nationalist YouTube video about Australia's migration history.)

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine rocking up to a classroom as a supply teacher and trying to make this "resource" work.

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 4d

I was already pretty happy about my decision to get out of teaching but having the good fortune to miss all of this bullshit is the cherry on top.

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 4d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 4d

(Also Altman decided AGI was not actually a useful term around the same time.)

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 4d

I think the release of gpt5 seemed to do a lot to damage that particular belief. (Imo it is not a coincidence that Zuckerberg switched from talking about AGI to talking about "super intelligence" not long after.)

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Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 4d

"Imagine being ratioed by trees." - Emma, expressing sympathy as I die from hayfever.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 4d

Coffee is the ultimate former alcoholic drink. You can pay a guy $18 to make a fancy version of it right in front of your bloodshot eyes, or you can buy one in a gas station for a buck and a half while slowly crying to "Night Moves" because you just need to feel something again

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Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 4d

Now I want to know what Aussie music Sweden is really into. (I guess it's probably just the Wiggles or AC/DC.)

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Liz Hicks @lizhicks.bsky.social · 5d

“Lawyers and activists say these incidents fit a pattern of increased police force against protesters – including so-called ‘less-lethal’ tools such as baton rounds, flash-bang devices and capsicum spray.”

7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/why...

Why protests are getting more dangerous

Melbourne photojournalist Alex Zucco was cleaning her camera lens when a police officer hit her directly in the face with a stream of capsicum spray at a protest outside the Melbourne Land Forces Inte...

7ampodcast.com.au

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Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 5d

If you wanna reduce Ariel Bogle's excellent and not at all pro cop work to a headline chosen by someone else that's your call. But personally I think it's good to read some of the people doing the actual reporting instead of getting it filtered through a YouTuber later.

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 5d

Like I know we all mean well here but we are encouraging people to walk away with the message that "The mainstream media is all pro cop and anti protestor".

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 5d

Screenshotting instead of linking, and encouraging people to focus only on the headline, is part of the problem. No matter how good they are you cannot inform people solely through headlines.

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 5d

I too would choose "Why policing at protests is becoming more violent" but also I think headline based engagement is not great media engagement and at the very least we could do two things.

Glen @bigsigh.bsky.social · 5d

Gonna opt not to speculate seeing as I don't know the editor who picked it or how the publication usually leans. It could be ideological, it could be shitty tone moderating, it could be the editor felt it read well and was concise.