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Eamonn Griffin
@eamonngriffin.bsky.social
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Enjoys every sandwich. Writes sometimes. No, nothing that you've heard of.

Now with web capabilities: https://www.eamonnmartingriffin.co.uk
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Dudes will literally write for the Telegraph before getting therapy.
November 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Are you a transgender uni student currently studying in the UK? Take part in this survey forming part of the research looking at how the Supreme Court ruling might influence the experiences of transgender people studying in Higher Education. Email Samantha directly: [email protected]
A poster with pale pink background and a drawing of three people embracing surrounded by the trans flag. There is writing in blue promoting a survey that says "Take part in a 20 minute questionnaire exploring, How might the Supreme Court ruling influence the experiences of transgender people studying in higher education (HE). We want to hear from you if you are a transgender student; You are currently studying at a UK university; You are over 18; You are based in the UK; You have heard about the Supreme Court ruling; You are not currently seeking therapy. We especially want to hear from trans Black people and trans people of colour who are currently at university. Got a question? Email Samantha directly: S23006415@mail.glyndwr.ac.uk".
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
Fuck the appeasers.
Big Nev Chamberlain, letter in hand, fresh off the plane.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
And if you've not seen it (or not for a while) the Roth/Oldman-starring movie of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f6g... #TomStoppard #BarryWatson
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990
YouTube video by Rolo Tomasi
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November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Pops in to see how the Your Party (TBC) conference is going.
a baby is standing on a wooden floor in a room .
Alt: A toddler checks out the situation and has it away on his toes sharpish.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
Least favourite film tropes

Reincarnated love interests. Just stop it, shonky Dracula / Mummy adaptations etc.
danacea.bsky.social Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 1d
Least favourite film tropes

Female character who is dramatically introduced as a warrior/scientist/etc, strong and capable, with a narrative of her own...

...just to become a wallpaper love interest for one of the men.
aptshadow.bsky.social Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d
Least favourite film tropes.

2ndary character: I shall stay and hold them off so you can escape.

Hero: thanks. I shall stay and breathlessly watch your heroic demise so your sacrifice can buy me as little time as possible.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The algorithm, knowing what's what, serves me up Udo Kier in the Criterion closet from a couple of years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4q...
Udo Kier’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen (as someone who doesn't really like gig-going):

The Wedding Present (inexplicable Lincs tent gig)
The Balham Alligators (cajun pub-rock glee)
The Beta Band (sweat-soaked walls)
Tom Petty & Bob Dylan (Bob in stinky Jesus mode)
Ry Cooder (awesome)
rjbarker.bsky.social RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 2d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

Also Pearl Jam (Didn't like Ten much, but live they converted me)
Thunder. (Don't like, but it was impossible NOT to see them in the 90s)
Fields of the Nephilim. (Incredible)
NIN (Unbearably hot, had to leave)
David Eugene Edwards. (Wow.)
sunadasi.bsky.social Suna Dasi @sunadasi.bsky.social · 2d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

Pearl Jam (a highlight of my teenage years)

Ravi Shankar (a year before he died, so grateful I had the chance, it was transcendent)

PJ Harvey (so good)

Underworld (about 5 times and 100% would go another 5)

Skunk Anansie (dat voice, dat power)
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
This is a strong list www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
You’re gonna need a bigger boat: the 20 best films set on water – ranked!
As L’Atalante is re-released, we count down the best movies set largely on ships, boats, barges, yachts, steamers and trimarans. Submarines banned, as they’re under water
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The music and the video don't really have much to do with each other, but this is great all around - The James Hunter Six (with that ol' curmudgeon Van Morrison) - video filmed at Roberts Dyers & Finishers in Keighley #AintThatATrip www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaSG...
The James Hunter Six - "Ain't That A Trip" [Official Music Video] feat. Van Morrison
YouTube video by Easy Eye Sound
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November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
KRAKEN trailer - tentacular madness for 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wdX...
KRAKEN Trailer (2026)
YouTube video by ONE Media
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November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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If you're minded to incur costs for Reform UK (and, by extension, Moscow) by sending them some stuff in the post at no cost to you, feel free. #Freepost
Freepost details for Reform UK in Wales.
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Phwoar.
northlincsmuseum.bsky.social North Lincolnshire Museum @northlincsmuseum.bsky.social · 4d
Picture House Past: Cinemas of North Lincolnshire exhibition is open. We hope you'll pop by and see it.

If you do come and visit the exhibition, let us know what you think!?
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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On behalf of a student:

University of South Wales literary magazine The Flock - @theflocklitmag.bsky.social - is after submissions for its new issue - details here linktr.ee/theflocklitmag
Deadline extension to Dec 4th for submissions to The Flock, a lit mag run at University of South Wales. Details here: linktr.ee/theflocklitmag
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Oh, and if you're buying electricals / white goods etc, give AO a swerve, eh?

www.theguardian.com/business/liv... - 9.30am
From The Guardian, 25 Nov 25: The boss of electricals retailer AO World has called on the Chancellor to focus on cutting welfare spending rather than hitting businesses with more taxes, and claimed that reported plans to scrap the two-child benefit cap are “madness”. AO World chief executive John Roberts argues it would be a mistake wrong to increase welfare spending while the nation’s public finances need repairing. He urged Rachel Reeves to look at measures within the government’s own spending to plug the public finances black hole and not hit businesses with more taxes. Roberts – who was paid £1.392m last year - told the PA news agency: “Business is a force for good in the economy. “It gets demonised in this government and all it’s seen as is a source of more and more tax that they can then blow on the welfare budget.” Roberts told PA the Cabinet “couldn’t run a bath let alone a business”. And despite Rachel Reeves’s criticism of the misogyny and mansplaining she has faced, Roberts argued the Labour party needed to “man up” and “make some difficult decisions” in Wednesday’s Budget.
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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John Carpenter on the making of Dark Star www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star
‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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hlautismactcom.parliament.uk
🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following:
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament
This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The forensic audio analysis by Rob C. Maher of the 2024 Trump assassination attempt has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. This is great news for visual and audio investigations! aes2.org/publications...
Diagram explaining how the timing between a bullet’s supersonic shock wave (“crack”) and the muzzle blast (“pop”) can be used to estimate the distance between a shooter and a microphone. Three scenarios (T₁, T₂, T₃) show a rifle firing a supersonic bullet past a microphone. In each scenario, the ballistic shock wave cone reaches the microphone before the slower muzzle blast sound. To the right of each diagram is a waveform: a sharp spike labeled the shock-wave “crack,” followed by a later cluster of peaks labeled the muzzle-blast “pop.” The time delay between these events (t_d1, t_d2, t_d3) increases as the microphone is positioned farther downrange. A formula shows distance = t_d / (1/c − 1/v), where c is the speed of sound and v is bullet speed. Text boxes explain: “Downrange timing between shock wave ‘crack’ and muzzle blast ‘pop’ gives distance estimate between shooter and microphone,” and “For investigation of Trump assassination attempt: microphone signal was from the lectern.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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As it's Sunday, a reminder that Satan is Real, from the Louvin Brothers in 1958.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6zo...
LP cover of The Louvin Brothers' 1958 SATAN IS REAL. Image shows the brothers - Charlie and Ira - in white suits singing in front of a large simplistic plywood Satan while the fires of damnation burn all around.
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Makes for a triffic hangdog Giamatti Xmas double-bill with 2013's ALL IS BRIGHT
US poster for 2013's ALL IS BRIGHT (a.k.a ALMOST CHRISTMAS) starring Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd.
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Can I interest anyone in a spare seated ticket for My Bloody Valentine in Glasgow on Thursday? Open to offers, happy to take less than face value.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Today they’re showing the same double bill they showed on 22-11-63, when Oswald was arrested here
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Joel Cairo.
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM