Gabriel Moreno
@gabmoren.bsky.social
Helping students find their needle in their haystack; migration/health researcher; union rep; tech enthusiast hating digital ecosystems that aim to cage you in their walls - trying (fqntly failing) to be a good father to a young'un
🎬 Apple’s blockbuster F1 is more than a film, it’s a media strategy. As it trails in AI, Apple doubles down on storytelling, devices, and cultural control. My latest reflection as I prep my Mass Comm case study module:
#Apple #MediaStudies #F1 bit.ly/3Gac3cn
#Apple #MediaStudies #F1 bit.ly/3Gac3cn
Apple’s Hollywood Moment
What the F1 Blockbuster Tells Us About Mass Communication (and the Blind Spot in Plain Sight)
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July 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🎬 Apple’s blockbuster F1 is more than a film, it’s a media strategy. As it trails in AI, Apple doubles down on storytelling, devices, and cultural control. My latest reflection as I prep my Mass Comm case study module:
#Apple #MediaStudies #F1 bit.ly/3Gac3cn
#Apple #MediaStudies #F1 bit.ly/3Gac3cn
The MAGA regime deploying federal agents to target pupils. What’s next?
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The MAGA regime deploying federal agents to target pupils. What’s next?
My take on the racialised politics of protests in Los Angeles bit.ly/4jCf2aV Imagine if they'd call the National Guard on the pardonned delinquents who threatened the life of many in and outside The Capitol on 6 January 2021 - (the image generated with Grok should help to imagine)
June 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My take on the racialised politics of protests in Los Angeles bit.ly/4jCf2aV Imagine if they'd call the National Guard on the pardonned delinquents who threatened the life of many in and outside The Capitol on 6 January 2021 - (the image generated with Grok should help to imagine)
White supremacist billionaire trying to make good with daddy after their very public fall-out. The original pix had half a million views since posting, Kekius' repost was over 130 million! A simplistic, racialist portrayal of reality in Los Angeles that serves the #MAGA narrative #OpticsOfAllegiance
June 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
White supremacist billionaire trying to make good with daddy after their very public fall-out. The original pix had half a million views since posting, Kekius' repost was over 130 million! A simplistic, racialist portrayal of reality in Los Angeles that serves the #MAGA narrative #OpticsOfAllegiance
That's how easily ignorant bigots with a badge turn on civillians doing their job.
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
That's how easily ignorant bigots with a badge turn on civillians doing their job.
The Enhanced Games as a Pageant for Our Times - how fitting that it's being ushered in by Trump Jr bit.ly/3YSmtn6
May 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The Enhanced Games as a Pageant for Our Times - how fitting that it's being ushered in by Trump Jr bit.ly/3YSmtn6
They started including journalists in their communications of military operations and now just being played like fools by the Kremlin. The level of incompetence is staggering
Putin and the rest of the world continuing to laugh at these bumbling fools.
May 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
They started including journalists in their communications of military operations and now just being played like fools by the Kremlin. The level of incompetence is staggering
One of the few courageous voices standing out among a spineless opposition
AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.
May 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
One of the few courageous voices standing out among a spineless opposition
#PopeFrancis is gone. But the choice now rests with those who remain. May they choose continuity of conscience, not just continuity of office. And may it be more Gospel than spectacle. 7/7
April 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#PopeFrancis is gone. But the choice now rests with those who remain. May they choose continuity of conscience, not just continuity of office. And may it be more Gospel than spectacle. 7/7
6/7 The world doesn’t need another autocrat in white robes.
It needs leaders who understand that spiritual authority means listening before pronouncing, and serving before commanding, the way #PopeFrancis did
It needs leaders who understand that spiritual authority means listening before pronouncing, and serving before commanding, the way #PopeFrancis did
April 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
6/7 The world doesn’t need another autocrat in white robes.
It needs leaders who understand that spiritual authority means listening before pronouncing, and serving before commanding, the way #PopeFrancis did
It needs leaders who understand that spiritual authority means listening before pronouncing, and serving before commanding, the way #PopeFrancis did
5/7 Let’s hope the cardinals don’t cast for a lead role in Conclave (the film), a Vatican thriller of intrigue, secrecy, and self-interest. Let’s hope they channel more Francis, less Netflix.
April 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
5/7 Let’s hope the cardinals don’t cast for a lead role in Conclave (the film), a Vatican thriller of intrigue, secrecy, and self-interest. Let’s hope they channel more Francis, less Netflix.
4/7 The question now is not who he was, but who they will be. Will the next conclave confront power with principle or retreat into defensive, centralised control?
April 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
4/7 The question now is not who he was, but who they will be. Will the next conclave confront power with principle or retreat into defensive, centralised control?
3/7 #Francis papacy didn’t dismantle the Church’s hierarchy or resolve its contradictions. But it did soften the tone, open some doors, and forced the Vatican to speak, (however reluctantly and against the wants of his radical conservative detractors), about justice, climate, and marginality.
April 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
3/7 #Francis papacy didn’t dismantle the Church’s hierarchy or resolve its contradictions. But it did soften the tone, open some doors, and forced the Vatican to speak, (however reluctantly and against the wants of his radical conservative detractors), about justice, climate, and marginality.
2/7 Now, with his passing, that tension resurfaces.
#Francis embodied humility, austerity, and the Global South’s moral urgency.
But he also carried the weight of an institution skilled in symbolic reinvention.
#Francis embodied humility, austerity, and the Global South’s moral urgency.
But he also carried the weight of an institution skilled in symbolic reinvention.
April 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
2/7 Now, with his passing, that tension resurfaces.
#Francis embodied humility, austerity, and the Global South’s moral urgency.
But he also carried the weight of an institution skilled in symbolic reinvention.
#Francis embodied humility, austerity, and the Global South’s moral urgency.
But he also carried the weight of an institution skilled in symbolic reinvention.
Three days after Bergoglio became Pope Francis, I wrote a post asking: Is the Empire striking back?
I questioned whether the cardinals had chosen a reformer, or whether they had chosen the appearance of one to salvage legitimacy headlinestalk.blogspot.com/2013/03/pope... 1/7
I questioned whether the cardinals had chosen a reformer, or whether they had chosen the appearance of one to salvage legitimacy headlinestalk.blogspot.com/2013/03/pope... 1/7
Pope Francis: is the Empire striking back?
Pope Francis has 1.99 million Twitter followers ( Gabriel Moreno, Penryn, TAHS ) I t is difficult for me to accept that the assumption...
headlinestalk.blogspot.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Three days after Bergoglio became Pope Francis, I wrote a post asking: Is the Empire striking back?
I questioned whether the cardinals had chosen a reformer, or whether they had chosen the appearance of one to salvage legitimacy headlinestalk.blogspot.com/2013/03/pope... 1/7
I questioned whether the cardinals had chosen a reformer, or whether they had chosen the appearance of one to salvage legitimacy headlinestalk.blogspot.com/2013/03/pope... 1/7
The true face of America under the leadership of a depraved, narcissistic fool in his power trip #UncleSamAtItsWorse
April 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The true face of America under the leadership of a depraved, narcissistic fool in his power trip #UncleSamAtItsWorse
This is a job for DOGE, which will hopefully cut her off the whitehouse payroll. An AI avatar spouting the same ridiculous nonsense in a loop should be enough
Paraphrasing the Brexiteer 'Europe needs us more than we need them' justification for the UK committing its own act of economic self-sabotage.
In the end, it was exposed as nonsense. UK trading terms with the EU actually worsened, and our trade, economy and reputation have never recovered.
In the end, it was exposed as nonsense. UK trading terms with the EU actually worsened, and our trade, economy and reputation have never recovered.
Leavitt defends tariffs: "America does not need other countries as much as other countries need us ... President Trump has a spine of steel."
April 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is a job for DOGE, which will hopefully cut her off the whitehouse payroll. An AI avatar spouting the same ridiculous nonsense in a loop should be enough
China should understand maga bullies are in permanent dog-whisttling mode, speaking to their cult of lunatics and their echo chamber trolls www.perplexity.ai/page/china-c...
China Criticizes Vance's 'Peasants' Remark
China has strongly condemned U.S. Vice President JD Vance for referring to Chinese people as "peasants" during a Fox News interview, with a Foreign Ministry...
www.perplexity.ai
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
China should understand maga bullies are in permanent dog-whisttling mode, speaking to their cult of lunatics and their echo chamber trolls www.perplexity.ai/page/china-c...
Reposted by Gabriel Moreno
www.barrons.com/articles/djt... Will there be any fools to “buy the dip”?
DJT Stock Tumbles as Trump Media Files for Trump Trust to Sell $2.3 Billion in Shares
The Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust would be allowed to sell 114,750,000 shares.
www.barrons.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
www.barrons.com/articles/djt... Will there be any fools to “buy the dip”?
The British press likes capitalism only if it serves them.
March 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The British press likes capitalism only if it serves them.
How does Freire's #Pedagogy_of_the_Opressed fit in a class on #digitalactivism? It's about resisting, in the way you will, and sharing your resolve not to be victimised for awareness-raising... that goes well beyond viral media. Platforms as #text-poaching www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmA4...
March 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
How does Freire's #Pedagogy_of_the_Opressed fit in a class on #digitalactivism? It's about resisting, in the way you will, and sharing your resolve not to be victimised for awareness-raising... that goes well beyond viral media. Platforms as #text-poaching www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmA4...
Developments in the #NorthSea are very worrying, considering the ship that ploughed into the tanker was carrying 15 containers of sodium cyanide - via @data.ft.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Developments in the #NorthSea are very worrying, considering the ship that ploughed into the tanker was carrying 15 containers of sodium cyanide - via @data.ft.com
Reposted by Gabriel Moreno
#TXGovAbbott. You need to read this.
February 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#TXGovAbbott. You need to read this.
Reposted by Gabriel Moreno
And just to be very clear, accidentally firing people isn’t a thing, Nazi Musk is deliberately firing everyone he can no matter how crucial they are to the safety and security of the United States in order to cause chaos. He’s an enemy of the state and we are all in danger.
February 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
And just to be very clear, accidentally firing people isn’t a thing, Nazi Musk is deliberately firing everyone he can no matter how crucial they are to the safety and security of the United States in order to cause chaos. He’s an enemy of the state and we are all in danger.