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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2h

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 3h

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 4h

As a coral reef ecologist by training, this is the single-greatest heartbreak of my otherwise blessed life: the extinction of the greatest ecosystems on earth, in our lifetime, with full knowledge it would happen, because humans love fascism & tat more than life 💔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 3h

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 3h

Blur
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Cyril Shaps
Played mostly doctors
Cyril Shaps
And dotty professors
Cyril Shaps
And the Archimandrite
Cyril Shaps
In a teacosy

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 3h

Remembering Cyril Shaps, born this day in 1923.

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John Russell @johnrussell40.bsky.social · 2h

If instead of putting renewable electricity straight into the grid you use it to make green hydrogen, you lose ~one third of the embodied energy. Burning that hydrogen in a power station increases the losses further and is a fine example of madness. www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2021/6/...

Quote: "Put an energy value of 50 kWh of electricity in and get hydrogen out with an energy value of 33.3 kWh, or 67% efficiency."

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 6h

Ooh - catnip!

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Leese on Life @katherineleese.is.tired.fyi · 18h

A Doctor Who pure-historical where the TARDIS breaks down in 1750 BC Mesopotamia; luckily, it’s actually a really simple part to fix as long as they can find someone to sell them some good quality Sumerian copper.

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 7h

Etched, I'm telling you. *Etched*

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 7h

Great thread and responses! Regarding non-realist TV, reminds me of a recent thread from @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social . I'm hoping against hope that Channel 5's Play for Today will attempt to revive the entire form rather than just trade off the brand. bsky.app/profile/n-au...

Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 14d

It's Bluesky so I would like to now talk to you, with authority, about something I know nothing about.

TV production.
UK TV can't afford to make TV (see article) so...

Here's a still from Blake's 7 series 4 ep9 "Sand"
Isn't it terrible. So unconvincing.
TV is so much better now...

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 7h

... and one reason they got Fisher back so soon was because they needed someone to step in after Ted Lewis (of Jack's Return Home/Get Carter fame, no less!) didn't work out. Ironically Lewis's story was called the Doppelgängers, though no summary I can find has ever explained quite why!

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 7h

Disagree with you hugely about your verdict but I'm not going to cancel you for it! 😂 Stones is an all time fave for me. Couple of fun facts, tho: it's an evolution of an idea called The Stones of Time that Fisher first pitched in the Hartnell era with a spaceship buried under the Wessex Downs. 1/2

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14h

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 6d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 19h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 22h

3 key members and trustees of the Film is Fabulous! team joined Tim of the 'Missing Episodes Podcast'

Film collector John Franklin, De Montfort University’s Prof Justin Smith & Sue Malden, renowned former Head of Broadcast Archives at BBC
YouTube Link
youtu.be/CK02j_Mi6iE?...

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

“Operation B-Ark”

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Unexpected turn(-out) of events!

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

"The proposed LEO megaconstellation..."

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

"...according to Collossal Biosciences."

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

"hit show", "public enemy number one". And yet I've never heard of them until this moment.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Amazon would literally put surge pricing on guillotines.

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 2d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited:

A small antelope species in Namibia. Photo by Yathin S Krishnappa, via Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 3.0

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 1d

These people have devolved into medieval alchemists, and not in a good, fun way with cool hats.

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

Another one for the list

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 2d

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 3d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 2d

Yes I was late in because I stuck around at home waiting for her to break the surface, then getting to watch that almighty crash at school later in the morning...

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