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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 19m

3) "Der Tunnel" (1915), Cineteca N.

a landmark rediscovery: many extraordinary, prescient images

also a v careless, slapdash & repetitious film
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green tinted image of billionaires meeting in a NY hotel

purple tinted scene: crowd of workers assembling to begin construction

black and white: crowds of workers and their equipment, building the tunnel

blue toned: Mrs MacAllen 2 leaves her car and approaches the Tunnel Syndicate offices

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 45m

the green marble bathrooms are beyond belief

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 46m

2) One Battle...

IMAX in a mall multiplex the size & style of an airport

fell asleep for 15 mins early on, all like a dream after that, couldn't follow; 🤍🤍 the vertical car chase

looking down on a ritzy anodyne shopping mall with a multiplex at either end: mezzanine levels, escalators, constellations of lights in the ceiling; beautiful or grotesque, depending if you like that stuff

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 59m

cinema 4 times in a week (!)

1) fancy festive 25th anniversary screening of "Amores Perros"

Iñárritu theatrically reconciles with long-estranged writer; major cariñofest ensues

AP stands up v well, I thought

(but they should demerge the dog-under-the-floor part into its own film)

director Alejandro González Iñárritu hugging his formerly estranged writer on stage while people in the front rows applaud loudly and record on their phones

before the screening, the audience gathers in the Bellas Artes theater: lush art deco surroundings; lots of cameras in the boxes & balconies

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1h

but poor O'Goballs /
has no balls /
at all

Patrick Cockburn, "Interviewing Hitler"
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The pro-appeasement British ambassador, Nevile Henderson, said he was no longer worried by the British press corps: 'Except for Ebbutt, who is now S gone, they don't seek to make mischief.' At a meeting with Henderson, Goebbels was pleased to find that they agreed about the failings of the British press: 'He regrets the press dirt which has arisen over the expulsion of Ebbutt.' (Henderson did not take to Goebbels, who reminded him of a typical little Irish agitator`. He suspected that Goebbels had Celtic
origins.)

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 5h

"hardly nobody": beautiful construction

lines from Hardin, Tribute to Hank Williams

Hardly nobody knew that night
how soon they'd be crying
Hardly nobody knew that night
hank williams was dieing

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 14h

talking about Ch. Chaplin the other day & for some reason called him "Charles Chaplin" as if the usual way was disrespectful; it immediately seemed absurd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWmt...

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · Sep 12

Empedocles

Triangular danger sign warning of the risk of falling or jumping into a large hole in the ground

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 19h

games for the recumbent

book cover: Scouts of France, n.d., 1920s maybe; title Jeux Pour Allongés; small book of group games: guessing games, clapping, prompts to draw stuff etc. there is a deckchair illustrated, fully recumbent, although in truth many of the games sound like you'd need a table

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 21h

old woman came up to me on the street & said "if you turned to God you wouldn't be so tense"

I politely declined

worn brick wall, above it a blue sky with dark clouds

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 22h

I read that stupid pompous arrogant review. I can see how it must be v disturbing – I hate conflict, even if I'm in the right – but seriously: fuck them, they sound like they are primed to take offence, looking for conflict 🤍

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

For obscure reasons – early exposure to “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” followed by the discovery that Emmanuel Goldstein was based on a real historical figure – the Trotsky assassination has loomed large in my consciousness since late childhood. [1/2]

The desk in Leon Trotsky’s study in Mexico City, ostensibly left just as it was on the day NKVD assassin Ramón Mercader assaulted him there, with briefly fatal consequences, in August 1940. October 9th, 2025.

A selection of books ostensibly found on the desk of Leon Trotsky on the day he was attacked by NKVD assassin Ramón Mercader in August 1940, Mexico City, October 9th, 2025.

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · May 2

you you you

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

3's corner sliced off

large house number 23 carved into a white concrete wall, the 3 is thinner and seems to be missing a small corner

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

he's trying to hustle a tv career :) gotta respect that

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

pls! it is "cola bottle binge" singular
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.com

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

cover of John Prine's first album, 1971, him.in blue shirt and trousers sitting on haybales

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

a unique club in professional football anywhere
www.espn.com/soccer/story...

A Mexican soccer team, founded by the LGBTQ+ community, earns respect on and off the field

Claiming to be the country's first team that represents the LGBTQ+ community, CD Muxes are one of the more compelling teams in Mexican soccer.

www.espn.com

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 2d

"...to Oustralianize the pronunciation of imported English words"

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 2d

FC Muxes bench, 4th tier of 🇲🇽 football pyramid

photo of a semi-pro football match: part of the pitch is visible and the home bench with a huge poster saying "Local" (home) and the feet of the subs, coaches etc. some players from both teams and the referee are visible. FC Muxes (pink) vs SK Sport Street Soccer (blue).

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 2d

The Nips, "Gabrielle" (1979)
youtube.com/watch?v=4bDD...

sounds a bit like D. MacManus

The Nips - Gabrielle

YouTube video by Andrew Shaw

youtube.com

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 2d

"Would of" (for "would've) and other modal+"of" phrases are surprisingly common in literature – see the link below for loads of examples

But I've seldom if ever seen both at once: "would've of" (from Jim Nesbit's novel Lethal Injection) [1/2]

stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/w... #writing

"Well, I'll be damned," Eddie said. "I never would've of thought you had it in you."

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 2d

nowadays

Google satellite view of urban area surrounding the Calzada de la Viga, the canal long since culverted and replaced with a multilane expressway

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