kieran garland
@kieranjohng.bsky.social
actor. shambles. working for characters since 2002
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kieran garland
@kieranjohng.bsky.social
· Sep 23
will be in The Upside Down for a bit
Stranger Things now booking til April
Stranger Things now booking til April
had a damn near perfect breakfast snack at Blighty cafe in Finsbury Park. was quite quiet. drop by, give em a boost
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
had a damn near perfect breakfast snack at Blighty cafe in Finsbury Park. was quite quiet. drop by, give em a boost
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This is demented across all parties. Absolutely absurd. Real degradation in our brain capacities in the UK.
Support for bringing back the death penalty, by 2024 vote
Reform: 82%
Con: 67%
Labour: 35%
Lib Dem: 30%
Green: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Reform: 82%
Con: 67%
Labour: 35%
Lib Dem: 30%
Green: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This is demented across all parties. Absolutely absurd. Real degradation in our brain capacities in the UK.
🎶 bah be beep boop boooooooooo 🎶
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
🎶 bah be beep boop boooooooooo 🎶
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be so racist the british media can't sanitise it challenge
Conservative Councillor says "young black males" are "flooding" the UK
Contacted by Byline, she defended her comments, saying “we cannot sustain the volume of.. black males” that “jeopardises [our] security"
Asked why their skin colour matters, she replied “because they are [black], aren’t they?"
Contacted by Byline, she defended her comments, saying “we cannot sustain the volume of.. black males” that “jeopardises [our] security"
Asked why their skin colour matters, she replied “because they are [black], aren’t they?"
Conservative Councillor Accused of 'Old-Fashioned Racism' After Saying 'Young Black Males' Are 'Flooding' the UK
EXCLUSIVE: Pauline Giles defended her comments to Byline Times, saying that "we cannot sustain the volume of young black males" that "jeopardises the security of our country"
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
be so racist the british media can't sanitise it challenge
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It's out: The epic of the Labour party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer. An endless tragicomic cycle in which right and left try to murder each other, succeed, fall apart, are murdered in turn, and then begin anew.
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, in the year of its 125th anniversary, @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social begin the tale of the UK Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#labour #podcast
#labour #podcast
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
It's out: The epic of the Labour party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer. An endless tragicomic cycle in which right and left try to murder each other, succeed, fall apart, are murdered in turn, and then begin anew.
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a good point but they did elect him twice to without the doubt the most powerful political position in the whole history of humankind and despite being unpopular his base still hasn't left him. midterms should be fun tho
Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
a good point but they did elect him twice to without the doubt the most powerful political position in the whole history of humankind and despite being unpopular his base still hasn't left him. midterms should be fun tho
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BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.
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or that, across the developed world, first gen immigrants comit less crime than native born people
or that the areas of the uk that have received the most immigrants have seen crime decline
or that elon doesn't seem to know the plot of lotr
or that the areas of the uk that have received the most immigrants have seen crime decline
or that elon doesn't seem to know the plot of lotr
Not that facts matter to brainless ethnonationalists but
Only 1 in 6 ppl live in rural areas. The smallest category is hamlet, population up to 5000. V few people in England live in areas under 500 & few of these have seen population growth, with low levels of migration too
Only 1 in 6 ppl live in rural areas. The smallest category is hamlet, population up to 5000. V few people in England live in areas under 500 & few of these have seen population growth, with low levels of migration too
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
or that, across the developed world, first gen immigrants comit less crime than native born people
or that the areas of the uk that have received the most immigrants have seen crime decline
or that elon doesn't seem to know the plot of lotr
or that the areas of the uk that have received the most immigrants have seen crime decline
or that elon doesn't seem to know the plot of lotr
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Not that facts matter to brainless ethnonationalists but
Only 1 in 6 ppl live in rural areas. The smallest category is hamlet, population up to 5000. V few people in England live in areas under 500 & few of these have seen population growth, with low levels of migration too
Only 1 in 6 ppl live in rural areas. The smallest category is hamlet, population up to 5000. V few people in England live in areas under 500 & few of these have seen population growth, with low levels of migration too
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Not that facts matter to brainless ethnonationalists but
Only 1 in 6 ppl live in rural areas. The smallest category is hamlet, population up to 5000. V few people in England live in areas under 500 & few of these have seen population growth, with low levels of migration too
Only 1 in 6 ppl live in rural areas. The smallest category is hamlet, population up to 5000. V few people in England live in areas under 500 & few of these have seen population growth, with low levels of migration too
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modern fascism has international ambitions & they see a real opening in the UK
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
modern fascism has international ambitions & they see a real opening in the UK
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Wrote a short history of conspiracy theories, and why we're drowning in them, for MIT Technology Review. Short answer: they're not really theories but a way of understanding the world — false yet seductive
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist
A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same fantasies that have been spreading for hundreds of years.
www.technologyreview.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Wrote a short history of conspiracy theories, and why we're drowning in them, for MIT Technology Review. Short answer: they're not really theories but a way of understanding the world — false yet seductive
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
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I'm beginning to think you can't trust random videos on the internet
November 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I'm beginning to think you can't trust random videos on the internet
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Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..
still think one of the most thorough + useful of this kind of work is Dunt's "How Westminster Works/Why it Doesn't". this is essentially a ~3 hour distillation of its findings. it's not sensationalist and it's deeply important in ways we don't really discuss in media day to day youtu.be/1Yfo1aS0O6s
How Westminster Works — and Why It Doesn't | Ian Dunt
YouTube video by 80,000 Hours
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
still think one of the most thorough + useful of this kind of work is Dunt's "How Westminster Works/Why it Doesn't". this is essentially a ~3 hour distillation of its findings. it's not sensationalist and it's deeply important in ways we don't really discuss in media day to day youtu.be/1Yfo1aS0O6s
fine to talk through the film as long as those talking reimburse me for the cost of my overpriced ticket
Is it OK to talk at the cinema? How about if it’s just during the trailers? | Polly Hudson
Is it OK to talk at the cinema? How about if it’s just during the trailers? | Polly Hudson
Some might argue that streaming movies at home has given us all etiquette amnesia. But when it comes to disrupting a screening, I think the rules have some nuance, writes Polly Hudson
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
fine to talk through the film as long as those talking reimburse me for the cost of my overpriced ticket
i know west wing fan stuff is over cooked but this was nice
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
i know west wing fan stuff is over cooked but this was nice
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Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive
Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’
on.ft.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
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Went back to Prunella Scales's contribution to Barkworth's "About Acting" today. Not just because it is immensely funny and charming, but for the most unfussy, practical, and profound description of a proper acting process ever captured in print.
Huge condolences to Sam and her family and friends.
Huge condolences to Sam and her family and friends.
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Went back to Prunella Scales's contribution to Barkworth's "About Acting" today. Not just because it is immensely funny and charming, but for the most unfussy, practical, and profound description of a proper acting process ever captured in print.
Huge condolences to Sam and her family and friends.
Huge condolences to Sam and her family and friends.
glad he returned the desk and chairs, that 30 billion is less worrying now
October 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
glad he returned the desk and chairs, that 30 billion is less worrying now
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It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, A place for ideas
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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the tories are proposing to deport 5-7% of the UK's (legal) population
not of immigrants, of all of us
not of immigrants, of all of us
October 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
the tories are proposing to deport 5-7% of the UK's (legal) population
not of immigrants, of all of us
not of immigrants, of all of us
Mel Brooks made it a 100. things could be worse
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Mel Brooks made it a 100. things could be worse
the composer Adrian Sutton has died.
i was lucky to have met Adrian once or twice while with Curious Incident, and once over a drink he talked me through the musical ideas of the play, how he mostly thought of it as a way to express what Christopher (the hero of the story)...
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i was lucky to have met Adrian once or twice while with Curious Incident, and once over a drink he talked me through the musical ideas of the play, how he mostly thought of it as a way to express what Christopher (the hero of the story)...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
the composer Adrian Sutton has died.
i was lucky to have met Adrian once or twice while with Curious Incident, and once over a drink he talked me through the musical ideas of the play, how he mostly thought of it as a way to express what Christopher (the hero of the story)...
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i was lucky to have met Adrian once or twice while with Curious Incident, and once over a drink he talked me through the musical ideas of the play, how he mostly thought of it as a way to express what Christopher (the hero of the story)...
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