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Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 3h

Just answered my own question about why I can't get over this cold though. Sometimes you can't see the woods for the trees.

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Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 3h

Due to festival busy-ness and bad planning I haven't had proper food since Sunday. Last night it was a pot noodle, today it was crisps, cake and a banana. My body craves vegetables!

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Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 6h

I've found the excuse to screen this at least twice in seasons in the last 10yrs. It's just such a thrilling experience, I want everyone to have seen it.

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hploveswitchcraft @hplovescats.bsky.social · 6h

I loved Altered States as an alienated teen, and this review does it justice:

"...sometimes you just need to turn yourself into the universe’s throbbing fetus before you realize that we find our answers in each other."

Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 8h

One year ago, I started the monthly column Cult Of Criterion.

Today, I celebrate that anniversary by writing about a movie where a guy gets so high he monkeyfies himself. No, not an Aaron Rodgers biopic, but Ken Russell’s Altered States www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

Cult Of Criterion: Altered States

A relatively mild Ken Russell film, Altered States is also one of the wildest studio wide releases Hollywood's ever gambled on.

www.avclub.com

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 6h

No. Fuck that. I’m a parent of a person with dwarfism. I’ve seen plenty of discrimination and ridicule based on height. Someone is lesser because they’re below average height? Fuck that. That’s bigotry.

Miller has vulnerabilities he has control over. Go after those.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

AOC Wants Us to Mock Stephen Miller’s Height. Is That a Good Idea?

I’m here for it—mostly.

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tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · 7h

Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is as startling in form and style as in drama and worldview; a quietly wildly original movie, a grim and giddy delight: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind” Reinvents the Heist Movie

This action drama, set in 1970 and starring Josh O’Connor, brings political conflict and existential comedy into the finely observed details of crime and escape.

www.newyorker.com

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 8h

'Nowhere will be safe for teenagers while I'm around.' is an odd boast, Bill.

William Hague still being a thundering tool after all these years.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 8h

I fear that schools being willing to drop diversity programs without a fight shows how flimsy their commitment to inclusion was in the first place. People fight for things they truly believe in.

Victor Ray, a sociology professor at the University of Iowa who studies race, said in an email that OSU’s decision to interpret federal guidance in this way “reflects the real pressure universities face as the Trump administration and Republican legislators attack higher education.”

But, Ray added, it may also be exposing the true colors of many universities that were broadcasting their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion when it was politically expedient to do so just a few years ago.

“The swiftness with which these organizations have complied with legally dubious orders shows that their commitments to diversity were often paper-thin before this administration’s pressure,” he said. “In many cases, administrators with existing qualms about diversity, perhaps going too far, now have political cover to take anti-equitable actions.”

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David Jenkins @daveyjenkins.bsky.social · 7h

This was an epic and enlivening issue to make. Proud that every illustration has been hand-crafted by human people.

Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 7h

🦋 Announcing for pre-order… 🦋

Little White Lies 110 – The Frankenstein issue.

A hand-crafted shrine to @realgdt.bsky.social’s masterwork of imaginative and personalised literary adaptation.

Cover screen print by LWLies’ art director @boglio.bsky.social featuring Oscar Issac and Jacob Elordi.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h

@pimlicat.bsky.social:
"Rachel Reeves is completely correct to highlight the severity and long-term damage of Brexit - which slashed UK GDP by 4% - but more importantly has been a calamity for Brits facing spiralling supermarket prices and rocketing energy bills."
bestforbritain.org/government_r...

Government right to highlight Brexit impact ahead of Budget

Rachel Reeves is right to "highlight the severity and long-term damage of Brexit", in her comments ahead of the Budget, campaigners have said.

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 7h

A period haunted house story written by Stephen Volk (he, of ”Ghostwatch”), that builds a genuinely creepy atmosphere of mounting dread, and full of little scares that make you jump, but aren’t artificial “jump scares,” all with the best performance by a dollhouse in cinema - well worth the watch.

Poster for the film “The Uninvited” (2011).

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 7h

Diva (1981) Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and a philosopher all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French thriller.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 7h

For eight years now we have been working with the Nigerian Film Corporation and the University of Jos to build the first master program for film heritage specialists in Africa. Part of the reason is that Nigeria is now one of the leading film producers in the world. This is the other part.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 7h

Behold my admin. These are all for sale in my shop. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 7h

There’s gonna be so many fewer words when I’m in charge. Way less words

Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 21h

Hi what

Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”

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Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 7h

I've got a press group in Cardiff, how do I pass this onto them?

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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 7h

LAST MINUTE CALL for all regional journalists and independent TV & film press...

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 9h

List of Labour MPs who are openly transphobic nowadays and who to vote for to unseat them.

1) Tonia Antoniazzi

Transphobic for years. Open GC. Behind the "Women's Dec" for Labour

Constituency: Gower
Maj: 11567

Suggested vote: Plaid Cymru

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Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 9h

Wow, this properly marks my time in working in film. I ran a course called Talk Film going through contemporary movements in film and this was one of the films. I used it as a jumping-off-point to talk about The Three Amigos. I remember the discussion clear as day and still see audience members.

𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 @framerated.co.uk · 1d

Cian McGrath reviewed BIUTIFUL for its 15th anniversary www.framerated.co.uk/biutiful-2010/

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 9h

Zack is definitely putting Corbyn to shame with how vocal he is being about his support for trans rights. Especially disappointing because I think Corbyn tends to make excellent videos/arguments on important topics, it would be an effective voice.

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CF_psychelist @cf-psychelist.bsky.social · 10h

Feels like the start of a real shift. If Reform keeps sweeping up the disillusioned and misled right while the Greens speak to the progressive and hopeful left, maybe the old two-party system’s finally getting a reboot.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 12h

Oh no, it's fine! Just wanted to declare my interests. I don't care if people like my hair or not.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 19h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 15h

“The UK stands at a crossroads. Are we going to be a nation that respects its human rights obligations, or are we going to abandon them whenever the rightwing press demands it? First immigrants, then trans people – who next, Sir Keir?” – Jo Maugham (@goodlawproject.org)
https://goodlaw.social/icp3

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK

Human rights commissioner calls on parliament to make sure guidance following the Supreme Court’s decision in April promotes inclusion.

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