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Richard Parkin

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writer, cartographer, filmmaker phil/lit graduate current project: Misadventures in the Land of Fables visit my website: richardparkin.co.uk to read more

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Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 1d

Reform = BNP

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 1d

Love that beech avenue, especially when it catches the early evening sunshine.

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Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 2d

Larst furr wartchd #letterboxdfriday

screenshot of four thumbnail film posters (from Letterboxd.com): (left to right) Choice of Arms, Rece do Gory, Spinal Tap II - The End Continues, Islands

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 2d

One of each, please, thanks.

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Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 3d

Yup. Hard agree.

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 4d

Ironically, there's a pretty robust argument for 'No Kings' being the foundational truth of the republic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 6d

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself."

-FDR (definitely antifa)

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Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 6d

Yup, but 'Christian' here means 'not muslim' and/or 'not brown'

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 12d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 9d

les quatre derniers, mes amis #letterboxdfriday

screenshot of four thumbnail film posters (from Letterboxd.com): (left to right) Themroc, One Battle After Another, Serie Noire, The French Detective

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 9d

Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!

- Brecht

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Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 9d

Liberation theology, baby.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 10d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 10d

I'm afraid it is not a good sign, no. But there is still a chance: you have Turnstile right there in Baltimore.

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 10d

Put in the Subject Header!

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 11d

tbf there were folk declaring this on the streets in the weeks after the vote, those people are frustrated it didn't actually happen

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 11d

Ha-ha. Yes.

OTH very few of the people I knew at university had to work part-time during term, none had massive student loans, because back then there were maintenance grants and tuition fees were paid. From what understand, the current generation still get drunk etc but not half as much.

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 12d

She must have been appalled by the coverage of the Gordon Brown 'bigot' remark.

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 12d

Because it's too on the nose? This is the complacent bargain they make, they don't believe the bigotry will ever reach them.

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 12d

Ssssh.

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 12d

If you are down the pit and not being paid to be down there, it doesn't matter how much coal you stuff into your pockets.

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 12d

Box office, you can understand—it's bleak AF—but the critics, what was up with that?

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 13d

dunno, but aren't NGs being federalized to act as security for ICE/DHS, that is, the regime rather than the people?

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Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 16d

Reporting the last 4 watchd #letterboxdfriday

screenshot of four thumbnail film posters (from Letterboxd.com): (left to right) Monkey Business, Pile ou Face, The Phoenician Scheme, El Vampiro

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 18d

Yup. People are dropping their pants and unloading insane amounts of shit on the internet every day. Google it.

Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 18d

Spot on, Søren. Instant follow.

Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 18d