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Rick Burin

@rickburin.bsky.social

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I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Lit Agency.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · Aug 11

I sat down with my favourite writer, and her band. We talked about love and language and healing and sex. inews.co.uk/culture/musi...

Big Thief: ‘We want to take the shame out of sex. It’s been trashed in our culture’

The alt-folk band say their latest album is 'a record about everything': birth and death, grief, love and longing – and reclaiming the gentler side of lovemaking

inews.co.uk

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 2h

Tomorrow afternoon. Make Your Own Wong Kar-wai Double Feature with CHUNGKING EXPRESS and FALLEN ANGELS - two neon-soaked tales of love, loneliness and chance encounters in 1990s Hong Kong. Cool, melancholic, and stylish.

🎟️: tinyurl.com/yc8kcnv8

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 24m

Really funny that a bot has shared this

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 57m

The country around North Yorkshire is perfect for it imo

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 3h

Mrs Nichols has brought a packed lunch.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 1h

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz349bs

IT SEEMS to me that the
major advantage of print
media over web content is that with
print, the reader is not deluged with
aggressive advertising. This is why I
always enjoy reading my print copy
of Viz with a nice cup of tea and a
shortbread biscuit, unencumbered
by unwanted adverts. But not just
any shortbread biscuit. A Barbara's
Orkney Shortbread, with its sweet,
oaty taste and delicious crumbly
texture is the only one for me. Yes,
Barbara's Shortbread. Much nicer
than Mora's Shetland Shortbread,
which is fucking horrible.
Barbara Q. Sauce, Hoy

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 6h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

Check it out

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

It’s actually really exciting what a human brain can do compared to a large language model with rigid rules

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

WHAT

Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 1h

Zut alors! The assistant director on 1993's very first episode of EUROTRASH - repeated on Talking Pictures in the early hours of this morning - was none other than Erick Zonca, later of arthouse faves THE DREAM LIFE OF ANGELS and JULIA.

The IMDb credits page for the first ever edition of EUROTRASH, listing Erick Zonca as assistant director.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

Me trying to pull a fast one on my head of year

Malala: How smoking a bong brought back the trauma of being shot by the Taliban

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

The other guy’s brain was eaten by a worm. I am seeing a pattern developing here

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

Nah it’s good, do it

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 2h

Ooh nice, which show?

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 2h

“I don’t accept your premise,” he tells the man who’s come to dehumidify his apartment

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 2h

It’s a bit on-the-nose that the far right’s public intellectual says those things because his brain is full of mould.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16h

Jordan Peterson, explained

ca.news.yahoo.com/jordan-peter...

She explained how her 62-year-old dad had been dealing with a “host of neurological issues this summer that we believe stem from CIRS, which is chronic inflammatory response syndrome, due to decades of mould exposure.”

Fuller added that he had been suffering from symptoms of neuropathy and weakness for the last few years and his condition worsened after Peterson cleaned out his late father’s basement earlier this year.

“We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks,” she said.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · Nov 29

My favorite Jordan Peterson thing is how he styles himself a Master of Narrative who has a deep understanding of How Stories Work, and yet he didn't understand fundamental plot mechanics of the movie "Frozen". time.com/5176537/jord...

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Recording audio-only podcast in full corpsepaint @analgender.bsky.social · 3h

I do not respect anyone who would use ChatGPT to date for them, or for any other purpose, BUT: I have been in dating situations where my chat is nowhere near as good in person as it was over text. And now I've got to worry about whether they'll think it was because I was using ChatGPT for my texts

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 3h

Being publicly denounced for being scripted by a robot because i’m quite shy

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 3h

I think it would. He’s limited in some ways but could have properly handled the bank scene and the monologue about his dad, two sequences that don’t land properly. As it is, his behaviour comes off as slightly moronic.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 3h

Tell it to twitter, if you love it so fucking much

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3h

anyway, if anyone would like to read some things I wrote that are not simply the internet equivalent of screaming, here are two pieces about two things from prehistory:

a) an even OLDER border than any in my book, and
b) teeny, tiny ancient horses

An even older border

The brain of Movius. Also: some teeny, tiny horses.

jonn.substack.com

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 6h

It is one thing to get the hacks to talk about you that way, but extremely absurd to talk about yourselves that way. "The cool people are now in charge, we are all very cool"

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 3h

I have not! Thanks

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 3h

💯 me too

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