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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 22h

I became a subscribing member because of Ben Meislas’s genuineness and commitment to relay current events without whitewashing.

Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 1d

I spoke to the hardest working man in podcasting: BEN MEISELAS of Meidas Touch, who's taking the fight to Maga (and beating Joe Rogan in the ratings), and doesn't mince his words about the state of US media, and its failure to meet the current moment.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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frenchfries&gravy @balboaclubhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Must read article about the growing influence of The #MeidasTouch speaking truth to power and stepping in to say what legacy media is petrified to say.

“People are waking up every day feeling, and rightfully so, that this is really life or death for them.”

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 1d

I spoke to the hardest working man in podcasting: BEN MEISELAS of Meidas Touch, who's taking the fight to Maga (and beating Joe Rogan in the ratings), and doesn't mince his words about the state of US media, and its failure to meet the current moment.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 1d

While we’re on the subject of TRON, here’s my deep dive from a few years back on how it was made, how it changed everything, and how Steve Lisberger and Steve Jobs almost crossed paths. “We were the bridge from analogue to digital.” www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ju...

‘Frankly it blew my mind’: how Tron changed cinema – and predicted the future of tech

From cyberspace to AI, Steven Lisberger’s 1982 sci-fi classic was way ahead of its time. The team behind it explain how they made a game-changer

www.theguardian.com

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Netflix has 12 pre-1980 films in October. They had as many as 21 in July.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) is now their oldest American film.

List in alt text. #FilmSky #Streaming

Netflix Pre-1980 Titles (Oct, 2025)

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
WILLY WONKA (1971)
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
JAWS (1975)
TAXI DRIVER (1976)
THE SENTINEL (1977)
JAWS 2 (1978)
ANIMAL HOUSE (1978)
DRACULA (1979)
THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN (1979)
RICHARD PRYOR: LIVE IN CONCERT (1979)

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 4d

This is remarkable. The world added more solar and wind capacity in 2024 than we added demand. 100% of demand growth PLUS 9% to retire dirtier sources. Cheap energy keeps winning. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 4d

I’m no comprehensive expert, but I don’t think I’ve heard a Taylor Swift song that doesn’t go “verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus with a bit of extra warbling”. Once you hear it…

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

I have had a very positive message from the in-laws in Billericay about this Guardian interview today: "you managed to give a view from every angle" says Kathy. (There may be some pro-me bias there in its potential to bridge!)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

So action will be needed to bring X back within the rule of law in our country.

Tolerating such an egregious failure of social media platforms to even try to uphold their legal duties has led to 3 years of de facto impunity for unlawful racist abuse in this country.

bsky.app/profile/sund...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23d

Tweeting at Zia Yusuf "your a stinky p___ and you should fuck off back to p__land with your rapey relatives" is something that the X reporting system is happy to endorse.

Scoreboard for p-word abuse
Green light: 28 (97%)
Sanction/not removed: 0
Post deleted: 1* (3%)
User suspended: 1*
(* same)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

I spoke to The Guardian's Steve Rose for this wide-ranging interview about identity issues: flags & patriotism, the far right & racism online + offline, control & compassion on asylum, and still looking for the common ground in polarised times
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 5d

I spoke to British Future's Sunder Katwala, who was a refreshing antidote to all the far right rhetoric on immigration, flags, etc. Britain is not nearly as divided as extremists suggest, he says, and we're "a generation ahead" when it comes to multiculturalism.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 8d

Cunk poetry :)

From:
www.facebook.com/PhilomenaCun...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11d

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

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Open Measures @openmeasures.bsky.social · 10d

American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans."

We checked the data. That wasn't true.

openmeasures.io/american-eag...

Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation - Open Measures

Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

openmeasures.io

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 10d

Here's the interview: “Most ordinary people just feel, ‘What can I do to help?’ So they do nothing. My life mission is to give people hope, because without hope you don’t bother."
www.theguardian.com/film/2018/ma...

Nuzzle a panda, kiss a lioness: Jane Goodall takes us on her wildest adventure yet

The wildlife legend wants to take the whole world on safari. As her stunning new VR film series launches, she talks about firing up David Attenborough – and explains why Andy Serkis was ‘fantastic’ as...

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 10d

I went to interview Jane Goodall about some new VR wildlife film initiative in 2018. My fave pic of her:

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 10d

They say never meet your heroes but Jane Goodall was one of mine and I’m very grateful I did meet her. And was so starstruck I asked for a selfie.

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 11d

RIP. Truly one of the greatest people of our age — pioneering scientist, tireless conservationist and all-round admirable, curious, generous person.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 11d

Only in the UK would it be a totally normal piece of urbanism to place a bin right opposite a pair of benches. Eat your sandwiches and look at the overflowing rubbish.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11d

Israeli quadcopters shooting children.

And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day.

Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children.

And our government continues to assist it.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13d

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 13d

Needs saying. My other complaint in this vein is that OBAA is fuelled by black women’s revolutionary energy, but they’re largely written out of the picture in favour of the white guys’ hang ups. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Jezebels, race kink and Cardi B: in One Battle After Another, Black women are still stereotypes

With its hyper-sexualised Black female revolutionary and fetishised depiction of interracial relationships, Paul Thomas Anderson’s much-lauded latest raises questions about how white male directors de...

www.theguardian.com

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 14d

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 16d

Trump is so clearly wrong on all this but from the outside it feels like the rest of the US is just like "Oh well, climate catastrophe it is then."
www.ft.com/content/81fe...

Trump’s climate tirade will not stop the new ESG

The US president’s assault on the green energy ‘scam’ is part of the struggle with China for global economic hegemony

www.ft.com