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#ceasefire #nevervotetory Outsider | not in the Meursault way | Cymro #AntiTory since 62 | republican ‘…let’s exalt the importance of ideas and information.’ Loves reading & enjoys a pint or two! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 7h

First event of BIAF - Joe Dunthorne and Geoff Dyer in conversation with John Self at Crescent Arts Centre tonight.

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Hutchie @handle.invalid · 2d

#NowPlaying Public Service Broadcasting

Public Service Broadcasting Night Flight The Last Flight Remixes

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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 2d

Thiel is a twat!

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 2d

The university I work at it is literally encircled by England flags targeted sometimes implicitly and sometimes very explicitly at students of colour. I wonder why that isn’t part of the discussion about “keeping universities free from hate”? (I don’t actually wonder this).

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

That’s the line and by Christ, they are sticking to it come hell or high water. Let’s see whether it’ll work as well on e.g. Italian police arresting them at a holiday villa outside Rimini in 2033.

Bridget Phillipson * @bphillipso... 3h g
Hate has no place in our universities or our country.
Antisemitism must be rooted out of our society.
Our education system must play its part in keeping us free from fear and free from hate.
My piece in today's Sunday Express

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Philip Jones @jonesjonesph.bsky.social · 2d

#TheTwen2ie5

39. Blue Heaven by Public Service Broadcasting ft. Andreya Casablanca
2021 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇩🇪

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv2C...

Public Service Broadcasting - Blue Heaven [ft. Andreya Casablanca]

YouTube video by PSBHQ

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Ed Percival @edpercival.bsky.social · 2d

Day 284. Public Service Broadcasting: Night Flight

A remix release of one of my favourite albums of 2024. What you lose in the emotional impact of Last Flight, you gain in the sort of Berlinification which was the hallmark of the previous album Bright Magic. Different kind stands out.

8 o/o 10

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 3d

Is it possible for a country to die of embarrassment?

@realDonald Trump
Thank you to President Putin!

Above a Putin quote about President Trump not winning the Nobel
Peace Prize:
"This award lost credibility. The committee discussed the prize for people who have done nothing for the world."
"He solves complex problems, crises that last for decades."

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 3d

Coincidentally, religious delusions are a known side effect of ingesting psychedelics--a practice now apparently de rigeur among the Broligarchs.

Sources--

Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/tech/silicon...

Nature Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 3d

Uh, slavers famously *censored* the Christian Bible, ripping out all the parts about justice and liberation, to prevent the slaves from getting any ideas about their own humanity.
www.npr.org/2018/12/09/6...

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Bertha DocHouse @berthadochouse.bsky.social · 22d

A celebration of the iron-willed women who fought for the future of their communities during the 1984/85 Miners' Strike.

Iron Ladies is the untold story of working-class women who found themselves at the forefront of a battle against the British state. Showing Sat 11 Oct. bit.ly/IL-bdh

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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 4d

Several retired national security types were involved in its creation I believe. They were listed in the credits. I also learned of this from the BBC’s arts programme Front Row. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Front Row - Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai - BBC Sounds

Film director Kathryn Bigelow and Booker-nominee author Kiran Desai

www.bbc.co.uk

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 4d

I enjoyed A House of Dynamite. It’s stressful as hell! I’d be interested in reading reactions from national security experts, but it absolutely captures how an enormous apocalypse machine exists on a hair trigger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw...

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

www.youtube.com

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Peter @pdxcubfan.xyz · 4d

House of Dynamite highlights what happens with a competent administration in moments of crisis - and how big a struggle it is even when we have the experts in place.

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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 4d

An excellent film. Definitely five stars.

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 11d

My review of A House Of Dynamite (dir. Kathryn Bigelow) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... (it premiered at Venice this summer and gets its UK release today)

A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonation

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 5d

A headline that neatly sums up why I don’t watch Traitors.

Headline from The Times

REVIEW
The Celebrity Traitors — a fun start but will these luvvies get nasty enough?

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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 4d

89 seconds until midnight I believe; the nearest since its inception in 1947.

John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 4d

Saw it earlier too. Excellent to be fair. What time is the Doomsday Clock on?

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 4d

Went to see Katherine Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite. Quite glad I’ll be among those who won’t have a clue what the hell just hit them.

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 4d

Why do I have this extraordinary sense of relief that finally, finally - a politician is challenging Reform? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

www.mirror.co.uk

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4d

The Wall Museum in Berlin, located at the former Checkpoint Charlie--border crossing btw E & W Germany--it's packed w/items attesting to the desperation of ppl trapped in fascist regimes, from hand-sewn hot air balloons to impossibly small hidey holes in VW Bugs.

I fear the US is heading for this.

DIY hot air balloon used in an effort to escape East Germany.

VW Bug with a teeny tiny hiding spot under the hood.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 4d

Brace yourself…

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 4d

I endorse this message.

Pair of pale blue jeans draped over an overflowing bin on the Blackstock Road. “DO NOT LISTEN TO HIM” is scrawled in blue marker pen over the seat and upper legs.

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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ @wjpme.bsky.social · 4d

Just saw A House Of Dynamite. Excellent to be fair.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 8d

On tonight's BBC Front Row: Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow on A House Of Dynamite and the strange days of modern America, Kiran Desai, the decline in university humanities course & we remember Jilly Cooper 715PM R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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