Pete Dodds
@wordsbypete.bsky.social
Scriptwriter ✍️
Finalist: FinalDraft Big Break, Pittsburgh Shorts, Screencraft🏅
Psych-rock aficionado, film lover, European and much more (not that much more)
wordsbypete.com
Finalist: FinalDraft Big Break, Pittsburgh Shorts, Screencraft🏅
Psych-rock aficionado, film lover, European and much more (not that much more)
wordsbypete.com
50(!) years today since Bruce & The E Street Band's first show at the Hammersmith Odeon.
Great clip, though this show's '...Saint In The City' is even better, partly because Bruce dedicated the song to me ❤️
Great clip, though this show's '...Saint In The City' is even better, partly because Bruce dedicated the song to me ❤️
Bruce played his first show overseas on this day 50 years ago, in London. The music he and the E Street Band performed — later released as "Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75" — struck different notes: bold, confident and unmistakably ready for the world, prepared by years of rough gigs.
Spirit In the Night (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London '75)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
50(!) years today since Bruce & The E Street Band's first show at the Hammersmith Odeon.
Great clip, though this show's '...Saint In The City' is even better, partly because Bruce dedicated the song to me ❤️
Great clip, though this show's '...Saint In The City' is even better, partly because Bruce dedicated the song to me ❤️
Very, very good piece. "London is perhaps the only place in England where you can tell people where you’re from, and instantly they feel empowered to inform you what a terrible place it is." ✅
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Very, very good piece. "London is perhaps the only place in England where you can tell people where you’re from, and instantly they feel empowered to inform you what a terrible place it is." ✅
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
September 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
Just checking if anyone's ever finished a bag of spinach
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Just checking if anyone's ever finished a bag of spinach
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“Legitimate concerns.”
September 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“Legitimate concerns.”
I'm hearing The Black Angels in the 'Electric Nebraska' version of BITUSA that just dropped and that is a massive YES PLEASE
youtu.be/9YNufvgPP20?...
youtu.be/9YNufvgPP20?...
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (Electric Nebraska - Official Audio)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
youtu.be
September 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I'm hearing The Black Angels in the 'Electric Nebraska' version of BITUSA that just dropped and that is a massive YES PLEASE
youtu.be/9YNufvgPP20?...
youtu.be/9YNufvgPP20?...
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Lads at the wedding when all the girls go off to dance
September 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Lads at the wedding when all the girls go off to dance
About to watch my team play Man Utd, something neither myself or any other #GTFC fan has done since 1948. Come on you stripey beauties 🖤🤍 🐟🐟🐟
August 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
About to watch my team play Man Utd, something neither myself or any other #GTFC fan has done since 1948. Come on you stripey beauties 🖤🤍 🐟🐟🐟
Q: What is the perfect pop record for this time of year?
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August 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Q: What is the perfect pop record for this time of year?
A:
A:
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For many couples and families summer is the time when they can celebrate their love together.
However, for the thousands separated by the spouse visa rules, it is harder still because this racist and classist policy never takes a break or never allow people to take a break from it
However, for the thousands separated by the spouse visa rules, it is harder still because this racist and classist policy never takes a break or never allow people to take a break from it
August 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For many couples and families summer is the time when they can celebrate their love together.
However, for the thousands separated by the spouse visa rules, it is harder still because this racist and classist policy never takes a break or never allow people to take a break from it
However, for the thousands separated by the spouse visa rules, it is harder still because this racist and classist policy never takes a break or never allow people to take a break from it
Hahahahahahahahaha 🇬🇧
July 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hahahahahahahahaha 🇬🇧
Just popping in here to say the Poor Creature album is fantastic riverlea.bandcamp.com/album/all-sm...
All Smiles Tonight, by Poor Creature
8 track album
riverlea.bandcamp.com
July 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Just popping in here to say the Poor Creature album is fantastic riverlea.bandcamp.com/album/all-sm...
References the mad MIR Tory proposal from a year or so ago, which the report released today recommends isn't implemented. Let's see what the current government make of the report's recs, and which (if any) they decide to listen to
The proposal for a £38,700 threshold reflects the government thinking of the UK citizen who wants to get married as if they are an employer proposing to give someone a job, saying 'the only thing we really care about is what are the economic pros/cons of letting your spouse come and live here'
June 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
References the mad MIR Tory proposal from a year or so ago, which the report released today recommends isn't implemented. Let's see what the current government make of the report's recs, and which (if any) they decide to listen to
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Governments and advisers should not use the human rights framework as a shield, but work out the principle.
Public policy on marriage visas should be concerned to avoid exploitation/fake relationships. But should let UK citizens form genuine relationships, not restrict that to higher-rate taxpayers
Public policy on marriage visas should be concerned to avoid exploitation/fake relationships. But should let UK citizens form genuine relationships, not restrict that to higher-rate taxpayers
June 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Governments and advisers should not use the human rights framework as a shield, but work out the principle.
Public policy on marriage visas should be concerned to avoid exploitation/fake relationships. But should let UK citizens form genuine relationships, not restrict that to higher-rate taxpayers
Public policy on marriage visas should be concerned to avoid exploitation/fake relationships. But should let UK citizens form genuine relationships, not restrict that to higher-rate taxpayers
Exactly
This is the MAC review. Public policy should not make visas to get married primarily about the impact on net migration, because that is to treat people & their relationships instrumentally and inappropriately
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Family visa financial requirements review (accessible)
www.gov.uk
June 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Exactly
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Today is a pivotal day for bi-national couples and families: for the first time people on the spouse/partner visa route were listened to by a Committee that wanted to learn what life is really like when you want to live in the UK and were moved by what we read in the report #FamiliesBelongTogether🧵
June 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Today is a pivotal day for bi-national couples and families: for the first time people on the spouse/partner visa route were listened to by a Committee that wanted to learn what life is really like when you want to live in the UK and were moved by what we read in the report #FamiliesBelongTogether🧵
Attended an excellent pitch doc workshop with @annaruthjordan.bsky.social this week. One unexpected side-effect (unrelated to pitching) is that one of the exercises Anna had us do has led to a key breakthrough in the writing of a current project. Nice!
April 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Attended an excellent pitch doc workshop with @annaruthjordan.bsky.social this week. One unexpected side-effect (unrelated to pitching) is that one of the exercises Anna had us do has led to a key breakthrough in the writing of a current project. Nice!
This is very good. Why DO we lose the art of just hanging out as we get older? (Though to be clear I've never been a huge fan of the 'pop in')
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I fear I’m doing friendship wrong: why do we lose the art of just hanging out? | Carolin Würfel
Pre-planned lunch is fine but is rarely about true connection. Surely unstructured time with friends is better
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is very good. Why DO we lose the art of just hanging out as we get older? (Though to be clear I've never been a huge fan of the 'pop in')
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Finally!! The streamers are to our UK TV industry as private healthcare is to the NHS. They must contribute to the fundamental infrastructures and culture of the industry they profit from and lower budget TV must be protected.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Netflix and co should pay levy to fund crisis-hit UK drama sector, say MPs
British stories risk disappearing from small screen as public broadcasters struggle to compete with streaming services
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Finally!! The streamers are to our UK TV industry as private healthcare is to the NHS. They must contribute to the fundamental infrastructures and culture of the industry they profit from and lower budget TV must be protected.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Caught this excellent film at Pittsburgh Shorts last year, fun and messy and subversive! Check it out 🍕
Transactional Intimacy Morphs Into a Surreal Meditation on Consumption in Talia Shea Levin’s ‘Make Me a Pizza’
directorsnotes.com/2025/04/02/t...
#pizza #shortfilm #comedy
directorsnotes.com/2025/04/02/t...
#pizza #shortfilm #comedy
Make Me a Pizza by Talia Shea Levin // Comedy // Directors Notes
Marxism, melting cheese, and mayhem: Talia Shea Levin takes us inside the saucy structural logic of her deliciously absurdist pizza porno parody.
directorsnotes.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Caught this excellent film at Pittsburgh Shorts last year, fun and messy and subversive! Check it out 🍕
Proudly continuing my record of never successfully changing trains at Shenfield 🏆
March 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Proudly continuing my record of never successfully changing trains at Shenfield 🏆
Stayed in one of those hotels with too-chatty micro-copy all over the place. This was on the fridge. Good grief 😑
March 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Stayed in one of those hotels with too-chatty micro-copy all over the place. This was on the fridge. Good grief 😑