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Adele
@theartofcharts.bsky.social
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Into screenwriting. I write thrillers, often with migration and borders in the mix. 2024 Nicholl Finalist with NO GHOSTS TONIGHT. 2023 Page finalist with DUST ON DIRT.

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theartofcharts.bsky.social
Get better Sam! Can you rest?
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
And go Lilly Wachowski!
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
In any case, it's jam tomorrow. And it's always jam tomorrow.
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
Only 13k atm, but honestly, it does work.
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
At this rate they're going to lose the next election to neo-nazis and conclude that the reason they lost is that they didn't move far enough to the right.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
They're entirely shameless - they seem absolutely determined to make it impossible for anyone who is not a racist fuckwit to vote for them.
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
People should have to be paid to stay in accommodation like this - not having their possessions stolen.

And you know Serco and their shitty little friends will make a killing, and there'll be some nice sinecure awaiting Mahmood.

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Suffering and squalor: the impact on mental health of living in hotel asylum accommodation | Helen Bamber
Our new report with Asylum Aid shows the mental and physical health impact of people seeking asylum being forced to live in hotels for long periods of time.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
Well. Covid does treat the blood-brain barrier as more of an optional suggestion, so there's that in the mix too.
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
Yep! Working on an adaptation and just started the new spec last night. Might drop you an email if that's cool?
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Alan Cumming: ‘After my rant about trans rights, I was worried I would be deported’
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
"It’s happening, it’s here, it’s now. There is authoritarianism in America and I’m terrified"
The festival, he continues, will also be “a form of support and solidarity, at a time when LGBT people need it”, with hate crimes on the rise, hostile comment pieces in the British press, and the Trump administration issuing a flurry of anti-trans executive orders Tip Toe is all about this, says Cumming, who is bisexual. “It’s about the rage, and the radicalisation of certain people about various subjects, including anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-immigrants. All these things that are used by people as a smokescreen to gain power, to take attention away from the problems of our standard of living and our lack of a moral centre.” It’s a tactic, he believes, that is used “when you don’t really have any policies. Let’s just blame people who are already marginalised. It’s a slippery slope. Next, they’ll be coming for the rest of us.” We’re on the cusp of “something really horrible”, he insists. “And in America, of course, it’s already started. Trans people have no actual rights. They don’t exist, according to the Supreme Court. All these forms of decency, and caring, and support for you if you are different, have been ripped away in Trump’s new regime.” He references the case currently underway in the US – 10 years after the Supreme Court gave same-sex couples equal marriage rights – in which the justices are being asked to rule that those rights can be ignored on religious grounds. “We know where this is going,” he says. “Soldiers in the streets, taking citizens away, people being ‘disappeared’. It’s happening, it’s here, it’s now. It’s not imminent. There is authoritarianism, and a government that has no concern for a vast majority of its citizens and will do anything it can to stay in power... I’m terrified.” In July, Cumming guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and in his opening monologue, he tells me, he “did a big rant about trans rights... People around me were like, ’You’re going to be deported.’” He worried about it the next time he left the country. Cumming has been a US citizen since 2008, and notes how frightened people are at the moment. “They’re scared for their physical safety. They’re scared when they go to the airport that they’re going to be held... I mean, those are real fears and I feel them too. But luckily, I have another home, I have another passport, another country, and another life there.” That safe haven, Cumming believes, is also under threat, and we should be “standing up to the rhetoric of Farage, and reminding people that this refugee problem is the way it is because we don’t have a deal with Europe, because he brought us out”. He thinks we should also be “asking our government to stop trying to pander to the sort of moral lack that Farage represents”. He elaborates: “I’ve always thought this about Keir Starmer, [that] he just needs to be more of a leader, stop just trying not to get caught out all the time. It’s terrible the way that all these flags are now appearing behind him... just trying to sort of ape the aesthetics and messaging of Reform. Don’t do that. Have some f***ing balls and say that you stand up for decency, and you have a moral core that means you’re not going to let the most marginalised people in society be trampled on yet again.” He recalls a point that he made on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg before the election – “I said, Labour is just kind of Conservative-lite now, but [since then] it’s becoming sort of Reform lemonade He focuses his thoughts. “I’ve kind of moved away from being obsessed with the horror of things that have come out of that quarter, of trans rights being perceived as anti-women’s rights. But there’s several things that stick out to me – and I don’t want to get into a battle at all with her, because I feel that the best way to deal with her is to give her less attention. “But there was a thing,” he continues, “where she very kindly gave money to open a rape crisis centre in Edinburgh – a great thing to do. I mean, bravo. But then she said that trans women were not allowed... That’s transphobia. At the worst and the most awful time a person could experience, you’re saying, ‘No, I’m not going to help you, because you are trans.’ I just feel like we have to call it what it is.”
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
Congratulations Rudi! That's brilliant news! Heard from Sven that you had something new in the works!
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
That's my guess.
In the meantime, they're stealing everything not locked down and trashing the rest.

I wish there was stronger messaging coming about the kind of reckoning coming for those who enable them (rank and file ICE for example).
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
He's already tried (and failed) to set various of the kids up (Ivana was his best try I think) for it.

And if it's not going to be one of them, I doubt he cares. I mean - if he's not around to be adored then...
November 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
Have been following a couple of people who know a bit about cults: apparently passing on a cult of personality is really difficult, and it's rare for it to be done successfully.
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
Honestly? I don't think it's even about votes at this point.

This is just who they are and this is what they want.
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
theartofcharts.bsky.social
It's been a long slide. IMO, the rot set in with people like Phil Woolas, way back in New Labour days.
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM