Alex Taylor

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

If you're still on X: why?

I had 270,000 followers when I closed my account.

But all I lost was 200,000 bots and trolls. The real people — the funny, the decent, the smart, the interesting — are already here. They'll find you.

Leave X. Just do it. It's personal, political and societal poison.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Sopranos retained great quality over six seasons. Perhaps due to showrunner staying throughout and maintaining commitment/vision, cast bonded (though Gandolfini almost quit several times due to personal crisis), also freshened things up with great new actors Pantoliano, Buscemi, Frank Vincent.

esquire article with headline “why does gen z love rumours so much?”

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

This is incredible.

I think a lot of that is nostalgia and not entirely true. Crosland was never that effective as a politician and had little following in the Labour Party. Healey was a great mind but also exceptionally alienating and rude. Benn was Benn. Callaghan was the only good choice in retrospect.

Has long been a favourite film, then saw it at cinema (BFI) for first time recently and blew my mind - the helicopter scene on the big screen with surround sound especially.

https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Strengthening-the-Political-Constitution.pdf

I'd add that what "unlimited parliamentary supremacy" means in practice has changed over time.

The idea emerged in an era when there were two chambers with near-equal powers, party discipline was weak, the scope of legislation was less extensive & passing major legislation was genuinely hard. [...]

Hope it’s resolved soon and you feel better!

Great thread thanks

That was the weirdest penalty shootout I've seen

Whoa - 2 England goals to equalise in quick succession from two superb crosses

Where is this from?

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

I thought that Dylan was singing 'We married, she's my friend' in Just Like A Woman and found out later it was 'Queen Mary, she's my friend'.

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YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic God Only Knows (Remastered 1996)

RIP Brian Wilson, the word genius is used too much but he was a musical genius. Completely raised the standard of modern pop and made many artists better - as Beatles, Bowie, Elton John, ABBA and many others all acknowledged. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0lj...

Black Diamond Bay www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N2...

YouTube video by thompson12345 Niccolo Machiavelli - BBC Documentary 720p

RIP Alan Yentob. Made one of my favourite documentaries, on Machiavelli that managed to combine Quentin Skinner, George R.R. Martin, Alistair Campbell, Jonathan Powell, Michael Dodds, Peter Capaldi reciting Il Principe in Florence, www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsMs...

As I said her song was released later for Booker T and Priscilla (her sister), she wrote it earlier and played it for Jim Gordon of Derek and the Dominoes (her then boyfriend) and Eric Clapton, who then took it for Layla.

YouTube video by Booker T. & Priscilla - Topic Time

Learnt recently that Clapton plagiarised the piano coda from Rita Coolidge, whose song was released later: youtu.be/OYk49admVDA?...

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Walking on the oldest road in Europe, the Royal Road into Knossos c. 1500 BC.

At the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, the bull leaping fresco. Incredible to think that this is c.3500 years old!

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The scene where the corrupt politician Zellman and civil rights activist Tiffen talk about their lost idealism from the ‘60s after agreeing to Tony’s scheme to defraud HUD with derelict housing is particularly poignant.

Deeply strange entering middle-age at a time in world history where things are getting measurably worse. Just a continual psychic struggle of “is this fogeyism or are things just not what they used to be?”

Could really do without the torrent of weird almost nostalgia for the start of lockdown. It was a shit time. My mum died. I want to put it behind me and move forward, thanks. Would rather celebrate the fact that we created and delivered effective Covid vaccines that saved and continue to save lives.