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Thiel is a twat!

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).

YouTube video by PSBHQ Public Service Broadcasting - Blue Heaven [ft. Andreya Casablanca]

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

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

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

@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."

Is it possible for a country to die of embarrassment?

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...

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...

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

Front Row - Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai - BBC Sounds Film director Kathryn Bigelow and Booker-nominee author Kiran Desai

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/...

YouTube video by Netflix A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE | Official Trailer | Netflix

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...

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.

An excellent film. Definitely five stars.

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Brace yourself…

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.

I endorse this message.

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

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...

On home turf tonight in Ballymena library reading a wee snippet of the new novel and having a lovely chat with Jamie Beamish #FewAndFarBetween @librariesni.bsky.social

in the spirit of solidarity for @sathnam.bsky.social

It's not 'our' media, that's why.
Print media serves its owners as do the commercial TV companies.
We should be able to rely on Public Service Broadcasting, but management at the BBC is full of people with strong ties to the Tories.
OffCom should be sorting this out, but it is supine, possibly dead

@petedeller.bsky.social There’s another one!! bsky.app/profile/davi...

FRIDAY

Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight Remixes

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Remixes from alt-J, The KVB & more, remimagining the songs from The Last Flight, taking them to more shadowy & nocturnal places

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