Ewan Pearson

*coughs* and Everything She Wants….

Ta! Hope you’re well x

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I felt quite sorry for the Labour councillor who got nearly a 10 minute rant from me when they canvassed a few weeks ago. After the last couple of days I don’t know what I’d say tbh. A moral collapse the size of which I never expected even from the Labour right-wing.

Already hooting at the strays various great filmmakers are taking from Jordan

I love the book so much - sadder and with a sense of tangible loss for Anne Elliot. So good!

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."

Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."

get in bitch we're destroying the west

read / listen to some stuff about the history of the Labour Party - it’s always been highly factional - and the current v right / technocratic Labour first group has effectively taken over the party machine and seems to care about their position in that machine way more than re-election

It’s a GOOD THING we NEED IT TO HAPPEN and THAT is why we should refuse to have any discussion of limiting migration. It’s not about the fascist threat (that Labour is absolutely pandering to right now). It’s about the fact that it’s actually something we shouldn’t concede.

There is a perfectly logical centrist market-based argument for migration to the UK. We have a falling birth rate, £5 trillion in future pension liabilities, not to mention a national skills service in loads of key industries including both low (care) and high (computing) paid work.

Immigration is a good thing for Britain and I don’t just mean that in a vague “my kid made roti at nursery this week for Diwali and I like ordering jerk chicken and chips for lunch at my local pub”. I mean: it’s a good thing for our national finances, for our infrastructure, for our skills economy.

Listened to it and then watched Train To Busan like the normie I am 😂

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Just saw Park Chan-Wook’s No Other Choice at the LFF - what an absolute banger. And so many incredible shots you’ve never seen before - he really is unmatched right now in terms of composition.

Saint Maud!

[sat upon a pile of corpses 750,000 deep] yes but how does this poll

Maybe that works in the novel but the film felt artificial and stillborn.

Saw Hamnet at the LFF today - thought it was really quite bad. Shakespeare in Love for people who think they’re too good for Shakespeare in Love. Shrinks that truly amazing play to make it somehow a puzzle to be unlocked by supposed / imagined autobiography.

“I’ve had my run-ins with Mumsnet but it remains a great way to meet women with a grievance”. In tears at How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge).

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

Home Office @ukhomeoffice • 20h The right to protest must be protected. But repeated large protests are leaving communities feeling unsafe. This cannot continue. Police will have new powers to instruct organisers to hold events elsewhere or risk arrest - protecting communities and police resources. POLICE WILL BE GRANTED NEW POWERS TO RESTRICT REPEAT PROTESTS WHEN THERE IS A RISK OF SERIOUS PUBLIC DISORDER

The Right to Protest obliterated in the UK.
Protest requires repeated protests to be effective. This continues the state repression of any kind of protest that can actually challenge the state or capital. But what the government forgets is that ending the legal routes opens the illegal routes.

Amidst Violent Immigration Raids, DHS Turns to Big Tech to Silence Dissent | TechPolicy.Press Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock says the Trump administration is targeting anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations.

the Trump admin just deported an award-winning journalist known for his reporting on ICE and got Apple to block ICE-spotter apps — all while churning out highly-produced social media content from violent ICE raids in Chicago. it’s their media or no media. www.techpolicy.press/amidst-viole...

Literally last week every MAGA idiot around was insisting, loudly, how terrible it was that the Biden admin pressured YouTube to remove COVID misinfo, even as YouTube said it ignored the pressure. Those same folks will either be silent or cheer this on:

He calls Nigel Farage racist and then does literally all the same things but wearing a red tie.

And why call it 'golden ticket'?

Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?

A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.

4,671.

Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?

Finally saw One Battle After Another - nervously as Vineland probably my most read / favourite novel of the last forty years. Shouldn’t have worried - what a ridiculously hilarious, poignant and thrilling movie about choosing love and community over those who only value blood and purity.

kind of envious at what you have in store - it gets so good so quickly. I think by S1 E5 Colllege it’s an all-timer, and by the end it’s just the GOAT.