In what may be the greatest sentence of the year, this article reports that “Plot details for The Resurrection of the Christ are under wraps.” So expect a twist, ladies and gentleman!
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In what may be the greatest sentence of the year, this article reports that “Plot details for The Resurrection of the Christ are under wraps.” So expect a twist, ladies and gentleman!
deadline.com/2025/10/pass...
Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.
Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.
Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.
“This new data confirms what we already knew: there is a trans+ healthcare crisis in the UK. But the actual numbers are stark. The system of NHS gender clinics, which is failing to give people an appointment in their entire lifetime, is limiting the number of people who can transition.”
Appalling.
"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Head up UK screenwriters! Very important dates for your diary. This year’s annual BBC Writers Room Open Call for TV drama or comedy/drama submissions window - noon Tuesday 4th November to noon Tuesday 2nd December.
Details here: www.bbc.co.uk/writers/oppo...
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"Let us not pretend that we are talking about ways of reversing the genocide...Rather, the discussion is about more or less murderous ways of completing the destruction and replacement of Palestinian Gaza"
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A line of sight.
Papay - Orkney.
Stonebuilt.
1979, Clyde Walkway bandstand, Glasgow📸John Sturrock
06.10.2025 16:46 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Raymond Depardon.
“Depardon’s geography is unique, arbitrary, personal, deliberately born of ‘the pain of the frame’ and ‘the joy of light,’” writes Bruno Racine in the introduction to Raymond Depardon’s La France, a photobook and ode to his native country, published in 2010.
This should concern everyone.
Protest is a cornerstone of our democracy - without it, we wouldn’t have the right to vote. We must protect it at all costs.
After years of the Tories attacking our right to protest, this Labour government should strengthen our rights, not restrict them even further.
A pale green book cover. In the middle is a white rectangle. A large red stamp displays the book title: TOM LEONARD: INTIMATE VOICES: 1965–1983. Above the stamp is a poem, set as if typed on a typewriter: in the beginning was the word in thi beginning was thi wurd in thi beginnin was thi wurd in thi biginnin was thi wurd n thi biginnin wuz thi wurd nthi biginnin wuz thi wurd nthi biginnin wuzthi wurd nthibiginnin wuzthiwurd nthibiginninwuzthiwurd in the beginning was the sound
Tom Leonard’s 1984 poetry collection INTIMATE VOICES was banned in Scotland’s Central Region school libraries. The Education Committee said
“There are some harmful words in it … Sometimes the naked truth has to be clothed”
But Leonard had anticipated this sort of reaction…
#BannedBooksWeek
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An actual pragmatist would evaluate and change course. Someone who understood public opinion might notice that anti-immigrant sentiment responds to media coverage, not objective reality. They might reason that this is not a problem that can be addressed by policy concessions because policy is not what is causing it. They might even consider offering a different narrative and seeing whether that makes a dent. A truly daring politician might consider telling the British public the truth: that they are being lied to by the right-wing press about the cause of the country's problems, and that Reform is capitalising on this for political gain. The government does not seem inclined to do any of this. Despite understanding themselves as critical thinkers, reactionary centrists are conformists at heart. And they are so unmoored in our current age because, increasingly, there is no social consensus for them to conform to. Affluent countries the world over are balkanising into fascist and anti-fascist factions. One must simply pick a side. There is no longer such a thing as “British public opinion” (if there ever was). Rather, half the country supports socially illiberal parties and half supports (broadly speaking) liberal ones, similar to the split in the Brexit referendum. If we follow international trends, the values of these two sides will only grow more irreconcilable. Starmer is—though you would never guess it—the captain of the liberal team. His job is not to find consensus, but to hold his own coalition together.
extremely well put
01.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 165 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 2"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
01.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 466 🔁 164 💬 4 📌 12Dr Goodall speaking for millions of us hundreds of millions!
05.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 64 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 2Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025
04.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 1738 🔁 348 💬 34 📌 50If you are not very, very frightened by this then you are not paying attention www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
05.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The Shore, Leith, Edinburgh #scotland #photography
26.09.2025 16:44 — 👍 209 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 0BREAKING: Since dawn, Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 46 Palestinians, despite US President Trump’s call for Israel to cease its attacks, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/08ph6v
Israel accused of “sowing division” by rolling out the red carpet for far-right thug and EDL founder Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (also known as “Tommy Robinson”)
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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
04.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 12369 🔁 4226 💬 257 📌 60089 years ago today Mosley attempted to march his blackshirts through the East End of London. The Jewish press counselled calm. East End Jews - backed primarily by Irish & Communists - beat them back with fists, pipes, clubs. Old women poured hot water on them from above.
04.10.2025 16:47 — 👍 390 🔁 119 💬 11 📌 4When hiking in the Alps Ödön von Horváth found a skeleton with rucksack attached. He opened the rucksack to find an addressed postcard: 'Having a wonderful time.'
Horváth's friends asked him what he did next.
'I posted it.'
It's vital people learn the truth about Reform and Farage's ties to the Putin regime. As polls stand we may be just a few years away from a Kremlin stooge in Number 10. Sounds like hyperbole, isn't.
04.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 73 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 0Happy Birthday Steve Reich
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Julie Christie, photographed by Douglas Kirkland, 1964.
01.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 97 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 0Happy 40th birthday to The List. My first journalism job, back in the 90s. Everyone seemed so cool. The first time I went into the office, there was a writer on the phone to David Cronenberg, and I thought, "This is the stuff!"
01.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…
…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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If the government can kill human rights protections for refugees and foreigners, then be sure one day the government can and will kill your own human rights protections. Nobody is free unless everyone is free
01.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 345 🔁 116 💬 8 📌 2New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
It has always been understated how much the focus on pre-existing IP in Hollywood is about holding power over labor. A studio has to negotiate with a movie star, but can own a character outright. This notion of AI "actors" is just an even more cynical extension of that.
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