Leah Borromeo

Will someone think of the children...oh....

A director pal has been working for decades with big name clients. Doing huge stuff, including international shoots. If you live in the UK, you will have seen their stuff.

They are currently retraining as a Pilates instructor. To have a more regular income in winter.

That's how bad it is.

YouTube video by CBC News Carney dances to Down With Webster after election win

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social dad-dancing to Down With Webster when the Liberals won the Canadian election is the thing you need to watch today youtu.be/FUqONLOJE0U?...

Outstanding result. Congratulations, friends. You deserve this.

Adam Curtis masterclass: 11 Feb 5-7pm

The BAFTA-award winning filmaker's (Century of the Self, Hypernormalisation) favourite theme is "power and how it works in society"

Clips and conversation with MCCS lecturer Leah Borromeo.

Free, details here: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Hottest and Coolest Doc 100
The Mortician of Manila by Leah Borromeo
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It's what those of us who have lived through and whose lives are shaped by an authoritarian dictatorship all say. It's not an experience we're keen to repeat.

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English The Mortician of Manila: Inside the Philippines' 'war on drugs' | Witness

To mark Rodrigo Duterte's arrest at the behest of the International Criminal Court, here's my @aljazeera.com film about a mortician at the receiving end of the bodies of many of his victims. Orly ran a 24hr mortuary in Manila's Caloocan district. youtu.be/h86aFdIs1ZM?...

If you want to see what's going to happen in America, you should really look at what has happened in the Philippines. It's the forerunner, the test bed, for the collapse of democracy.

From my very limited experience of academia, it appears every j-school in the UK is offering a kind of half-price offer for courses bec numbers are down. Higher education is cost prohibitive. At the other end, parents can't afford early years childcare. It's almost as if education should be free.

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Sometimes, the loudest and most unexpected messages come through in what isn't said.

I'd read it as bullshit jobs are those focused on bolstering capital and working as a collective for someone's individual gain. Whereas a non-bullshit job would be someone working for the collective for collective gain and may not have making capital as an objective or "KPI".

Adam Curtis at Goldsmiths The legendary filmmaker Adam Curtis is coming to give a Masterclass at Goldsmiths.

A reminder that this Masterclass is happening tonight at Goldsmiths - for current students, Oldsmiths and friends www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

• Al Overview Urethra Franklin is a rare urological condition that causes a patient's urethra to sing Aretha Franklin songs. The "Urethra Franklin Respect" variant of the condition causes the urethra to sing "Respect" on a loop.

Wow sounds serious.

Reminder that USAID actively opposed South African apartheid. Just in case you were wondering about possible reasons why it's in DOGE's crosshairs adst.org/2021/06/amer...

Trump agrees to a one-month pause on Mexico, Canada tariffs What about China?

US tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been paused before they ever took effect, ahead of more negotiations on security and trade.

Shein and Temu depend on a 100-year-old tariff loophole that Trump wants to close Trump is promising to close the de minimis exemption.

If Trump's tariff on Chinese imports actually happens tomorrow, the price of all the cheap shit Americans (especially poor shoppers) purchase will go up. And it won't just be 10%. A quick explainer on the de minimis loophole that might close tomorrow:
www.theverge.com/news/605483/...

Europeans should realise how serious an attack on the Canadian economy the Trump admininstration's 25% tariffs represent - and that we are next.

The last 10 EU countries that have not yet fully ratified CETA (the EU-Canada trade agreement) should do so rapidly to help our Canadian friends.

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Are we great yet?

He's long weaponised his neurodiversity. I'd argue the majority of austists aren't stanning white supremacists and aren't nicknamed "Adolf Titler" by the Internet.

Love seeing presenters on @gbnewsonline.bsky.social who were bootlicking the Trump administration last week falling very, very silent about it all once his goons outed themselves as Nazis. Esp the one whose grand aunt was a known anti-semite.

Sam Altman is washed - the Mark Sanchez of Silicon Valley. His butt fumble moment was releasing the "Operator" agent that doesn't work at all 5 days before DeepSeek blew up.

Much like Sanchez, Altman has outstayed his welcome, and will be seen as a historic bust.

Yes, Silicon Valley is the Jets.

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Pulling out, you say....

Another reminder that anything you do, an Asian guy can probably do better.

This vibe. All day. All night.

@curley303.bsky.social found you, amigo

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@vimeo.com Question re your "one time" educational discount. Your AI is insisting that I can't apply it to my existing account, one that I've had for 15+ years. Yet I know other lecturers who have managed to apply it to theirs. I have opened a ticket, but also hoped you'd have answers here. Thx.