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Trump is sure talking about death and the afterlife a whole lot these days.
12.10.2025 22:47 — 👍 61 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 0real shame!
12.10.2025 22:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It sure is! I would love to do an extended Conall Cochran universe starting in Ireland but have been told that the rights holders are not amenable to shenanigans.
12.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Hallowe’en III is magnificent!
12.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0SMILE 2
EXORCIST 2: THE HERETIC
DAWN OF THE DEAD
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3
EVIL DEAD II
HALLOWEEN III
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
PSYCHO 2
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
I once contemplated writing a TV drama series about Crowley's battle with WB Yeats over the ownership of the O.T.O. and despite my dislike of Crowley my research made me find him more likeable (up to a point) than Yeats, which is saying something.
12.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 1Aleister Crowley's 150th birthday today and I haven't even started putting up the inverted goat skulls yet
12.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 88 🔁 18 💬 6 📌 5
Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap. "I've always loved museums," she says, "but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards' We do the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
What is it with these guys (I am also thinking of Toby Young and Giles Coren) and publicly owning themselves over and over again
12.10.2025 14:53 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.
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The Sweet Science - Rashid Johnson, 2011
10.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Hard agree - there are very vivid examples of why the disappearance of a functioning centre right option in a system which props up the two largest parties every single day, when the news reports on the Trump administration.
05.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 174 🔁 24 💬 18 📌 5"No one in history has voted Labour to shrink the welfare state. It's a direct problem with your brand identity."
@johnmct.bsky.social asks the Labour Party his football question 'who are you?' and argues that Keir Starmer was right to focus on equality in his speech at Labour Party Conference 2024
Photo of hospital entrance sign. "NHS outsourcing: Government shift on outsourcing is a positive step for NHS"
Government plans to halt the outsourcing of NHS workers to subsidiary companies are 'a positive step', says UNISON
New guidance says ministers have listened to UNISON concerns about impact of outsourcing on staff.
www.unison.org.uk/news/2025/09...
3/13 🟢Join LabourList and Hold Fast Labour for a dynamic session on the rising threat of the Green party - and how Labour can beat them.
Featuring Karin Christiansen, @johnmct.bsky.social, Cllr Bella Sankey, @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social, and Scarlett Maguire.
Trump off on one, speaking at the White House: “In Cuba, they don't have Tylenol because they don't have the money for Tylenol.
“They have no autism. Tell me about that one.”
Truly amazing show.
Hilarious, moving, thought provoking, brilliant. Full of heart.
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To discuss the fragmentation of the left in the UK, we have none other than @fisherandrew79.bsky.social, @johnmct.bsky.social, @profjanegreen.bsky.social & @anandmenon.bsky.social
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Looking forward to this conversation next week with @anandmenon.bsky.social, @psurridge.bsky.social & @johnmct.bsky.social
Should be an interesting discussion, do join in ...
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"This is one of those books my mind keeps coming back to. [...] As Mechanics and Luddites, we could prepare students to not simply be cogs, but machine breakers as well as builders."
Really lovely review of my book in the context of education technology www.civicsoftechnology.org/mechanic-and...
SPEAKERS: John McTernan (@johnmct.bsky.social) will be joining us in London for our final #forum2029 panel 🎉
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🚨 Extreme misogyny is being normalized both online and offline.
Watch tech & online culture reporter @taylorlorenz.bsky.social's chat with CCDH’s @imranahmed.bsky.social about the dangers of the manosphere ⤵️
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1/5 Osterley House
Osterley House is a National Trust property in w #London. A Tudor palace extensively remodelled by Robert Adam - a #Georgian gem. @nationaltrust.org.uk
This is looking out from the entrance hall
#OMsystems OM1 #laowa7_5mm
#photography #architecture #architecturephotography
New in PN: Trump's Confederacy rises again
"The straightforward explanation for Trump’s Confederacy fetish is that he’s a virulent racist who would’ve enslaved people himself. If you think that’s hyperbolic, just listen to the man."
Again, you cannot unplug 1/4-1/5 of an R1 university's budget & expect the same quantity or quality of "things" on campus. The math simply doesn't work. And pretending it does & we can uphold our "core values," & not talking loudly & publicly about how it doesn't, is not a strategy. It's madness.
08.08.2025 18:41 — 👍 201 🔁 82 💬 3 📌 6One last thought: This is the kind of attack that conservatives have been making against liberals forever (think limousine liberal), and conservatives make it because they think that caring about anyone else is stupid. It doesn't work when you're also trying to make the argument that you care more.
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I wrote for @foreignpolicy.com about what Trump chickening out might mean - and if it could be his Obama -Syria moment
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/t...
This could still mean a range of things but it would be useful for Trump to make it clearer soon because there’s only one way Russia will be spinning it
08.08.2025 20:49 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0One of the all-time great comics
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