alistairgentry.bsky.social
'Frankly disturbing' performance artist, writer, producer, irritant, arts admin and research fairy, jack of all trades, master of some. http://linktr.ee/alistairgentry
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And also on the positive side how very much needed (more) public funding for the arts is, and how lucky we are as a country to have anything like this when many countries don't.
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Who knew climate crisis had an upside? Let's all eat meat and fly private jets.
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You know what, I'm so glad somebody else did too.
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Just for a moment I thought hang on, Roland's an unlikely Sade obsessive, isn't he? ðŸ«
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You can stream Bank Job for free until the end of this month (April 2025). Michael Sheen is not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy.
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BS doesn't seem to offer the option for alt text when it embeds them from an external site? Anyway, the image shows an animation still, wide view of a street scene lit by lurid orange light. There are chairs and tables on the pavement, and a few customers, in front of a cafe called SELF MEDICATION.
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You're right. That's the point.
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Here's my unqualified diagnosis of Wes Streeting: antisocial personality disorder (5/8 key indicators)
Exploits or violates the rights of others.
Lacks concern, regret or remorse about other people' distress.
Disregards normal social behaviour.
Lacks guilt, can't learn from mistakes.
Unfair blame.
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They were exactly like this and very clear about where their loyalties lay in opposition, and before the election, but I'm glad that you at least have changed enough to now see it.
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The work work work rhetoric, like return to office propaganda, exposes what work really is for most: needless toil in the service of ideology, huge profits for your superiors, and daycare for adults so you can be watched. Nobody dies wishing they'd worked more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top...
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FYI for those who are still looking at this, and to every journalist who regurgitated their press release verbatim apparently, there's no evidence that Craic Health exists or has ever done anything apart from a basic Squarespace site and one PDF flier I found. The associated Craic CRM is also opaque
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Don't forget her libelling a child abuse survivor, AND libelling Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite and racist, and refusing to apologise. Lovely person.
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Right! They even mention employing 666,000 people* but still no mention of the artists who actually originate and produce all this culture that people are connecting with...
* There are 11,000 people working on fishing boats in the UK, for comparison, but journalists never ask US about the economy.
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Depression is a clinical condition with measurable impacts on brain chemistry - that's how and why antidepressants work for many people. Not surprising that GPs are so ignorant though, I've had literally one GP in 20 years who knew the difference between depression and just being sad or worried.
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Well it's definitely in the air and a lot of people have been thinking the same thing... It's helpful to have someone relatively high profile express it clearly though.
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To be clear, very left here and I think the words we use - especially about disempowered people - matter. But left-to-liberal egotism, tone policing, playing the victim, invalidating certain voices, and monstering anyone imperfect (especially allies) is super toxic, divisive, and changes no minds
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And the password was admin