leaflemming.bsky.social
Recovered journalist, writer of too few good sentences. Constantly searching for better sentences. Give me all your sentences.
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Everything just went sparkly.
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I deleted the app the day their “brave to invade Iran” editorial hit. Completely over their smug centrist bullshit.
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I mean they’re evil privilege-normalising vandals, but the argument for you guys working with them is that if you don’t they have zero to lose from this kind of idiocy, and Labour knows they have no need to give you much, because you have nowhere else to go.
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Itself a shortening of the Medieval Latin “ticularamus tacularum”, “let us pointlessly cross swords lest boredom kill us first”.
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I have never understood this. However I currently have a child travelling in the US, so this year I get double the compulsory emails.
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Welcome to middle age. 😓
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People take their economic privilege for normality. I’d love to say we had a government who on any level understand that people are wrong.
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I mean we could do that study, or we could look at the undertaxation policy that allowed Elizabeth I to survive as a female ruler, her successors desperate attempt to bring taxes in line with mandatory spending, and the aristocracy’s response, aka the civil war.
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Maybe as a middle ground only log shark movies. Be that shark movie guy.
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BOOM goes the dynamite
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I remember him telling a student journalist friend of mine how dangerous it is to start believing your own bullshit. That was 30-odd years ago and it was pretty clear even then that he was not interested in taking his own advice.
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We salute you, fellow electronics consumer.
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I stopped clicking their links or opening their app the day The Orange Beast was re-elected. Not so much an act of protest as a desperate lunge after my fleeing mental health.
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Most enjoyable thing I’ve read in ages but I am BADLY stuck at the Christmas after-party scene. Terrified that if I read on she’s going to Make A Very Bad Choice.
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Couldn’t deal with it at all. Self-serious and way too focused on its least important job (put a bow on the series) over the only job that matters (deliver a fast-moving package of fantastic set pieces with enough story to hold them together). Two amazing scenes… but three hours long.
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I am a mild-mannered retiring sort generally, but on the third recurrence of this exact situation, minus the chickens, I once left this note on a car bonnet: "Next time we smash your window, open your hood, and take your battery".
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“…and by extension the film” is where you lose me. Trailer construction is its own art form, for good and for bad. You can reason from a trailer to a film’s chances of opening strong, but not to its chances of appealing to a broad audience.
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Strongly suggest you check out @tansyg.bsky.social's Going Rogue podcast. You'd need the Patreon eps for her INSANELY DETAILED AND FUN thoughts on Andor, but the free public eps feed begins with a full season on Rogue One.
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I'm finding @ancillaryreview.bsky.social a fun critical journal -- they might also have good suggestions for other possible venues for you.
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From the people who brought you “quadrilogy”.
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I ordered it from Unity. Worth it!
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This is presumably a stepping stone to the ultimate combined role of president/lord god almighty, king of kings, you shall have no other god than me?
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As we in the damn-right-I’m-old community like to say: aging beats the alternative.
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The God Beneath The Sea remains my favourite version of the Greek myths.
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Had to pack up my entire book collection last month to move house, which involved a lot of decisions on what to keep. Many dear old books got sold off or given away. The entirety of Harry Potter I threw in the recycling.