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Last weekend I asked for the wettest films. This weekend I want the hottest films. To start us off here is Toby doing his version of the opening shot of Kurosawa’s ‘Stray Dog’

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

I’ve been making my way through the Welfare Reform Bill and this paragraph on the gov.uk website is genuinely disgusting. Receiving a decent disability benefits rate “encourages sickness”, does it? Funny, I thought it just enabled severely ill and disabled people to eat.

submitted 21 hours ago • 28 comments

The BBC has confirmed it won’t air its documentary on Gaza’s medics. I know some of the journalists involved and they’re absolutely excellent. This statement is mealy-mouthed; you can’t “both sides” the facts on the ground of a genocide, and there’s a clear public interest in documenting those facts

submitted 13 hours ago • 15 comments

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #3/10: FAIRNESS People aren't motivated by facts, they're motivated by emotion. Including outrage at unfairness, an emotion that has driven people to rise up throughout history. The climate crisis is a story of extraordinary unfairness, with clear villains:

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

#OtD 20 Jun 1967 boxing legend Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing the draft for the Vietnam war. Sentenced to five years prison and a $10,000 fine, he attacked a system where "the rich man's son went to college and the poor man's son went to war" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9289...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Back when he was Steve, the coolest 26 y/o you’ve ever seen.

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The problem for the government now is that it has to justify to its own MPs why it could u-turn for a household on £30,000 a year losing £200-£300, but not for a disabled person losing £10,000 a year, at once, because of the government’s choices.

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

If you're curious about the building in the post below know that is, indeed, enigmatic. So much so that the BBC produced a video about a local legend ... The world was so much more interesting when we allowed it to have texture. youtu.be/ZBI7cLp7y5Q?...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Photo of the Day. Credit to Palestinian photographer, Saeed Jaras. Posting this here because hardly any mainstream media outlets will publish it. An ongoing genocide silenced. #Gaza

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UK air pollution kills 30000 people, costs £27bn-£50bn a year. Richest 10% produce 3 times more emissions than the poorest 10%. World's richest 1% produce more pollution than 66% of people. Private planes/yachts major culprits. Fossil fuel companies subsidised - Drax. Redistribute, save lives

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oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life,—in ye, men yet may roll

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I don't know how many people understand that disabled people are looking at losing £450 a month, every month, potentially for life. Money that pays for the help, aids, and adjustments that they need to exist in the world. There are disabled people who wouldn't survive these cuts.

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Labour are lying when they justify cutting PIP by saying it will get people 'back into work'. It is not an unemployment benefit. PIP helps with the extra costs of being disabled. There is no job-related criteria because having a job doesn't make it any cheaper to be disabled.

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The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

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At Standing Rock, the FBI had 10+ inside informants. The pipeline's security company used Iraq War tactics. Modern disinfo tactics were rampant. For @sequencermag.bsky.social I talked with @alleenbrown.bsky.social of @drilledmedia.bsky.social about misinfo and the legacy of Standing Rock.

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“Both regimes should be blatantly condemned for their persistence of violence, warfare, and absolute indifference to human dignity.” Jafar Panahi — www.instagram.com/p/DK_wkYRIAWL/

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2025 is the centenary of the appointment of Ebenezer James Macrae as Edinburgh City Architect. Dubbed "the man who shaped modern Edinburgh", his work characterised by a blend of modern form and function with traditional style. A uniquely splendid example is the Edinburgh Police Box 👮📦🧵▶️

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That TV show you think is garbage is made by lots of really smart, creative, talented people. Making a TV show, even a bad one, is just really hard for a myriad of reasons. Writing, casting, direction, editing, scoring, SFX, locations, budget, notes. Mess any 1 thing up and it can ruin everything.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

That thing when your tech mysteriously breaks down the minute after it runs out of warranty except its my dog and his pet insurance

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Sure would be nice to have leaders we could believe in

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Found a fun new Youtube channel that's all videos of mini-DJ sets in small shops in Japan as the staff look on bemused and it's keeping me going in this grim week/month/year/decade www.youtube.com/@loginnjp

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BREAKING: At least 45 Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured by Israeli forces as they were waiting for aid in Khan Younis, says the Gaza Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/0jcx3m

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From the Nitpicker's Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers, published in 1996. The reviewer didn't think the state of the United States in 2024 as shown in the episode Past Tense, Part 1 was believable. Sounds like @roberthewittwolfe.bsky.social and Ira Steven Behr were pretty close....

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Here’s the brutal reality of the crisis in UK TV & Film. This is why the gvt giving away copyright to the AI thieves hurts so much. The industry is broken. The very few have never had it so good. The very many, never so bad. It’s an avoidable tragedy. variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 5 days ago • 115 comments

*shows up to theater with untrained dragon

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Great time at Hidden Door today. One of the best ever

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It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

The idea that this political violence is the consequence of people on both sides cheering it on seems like a sympathetic point but just doesn’t hold up to history. In my adult life, I’ve seen people on the right do everything from kill politicians to kill regular citizens, and it’s shrugged off.

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

Going to watch a really rainy movie to match the day - what should I choose?

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

I’m begging you: take some time out of your day to explore this newly released map of our universe. 🤯 This interactive site shows JWST’s view of the COSMOS-Web field, containing more than 800,000 galaxies spanning 98% of cosmic time. Its actually mindblowing 🧪🔭 cosmos2025.iap.fr/fitsmap.html

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Three members of the Madleen team—Pascal Maurieras, Yanis Mhamdi, and Marco van Rennes—are still illegally detained by Israel and may be held for another month. Arrested unlawfully in international waters and denied basic rights,

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Papers please…

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anyone who got on social media after 2014 or so is under the mistaken impression that the primary goal of social media is for it to Accomplish Something while those of us who have been on since the start know the true purpose of social media is to give us a place to Post so we don't go (more) insane

submitted 8 days ago • 171 comments

Excited to bring Fierce Salvage to the Edinburgh Book Festival this Summer www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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