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Local gov, economic dev, film

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
just so it's clear: i mean where there is an indie bookstore or from the publisher or author alternative
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Given the state of things re books, predatory corporations, etc... it is more imperative than ever to buy your books from indie bookstores and their online sites. Exclusively.
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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
@RoughEdges by @RebeccaCarhew review in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social #MustRead
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.
JD Vance tweets: "She bought a $50 dress for $8.75. America: meet your next director of the federal budget!" 

He retweeted his wife, who showed that she purchased a $49.99 Old Navy dress for $8.75 after markdowns and coupon codes. On May 27, 2026, the Workers Right Consortium published an article saying: "Haitian Factory Making Old Navy, Hanes Remedies Illegal Firing of Pregnant Workers, Union Leaders

After engagement by the WRC with the brands Gap Inc. (owner of Old Navy) and Gildan (owner of Hanes), 14 women who were unlawfully fired have received remedy. Each of these workers received the equivalent of 22 months’ back wages and a commitment of priority rehiring from The Willbes, a garment factory in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that supplies the two brands.

As the WRC previously reported, The Willbes carried out a mass layoff in 2024 that resulted in the firing of more than a dozen workers who, at the time of their dismissal, were pregnant or were union leaders. The dismissals occurred in violation of their protected status under Haitian labor law and, by extension, violated each of the buyers’ codes of conduct. The Willbes is a supplier of apparel to Gap for its Old Navy brand and to Hanesbrands, now a subsidiary of the Canadian apparel corporation, Gildan.

The Willbes unlawfully dismissed the pregnant workers and the factory union leaders when it shut down four of its production buildings and laid off more than 900 employees. While some of the workers affected by the layoff were allowed to transfer to jobs in the portion of the factory that remained open, five workers who were pregnant and nine who were leaders of the factory union were illegally denied the opportunity to keep their employment."
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Mike @07931.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Anyone else in the live siegfried from #rbo #royaloperahouse #siegfried lost the the stream in the cinema?
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
To all folks in the north of England, check out these April dates for. @threeacresacow.bsky.social. Brilliant show!
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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This wonderful piece goes live in a few days for everyone but if you’re able, it’s as good a moment as any to support FFC on Patreon. It’s home to some of the best and most essential writing on cinema we get each year.
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Mike @07931.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Enormously late to an utterly exceptional analysis from @priscillapage.bsky.social of 28 Years Later. So much to say about the UK's lost decade, about kindness and dignity in life & death. What a read. www.patreon.com/posts/28-yea...
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28 Years Later | Priscilla Page
Get more from Priscilla Page on Patreon
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
If you'd like some good news on AI, the last few weeks have seen execs across multiple industries strive to hide AI usage labeling on their products because, as many of us have said FOR YEARS, the audience that *doesn't* want AI is substantial and we will reject your product whole hog for using it.
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Mike @07931.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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When I met Craig he was 13 and homeless. I still thought his life might turn around. I was tragically wrong
The long read: I knew he was running away from something. It wasn’t until many years later that I discovered the truth
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
If you like my work, please share and subscribe. I'm trying to override a variety of shadowbans and broken algorithms. Thank you!
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Brudenell Presents @brudpresents.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
⭐️ 'Songwriting of rare emotional power.' - @clashmagazine ⭐️ ⭐️ 'Goosebumps from start to finish'. - @faroutmagazine ⭐️ 5/5 - @nmemagazine A real masterclass in songwriting, the debut record from @fbtband is the real deal. 🧚 ➡️ tinyurl.com/FolkBitchTri...
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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Et tu, @bsky.app? If this stellar, heartfelt Walter Chaw WEAPONS review is indicative of what can get you suspended on this site, have to question whether it’s worth sticking around here. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/08/weap...
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Weapons (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/****starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Amy Madiganwritten and directed by Zach Cregger by Walter Chaw Zach Cregger’s Weapons is joy. It’s nostalgia without an obvious anteceden...
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 02/08/2025
Giving this another push, would appreciate the signal boost if you are so inclined!
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Mike @07931.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Just received this gorgeous, gorgeous piece from @briannaduggan.bsky.social. What a joy. Thank you so much Brianna!
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Mike @07931.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Just finished @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Incredible, deeply moving, thrilling. Never read anything like it. Thank you for an extraordinary book.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15/05/2025
Israel carried out its plan to erase Gaza over the course of 18 months. Now that the plan has clearly fallen into place, the Netanyahu government is openly discussing ethnic cleansing. And still, Israel enjoys complete international impunity.
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Exterminating Gaza was always Israel’s plan, but now it’s official
Israel carried out its plan to erase Gaza over the course of 18 months. Now that the plan has clearly fallen into place, the Netanyahu government is openly discussing ethnic cleansing. And still, Israel...
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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 12/05/2025
It tells you exactly how rotten my brain is that if I got a wish from a genie, I would wish that the IMDb separated release dates into three distinct and clearly-labeled categories: festival, theatrical, and home video, and that theatrical was the default setting they pushed out through their api.
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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 09/05/2025
“Yippee ki-yay…” We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
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EROCY @erocy.world · 07/05/2025
Batman breaking gun, saying 

THIS IS THE WEAPON OF THE ENEMY.
WE DO NOT NEED IT. WE WILL NOT USE IT.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I don’t know how to put this exactly but it’s very important to reject a sexist culture’s criteria for a good woman’s life.
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
my Hagerty editor and I excavated a piece I wrote about the first two Lost Bullet movies a couple years ago, which was mysteriously never published - until yesterday. I think there are spoilers ahead.
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Lost Bullet Turns the Renault 21 Into an Action Hero - Hagerty Media
The Renault 21 may be an unlikely action hero car, but its speed and popularity as a family car make it ideal for the Lost Bullet saga.
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Mike @07931.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/04/2025
This. Authoritarians win by creating an atmosphere of hopelessness in order to preemptively suppress mass actions that could effectively challenge their power. Every single public act of defiance plays a critical role in stopping them.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 28/03/2025
We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
And no one in this fucking country will distribute this film they have now given their lives for. We are a nation of cowards. Our only God is cash.
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 13/03/2025
This protest zine was made by a student in the Grossmont Union High School District and passed out at the board meeting on Tuesday. The kids are going to be alright.
Handmade zine:

As we know, the Grossmont Union High School District Board of Trustees is a pack of buffoons.

The good news:
Three of the Board members have to run for
re-election in 2026!

Let's tell voters all about these absolute clowns!
Vote out the failed CPA—
Robert Shield
Cartoon with speech bubble: “Has anyone seen my calculator”

Tell voters in Santee + Lakeside about Robert's budget lies!


Next page:

Vote out
Gary C. Woods
Cartoon speech bubble: “The C" stands for Corrupt!”
→ Gary misuses public school funds WHILE he profits from his private school ousiness.
Tell voters in El Cajon about Gary’s little plan!And let's toss out —
Jim "Smelly"
Kelly

(Drawing of a fish with Xs for eyes and wavy stink lines)


Jim’s greatest hits:
L firing librarians.
→ firing teachers.
→ hiring his buddies!
→ Firing school psychologists.
Speech bubble: “WTF”

Tell voters in:
Jamul, Alpine, Lakeside, Harbinson CanyonFront and back of the zine:

Front:

Operation:
Kick out the school board goons
Three cartoon faces, one with a speech bubble that says: “We Stink!” Another says: “me too”


Back, typed:

Please note:
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Trustee Chris Fite is doing fine. Give him a high five if you see him.
Trustee Scott Eckhart is a spineless little twerp though. We'll get to replace him in the 2028 election.
No one actually knows what Gary's middle initial "C" stands for, so you're free to brainstorm your own fitting C word.
The illustration of Jim Kelly is an artist's rendering. We cannot confirm if flies have gathered in Jim's putrescence at this time.
Jim Kelly lists his business phone number at Allstate on his public GUHSD profile. Be polite and DO NOT call him at 619-562-9199 to share your thoughts about his failures on the Board of Trustees. Come on, guys.
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I wrote about THE CONVERSATION for @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social back in the day: filmfreakcentral.net/2011/11/the-...
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The Conversation (1974) - Blu-ray Disc - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/**** Image A- Sound A Extras A+ starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola by Walter Chaw The moment I decided that movies wer...
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Mike @07931.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Yet again @mangiotto.bsky.social helps me to love a film even more.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Mike @07931.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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Mike @07931.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Nobody makes me more excited for a cinema trip than @mangiotto.bsky.social. Roll on filmfreakcentral.net/2024/12/nosf.... Long live filmfreakcentral.net
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Nosferatu (2024) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/****starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoeinspired by the screenplay Nosferatu by Henrik Gallen and the novel Dracula by Bram Stokerwritten for the screen and direc...
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I really loved this movie. Eggers' distaff take on a traditionally masculine sex-obsession/xenophobia parable kindred to his VVITCH in its interest in female sexuality, oppression and empowerment. filmfreakcentral.net/2024/12/nosf...
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Nosferatu (2024) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/****starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoeinspired by the screenplay Nosferatu by Henrik Gallen and the novel Dracula by Bram Stokerwritten for the screen and direc...
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Mike @07931.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I'd never have considered watching Lost Bullet without the rec from @priscillapage.bsky.social. What a joy.
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