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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 17h

It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 16h

23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s viewing: Super Inframan (Hua Shan, 1975) the cult classic from Shaw Brothers offers non stop action, massive sets, campy dialogue and lots of fun with nods to Japanese kaiju films, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

100: Black Bag on @thebookerprizes.com shortlist is a dark, witty, funny, and thoughtful novel that speaks to the contemporary moment where lack of human connection and loneliness, awkward white masculinity and too much focus on technology is harming society. #booksky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tonight’s viewing: #PortraitinBlack (Gordon, 1960) the lavish murderous melodrama from Universal features Lana Turner as a bored housewife who conspires to kill her invalid husband with the help of Anthony Quinn, who plays family doctor. Gorgeous cinematography from Metty. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today’s viewing: #I,TheExecutioner (Kato, 1968) the Japanese crime drama presents a sordid tale of moral rot, murderous rage, and confusion amidst a booming economy as a stranger begins brutally murdering women, all who have a guilty secret. Stylishly told and relentless in emotion. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The return of a new season of #BakeOff is the best signal that fall is upon us. @chrisbecker.bsky.social #TVsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today’s viewing: #ByAMan’sFaceShallYouKnowHim (Kato, 1966) the film offers a poetic mix of blood, melodrama and exploration of interethnic tension in post war Japan where Korean gangs seek to control Japan as it struggles under occupation. It is a daring take on yakuza films. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

99th: The Renovation @kenanorhan.bsky.social exquisitely beautiful novel about a Turkish woman living as an immigrant in Italy who discovers that her bathroom renovation is now a portal to a Turkish prison. Grapples with immigration, exile, memory, place. #booksky @thebookerprizes.com

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TO THE BATPOLES! podcast @tothebatpoles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

HAPPY BAT-BIRTHDAY to the star of #Batman66, Adam West, born William West Anderson on 9/19/1928 in Walla Walla Washington, where a big annual celebration is going on today! He was a great comic actor who battled against typecasting and made a nice comeback in his later years. We miss him! #Batman66

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

98th: The Art Thief a fascinating mix of true crime, art history, and exploration of how an obsessive chase for beauty led one man in France to become the world’s greatest art thief ever in late 1990s. A spectacular read. #booksky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today’s viewing: #Power (Ford, 2024) this @netflix.com documentary offers a sobering look at the history of US policing and its growth into the largest paramilitary organization in the nation that serves itself and the elites rather than the people. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today’s viewing: #Sterne (Wolf, 1959) the iconic DEFA film that exposed the evil, cruelty and machinery of Nazi barbarism towards the Jews. It is a moving and disturbing film. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

97: Land the expansive and intimate new novel from Maggie O’ Farrell that offers a tragically beautiful hymn to the geography of Ireland and its people and how that geography seeps into the bones of the people and their culture. A glorious book that seeps into the soul. #booksky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

96: Blood at the Bookies, 9th in Fethering series has Carole and Jude investigating the murder of a Polish immigrant whom Jude discovered outside a betting shop. Brett uses this book to look at issues like immigration, xenophobia, and extreme Britishness as harmful to nation. #booksky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Comedy series winner is Widows Bay. A great win for such a quirky and original new series. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Limited anthology series winner is DTFStLouis. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Writing for a drama series goes to Vince Gilligan for Pluribus. A great win for one of the most original voices in TV today. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Directing for a comedy series goes to Hiro Murai for Widows Bay. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Directing for a drama series goes to Slow Horses director Saul Metzstein. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Writing for a comedy series goes to Katie Dippold for Widows Bay pilot. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lead actor in a comedy series goes to Matthew Rhys making #Emmys history winning lead actor in two separate categories for his astounding performance in WidowsBay. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lead actress limited series/movie goes to Sally Field for Remarkably Bright Creatures. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Supporting actor in a drama series goes to Tom Pelfrey for Task. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lead actor in a drama series goes to Noah Wyle for The Pitt, once again. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Supporting actor in a comedy series goes to Stephen Root for WidowsBay. He gives an impressive performance in that great new weird series. #Emmys

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TV critics' long national nightmare is over: Rhea Seehorn finally is Emmy-winner Rhea Seehorn.

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Outstanding actress in a drama series goes to Rhea Seehorn for her incredible and astonishing performance in #Pluribus. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Supporting actress in a drama series goes to Allison Janey for #TheDiplomat. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lead actor in a limited series goes to Matthew Rhys for his Netflix series The Beast in Me. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lead actress in a comedy series goes to Jean Smart for #Hacks making her a five time winner for the same character and series. #Emmys

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

First Emmy of night goes to Kate O’Flynn for Widows Bay in supporting actress comedy series category. #Emmys

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a very interesting new resource, The Register of British Slave-Traders. 'The Register focusses on the individuals who sought to profit from the enslavement of over 3 million African men, women, and children, whose identity was – for the most part – erased from the historical record.' 🗃️

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The Register of British Slave-Traders

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today’s viewing: #TakeMeinYourArms (Bracho, 1954) the classic Mexican musical melodrama is a masterpiece about a woman exploited by powerful, venal men even as she loves only one man, who rejects her believing her to be less than virtuous unaware of her tragedy and pain. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@frittersandclam.bsky.social I just saw that Fetterman sent a video to that mess tonight and vows to work against the party. He will be done as a Dem now, I think

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today’s viewing: #NoDownPayment (Ritt, 1957) 20th Century Fox melodrama about the problems of four couples in suburban America grappling with racism, alcoholism, domestic violence and angst at not living the American Dream of consumerism and merit. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Second viewing of day: #Aventurura (Gout, 1950) the entertaining and moving classic Mexican melodrama starring Ninon Sevilla as a woman who is forced into a life of sin and exquisitely plots her revenge in this moody story of lust, sex, and revenge. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today’s viewing: #RosebushPruning (Ainouz, 2026) this not for the faint of heart art house film is a dark satire of the American family, especially the 1%. Visually stunning at times and equally disturbing on a sexual and violent level that is shocking. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fellow media scholars just want to share some news with you on an upcoming volume on FX network which I co-edited with David Pierson. press.syr.edu/supressbooks...

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FX Reader, 1994-2010s, The – Syracuse University Press

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

95: Sisters of the Midnight Sun a riveting account of the double murder in 1993 of two Inupiat sisters in remote Alaska and the fallout as the Inupiat culture clashed with Anglo systems of justice and values. Highlights systematic problems for Inupiat culture and injustice. #booksky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today’s viewing: #Eephus (Lund, 2024) a pitch perfect (pun intended) baseball film about a small town adult recreational league and the men who meet to play one last game on a storied field in late autumn before the field is demolished. A great baseball film. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today’s viewing: #Orwell2+2=5 (Peck, 2025) part documentary, part essay film that uses a mixed media approach and Orwell’s writings to argue for his influence and prescience about the past, present, and future of global politics and injustice. It is a stunning film. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What a loss for the cause of feminism and for the nation as a whole. I have a greater respect for her after reading her books when I was working on my essay on the FX series Mrs America. Hope she and Dolly are enjoying a laugh together in the here after.

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Second viewing of day: #MotherMary (Lowery, 2026) the film is a glorious blend of supernatural with the psychological marked by outstanding performances from Anne Hathaway who plays a struggling pop diva and Michaela Cole as a fashion designer who is her friend. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today’s viewing: #MiroirsNo.3 (Petzold, 2025) the psychological drama from Germany’s best contemporary director explores notions of identity and emotion wrapped in the experiences of Laura, a young music student grappling with angst and pressure. Intimate and masterful. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

94: This Vast Enterprise offers a compelling new look at the Lewis and Clark expedition using new historical sources and methods. It is a lively read built around the experiences of forgotten members of the expedition and shows that are aspects of it that were overlooked. #booksky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today’s viewing: #Devo (Smith, 2024) the documentary about the important and oft misunderstood American band is a fascinating look at their careers, politics, philosophy and musical backgrounds and influences. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today’s viewing: #CoyotevsAcme (Green, 2026) the long shelved animated film is in theaters and is definitely a great film. The love for Looney Tunes heritage and termite terrace is littered throughout the film which offers a modern take on little guy battling corporations. So fun. #filmsky

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