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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the many bad things to come out of the Elizabeth Holmes case is that it kept "body language experts" in business for a few more years to come. Oh, yes please: *do* tell me more about how you were uniquely qualififed to detect sinsiter mannerisms from this convicted criminal.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Argentina scoring two goals in four minutes to clinch a place in the next round thanks to a shitty refereeing decision? That would be a bit too 1986 for my liking.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

These stuttering penalty run-ups are so annoying

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hey maybe Keir Starmer can have a word and get Quansah put back on the pitch. Isn’t that how it works?

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If current scoring trends continue, I predict a 97-0 England victory.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'm watching Scotland v Haiti on my laptop because others in the house are watching the basketball on the big screen. I don't follow NBA, but honestly, from what I can see, there are more ad breaks than actual gameplay. How and why do you all stand it?

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If we can't get Tate some serious prison time (instead of, you know, giving him millions of dollars and access to senior figures in government and business), we're failing as a society. If we want to make amends for failing to bring Epstein to justice, this would be a step in the right direction.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Degrading ebola prevention systems so the world's richest man could flatter the world's most powerful village idiot by saving him a fraction of the ballroom budget.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Guys, don't @me, but I'm beginning to think that it *is* possible to have too much discourse based on a 2-minute trailer for a film.

Screenshot of Alexander Lerman's article in the The Spectator, with the muddy-headed headline: "Does the Odyssey confirm that Christopher Nolan is camp?"

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

John Oliver has been joking through the dark shit for so long that it was really unnerving to hear his voice crack with emotion during this one. youtu.be/Ykvf3MunGf8?...

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AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"I wonder what 'Michael' would be like had it been motivated by anything other than the avarice of people already grotesquely engorged from feasting upon the corpse of their dead benefactor." I love to read Walter Chaw's reviews, even when they're about films I have no intention of ever watching.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I am enjoying being told to cool down the temperature of the politic rhetoric by acolytes of the guy who last week was threatening, like it was just another item on his whimsical to-do list, to wipe out an entire civilisation.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Is everyone seeing a lot of ads for 'Soulmate Sketch' scams (I assume they're scams because THERE'S LITERALLY NO ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION), or did I do/say something weird that dropped me down that particular algorithmic rabbit-hole?

Screenshot of an ad for Soulmate Sketch, with AI generated pictures of people in London and New York and the spurious claim that "I swear you'll cry when I draw the person you're meant to be with."

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Why are there so many fake, presumably AI-generated books about One Battle After Another (the one I inspected doesn't mention the film at all, btw) on Amazon? They need to clean up their slop, ASAP. Users can't report them as fast as scammers can create them.

Screenshot of a series of books that claim to be about the film One Battle After Another, but which seem to be fake.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

If you thought the space deniers were rampant on YouTube and TikTok and the like, you should take a look at Chinese social media. My god, they're everywhere, like it's a patriotic duty to deny that Americans could ever pull it off.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Yesterday someone in Shanghai asked me how UK prices were being affected by the war in Iran. I said I didn't really know. Today we booked our summer flights to the UK. Holy shit, now I know.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I almost don't dare ask why there's only one trending topic for me today.

Screenshot of my Bluesky feed, where the only trending topic is 'Iran War'.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Teachers should probably be keeping an eye on the results of this study.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

NASA Artemis II Press Conference: It’s actually quite moving to watch representatives of a US government agency just being excellent at their jobs.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Watching Werckmeister Harmonies and Sátántangó in particular was transformative for me. Thank you, Béla Tarr (1955 - 2026).

The opening scene of Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies, in which János choreographs a dance by a roomful of sozzled barflies in imitation of the solar system.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

White House commemorative mug seen on sale on Taobao.

A mug in the shape of the White House being partially demolished by diggers.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I don't actually know if this is unpopular or completely orthodox, but my "unpopular movie opinion" is that Spielberg should have broken from Janusz Kaminski about 30 years ago.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

A seven decade career. Starring roles in at least half a dozen of the greatest films ever made including, for my money, the finest samurai film of all time.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Only just found out that Zohran Mamdani is the son of filmmaker Mira Nair. I don't know what to do with that information, but OK. What a fun fact.

Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair, mother of Zohran Mamdani.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I muted the word "Trump" on day one of my arrival on Bluesky. I still see the Cheetoh Mussolini all over my feed indirectly. God knows what it must be like for the rest of you...

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The darkest part of my sense of humour was pleased that this looks like a very slippery fall risk.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Peter Watkins is going to be justly eulogised for The War Game, Culloden, and Punishment Park, but here’s a reminder that his Edvard Munch (1974) is one of the greatest films ever made in any genre. youtu.be/82TuM2E1PE8?...

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EDVARD MUNCH (Masters of Cinema) Clip

YouTube video by Eurekaentertainment

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Something's gone wrong with Facebook comment sections.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

They're testing driverless taxis in my neighbourhood of Shanghai. I just saw one stopping in a no-stopping zone (which the human taxis do *all the time*) and then getting stuck trying to do a u-turn in a crossroads that had roadworks in the middle of it. It made me wonder how police pull them over?

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

What happened to targeted ads? I see mostly adds for crypto, AI, "digital assets", and other shit that I never go for, often report as scams, and usually flag as 'not relevant'. And they keep coming. Are they desperate, or is this a positive sign that they don't know enough about me?

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Can anyone explain why you would steal the crown jewels from the Louvre? How do they expect to sell them? If they're just going to sell the gemstones, they're not worth nearly as much without the history.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

elon musk has been making so many false assertions about history & politics. this one in particular made me guffaw.

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@elonmusk
“Funny to think that Bill Clinton's policies when he was President were essentially MAGA” sept. 28, 2025 34.7 million views

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clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov

“Childhood Immunizations
The President launched a major childhood immunization effort to increase the number of children who were being immunized. Since 1993, childhood immunization rates have reached all-time highs, with 90 percent or more of America's toddlers receiving critical vaccines for children by age 2.
Vaccination levels are nearly the same for preschool children of all racial and ethnic groups, narrowing a gap estimated to be as wide as 26 percentage points a generation ago.
May 20
August 10
Motor Voter Registration Signed
The Clinton Administration made it easier for millions of Americans to register to vote by allowing registration at the same time they get a driver's license. The Motor Voter law led to the registration of more than 28 million new voters, more registered voters than the passage of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 years. (PL 103-
31, signed 5/20/93).
Clinton-Gore Deficit Reduction Plan Enacted Passed without a single Republican vote, the Clinton-Gore Administration's economic plan established fiscal discipline by slashing the deficit in half — the largest deficit reduction plan in history while making important investments in our economic future, including education, health care, and science and technology research. This legislation also extended the life of the Medicare Trust Fund by three years. Fiscal discipline established by the Clinton-Gore Administration has turned the largest deficits in our country's history into the largest surplus. (PL
103-66, signed 8/10/93)…”

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

My Mandela effect moment is that I distinctly remember that, in old comic strips and cartoons, convicts would wear uniforms with arrows on them, and now nobody I mention this to knows what I'm talking about.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

You can decry political violence, or you can call for revenge. You can not do both. You can call yourself a Christian, or you can call for revenge. You can not do both. You can reject violent rhetoric, or you can call for revenge. You can not do both.

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Remember when everyone invited Christopher Hitchens onto their shows so they could pretend to be outraged when he said what they expected him to say about the death of Jerry Falwell? Been thinking about that this week. youtu.be/doKkOSMaTk4?...

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Christopher Hitchens on Hannity & Colmes about Rev. Falwell's Death

YouTube video by William Fischer

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Community note on X

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"Their violent rhetoric fuels political violence."

An AI-generated image of Donald Trump as Kilgore from Apocalypse Now, i.e. a draft dodger cosplaying as a war criminal to threaten Chicago with military occupation by government troops and, perhaps accidentally, jovially aligning his administration with chemical weapons.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

What if commemorating the end of World War II by parading a taster menu of your world-ending nukes was not considered a sign of progress?

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Spotify users: remember you can block artists from appearing in playlists.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

RIP Sly Stone. This is one of my favourite vocal performances of anything ever. youtu.be/gZFabOuF4Ps?...

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Sly & The Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay (Audio)

YouTube video by SlyATFamilyStoneVEVO

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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Pop stars doing their bit.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know?” I never thought he was funny but that line is pretty good. Maybe the collapse of the USA will at least yield some top-tier "not-my-fault" Trumpian bullshit on the way down.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Holy shit, this whole thread. This would be incredibly damning to an administration that was capable of shame or self-reflection.

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Dan North @dannorth.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I have no interest in the Snow White remake, but what it has brought (algorithmically, no doubt) to my attention is the scale and ferocity of a mob of "anti-woke" YouTube accounts, much of their content AI-generated and unwatchably inane. A media ecosystem designed for views, not discourse.

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I actually laughed

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