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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These are trophy designs? I thought they were a couple of angry bouncers guarding the Mad Hatter's tea party

David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've read this a few times and I don't really understand it - and I'm a telly person. Expediencies are stitched into practically every film going; same with theatrical productions.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They inhabit the tip of pyramid only they allow themselves to be on. I know nothing about Cofnas, but any association with Richard Lynn, probably the most discredited of all modern British "race-realists", is damning.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'd be intrigued to hear the doorstep reaction to his whinge: "Paedophiles, rapists and murderers are treated badly but I'm treated WORSE."

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Only two team owners sit on UEFA's 19-member executive committee, and only one of them, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi of PSG, is a billionaire.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I have a question for those who study the media: Does anyone in corporate owned media wonder if their declining audience and trust is the product of events like we saw last night? Because, as someone who started an independent media outlet, it is definitely part of our growth.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Let's unpack the pros and cons of this move from Farage's perspective." As per.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Underdogs panting for breath. After a few minutes, England players will feel like they've played an hour of football.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...

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Careless People: A story of where I used to work

The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to b...

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Oh Dan Atherton was a student of mine once upon a time - and obvious then that he was a real talent!

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Yeah that was weird. Well done on the cool-keeping.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

And yet "When Marjane Satrapi began drawing again, depicting the violence recently enacted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, she was so disturbed that she felt physical pain. “I get finger cramps when I have to draw them,” she shudders.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Seems like Trump is suffering from encephalo-colitis, or as it's commonly know, shit for brains.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I went through an entire career in TV - and I know plenty of others who did too - without ever doing a vox pop. VPs are by definition dishonest, and I'm constantly surprised there's never been a code of filming conduct that prohibits them.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough Thank you for being a friend to all animals and for helping the world to cherish us x

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🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪🇪🇺Tordenskjold🔔 @tordenskjoldcph.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I always liked Robert De Niro as an actor. I like him even more as a political activist. He is not intimidated like some others of influence and as many vital institutions and corporations in 🇺🇸. In particular shame on the lawyer firms who folded without a legal battle.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I feel exactly that way living in Hammersmith and Fulham, which is by some distance the best Labour council area I've lived in. There's plenty to criticise of course, but there have also been some big quality-of-life wins for residents that were achieved by painstaking councillor engagement.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is just awful news. Doug was not just a brilliant wildlife cinematographer but a beautiful soul. I once had the unforgettable pleasure of producing a film that he shot, in sometimes dreadful, very rainforesty conditions (Madagascar), and he was in his element www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

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Doug Allan, cameraman on David Attenborough’s Planet series, dies trekking in Nepal

Wildlife film pioneer has died aged 74 ‘immersed in nature and surrounded by friends’, his representatives said

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Lookalike someone came along and straightened up York railway station.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Ah, now the insults to follow the incoherence

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Not really. I spent more than a decade as a senior academic teaching this stuff. That's aside from actually doing the "news production" job.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I simply don't understand what you're trying to say. The article is true - multiple news sources aside from the BBC have reported it. If it's true what's wrong with the "interpretation"? Who at the BBC is "claiming no action is ever enough"? And what "substandard evidence" do you mean?

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

So what the BBC reported was true

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Sorry I'm not following this. So is it false to report that the Iranians have warned/threatened that the permission given by the government to the US to launch 'defensive' bombing raids from UK bases will be regarded by them as active participation in the war?

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Pretty sure that One Battle After Another (and quite likely The Secret Agent) will be seen as the more enduring classics once the Oscars hype dies down.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Wouldn't be the worst idea to have a worldwide consumer, government and business boycott of OpenAI to counter the Trump junta's attempt to destroy Anthropic + Spain (Dear god, the world is catastrophically weird that such a post is possible).

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Maybe it's just me, but once Burnham had been blocked it seemed obvious that Labour would lose this seat. Little is being said - and nothing that I've been able to find - about Reform losing a seat they thought they had all sewn up. It's Caerphilly all over again - a pattern likely to be repeated...

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Wall-to-wall press coverage of Labour losing the Gorton and Denton by-election. Weirdly, practically nothing at all on Reform losing - in a seat they thought they had sewn up. It's Caerphilly all over again.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Quite coincidentally, that's exactly the nickname for him used by some old TV film crew colleagues of mine when they were stuck with him on a long voyage back from St Helena in the late 80s.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Up until 1966. As a kid it was a magical journey with those tank engines sort of winning the race against the trams that ran parallel with the pier’s railway tracks

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

According to Paul McCartney, the song is actually about that.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

And the one and only Ryde Pier Head in the distance.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"All platforms"? Including this one?

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Rye is always an example I give when I explain why I dislike York. People in Rye live in those houses. In York they’re just shops.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Me too (well, Spring anyway). Lisbon was pure heaven in so many ways.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I don't know, but panel courts were expensively installed at the nearby tennis club (SW6) a few years ago, and then ripped out again a year or so later, with the tennis courts reinstated.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

McSweeney resigning brings to mind Dorothy Parker's "I have two words for you and the second one is off." For anyone in any doubt, "Get In", Maguire & Pogrund's account of Labour through the 2024 election period, makes clear that McSweeney would be a disaster - indeed was already causing mayhem.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

And filming miniatures in movies - Bladerunner, for example - does exactly the opposite to upscale: film at higher frame rates (so slo-mo, for which there’s an exact formula to get the effect right) and greater lighting intensity to increase depth of field.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It’s where you break down everything in the chase - linotype lines, individual letters, furniture, quoins, etc - back into storage after printing. Filthy job.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Absolutely. That was my first job. It was literally poisonous, especially “dissing”, which was a task dumped only on apprentices

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The sheer number of in-jokes in this thread...

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti
"We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an
ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.
I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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David Hickman @davidhickman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

"Emergency disconnect"? Is that an Americanism? In the UK we have stopcocks, although possibly not for electricity.

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