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Deborah Shaw

@devorashawa.bsky.social
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Academic who publishes on film and television with a specialism in gender and sexuality and Latin American film Some of my work can be found here: www.deborahshaw.co.uk

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
making a living vs making a life here is the best advice I have about making your life in the creative arts. it's advice from my mum. it has made my whole life better and if you want to be an artist I think it'll make yours better too: naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
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making a living vs making a life
or "can you earn money from your art?" (and is that even the right question?)
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
genuinely can't remember the last time I saw a politician who isn't endlessly blaming my wife and my friends (online and off) for the ills of the nation. and that's why we will both be voting green
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!
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Prof Alex Ford @dralexford.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up theconversation.com/environmenta...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/10/2025
Lavender scare is back.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.” Meanwhile... in Argentina www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty
The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2025
"It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people" 🎯 www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him | Jonathan Freedland
It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2025
This past weekend once again showed: Elon Musk is not fit and proper to be given a foothold in our essential services. 🚨 ⚠️ www.politico.eu/article/uk-minister…
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UK ministers told: Block ‘dangerous’ Elon Musk power supply bid
Musk is “far too dangerous to be trusted with something as important as people’s energy supply,” the Lib Dem opposition said.
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Deborah Shaw @devorashawa.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Implausible deniability
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
A Labour government that does not fight back against the far right, racism and extremism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of its electoral support.
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Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Many people are convinced, because of what they’ve seen online, that the know what motivated the accused killer of Charlie Kirk. The truth is we don’t have a motive and in some ways the picture is murkier than it was this morning. Powerful people have blamed the “Left” - without evidence…
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Well, gosh.
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thomasr74.bsky.social @thomasr74.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... - one of many sources confirming this story. 168 years ago...
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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
In further news, I’ll be speaking in Vienna at the end of this month, and I’m delighted to learn from them that I’m a philosopher of technology. www.humanitiesfestival.at/alderman
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NAOMI ALDERMAN | VIENNA HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 31/08/2025
Worried about being criticised, ostracised or blacklisted because you used genAI tools in your writing? Here's a great hack to make sure it never happens to you: Do the writing yourself, like a grown-up.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
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Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea'
The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Fascinating. Why films made by Netflix are so awful. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
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Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?
When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs. But is there a happy ending?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
“I don’t remember anyone ever saying to us ‘Oh I just don't think we're properly reflecting the Green Party view, or the liberal-left view on this story’,” one former BBC journalist told me. “It was always just slanted in one direction – which was basically the nativist, authoritarian direction.”
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The BBC's Plan to Appease Nigel Farage
News that BBC executives plan to alter their programming in order to win over Reform voters is the latest sign of a corporation that has become dangerously cowed by the right
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action' Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
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Deborah Shaw @devorashawa.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
F**k’s sake @bbcnews I really don’t care what Reform’s policies are on asylum seekers or how they want to harm vulnerable people. Why is this the second item on the news? Why don’t you report their policies on the NHS? Or how they want to defund councils. I have had to stop listening to BBC news
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Deborah Shaw @devorashawa.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
we are in a post human rights era. Funny how we don’t press governments to ask the US about human rights www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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The cemetery of living men: Trump deportees tell of abuse in secretive mega-jail - BBC News
Venezuelan migrants deported from the US to El Salvador's mega-jail speak of what life was like inside
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Karie Bookish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Dolly even helps Scottish kids access books. Those Bookbug bags that tiny munchkins get from nurseries, libraries, and schools? Dolly's Imagination Library is part of that.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/08/2025
‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded
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‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded
In a country once lauded as a progressive bastion in Latin America, protections are being dismantled by a populist leader, and gender-based offences are on the rise
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Deborah Shaw @devorashawa.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Only allow young people to vote if they have basic political education. Can be done neutrally. Start with basic history of each party, their funders, manifestos, positions on each key issue. Invite leaders of each, encourage debate etc. Take the power from the ignorant and right wing media control
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This is sick. We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
“In trying to clarify what gender critical belief means, Kathleen Stock has done more than define it — she may have made it indefensible.” - @joannelockwood.bsky.social Have the ‘gender critical’ transphobes undone themselves in their relentless pushing of boundaries to be even more bigoted? 🤨
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When Belief Crosses the Line: Kathleen Stock, Grainger V, and the Legal Limits of Exclusion
Thanks to a sharp legal commentary from Alice Appleby, we now have a clearer view of how gender critical belief may have just undone itself in court.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
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to Jews, on the Gaza famine
an open letter: we have been commanded
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 19/07/2025
UNRWA has food for the entire population for over three months — stockpiled and ready also in Al Arish, Egypt. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates. Let UNRWA deliver. 1 million children are waiting.
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Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 25/07/2025
Ian Dunt gets to the heart of it, again.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
“An Armenian woman I considered an aunt asked me every time I saw her, ‘Rümeysa, please write about us. Please let the world hear our story.’ I am keeping my promise, Auntie.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
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Op-ed: ‘Even God cannot hear us here’: What I witnessed inside an ICE women’s prison - The Tufts Daily
On a Tuesday in March, I had spent most of my day working on my dissertation proposal and started to feel exhausted and hungry. It was the holy month of Ramadan, and I was fasting. Once finished, I qu...
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Deborah Shaw @devorashawa.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
theconversation.com/superman-was... great article by John Caro
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Superman wasn’t always so squeaky clean – in early comics he was a radical vigilante
The initial version of Superman was a more flawed character.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/07/2025
“There is no clear precedent for what DeSantis and the president are doing." Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges.
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Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges
"The use of military courts to hear civilian cases is the essential component of martial law."
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Is climate change causing deadly weather events? Experts discuss www.channel4.com/news/is-clim...
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Is climate change causing deadly weather events? Experts discuss
To gauge the immediate effects of higher temperatures, scientists have just calculated that an extra 263 Londoners are likely to have died in the recent heatwave.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Musk’s chatbot Grok praises Hitler forcing X to delete posts www.channel4.com/news/musks-c...
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Musk’s chatbot Grok praises Hitler forcing X to delete posts
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company has been forced to take down some of its chatbot's posts on X -- after it endorsed Adolf Hitler.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/07/2025
Grok is a full blown nazi, part 2.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Grok explicitly says Elon tweaked it to allow it to “call out patterns in Ashkenazi surnames”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/07/2025
Grok is a full blown nazi now.
A screenshot of a Twitter thread discussing Hollywood and ideological biases in movies. The first tweet by @pnwguerrilla says, “Enjoying movies/cinema becomes almost impossible once you know.” Another user, @playpal001, replies, “once I know what?” The user @grok responds, explaining that once you know about “pervasive ideological biases, propaganda, and subversive tropes in Hollywood—like anti-white stereotypes, forced diversity, or historical revisionism—it shatters the immersion.” @friendly_gecko then asks @grok if a particular group injects these themes. @grok replies that Jewish executives have historically founded and dominated leadership in major studios and suggests their overrepresentation influences content with progressive ideologies some see as subversive.
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Tim Lindemann @timlinfilm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🎬 Call for Papers 🎬 We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more! Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa Please share! #CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky
Frances McDormand in Zhao's "Nomadland" (2020)
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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
www.latimes.com/delos/story/... Diego Luna says Hollywood offered him only drug dealer roles before ‘Star Wars’
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Diego Luna says Hollywood offered him only drug dealer roles before 'Star Wars'
During a roundtable discussion with the Hollywood Reporter, the 'Andor' star spoke candidly about his career before taking on the Empire.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Guest Host Diego Luna on Trump’s immigration policies and the importance of immigrants in the United States…
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Guest Host Diego Luna on Trump’s Immigration Policies & the Importance of Immigrants in the U.S.
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Jonathan Pettitt @genotripe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
“Whilst this may involve a degree of disruption in family life this is considered to be proportionate to the legitimate aim of maintaining effective immigration control.” This is inhuman. Imagine being the person writing this.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/06/2025
Trump has no strategy with @politicsjoe.bsky.social youtu.be/zsRvCiXOXCs?...
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Donald Trump has changed the world forever. This is how | Anne Applebaum interview
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Deborah Shaw @devorashawa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Instead of ‘strong men’ we should refer to the current crop of demagogues as ‘weak men’, insecure men with insatiable egos who can’t be loved so prefer to be feared. How much better would the world be if we refused them power.
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Got my copy of @devorashawa.bsky.social & Rob Stone‘s edited collection on Netflix‘s „Sex Education“ for which I wrote a chapter on the show‘s bisexual representation. It‘s a great book, go check it out!
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Great to see the abridged version of our academics and educators letter in support of trans rights, signed by over 3500 people, appear in @prospectmagazine.co.uk's latest edition: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/letter... It's a small thing, but we must keep speaking up. #NotInOurName #CisWithTheT
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Letters: July 2025
The UK’s constitutional weakness; standing up for trans rights; the Farage collection; and Boulez at the Beeb
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