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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 04/09/2026

Feel like I should start posting on here again. I have so many brain farts that I need to share with the world, but I can't be bothered making them pretty for the 'Gram.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 22/05/2026

Love it! We should all be raising little activists these days!

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 22/05/2026

Aaargh, I love it when stuff like that happens. I'm constantly getting grief from my kids for the sheer randomness of my music tastes, but every now and again something sticks!

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 22/05/2026

This extremely infrequent post is brought to you by a long week, a nice beer, some warm weather, and me remembering that The Battle of Los Angeles includes some absolute belters.

A screengrab of Sleep Now in the Fire, from Rage Against the Machine's album The Battle of Los Angeles, playing on Tidal.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 16/05/2026

Going for an overlong jog tomorrow - donations for MAP are still very welcome.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 07/05/2026

Been almost as rubbish posting here as I have raising funds, but I'm running the Hackney Half yet again, this time for Medical Aid for Palestinians. I know times are tough, and the media keep trying to convince us that supporting Palestinians is racist, but... www.justgiving.com/page/smorgan...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

“Critics say” you fucking dishonest ghouls? The fascist who wrote the law said it himself.

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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 03/04/2026

it will never cease to fill me with anger and sadness how israel instrumentalizes the holocaust to justify its policies and deflect criticism of itself while conducting itself in ways that mirror the atrocities committed against us and calling this observation "holocaust inversion"

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

For years and years, Pueblos, Diné (Navajo), Indé (Apache), archaeologists, green groups, Utah and New Mexico politicos, and recreation, water, and timber interests fought over the land around Chaco Canyon, one of the world's most important archaeological sites. In 2022, ... (1/5)

Pueblo Bonito, biggest of the "great houses" in Chaco Canyon, after a recent snow. It is a kind of semi-circle shaped castle that once had something like 800 rooms. The photograph, taken from the bluffs above, shows the now roofless structure laid out in the narrow valley of the Chaco.

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Jonathan Wroot @jlwroot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Free screening in Greenwich, London, on Friday 27th March 2026! There are a limited number of seats left to fill - so please book as soon as you can if you would like to come.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mamoru-hosodas-belle-film-screening-and-qa-with-eric-wong-tickets-1985157666018?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 20/03/2026

Again, tickets for all the events at the 9th KCL Strand Film Festival are free, and the event is open to all, so please do check out the programme: www.tickettailor.com/events/kclst...

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KCL Strand Film Festival

KCL Strand Film Festival – KCL Strand Film Festival25 March - 1 April 2026 The student-led KCL Strand Film Festival returns for its ninth instalment, with...

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 20/03/2026

We close the 9th KCLSFF on Weds 01/04 with RA.I.VE, a virtual Q&A screening of YICHU 1.0, a cyberfeminist odyssey thru RAVE CINEMA, exploring discourse and nuances surrounding the use of AI in audiovisual artistic projects, followed by a closing night party. www.tickettailor.com/events/kclst...

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Select tickets – KCL Strand Film Festival: RA.I.VE + Closing Party – S-2.23, Strand Building, KCL Strand Campus

KCL Strand Film Festival: RA.I.VE + Closing Party – S-2.23, Strand Building, KCL Strand Campus, Wed 1 Apr 2026 - The 9th KCL Strand Film Festival draws to a close with a virtual Q&A screening of Y...

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 20/03/2026

We round out KCLSFF with two special events on 01/04. Up first, we have GROWING UP IN AVOIDANCE, a specially curated selection of Sinophone short films, exploring how experience is often displaced into gesture, rhythm, and fragmented encounters. www.tickettailor.com/events/kclst...

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Select tickets – KCL Strand Film Festival: Growing Up In Avoidance - Sinophone Short Films – S-3.20, Strand Building, KCL Strand Campus

KCL Strand Film Festival: Growing Up In Avoidance - Sinophone Short Films – S-3.20, Strand Building, KCL Strand Campus, Wed 1 Apr 2026 - The 9th KCL Strand Film Festival presents Growing Up In Avoidan...

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 20/03/2026

Mon 30/03 is dedicated to all things macabre, as we celebrate EDGAR ALLEN POE ON SCREEN w/ an expert intro, rarely screen short film adaps, and a very special screening of THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1928) with live accompaniment from Marika Tyler-Clark. www.tickettailor.com/events/kclst...

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Select tickets – KCL Strand Film Festival: Edgar Allan Poe on Screen – Nash Lecture Theatre (KIN 205), KCL Strand Campus

KCL Strand Film Festival: Edgar Allan Poe on Screen – Nash Lecture Theatre (KIN 205), KCL Strand Campus, Mon 30 Mar 2026 - The 9th KCL Strand Film Festival are proud to present an evening of Edgar All...

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 20/03/2026

The KCL Strand Film Festival starts next Weds, curated by Film Festivals & Film Festival Studies students at @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social! 6 days of filmy brilliance incl. interactive horror + queer docs + filmmaker masterclasses + AI/AV raves + much more. FREE TIX! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kcl-s...

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KCL Strand Film Festival 2026 | King's College London

The student-led KCL Strand Film Festival returns for its ninth instalment, with an exciting programme of features, short films, special guests, and live performances.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 17/03/2026

All of which is to say that I stand by my original @letterboxd.social review:

Screenshot of my Letterboxd review of One Battle After Another, which reads:

"Believe (some of) the hype.

This is entertaining as heck, looks phenomenal, and has some extremely salient things to say about Amerikkka, but... I can't shake a slight sense that it maybe has a little too much of a Centrist Dad kinda outlook on increasingly polarised political ideologies.

In the same way that an unwavering identification with DiCaprio's character sucked all of the redemptive potential out of Killers of the Flower Moon, his otherwise excellent performance here shifts from wide-eyed revolutionary to 'a man with responsibilities' (albeit a berobed, 'reefer-smoking' man, that is as heavily indebted to Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski as was 'Doc' Sportello in PTA's previous Pynchon paranoia adap, Inherent Vice).

And so this cynic's paradise of a satire paints a world in which there are objects of ridicule on both sides, even if the powerful baddies - caricatured members of a secretive, yet comical white supremacist cabal - feel inherently more dangerous than the failed/failing idealogues who are mostly found fumbling in the dark. I mean, the film even takes time to poke fun at contemporary culture's penchant for pronouns and safe spaces, precisely the kind of thing about which every Centrist Dad makes 'harmless' jokes. All that being said, the film's coda does at least offer some indication of where our sympathies should lie amid these cyclical battles. (Sidenote: I particularly appreciated the subtle ways in which it drew attention to the settler colonial complex rather than simply ignoring it.)

Don't get me wrong, I bloody loved this. But also, don't get this film wrong, it ain't some revolutionary tract slipped under the Hollywood radar. It is rather good though."

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 17/03/2026

The fact that a pretty right wing guy I know just posted elsewhere about watching One Battle After Another and saying how much he loved it really tells you everything you need to know. It's a fine film, but please let's stop pretending it's some sort of radical political statement.

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My hot take is that the way X-Men has historically depicted Australia in general and Indigenous Australian characters in particular is cringy AF and I am praying for some kind of course correction. Like, Bishop is canonically Indigenous. They've never, to my knowledge, even named his Nation.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 13/03/2026

I mean, it really depends on your definition of 'great' (and 'mediocre', come to that). I can think of loads of highly entertaining comedies, for instance, where I'd struggle to say the direction was particularly special or notable.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 13/03/2026

I mean, a bad movie is a bad movie, whatever we mean by that, but while undoubtedly a collaborative art, I suppose it's how the director brings all those elements together. A film can be impactful above and beyond the formal aspects, but for me, it's how that form and impact come together.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 13/03/2026

I'd agree with most of that. Witnessing that dance scene in Sinners was undoubtedly my favourite moment in a cinema in the past year, but I think OBAA was better 'directed' overall (although I'm also no PTA stan, my favourite of his is still Inherent Vice, so make of that what you will).

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 13/03/2026

I mean, of the nominees I've seen, I'd actually say Sinners for Best Pic and Anderson for Best Dir.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 13/03/2026

Mountains and molehills come to mind.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 13/03/2026

Just scrolled past some (white) commentator suggesting that if SINNERS wins Best Picture but Coogler doesn't win Best Director it would be a 'problem'. But why are those two things interlinked? It's entirely possible to think it's the best film overall, but not the best directed, surely?

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

When it comes to press releases, this in the GOAT conversation:

A press release from the Tla’amin, K’omoks, Klahoose and Homalco Nations absolutely eviscerating local racist MP Aaron Gunn for having a tantrum about land acknowledgements

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 12/03/2026

Wait. So if Iran are the 'hidden hand' behind Hamas, Hezbollah, etc., and Russia is the 'hidden hand' behind Iran, who is the 'hidden hand' behind Russia and is it puppets all the way down?

A screenshot of the Guardian website with a headline reading: "Putin's 'hidden have' lies behind Iran's drone tactics, UK defence secretary says".

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 08/03/2026

If you 'Brat Summer' dweebs had any guts, you'd make it a 'Fuck War Summer' this year. @tanyatagaq.bsky.social youtu.be/xlRd1S4cohM?...

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Tanya Tagaq - Fuck War (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Tanya Tagaq

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Cherokee Film Productions, the Cherokee Nation’s production company, has released a first-look trailer for an upcoming feature-length documentary focused on Cherokee Freedmen. redpopnews.com/cherokee-fil...

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Cherokee Film Productions Teases Documentary on Cherokee Freedmen With First-Look Trailer

Cherokee Film Productions, the Cherokee Nation's production company, has released a first-look trailer for an upcoming feature-length documentary focused on Cherokee Freedmen.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 06/03/2026

You're at the ICA right now, I hope?

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 05/03/2026

Exemplary stuff, from an exemplary leader. #HopeBeatsHate

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 03/03/2026

I love this. I will apologise to the 'good' scholars to whom I have promised work (and which I WILL deliver, eventually), but I'm done apologising for being a bad scholar (aka having a life/family).

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Personally speaking, I would not proclaim this loudly that I am crappy at my job, and that I lack imagination, critical thinking or insight, but each to their own I guess?

‪Alexander Kustov‬
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Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years.

Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Israel and US: destabilizes the Middle East Canada: why would Iran do this?

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 28/02/2026

Laughing like a maniac in the kitchen! Come on Marine! One game away from Wembley!!! #UTM @marineafc.bsky.social

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 28/02/2026

More importantly, @marineafc.bsky.social are up 1-0 against Woking at half time of the FA Trophy quarter final. Come on you Mariners! Listen live here: marineafc.mixlr.com/events/4887231

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Marine Radio | Marine vs Woking

Kick off it at 3pm. Commentary with Tom Murphy.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 28/02/2026

Don't get me wrong, the Iranian leadership can get in a fucking bin, but to condemn them for hitting back when they've been attacked, without condemning your mate who attacked them in the first place, and then calling for a return to diplomacy is shitty, shitty behaviour.

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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · 28/02/2026

Utterly gutless. These supposed 'leaders' have the moral fortitude of those pissweak little toadies that hang around with bullies, and go squealing to the teacher the bullied kids start fighting back.

Screenshot of a Guardian update on the situation in the middle east. The headline reads: "UK, Germany and France condemn Iranian attacks" and goes on to note that: "The UK, Germany and France have condemned Iranian attacks on countries in the region, saying Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes.

They did not comment on US and Israeli attacks on Iran.

British prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz issued a statement Saturday saying their countries didn’t take part in the strikes on Iran but are in close contact with the US, Israel and partners in the region.

The three countries have led efforts to reach a negotiated solution over Iran’s nuclear program."

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