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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 03/10/2026

By the way pals Writers on Film breezed past its 300th episode without much fanfare a few weeks ago. I really have no time to promote the show at all! But I am hugely grateful to those who listen and the guests who come on podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

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Writers on Film

TV & Film Podcast · Updated weekly · Writers on Film is the only podcast to focus on film books and to talk to the best authors working in the area of cinema. From Making Of tomes to biographies, stud...

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This looks wonderful!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Most glorious Annunciation ever. Yet Mary is clearly not convinced! Painted in 1333 by Simone Martini of Siena, whose day is today, with some help from Lippo Memmi.

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Kristof Berckmans @kristofberckmans.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Socialist Surrealism museum-dereede.com/neo-rauch

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Kristof Berckmans @kristofberckmans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Filip Joos is geen slechte voetbalcommentator maar wat betekent de zin "Pirgic draait z'n lichaam erin bij Sylla"?

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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Since 2014, we've been asking writers to spotlight great films that were impossible to find on disc or streaming services in our monthly 'Lost and found' column All 118 are now compiled into one list. How many have you seen?

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Sabzian @sabzian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has passed away. 11 August 1941 – 15 September 2026

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Onze Taal @onzetaal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hoe zal het ruiken in die lift? #tkv

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Kristof Berckmans @kristofberckmans.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In het Jiddisch is een e-mail אַ בליצבריװ - 'a blitsbriv'.

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Kristof Berckmans @kristofberckmans.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

More malaphors- Smooth as a cucumber To push the right envelopes It's all uphill battles from here When in a hole, do like the Romans do Like father, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

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René Dings @rndngs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ik dacht vroeger altijd dat het ‘een wet van meten en persen’ was. Zo van: als het niet past moet je harder duwen. Heel logisch toch. #medenenperzen

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Dit is de grappigste video die ik in maanden heb gezien: een man probeert drie chatbots ertoe te bewegen om samen tot 100 te tellen. Het laat trouwens ook van alles zien over hoe ontzettend complex menselijke coördinatie is. Maar vooral ontzettend grappig. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXEI...

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Making 3 AI's Count to 100 Together

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Kristof Berckmans @kristofberckmans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960: L'avventura 1961: Yojimbo 1962: La jetée 1963: The Birds 1964: Culloden 1965: Pierrot le fou 1966: Abschied von gestern 1967: Marketa Lazarová 1968: The Devil Rides Out 1969: La femme infidèle #FilmSky

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is the video Musk is quote-tweeting when he says he'll deliver a feature length version of The Odyssey, just in case you were curious how dogshit it is

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Good morning

photo of a man letting baby meerkats play with his tools.
"My dad is an electrician in a zoo and look how he spent his morning. I'm crying."
Reply: "Your dad small as hell."

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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

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Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his death

The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/07/2026

OK sure, great, but I don't that helps much. He's 80 years old, woefully out of shape, and probably doesn't even know the rules.

Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play.

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The Pope has decided that instead of competing against each other, Portugal will play Brazil while Spain plays Mexico.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Bologna’s city museum has this remarkable model that shows how the city looked—covered in skyscrapers—in the Middle Ages. Only 22 survive today.

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Aafke Romeijn @aafkeromeijn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

De ovrlijdensadvertentie van Wim T. Schippers is z’n laatste kunstwerk.

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Een van de genoegens van de oudere wetenschapper is dat je alles voor je ogen steeds ingewikkelder ziet worden. Gender bijvoorbeeld. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/06/hoe-...

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Hoe gender klinkt

Een van de genoegens van de oudere wetenschapper is dat je alles voor je ogen steeds ingewikkelder ziet worden. Gender bijvoorbeeld.

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Kristof Berckmans @kristofberckmans.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"Een van de privileges van schilders is dat ze een lucht mogen verzinnen."

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Kristof Berckmans @kristofberckmans.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

If u see this post your getaway vehicle

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Neerlandistiek @neerlandistiek.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Overal in Europa moeten nieuwkomers aan steeds hogere taaleisen voldoen. Maar het taalonderwijs dat ze daarbij moet helpen, laat in veel landen nog veel te wensen over. Een rondgang langs het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Scandinavië en Zuid-Europa. www.vanoostendorp.nl/neerlandisti...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

The months between signing and ratification were a busy period for the country. The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention had been kept secret, so each state needed to inform its voters of what exactly the proposed new government contained. Congress therefore directed the state legislatures to call ratification conventions in each state, with delegates specifically elected to approve or disapprove the new government.

However, this meant that each state from New Hampshire to Georgia had to receive a copy of the text, submit it to public debate, elect delegates, meet, vote, and return the results to Philadelphia. In an era where the speed of travel was limited by horseback, stagecoach, and boat, this was no quick feat. After the end of the Convention the news of the Constitution spread out in a wave, and thousands of copies were republished by local printers and distributed for debate. A flurry of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and public meetings followed, hotly debating whether the Constitution would be a good framework for a new national government.

Part of the debate and ratification process involved translation: non-negligible portions of the electorate spoke languages other than English. To reach them, the document was translated into Dutch in New York and German in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My report for @hyperallergic.com on the gull that set up her nest in the Giardini at the Venice Biennale.

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Kristof Berckmans @kristofberckmans.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"Dans mon souvenir, nous savions juste que nous étions ici au milieu de la Cité, entre voisines et voisins. (...) Paris était si loin. De toute façon, on n'y allait pas. Nous n'étions pas au ban, ni en périphérie. Nous étions là, chez nous, sans aucune conscience des hiérarchies spatiales."

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