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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 09/08/2026

Never driven a car, something which, in my own circles at least, is not all that uncommon.

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Société des journalistes de France 24 @sdj-france24.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“Après Gaza le gouvernement israélien entrave le travail de la presse étrangère en Cisjordanie”. Les SDJ de 30 médias français, dont France 24, expriment leur soutien à la journaliste Alice Froussard, expulsée de force d’Israël alors qu’elle se rendait en Cisjordanie.

Nous, sociétés des journalistes, apportons notre soutien à la journaliste Alice Froussard, expulsée de force d'Israël alors qu'elle se rendait en Cisjordanie pour RFl et plusieurs médias français avec toutes les autorisations nécessaires. Nous dénonçons également avec force les propos du ministre israélien de la diaspora et de la lutte contre l'antisémitisme, Amichai Chikli, qui sur X s'est réjoui de l'expulsion d'une « journaliste qui soutient le Hamas ».
Ces accusations sans fondement jettent en pâture une journaliste expérimentée qui couvre le Proche-Orient avec rigueur et courage depuis plusieurs années.
Cet épisode constitue une nouvelle entrave à la liberté de la presse en Israël et en Palestine. Il intervient alors que la bande de Gaza reste complètement fermée à la presse internationale et que plus de 240 journalistes palestiniens ont été tués par l'armée israélienne depuis la terrible attaque du 7 octobre 2023, selon RSF. Bon nombre d'entre eux ont été tués dans l'exercice de leur fonction.
Désormais, alors que les violences des colons israéliens se multiplient dans toute la Cisjordanie, souvent avec le soutien du gouvernement israélien, nous constatons avec inquiétude que la liberté d'exercer des journalistes palestiniens comme de la presse étrangère se réduit elle aussi rapidement dans cette zone.
Ensemble, nous dénonçons avec la plus grande fermeté cette nouvelle tentative de museler la presse.
Nous demandons à nos dirigeants de faire pression sur le gouvernement israélien afin de faire respecter la liberté de la presse en Cisjordanie.
Nous demandons aux autorités israéliennes qu'elles permettent enfin un accès indépendant aux journalistes internationaux à la bande de Gaza et sans la supervision ni le contrôle de l'armée israélienne. Nous exigeons que cessent les entraves à la liberté de la presse en Cisjordanie et dans les territoires occupés. Cette restriction constitue une entrave majeure au droit à l'information et à la liberté de la presse.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 16/06/2026

"Most other people" would depend heavily on what country one is talking about, but personally, it's offal in general, and specifically, tripe, in all its forms and declensions.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 08/06/2026

Most people are chronically incapable of admitting a night out, especially at a concert, fell below expectations. Other than when the act arrives on stage 90 minutes late, most punters will put a brave face on and say they had fun.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Listening to Nigel Farage this week keep thinking of Ian Paisley. Farage lacks Paisley’s rhetorical flair but the style, the dog whistles, the plausible deniability is all there Crucially, both men sent others off to do violence with their words

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 31/05/2026

He doesn’t mention Ireland at all. He says *Israel* is becoming more like Russia.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 26/05/2026

I bought a second-hand copy about 15 years that was littered with earnest undergraduate annotations, one of which, about five pages in, read "Ahab is obsessed by the whale".

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 26/05/2026

Not *extremely* famous but Antonio Tabucchi's Sostiene Pereira has been published in English translation as both Declares Pereira and Pereira Maintains. Also Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles (US title)/Atomised (UK).

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Robert Gerhardt @robertgerhardt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Israeli strike kills journalist after ongoing attacks blocked rescuers, Lebanon says Amal Khalil had been buried in rubble after an Israeli strike that also injured another journalist, Zeinab Faraj #Israel #Lebanon #freepress #pressfreedom #journalist

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Israeli strike kills journalist after ongoing attacks blocked rescuers, Lebanon says

Amal Khalil had been buried in rubble after an Israeli strike that also injured another journalist, Zeinab Faraj

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HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 @hklabourrights.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🚨Bookstore Boss Arrested Over Sale of “Jimmy Lai Biography” Pang Yat-ming, owner of a HK's independent bookstore - One Punch Bookstore, and three staff were arrested today (March 24) for allegedly selling publications suspected of inciting unrest, including the Jimmy Lai biography. bit.ly/3NTWvNA

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HK indy bookstore staff arrested; Jimmy Lai book among titles seized - report

Hong Kong independent bookseller Pong Yat-ming and three of his staff have reportedly been arrested on suspicion of selling seditious titles, including a biography of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 23/03/2026

Initially, I thought it was a bad translation of a French product (these sorts of biccies are called “enrobés” in French) but it seems it’s a technical term in the industry, which doesn’t make it look any less daft on the packaging, mind. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrober...

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Enrober - Wikipedia

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

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Société des journalistes et du personnel de Libération @sjpliberation.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Espionnage de Thomas Legrand et Laurence Bloch : «Une frontière franchie entre le travail journalistique et les coups bas politiques» Tribune signée par les SDJ de 27 médias www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Texte de la tribune :

Le 16 décembre, la radio Europe 1, désormais propriété de Vincent Bolloré, publiait cinq articles mettant en scène des «révélations» autour d'une conversation présentée comme «secrète» et s'étant tenue la veille dans un café du XIVe arrondissement entre Thomas Legrand, éditorialiste à Libération et ancien producteur à France Inter, et Laurence Bloch, ancienne directrice de France Inter.
Le 15 janvier, la cellule investigation de Radio France révélait qu'un journaliste d'Europe 1 avait lui-même enregistré cette conversation après que son supérieur, Louis de Raguenel, le lui en avait donné l'ordre dans une conversation WhatsApp.

Les règles de base de la déontologie journalistique imposent de n'enregistrer des personnes à leur insu que si cela permet de rendre publiques des informations d'intérêt général impossibles à obtenir autrement. "L’élément déterminant, lors de la mise en balance de la protection de la vie privée et de la liberté d’expression, doit résider dans la contribution que les photos et articles publiés apportent au débat d’intérêt général", soulignait la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme en 2004. Qu'ont apporté les «exclus» d'Europe 1 issues de cette grave intrusion dans la vie privée de deux journalistes ? De la confusion bien davantage que de l'information, les propos relatés ayant été tronqués et tordus.

Que les choses soient claires : l'enregistrement et la diffusion d'une partie de ces propos ne relève pas d'une démarche journalistique, mais d'une opération d'espionnage.
Les articles et commentaires qui ont été diffusés à cette occasion servent non pas l'intérêt général, comme doit le faire une production journalistique, mais un intérêt particulier : celui d'un groupe médiatique en guerre contre le service public de l'audiovisuel.

Suite du texte et signataires :

Nous ne défendons pas une confraternité absolue à laquelle devraient se soumettre tous les journalistes, quelles que soient leurs pratiques. Ici, une frontière a été franchie entre le travail journalistique et les coups bas politiques. Avec, en toile de fond, la mise au pas d'entreprises médiatiques au service d'un combat propagandiste d'extrême droite.

Les sociétés de journalistes signataires de ce texte refusent de banaliser ces méthodes qui bafouent tous les principes d'un journalisme digne de ce nom.

La SDJ de Radio France et la Société des journalistes et du personnel de Libération (SJPL) sont à l'initiative de ce texte.

Sociétés signataires :
La SDJ de France 24
La SDJ de Radio France Internationale
La SDJ de France TV rédaction nationale
La SDJ de franceinfo numérique
La SDJ de France TV Sport
La SDJ de France 3 rédaction nationale
La SDJ de ARTE
La SDJ de Public Sénat
La SDJ de BFM TV
La SDJ de BFM Business
La SDJ de RMC
La SDJ de LCI
La SDJ de Sept à Huit
La Société des rédacteurs du Monde
La SDJ de Mediapart
La SDR du Nouvel Obs
La SDJ de l'AFP
La SDJ des Echos
La SDJ du Télégramme
La SDJ du Parisien
La SDJ de l’Informé
La SDP de l'Humanité
La SDJ de l'Express
la SDJ de La Tribune
La SDJ de Télérama

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 30/12/2025

Despite some crossover, the early FN wouldn't have been overly identified in France with the Nazis, or even Pétain, but rather inter-war far-right. Claude Autant-Lara, a big pre-New Wave director, was an early FN member, and later MEP (and also directed Bardot in En Cas de malheur in 1957).

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 30/12/2025

The FN was not founded till 1972 so French Algerian seats wouldn't have been a factor. Elected representatives prior to 1964 were diverse, being made up of pieds noirs and Algerian Muslims, reflecting the political spectrum in the Métropole. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d...

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Liste des députés de l'Algérie française — Wikipédia

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 30/12/2025

It was the bedrock of their support in the 1970s and 1980s (and the elder Le Pen was a torturer in the Algerian War) but the founders were a broadish coalition of nationalists, neonazis and, also leaders of the pied noir OAS.

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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Oliver Farry writes about 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (2025), directed by Bi Gan: "In the future, humans no longer dream, having relinquished the ability in exchange for longer life." @oliverfarry.com ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/25/r... 。。。。。

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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Oliver Farry on Guan Hu's 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐷𝑜𝑔: "The casting of Jia Zhangke as the chief dog catcher Uncle Yao is ingenious. Jia’s presence carries an intertextual weight that goes well beyond cameo novelty." @oliverfarry.com ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/25/b...

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 25/12/2025

Late, as ever, but I managed to finally get my films of the year in in time for Christmas, in case you need some reading material before the turkey. oliverfarry.com/on-film/film...

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Films of 2025

For a long time in 2025, I felt I was waiting for the good films to come along, as the first half of the year was mostly creditable if unspectacular fare. Then Cannes, which had an unusually strong…

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 21/12/2025

Not an expert opinion but my father was just telling me that Ireland was supposedly considerably less humid till around 2000 BCE, so the sun might have been a more reliable collaborator back in the day.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 01/12/2025

Sailor never booked me! Take that, Gary.

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Société des journalistes de France 24 @sdj-france24.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Les SDJ de France 24 et RFI dénoncent la malhonnêteté intellectuelle de la chronique de Bérengère Viennot publiée sur le site @lepoint.fr le 21 octobre 2025. Que nous reproche son autrice ? D'être rigoureux ? De nous conformer au droit international ?

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

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Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🔴 Tony Blair's ties to Larry Ellison should disqualify him from any role in Gaza - or in Britain's tech future. New by me and @daniel-howden.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale and @lighthousereports.com democracyforsale.substack.com/p/tony-blair...

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Tony Blair - Larry Ellison's man in Gaza?

Blair's ties to the Oracle founder and Trump booster should disqualify him from any role in Gaza - or in Britain's tech future

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 30/09/2025

Not particularly topical but Aidan Higgins's Balcony of Europe, set in Nerja, is one of the great expats-in-Spain novels. Ian Gibson's Lorca's Granada is also good.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 17/09/2025

TBH, I stopped reading Business Insider long ago because I assumed AI was being used to write most of its content, so flat and insipid it had become.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Here are some tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2025

His killing was a tragedy, and we should say so. But let's not go so far as to airbrush out his spreading of antisemitism, Islamophobia and disinformation: this is not "practicing politics the right way".

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 06/09/2025

There’s a worrying level of expectation being heaped on poor Bosun Lawal.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 06/09/2025

The search for a remotely creative midfielder is our white whale.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 06/09/2025

Even in the second half, that performance was wretched. Just launch it into the box and hope someone gets on the end of it. Blessed to get the draw but it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the group.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

If you continue to contribute to the success, visibility and profitability of Musk's platform X, by still posting there, ask yourself why.

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Société des journalistes de France 24 @sdj-france24.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

At the rate the Israeli army is killing journalists in the Gaza Strip, there will soon be no one left to inform you. The editorial committees of France 24 and RFI, along with those of roughly 40 other French media outlets, are signatories of this statement in support of our colleagues in Gaza.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

"Her cubicle becomes a chamber of obsessive self-scrutiny, where reflection no longer stabilises identity but fractures it." @myetcetera.bsky.social reviews "Lake Like a Mirror" and "Tongueless." lareviewofbooks.org/article/tongues…

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 29/08/2025

Funnily enough, I just watched Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, which *does* have a sequence where archival files are retrieved from the stacks and then delivered to a historian and pored over, in a pretty realistic, if mundane way.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 29/08/2025

I second The Bear, though that aspect of it is only really evident in the first season. The British one-take film Boiling Point is also great on kitchens and restaurants, even if it condenses a lot of SNAFUs in one service. I think there was a TV show based on it too.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 28/07/2025

Same goes for Keir Starmer's UK. The stated reasons for passing the law outlawing Palestine Action were remarkably similar, and equally spurious, to the HK government's for the National Security Law. Beijing and HKSAR will have been paying attention.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened. youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...

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The Gender Recognition Bill Becomes Law in Ireland

YouTube video by TransgenderEquality

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

My report from the Palestinian Christian town of Taybeh: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I hate living in a country were Zohran Mamdani has to answer for allegations of antisemitism because he believes Palestinians deserve basic rights, but the richest man in the world can use his AI to spread neo-Nazi propaganda and there are basically zero consequences.

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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 10/07/2025

I don't know if it counts as obscure but I find myself quoting Spinal Tap's "You know where you stand in a hellhole" quite often.

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