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#RIP Eva Marie Saint 📷 Nina Leen, 1949 “She worked comparatively rarely, and it was no credit to Hollywood that only a few films were worthy of her.” - David Thomson Thomson praises her work in All Fall Down, 1962, North by Northwest, 1959, Exodus, 1970 & Loving, 1960.

Saint in her early years, carrying headshots as she waits for an audition.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 15m

Whoever nicknamed him Selfish Costello is a genius.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

In this world of "surveillance pricing," every traveler (or customer) sees a different price, in a kind of cod-Marxist dystopia whose motto is "from each according to their ability (to pay), to each according to their (desperate) needs": pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/s...

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Pluralistic: The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3) (11 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Up until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced "price discrimination," charging different customers different prices for the same seats.

A 1970s Air Canada ad depicting a man in a brown velour pullover with a large collar sitting in a book-lined study, assembling model Air Canada jets on his desk. His head has been replaced with the blue, metallic head of a 1950s pulp robot and his skintones have been shifted blue to match.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h

ironically enough a NC man was also once at the center of the Napster case that, in many ways, set us on the course for today’s techno infrastructure Also, it’s wild to punish one man and it’s this guy and not, like, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg.

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 4h

Two fresh eggs and a *banana*?!? That’s a fucking austerity banquet.

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Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social · 4h

Wir denken heute, am 7. Oktober, an unseren Yad-Vashem-Kollegen Alex Dancyg: vor drei Jahren verschleppt, in Khan Yunis im März 2024 erschossen und im August 2024 tot geborgen. Unsere Gedanken sind bei seiner Familie, seinen Freund*innen und bei seinen Kolleg*innen von Yad Vashem.

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»Danach hat er nicht mehr geantwortet«

Der Schoa-Forscher Alex Dancyg wurde von der Hamas nach Gaza verschleppt. Darüber berichtete sein Sohn

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 4h

You *know* he's convicted of stalking women. You've *read* the deranged letters you add as attachments. And you still think you're doing the right thing in sending them on his behalf to a woman you don't know? Two now from the same clergyman. I have gone fucking nuclear. Go White Knight elsewhere.

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 4h

Private Eye reported on this last issue, but this is a remarkable stat which neatly shows what massive, fuck-off donations from interested capital mean in terms of practical reach, influence and visibility (and your regular reminder that you can say literally anything you like in social media ads)

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 4h

Would it kill politicians to look something up occasionally other than exist in the world of “this is what I prefer to remember”

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 4h

Barnes himself has said there wasn't a single game in the Eighties when he didn't get racial abuse.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 4h

The most fun I’ve had all day

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sorry but this is a terrible take

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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 4h

Look at the comment pages of a quality paper from the 1980s. Literally one comment page - often with the editorial and church notices and cartoon taking up half of it. And political columnists and editorial writers - Peter Jenkins, Alan Watkins, Bill Deedes etc - were few and had weight.

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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 4h

Or like Jason Arday die by the media you thought you were using.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 6h

Genuinely, it's not a paradox - it's that in this era, a "public intellectual" is nothing more than a newspaper columnist with no expertise who writes about nothing specific. John Maynard Keynes it is not.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 6h

“One paradox of our time is that whilst the educational attainment of the population has increased, there has been a decline in public intellectual standards”

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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 4h

Same compression problem as GoT but better handled. I am just averse to giving redemption arcs - however partial - to people who don't deserve them.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4h

That substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h

Holy shit, this guy is so cool. He won the only major city mayoral race in France that *didn’t* need a second round of voting (meaning he had 50%+ of support in their version of a primary). A major part of his platform was disarming the police.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h

FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 6h

In our latest voting intention, Labour hit 29% their highest since 2024, Reform move to 2nd & Greens fall to lowest since August 2025 🌹 LAB 29% (+2) ⏩ REF 24% (+3) 🌳 CON 21% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 10% (-1) 🟢 GREEN 7% (-2) ⚫ RES: 4% (-2) N 2,088 | Dates 3-5/10 | Change w 29/09

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 6h

“Is it propaganda to acknowledge an atrocity, to grieve its victims, even if there are also other atrocities worthy of our attention? Is that a bar we set for other massacres? For, whatever came after it, this *was* a massacre.” www.newstatesman.com/culture/2026...

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 6h

“This is Nova: the immersive experience… I read that people tried to hide in toilets, fridges, under the bars. I read that everything here is taken from the scene itself, and look back at the portaloos. One is peppered by bullet-holes.” www.newstatesman.com/culture/2026...

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 6h

October 7. Three years since terrorists killed 1200 people, mostly civilians, and took 250 more hostage. They stormed a music festival, turning a celebration of love and connection into a nightmare. I wrote about Nova - what happened, and how to remember it www.newstatesman.com/culture/2026...

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How should we remember 7 October?

A secretive London exhibition recreates the horror that occurred at the Nova festival in 2023

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Eileen Blair, from South Shields, UK, was believed to have had a large influence on her husband George Orwell's writing. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four's title and idea is thought to be inspired by one of her poems - 'End of the Century, 1984' #womensart

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Book cover, Penguin Edition of Orwell's '1984' in ornage and cream with a penguin publisher's motif

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 16h

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me: hi I need this book Library catalogue: here it is Me: it’s not tho it says I can download up to 49 pages…? Library catalogue: try this Me: that’s a review of it Library catalogue: Try this? Me: yeah that’s also a review Library catalogue: this? Me: …

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 22h

Did a cat write this?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21h

to me this is what a tolerant and open society is

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 23h

It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 22h

The daily sea surface temperature is now so high, they had to add more chart because the previous version only went up to 30C

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22h

Buy a small family home, no more than three bedrooms, for around 4 times my annual salary and not live in constant worry about the cost of shelter. That’s it. That’s the dream.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22h

A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Roger McCarthy @rogermccarthy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Many of us were actually a bit disappointed by the final season of Breaking Bad (Nazis? really?) but yes it hardly plumbed the abyssal depths of GoT.

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RIP Jeffrey Archer, not a day goes by when I don't think about the judge in his 1987 libel case (which Archer "won" by doing a bunch of perjury) summing up for the jury by going "would a guilty man have such a hot wife". one of the most insane legal moments of all time

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Linke saying "well fine, just piss off" finally to Wagenknecht and tankies around her actually reinvigorated the party to the extent to which it is now in an increasingly successful process of reinvention. Maybe the CDU can only survive if it takes that ruthless step in ejecting its waverers too

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Matthew Syed says we need more bankruptcies and unemployment; unclear if this extends to Sunday Times columnists.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/10/2026

think BBC's Sherlock has to win this, adored the first season but the whole thing went downhill with such DRAMA, with such FLAIR that I cringe at the very thought of having ever enjoyed it

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

bezos literally bought the emmys. big oligarchin

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026

ROFLMAO!! I *knew* it would come to this.

Palestine Activist Nerdeen Kiswani SLAMS Abdul El-Sayed for campaigning with Obama.

She says Abdul is complicit in genocide.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 06/10/2026

my preferred critique of white lotus - which i stole from someone and i can’t remember who, sorry - is that it exists so that the 5% can feel class resentment and self righteousness towards the 1% (ie their bosses)

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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It genuinely hurts to see politicians who are this thick

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