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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 13h

One on the right clearly gets shot out of view by Aeon Flux very casually

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 13h

The friend goes to another school in Canada, you don't know them.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 14h

The tune to “Venga Bus” is coming to mind, too late

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17h

Colonisation mindset: destroy all other cultures

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 15h

“Schadenfreude pyjamas” to describe enjoying the downfall of villains, whilst eating a bowl of cereal in your pjs, would be a great term, I’m jotting that down.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

I'm certain someone in Labour/the Sensible Commentariat Brigade thinks that that was just a comms issue.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

This isn't really any different from the minarchism of Milei.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Ditto. You will get real and awesome photos anyway, why muddy the waters and give people against particular protests something to go "Hah see, all fake"???

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Ah hell, the pink panther thing was fake? Man, I fell for that.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Can't find a link to the exact video, but I've just remembered it was Caelen Conrad.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Except no, that's not what happened, and you are being disingenuous: mu.social/profile/abdu...

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Every right-wing crowd questioner: "I'm just a simple country man serving as a vox populi." Every follow-up on the right-wing crowd questioner: "The man, known publicly as a senior member of the American Falangist Party."

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

I can't recall who pointed it out here some weeks ago - may have been a video essay, actually, my mind is a bit eh lately - but they pointed to a lot of intense promoting by her publisher and eventually WB, that pushed the "she got kids to read more!" myth, with numbers indicating that wasn't so.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Back in the 90s, I thought "well, it's another book about magic, yay, younger kids can enjoy what we liked", and when I did check out one, like you, I thought "...wait, Jill Murphy, Diana Wynne Jones, already did this", & lost interest, bc, as you point out, there were *loads* of others to read.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

The "one for the boys, without cooties™️" aspect is one that hadn't occurred to me until now.

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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Centrist media outlets talking about what’s happening in France with disbelief and it’s wild how they just don’t get it and keep going: well, the govt can’t afford to do anything

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

This is very informative and well worth listening to

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 17/10/2026

Who’s stealing from us? The billionaires!

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

"Unwittingly," is what makes it. George C. Scott's character: So, er, fellows, tiny snag in the training, ha ha. The, er, the President isn't anywhere nearby, right? His team: Oh, he's just in the next room, why? GSC: (O_O ;)

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Guy survives his planet being eaten by Unicorn, munched to death by the Sharkticons anyway, and gets a crumbly bust for his troubles, alas.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting." - Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Whenever Hazarika pops up, I think about two tweets of hers: the “hipster analysis” one and the other where she was panicking and actually wrote “where are the grownups??”

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Getting caught once, reverse-engineered a pseudoscientific stream (hehe) of theory.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Right, especially given a) the presence of the Quen as an example of civilisation outside the US, and b) that the post-apocalypse Earth *is* actually engaging and fascinating, verdant and lively.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

I liked H:FW, but I get what you mean, and I do like exploring rather than the main missions per se.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Granted this is more via the Horizon subreddits, but there have been complaints that the focus on a new PuBG-like online game didn’t just slow progress on Horizon 3, but had scuppered a lot of momentum elsewhere, eg the proposed Netflix series.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

As others have mentioned, what's interesting isn't just that Alien 3 annoyed Biehn, Weaver et al (and Fincher is still touchy about a film that wasn't entirely his fault), but that you had comics that used Hicks et al, but then had to rename the characters when Alien 3 came out.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Hislop and Private Eye surf on goodwill, but gatekeep and gaslight. As for satire, every so often I think about Chris Morris and his line (which I'm no doubt mangling, sorry) about whether as a satirist you're not actually playing to the court, rather than talking truth to power.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

This is something that for my sins I only came to learn about perhaps a decade ago. It also speaks to, in my view, oversimplified historical narratives (especially in pop culture) when it comes to "people of their time", in N. America and in the UK too, come to think of it.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

@fatapollo.myatproto.social is also right in that the audiobook is really good, with Lance Henriksen narrating, along with Michael Biehn in places as Hicks (No Weaver, though Laurel Lefkow voices Ripley here), and along w/ the comic book, I prefer this to what we got in reality.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

The Tesco-Palantir-Waitrose Interplanetary Conglomerate, with a Streeting as one of its senior executives (Legacy).

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 17/10/2026

I would love to see the world where artistic processes are gatekept to the degree guys like this seem to think we've been living in

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

The "deeply offensive" quote is from Susan Smith of For Women Scotland That's the same Susan Smith who was pictured smiling and laughing as the person next to her discussed dead trans people and trans day of remembrance So you can see why "Protect The Dolls" would be offensive to her

a 50 something year old woman clasping her hands with a broad smile across her face

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

And if we’re are going to go that route, you had a lot of German socialists join the Union side fighting because of slavery eg August Willich (who famously wanted to duel Karl Marx because he thought Karl was too conservative).

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

It is so unnerving and full of dread, I loved it, and I'm jealous about the Q + A!

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Yes, 100% this. I'd read an interview or two that would bring that up, and I'd sigh. It's actually infuriating how the ladder was kicked away, and options to explore without going into debt removed, in less than 40+ years.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

I was going to "jokingly" bring up Mārama, funny enough

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

What are a few of everyone's favourite free and online websites for the arts? Sharing five here, but would like to see more!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Without social housing and the NHS and the welfare stare more broadly, we would have never had the British cultural explosion of the 60s and 70s with huge global influence wildly disproportionate to the UK’s size. That’s how working class kids became global superstars.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Michael Caine *is* a right winger, but in more than one interview you can find online, he discusses how the 60s were when a lot of the working class were no longer going to "know our place" and went out into the arts - and yes, The People That Really Matter have resented this greatly.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

As an aside, I remember when Paul Krugman & the FT's Martin Wolf, not exactly a pair of anti-capitalists, each wrote about how the then-incoming Labour government (2024) had to drastically raise taxes on the wealthy & get rid of austerity to actually improve things in Britain, and, well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

(And let's not forget how Brexit means that now young people that *want* a better life in Europe pretty much can't, unless they've got good employers and/or a great source of income)

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

That insistence on TINA is also part of why so many people gravitated to Labour under Corbyn, and his Arts for the People was such a great idea, reminding me of FDR's Federal Project Number One, which we sorely need now. Juliet Jacques did a great interview w/ him on Arts for the People.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

I really like Arts Emergency and what they do, but in a better Britain, they shouldn't have to exist. Successive governments shouldn't be decimating the arts or the welfare infrastructure at large, solely to feed the armed forces or the rich.

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