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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My new post: “After Cornell: if you’re a boy or man who wants to talk to that guy friend about his abuse.” If of interest, please share. www.musaokwonga.com/takes/after-...

If a girl or woman tells you that a boy or man in your circle of friends has abused them, then here are some suggestions as to how you can talk to that boy or man. First, you can set a time and a place to talk to him. Don’t let him set it, because he’s used to having control. If you’re worried he’ll get violent with you, do it over the phone. If you’re worried he’ll try to sit down with you and charm you round to “his side of the story”, do it over the phone. Next, work out how long you want the conversation to be. Short is better - fifteen or twenty minutes is plenty enough. That will help you to keep your composure while he loses his.

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty fun video of Weatherall DJing at Athletico in Birmingham in the mid 90s - a proper time capsule to a byegone era youtu.be/ZlcCGXDiqgo?...

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ATHLETICO 1995 SNOBS BIRMINGHAM DJ Andrew Weatherall 7:17 (ORIGINAL VHS EDIT!)

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cannot get over the beauty of this GIF: it’s Zidane celebrating last night after Olise scored a last minute winner for France. It looks like something from a movie or a high-end fashion advert. Probably the most elegant footballer of all time.

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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 29/09/2026

ex_libris 004 👀 boomkat.com/artists/ex_l...

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

September's It Takes Time session ft new selections from YL Hooi, Slowfoam, Coral D, Brassfoot, Esse Pi Enne, Carmen VIllain, Miles J Paralysis, and lots of the on2kly / Purpurniy Dyadya / qwqwqwqwa release on Glinted Records. >>>>>>>>>>>> listen here soundcloud.com/it-takes-tim... <<<<<<<<<<<

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It Takes Time 101

September session recorded in the grip of feeling feverish so a few dicey transitions to begin with..... forthcoming music from DJ Sundae's Efficient Space comp, Miles J Paralysis on Long Gone, two

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I cannot get enough of this Ulla remix of YL Hooi - its gorgeous

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love finding low to mid-budget genre films that tanked and slipped through the cracks and are now hiding in the deeper recesses of algorithmic playlists on streaming services like Prime or TUBI

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AL WOOFTON more like! very much TP-coded

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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 23/09/2026

Jabu Severn Flood Plain / Where You Run To Jabu assume their ultimate dream/trip-pop form on a super strong new EP tipped FFO A.R. Kane, Maria Somerville, Hysterical Love Project, Dirty Beaches boomkat exclusive white vinyl edition, 100 copies boomkat.com/products/sev...

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

michael deacon continues his valiant quest to be britain's unfunniest man

After Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the co-owner of Manchester United, controversially suggested that mass immigration may have had one or two drawbacks, and that an annual welfare bill of £353bn may be a touch on the high side, the Man Utd Muslim Supporters’ Club demanded he resign. A dramatic development. I’ve got just one question.

Why do Man Utd have a Muslim supporters’ club?

Obviously there’s nothing wrong with Muslims supporting Man Utd. Unlike pork, alcohol and being married to more than four women at once, the 13-time FA Cup winners are not considered haram.

What I don’t understand is the purpose of a Muslim supporters’ club – and I would say exactly the same about, say, a Man Utd Buddhist Supporters’ Club, or a Man Utd Zoroastrian Supporters’ Club. Because I simply can’t see a link between football and any given religion.

So what is such a club for? Do its members meet up to discuss their team’s tactics from a theological standpoint?

“The Koran leaves no room for doubt. It is Allah’s will that we switch to a back three with attacking wing-backs.”

“Sacrilege! The divine formation is 4-2-3-1, and eternal damnation awaits the infidel who dares propose the use of a false nine instead of a traditional centre-forward!”

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

crazy release from the glinted crew - missed it when it dropped over the summer but happy to dive in now glinted-records.bandcamp.com/album/backsc...

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Backscatter | Alea, by on2kly / Purpurniy Dyadya / qwqwqwqwa

31 track album

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1. Going on a solo day trip to catch M Night Shyamalan's The Happening on a whim in Manhattan and witnessing a packed theatre rip it to shreds 2. An old couple clocking they had made a terrible mistake and making a break for the exit a few minutes into a screening of Todd Solondz's Happiness

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

nice to see John Talabot resurface with a new project - ad93 on a hot streak rn johntalabot.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

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Music for Empty Stadiums, by OR

17 track album

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Great to see this excellent NeWRoomfreaK album from Hashman pop up on bandcamp hashmandeejay.bandcamp.com/album/newroo...

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NeWRoomfreaK [3ax1], by NeWRoomfreaK

5 track album

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Dean @ordersson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Blowing Up The Workshop one of the truly great mix series from the golden era of mix series, eternal s/o to @butw.bsky.social

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

helplessly addicted to espresso tonics - such a cliche of a man

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A 110-minute meditation on life, love and dub from Loidis huercosplonk.bandcamp.com/album/from-t...

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From The Toolkit Of Lovers, by Loidis

12 track album

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 07/09/2026

Last night, hundreds of men in black emerged on the street in Portsmouth. In ugly scenes that lasted until 3am, they blocked coaches transporting migrants. The action was led by Danny Tommo’s Patriot Platform, who were also behind Saturday’s demo in Dover. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/07/b...

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Balaclavas on the beachfront: Anti-migrant activism escalates in Portsmouth – HOPE not hate

A major anti-migrant protest occurred in Portsmouth last night, triggered by the arrival of a dinghy carrying asylum seekers into the harbour. Hundreds emerged onto...

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What's more likely? That the cops, given the absurd and vast intelligence powers they've enjoyed for YEARS now, didn't know? Of what use are those powers then? Or, as a decade of evidence shows, the cops do not care about or even tacitly approve of right wing violence, especially against migrants?

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]

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apartmentrec.bsky.social @apartmentrec.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

APT [EIGHTEEN] DRM - THE DELPHI CORACLE Pre-orders: apartmentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/drm-th... youtu.be/sGkVYItm9dk?...

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DRM - Metonymia (APT18) - Coming soon!

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New YL Hooi with Mad Professor, John T Gast and Ulla versions? Sign me up

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live Beau Wanzer Daft Punk Fever Ray Teresa Winter Karen Gwyer Loidis HTRK Model 500 Tricky Laurel Halo

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

F-E-E-L-I-N-G this v sick tape of live sets by Bushes and Klaus on F-E-L-T f-e-l-t.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

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Live at La Chunky, by Bushes & Klaus

2 track album

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This reads like RA have asked this Bandera jabroni for his thoughts on Randomer's Bring being one of the defining tracks of early 2010s techno

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Two new albums I have enjoyed listening to this morning

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New from me today - lobbyists employed by Israel have published voluminous material under the banner of a non-existent thinktank in an apparent attempt to game the information people get from AI chatbots www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows

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tonypoland 🇵🇸 @tonypoland.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Miles Demdike Short Spanner iiinccccoming shortspanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vault

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Vault, by Miles

6 track album

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