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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 16h

Oh - Their Own Private Idaho......

Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 18h

IIRC Moore's character doesn't even exist in the book the movie's based on - they just wanted a bankable chocolate box good looks star to pull in audience, so split the character of Rafer into two - wily old merc Harris and young heart-throb tearaway Moore.

Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 18h

I'm sorry? "Soros paid for" ???

Jesus fucking Christ, Rog, why not just come right out and strap the swastika on your arm for us all to see?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 18h

If ever a movie deserved a respectful remake, it's this banger.

Stick with the period, dump out the cheesy, patronising tone of the black African/Afrikaaner reconciliation subplot for something more painfully real, dial up the political edge, and leave everything else *exactly the way it is.*

Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social · 19h

BIG NEWS FOR SEVERIN UK FANS: The best damn mercenaries in the business are back like never before with Severin’s 4K UHD restoration of Andrew V. McLaglen’s 1978 action classic THE WILD GEESE, starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore & Richard Harris.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

Think it's fair to say my Krav instructor was pretty chuffed with his shout-out in the acknowledgements to the new book......

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together .

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 2d

Think it’s more likely the opposite- an atavistic reaction *against* Enlightenment rationale. It feeds on Blood and Soil nationalism, religious fundamentalist stances, simplistic visions of maleness and gender roles. It’s the complaint that modernity has failed made flesh.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 3d

Well, the (mental) health arguments are looking increasingly solid. So you can draw a fair analogy with bans on smoking/vaping/alcohol, I think.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 4d

"We" doing a shitload of heavy lifting here, Pvt Bonespur......

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 4d

Vineland FTW.

It's the most painfully relevant of all his books. Devastating critique of Reaganite America, still piping hot and ready to go today.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 4d

Heheh - watch this space........

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 4d

Exhibit A - the various recent airhead statements on AI by our very own UK government....... 🤮🤮🤮

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 5d

For the rest - this is a full page ad in the Atlantic magazine.

The idea that anyone - even in marketing - believes this pitched-at-a-9-year-old-male-mindset shit has general currency & will actually land with an educated adult public is fucking terrifying.

Not least because they might be right. 🤮

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 5d

Speaking as a worker whose work has been stolen and ripped off multiple times by AI companies, I can certainly vouch for the real fucking impact.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 5d

Ooooh - stellar!!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 5d

The Smiths

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 7d

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 7d

I'm now about 10% done, apparently. This is bloody brilliant stuff!

Well worth the wait.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 7d

Growing realisation……

Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 8d

IT"S HERE!!

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 9d

Think she'll find they're called Power Stations.

And letting her anywhere near designing them would be nuts. You ever met a Range Rover Evoque driver who was happy with their ride?

Chris Orton @chriso1.bsky.social · 9d

Remind me not to watch.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 10d

He flew 100s of highly decorated & experienced fighting men & women 100s or 1,000s of miles to tell them they'd better not be pacifists.

Said serried ranks of in chorus: "You don't fucking say?"

Must have had to grip the arms of their chairs not to fall out with the force of their eye-rolls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 10d

In Space Opera, generally speaking, some tens or hundreds of thousands have to die.......

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 10d

It me. All of the above.

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 10d

Think his boss is simply insane......

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