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Mark Berry

@boulezian.bsky.social

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Musicology and history (intellectual, political, etc.). Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas in eighteenth-century historical context. Views, for better or worse, my own. He/him/his https://boulezian.blogspot.com/

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 8h

No idea who Ari Shapiro is; I shall certainly keep it that way. How can anyone by now fail to see the 'AI' emperor's new clothes for what they are?

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 8h

Utterly depraved: the 'Blue Labour' Starmer regime films and broadcasts deportations of fellow human beings who have endured greater suffering than we can imagine and risked their lives to come here.

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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 10h

The raids haven't stopped... The occupation army continues to bombard Gaza with heavy artillery and air

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11h

"What do you mean by Palestinian Hostages?"

An embarrassing question from Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 11h

Note, though, that even education for him must be racialised presenting it in tandem with a deliberate misrepresentation of critical race theory (black) and, in time honoured fashion, (Jewish) Bolshevism. The two have very little in common, but they do for his 'poisonous', racist ideology.

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 11h

'Reform ... has not set out much detail on a proposed education policy and does not appear to have appointed an education spokesperson.' The Führer has reserved that role for himself; he clearly does not intend Muslims and 'foreigners' to be alone in his camps.

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 11h

Education helps sets us free; it helps us understand the world, to think, to be critical, which is why he and predecessors from Thatcher onwards have been determined to destroy it. It may help innoculate, but it cannot indoctrinate.

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 11h

Speaking as a 'self-declared Marxist' and educator, I can honestly say I have never tried to 'indoctrinate' or 'poison' anyone; such fascist practice is opposed to everything I believe. and that, if I did, it would not be through education. If I did, it would not be through education.

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 11h

'Farage has accused Kebede of being a “a self-declared Marxist … someone who is absolutely determined that our children should be poisoned at school, their minds should be poisoned about everything to do with this country” and has argued the union is trying to indoctrinate teenagers against Reform.'

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 11h

Farage's 'enemy within' has mostly had to be defined by ethnicity, religion, and language, given ever more extreme Thatcherite governments have pretty much destroyed organised labour in this country. He has clearly decided he needs something from the latter too, though, and has opted for teachers.

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12h

Any comment Wes Streeting? Or will you call the coroner a liar as well?

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 17h

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/n...

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that the final sentence of this excerpt starts with “This misfire provided a window into how…” and somehow DOESN’T end with “deeply addled and unfit Donald Trump is for the office of the presidency” is pretty wild.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 20h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 15h

What possible argument could there be against Israel's colonialsm, racism, and apartheid than Israeli settlers in the West Bank voting in Israeli elections, yet Palestinians there not doing so? Even if you ignored the checkpoints, the violence, the murders, so much else, this is settler colonialism.

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 17h

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 2d

Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Rose tells me he has recorded an interview for Radio 4's The World Tonight this evening, probably to be on at around 10.30 p.m. It will include a performance of the piece on harpsichord, if I have understood correctly.

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

Since I am not, I hope, the target audience for such a phrase, I had assumed the 'Boriswave' was the new hairstyle of choice for what was once the 'blue rinse brigade'.

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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 2d

We're at this stage of disgrace in politics

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry for breathing I guess?

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

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London Sinfonietta/Benjamin - Boulez, 5 October 2025

Queen Elizabeth Hall Mémoriale; …explosante-fixe… Michael Cox (flute) Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble Sound Intermedia (sound proje...

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair, I have no idea what it means either.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted news of this is now spreading. Congratulations to my department colleagues involved in the project.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 2d

How can you tell from someone's skin colour whether they are integrating? 🤔