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CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · 4d

The programme for this year's London Film Festival is an absolute disaster.

There is nothing of any interest to anyone who cares about cinema.

The little Worcester film festival was better.

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CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · 10d

Jorgen Leth has died.

His verbal and filmic sparring with Lars Von Trier in The Five Obstructions (2003) was a landmark achievement in the history of European modernism. Of European thought in fact.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 10d

This is the President explicitly threatening to withhold federal funds from New York City if voters elect a candidate he opposes.

This is an unlawful attempt to coerce voters through federal financial threats and a textbook example of voter intimidation to influence the outcome of a local election.

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CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · 19d

It's very good

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 24d

#onthisday, 16 September 1886, #TurkishBaths were opened at the St Petersgate Public Baths in #Stockport. Hot rooms 135°, 175°, & 260° F, shampooing room, & cooling-room. Stained glass windows and gas-lit by night. JC Prestwich of Leigh beat 90 other architects in competition. Closed 1993. 🗃️ #C19th

Photo of the façade of the public baths building. Mainly two storey with smaller central third storey. Built in free "Queen Anne" style, with Ruabon bricks and terra cotta dressings. Arched windows.

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CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · 23d

I saw it too. Terrific, everybody had really done their homework and really put in a shift.

CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · 23d

New production of Measure for Measure at the RSC.

Tremendous.

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Roman Yeremenko @roalyr.bsky.social · 24d

Europe and US allowed this.
As if the lessons of WW2 taught them nothing.

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

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CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · 28d

Charlie Kirk is the Horst Wessel of the MAGA movement.

CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · 28d

Maybe you would like to know that Mr Kirk said gays should be shot, children should watch public executions and Zelensky was a 'petulant child responsible for a million dead'.

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Roman Yeremenko @roalyr.bsky.social · Aug 26

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

Tetїana △ @tpspindel.bsky.social · Aug 26

2/ Before that he saw: eyes gouged out, lips cut off, ears, noses, genitals mutilated.
Not an army. A cult of torture.
Seven of his brothers died in that pit. He crawled for 5 days with festering wounds until he reached Ukrainian positions.

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CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Aug 5

Have now watched The End of the F***ING World 6 times.

A towering achievement.

Part Romeo and Juliet, part Bonnie and Clyde, part American teen drama, part Tarantino, part Dennis Potter on acid.

CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is actually Leslie Custard, and he said lemon, lemon, lemon.

CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Jul 15

Sycamore Gap

Master Chef

We are not a serious country.

CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Jul 15

Cut down one old sycamore tree: get punished with 4 years in prison

Cut down many old oak trees for HS2: get rewarded with hundreds of millions of pounds.

CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Jul 15

Was really hoping that BBC interview with Trump was a hoax.

CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Jul 15

Sycamore Gap lawyers getting in some Gregg Wallace style mitigation statements.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · Jul 15

🤬 Bakhmut now. The Russian occupier drives through the destroyed city and demonstrates what the occupation army has done to it. The ruins well explain the true goal of Putin's war - to capture in order to destroy…

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · Jul 15

FINALLY: NATO warns Russia it will strike Kaliningrad if the GPS jamming radars there cause an aviation crash.
Russia has been jamming NATO airspace since 2022.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/14/f...

Frontline report: NATO warns commercial aviation crash could trigger military response to Russian jamming - Euromaidan Press

Alliance officials have indicated that casualties from GPS interference would be treated "not as an accident but as a deliberate escalation," potentially leading to direct strikes on Kaliningrad's ele...

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GenevaGirl @michellev.bsky.social · Jul 14

Switzerland has had a wealth tax for as long as I remember. For everyone, not just the uber wealthy.
It’s really not a big deal.
No one leaves.
Don’t believe the scare stories

CNN @cnn.com · Jul 14

Across various private New York Facebook groups viewed by CNN – such as those for residents of the Upper East Side – some users have anonymously discussed potential plans to move out of the city following Zohran Mamdani’s primary win. cnn.it/3IpkOjr

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CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Jul 15

Trump's 50 day ultimatum = Putin, feel free to destroy as much of Ukraine as you like over the next 6 weeks.

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CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Jun 16

Getting a similar vibe from Joe Dunthorne, Children of Radium and David Baddiel, My Family.

Jaw dropping material superbly put together.

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CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Jun 16

Dept Q.

Not as good as The Bureau, The Bridge or The End of the F***ING World, but not too far behind.

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CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Jun 12

Will it feature rubbish trains like the one in the picture?

CharlieTurner @charlieturner66.bsky.social · Jun 12

Drying up by teatime.

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