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Eamonn Griffin
@eamonngriffin.bsky.social
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Enjoys every sandwich. Writes sometimes. No, nothing that you've heard of.

Now with web capabilities: https://www.eamonnmartingriffin.co.uk
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KRAKEN trailer - tentacular madness for 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wdX...
KRAKEN Trailer (2026)
YouTube video by ONE Media
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November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
If you're minded to incur costs for Reform UK (and, by extension, Moscow) by sending them some stuff in the post at no cost to you, feel free. #Freepost
Freepost details for Reform UK in Wales.
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Phwoar.
northlincsmuseum.bsky.social North Lincolnshire Museum @northlincsmuseum.bsky.social · 5h
Picture House Past: Cinemas of North Lincolnshire exhibition is open. We hope you'll pop by and see it.

If you do come and visit the exhibition, let us know what you think!?
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
On behalf of a student:

University of South Wales literary magazine The Flock - @theflocklitmag.bsky.social - is after submissions for its new issue - details here linktr.ee/theflocklitmag
Deadline extension to Dec 4th for submissions to The Flock, a lit mag run at University of South Wales. Details here: linktr.ee/theflocklitmag
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
Oh, and if you're buying electricals / white goods etc, give AO a swerve, eh?

www.theguardian.com/business/liv... - 9.30am
From The Guardian, 25 Nov 25: The boss of electricals retailer AO World has called on the Chancellor to focus on cutting welfare spending rather than hitting businesses with more taxes, and claimed that reported plans to scrap the two-child benefit cap are “madness”. AO World chief executive John Roberts argues it would be a mistake wrong to increase welfare spending while the nation’s public finances need repairing. He urged Rachel Reeves to look at measures within the government’s own spending to plug the public finances black hole and not hit businesses with more taxes. Roberts – who was paid £1.392m last year - told the PA news agency: “Business is a force for good in the economy. “It gets demonised in this government and all it’s seen as is a source of more and more tax that they can then blow on the welfare budget.” Roberts told PA the Cabinet “couldn’t run a bath let alone a business”. And despite Rachel Reeves’s criticism of the misogyny and mansplaining she has faced, Roberts argued the Labour party needed to “man up” and “make some difficult decisions” in Wednesday’s Budget.
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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John Carpenter on the making of Dark Star www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star
‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’
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November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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hlautismactcom.parliament.uk
🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following:
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament
This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...
committees.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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trbrtc.bsky.social
The forensic audio analysis by Rob C. Maher of the 2024 Trump assassination attempt has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. This is great news for visual and audio investigations! aes2.org/publications...
Diagram explaining how the timing between a bullet’s supersonic shock wave (“crack”) and the muzzle blast (“pop”) can be used to estimate the distance between a shooter and a microphone. Three scenarios (T₁, T₂, T₃) show a rifle firing a supersonic bullet past a microphone. In each scenario, the ballistic shock wave cone reaches the microphone before the slower muzzle blast sound. To the right of each diagram is a waveform: a sharp spike labeled the shock-wave “crack,” followed by a later cluster of peaks labeled the muzzle-blast “pop.” The time delay between these events (t_d1, t_d2, t_d3) increases as the microphone is positioned farther downrange. A formula shows distance = t_d / (1/c − 1/v), where c is the speed of sound and v is bullet speed. Text boxes explain: “Downrange timing between shock wave ‘crack’ and muzzle blast ‘pop’ gives distance estimate between shooter and microphone,” and “For investigation of Trump assassination attempt: microphone signal was from the lectern.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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As it's Sunday, a reminder that Satan is Real, from the Louvin Brothers in 1958.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6zo...
LP cover of The Louvin Brothers' 1958 SATAN IS REAL. Image shows the brothers - Charlie and Ira - in white suits singing in front of a large simplistic plywood Satan while the fires of damnation burn all around.
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Makes for a triffic hangdog Giamatti Xmas double-bill with 2013's ALL IS BRIGHT
US poster for 2013's ALL IS BRIGHT (a.k.a ALMOST CHRISTMAS) starring Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd.
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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bcky.bsky.social
Can I interest anyone in a spare seated ticket for My Bloody Valentine in Glasgow on Thursday? Open to offers, happy to take less than face value.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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4hundredblows.bsky.social
The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Today they’re showing the same double bill they showed on 22-11-63, when Oswald was arrested here
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Joel Cairo.
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
Learned today that the four-square Tetris blocks have a name: tetrimino (trademarked by Tetris) or tetromino (a non-trademarked alternative).

Ah, it's a wild world of wonders and no mistake.
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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mangiotto.bsky.social
The great @realgdt.bsky.social zooming in to @ucdenver.bsky.social to talk to my film students. So grateful.
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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cinephiliabeyond.org
GOLD!

Mosfilm has now made Solaris available in 4K on YouTube for free. Specialists from Mosfilm's Telecinema and Computer Graphics branch finished the restoration of the film.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Wr...
Солярис (4К, фантастика, реж. Андрей Тарковский, 1972 г.)
YouTube video by Киноконцерн "Мосфильм"
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November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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wikipedia.org
25 years of humanity at its best. #Wikipedia25

Donate now ➡️ donate.wikipedia25.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
eamonngriffin.bsky.social
A Friday evening chat with a final year creative writing undergrad about sitcoms reveals that they've not heard of a) The Last of the Summer Wine, b) Father Ted, c) Frasier.

In unrelated news, I'm going to the off-licence.
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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news.sky.com
Former Welsh Reform UK leader jailed for more than 10 years for accepting pro-Russian bribes
Former Welsh Reform UK leader jailed for more than 10 years for accepting pro-Russian bribes
The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been sentenced to 10 and a half years after he admitted accepting tens of thousands of pounds in cash to make pro-Russian statements to the media and European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I see #TheCricket, shaking its ass, shaking its ass.
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Share a TV series you've watched beginning to end more than once.
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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This is really good. A breakdown of Edward Fox/The Jackal style-wise in The Day of the Jackal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOw_...
Edward Fox is the Perfectly Dressed English Gentleman in The Day of the Jackal.
YouTube video by For the Love of Suits
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November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM