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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 10h

starkt att fortsätta filma trots att han tappat telefonen i toalettstolen

Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 11h

"But fair play to [CK] in one sense for getting out of his comfort zone – he has a whole bit about giving up weed and yet here he is visiting a place where getting stoned is common"

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22h

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 18h

Jag tycker det är omöjligt att jubla med tanke på alla inblandade parter. Förstår impulsen, men snacka om att ropa hej.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 1d

That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

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.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

At yesterday's White House Antifa conference, testimony was produced from a series of well-known fabulists and conspiracy theorists about an organization that battled the Nazis in Weimar Germany and went dormant in the fifties. For the speakers, the Nazis were the good guys and Antifa were dangerous

Trump’s ‘Antifa roundtable’ was so much worse than you’re imagining

Holly Baxter reports on a meeting that, at one point, appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and at another saw the president declare, ‘We got rid...

www.independent.co.uk

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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 1d

Wrote about Browning's penultimate feature THE DEVIL-DOLL which is a lot of fun if not on the level of FREAKS or DRACULA
(in Swedish, sorry)

Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 1d

Spöktober hela månaden lång på Skärmtid! Idag skriver jag om Tod Brownings näst sista film, mysrysiga The Devil-Doll (1936). Synd att så få av Brownings filmer är tillgängliga för vanliga filmdiggare. The Devil-Doll når inte upp till Freaks eller Dracula, men är helt klart sevärd.

The Devil-Doll: mysrysig berättarglädje i Tod Brownings näst sista (Spöktober 2025)

Två fördömda män flyr från Île du Diable, även känd som Djävulsön, den brutala straffkolonin utanför Franska Guyanas kust. Marcel, en gammal vetenskapsman, vill inget hellre än att återvända till s…

skarmtid.nu

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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 1d

Spöktober hela månaden lång på Skärmtid! Idag skriver jag om Tod Brownings näst sista film, mysrysiga The Devil-Doll (1936). Synd att så få av Brownings filmer är tillgängliga för vanliga filmdiggare. The Devil-Doll når inte upp till Freaks eller Dracula, men är helt klart sevärd.

The Devil-Doll: mysrysig berättarglädje i Tod Brownings näst sista (Spöktober 2025)

Två fördömda män flyr från Île du Diable, även känd som Djävulsön, den brutala straffkolonin utanför Franska Guyanas kust. Marcel, en gammal vetenskapsman, vill inget hellre än att återvända till s…

skarmtid.nu

Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 2d

friend, it's a banger (didn't see it in VV), considering seeing it again

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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 2d

vad har vi sagt om att sätta avvikande betyg, Emma??

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 3d

ACAB (All Cops Are Beer) includes IPA (International Pils Association)

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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 3d

He'll yeah I like IPA

An International Police Association badge

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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 3d

Spöktober fortsätter på Skärmtid! Idag: glamour och huggtänder -- jag skriver om säregna The Velvet Vampire från 1971 med tjusiga Celeste Yarnall i huvud/titelrolllen. (Om du gillade The Love Witch är det här en film för dig.) 🦇🧛🏻‍♀️

The Velvet Vampire: drömsk arthouse möter krass exploitation (Spöktober 2025)

The Velvet Vampire (1971) är en psykedelisk, drömsk counter culture-rysare i vilken en dödligt charmig vampyr vid namn Diane LeFanu — en blinkning till Sheridan Le Fanu — förför unga ai…

skarmtid.nu

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 3d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 3d

Hm får inga träffar på vodeville, är ganska säker på att jag sett den på Criterion Channel men den finns inte där just nu

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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 3d

Spöktober fortsätter på Skärmtid! Idag: glamour och huggtänder -- jag skriver om säregna The Velvet Vampire från 1971 med tjusiga Celeste Yarnall i huvud/titelrolllen. (Om du gillade The Love Witch är det här en film för dig.) 🦇🧛🏻‍♀️

The Velvet Vampire: drömsk arthouse möter krass exploitation (Spöktober 2025)

The Velvet Vampire (1971) är en psykedelisk, drömsk counter culture-rysare i vilken en dödligt charmig vampyr vid namn Diane LeFanu — en blinkning till Sheridan Le Fanu — förför unga ai…

skarmtid.nu

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Martin Degrell @martindegrell.com · 4d

otrolig skärmdump

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 5d

The Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö is releasing a special edition of Orwell’s 1984. The book cannot be read, on account of having two spines. The “double bind” is a protest against censorship across the world: malmo.se/boundbookspr...