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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 1d

110th: Snow John Banville’s dark and impactful crime novel where Inspector Strafford a Protestant investigates a brutal murder of a Catholic priest in a country manor house in 1950s Ireland that leads to hidden secrets and disgust about covering up abuses of priests in name of religion and peace.

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 1d

Finished #HouseofGuiness which is entertaining and should be viewed as a loose historical drama emphasis on drama. Definitely in the style and spirit of Knight’s #PeakyBlinders but not as polished as that show.

brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s viewing: #AChineseGhostStoryIII (Ching, 1991) fun Halloween viewing that is essentially a retread of the first film with some minor changes. Tony Leung is great in this as are Joey Wang and Jacky Cheung. #filmsky

brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight’s viewing: #TheStranglerofBlackmoorCastle (Reinl, 1963) the second of the Brauner West German krimi cycle features a story of stolen diamonds, family secrets and a large masked killer. Really solid film with great atmospheric effects. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s viewing: #AChineseGhostStoryII (Ching, 1990) a direct sequel that picks up tax collector Choi San (Leslie Cheung) story as he once again faces the paranormal in search of peace and love. Joey Wang returns as a different character that reminds San of his ghostly love. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 6d

www.bbc.com/news/article... Sad news out of UK this morning. I enjoyed watching Dame Routledge playing in Keeping Up Appearances which I watched as a kid on PBS.

Patricia Routledge: Keeping Up Appearances star dies at 96 - BBC News

She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played the BBC's amateur sleuth Hetty Wainthropp.

www.bbc.com

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 7d

Second viewing of day: #EvilCat (Yu, 1987) a bonkers Hong Kong horror film that mixes body possession and horror with fantasy in a story about a demonic cat spirit that can possess people and the heroic family who must defeat it. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 7d

Today’s viewing: #AchineseGhostStory (Ching Siu-Tung, 1987) the classic Hong Kong fantasy/horror film that blends comedy, romance, and action reminiscent of Shaw Brothers in the 1960s and into the 1970s. Very entertaining matched with excellent filmmaking.

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 7d

109th: King of Ashes @blacktopkid.bsky.social new novel that crackles from first page to last. It is a moving book that uses the trauma of a black family’s past secret to expose how that secret has damaged all of them. A story of love, violence, and choices that people will make to protect family.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 8d

Donald Trump told America's top generals: If you disagree with me and leave the room, "there goes your rank, there goes your future." This isn't leadership. It's a threat. He doesn't want a military loyal to the Constitution, he wants one loyal only to him. Yet another red line for our democracy.

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 9d

Today’s viewing: #MessiahofEvil (Huyck and Katz, 1973) a low budget American independent film that offers an atmospheric nightmarish look at American culture, consumerism, and dangerous effects of religious extremism. It is a film that you feel and overwhelms you. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 10d

108th: The Audition Katie Kitamura’s disquieting exploration of art, love, selfhood, and the nature of performance akin to Erving Goffman’s reading that all human behavior is performed. A powerful novel. #booksky @thebookerprizes.com

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 10d

variety.com/2025/film/ne... We see now living in a world where the fiction is crazy. This is right out of that Pacino film Simone.

AI Actress Tilly Norwood Debuts at Zurich Summit as Industry Grapples With Emerging Tech: We Want Her ‘to Be the Next Scarlett Johansson’

AI actress Tilly Norwood has attracted the attention of multiple talent agents.

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 12d

Today’s viewing: #OneBattleAfterAnother (Anderson, 2025)

a man is talking on a pay phone next to a phone booth .

ALT: a man is talking on a pay phone next to a phone booth .

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 13d

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/98706-judge-gives-preliminary-approval-to-anthropic-settlement.html

Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Anthropic Settlement

Following a September 25 hearing, U.S. District Judge William Alsup gave preliminarily approval to the $1.5 billion settlement in the class action lawsuit in which authors charged AI giant Anthropic w...

www.publishersweekly.com

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 13d

107th: The Heckler Ed McBain’s 12th 87th Precinct novel offers a thrilling cat and mouse story between the cops and the Deaf Man, McBain’s Moriarity like figure who uses a penchant for terrorism to mask his real criminal intent. #booksky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 15d

106th: The Harvest Festival Murders the newest entry in the Crofter’s Green Sleuths is the perfect Fall cozy mystery. Once more the sleuths face multiple murders all possibly linked to the theft of microfilm that outlines UK food systems, a target of Nazi spies. #booksky

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 15d

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 16d

#HalloweenWars is back for spooky season. So bring on the weird cakes, sugar sculptures and pumpkin carving.

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Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 23d

Thinking of using #ChatGPT for 'help' with assessments? Think again. #university #AI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Letter

Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness

www.theguardian.com

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 19d

deadline.com/2025/09/fx-j...

FX Chairman John Landgraf Says Paramount-WBD Deal (Or Another Mega Merger) Is “Inevitable”

FX boss John Landgraf says a Paramount Skydance takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, or another mega studio merger, is a matter of when, not if.

deadline.com

brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 21d

Second viewing of the day: #TheCrimeofMonsieurLange (Renoir, 1936) the only Jean Renoir film I have never seen now available on Criterion channel. It is a classic French comedy which Renoir used to make a political statement about collective action. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 21d

Today’s viewing: #PedicabDriver (Hung, 1989) the classic Hong Kong gangster comedy known for its spectacular aerobatics and fight choreography performed by Hung who plays a pedicab driver who finds himself involved in a battle for justice against Triad. #filmsky

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 21d

Schwartz shows how newspapers, politicians and even some American businessmen used the broadcast to tamp down on media and creativity of people like Welles using the narrative that the broadcast caused widespread panic, which historical evidence refutes. 2/2

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