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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1h

singing 'the POPE is WOKE' to myself to the tune of Ace of Spades

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 4h

Exactly 10 years ago today it appears I was having a very rare Good Hair Day.

danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 7h

"Donwood can't do the poster this time I'm afraid, but we've got the guy who used to work with Steps?"

Simon Love @simonloverules.bsky.social · 7h

Why does this look like a poster for a Disney film where Tom York is the new principal in school for gifted loners? #straighttodisneyadd

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 7h

Big 'Summertime Special, Live From Butlins' vibes too.

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

Salieri in the film version of Amadeus, being wheeled through the asylum, telling the inmates that they are absolved, he absolves them

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 2d

My dad would always wait until I had just stepped out of his car for a night out before saying shit like "Remember the story in the paper about that wee boy whose face got smashed in so badly he had to have reconstructive surgery? It happened just where you're standing"

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 2d

Same energy.

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty sad story. He was an early victim (well, for our generation) of the anti-vaxxing mindset. Died a completely preventable early death by refusing treatment for liver cancer, believing that natural remedies would be more effective.

Which they were not.

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 2d

There's a Doug Henning trick that I saw when I was about 8 that I still think about at least once a week.

Saw it again within the last year or so and it still knocked me out. He stands behind a curtain with his head poking over, dips behind it for a FRACTION of a second and now he's his wife.

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair...

a group of people in red shirts are standing in a dark room playing instruments .

ALT: a group of people in red shirts are standing in a dark room playing instruments .

media.tenor.com

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinated by your usage of 'Anglo' here. Can you explain what you think it means?

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Kevin of Nine, Tertiary ADHDjunct of Unimatrix 01 @votesforoysters.bsky.social · 3d

Has anyone that follows me had an experience with a cult/guru?

My friend is looking for people to talk to about their experiences.

It will be thoughtfully and sensitively done, not sensationalist.

Details in the thread.

Please repost to help her find someone 🙏

So Disappointed @sodisappointed.bsky.social · 11d

As we’re putting the final touches to episode 3, we’re looking ahead to Episode 4: Cults and Gurus

The disappointing truth that people who need guidance are often used and manipulated by charismatic gurus.

Have YOU had a brush with a cult? Get in touch if you’d like to talk

(Please re-post)

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 4d

There are two more equally compelling and atmospheric episodes to dig into and you definitely should.

In a sea of Joe Rogans, be more like Our Wendy.

www.sodisappointedpod.com

A Podcast About Our Deepest Disappointments

Discover the podcast about things that let us down, featuring stories and episodes on widespread societal disappointments. Join us to share and hear more about what disappoints us.

www.sodisappointedpod.com

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 4d

finally listened to this on the drive back from Scotland yesterday.
Apart from my unstructured thoughts about Bowie dying (a wee bit at the start, a wee bit at the end) I just want to shout out @wednesdaygj.bsky.social and @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social for putting together such a terrific podcast.

So Disappointed @sodisappointed.bsky.social · 7d

Our latest episode - 2016: Annus Horribilis - is now available from wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy! #SoDisappointed

audioboom.com/posts/878426...

2016: Annus Horribilis

In this episode we’re looking at 2016, a profoundly disappointing year in which the Grim Reaper culled as many beloved celebrities as they could, while also finding time to oversee Britain’s disastrou...

audioboom.com

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 4d

That's me with Home Alone.

At this point I feel that seeing it would be less fun than continuing to not see it.

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 5d

Visiting Hours

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 6d

Vertiginous Road-Runner background, by Maurice Noble. Watch long enough and a Coyote will come plummeting past your view, descend into a vanishingly small point and impact with a distant "paf" noise.

Maurice Noble background art from "Road Runner". View from the top of a cliff, looking down into the distant valley below. Plummeting coyote not pictured.

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 6d

Andrea has just reminded me that the camera work in the car chase at the end is the closest thing to actually being in a car going up and down at speed on a hilly road that you'll ever see on a big screen. It actually made my stomach go 'whoop' a few times.

danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 6d

A short review (after a fashion) of One Battle After Another.

Going through a few things at the moment I can't really talk about on here (inevitable, depressing family stuff that everyone faces at some point or another), but we decided to snap out of it for an afternoon and I'm glad we did.
One Battle After Another is like Star Wars for ageing lefties.
Much as Cronenberg deliberately made Videodrome to demonstrate what it might be like if violent media really DID make people violent in life, so OBAA offers us a world in which Antifa A) actually exists B) is organised enough to actually get shit done.
Di Caprio is always much,much better as a hopeless wanker going through some shit than as a serious, tortured hard man. Sean Penn made me sad I went bald instead of grey. Chase Infiniti doesn't just have an AMAZING name that sounds like a surreal science fiction epic and/or streaming app, she is also an instantly compelling screen presence in much the same way that, well,Leonardo Di Caprio was at her age.
It's the first film I've seen ages that starts in high gear and doesn't let up for a second. Not a moment of screen time feels wasted. In PTA's filmography it FEELS closest to Magnolia somehow: a sprawling landscape painting, only this time with car chases, tasers, high-velocity firearms, dope-smoking Commie nuns and an underground white-power militia with a delightfully whimsical name.
Jonny Greenwood makes it twice the film it already is (as usual).
Check it out, homie.

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome distractions from the reality of an intolerable situation

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 7d

I'm in this.if you don't know what I sound like, now's your chance to hear me in all my Caledonian glory.

So Disappointed @sodisappointed.bsky.social · 7d

Our latest episode - 2016: Annus Horribilis - is now available from wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy! #SoDisappointed

audioboom.com/posts/878426...

2016: Annus Horribilis

In this episode we’re looking at 2016, a profoundly disappointing year in which the Grim Reaper culled as many beloved celebrities as they could, while also finding time to oversee Britain’s disastrou...

audioboom.com

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So Disappointed @sodisappointed.bsky.social · 7d

Our latest episode - 2016: Annus Horribilis - is now available from wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy! #SoDisappointed

audioboom.com/posts/878426...

2016: Annus Horribilis

In this episode we’re looking at 2016, a profoundly disappointing year in which the Grim Reaper culled as many beloved celebrities as they could, while also finding time to oversee Britain’s disastrou...

audioboom.com

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Wendy WooOoOOOoo @wednesdaygj.bsky.social · 9d

Trailer for Episode 3 and a gentle walk through all the celebrities who passed away in 2016.

We’re still looking for a contributor for episode 4 - Cults and Gurus. Have you had a brush with a cult or a run in with a wannabe messiah?

So Disappointed @sodisappointed.bsky.social · 10d

Episode 3 is out on 1 October. Here’s a taste of what’s coming!

Contributors include: @whenisbirths.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social, and
@brexitrage.bsky.social

(And more who aren’t on BlueSky)

Sound up for this one! (Sorry about the lack of captions!)

SoDisappointedPod.com

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 11d

Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)

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danielnothing.bsky.social @danielnothing.bsky.social · 13d

I never saw them live, but my favourite-ever urban myth (which no one else recognises, so maybe it was made up by this one guy at a Greenock house party in 1991) is that Lux Interior's day job was being Big Bird in Sesame Street.

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