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Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · Sep 4

New commentary on Fantômas Unleashed with film historian and author David Kalat
New commentary on Fantômas vs Scotland Yard with film historian and author David Kalat
International Supercrooks – new interview with Leon Hunt on Fantômas and his connection to other European supervillains in the 1960s

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Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · Sep 4

***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming on November 24th on Blu-ray in the UK from #EurekaEntertainment as part of their #MastersOfCinema series: #Fantomas Trilogy (1964-1967)!

Fantômas • Fantômas Unleashed • Fantômas vs Scotland Yard

Created by crime writers Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, the criminal

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 11h

If you're going to buy two books you might as well buy three. There might even be a law to that effect.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 12h

Well, that explains it!

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 13h

Man at Paddington Station has a hardback copy of Bill Maynard's autobiography. And even more surprising than that is that the man isn't me.

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Tony Charron @manaboutcowtown.bsky.social · 17h

A few years back my place of employment discovered a local rentable Alpaca. His name is Allen and he has now made appearances at kids holiday parties, company breakfasts and staff town halls. I make it a point to get a picture with him each time. This was our latest last week.

A middle-aged man poses for a selfie with Allen the Alpaca.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 19h

This Kemi Badenoch? This one?

Kemi admits hacking into a political rival's website.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 18h

Bath looking rather lovely today.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 18h

Entirely appropriate that I needed that ladder to retrieve The Spiral Staircase from the top shelf.

Topping & Company, Bath - Detective Fiction section (with ladder for books on the hugh shelves).

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 23h

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

I know the real Handsworth – it’s a far better place than Robert Jenrick’s toxic vision of Britain | Nazia Parveen

The shadow justice secretary complained of a lack of integration in an area that has shown, time and time again, that it is for everyone, says Nazia Parveen, an assistant managing editor at the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22h

This is a good game.

I have an English degree and boosted a major publishing house’s share price, and saved a high street retail chain from closure.

If a Mickey Mouse degree lets you create actual Mickey fucking Mouse, it’s probably easily as good “for the economy” as business studies.

Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 22h

*deep sigh* Again, I have an English degree and have contributed rather extensively to the British economy, including writing a show that pumped £10 million into Wales. But the stupidity is the point here, of course.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 22h

*deep sigh* Again, I have an English degree and have contributed rather extensively to the British economy, including writing a show that pumped £10 million into Wales. But the stupidity is the point here, of course.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Charlie Brigden @filmsonwax.bsky.social · 1d

Includes my review of the new John Williams biography and my piece on James Horner’s music for KRULL

Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 1d

The new edition of #FilmStories magazine - featuring Brit drama I Swear, Roofman, Edgar Wright, Irvine Welsh and a lot of Krull - is out now.
filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...

Film Stories issue 57 is on sale now | I Swear, Edgar Wright, Roofman, Krull

The new edition of Film Stories magazine - featuring Brit drama I Swear, Roofman, Edgar Wright, Irvine Welsh and a lot of Krull - is out now.

filmstories.co.uk

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure it will be fine - there's even some red rum in the mini-bar.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 1d

I'm definitely not going in the bathroom ...

DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 1d

I've stayed in this hotel several times and this is the second time I've had the Overlook Hotel curtains in my room.

Curtains with patterns not unlike the carpets in The Shining

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 1d

Overheard (separately) while leaving the theatre:
"We're so lucky with what we get here".
"I need to read a review to understand what I've just seen".

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 1d

I've stayed in this hotel several times and this is the second time I've had the Overlook Hotel curtains in my room.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, he’s not wrong.

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 1d

Rob Hell and Emu

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 1d

Cause of Death: Severe burn.

Ben Shapiro @benshapiro 1d If you're at a dinner and somebody introduces himself as "Dr. Smith," you'd be rather upset to learn that he had a doctorate in musicology if you were to suffer a stroke at the table.

Evan Williams @evanwilliams... 36s

If you were at a dinner party and someone introduced themselves as "Ben Shapiro," you'd be rather upset to be at that dinner party.

-Dr. Evan Williams, DMA Music Composition

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 1d

Also just realised that Louisa from Slow Horses is in this.

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