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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 26m

Is that the ‘Eurovision’ spoof?

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 4h

IIRC for every £ of investment in the creative industries it generates £4 to the UK economy, making it one of the profitable industries we have. Not only that our creative artists and their work are the benchmark to which others look to when it comes to our high standards of creativity.

Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 6h

It also brings in billions to the U.K. because we have exceptionally well trained actors, film & theatre technicians, costume designers & stylists, plus state of the art studios.
We have a thriving music industry, world renowned art comedy & dance, plus massively popular festivals, gigs & events.

💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 6h

Wonder how many of these politicians enjoy a night at the theatre, a film or read a book. See, mate! You may not like it, but the arts and humanities is and always was intended to be accessible to everyone. You just tried to appropriate it for yourselves and your ilk.

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Avis Hickman @avishg.bsky.social · 5h

This is truly disturbing

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 14h

AI is a runaway train and I’d like to get off at the nearest station.

I’ll jump off and roll down a hill like they do in the movies if I have to.

Video: @varunmayya.bsky.social

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

Do you still have one though? It’s proving to be of little use as protection from a tyrant and despot.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s video of the incident

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Ruth Nineke @ruthnineke.bsky.social · 6h

Boop.

Saw a post that said

"but men aren't allowed to cry. do it anyway?? You're not allowed to beat women either but nothing seems to stop you from doing that either"

🫠🫠💀

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MsBrownMilf @jojojolie.bsky.social · 6h

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Please support survivors and organizations that help victims recover after trauma and neglect from their abusers.

Because I’m also a twice victim of DV from romantic relationships I’ll share a lil bit of my story.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

‘Dance like no-one is watching’ because they’re not 😉

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

No, don’t you freakin’ touch me Gahan, you weirdo! 😂

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 1d

Amid the constant anti-renewables sentiment so common across our media, this letter today is a blessed relief.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

Indeed. Tory Politics is where the wealthy send their idiot children (who can’t hack it in the City or the Law) to fail upwards.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

“Die My Love: Lynne Ramsay unlocks a fearless performance from Jennifer Lawrence”
Jen is usually up for pretty mad behaviour at the best of times, and Lynne Ramsay is an exceptional director. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Die My Love review: a ferocious film from Lynne Ramsay

The intense relationship between newlyweds Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) drastically unravels after the birth of their baby in Lynne Ramsay’s ferociously maximalist psychodr...

www.bfi.org.uk

Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

They don’t see the electorate as people or individuals with personal aspirations. No, to them the population is a resource & a commodity to exploit and use for purposes of commerce and production. The means by which money is created for the corporations or CEOs .

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 11h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 11h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

Of course it is! A stupid electorate who aren’t able to recognise an unsubstantiated argument, false equivalents or rhetorical tricks is easy to lie to and manipulate.

a close up of a woman 's face with the words squadbot behind her

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the words squadbot behind her

media.tenor.com

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

Early Pacino was marvellous and versatile. Not so later Pacino.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 5h

Well, when he was education secretary, Michael Gove ‘requested’ that colleges and secondary schools remove the ‘critical thinking’ and ‘commentary and analysis’ modules from their curricula.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 6h

“Frightening but never harrowing, libidinous but never obscene, these films promised young audiences a world beyond this one, filled with swashbuckling danger and forbidden sensation.”
I loved Weisz and Fraser so much - they were perfect. (Number 3 with Maria Bello just didn’t convince, sorry)

Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 23h

"From Oded Fehr as a desert warrior to an oily-pecced Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep, every character on screen – regardless of gender or narrative affiliation – exudes sweaty sexual energy. What’s more, there is unfakeable chemistry between the romantic leads."

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 6h

God is not on her side…ever.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23h

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ
, Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson
!" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom
, Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 6h

Ok then, not every job is meant to be finished (until properly paid for)

Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, come off it, she can promise any old nonsense, she’ll never have to deliver it.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 6h

Question is - Why ISN’T it taught universally? Who does that benefit exactly?

Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 6h

Please don’t turn into post Oscar Al Pacino.

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John Perschino @johnperschino.bsky.social · 20h

Friend of mine is convinced the reason the trump pedophilia thing hasn't exploded among his base is because they not only approve of the behavior but are immersed in it.

Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.social · 21h

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