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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 42m

I’m no comprehensive expert, but I don’t think I’ve heard a Taylor Swift song that doesn’t go “verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus with a bit of extra warbling”. Once you hear it…

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

I have had a very positive message from the in-laws in Billericay about this Guardian interview today: "you managed to give a view from every angle" says Kathy. (There may be some pro-me bias there in its potential to bridge!)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

So action will be needed to bring X back within the rule of law in our country.

Tolerating such an egregious failure of social media platforms to even try to uphold their legal duties has led to 3 years of de facto impunity for unlawful racist abuse in this country.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18d

Tweeting at Zia Yusuf "your a stinky p___ and you should fuck off back to p__land with your rapey relatives" is something that the X reporting system is happy to endorse.

Scoreboard for p-word abuse
Green light: 28 (97%)
Sanction/not removed: 0
Post deleted: 1* (3%)
User suspended: 1*
(* same)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

I spoke to The Guardian's Steve Rose for this wide-ranging interview about identity issues: flags & patriotism, the far right & racism online + offline, control & compassion on asylum, and still looking for the common ground in polarised times
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 23h

I spoke to British Future's Sunder Katwala, who was a refreshing antidote to all the far right rhetoric on immigration, flags, etc. Britain is not nearly as divided as extremists suggest, he says, and we're "a generation ahead" when it comes to multiculturalism.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 3d

Cunk poetry :)

From:
www.facebook.com/PhilomenaCun...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6d

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

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Open Measures @openmeasures.bsky.social · 5d

American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans."

We checked the data. That wasn't true.

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Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation - Open Measures

Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

openmeasures.io

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the interview: “Most ordinary people just feel, ‘What can I do to help?’ So they do nothing. My life mission is to give people hope, because without hope you don’t bother."
www.theguardian.com/film/2018/ma...

Nuzzle a panda, kiss a lioness: Jane Goodall takes us on her wildest adventure yet

The wildlife legend wants to take the whole world on safari. As her stunning new VR film series launches, she talks about firing up David Attenborough – and explains why Andy Serkis was ‘fantastic’ as...

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 5d

I went to interview Jane Goodall about some new VR wildlife film initiative in 2018. My fave pic of her:

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 6d

They say never meet your heroes but Jane Goodall was one of mine and I’m very grateful I did meet her. And was so starstruck I asked for a selfie.

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 6d

RIP. Truly one of the greatest people of our age — pioneering scientist, tireless conservationist and all-round admirable, curious, generous person.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 7d

Only in the UK would it be a totally normal piece of urbanism to place a bin right opposite a pair of benches. Eat your sandwiches and look at the overflowing rubbish.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 7d

Israeli quadcopters shooting children.

And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day.

Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children.

And our government continues to assist it.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8d

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 8d

Needs saying. My other complaint in this vein is that OBAA is fuelled by black women’s revolutionary energy, but they’re largely written out of the picture in favour of the white guys’ hang ups. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Jezebels, race kink and Cardi B: in One Battle After Another, Black women are still stereotypes

With its hyper-sexualised Black female revolutionary and fetishised depiction of interracial relationships, Paul Thomas Anderson’s much-lauded latest raises questions about how white male directors de...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 9d

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 11d

Trump is so clearly wrong on all this but from the outside it feels like the rest of the US is just like "Oh well, climate catastrophe it is then."
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Trump’s climate tirade will not stop the new ESG

The US president’s assault on the green energy ‘scam’ is part of the struggle with China for global economic hegemony

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 12d

Too right - but why should it be up to young activists to push back against US's idiotic, disastrous, utterly indefensible climate policies? The whole country should be up in arms about it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US is violating human rights laws by backing fossil fuels, say young activists in new petition

Petition says that US government’s protection of fossil fuel interests has put people in harm’s way

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12d

A very big Onion announcement:

The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece.

It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.

It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd.

Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

The Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile title screen

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WIRED @wired.com · 12d

When did The Onion decide to make a Jeffrey Epstein mockumentary? Once Trump started acting “dodgy” fielding questions about Epstein.

“There's this big gap where information should be," @bencollins.bsky.social said. They thought "it would be very funny to fill it with complete fucking nonsense."

The Onion Made an Absolutely Unhinged Jeffrey Epstein Mockumentary

"Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile" is a very silly deep dive on a very serious issue. In the current media landscape, it’s a wonder it even got made.

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 12d

I spoke to CHRIS SARANDON, about Dog Day Afternoon, The Princess Bride, going bankrupt, his marriage to Susan, working with Michael Winner and many other things. Such a nice man!
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

‘I lost everything!’ Chris Sarandon on Dog Day Afternoon, ex-wife Susan and the fraud that took his life savings

At 83, the star of The Princess Bride, Fright Night and so much more is carving out a new career as a podcaster. He remembers the movies that defined him – and working with ‘malevolent’ Michael Winner...

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 13d

STUDENTS! You can subscribe to the Guardian for just £9 a year: theguardian.com/studentoffer. Spread the word.

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 14d

RIP CLAUDIA CARDINALE - legend of postwar Italian cinema and much else - who was nothing like her sultry sex symbol screen image when I interviewed her in 2013, but warm, chatty, funny and full of energy.
www.theguardian.com/film/2013/se...

Claudia Cardinale: 'I don't want to stop'

Sixties screen siren Claudia Cardinale talks to Steve Rose about entrancing Fellini, spurning Brando – and why appearing in 135 films still isn't enough

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