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#RibbonOfMemes have gone and done #TheShining, which I will listen to.
It's a curious film. I'm not much of a fan of Kubrick, even though his films are clearly meticulously made. I rewatched the Shining about a year or so ago and ended up watching it again.
The presence of absent indigenous people is striking and also implied child abuse.
Probably Jack Nicholson's best performance who's an actor I don't rate much.
Storywise it just starts then comes to an end. It's more of insanity slowly possessing a man.
Anyway, I'll listen to what Memes has to say.
https://ribbonofmemes.org.uk/archive/2026/The_Shining__1980_.html
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Actually -- and I might be imagining this -- but #DaphneDuMaurier's writing style reminds me quite a lot of #StephenKing's writing style.
Not sure why.
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I'm rereading The Blue Lenses so I can write a blog post about it.
And that's the thing about #DaphneDuMaurier's work; you kind of have to read them a couple of times because they're so intriguing.
At least, I have to ...
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Breaking News!
Metropolitan Police Officer caught being a racist piece of shit!
#DeclassifiedUK | Revealed: Man filmed in Al Jazeera ‘intimidation’ mob is Met police officer
"Footage shows Soffer directly approaching one of the Al Jazeera journalists, who is Palestinian, calling him a “dog” and a “donkey” in Arabic."
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#CraigMurray | The London Ambulances Attack: Of Course It Was A False Flag
"The organisation that, conveniently for the Zionist narrative, immediately claimed responsibility for the attack is Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia. This is a group which simply did not exist until the US and Israeli attack on Iran, when it suddenly appeared fully formed and started causing small incidents of property damage to Jewish communities in Belgium and the Netherlands."
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Do you think Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto was in part inspired by the English folktale Robin Hood?
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I watched some of Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends the other night. It was one about Aliens.
Looking back at these programmes, I never realised what an ass Theroux was. I always picked up on his sarcastic, piss-taking attitude, but he really comes across like a dick.
I think younger me was more 'Ha! Yeah, these stupid people are stupid and deserve to be ridiculed on a BBC2 documentary! Stupid people for having alternative opinions about things!'
But watching it I just found myself feeling sorry for the UFO theorist and how the show's paradigm just set them up to look foolish.
Sure, you can interview these types of people who live on the fringes, but you shouldn't really make the documentary that ridicules them. Yes, the viewers will form their own opinions and probably think these people are stupid losers, but it shouldn't be the programme makers pushing that opinion.
It's just punching down, and I found it very unpleasant.
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I just watched #Blackberry the movie
It's pretty good. I enjoyed it. I doubt I'll ever watch it again, but it was enjoyable and informative.
I'm always mindful how movies lie for dramatic purposes though.
I liked when the corporate guy moves in and starts making his corporate demands on the tech nerds. The movie really came alive at that point. Up until then it was pretty average and slightly trite.
As soon as the corporate asshole appeared, it really got going.
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#DeclassifiedUK |
Met police failed to follow internal guidelines on policing Palestine protests#MetropolitanPolice #Palestine #PalestineAction #Protest #Gaza
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#ChrisHedges | How Israel Convinced Trump to Wage War Against Iran (w/ Max Blumenthal) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-israel-convinced-trump-to-wage
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#ChrisHedges | How Israel Convinced Trump to Wage War Against Iran (w/ Max Blumenthal) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-israel-convinced-trump-to-wage
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#ChrisHedges | How Israel Convinced Trump to Wage War Against Iran (w/ Max Blumenthal) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-israel-convinced-trump-to-wage
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#ChrisHedges | How Israel Convinced Trump to Wage War Against Iran (w/ Max Blumenthal) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-israel-convinced-trump-to-wage
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#ChrisHedges | How Israel Convinced Trump to Wage War Against Iran (w/ Max Blumenthal) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-israel-convinced-trump-to-wage
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I'm #reading Don't Look Now by #DaphneDuMaurier and so far it's good.
But it's very readable, with the characters' quirks and the general way they behave.
And, you know, Stephen King wrote the foreword to the collection of short stories I'm reading, and I think there is something distinctly similar between King's written style and Du Maurier's.
They're quite similar I think. But as much as I loved Misery and The Shining, I think Rebecca comes out tops.
I think I'd lean to Daphne as the better writer.
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So I'm watching #TheBoys and I've only seen two episodes but I'm really into it.
It's like the X-men only, like, better. How the X-men should be.
And there's a bit of #Robocop in there: the corporatising of America.
But I think the thing that I like the best is cockney (New Zealand) guy. I love how bad he is at what he does. I love the calamity.
And it's got good stories that are interwoven.
I also like how The Homelander is kinda stupid, but he's not played too obviously dumb. He's not *very* stupid, but he's not the brains of it all. It's a good decision, I think.
And it kept bugging me who the corporate Vought woman was until I saw her name on the credits: Elizabeth Shue. She's from back to the Future 2 and 3.
Anyway, so far so good.
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You know, the O and the 0 keys are a little bit too close together for my liking.
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#DaphneDuMaurier is a fantastic writer.
It's not often you read a #ShortStory and really enjoy it and have it stuck in your head.
The Blue Lenses is just brilliant. It is silly yet touches on something more troubling. Yet, Maurier never really says things explicitly -- a bit like #Rebecca -- and the reader has to piece things together.
Her works can be quite cryptic and they leave you with questions.
The ending of Blue Lenses is brilliant. I wasn't quite sure where it was heading, but the ending doesn't disappoint.
But the ending is cryptic and it's one of those stories you have to re-read to pick up on the nuances you might have missed.
But I love how she uses an absurd occurrence to touch upon underlying themes. How the something strange actually turns out to be the subconsciousness at work, and turns out to be revealing more of reality.
It's very good.
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#JonathanCook | BBC editor's libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here's why
"Berg and his lawyers had hoped to force Jones to defend the article on the basis it was a “statement of fact”.
This distinction is crucial. Had the judge agreed with Berg’s team, responsibility would have fallen on Jones to prove what amounts to intent by Berg to skew BBC coverage – something that, in the absence of internal documents revealing what was being said behind closed doors – would have been nigh impossible."