A director pal has been working for decades with big name clients. Doing huge stuff, including international shoots. If you live in the UK, you will have seen their stuff. They are currently retraining as a Pilates instructor. To have a more regular income in winter. That's how bad it is.

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social dad-dancing to Down With Webster when the Liberals won the Canadian election is the thing you need to watch today youtu.be/FUqONLOJE0U?...

Adam Curtis masterclass: 11 Feb 5-7pm The BAFTA-award winning filmaker's (Century of the Self, Hypernormalisation) favourite theme is "power and how it works in society" Clips and conversation with MCCS lecturer Leah Borromeo. Free, details here: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Hottest and Coolest Doc 100 The Mortician of Manila by Leah Borromeo 🎬📽️🎞️ youtu.be/h86aFdIs1ZM Select Melbourne Documentary Film Festival events are on sale now for the month of July. Full lineup released June 2, 2025! 🎟️ www.mdff.org.au

To mark Rodrigo Duterte's arrest at the behest of the International Criminal Court, here's my @aljazeera.com film about a mortician at the receiving end of the bodies of many of his victims. Orly ran a 24hr mortuary in Manila's Caloocan district. youtu.be/h86aFdIs1ZM?...

If you want to see what's going to happen in America, you should really look at what has happened in the Philippines. It's the forerunner, the test bed, for the collapse of democracy.

From my very limited experience of academia, it appears every j-school in the UK is offering a kind of half-price offer for courses bec numbers are down. Higher education is cost prohibitive. At the other end, parents can't afford early years childcare. It's almost as if education should be free.

Come work with us: +972 Magazine is hiring a podcast producer - https://www.972mag.com/come-work-with-us-972-magazine-is-hiring-podcast-producer/

A reminder that this Masterclass is happening tonight at Goldsmiths - for current students, Oldsmiths and friends www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Wow sounds serious.

Reminder that USAID actively opposed South African apartheid. Just in case you were wondering about possible reasons why it's in DOGE's crosshairs adst.org/2021/06/amer...

US tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been paused before they ever took effect, ahead of more negotiations on security and trade.

If Trump's tariff on Chinese imports actually happens tomorrow, the price of all the cheap shit Americans (especially poor shoppers) purchase will go up. And it won't just be 10%. A quick explainer on the de minimis loophole that might close tomorrow: www.theverge.com/news/605483/...

Europeans should realise how serious an attack on the Canadian economy the Trump admininstration's 25% tariffs represent - and that we are next. The last 10 EU countries that have not yet fully ratified CETA (the EU-Canada trade agreement) should do so rapidly to help our Canadian friends. 1/

Are we great yet?

Love seeing presenters on @gbnewsonline.bsky.social who were bootlicking the Trump administration last week falling very, very silent about it all once his goons outed themselves as Nazis. Esp the one whose grand aunt was a known anti-semite.

Sam Altman is washed - the Mark Sanchez of Silicon Valley. His butt fumble moment was releasing the "Operator" agent that doesn't work at all 5 days before DeepSeek blew up. Much like Sanchez, Altman has outstayed his welcome, and will be seen as a historic bust. Yes, Silicon Valley is the Jets.

Another reminder that anything you do, an Asian guy can probably do better.

This vibe. All day. All night.

@curley303.bsky.social found you, amigo

@wendymcmurdo.bsky.social found you!

@vimeo.com Question re your "one time" educational discount. Your AI is insisting that I can't apply it to my existing account, one that I've had for 15+ years. Yet I know other lecturers who have managed to apply it to theirs. I have opened a ticket, but also hoped you'd have answers here. Thx.

NEW: TikTok users are protesting a potential ban by joining Red Note, aka Xiaohongshu, another Chinese app entirely in Mandarin. “I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one. www.wired.com/story/red-no...

As @zeyiyang.bsky.social reports, Chinese Xiaohongshu users are engaging in a kind of cultural engage with their new English-speaking counterparts. You have to imagine this is exactly the opposite of what lawmakers wanted when they tried to ban TikTok lol

@katcizek.bsky.social found you!

Scientists defrosted prehistoric permafrost and revived a worm trapped in it for 46,000 years. Worm wriggles around, eats stuff, reproduces asexually & dies, leaving babies whose species should've died off tens of thousands of years ago. Let sleeping worms lie? journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Facebook is censoring all of @404media.co's posts about Facebook's censorship. How meta www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

#FactCheck: Rappler CEO and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa talks about what Meta’s move means for the battle for facts #FactsFirstPH

"Conservative and Concerned about Climate Change? You’re Not Alone" | I discuss #ClimateChange with Bob Inglis at this #EnergyWeek event at @uofpenn.bsky.social's @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social on Thu Feb 13, at 12:30pm. More info and link to register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/conservati...

Welcome to season three of "Dominic LeBlanc stands for leader" with a special cameo from Mark "no, I don't want the job, leave me alone" Carney.

What in the Elon steroids???

A few years ago and a lifetime away, I had the luck to live under the same roof with the young man responsible for this prescient song and video. He saw something in the megalomaniac Elon, and it's trippy AF youtu.be/Ogb5aKqVKE8?...

Behold! A meme is born, people.

We've just published our last local editions for 2024! First up, The Teesside Lead... In August Ben Houchen proudly celebrated the publicly-owned Teesside Airport had made a profit. Its accounts - published on Christmas Eve - show it actually made a £6.6m loss. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I was born two months after Carter's killer wabbit, and I just laughed my nose off.

America's most underrated president.

What a time to be alive...for a short while, anyway.

A front page for the ages.

Surprise!

🎄🚨📢 Personal news claxon: Today is my last day as National Editor of @theleaduk.bsky.social. I'll be taking a break over Christmas, and then embarking on a series of exciting new projects—mostly to do with Israel-Palestine—that I'll be announcing as they commence early in the New Year.

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social Just subscribed (paid) to build up the arsenal against disinfo and bad actors. Happy hols to you and G 🐕

It's always a pleasure to work with people who don't make it feel like work. Here's something I produced w Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social & @contextnewsroom.bsky.social editor in chief @khanspiracy.bsky.social why we need journalism as an antidote to tyranny www.context.news/big-tech/vid...

And sometimes, even Trump tells the truth.

Looks like China’s oil consumption peaked in 2023. This is a Very Big Deal. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Repurposed Assad tank in Syria.

Syrians who revealed 50,000 images of death warn of more horror to come. “So, in terms of dead and murdered, literally it is in the hundreds of thousands.” Bell True www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians. www.nj.com/politics/202...

A @volts.wtf with Cory Doctor Doctorow. Just had to double check that 2009 wasn't calling me.