Alec Tasker
@alectasker.bsky.social
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Witty. Debonair. Stupidly handsome. Notorious liar. I generally try to be a good egg.
Cappadocia is an unreal, utterly unique landscape.
16 days ago
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Have arrived at frankly obscene cave hotel in Cappadocia. Not pictured: 9 hour van journey to get here.
17 days ago
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Staying overnight in Pamakkale. It is famous for its thermal spas. The town centre has an enormous steaming rock, which unfortunately looks like an elephant stopped by.
18 days ago
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Cats: In Turkiye you are never more than three feet from a cat. Every photo I have taken has a furry assistant wrapped around my legs.
18 days ago
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The extraordinary amphitheatre and springs at Herapolis.
18 days ago
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Ephesus: magnificent. Not pictured: subsequent career as leather model.
19 days ago
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Troy and Troy and Troy and Troy and Troy. Not Pictured: Troy and Troy and Troy and Troy and Troy.
19 days ago
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Profoundly affecting trip to Gallipoli. I blubbed. Not pictured: Mini van full of flies.
21 days ago
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Istanbul: Mosques and mystery. Not pictured: inconvenient Popes, fighting tour guides.
21 days ago
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Save the Moth Club. Again.
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Moth Club Faces Second Building Planning Application
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24 days ago
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Nick Kapur
about 2 months ago
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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TWO PROSECUTORS is a Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy and menace. Reminded me of working at the Treasury. Tales afterwards about the Director's working methods very funny.
#LFF2025
2 months ago
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THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB leaves you upset , then angry. It should be seen by everyone.
#LFF2025
2 months ago
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Is there absolutely nothing these useless pricks can get right?
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Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes
Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/17/government-u-turns-on-support-for-bird-friendly-swift-bricks-in-new-homes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
2 months ago
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THE SECRET AGENT is a masterpiece of complex storytelling. Set in Brazil in 1977 in a time of corruption and death squads, it's full of humour and dread. Not so much shaggy dog, but it does involve a rampant severed leg and three eyed cat.
#LFF2025
2 months ago
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ROSE OF NEVADA is an extremely Mark Jenkin film. Many timbers are shivered.
#LFF2025
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2 months ago
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Even by her own standards, Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND is a slight and muted affair. A film in various shades of brown that leaves you cold as autumn.
#LFF2025
2 months ago
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FRANKENSTEIN is gorgeous to look at, very sympathetic to its monster, and goes on way too long. Ups the gore and the bore.
##LFF2025
2 months ago
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Greatly enjoyed THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE. Baneen Ahmad Nayyef outstanding as little girl Lamia and a rooster performance for the ages. The second of the Festival so far.
##LFF2025
2 months ago
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SIRAT at the BFI imax is mind blowing. Also several of the most Holy Fuck! moments I've seen in a cinema. Outstanding.
#LFF2025
2 months ago
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Lots of BIG ACTING from Jessie Buckley in HAMNET. Not subtle, but a powerful performance.
#LFF2025
2 months ago
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Very much enjoyed THE LOVE THAT REMAINS even if I didn't understand all of its Icelandic surrealism. A great dog performance and a terrifying rooster.
#LFF2025
2 months ago
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BUGONIA is gratuitous and unpleasant. I'm not really a fan of women being brutalised for laughs.
#LFF2025
2 months ago
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Call of the Wyld: 2025: July to September Youtube and longer Spotify mix
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Call of the Wyld 2025: July to September - YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkWNMrwamaIe9ikrm7HsR_eO1N5pjBB4Z&feature=shared
3 months ago
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Holy Shit this Geese album is good!
3 months ago
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Am due to see this at the London Film Festival. Should be a hoot.
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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Season 7 of Homicide: Life on the Street.
4 months ago
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And of course, we did Cabaret Voltaire.
5 months ago
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Football! The only ground with a crematorium.
5 months ago
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Truly Madli Deeply
5 months ago
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Zurich. A place of weird statues and nice toilets.
5 months ago
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Basel is full of skeletons, skulls and sinister signs. I'm currently sat in the hotel bar and instead of football, they're showing a documentary about a graveyard. Still, the restaurant next door seems OK...
5 months ago
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Basel is really into hosting the Women's Euros. Not only a great game last night between France and Germany, but already a statue commemorating Ann-Katrin Berger's amazing save.
5 months ago
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The problem with standing near Lake Geneva is that after a while, you need the loo.
5 months ago
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Here we go!
5 months ago
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My Geneva hotel room doubles as a Bond villain's lair
5 months ago
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Chelsea take to weird new football competitions like a cat does to a new cardboard box.
5 months ago
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Think they should simply rename the film 'The Salt Pathological Liars.'
6 months ago
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Call of the Wyld: April to June 2025. Some absolutely cracking stuff. Youtube:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Spotify:
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Call of the Wyld 2025: April to June - YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkWNMrwamaIeNJ4IvNl7wfjllTRf1KwuN&feature=shared
6 months ago
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I don't understand the outcry over AI. If I bullshit my way through a job, I feel pretty cocky. When a computer does it, there's outrage.
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This is a fantastic article, and the last line is a kicker, as I skulk at home literally hiding from the summer sun.
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Let's Talk About the Irish Music in Sinners - Reactor
It's a rocky road to Clarksdale, Mississippi.
https://reactormag.com/lets-talk-about-the-irish-music-in-sinners/
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
There is nobody as petty as these miserable pricks. Politicians who can only make things worse, lost in a bubble of their own craptitude. Who the hell are they trying to impress?
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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/23/labour-blocks-proposal-for-swift-bricks-in-all-new-homes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
7 months ago
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Eurovision just dodged a literal bullet there.
7 months ago
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🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the
@campaignforthearts.org
petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
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Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
https://www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/spending-review-2025/
8 months ago
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Watching the first episode of Malpractice. Ooh, that's a lot of malpractice.
8 months ago
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This is just terrific
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Charli XCX - Von Dutch (Krautrock Version)
YouTube video by Morgan Brown Music
https://youtu.be/jGv7xBdgtk0?feature=shared
8 months ago
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Lettuce Speak
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media
Former PM says she wants to protect free speech after being ‘cut off at the knees’ by ‘the elite’ while at No 10
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/15/liz-truss-to-launch-uncensored-social-network-to-counter-mainstream-media?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
8 months ago
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8 months ago
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9 months ago
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Just come out of Becoming Led Zeppelin and it was predictably great. And I just keep thinking "Wow! Shirley Bassey!"
9 months ago
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