Today is the day a very special man was born, sent to us many years ago to tell fantastic tales and bring messages of peace and understanding. Happy birthday Rod Serling!

This time of year can be hard for some of us. Nine years ago a good friend of mine put his kids to bed on christmas night, said goodnight to his wife, went to a local park and committed suicide. Help is out there. spuk.org.uk

Wrath, envy, treason, rape, and murder’s rages, Thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages.

4OD 📽️ Apocalypse Now Broker Carol Chopper Die Hard Enys Men Everything Everywhere All at Once Home Alone Local Hero The Long Good Friday Mean Streets Memento Memoria The Missionary Monos Mrs Harris Goes to Paris Open Range A Room with a View Shame

In 1953, Sands Hotel dancer - Sally McCloskey - climbed to the top of Mount Charleston in Nevada to perform an interpretive dance. Meanwhile less than 40 miles away behind her an atomic bomb explodes on a Nevada Nuclear Test Site.

If you work with freelancers, pay them on time. This is especially important at Christmas. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Look, you can have low taxation or you can have functioning public services. You can't have both. Lots of people, including the UK government, seem to have forgotten this fact. Taxation isn't theft. It's the foundation of society.

Know anyone in the Brighton (UK) area who'd love to be a part of a funky film? Please spread the word. We're shooting in January and need supporting artists. (The contact email- [email protected]) Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.

getting people back into theatres requires two things: a greater diversity of well-produced and marketed films, along with exhibitors working to build community around the idea of moviegoing

Martin Parr, absolute mensch. From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB

Please boost...people need to see this. 😭💔 A translator in the European Parliament burst into tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman, who miraculously survived the Russian shelling of Vinnytsia 🎞: Radio Liberty

Know anyone in the Brighton (UK) area who'd love to be a part of a funky film? Please spread the word. We're shooting in January and need supporting artists. (The contact email- [email protected]) Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.

I love this one.

Let's not do fireworks any more. We have lasers now. Just do laser shows without the bangs. Even loud music would be better than the bangs.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

I swear the Labour gov are consciously preparing the ground for Fascism. Classifying opinion as terrorism, restricting the right to protest, digital ID, hostility to migrants, ending of trial by jury etc. They're not idiots, they know what they're doing.

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I highly recommend this thread.

Let us first see peace

The BBC, the press, the Universities, who next? The UK's key and core institutions are consciously preparing the ground for Fascism. Enabling, abetting, collaborating.

I have discovered a pile of Nigel droppings under my bed tonight.

I'm already heading to the post office tomorrow with two copies in my rucksack, both soon to find their readers. Anybody up for making my trip even more worthwhile...?! 😜

They were 8 and 11 years old

It has just become a little bit embarrassing that we can't get in on this, yet Canada can.

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The BBC, the press, the Universities, who next? The UK's key and core institutions are consciously preparing the ground for Fascism. Enabling, abetting, collaborating.

Wish I could go to this.

Black Friday in Yorkshire

The extraordinary theatre maker and political activist Margaretta D'Arcy has died. May her memory be a revolution. www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--...

A writer gets grim news; uncommon for the individual, too common for too many. He writes honestly and entertainingly about that news and wonders about the possibilities and the realities in a way that you can identify with. And we can't ask fairer than that.

One of the doctoral researchers I work with is doing research on film sound and its connection to emotional responses. She's doing a short online survey/questionnaire. Takes about 10 minutes. If you are able to help that would be great 😌 york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

100% hit rate RIP king

"Kindness is a language animals never forget."

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art. This documentary explores how a turbulent era gave rise to iconic movies like ‘Taxi Driver,’ ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ and ‘Network.'

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© Robert Doisneau Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Café Express, Paris, 1957

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

More Bessies, less Wes's.

Jacques Henri Lartigue. Rouen. 1926

Storm in Nice, France, 1925 by Jacques-Henri Lartigue

"I was allowed to experiment, make mistakes and spend a lot of time on the road, and to figure out what it’s all about."

We're going to be hearing a lot more of this nonsense aren't we.