really enjoying the labeller that lets me see which people on here have likely fatal internet addictions
martha shearer
@marthashearer.bsky.social
asst prof in film studies. post-2008 film/tv + real estate • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/
there's a mildly bonkers academic article from the 1970s that claims that romantic comedy is about "fucking and its absence"
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 7h agoi'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else
this is the top review on goodreads for one of the books on the booker longlist lol
The summer issue of @culturalcritique.bsky.social -- on Marxism, Form & Futurity -- is live on @projectmuse.bsky.social!! muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283 @uminnpress.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social 📚‼️
Apparently the unacceptable bit is not that 24 people died
Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 6d agoThe images coming from Ceuta are unacceptable. We cannot allow anyone to come to our Union without abiding by our rules. Dangerous crossings must stop immediately. Smuggling networks must be dismantled. And returns must be swift, as our rules allow.
every day brings new reasons to be annoyed by 6 music's "indie forever" thing
Duncan Robinson@duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 6d agowww.economist.com/britain/2026... Wrote about our indie music loving elite and how Burnham is...just another 50-something bloke interested in the exactly same thing as others of his generation
Emily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...
A Tale as Old as Time
Emily Wilson’s piece on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey evinces an archaic perspective on cinema’s value as art
animus-magazine.ghost.io
The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
theguardian.com
petition calling on jim o'callaghan to approve visas for students from gaza who have been granted scholarships to irish universities. pls sign!!
Visa for Gaza students
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?
my.uplift.ie
At least the Nolan/Wilson debate has brought classical literature back to those who it really belongs* *privately educated English people
The thing is right, he's gonna do all this and be lauded by our credulous dipshit journalist class because he's managed to bamboozle them all into believing he's some horny-handed Connor toil and not a Cambridge English graduate turned career politician because they've never heard a Northern accent.
MDW@clevercomma.bsky.social · last wk.This is nuts. So he wants a different curriculum for every town? County? Honestly, for some technical jobs the level of maths is not up to scratch at 14. I hear him compare it to The Netherlands and Germany. Bloody hell. The Dutch pupils trying uni here in Belgium have huge problems. 🤦♀️
Congratulations to the fantastic Dr. Teddy Power, who successfully defended their thesis, "Queer and Subversive Adaptation Theory in Contemporary Fantasy Television" yesterday, and many thanks to Teddy's examiners and chair, @mjrsangster.bsky.social @marthashearer.bsky.social & Emilie Pine!
what if the lrb responded to the wilson essay crashing their site by committing to regularly publishing serious film criticism perhaps even occasionally from film scholars
The Guardian's key role in the artificially created rise in transphobia, and its determination to avoid even acknowledging the issue in political coverage, is why I will never, ever be anything but annoyed at their pop ups begging for money. Want my money? Don't be shitbags.
Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · last wk.Not once in this entire political biography of Phillipson does the Guardian note that she signed off on a society-wide toilet police regime to spite trans people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
there is a bit in the finale of the bear that is so deranged it genuinely made me wonder if any of the writers have ever had a non tv job before
I wrote about how the young Andy Burnham's admiration for Philip Larkin was all part of his grand plan to rule the UK
"Little Englandism of the Left"
How Andy Burnham's bid for power started with Philip Larkin
someflowerssoon.substack.com
if i see one more person on here complaining about that old fanmade poster for the odyssey with the nonsense greek letters istg
someone should design a functional, supportive shoe that isn't ugly
Beyond sick of the inaction and head-in-the-sand from this government on HE.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago'Ministers have rejected calls to establish a “special regime” for bailing out universities facing insolvency, saying that political intervention should not be the “default response” in such scenarios.' 1/3
Even the NFL gave the people Bad Bunny and Kendrick calling Drake a Paedophile. This is what FIFA thinks of you.
after all this second half better be extraordinarily violent
beautiful if unexpected tribute to jeremy corbyn there