When Ahab’s old friends run into him down the shops

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6h ago

How is it, then, with the whale?

Ooh, I'm excited to see that HBO has picked up 'Crazy Rich Asians' as a series, retaining the key cast from the movie Kevin Kwan's gossipy storyworld was always a better fit for TV. It's basically a contemporary Bridgerton

Footage of the French high-schooler protests – the monstrous armoured, helmeted robocops whaling on kids singing their national anthem while kettled into an iconic city square – has me thinking of the Ghorman Massacre in 'Andor' s02 Sorry if this is a facile comparison, but I'm a film & TV critic!

A couple of protest signs that mase it through the police filters via Priscillia Ludosky

“Everyone hates the police. Everyone supports the high-schoolers” #ACAB

Mathilde Larrère@mathildelarrere.bsky.social · 10h ago

C est dit

Source. Kneed in the face by a robocop. TW violence

Tensions are rising at Place de la Bastille, where police have begun issuing warnings to disperse. They have also blocked most of the exits from the Place de la Bastille.

“I don’t understand why they tell us not to rebel when all we study are people who rebelled—Rimbaud, La Boétie…” ( @humanite.fr is doing some excellent live coverage of the student protests) www.humanite.fr/direct_conte...

It's not only Paris... Marseille youth in the streets, too. "Siamo tutti antifascisti" via @Lambdactu

"Hey GUYS GUYS GUYS, WE'VE TAKEN THE BASTILLE" Followed by the roar of the crowd. (can't tell you how moving this is) via @LucAuffret

A gentle reminder that Macron’s government claimed yesterday that student protests were dying down. A claim that highlights just how disconnected they and their advisers are from the lived realities of young people in France. 🙃

This is in the context that cops are censoring protest by confiscating any protest signs they don’t like (especially those referencing police brutality)

Stephanie Lamy@stephlamy.bsky.social · 18h ago

State censorship’s little dilemma: In the above video you see that police approved - and chuckled over - a protest sign saying “Macron, fuck your teacher, not ours.” (referring to Brigitte Macron). Now we learn that Macron is furious it appeared on public service TV without Channel 2 apologising.

An important point: the protests began in working-class suburbs with large racialised populations, including Saint-Denis, north of Paris. This historic burial place of French kings now has a Black mayor, Bally Bagayoko, from the left-wing party LFI. White supremacy also underpins police brutality.

Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social · 2d ago

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

Fantastic thread on the French high-school protests. I can’t believe how modest these teens’ demands are (funding for basic educational facilities) cf. how savagely the cops are cracking down on them

Stephanie Lamy@stephlamy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Protests spread beyond the Paris suburbs, across urban and rural France. It now spans general and vocational high schools, small-town schools and universities, bringing together students from different social backgrounds and educational tracks.

Love to squint grotesquely at this while rotting in bed at 8:12am

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 10h ago

THE SOCIAL RECKONING star Mikey Madison came to the CBS Mornings studios looking flawless at 8 am tomandlorenzo.com/2026/10/the-...

Kate mckinnon is so gay lmao. you can see her brain vaporize in real time

miss fern (scary) 🏳️‍⚧️🎃@miss-fern.bsky.social · yesterday

always thinking about this video btw

I don’t know why I find this email subject line so hilarious

The first research snapshot from the inaugural Feminist Researcher in Residence program at the Victorian Women's Trust has just been released, and it's a landmark work mapping the gendered harms of AI at a systems level in Australia: www.vwt.org.au/resources/ou...

Gender and AI: Where’s the Harm? - Vic Womens Trust

vwt.org.au

This is pathetic but you’ve gotta catch the small wins: the waiter at DOC handed over my coffee with “Here you go, signorina.” SIGNORINA

Love that China's official entry for the 2027 Oscars is called 'Once Upon A Time in The Middle East' (in US & Canadian cinemas 9 October!) Cheers to Letterboxd rando Darren who has made a list of everything using the "Once Upon A Time In" title format

Once Upon a Time...

Travel the world with cinema! Probably best to see this in "list view" rather than "grid view". Suggestions welcome. --- Contribute to my other lists here.

letterboxd.com

Interesting explainer on the recent earthquake

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · yesterday

There’s a reason why Gippsland gets so many earthquakes, compared to most of Australia.

HUGE news Kind of shocking that it's up to the High Court to make decisions democratic governments are proving incapable of making. And kind of shocking that it was a split decision. But massive congrats to everyone who made this happen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine

Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says

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Turns out my local pharmacist participates in the Take Home Naloxone program, as do all the others near me, plus various Chemist Warehouses in the Melbourne CBD. I'm definitely going to get some

Lauren Beldi@laurenbeldi.bsky.social · 2d ago

You’re welcome! You can check if they do via this map, which is prt of the take home Naloxone program: experience.arcgis.com/experience/2...

this wasnt in the movie

I saw some people on the train with some serious nods and was reminded I did not have any narcan with me. In Australia you can get it for free at any participating chemist (there are many). You don’t need to give a reason. Narcan is inert unless reversing an overdose, when it can be life saving.

I did not even have Eva Marie Saint, who has died at age 103, on this thread I compiled of long-lived famous people

Mel Campbell@incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Famous people I was surprised are still alive: Imelda Marcos (95) Berry Gordy (95) John Astin (94) Sonny Rollins (94) Raul Castro (93) Leslie Caron (93) Barbara Eden (93) Dan Rather (93) Elaine May (92) Petula Clark (92) Joan Collins (91) Akihito (90) Giorgio Armani (90)

Good to be sure

@unitedlegal.bsky.social · 2d ago

Eva Marie Saint Cause of Death: What Is Confirmed About the Actress’s Passing at 102 Eva Marie Saint cause of death has been confirmed as natural causes after the Oscar-winning actress died at age 102 at her home in Los Angeles on October 6, 2026. Her representative, Jeff Sanderson, confirmed that…

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

It's called the gurdy, maybe you've hurdy of it

Greg the Miller@gregthemiller.bsky.social · 2d ago

it’s called falling in love, maybe you’ve heart of it

It’s called Tokyo drifting, maybe you’ve skrrrrrrrrrrt of it

Greg the Miller@gregthemiller.bsky.social · 2d ago

it’s called falling in love, maybe you’ve heart of it