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Adam Murray
@admagnetic77.bsky.social
Film programmer + write about film - Bristol Black Horror Club UK - All things Horror/Dystopian Fiction/Genre Cinema "A Cosmic Perspective"...
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Thank you @slapstickfest.bsky.social and @robinince.bsky.social for a fantastic evening + screening of One Cut of the Dead 🧟

The Boomsatsuma student films really made the evening special. All the submissions were excellent 📽️

An honour and a pleasure to be involved 💜
We loved partnering with Bristol Film School boomSatsuma to showcase three one-minute, one take horrors at our One Cut of the Dead screening!

Thank you to @robinince.bsky.social and @admagnetic77.bsky.social for introducing them, and everyone who participated. See below the films and artists 👇
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They're going to let the only trusted—and trustworthy—part of the BBC die.
February 15, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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And another bites the dust?

The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial
Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄
BBC warns Russia is taking over World Service radio frequencies
Russian propaganda is filling the void where the BBC has closed World Service radio services due to cuts
inews.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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i love it when people care. about words, about meaning, about each other, about what we mean to one another, about the world we’re making—or could make
February 16, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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This is the speech of Rubio’s that matters. If he’s willing to openly endorse, in the name of “US national interests”, a kleptocratic Putinversteher who seeks to rupture EU unity from the inside, it tells you everything you need to know about what those interests are.
February 16, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Lotta “art shouldn’t be political” takes going around (including from faculty at my art program) and I just have to say: wow fuck that
February 16, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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That time Willow dusted a vampire with a pencil.

As Le Guin reminds us, knives, saucepans, fire, spectacles, pens, chairs & doors are technologies.

But you can't dust a vamp or set up a barricade using genAI.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 16, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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Ooooh wait how about that time Anthropic bought a bunch of hard-copy books, scanned them into a database to engorge its expropriative large language model, then shredded them?
February 16, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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Anything you do with genAI or social media or apps just feeds them: more user data, more use data, more eyeballs, more clicks. (I'm complicit in this.) You can hack them but you can't use them against themselves, or to disrupt power.

Unlike a pencil or a paving stone.
February 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Fundamental category error: there's no reason to forgive information dispensers for dispensing incorrect information, any more than I'd "forgive" a ticket machine dispensing the wrong ticket & charging me a million quid. We forgive humans on an ethical and emotional basis, not informational.
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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GenAI can't be and isn't smart, either intellectually or emotionally, and neither would be the basis for forgiveness. Also the idea that we forgive humans on the basis of their (narrowly measured) intellectual capacity ... one of the foundational errors of EW capitalism there.
February 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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By removing writing from writers' workloads, we have ensured that all writing will conform to the status quo & techbro logics. We are removing accountability from news reporting.
Thinking about the many decisions that get made when you turn your notes into a draft and what that looks like when the bot is making all of those decisions, even if you get the "final say" after the decisions have been made. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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We don't employ enough reporters or pay them well enough to both meet sources and write up their findings.

Nothing to see here but capitalist decimation special pleading for itself.
February 16, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Brutal, and impossible to argue with
February 16, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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Reifying "De-LIV-ery" as intransitive turns out to be as vacuuous and negligent as you'd imagine. The consignments reaching their destinations are the incendiary package of far right normalisation, and the country itself, gaudily bundled up in easy-rip wrapping, to voracious profit-scraping sloptech
February 16, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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Reminded (ta Jonathan) I received harsh criticism for thinking of folks imprisoned without the transnational clout of Roy. I remain true to an ethics of abolition politics, but got read as someone wanting Roy behind bars. Yet, Roy’s promoting her memoir & Umer Khalid & thousands are still in jail.
February 14, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Yes 😪 And while this is going on, the Germans are banning Sudanese filmmakers from even entering the country www.screendaily.com/news/acclaim...
Acclaimed Sudanese filmmakers pull out of Berlinale Co-Pro Market after visa rejection over “migration risk”
EXCLUSIVE: The director and producer of 'Blue Card' previously produced Cannes award-winner 'Goodbye Julia'.
www.screendaily.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Nothing is political, remember, unless it appeases western establishment - then it is revolutionary. Innit, Berlinale?
We are cursed to live in these times.
The whataboutery has reached phenomenal levels.
February 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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The word is 'dump' much as it sinks our hearts. This is the Europe we expect to stand as bulwark against the US. Additionally, the Mediterranean is a graveyard.
I'll say this again -- Drumpf is an inevitable consequence not a cause of racialised politics of dehumanisation in the global north.
“Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.”
Like Aimé Césaire said, Europe is indefensible. I have a piece on this coming out soon...
But in addition to the Mediterranean graveyard you mentioned, this is what haunts me the most I think:
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
February 16, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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Everything is political. Saying you don't care about politics is a political statement. Displays of apathy are a political statement. Not caring is a political statement. Prioritising your income and ease of life other the horrifying torment, abuses and murder of children is a political statement.
February 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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third teeth for everyone! where will you put yours?
February 15, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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it's all fun & games till you realise that they were load bearing spare teeth & your brain falls out
Reject medical neo-futurism. Refuse compliance.

I Will Not Grow The Third Set.
February 15, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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This "art shouldn't be political" rhetoric is deeply depressing, whether these people mean it or just feel like they have no choice but to say it.
February 15, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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I for one welcome our new extra teeth
TEETH. TEETH. TEETH.
Reject medical neo-futurism. Refuse compliance.

I Will Not Grow The Third Set.
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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TEETH. TEETH. TEETH.
Reject medical neo-futurism. Refuse compliance.

I Will Not Grow The Third Set.
February 15, 2026 at 10:18 PM