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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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 👇
Thank you to @robinince.bsky.social and @admagnetic77.bsky.social for introducing them, and everyone who participated. See below the films and artists 👇
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 💜
The Boomsatsuma student films really made the evening special. All the submissions were excellent 📽️
An honour and a pleasure to be involved 💜
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What does this even mean? Clearly not any great move against authoritarianism and xenophobia, just a few tactical shifts around tax and spend. Starmer and co have no conception of the kind of society they favour.
Will Keir Starmer shift to the left?
Backbench MPs could have a greater impact on UK government decision-making after prime minister faced calls to quit
www.ft.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
What does this even mean? Clearly not any great move against authoritarianism and xenophobia, just a few tactical shifts around tax and spend. Starmer and co have no conception of the kind of society they favour.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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I said what I Fucking Said (original here: bsky.app/profile/wolv...)
![A skeet from Dr. Damien P. Williams can't think of a fun display name right n @wolvendamien.bsky.social, reading:
When broligarchs & kleptocrats float "depopulation" & "declining birthrates," which populations do they want to de-, & exactly whose birthrates are they worried are in decline?
The answers— if you ignore the most obviously applicable explanatory framing of white supremacy + eugenics— may shock you.
[Quote replying to another skeet by Dr. Damien P. Williams can't think of a fun display name right n @wolvendamien.bsky.social, reading:]
Techbros of the singularity/longtermist/effective altruist stripes have always thought that "slowing population growth" is a viable path out of climate crisis. And the answer to "which populations?" is always exactly who you'd think because they are all just fucking swimming in eugenicist bullshit.
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February 15, 2026 at 4:20 AM
I said what I Fucking Said (original here: bsky.app/profile/wolv...)
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“Epstein’s household enterprise was no doubt unique in its sheer organisational complexity, but the kind of personal obligation and indebtedness he inspired among dependents is now a standard feature of the billionaire household economy.”
"Thanks to our growing insight into Epstein’s world, we have gained a clearer picture of the psychic and economic logic of the contemporary far right". Must read from Melinda Cooper www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
www.equator.org
February 15, 2026 at 12:55 PM
“Epstein’s household enterprise was no doubt unique in its sheer organisational complexity, but the kind of personal obligation and indebtedness he inspired among dependents is now a standard feature of the billionaire household economy.”
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This is the new “TV is turning our kids gay!” and, from the 60s, “Rock music is making our daughters like Black people!”
A cisgendered woman with no experience in her self-declared expertise gets a whole article.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
A cisgendered woman with no experience in her self-declared expertise gets a whole article.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Social media misleads young on gender transitioning, says UK review leader
Hilary Cass, who led youth gender identity services review, warns of ‘unrealistic images and expectations’
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
This is the new “TV is turning our kids gay!” and, from the 60s, “Rock music is making our daughters like Black people!”
A cisgendered woman with no experience in her self-declared expertise gets a whole article.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
A cisgendered woman with no experience in her self-declared expertise gets a whole article.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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I bonded with Virginia a few years back over a mutual fascination with Edge.org. I recognised its influence years ago, even pitched a piece on it...but I did not seethe ideology beneath the 'science' Epstein/Brockman promoted which @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social lays bare
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February 15, 2026 at 11:40 AM
I bonded with Virginia a few years back over a mutual fascination with Edge.org. I recognised its influence years ago, even pitched a piece on it...but I did not seethe ideology beneath the 'science' Epstein/Brockman promoted which @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social lays bare
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“With its contempt for the humanities, Edge offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without even opening a book, they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial theory and queer studies.”
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 1:50 PM
“With its contempt for the humanities, Edge offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without even opening a book, they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial theory and queer studies.”
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“Others in the Edge circle, including Charles Murray and Robert Kurzban, have long hammered away at what they consider universal constants: the inferiority of Black minds and the predisposition of men to violence and rape.”
February 15, 2026 at 1:55 PM
“Others in the Edge circle, including Charles Murray and Robert Kurzban, have long hammered away at what they consider universal constants: the inferiority of Black minds and the predisposition of men to violence and rape.”
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Dr Beth Upton went to work one day to help sick people, and that is it. She's done nothing wrong (highlighted by the courts), never got involved in the media, never said a bad word about anyone, even once. And she's been hounded out of the country by bigots who hate that she exists.
February 15, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Dr Beth Upton went to work one day to help sick people, and that is it. She's done nothing wrong (highlighted by the courts), never got involved in the media, never said a bad word about anyone, even once. And she's been hounded out of the country by bigots who hate that she exists.
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Sunday mornings are for New England folk tales of eldritch terror. #NowWatching The Dunwich Horror (1970) #horrorsky #HolyHorror
February 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Sunday mornings are for New England folk tales of eldritch terror. #NowWatching The Dunwich Horror (1970) #horrorsky #HolyHorror
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This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.
February 15, 2026 at 1:05 PM
This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.
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The BBC reporting on Beth Upton’s current employment situation is definitely not in the public interest, and it is insane how much the British press freely get away with harassing her for the crime of simply living her life existing as a trans person in the UK.
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
The BBC reporting on Beth Upton’s current employment situation is definitely not in the public interest, and it is insane how much the British press freely get away with harassing her for the crime of simply living her life existing as a trans person in the UK.
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white people:
"why are you so angry?!???
every black/brown person in unison:
"why the fuck are you not?!???"
"why are you so angry?!???
every black/brown person in unison:
"why the fuck are you not?!???"
February 15, 2026 at 1:03 PM
white people:
"why are you so angry?!???
every black/brown person in unison:
"why the fuck are you not?!???"
"why are you so angry?!???
every black/brown person in unison:
"why the fuck are you not?!???"
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How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
February 15, 2026 at 3:57 AM
How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
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Reduced poll salience just means people aren't looking out of that particular Overton Window at the moment. When the media makes a noise & they look up again, they'll see the landscape the extreme right has made for them.
We have already moved on from restricting future migration to proposing mass expulsions of people already here, so it seems optimistic to think reducing numbers will improve the standard of our political debate. All that’s likely to happen is the demands of the far right get ever more extreme
February 15, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Reduced poll salience just means people aren't looking out of that particular Overton Window at the moment. When the media makes a noise & they look up again, they'll see the landscape the extreme right has made for them.
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Being real so many black and brown people who have so much compassion + empathy for white people in any kind of difficulty. It doesn't even need prompting, it's just natural and there. They're often angry at the systems that led to such awful and sad predicaments.
white people:
"why are you so angry?!???
every black/brown person in unison:
"why the fuck are you not?!???"
"why are you so angry?!???
every black/brown person in unison:
"why the fuck are you not?!???"
February 15, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Being real so many black and brown people who have so much compassion + empathy for white people in any kind of difficulty. It doesn't even need prompting, it's just natural and there. They're often angry at the systems that led to such awful and sad predicaments.
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Meanwhile white people feel nothing. No sadness, no anger, no empathy or concern naturally for us. Even pleading only gets you so far, but my question is why do people even have to do that?? What is wrong with you that you don't see our humanity naturally? Why are you so fucked in the head?
February 15, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Meanwhile white people feel nothing. No sadness, no anger, no empathy or concern naturally for us. Even pleading only gets you so far, but my question is why do people even have to do that?? What is wrong with you that you don't see our humanity naturally? Why are you so fucked in the head?
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One of the reasons I love Roger Casement, why he's my hero, isn't just because he was gay, it was his natural compassion. His radicalisation was precisely from seeing the humanity in non-white bodies, and being angered by the callous violence he witnessed.
February 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
One of the reasons I love Roger Casement, why he's my hero, isn't just because he was gay, it was his natural compassion. His radicalisation was precisely from seeing the humanity in non-white bodies, and being angered by the callous violence he witnessed.
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Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians in air strikes across the Gaza Strip this weekend, days ahead of the inaugural meeting of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace.’
Israel kills 10 Palestinians in Gaza bombing ahead of 'Board of Peace' meeting
Death toll in Gaza hits 600 since ceasefire was signed in October, amid hundreds of Israeli violations
www.middleeasteye.net
February 15, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians in air strikes across the Gaza Strip this weekend, days ahead of the inaugural meeting of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace.’
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Most recent stack of new discs, which includes two of my most wanted 4K upgrades: Playtime and Excalibur
February 15, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Most recent stack of new discs, which includes two of my most wanted 4K upgrades: Playtime and Excalibur
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Rubio’s tone deafness in making assumptions about what would strike a chord rather than nauseate … My Yiddish and German speaking relatives were among millions who arrived in America carrying the trauma of persecution by Christians.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
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February 15, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Rubio’s tone deafness in making assumptions about what would strike a chord rather than nauseate … My Yiddish and German speaking relatives were among millions who arrived in America carrying the trauma of persecution by Christians.
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This is such a comically shit statement from Berlinale I don't even have the words. A festival that used to be a genuine place for political art has become apolitical. Everyone involved should be ashamed
February 15, 2026 at 1:27 PM
This is such a comically shit statement from Berlinale I don't even have the words. A festival that used to be a genuine place for political art has become apolitical. Everyone involved should be ashamed
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And you know what? Actually yeah I think filmmakers and actors etc SHOULD familiarise themselves with the institutions, festivals, companies etc they work with. And sometimes you can't avoid working with shitty people. But you have to be willing to explain yourself if that's your decision
February 15, 2026 at 1:41 PM
And you know what? Actually yeah I think filmmakers and actors etc SHOULD familiarise themselves with the institutions, festivals, companies etc they work with. And sometimes you can't avoid working with shitty people. But you have to be willing to explain yourself if that's your decision