Bazayer
@bazayer.bsky.social
Music/Film and TV are my interests with a dash of politics for flavour!
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Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
January 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
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Londoners do not understand how expensive our transport is compared to equivalent cities, and how much of it is paid through fares vs taxes.
That it is so much worse elsewhere in the UK (I know, I’m from Leeds!) should not blind us to far we still need to go here in London.
That it is so much worse elsewhere in the UK (I know, I’m from Leeds!) should not blind us to far we still need to go here in London.
January 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Londoners do not understand how expensive our transport is compared to equivalent cities, and how much of it is paid through fares vs taxes.
That it is so much worse elsewhere in the UK (I know, I’m from Leeds!) should not blind us to far we still need to go here in London.
That it is so much worse elsewhere in the UK (I know, I’m from Leeds!) should not blind us to far we still need to go here in London.
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How it started/how it’s going
January 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
How it started/how it’s going
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SISKO BANGER ALERT
December 5, 2024 at 3:33 PM
SISKO BANGER ALERT
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Hell yes Catherine Liu. That is not wrong
May 26, 2024 at 3:47 AM
Hell yes Catherine Liu. That is not wrong
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the professional managerial class will discipline and isolate poorer people, demanding respectability, atomizing conflict rather than look to material conditions because it will unearth their complicity in being oppressors
eager to hold onto expertise, a necessary condition for the hierarchy
eager to hold onto expertise, a necessary condition for the hierarchy
November 17, 2024 at 11:02 PM
the professional managerial class will discipline and isolate poorer people, demanding respectability, atomizing conflict rather than look to material conditions because it will unearth their complicity in being oppressors
eager to hold onto expertise, a necessary condition for the hierarchy
eager to hold onto expertise, a necessary condition for the hierarchy
🎥 Watched The Graduate for the first time yesterday.
Damn, Mrs Robinson is a real *****
Also, now I get the wedding reference from Wayne's World 2!
Damn, Mrs Robinson is a real *****
Also, now I get the wedding reference from Wayne's World 2!
a close up of a man 's face with the words film struck on the bottom right
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words film struck on the bottom right
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December 1, 2024 at 8:43 PM
🎥 Watched The Graduate for the first time yesterday.
Damn, Mrs Robinson is a real *****
Also, now I get the wedding reference from Wayne's World 2!
Damn, Mrs Robinson is a real *****
Also, now I get the wedding reference from Wayne's World 2!
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Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
December 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
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Another point to make is that certain types of crime - the prominent, alarming types - have ticked up again.
Theft may not be up by much, but brazen “snatch theft” is at levels not seen since 2014…
6/8
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
Theft may not be up by much, but brazen “snatch theft” is at levels not seen since 2014…
6/8
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
December 1, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Another point to make is that certain types of crime - the prominent, alarming types - have ticked up again.
Theft may not be up by much, but brazen “snatch theft” is at levels not seen since 2014…
6/8
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
Theft may not be up by much, but brazen “snatch theft” is at levels not seen since 2014…
6/8
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
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"In a truly free market society, pervasive private power of the kind wielded by Blackrock should not exist."
As Keir Starmer meets Blackrock head Larry Fink, I've published an excerpt from Vulture Capitalism on the rise of Blackrock, and Fink, on my Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
As Keir Starmer meets Blackrock head Larry Fink, I've published an excerpt from Vulture Capitalism on the rise of Blackrock, and Fink, on my Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
November 23, 2024 at 9:58 AM
"In a truly free market society, pervasive private power of the kind wielded by Blackrock should not exist."
As Keir Starmer meets Blackrock head Larry Fink, I've published an excerpt from Vulture Capitalism on the rise of Blackrock, and Fink, on my Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
As Keir Starmer meets Blackrock head Larry Fink, I've published an excerpt from Vulture Capitalism on the rise of Blackrock, and Fink, on my Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
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Me at Olive Garden
November 23, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Me at Olive Garden
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Front page of Friday’s Irish News (Belfast) on the issuance of arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
November 22, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Front page of Friday’s Irish News (Belfast) on the issuance of arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
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November 23, 2024 at 4:07 AM
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"I reached the point where I was talking to the corpses."
These survivors of the war in Gaza made it to Qatar for treatment. nyti.ms/3OsdIdv
These survivors of the war in Gaza made it to Qatar for treatment. nyti.ms/3OsdIdv
November 22, 2024 at 11:46 AM
"I reached the point where I was talking to the corpses."
These survivors of the war in Gaza made it to Qatar for treatment. nyti.ms/3OsdIdv
These survivors of the war in Gaza made it to Qatar for treatment. nyti.ms/3OsdIdv
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Now available at home, Francis Ford Coppola's Neil Breen movie, Megalopolis www.avclub.com/megalopolis-...
Megalopolis sees Francis Ford Coppola go full Neil Breen
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a kaleidoscopic piece of late-era filmmaking that also resembles a Neil Breen Z-movie vanity project.
www.avclub.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Now available at home, Francis Ford Coppola's Neil Breen movie, Megalopolis www.avclub.com/megalopolis-...
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This was the best dissection of Trump's victory that I've come across since the election.
📢NEW EPISODE 📢 A crossover show with James Meadway of @macrodosepod.bsky.social on the economic dimension of Trump's election victory and why James lays much of the blame for Kamala Harris' defeat at the door of mainstream economics:
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It's the inflation, stupid w/ James Meadway
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 10/11/2024 · 44m
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November 13, 2024 at 3:53 PM
This was the best dissection of Trump's victory that I've come across since the election.