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Some conservative American with an Israel flag in his profile pic is defending Team Kadiliman against Team Kasamaan and for some reason his tweet showed up on my twitter feed. I didn't need to see that. But I guess it's my fault for still scrolling through twitter.

November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM

bim

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New Robyn! youtube.com/watch?v=viti...

Robyn - Dopamine (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Robyn

youtube.com

November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM

Reposted by bim

Adam Serwer

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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM

bim

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Just realized I gave Marnie and A Talking Cat!?! the same score on Letterboxd.

November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

Ack, this could have happened to anyone, and it happened to the Tribune. Anyway, as of posting he aten't dead yet. To quote Mark Twain:

There will be no additional charge for this joke, except to
parties requiring an explanation of it.

November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

Animals >>>>>>>>> politicians

November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

Fuck these storm chasers. Disaster tourists. Ghouls. White guys flying into the country, grinning and fist-bumping each other, getting their thrills, flying out again. I fucking hate them.

November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM

bim

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 21d

Victoria's response to kamikazi transphobe Linehan reminds us that angry men are happy to harass women in the name of (checks notes) women's rights and that if a trans woman appearing on tv sends them ballistic then this is not about women's rights, it's about the eradication of the trans community

November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

If there's something we Southeast Asians know how to do, it's honor our dictators and reward their families.

And cook good food.
www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstor...

National hero proposal for Indonesia’s Suharto sparks backlash

A proposal to include Indonesia's former military dictator Suharto on a list of national heroes sparked opposition from rights advocates who on Tuesday called the nomination a "betrayal."

www.gmanetwork.com

November 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

Huh. The non-chorus parts of this song are completely unrecognizable to me. youtube.com/watch?v=S_3v...

Sheena Easton - 9 to 5 (Morning Train) - Official Music Video

YouTube video by Sheena Easton

youtube.com

November 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

I follow so many people who say "good morning" at 11:30 p.m.

November 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

Imagine what a twat you have to be to be employed at the MTRCB.

October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

holy shit, not even a prince no more ahahahahaha

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge

King’s brother will surrender lease and become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says

www.theguardian.com

October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

I love this so much: the top scorer in the veterinarians licensure examination

October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

pfft. finally NY Times Games acknowledges Only Connect

October 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

Or with Sarah Winchester

nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · Oct 25

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

October 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

God botherers stick together, I suppose.

October 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

Biglang:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQSB...

Rivermaya - Ulan

YouTube video by RivermayaVEVO

www.youtube.com

October 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM

bim

@bimfm.bsky.social

Reposting this for Kermode's rec of (and apparently this movie's shoutout to) The Ninth Configuration. The wonderful third film in Blatty's great trilogy (The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, and The Ninth Configuration), also famous for its movie poster. Love.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXdh...