Songwarmonger
@songwarmonger.bsky.social
Loves movies, books, art, comics, and telly #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
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I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
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A little over 10 years ago, The Dissolve shuttered and we started a niche movie podcast that only we had the power to shut down. This week, we celebrate the 500th episode of The Next Picture Show with a special episode on the film that inspired the title: megaphone.link/FILM9131237121
#500: What's In a Name — The Last Picture Show by The Next Picture Show
A decade of podcasting.
megaphone.link
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A little over 10 years ago, The Dissolve shuttered and we started a niche movie podcast that only we had the power to shut down. This week, we celebrate the 500th episode of The Next Picture Show with a special episode on the film that inspired the title: megaphone.link/FILM9131237121
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Because we allow it. That's why they still act and sound like this.
i cannot believe people say shit like this in public and are like. yup. this is acceptable this makes me sound normal and good and morally correct
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Because we allow it. That's why they still act and sound like this.
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For the last few months I have been working with a bunch of friends on a mutual aid project, with the goal of helping people in our community help each other out where we can, giving out grants to community members of up to £150.
www.cupburger.org
www.cupburger.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
For the last few months I have been working with a bunch of friends on a mutual aid project, with the goal of helping people in our community help each other out where we can, giving out grants to community members of up to £150.
www.cupburger.org
www.cupburger.org
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Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
It was wild seeing the trailer before Nuremberg the other day, in a screen full of OAPs.
I think it looks great!
I think it looks great!
EXCLUSIVE 🚲
BDSM romance Pillion is “a funny and touching and weird love story”, says Alexander Skarsgård.
“[The sex scenes] are dramatically quite interesting,” he tells Empire. “There’s lust, but also jealousy and confusion and pain.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
BDSM romance Pillion is “a funny and touching and weird love story”, says Alexander Skarsgård.
“[The sex scenes] are dramatically quite interesting,” he tells Empire. “There’s lust, but also jealousy and confusion and pain.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It was wild seeing the trailer before Nuremberg the other day, in a screen full of OAPs.
I think it looks great!
I think it looks great!
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The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds.
Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!
And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!
And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds.
Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!
And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!
And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
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Yup. THIS 👇👇👇
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Yup. THIS 👇👇👇
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Every time this Fucking Moron Speaks......
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Every time this Fucking Moron Speaks......
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These people believe in nothing - except power for its own sake.
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
These people believe in nothing - except power for its own sake.
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"This is now a Diet Nazi Ball sponsored by assholes...if you go to the Met Gala next year you're a fucking loser."
Spot on. RIP Met Gala.
Spot on. RIP Met Gala.
Y’all we gotta find something else to do on the first Monday in May because we won’t be watching the Met Gala.
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"This is now a Diet Nazi Ball sponsored by assholes...if you go to the Met Gala next year you're a fucking loser."
Spot on. RIP Met Gala.
Spot on. RIP Met Gala.
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Genocidal Israel further advances illegal and discriminatory bill to execute only Palestinian and other Arab prisoners.
Intensify BDS campaigns now, in particular against HP, Microsoft and Cisco, to hold complicit companies accountable for helping Israel’s carceral system.
loom.ly/rj5iKvA
Intensify BDS campaigns now, in particular against HP, Microsoft and Cisco, to hold complicit companies accountable for helping Israel’s carceral system.
loom.ly/rj5iKvA
Genocidal Israel further advances illegal, discriminatory bill to execute only Palestinian and other Arab prisoners.
Intensify BDS campaigns now, in particular against HP, Microsoft and Cisco to hold companies accountable for helping Israel’s carceral system.
loom.ly
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Genocidal Israel further advances illegal and discriminatory bill to execute only Palestinian and other Arab prisoners.
Intensify BDS campaigns now, in particular against HP, Microsoft and Cisco, to hold complicit companies accountable for helping Israel’s carceral system.
loom.ly/rj5iKvA
Intensify BDS campaigns now, in particular against HP, Microsoft and Cisco, to hold complicit companies accountable for helping Israel’s carceral system.
loom.ly/rj5iKvA
So, the maniacs in power know they're killing the world and are going to continue killing the world whilst preventing human beings from migrating to the last safe spaces.
Psycopaths.
Psycopaths.
November 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
So, the maniacs in power know they're killing the world and are going to continue killing the world whilst preventing human beings from migrating to the last safe spaces.
Psycopaths.
Psycopaths.
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This is happening like clockwork and exactly as the activists predicted.
Does this answer a few of those niggling questions that have been cropping up in your head too …?
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
How the rich world is fortifying itself against climate migration
Climate change is already linked to mass deportation – and the worst is still to come.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This is happening like clockwork and exactly as the activists predicted.
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“It’s like the guy who wandered into the party uninvited, sharted in the middle and now wants to be applauded for it.”
GDT on the use of AI in the arts
GDT on the use of AI in the arts
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
“It’s like the guy who wandered into the party uninvited, sharted in the middle and now wants to be applauded for it.”
GDT on the use of AI in the arts
GDT on the use of AI in the arts
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Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
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Ear defenders are inexpensive and dont inconvenience anyone. The only reason to go after people using them like this is if you are in principle against inclusion and desegregation. Reform is a fascist party and disabled people are one of fheir key targets.
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
Reform UK’s Richard Tice says children wearing ear defenders in school is ‘insane’
Tice was outlining Reform’s Doge (Department of government efficiency) unit’s progress
www.independent.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Ear defenders are inexpensive and dont inconvenience anyone. The only reason to go after people using them like this is if you are in principle against inclusion and desegregation. Reform is a fascist party and disabled people are one of fheir key targets.
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Pretty amazing to see two releases from the BFI that I provided essays for won awards the other day
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Pretty amazing to see two releases from the BFI that I provided essays for won awards the other day
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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jesus
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
jesus
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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If I can sell 100 tickets, you'll have a fucking BRILLIANT time listening to me talk about finding lost ghost stories and reading one and I'll be able to have a comfortable Xmas and make sure that most of January's bills are taken care of.
We'll be marking the release of this brand-new anthology of lost ghost stories, collated by acclaimed editor Johnny Mains, on the 18th December - just the thing to add some fear to your festivities... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illusions-... #ghoststory #ghoststories #anthology #fiction
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If I can sell 100 tickets, you'll have a fucking BRILLIANT time listening to me talk about finding lost ghost stories and reading one and I'll be able to have a comfortable Xmas and make sure that most of January's bills are taken care of.
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Twitter disabled Hebrew machine translation because they didn't want people to easily see how horribly genocidal israeli posts are.
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Twitter disabled Hebrew machine translation because they didn't want people to easily see how horribly genocidal israeli posts are.