Stephen Al Gaib 🏳️🌈🏴
@stephenalgaib.bsky.social
Inexplicably sporty gayboy • A bit of film, books, wrestling and other interests • Also found at @stephencampbll.bsky.social for politics and policy
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So Omniplex bought the building Cineworld was renting to turf Cineworld out and take it over themselves. Absolutely mad corporate shenanigans www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Glasgow Cineworld site to be turned into Omniplex cinema
The Cineworld on Glasgow's Renfrew Street shut after new owners Clydebankbridge Ltd bought the site.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
So Omniplex bought the building Cineworld was renting to turf Cineworld out and take it over themselves. Absolutely mad corporate shenanigans www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It wasn't saved from closure, it closed because the current landlord – Omniplex Cinemas – kicked out Cineworld because they obviously always wanted to put their own cinema in there.
An iconic cinema in Glasgow, which is the tallest in the world, has been saved from closure after a buyer was announced
World's tallest cinema in Scottish city to reopen as takeover announced
www.thenational.scot
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It wasn't saved from closure, it closed because the current landlord – Omniplex Cinemas – kicked out Cineworld because they obviously always wanted to put their own cinema in there.
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PTA you're a freak for this one www.indiewire.com/features/com...
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
PTA you're a freak for this one www.indiewire.com/features/com...
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Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope
September 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is a psychedelic rock formation that messes with my mind.
Psychedelic rock! Formations that mess with your mind – in pictures
Psychedelic rock! Formations that mess with your mind – in pictures
In Glass Mountain, Michael Lundgren captures remote American landscapes with a haunting stillness, revealing the hidden rhythms and enthralling mystery of the natural world
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is a psychedelic rock formation that messes with my mind.
Uist you've got to stop. Your sun too warm. Your seas too good. Your beaches too tropical. They'll kill you
August 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Uist you've got to stop. Your sun too warm. Your seas too good. Your beaches too tropical. They'll kill you
Driving through Glencoe and caught myself thinking: say what you want about Saville, he did build his home in the most beautiful place in all of Scotland
August 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Driving through Glencoe and caught myself thinking: say what you want about Saville, he did build his home in the most beautiful place in all of Scotland
Finally wrote the Little Women review that's been living in my head since Christmas.
★★★★★, obviously. boxd.it/9oSaD9
★★★★★, obviously. boxd.it/9oSaD9
A ★★★★★ review of Little Women (2019)
Where do I start with this? This is one of the kindest stories stories in fiction, and every actor does it justice. Laura Dern brings her calm, steely dignity to Marmee. Meryl Streep is hilarious as t...
boxd.it
June 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Finally wrote the Little Women review that's been living in my head since Christmas.
★★★★★, obviously. boxd.it/9oSaD9
★★★★★, obviously. boxd.it/9oSaD9
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the moral of dune is that you should get off the computer and go do drugs
so is Dune a pro-computers text or is the implication that things would've ended up even worse with computers
March 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
the moral of dune is that you should get off the computer and go do drugs
A painting that makes you feel something.
Christ of St. John of the Cross, 1951 by Salvador Dali
Christ of St. John of the Cross, 1951 by Salvador Dali
February 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A painting that makes you feel something.
Christ of St. John of the Cross, 1951 by Salvador Dali
Christ of St. John of the Cross, 1951 by Salvador Dali
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Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
February 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
This is an all timer
January 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is an all timer
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The discourse around “shots of the decade” keeps bringing to mind for me this moment in THE ZONE OF INTEREST that distills the sterile detachment and carefully compartmentalized horror of Glazer’s film to a solitary, soul-chilling frame. All that is unseen but still sensed, as if beginning to haunt.
December 2, 2024 at 5:14 AM
The discourse around “shots of the decade” keeps bringing to mind for me this moment in THE ZONE OF INTEREST that distills the sterile detachment and carefully compartmentalized horror of Glazer’s film to a solitary, soul-chilling frame. All that is unseen but still sensed, as if beginning to haunt.
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Rewatching Band of Brothers and it really is an astonishingly good series despite being based on a very bad historian. Also interesting that they haven’t been able to make anything quite as good since with the same team.
November 30, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Rewatching Band of Brothers and it really is an astonishingly good series despite being based on a very bad historian. Also interesting that they haven’t been able to make anything quite as good since with the same team.
I've been going back to this part of their match all week. The sound Fletcher's skull makes when Ospreay hits the Hidden Blade 😬
Cackling at Schiavone's 'Nothing hidden about that blade!" call too 😆
Cackling at Schiavone's 'Nothing hidden about that blade!" call too 😆
November 30, 2024 at 1:56 AM
I've been going back to this part of their match all week. The sound Fletcher's skull makes when Ospreay hits the Hidden Blade 😬
Cackling at Schiavone's 'Nothing hidden about that blade!" call too 😆
Cackling at Schiavone's 'Nothing hidden about that blade!" call too 😆
This summer I saw King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard twice in two days (London and Edinburgh) Next summer I'm seeing them play 3 nights at the Ancient Theater in Plovdiv. Can't wait to hear Billabong Valley with Bulgarian bagpipes 🇧🇬
November 30, 2024 at 1:31 AM
This summer I saw King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard twice in two days (London and Edinburgh) Next summer I'm seeing them play 3 nights at the Ancient Theater in Plovdiv. Can't wait to hear Billabong Valley with Bulgarian bagpipes 🇧🇬
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ZODIAC, rereleased on 4K, is still David Fincher’s masterpiece, as much a study in the all-consuming nature of obsession as an oppressive deluge of detail; all its forensic evidence accrues and overwhelms, casting the world in shadow without bringing truth to light. www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
November 29, 2024 at 10:56 PM
ZODIAC, rereleased on 4K, is still David Fincher’s masterpiece, as much a study in the all-consuming nature of obsession as an oppressive deluge of detail; all its forensic evidence accrues and overwhelms, casting the world in shadow without bringing truth to light. www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
Ridley spent the press tour bragging that he shot Gladiator II in only 51 days. You can tell. It does look lazy and rushed.
But I thought Napoleon looked great and that was just last year.
But I thought Napoleon looked great and that was just last year.
#Gladiator2 cinematographer says Ridley Scott has become 'lazy' with his filmmaking
• Uses multiple cameras to shoot as much as he can at once
• Leaves equipment in the background and edits it out later
• Doesn't block shots when rehearsing
• First Gladiator had 50 VFX shots — this had thousands
• Uses multiple cameras to shoot as much as he can at once
• Leaves equipment in the background and edits it out later
• Doesn't block shots when rehearsing
• First Gladiator had 50 VFX shots — this had thousands
November 29, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Ridley spent the press tour bragging that he shot Gladiator II in only 51 days. You can tell. It does look lazy and rushed.
But I thought Napoleon looked great and that was just last year.
But I thought Napoleon looked great and that was just last year.
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I must say this as clearly as possible: if you have, in the last ten years, thought "I just don't get tech" or that you're "getting old" or "you're not technical," you are the victim - so much of the tech industry is now oriented around making you do stuff rather than doing stuff for you.
I was seriously relieved when I started listening to your podcast and realized my increasing levels of frustration with modern tech are not because I'm getting older (I'm only 40 for gods's sake!) but because everything is actively getting worse. 🫠
November 29, 2024 at 7:34 PM
I must say this as clearly as possible: if you have, in the last ten years, thought "I just don't get tech" or that you're "getting old" or "you're not technical," you are the victim - so much of the tech industry is now oriented around making you do stuff rather than doing stuff for you.
Still upset thinking about the pallid twinks from Gladiator II
November 25, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Still upset thinking about the pallid twinks from Gladiator II