Alasdair MacRae
@alasdairmacrae.bsky.social
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🚨 The @scottishgreens.org have delivered a £2 bus fare cap for the Highlands and Islands!
Starting early next year, single fares will be capped at £2 for a year across Shetland, Orkney, Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray and most of Argyll & Bute!
Take the bus, save the planet 💪🌍
Starting early next year, single fares will be capped at £2 for a year across Shetland, Orkney, Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray and most of Argyll & Bute!
Take the bus, save the planet 💪🌍
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🚨 The @scottishgreens.org have delivered a £2 bus fare cap for the Highlands and Islands!
Starting early next year, single fares will be capped at £2 for a year across Shetland, Orkney, Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray and most of Argyll & Bute!
Take the bus, save the planet 💪🌍
Starting early next year, single fares will be capped at £2 for a year across Shetland, Orkney, Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray and most of Argyll & Bute!
Take the bus, save the planet 💪🌍
Saw The Shining on the biggest screen in Notts yesterday. The soundtrack/soundscape truly oppressive. And feeling the motion of all those tracking shots/dollies/zooms. Are we stalking/looming/lurking or are we being led? How powerful it remains despite the level of saturation in pop-culture.
a room with a lot of blood and a sign that says ' elevator ' on it
Alt: an elevator opens and blood flows out - From The Shining - Stanley Kubrick
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Saw The Shining on the biggest screen in Notts yesterday. The soundtrack/soundscape truly oppressive. And feeling the motion of all those tracking shots/dollies/zooms. Are we stalking/looming/lurking or are we being led? How powerful it remains despite the level of saturation in pop-culture.
Cinemas are overflowing with great films at the moment, just this week saw Pillion, Wake Up Dead Man, & It Was Just an Accident, plus a first big-screen viewing of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. (Also a shout out to an at-home watch of Alice Diop's Fragments for Venus)
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Cinemas are overflowing with great films at the moment, just this week saw Pillion, Wake Up Dead Man, & It Was Just an Accident, plus a first big-screen viewing of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. (Also a shout out to an at-home watch of Alice Diop's Fragments for Venus)
Incredibly satisfying reading great books back-to-back.
Particularly rewarding following Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium with Han Kang's The Vegetarian - interesting to explore the confluence and contrast in themes and narrative perspectives.
Now engrossed in @suchmayer.bsky.social's Bad Language!
Particularly rewarding following Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium with Han Kang's The Vegetarian - interesting to explore the confluence and contrast in themes and narrative perspectives.
Now engrossed in @suchmayer.bsky.social's Bad Language!
December 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Incredibly satisfying reading great books back-to-back.
Particularly rewarding following Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium with Han Kang's The Vegetarian - interesting to explore the confluence and contrast in themes and narrative perspectives.
Now engrossed in @suchmayer.bsky.social's Bad Language!
Particularly rewarding following Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium with Han Kang's The Vegetarian - interesting to explore the confluence and contrast in themes and narrative perspectives.
Now engrossed in @suchmayer.bsky.social's Bad Language!
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“I want a formally perfect film”
Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to S&S when we visited the set of the film in Mantua. He explained why being misunderstood was an intrinsic part of the work
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to S&S when we visited the set of the film in Mantua. He explained why being misunderstood was an intrinsic part of the work
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
“I want a formally perfect film”: Pasolini on Salò
The director of the depraved masterpiece Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to Sight and Sound when we visited the set of the film in Man...
www.bfi.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
“I want a formally perfect film”
Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to S&S when we visited the set of the film in Mantua. He explained why being misunderstood was an intrinsic part of the work
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to S&S when we visited the set of the film in Mantua. He explained why being misunderstood was an intrinsic part of the work
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Did not have this on my bingo card, intrigued to see where Kore-eda takes this...
"Look Back" live-action film is coming in 2026.
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
shonenjumpplus.com/episode/1710...
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
shonenjumpplus.com/episode/1710...
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Did not have this on my bingo card, intrigued to see where Kore-eda takes this...
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This is horrifying - this leaves the door open for mass incarceration, within which would be the ever more disproportionate sanction of people (especially of colour) from working class communities
Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.
www.bbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is horrifying - this leaves the door open for mass incarceration, within which would be the ever more disproportionate sanction of people (especially of colour) from working class communities
Not watched half as many films as I would like to have this year, so filling my days with them now. Sharing a few thoughts on the better ones between now and the end of the year.
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Not watched half as many films as I would like to have this year, so filling my days with them now. Sharing a few thoughts on the better ones between now and the end of the year.
The only reason a mainstream outlet would publish this is to make the case for the moderate, sensible transphobe - "see we aren't as bad as him!".
Shame on them for platforming him. Selling out for clicks and dragging the supposed centre further right.
Shame on them for platforming him. Selling out for clicks and dragging the supposed centre further right.
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The only reason a mainstream outlet would publish this is to make the case for the moderate, sensible transphobe - "see we aren't as bad as him!".
Shame on them for platforming him. Selling out for clicks and dragging the supposed centre further right.
Shame on them for platforming him. Selling out for clicks and dragging the supposed centre further right.
Today's albums:
Geese - Getting Killed
Eiko Ishibashi - Drive My Car OST
Brian Eno, Harold Budd - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
Brian Eno, Laraaji - Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Geese - Getting Killed
Eiko Ishibashi - Drive My Car OST
Brian Eno, Harold Budd - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
Brian Eno, Laraaji - Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
Fela Kuti - Zombie
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Today's albums:
Geese - Getting Killed
Eiko Ishibashi - Drive My Car OST
Brian Eno, Harold Budd - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
Brian Eno, Laraaji - Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Geese - Getting Killed
Eiko Ishibashi - Drive My Car OST
Brian Eno, Harold Budd - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
Brian Eno, Laraaji - Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
Fela Kuti - Zombie
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations |
Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
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The SNP's wrecking amendment to this motion has sadly passed, confirming that the Scottish Government no longer opposes the Rosebank oil field application. A huge step backwards and a sad day for Scotland's reputation on climate action.
Under Nicola Sturgeon & Humza Yousaf the Scottish Government rightly opposed the proposed Rosebank oil field.
John Swinney has sadly dropped that opposition and tried to avoid taking a position at all.
That's not good enough, so tomorrow the @scottishgreens.org will force a vote.
John Swinney has sadly dropped that opposition and tried to avoid taking a position at all.
That's not good enough, so tomorrow the @scottishgreens.org will force a vote.
Greens to force vote at Holyrood on Rosebank oil development
MSPs will have their say in a symbolic vote on the project on Wednesday.
news.stv.tv
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The SNP's wrecking amendment to this motion has sadly passed, confirming that the Scottish Government no longer opposes the Rosebank oil field application. A huge step backwards and a sad day for Scotland's reputation on climate action.
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I love all the positive talk about supporting indie journalists. But you know what's cooler than talk? Action!
This weekend, I'll make it easy for anybody who wants to support weekly original video games reporting.
Until Sunday at midnight, you can get a month of Post Games for $1
This weekend, I'll make it easy for anybody who wants to support weekly original video games reporting.
Until Sunday at midnight, you can get a month of Post Games for $1
Post Games | Patreon
A podcast about why and how we love video games.
www.patreon.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I love all the positive talk about supporting indie journalists. But you know what's cooler than talk? Action!
This weekend, I'll make it easy for anybody who wants to support weekly original video games reporting.
Until Sunday at midnight, you can get a month of Post Games for $1
This weekend, I'll make it easy for anybody who wants to support weekly original video games reporting.
Until Sunday at midnight, you can get a month of Post Games for $1
The World is Family. The latest work from the great Anand Patwardhan, an intimate family portrait and document of their political activism. A universal feeling - wanting to capture those family stories before they are lost. Patwardhan gives us so much, of himself, of his parents. (On Channel 4)
September 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The World is Family. The latest work from the great Anand Patwardhan, an intimate family portrait and document of their political activism. A universal feeling - wanting to capture those family stories before they are lost. Patwardhan gives us so much, of himself, of his parents. (On Channel 4)
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Literally all Farage has to do is hold a press conference to say "by the way I still hate immigrants" and he's guaranteed wall to wall coverage.
I know I sound bitter. That's because I am. Ever tried getting coverage for the climate emergency, for poverty, or for saying immigration's good actually?
I know I sound bitter. That's because I am. Ever tried getting coverage for the climate emergency, for poverty, or for saying immigration's good actually?
August 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Literally all Farage has to do is hold a press conference to say "by the way I still hate immigrants" and he's guaranteed wall to wall coverage.
I know I sound bitter. That's because I am. Ever tried getting coverage for the climate emergency, for poverty, or for saying immigration's good actually?
I know I sound bitter. That's because I am. Ever tried getting coverage for the climate emergency, for poverty, or for saying immigration's good actually?
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just wondering
July 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
just wondering
www.patreon.com/PostGames?ut...
Always on the lookout for works that broaden my horizons, and @plante.bsky.social's Post Games certainly fits that criteria. Insightful criticism and great selection of interviewees. Covered AI, sexy games, console launches from indie store perspective & more.
Always on the lookout for works that broaden my horizons, and @plante.bsky.social's Post Games certainly fits that criteria. Insightful criticism and great selection of interviewees. Covered AI, sexy games, console launches from indie store perspective & more.
Get more from Post Games on Patreon
A podcast about why and how we love video games.
www.patreon.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
www.patreon.com/PostGames?ut...
Always on the lookout for works that broaden my horizons, and @plante.bsky.social's Post Games certainly fits that criteria. Insightful criticism and great selection of interviewees. Covered AI, sexy games, console launches from indie store perspective & more.
Always on the lookout for works that broaden my horizons, and @plante.bsky.social's Post Games certainly fits that criteria. Insightful criticism and great selection of interviewees. Covered AI, sexy games, console launches from indie store perspective & more.
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☁️🚪The day has arrived! We are live with the Kickstarter and so are pre-orders for Om Dar-B-Dar. We are very excited to share with you details of the first release! ☁️🚪
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
OM DAR-B-DAR (1988) - Limited Edition Blu-ray & Extras
THE CLOUD DOOR, a new boutique label, presents one of Indian cinema's most influential cult films on Blu-ray.
www.kickstarter.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
☁️🚪The day has arrived! We are live with the Kickstarter and so are pre-orders for Om Dar-B-Dar. We are very excited to share with you details of the first release! ☁️🚪
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
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I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash
17mins | Super 8 | 2025
World premiere Saturday 5th July at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
17mins | Super 8 | 2025
World premiere Saturday 5th July at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
June 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash
17mins | Super 8 | 2025
World premiere Saturday 5th July at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
17mins | Super 8 | 2025
World premiere Saturday 5th July at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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Found more time to read this month - four recommendations:
Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Sex is a Spectrum by Agustín Fuentes
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social
Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Sex is a Spectrum by Agustín Fuentes
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Found more time to read this month - four recommendations:
Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Sex is a Spectrum by Agustín Fuentes
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social
Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Sex is a Spectrum by Agustín Fuentes
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social
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🦩The #FlamingoLand decision isn’t set in stone yet. Until it is, Scottish Government ministers have the power to change the decision.
That’s why we need as many people as possible to write to Planning Minister Ivan McKee, telling him he needs to act now.
Add your name: greens.scot/LochLomond
That’s why we need as many people as possible to write to Planning Minister Ivan McKee, telling him he needs to act now.
Add your name: greens.scot/LochLomond
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW -
greens.scot
May 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🦩The #FlamingoLand decision isn’t set in stone yet. Until it is, Scottish Government ministers have the power to change the decision.
That’s why we need as many people as possible to write to Planning Minister Ivan McKee, telling him he needs to act now.
Add your name: greens.scot/LochLomond
That’s why we need as many people as possible to write to Planning Minister Ivan McKee, telling him he needs to act now.
Add your name: greens.scot/LochLomond
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This has all happened so many times, it's amazing that centrist governments still think it's worth trying.
Labour are telling voters that Farage is right about immigration, when they should be challenging his lies and his racism head on.
Labour are telling voters that Farage is right about immigration, when they should be challenging his lies and his racism head on.
…There has to be a policy response to address voters anxieties, but in ceding the intellectual ground so absolutely to his opponents and setting himself and the government up for likely failure, the risk for the PM is that he may well empower Farage even further.
May 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This has all happened so many times, it's amazing that centrist governments still think it's worth trying.
Labour are telling voters that Farage is right about immigration, when they should be challenging his lies and his racism head on.
Labour are telling voters that Farage is right about immigration, when they should be challenging his lies and his racism head on.