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Hope Dickson Leach
@hopedickle.bsky.social
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Screenwriter and director based in Edinburgh often found tending to my children and shouting about how hard it all is.
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brunodias.bsky.social
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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railoftomorrow.bsky.social
John Krasinski told this story about being at some party and ripping apart some new “artsy” (his word) movie and PTA took him aside and was like “what are you doing man? We’ve gotta support each other, or we’re just giving them reasons not to make the stuff we want.”
michelle-buchman.com Michelle Buchman @michelle-buchman.com · 5d
Part of the reason I love PTA, he never bad mouths other movies and only lifts up other films and filmmakers. As we all should be. (I mean those of us working in the industry, critics you keep doing your thing. We need cultural criticism, it is so so valuable!)
December 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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tvaziri.com
This is absolutely real. The current HBO Max version of this "Mad Men" episode "remastered for 4K" did not include an updated visual effects shot, which originally painted out the crew and equipment. Not just that, the HBO Max episode titles/order is jumbled for s01.
paulhaine.bsky.social Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 7d
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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nickgibbs.bsky.social
Not sure she had the lead role in her penultimate year primary nativity either, as claimed. Yes she was Mary but that year the narrator had more lines and thus was quite clearly the lead, not Reeves.
December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
MY FIRST INTERNATIONAL BYLINE is out today in @bristol247.bsky.social with @zarananu.bsky.social!

We discuss U.K. equal pay day, how #TheDoubleTax shows up for Black women in the UK, and why caregiving is a an economic crisis OR economic opportunity in waiting. #blacksky #uk
'You cannot fix the pay gap without addressing unpaid work'
Academics Zara Nanu and Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman discuss the gender pay gap
www.bristol247.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
hopedickle.bsky.social
Oooh, I've just heard my first novel has been longlisted for something - now to finish it so they can read the whole thing!
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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harrywallop.co.uk
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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adrianchills.bsky.social
#29: Treat
A screengrab of a headline for a Guardian Adrian Chiles column. The headline reads: 'A genuine treat for £1.60? Try the shortest railway line in Britain' Our hike had brought us to the small village of Throghmudden (pronounced, in that way peculiar to English villages of this type as simply ‘Thrum’), in which we’d spent a rather bland half an hour investigating the small 14th Century church, before, at the edge of the road leading away from the village, I saw the sign. “Want to try it?” I asked Marion, “Something to say we’ve done?” Marion was noncommittal, but I rummaged in my pocket and came up with exactly £3.20 in change which I held out to show her. “That settles it,” I said. Passing through a wooden gate, we found ourselves next to the railway line, the tiny one-carriage train, already waiting for us. The driver’s window was so fogged and scratched that I could glimpse no more than a blurry dark figure within. In that moment a metal coin tray slid out from beneath the window. I deposited the money, and we climbed aboard. We passed first through woodland, the trees seeming to lean down almost to hug the train as it chuntered along, the late afternoon sunlight glimmering through the increasingly dense foliage. And then, when it seemed as though the forest were so dense as to be impassable, we found ourselves almost without realising, in a dark tunnel. We drove on for a minute or so and then stopped. I felt Marion tense beside me. Something was wrong. I could no longer sense the walls of the tunnel around us—rather it was as though we were in some dense cavernous space. When I looked out of the window I saw what looked like a carpet of white shale leading off into the darkness. Before I knew it, Marion was opening the door and stepping out. Too late, I saw that it was not shale beneath us, but broken and shattered bones. My warning died in my throat as Marion was plucked from the train by a gargantuan, blood-streaked hand, which crushed the life out of her as it rose towards an immense and hideous mouth I could only glimpse in the blackness. My turn was next, I knew it. Our short journey was at its end.
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
hopedickle.bsky.social
Hi @creativescots.bsky.social. please can you update your website with the correct information about script development and funds for emerging talent in Scotland? The information is now years out of date.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
hopedickle.bsky.social
YES
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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film-authority.bsky.social
Looking for stories of outageous Scottish footballing success? Asif Kapadia’s superdoc pulls together the inspirational footage required to help soccer King Kenny Dalglish tell his story in his own famously terse and unpretentious words, streaming now in the UK 4/5
film-authority.com/2025/11/19/k...
Kenny Dalglish - film-authority.com
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November 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
The kicker. Oh my god.

(Read to the end. Trust me. You have to read all the way to the end.)

www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
hopedickle.bsky.social
What a NIGHT for Scottish football. Electric. Three extraordinary goals.
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
hopedickle.bsky.social
Going in for number six, this time on 70mm @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social
hopedickle.bsky.social Hope Dickson Leach @hopedickle.bsky.social · Oct 19
I’ve seen One Battle After Another four times now, and I’m just getting started.
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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jamesctaylor.bsky.social
Petition to stop the closure of Film Studies at the University of Leicester - please sign!

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Sign the Petition
Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester
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November 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
hopedickle.bsky.social
Is it cute for a 49 year old woman to wear those pimple stickers? Wondering if they come in more age appropriate designs, maybe Gisela Graham or Toast could design some. Thoughts on this billion dollar menopause business idea.
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
celebrities walking pokémon instead of their dogs: thread
Mark Hamill walking Mr. Mime instead of his dog.
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
hopedickle.bsky.social
Ed Berger seems to be missing off this list.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27d
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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brightwalldarkroom.com
deserve its own post
October 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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rorywaterman.bsky.social
My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.

Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.

www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Remarkable Coincidences - Rory Waterman - PN Review 286
One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.
www.pnreview.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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caasbrey.bsky.social
Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?” Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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mcsweeneys.net
"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."
Stoning Our Neighbors to Death Makes the Corn Grow High, and Elitist Liberals Should Stop Attacking This Traditional Value
Since Biblical times, stoning people to death has been a horrible punishment reserved for the worst criminals. But now, in PC liberal America, the ...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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jim.londoncentric.media
The next screen grab on this thread is perfect.
tariqpanja.bsky.social Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · Oct 28
This really is the pits. This is not a design that — whatever you think of them — Saudi Arabia, the organisers of the 2034 World Cup have anything to do with. Has popped up randomly on social, caught fire and now pushed for attention by the Mail. Pathetic business.
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM