Peter Webber

Nice piece about Inna De Yard in The Observer this weekend. theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/…

@VladDavidzon @simonmontefiore Impressive workload - that’s what happens when you spend more time working and less time grinding, Mr Davidzon.

My ma @simonmontefiore just keeps grinding out works historical books year after year

@frankcottrell_b @DrJaninaRamirez

@DrJaninaRamirez Comparison with Nero is v flattering. Surely Ubu is closer to the mark.

Trump is Nero. And all will burn.

Girl with a pearl earring down there in the left hand corner

A family is facing an overwhelming challenge as their loved one is detained and needs urgent legal help. gofund.me/a86f0003e

Hope For Film tedhope.substack.com/?r=3razl

@BohemiaStable Yes

@PeterWebber bet on the *duration* of the conclave?

length of the six post-WW2 conclaves 2013: two days (5th ballot) white smoke at 7.06pm 2005: two days (4th ballot) 5.50pm 10/1978: three days (8th ballot) 6.19pm 8/1978: two days (4th ballot) 6.24pm 1963: three days (6th ballot) 11.22am 1958: four days (11th ballot) 5.08pm

@BohemiaStable Can you bet on this ?

my hunch for 2025: three days, five or six ballots, white smoke on Friday morning.

@pamelagreyson Do you have a photo of when it was at the Tropicana Motel ?

@irgarner @yarotrof Or Nihilism perhaps

@yarotrof I really think is badly off. The MAGA far right are a far more destructive, nihilistic crowd. Theirs is a language and symbolism - and a behaviour - of anarchism.

Good insights into the thinking of people who rule America today.

@Erickschultz11 @mysteriouskat Maybe both are delusional ? After all these beliefs are cultural constructs and therefore not “real” in any tangible, verifiable sense much like religion which is predicated on belief rather than tangible evidence. Shadows on the cave wall.

True, This is not uncommon IMO. they see us as irrational and cult followers, And we see them as irrational and cult followers. It's like a religion, where they believe what they believe and we believe what we believe. So, which of us is right? By what metric can we used to define that?

If you're going to vandalize a vehicle, maybe pick one that doesn't have 8 cameras installed. Better yet, use your words to protest things you don't like instead of destroying private (& public) property, endangering people & hurting others whose circumstances you don't know.

@Erickschultz11 @mysteriouskat The political polarisation is so profound that in some respects the two sides are mirror images of each other rendering debate and compromise near impossible. One wonders how it will end. Not well, I suspect.

@Erickschultz11 @mysteriouskat Fair enough. As long as there is due process. As a foreign observer it strikes me that people on the other side of the political divide make the same observations about MAGA re rationality and mass psychosis.

@Erickschultz11 @mysteriouskat “Just put them in jail” because you disagree with their politics ?

We are not really dealing with people who think rationally. They truly think Elon and Trump are Hitler and Fascist and Evil. It's hard to really speak to such persons rationally. The media and other politicians have made this point clearly. Basically they are "inciting" these actions by their political free speech words. This is classic mass psychosis—what Joost Meerloo called “menticide”—the killing of the mind through coercive persuasion and psychological warfare. It doesn’t mean these people are beyond reach, but rational appeals alone won’t work. You have to deprogram, not debate. Or just put them in jail.

🎥 'Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution' (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965).

@smokingsexxtion Oh and Copper Kettoe too - “we ain’t paid no whiskey tax since 1792” Not a Dylan original though. Written by Albert F Beddo

@smokingsexxtion Crash on the Levee, accompanied by Happy Traum. And the live version of Tomorrow is a Long Time.

discussion time! what are your favorite bob dylan deep cuts?

@arthistorynews Is like to hear your thoughts on Las Meninas one day

Holbein’s epic The Ambassadors is seen as one of the most mysterious paintings in Western art. But understand the circumstances in which it was made, in 1533, and the meaning becomes clearer. Let me try a thesis on you. Long 🧵 1/

I’ve been reporting from the ground for 10 years, and I’ve never seen anything even close to what I witnessed today and yesterday. This feels like a turning point in #GeorgiaProtests. I have never seen the Georgian people so unyielding. Just last week, I wrote that the smaller crowds in the streets compared to spring meant nothing — except that the anger hadn’t gone anywhere. Instead, it was simmering, growing stronger, waiting for the regime’s next mistake to erupt with even greater force. Today’s riot was dispersed so many times, in such brutal ways, that I’ve lost count. So many people were bloodied. So many were detained. Yet even now, Rustaveli Avenue is filled with people — beaten, bruised, exhausted, disappointed, and fiercely angry — but still holding EU flags with pride. Because we believe, that Europe is our home, and we will not surrender it at any cost. Help us. Don’t let us lose this country to the Russians. No one has fought harder for it than we have.