Damian Counsell

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Damian Counsell

@DamCou

Binfluencer. I build Websites, do bioinformatics, and sing soul. [Portrait photo by @PhotoJoanne . Header image by @ANNVYSHINSKY .]

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Damian Counsell
Damian Counsell@DamCou·
My latest Substack post was originally going to be called "Real Space Communism Has Finally Been Tried". It's about the fascinating politics of Vince Gilligan's Pluribus and the way that popular fiction that resonates with people inevitably escapes the intentions of its creators.
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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
That clarification went down well with my fans across The Pond, I think.
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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
For Americans getting angry in the replies, when I wrote this nothing tweet, before it inexplicably took off, I was talking about UK critics, who tended to despise both music and TV that were popular in the US at the time. As a child, I was not reading the *Detroit Free Press*.
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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
If you were alive at the time, you might remember that the then-fashionable critical consensus was that both *Miami Vice* and Phil Collins were the essence of empty, soulless, consumerist corporate pop-culture product. As ever, The Cool Kids Were Wrong.
Pamela Hensley🇺🇸@PamelaHensley22

This scene in Miami Vice where "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins plays stands as one of TV's all time greatest cinematic sequences. It effortlessly establishes the mood and highlights just how far today's television industry has fallen. This authentic soul is gone.

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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
@LouADunn @ThePeoplesCube This is true. But, when I tossed off that tweet, I had no idea it was going to go viral beyond my small UK following. I will add a reply.
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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
@jamessmith30352 This I'm happy to concede. UK TV critics changed their tune as time went on. But this has been the case with all sorts of 70s and 80s blockbusters. Eventually, The Cool Kids yield.
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james smith@jamessmith30352·
@DamCou the show got better reviews as it went on too.
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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
@LouADunn @ThePeoplesCube *Rolling Stone* is a US publication. It was widely mocked by the UK music press for being in the pockets of Big Media. Half the shows and bands from that era who were mocked by critics this side of the Atlantic were front-page heroes of the magazine.
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@jamessmith30352 The consensus that it was "corporate" entertainment emerged precisely because, by Season 2, the show had become popular. No one was watching it at the start of Season 1!
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james smith@jamessmith30352·
@DamCou LOL 7 reviews that they logged for season 2. Season 1 has 40 reviews from the era and it's 85% there is a reason you cherry picked that season and if they aggrgrated all the reviews of the era which would be 30 or 40ish reviews it would be in the upper 70s
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james smith@jamessmith30352·
@DamCou everything you stated is false. if only there was some machine with the sum total of human written word we could easily look up the reviews for the show where they are mostly postive and it is aggregated to a % score if you are too lazy to read each review! if only!
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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
@joanithejourno @chairman_00 Voters and consumers could choose whatever they wanted—and they did. The media arbiters of taste hated them for it. Are you telling me that Reagan wasn't widely caricatured as a brainless cowboy?
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joanithejourno@joanithejourno·
@chairman_00 @DamCou I don’t think they did. The west wasn’t leftwing back then, Thatcher and Reagan ruled the roost and Owen Jones was still sucking his thumb. We were allowed to enjoy pop culture without being pompous snobs. And still we had great foreign cinema, theatre, books.
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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
@jamessmith30352 So what? And Phil Collins used to hoover up Grammys and Brit Awards. The critics still despised and mocked him, and the awards were just confirmation for them that he was working for The Man.
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james smith@jamessmith30352·
@DamCou nominated for over 20 emmys and several golden globes..... i love this era of twitter talking heads just saying nonsense with conviction and everyone just believes it.
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Ike Ijeh@ikeijeh·
Sadiq Khan is more than happy to refer to Islam incessantly when it comes to Ramadan lights, Donald Trump or Trafalgar Square iftars. But he is strangely reticent about referring to the role it played in the tragic deaths below. I guess deception is our strength too.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@MayorofLondon

On the anniversary of the Westminster attack, we remember Leslie Rhodes, Andreea Cristea, Aysha Frade, Kurt Cochran, and PC Keith Palmer. My thoughts are with their loved ones. It was an attack on our city, but it could never break the values we hold dear.

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Jonathan Eric Lewis@LewisJonathanE·
Forty years ago, punk rock bands like the Sex Pistols ("Holidays in the Sun") and The Dead Kennedys ("Holiday in Cambodia") mocked privileged, brain dead leftists who fawned over communist dictatorships Now we have the putrid Kneecap doing exactly that in Cuba — enjoying a cheap holiday in other people's misery They're not rebels — they're the most conformist lot ever
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Kyle Orton
Kyle Orton@KyleWOrton·
The Genocide Convention contains a very specific definition of "genocide". What the Convention does not contain is a provision for overriding that definition by a vote of activists, whether they work at the United Nations, "human rights" groups, universities, or anywhere else.
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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
The BBC's framing of this story is special. "Public-Sector Entity Disappointed At Being Taken To Court By Person Paying It To Provide Statutory Service For Its Failing To Do So, Happy Try To Avoid Paying Labourers By Paying Barrister" #bins share.google/wNWLUaQv6JCD8o…
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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
Mentioning no names, this has been a glorious weekend for people from the Bluesky bubble saying things to camera/on live mic that they thought made perfect sense and having the world outside boggle in horror. The next General Election is going to be an extinction event.
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Damian Counsell@DamCou·
@catrinavfc Every week now, it's like watching an opposition striker on the end of a long ball break free and barrel towards Emi, one-on-one, thinking there's no way the ball isn't going in. And the mad bastard saves it again.
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catrin@catrinavfc·
does anyone want top 5 may i ask
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simon evans
simon evans@TheSimonEvans·
Read this post, and the one it’s sitting on top of, and tell me which one smacks more of “frothing hatred”, or evokes the mental instability of the “lunatic”? For decades we had rough consensus on abortion, and had avoided the poison of it as a front in the culture war that has so disfigured America. But as with every other one of their peculiar institutions, we seem determined to import it here.
Ella Whelan@Ella_M_Whelan

This kind of frothing hatred for women's freedom is just so out of touch with public opinion on abortion. MPs with even the tiniest liberal bone in their body need to have some courage and come out and defend our bodily autonomy, because at the moment Westminster is sounding like a house full of loons.

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