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Stuart Foyle

@philosofoyle

Interdisciplinary philosopher of religion: Open University Religious Studies & Philosophy Teach Religion & Film @ Durham Theology & Religion Dept. 🐿️ = awesome

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Stuart Foyle
Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
A quick shout out via @NATREupdate about this excellent event at Durham which is free for RE teachers from anywhere in the UK: still time to sign up and some places available! Please RT if you know anyone who might be interested.... durham.ac.uk/visit-us/schoo…
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Stuart Foyle
Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@2Philosophical_ "But what about Phineas Gage?" - C20th seminars in analytic departments everywhere.
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J.P.A.@2Philosophical_·
It’s wild that in 20th century philosophy of mind it was suddenly decided that dualism, panpsychism, idealism et al were “weird” and “spooky” — while theories like *functionalism* and *mind-brain identity theory* were normal and respectable.
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Stuart Foyle
Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
This is through click bait & out the other side: I don't want to find out the truth because I prefer to imagine this gopher in a little jumpsuit with 3 mobile phones & a truck full of landscaping equipment, madly fundraising & coordinating NGOs to the Challenge Anneka themetune.
New Scientist@newscientist

How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano #Echobox=1731825545" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/245579…

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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
I'm not sure that "Twitter appears to be a public forum but actually each person's tweets are the private contents of their mind" is going to be a successful defence in court.
Allison Pearson@AllisonPearson

I respect the police who do a v difficult job, but 2 coppers turning up at my house on Remembrance Sunday over a year-old tweet - they won’t tell me what it said - erodes public confidence. This is a free society and law-abiding people should not be pursued for “wrong think”. @EssexPoliceUK @SpeechUnion My column:

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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@arrroberts Robert the Bruce rendered as fractal landscapes by modelling software: Robert the Bryce3D. Robert the Bruce opens a tea shop on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh: Robert Thé Brews.
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@arrroberts But if God delegated all God's powers to him for a short period of time he could be Robert the Bruce Almighty.
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Adam Roberts@arrroberts·
King of Scotland: Robert the Bruce Pilot of a Crashing Airliner: Robert the Brace! Brace!
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@jimmckeown @turingcop Thanks James! And congratulations on both the degree and the acceptance onto a postgrad programme: a great achievement. I'm excited for you to take this next step and hope you have a great time at Exeter.
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@2Philosophical_ Yes, although a good 50% of this kind of thing can be explained by either a misunderstanding of epistemic humility or a conflation of descriptive & normative moral relativism.
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@Luvians We forgive Bill Murray anything when it comes to whisky/whiskey.
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Luvians Bottle Shop
Luvians Bottle Shop@Luvians·
We checked serving Bill Murray off our 'Dunhill Links Bingo Card' today. Lovely man, buying Irish whiskey in Scotland was a controversial choice, but he sang us a song of thanks as he checked out, so we call that a win.
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BFI@BFI·
From Cat People to The Substance. How the depiction of monstrous women on screen has evolved and reflected society’s deeper fears about sexuality and the body. theb.fi/4dsiRwl
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
"Adversetising": when your ad strategy leaves the public with no option but to think your brand is some kind of wannabe dystopian megacorp of the kind that Paul Verhoeven films satirise. Ad exec catchphrase: "Feudalism had 99% brand recognition."
Ian Dunt@IanDunt

There should be a word for advertising that makes you less likely to buy the product. Whenever I'm in Euston, being Big-Brother-oppressed by huge ads while searching for the tiny departures screen, I make a silent commitment to always avoid anything they try to sell me.

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The Guardian@guardian·
The Shawshank Redemption at 30: is it really the greatest film ever made? #Echobox=1727081909" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/…
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@memilies Mel Gibson on his death bed: "Sure, I started out being known as Mad Max, but what am I most proud of? Getting 625,000 US Protestants to accept transubstantiation by the year of Our Lord 2032."
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emily@memilies·
the way protestant evangelicals just DRANK UP the catholic imagery in this movie without even knowing they were doing it, I could write a book
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@joynessthebrave "Edmund was surprised to discover that the Turkish Delight was Irn Bru flavoured. And that it had been deep-fried."
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Joy Marie Clarkson@joynessthebrave·
While you all don your cozy sweaters, read Edgar Alan Poe, and drink pumpkin spice lattes, in Scotland we weep in our wellies because summer is officially a no show and we now stare into eight months of spiteful sideways rain. It's always October here, like an autumnal Narnia.
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@benjcartlidge See also "you know that most films aren't made by filming the scenes of the film in chronological order?" & "have you noticed that film characters never need the toilet unless it's useful to the plot?" & "there are only about ten realistic fights in mainstream film history". :)
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Ben Cartlidge
Ben Cartlidge@benjcartlidge·
I have students who struggle with the concept of fiction in a similar way. "Oh, if it's fiction then it's lies" - well, no??
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Ben Cartlidge@benjcartlidge·
People are dunking on this in a rather silly way. 7 months is a lot of time to learn to pretend to be an opera singer. No one is saying that this is all you need to actually become an opera singer. Why have we become so bad at understanding what actors are?
Variety@Variety

Angelina Jolie "spent almost seven months training" to sing opera as Maria Callas for her new film "Maria" and "was terribly nervous." "When you work with Pablo [Larrain] you can’t do anything by half. He demands, in the most wonderful way, that you really do the work and you really learn and train...My first time singing I remember being so nervous. My sons were there and they helped lock the door so that nobody else was coming in, and I was shaky. Pablo, in his decency, started me in a small room and ended me in La Scala. So he gave me time to grow.” Read more here: variety.com/2024/film/fest…

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Stuart Foyle
Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@memilies A stone-cold classic. Season 2 starts to develop the MM reputation for exceptionally creative and implausible means of murder and contains a lot of people apparently on loan from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Have fun!
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emily@memilies·
@philosofoyle we literally just finished the first season and I have to say the one about the murder in the writers group had us hollering.
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emily@memilies·
yo I SEVERELY misjudged how tonally wild this show would get, the first season has some mad low level aristocrat keeping her brothers withered corpse in a hidden shrine while she makes his meek wife do household duties in her ancestral manse.
emily@memilies

watching midsomer murders and I hope my british mutuals know that americans go crazy for this shit. little villages named badger's fen and vicars with secrets and cottages and whatnot. it's like when you come here for cowboys, god love our misleading cultural exports.

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Stuart Foyle
Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@memilies Well, you've got about 100 episodes to go & I can promise it has solid consistency across the seaons. And a very young Orlando Bloom in one. Would love to know you & your wife's favourites. My wife & I are currently watching the most recent season with great joy.
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emily@memilies·
@philosofoyle my wife and I were yelling the name of every actor who appeared and the corresponding theatre we've seen them in. what a deep bench!
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@memilies One last thing worth knowing: almost every episode has a guest actor from famous British character acting (not often known globally). But here's the kicker: typically they're asked to play it as a Muppet, not as a human. In S1E1 it's Elizabeth Spriggs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth…
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emily@memilies·
@philosofoyle I am coming to realize this and it's incredible
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@memilies Of course the true heir to M,SW is "Castle". But if we imagine what M,SW would be like if it was transported to a "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" version of Britain, you're getting closer. If you don't have time for all of MM, please don't miss The Electric Vendetta. Maximum insanity.
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Stuart Foyle@philosofoyle·
@memilies It's vital to know that MM is basically considered its own genre in British crime drama. It might in one way be thought a response to Murder, She Wrote. Another way to think of it is as Midsomer Muppets where the two detectives are the humans & everyone else is a camp spectacle.
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