New at my Patreon... Over the decades, I've visited a lot of cinemas - from dilapidated old venues to grand historic movie houses. Here are the highlights:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cinema-and-121073615
[#]cinema #movie #movies #film #travel
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What I find most wearing about politics nowadays are the endless Bad Faith Arguments. So much stuff is people making up specious nonsense to achieve something political, and it's just so exhausting having to waste time even considering that bullsh*t.
If your argument is so strong, why not engage others in good faith for a change? Would be refreshing.
[#]politics
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Amazing how "impressions of safety" are now being weaponised to shut down criticism of the Israeli government's actions in Gaza.
The argument goes like this... if you criticise the Israeli government you make me feel unsafe, therefore your freedom of speech must be overridden and you must be sacked from your job.
Of course, it doesn't apply to anyone hearing other countries' governments being criticised. Imagine if we were told to stop criticising the US president because it upsets his followers...
[#]gaza #israel #palestine
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Jeez you just get days on Mastodon when everyone is being patronising and spouting whataboutery. But Twitter had days like that too, from memory.
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Hmm exactly whose treasures are to be found in the British Museum etc?
[#]UK #museum #museums https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/02/emmanuel-macrons-got-a-point-why-shouldnt-we-charge-tourists-to-see-our-treasures
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If you'd like to comment on the City of Melbourne's plans for Royal Park, you can complete the survey at this link. For context - there have been concerns expressed by members of the public that the council intends to chip away more of the natural space to create sporting grounds etc.
[#]Melbourne https://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/royal-park-master-plan-review
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Yarraville is the featured suburb this time round. I like it there, have visited on and off since the '90s. Cute narrow streets and old buildings. Highly gentrified now, of course.
"This transformation has been so thorough that I’ve recently heard people from the other side of the bridge refer to Yarraville as the Elwood of the west. Why Elwood of all places? Yarraville has no stinky canal for a start, although it does have a stench. More on that later.
"The habit of attaching puzzling names to my suburb goes back to the 1850s. As Melbourne was being subdivided for settlement, it was thought that putting Yarra in its name, of all the places the river passes, might make it more attractive to settlers. I guess it worked. The Maribyrnong, which also skirts my suburb, was then known as The Salt Water River and Yarraville sounds more appealing than Saltwarterriverville, especially as that river was, by that stage, already home to the kind of noxious industry that would characterise the region for the next century or more."
[#]Melbourne #Yarraville #Gentrification https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/my-suburb-is-known-as-the-elwood-of-the-west-but-it-s-actually-better-apart-from-the-stench-20250130-p5l8d1.html
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Just practising for my visit to Transylvania, coming up in June. I shall stand in the main square upon arrival in Braşov and speak these immortal words.
(I'm sure no tourist has ever done that before)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdJwO3ywT9k
[#]Romania #Transylvania #Dracula
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"Human-replacing". What, and we're supposed to just sit back and let it get on with that? In recompense I'd like a guaranteed UBI I can live on, for a start.
DeepSeek's emergence signals the beginning of the human-replacing phase of AI https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-03/deepseek-accelerates-ai-robot-jobs-takeover/104886722
[#]AI
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Now free for all to read... I saw this dynamic 1970s anti-car poster on a wall at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, USA. Dramatic - but did it succeed?
https://www.patreon.com/posts/118386295
[#]Seattle #USA #poster #cars #TheWarOnCars cc @TheWarOnCars
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