Jim Smithers

Blue Skies // Golden Sunshine

(Assistant) Editor

He/Him

[Jim Smithers @jasontoddlives]

@ianeditz 100 minutes

[Jim Smithers @jasontoddlives]

Cannot stress enough how much you should see this movie

[Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag]

“The film’s time-travel plot is densely complicated and completely absurd in the correct portions, taking palpable joy in the idea that this story – this story – could be produced at this scale”

@WillSloanEsq reviews Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie https://t.co/ezs4WlnR8Y

[Variety @Variety]

Weird Al Yankovic pulled out of a commercial on which he was making a "nice pile of money" after discovering it was for AI.

“I’m not going to mention any names, but they told me it was for a business. It was business software that would increase productivity. I said, ‘Oh well, yeah, sure, I could do that.’ And then a week before we’re supposed to shoot it, I find out this is AI. And I thought, ‘Oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI, forget it.’ So I felt bad about kind of pulling out at the last minute. But yeah, I’m not down with that.”

https://t.co/lSfSBMYbb2

[Jim Smithers @jasontoddlives]

@ghibliotheque @GKIDSfilms Exciting news, thanks!

[🇫🇷🍁 @cIairefontaine]

reminder that japan’s goalscorer kaishu sano was arrested for gang rape in 2024

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

‘You make time to report on the sport everyday. Why aren’t you telling people how bad it is going to get?’

Phoebe Plummer of Just Stop Oil who went to prison for throwing soup over the case of a painting in an effort to focus public attention on climate change, 4 years ago on Newsnight. #heatwave

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Imagine supporting this. Imagine funding this. Imagine calling criticism of this ‘antisemitic’.

Sociopaths.

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

READ THIS - Gaza Genocide

In one example investigated by the Commission, between 20 and 21 December 2023, in Sheikh Radwan, Israeli soldiers threw four hand grenades inside a house with 30 family members without any warning, severely injuring a five-year-old boy who suffered from multiple injuries including abdominal evisceration.

The Israeli security forces then forcibly entered the house, shot and killed eight family members, including the parents, and ordered the survivors to evacuate to a nearby school.

The Israeli security forces did not provide any medical assistance to the injured or assist with their evacuation. The boy was carried from the house to the school with severe injuries. He lost consciousness at the school, while he was treated by a doctor who reinserted his exposed intestines by using diapers and taped his stomach. He was taken to the Al-Shifa Hospital where he underwent surgery alone.

Later, the boy was medically evacuated out of Gaza and underwent eight surgeries, while three more were still needed, as of December 2025. The boy has been left with a permanent disability in one of his legs and has to use a wheelchair.

The boy and his surviving six-year-old brother suffer from severe mental harm and behavioural change as a result of this incident, in particular since they witnessed the brutal shooting of their parents by the Israeli security forces, including their pregnant mother shot in the abdomen and breasts and father in the head (see para. 244 in the Section (V). Mental harm against Palestinian children by Israel).

The Commission finds that Israeli soldiers of the 162nd Division, specifically the 401st Brigade and Shayetet 13, were operating in the area at the time of this incident.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children https://t.co/GFVOhORkzk

[Jim Smithers @jasontoddlives]

Nathan Ngoy watching Uruguay V Cape Verde

[Light House Cinema @LightHouseD7]

"As far as I'm concerned, Nirvanna the band is playing the Rivoli tonight."

NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE previews at Light House on July 1 for #CanadaDay

🇨🇦 https://t.co/2slnAxcnAm

[Maximilian Uriarte @TLCplMax]

Me on the plane watching the movie the guy in front of me is watching with no sound:

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

People die of preventable illnesses because they can’t afford healthcare

[Criminalsimpsons @Criminalsimpson]

OPEN WIDE FOR SOME SOCCER!!!!⚽️

[Jim Smithers @jasontoddlives]

Unfathomably bad idea, you love to see it

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Keir Starmer has announced that AI tutors will be rolled out to 450,000 children on free school meals to close the attainment gap.

Speaking at London Tech Week, the PM also announced the government's new AI jobseeking tool.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

It just gets worse https://t.co/VioT2wRZCy babies, medics, journalists, scientists, children, surgeons, technicians.

[Anthony Avon .Art @AnthonyAvonArt]

So stop it maybe? Who are you warning? I can't do anything, YOU are the UN.