Mark Childs

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is ... people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and ... true and false no longer exist.” ― Hannah Arendt

[Mark Childs @markchilds]

@rjhowe Hi Rob. Thanks for the follow but I'm just check in here occasionally. I'm on Bluesky mainly.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is a massive media scandal.

@SkyNews posted a video accurately describing what happened in Amsterdam.

It described violence perpetrated by Israeli football hooligans, and their hideous racism.

They then deleted it. This is the original.

[Center for Human Rights in Iran @ICHRI]

Varisheh Moradi, a Kurdish woman activist, was sentenced to death by Branch 15 of Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court on Sunday, November 10.

Moradi was violently detained on August 1, 2023, pressured into making forced confessions, and held in solitary confinement for nearly five months.

👉 A source familiar with the case told CHRI that presiding Judge Abolqasem Salavati, a notorious hardline judge nicknamed “the Hanging Judge” for handing down death sentences in political cases, did not allow Moradi or her lawyers to present a defense during her trial.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a long, well-documented history of targeting activists from the marginalized Kurdish community, frequently leveling politically motivated accusations based on fabricated charges.

#وریشه_مرادی

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/RV808IfSaA

[Mark Childs @markchilds]

Really sad news https://t.co/iRft44ybPU the end of independent news sources on the internet due to google gaming the search criteria. And giantfreakingrobot was one of the best.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

What Betelgeuse's Supernova Will Look Like in Earth's Sky

[Caroline Renard @carolinerenard_]

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[GODZILLA.OFFICIAL @Godzilla_Toho]

Happy #GodzillaDay #Godzilla70 train ⬇️ NOW!

[Jim DeLorenzo @jhd16]

The Hildebrandt brothers’ “Style B” poster for the 1977 U.K. release of Star Wars. 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved./Courtesy Everett Collection

[Greg Hildebrandt @HildebrandtGreg]

The light has gone out in my life. At 12:36 pm yesterday afternoon the love of my life, my best friend and soulmate passed away. Greg was 85 years young. He was the sweetest man I ever knew. We worked together for 45 years. We lived together for 33 of those years. We had a beautiful life we were blessed. Greg has been fighting for 5 months to regain his ability to breathe after a serious side effect of a heart medication. He fought very hard to win this battle but in the end he was just too weak. He passed away peacefully in my arms. He knew he was safe and he was loved and he will be missed terribly. I cannot imagine my life without him. He was my guy, yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever. You are my heart and it is broken!

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

Poppy vs. Community Notes

🧵 An updated thread.

1. How it all started

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

The Mau Mau concentration camps are one example of how the British contained and physically tortured people in an effort to contain knowledge.
https://t.co/XQVQHunStY

[TrekMovie.com @TrekMovie]

We're so sad to hear that the great Teri Garr has died. She's best known for her radiant performances in Mel Brooks movies and her Oscar nom for Tootsie, but #StarTrek fans always remember her from TOS' "Assignment: Earth." Our deepest condolences to her family and friends.

[TomFranklin @TomFranklin]

Israeli government agency announcing that it is doing ethnic cleansing

[Mark Childs @markchilds]

Also listening to the two back-to-back you can hear how doing something for 28 hours, compared to just 4 can improve how competent you are at it.

[Mark Childs @markchilds]

This week on @thursnight I played my second show on the theme of Rain. Here on mixcloud is the two shows combined. Three hours in total. https://t.co/lcW1VuXVak Chances are, if you've got a favourite song about rain, it's here.

[Mark Childs @markchilds]

Meanwhile Mike has been busy chatting with Tom Olney about Learning Outcomes, Columbo and Murder She Wrote https://t.co/xyIgT5GEZi

[Mark Childs @markchilds]

Last Thursday I had a bonus 2 hour slot on https://t.co/YSPnJ6xvpC so played a set of songs on the theme of Sadness in tribute to Nell Smith who died the week before in a car crash at the age of 17. Listen to the music I played on my mixcloud at https://t.co/qCYdv35gQy

[Mark Childs @markchilds]

Plus loads of great pictures.

[Mark Childs @markchilds]

Woohoo its arrived. The new book on star trek by @NanaVisitor . Its bigger and more beautiful than I expected.

[Mark Childs @markchilds]

It interweaves how women's roles have changed in society over the last 60 years with how Star Trek reflected those and also influenced them, told through the stories of the women who created the shows and the fans. It's a fascinating combination of scholarship and autobiography.