Óscar Muñoz Paz

Churras y merinas. Fuck you, thrombus!

[mimi @mariasrainer]

it’s very important to remember this

[Óscar Muñoz Paz @oscmpaz]

@Pedro_Torrijos Estando allí (en invierno) me sugirió muchísimo a Gotham. Dicho esto con todo respeto u cariño

[Bibliotecas Ayuntamiento de Madrid @bpmmadrid]

📚 Siempre estamos revisando la colección para dar de baja lo que no debe estar y dejar espacio al material nuevo. Eso es el expurgo.

���Así la colección está actualizada.

Aunque a veces...nos da mucha pena hacerlo. 😥

#bpmInforma #Iloveexpurgo

[Idafe Martín Pérez ✨🚴 ⵣ @IdafeMartin]

Según el DRAE, absentismo es "la abstención deliberada de acudir al lugar donde se cumple una obligación".

La CEOE se refiere a las bajas médicas. Así que o se pone entre comillas y se explica o se pone: "La CEOE sale en tromba contra los enfermos...:

@Solealal

[Otto Más ��️ @Otto_Mas]

Como ya he empezado a recibir los previsibles mensajes de odio, lo comparto aún más grande para regodearme mientras se j*den los homófobos y fachas 🏳️‍🌈✊🏼🏳️‍⚧️

[Alain Astruc @alainastruc]

More than forty-five years after its release, John Boorman's Excalibur remains unsurpassed. No cinematic adaptation of a mythic story has come close since.

Following my post on Nolan, I wanted this time to take the opposite angle: to show the mental space in which I would have wanted an adaptation of the Odyssey to take shape. I had meant to make a thread with several films. I stopped at the first. I had opened Excalibur to grab a few stills, and ended up watching the whole thing again for the umpteenth time.

Boorman had prepared an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. He never got the rights, and recycled all that work into Excalibur. And that was a blessing. With Tolkien, he would have had to bow to an orthodoxy. The Arthurian cycle allows for a far greater liberty. One dreams of what an inspired author, a servant of the sacred fire, might do with a Lord of the Rings deliberately unfaithful to the letter but faithful to the spirit.

I saw Excalibur too young, on a school trip in the early 1980s. No one then worried about showing such films to children. I thank those reckless teachers for exposing me, in total shock, to what remains for me the greatest cinematic adaptation of a mythic story ever made.

Why choose it as the counter-example to Nolan? Because it dismantles the idea that any criticism of the Odyssey amounts to demanding more historical or textual fidelity. That is a legitimate option, of course, but not the one I desire. Excalibur cares nothing for it. Wagner and Orff saturate the soundtrack. The armor is completely anachronistic. Boorman chose it because it catches the light like nothing else, and because it matches the idea people have of the Middle Ages, not its reality. That is another form of fidelity, and we forget it too easily when dealing with works this ancient.

The Arthurian cycle, and a fortiori the Odyssey, are not IPs you take out of a box to adapt. They are stories that fascinate for what they have generated: discourses, fantasies, layers of popular interpretation. Boorman worked exactly at that level.

Excalibur is a film of the 1970s, even though it came out in 1981. It is violent, sexual, graphic, sublime, kitsch, brilliant, dark, fast, heavy metal. One could call it nonsense with neon crosses, groovy hippie dances, an actual green light beam signifying magic on whatever it touches. And yet the Irish countryside cradles this story like no artificial set ever could. There is something strictly European in it. The wedding scene looks like Burne-Jones gone disco.

One could list endlessly the small betrayals of the letter. And yet, the fire is there. The spirit is there. The madness, the loyalty, the consuming desires, the tricks, the tenderness, the righteousness, the betrayal, the holy horrors, the terrors of the flesh, all of it is there.

Nigel Terry plays Arthur as a man bent under fate and duty. Helen Mirren is the epitome of the manipulative pagan witch, full of trickery and vengeance. Nicholas Clay's Lancelot is a knight in literally shining armor. Cherie Lunghi is perfect as the righteous Guenevere whose sensuality erupts through her pious surface. Paul Geoffrey is luminous as Perceval.

Mordred stands as the ambiguous, incestuous, evil bringer of light, and Nicol Williamson's Merlin as the old sage dragon whose dawn fades into the sepulchral voice of a Christ that reveals itself in the bond between the king and the land. That land turns to mud, madness and famine when the king is gone, and its springtime returns only with his renewed presence, drawn from the chalice of life itself.

What unfolds beneath the plot is a pivotal moment of European history: the shift from paganism to Christianity, a process far more complex than it appears. With Merlin, paganism seems to fall asleep. It will survive nonetheless, in one form or another, until the Reformation.

Boorman was one of those rare filmmakers who could show living myth and spirituality in a mainstream form, however chaotic and exuberant. One dreams that the big names working today might be inspired by the same fire.

[Faune 🎨 @thefaune1]

Happy Star Wars Day !

[Julián Marquina 📚📖⌨️ @JulianMarquina]

🌌📚📜 20 personajes de Star Wars a cargo de las #Bibliotecas y los #Archivos

🔗 https://t.co/9iIJGH6vYi

🔖 #MayThe4thBeWithYou
✨ #StarWars
📆 #StarWarsDay

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

❝Sometimes antisocial, always antifascist.❞

[Maria @lagrima75]

Jesús Vázquez dedica su premio a un joven de 16 años brutalmente agredido en Sevilla por llevar un vestido. Es doloroso que en 2026 todavía se castigue con violencia la valentía de ser libre. A él le dice: "Que nada, ni esto, te rompa el alma; para mí, tú eres el icono".

[Unai Sordo @UnaiSordo]

Y yo pido que se impute al balance de las empresas el coste de infraestructuras (carreteras, puertos, aeropuertos,vías ferroviarias) la formación o sanidad que les permite contar con trabajadores, y así vemos el coste real que NO asumen porque lo pagamos entre tod@s
#ocurrencias

[Fernando HS Φερνάντο Ερνάντεθ Σάντσ 🇪🇺 @FernandoHS61]

No añado una coma.

Hervé Le Tellier: El nombre en el muro.

[Chuzo de Punta @chuzodepunta]

Tú dices: "De vez en cuando tienes que pasar de todo, porque si no...".
Emilia Pardo Bazán decía: "En este mundo hay que hacerse el tonto un cuarto de hora todos los días".

[Carolina 📚 @librukie]

Con todo este debate de los libros electrónicos ha salido se rebote el tema de las bibliotecas, y quiero recordad que el préstamo de libros electrónicos YA EXISTE desde hace años. Se llama eBiblio y en vuestra biblioteca os pueden informar acerca de cómo haceros la cuenta 👀

[PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧 @prideukorg]

👏👏👏

[World of StatHistics @Stat_Cult]

🗳️ Only 6.6% of the world lives in FULL DEMOCRACY ⛓️‍💥

✅ Full Democracies (~6.6% of world population)

🇳🇴 Norway
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇫🇮 Finland
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇹🇼 Taiwan
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
🇩🇪 Germany
🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇦 Canada
🇺🇾 Uruguay
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇦🇹 Austria
🇵🇹 Portugal (upgraded in 2024)
🇪🇪 Estonia (upgraded in 2024)
🇨🇿 Czech Republic (upgraded in 2024)
🇯🇵 Japan
🇲🇹 Malta
🇪🇸 Spain
🇲🇺 Mauritius

🗳️ Flawed Democracies (~38.4% of world population)

🇺🇸 United States
🇫🇷 France (downgraded in 2024)
🇰🇷 South Korea (downgraded in 2024)
🇮🇳 India
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇮🇹 Italy
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇵🇭 Philippines
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇬🇷 Greece
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇨🇱 Chile
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇯🇲 Jamaica
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇲🇾 Malaysia
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇲🇩 Moldova
🇲🇪 Montenegro
🇳🇦 Namibia
🇵🇦 Panama
🇵🇾 Paraguay
🇵🇪 Peru
🇵🇱 Poland
🇷🇸 Serbia
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇸🇰 Slovakia
🇸🇷 Suriname
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
🇹🇱 Timor-Leste
🇹🇳 Tunisia
🇿🇲 Zambia
🇧🇼 Botswana
🇨🇻 Cape Verde
🇱🇸 Lesotho
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
🇸🇲 San Marino

🗳️🧑‍⚖️ Hybrid Regimes (~15.7% of world population)

🇷🇴 Romania (downgraded in 2024)
🇹🇷 Turkey
🇺🇦 Ukraine
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇦🇱 Albania
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
🇦🇲 Armenia
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
🇬🇪 Georgia
🇭🇳 Honduras
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇽🇰 Kosovo
🇱🇧 Lebanon
🇲🇬 Madagascar
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
🇲🇼 Malawi
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇲🇳 Mongolia
🇳🇵 Nepal
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇵🇸 Palestinian Territories
🇸🇳 Senegal
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
🇹🇿 Tanzania
🇺🇬 Uganda
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
🇧🇮 Burundi
🇬🇹 Guatemala
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇲🇦 Morocco
🇸🇻 El Salvador
🇸🇬 Singapore
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇫🇯 Fiji

👑 Authoritarian Regimes (~39.2% of world population)

🇨🇳 China
🇷🇺 Russia
🇰��� North Korea
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇸🇾 Syria
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇮🇷 Iran
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇱🇦 Laos
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
🇷🇼 Rwanda
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
🇹🇩 Chad
🇨🇲 Cameroon
🇨🇫 Central African Republic
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇸🇸 South Sudan
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
🇾🇪 Yemen
🇦🇴 Angola
🇩🇯 Djibouti
🇬🇳 Guinea
🇲🇱 Mali
🇳🇪 Niger
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇹🇬 Togo
🇧🇭 Bahrain
🇩🇿 Algeria
🇧🇯 Burkina Faso and many others including Qatar, UAE, Oman, Jordan, Libya, Myanmar

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index 2024 (published February 2025).

[literland @literlandweb1]

"Sólo yo puedo juzgarme. Yo sé mi pasado, yo sé el motivo de mis opciones, yo sé lo que tengo dentro. Yo sé cuánto he sufrido, yo sé lo que es ser fuerte y frágil, yo y nadie más".
Oscar Wilde

[Guillermo Nicieza @Guille_Nicieza]

Tal día como hoy, 30 de noviembre de 1803, partía de La Coruña la corbeta María Pita y se iniciaba la Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna con el objetivo de vacunar al mundo contra la epidemia de viruela. En la expedición se vacunó a unas 250.000 personas, en 7 años.

[Bibliotecario Enfurecido @BiblioEnfu]

Así es la Sala Infantil de la #biblioteca...Un ANOTOP AT constante 🤪
Compas,
¿El #bibliomeme es real o la realidad es un #memebibliotecario?
¿Qué pensáis? 🦥😡👉🏻🤭

[Bibliotecario Enfurecido @BiblioEnfu]

#Bibliomeme / #Memebibliotecario dedicado al sentimiento navideño que me brota en la #biblioteca...
🦥😡👉🏻😹