ZX Chappa

Consumption, not creation.

[Benedict J Smith @BenedictSm55625]

The people of Peckham didn’t want this and @lb_southwark protected their interests over those of a US multinational. This isn’t Nimbyism - people just want more humane homes.

[Nick's Weather Eye @NickJF75]

Erm, not being funny, but ...

[ZX Chappa @zxchappa]

@daisychristo It's just AFC LDN for them right now.

[ZX Chappa @zxchappa]

@culturaliteral1 Prankless Harms exhibit no.1

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@Jim546074919103 @arcticinstincts Sheldon Cooper, is that you who is posting on X?

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

Explain to me how mass immigration is a 'left wing' concept.

I can't fathom how people swallowed this idea wholesale.

- Endless supply of cheap labour helps capitalists, not workers

- Strip mining of talent from developing countries is a form of neocolonialism

- Endless pressure on the housing market inflates assets and prevents the poorest from having reasonably priced homes

- A refusal to train enough people here removes vocation paths that the working class used to follow

- The most negative social and cultural second order consequences are happening to working class, deindustrialised or neglected areas

So it's left wing how?

I can see how anti-immigrant sentiment can be seen as ethnonationalism and therefore right wing.

But I can't see how support for mass immigration is left wing.

And to be clear: it's not just a part of left wing thought. It's now so central to left wing thought, apparently, that any divergence from this immediately makes you 'far right'.

[ZX Chappa @zxchappa]

@THINGEO @tragicbirdapp

[Asher @AsherColeman]

@WRUFCPCR Alright alright! I didn't know Worksop was a place! Whoever named it obviously meant to spell it Workshop.

[BLACKSTAR @Art444Star]

The most useless word in the English language.

[socialism with Rubiconian characteristics @GachaSocialism]

@RespectableLaw

[Disaffected @DisaffectedPod]

The loss of physical film has been a disaster for more than one reason.

1. Despite modern beliefs (just digital fanboism), film has better image quality, color depth and separation, and a more pleasing image than most digital capture.

2. The loss of film and the fanboi worship of digital destroyed the discipline that was necessary in the age of film to attend to lighting, contrast ratios, color rendering.

It shows. Modern "cinematographers" are not cinematographers. They're kids with iphones on a gimbal.

I trained as a filmmaker and photographer in college. Film. Actual film. Cut with a razor and spliced.

The base commandment: "Get it in the negative." That meant you made your lighting and focus and framing and sound perfect in the real world so that you got a quality negative. You did the work up front.

This was to warn you against "fixing it in post," because fixes in post are never able to achieve what getting a quality negative can do. You can't "fix" parts of an image that were never captured because you didn't bother to light well.

-J

[ZX Chappa @zxchappa]

@clashreport @birdsarentreal

[ZX Chappa @zxchappa]

@Variety

[ZX Chappa @zxchappa]

@clashreport

[Mathsboi42 @mathsboi42]

“particle accelerator” does not mean “spinning thing with lights”

[Obadiah Mbatang @residentadviser]

She’s a Buddhist child of immigrants. Her husband is a South African Jew. She is an Oxbridge educated millennial career woman. Bilingual, studied at the Sorbonne. Yet her shtick is hostile to the person that she is and what she herself demonstrates about this country. Strange.

[ZX Chappa @zxchappa]

@wylfcen Jowl exists and is a native English word; it comes from the OE word ceafl.

[kacper peresada @kacper_peresada]

When i was a kid i sometimes pretended my favourite book was "Ulisses", while it was really Harry Potter.

So i truly believe that when Emerald Fennell said her fav is "Wuthering Heights" she just didnt want to confess that it's actually "50 shades of grey".

[𝐄𝐑 @ErlingRoIe]

This can’t be the same person

[chewhaqqa @chewhaqqa]

the movie RRR is about the importance of the 2nd amendment