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Related Images invites readers behind the scenes and into the sketchbooks of working filmmakers to learn more about their creative processes.Elizabeth Sankey’s Witches is now showing exclusively on MUBI.Witches (Elizabeth Sankey, 2024).Title cards are an underappreciated art and a powerful tool for every director. They can punctuate a moment, make it more comic, shocking, or beautiful. They can hold your hand and lead you sweetly down the garden path of …

The spork’s continued existence, in the liminal place between useless and annoying, remains baffling. CC-licensed photo by Karl Baron on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. It’s Friday, so there’s another post due at the Social Warming Substack at about 0845 UK time. A selection of 9 links for you. Cutting edge. …

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When you need to know a bit more about how the system identifies a given user. Assumed audience: People interested in learning how the command lines tools on their computer work.This week’s Read the Manual is about id: a tool I only learned the existence of while researching last week’s entry on lsof! It gives you users’ user names, group names, and numeric IDs for a given user. This is …

We have an election a week from today. In Ireland, certain categories of people are excluded from being candidates.Otherwise there is low no bar. In Dau.I&II's constituency Gerry "The Monk" Hutch has returned from exile in Spain to run to represent His People. In 1995, we were living round the corner from Veronica Guerin when she was shot and wounded at her front door, the day after writing an article …

Thinking about the scene early in the movie Tár, where the ghastly Juilliard student Max announces that because he’s a pansexual BIPOC with an overactive leg (I paraphrase), he doesn’t feel able to love Bach because he had 20 children and maybe didn’t do his share of the housework (I paraphrase further) and I wonder how many people who watch the scene think, yeah, fair point, awful Juilliard bloke.And then …

I had high hopes for this one. I love the 1992 original, came away from this modern take’s playable prologue feeling positive about it all, and am generally predisposed to liking horror games in general. So I happily approached Alone in the Dark‘s 2024 remake in the spirit it was intended to be taken in “…reimagining the iconic game that set the benchmark for the genre“, picked Edward Carnby (the …

Something a bit different today, as Kirsten Lawson summarises the recent Lancet Public Health series on suicide prevention, which looks at public health interventions, addressing the risk factors and determinants of suicide, and the transmissibility of suicide. The post Suicide prevention: expanding the narrative to preventing the crisis, not just treating the crisis appeared first on National Elf Service.

Cleveland’s You Should Be With Us dive deep into the Revolution Summer hardcore sound with their In Plain Sight EP. In just ten minutes, the band conjures the spirit of mid-’80s punk—think Embrace, Rites of Spring, and Dag Nasty at their most urgent and raw. Following their debut EP Expressing What We Felt, this five-track […] The post <h2>New EP: You Should Be With Us || In Plain Sight</h2> <h3>DC …

It was not all that long ago that the idea of linking refugee protection to the impacts of climate change seemed not only embryonic, but futuristic. Yet, over the course of the past decade, an important body of case law and guidance has developed that shows clearly how, in the right factual scenario, people could indeed be refugees in the context of climate change and disasters. As more decision-makers and …

Only on Fox News would Rep. Nancy Mace be allowed to play the victim after she did everything she could to bully and humiliate transgender Rep.-elect Sarah McBride

Pnårp found there are no more bagels, because there were no more bagels. Even in the Bagel Nebula, there are no more bagels. But its name makes Pnårp hungry. Bagels.

Hopefully I’m now in Stuttgart for the NCI meet. So here are a few pictures from the past, mainly showing how the ESNG members have failed to age gracefully. 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Hopefully, some 2024 pictures coming soon.

The big news is that I will be attending the Paperback & Pulp Book Fair and I will have copies of DREAMING OF UTOPIA with me. I will only have a dozen or so copies, and only a handful of other books (BEYOND THE VOID, TRIALS OF HANK JANSON) on me because I'm travelling up by bus and train and the trolley proved problematical last time.Lugging books around aside, I'm …

After finally looking at the options, we have a main low-investment proposal; the writeup will appear soon (optimistically this month, pessimistically next month). Here is the timetable for the fastest intercity trains: Boston 0:00Providence 0:23New Haven 1:04Stamford 1:30New York 1:56 (arrival)New York 1:59 (departure)Newark 2:07Philadelphia 2:46Wilmington 3:00Baltimore 3:32Washington 3:55 This timetable incorporates schedule padding, of 4% on the Providence-New Haven section (dedicated to high-speed trains except at the north end …