A Quiet Passion, 2016 - ★★★½
Watched on Wednesday June 21, 2023.
🏏 1st Ashes Test approaching an end. Outcome still very uncertain.
🔗 Multicultural Man: On technology
As regular readers of this column know, I don’t think there is an anthropic solution to anthropogenic climate change
Linkblog 🔗: Upcoming anarchist books in 2023
🐈 Duffy
♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Sparks (12), The Wedding Present (7), Grian Chatten (6), Tracy Chapman (6) & London Symphony Chorus, Leonard Bernstein & London Symphony Orchestra (5) #weeklymusic via @tweeklyfm
My radio just switched from cricket to The Shipping Forecast 🌧️ 🚢 🏏
🔗 Tim Dowling: is this a hangover – or just what being 60 feels like?
Is this what it’s like from now on?
Lusco Fusco 🍷
Currently reading: Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket by Stefan Szymanski 📚🏏
🏏 England declare half an hour before the end of play on day one of the first Ashes Test. Ambitious cricket.
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The sun rises at Edgbaston ahead of the opening day of the #Ashes. #BBCCricket pic.twitter.com/yz8iHayJ0U
— Test Match Special (@bbctms) June 16, 2023
🔗 Extreme websites peddle conspiracies, but what about the mainstream outlets that do it too?
Taking on misinformation in a real way would require scrutinising our biggest media institutions – but it would mean picking a fight with sharks, rather than minnows, even if it would take us far closer to the actual truth.
Finished reading: The Trial of Julian Assange by Nils Melzer 📚
🍺 Rhoswenallt Inn for a pint of Glamorgan Bitter
