johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social

“Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide"

Likes: Old movies, old music, old books
Dislikes: Fascism, Zionism, Centrism, Racism, Islamophobia, Transphobia, Misogyny, Bigotry, Monday

Bogart. Yes, again. Can't have too much Bogart. He fought fascism and was as cool as any man who ever lived. This is a worthwhile documentary on the great man. Here's looking at you, Kathryn, Eleanor, and @mickmahon.bsky.social

www.theartsdesk.com/film/bogart-life-comes-flashes-review-hollywood-legend-warts-and-all
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Spent Bank Holiday weekend burrowing into this set. Phenomenal music. I don't even 'understand' it, but I can feel it. #JohnColtrane
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Bondi: beached.
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Late to the party on this, but Jesus this is good. #johncoltrane
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theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social
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NEGATIVES - S&M shenanigans turn serious, in #PeterMedak's complex 60s thriller, with a standout performance from #GlendaJackson - 'a hot mess of a film', says @realjohncarvill.bsky.social - now on #BFI Blu-ray www.theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray-negatives
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Watched episode one of The Pitt. It’s
… sort of ok? No great shakes.
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@sarahkendzior.bsky.social What do you think about this? Particularly the claim that “One of the​ biggest ironies of Russiagate, as it became known after the dossier’s release, is that despite there being no basis to its claim of collusion between Trump and Putin…”

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n06/vadim-nikitin/among-the-private-spies
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Guardian turns review of Orwell documentary into excuse to say “but Hamas…”

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/26/orwell-225-review-documentary-portrait-doesnt-wholly-add-up
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social
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Me: (looking you dead in the eye while I shit into your welly boot) It’s pretty muddy out today, isn’t it
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@tessairini.bsky.social Nice way to muddy the waters. Shame on you.

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/17/atrocity-ai-slop-verify-facts-iran-minab-graves
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If BBC News was not dysfunctional, or partisan (for the Right), would they still be platforming that plummy little bequiffed weasel, the suave-but-dim Tom Harwood? Still? This is dystopian, and Labour are on the ropes, bleeding. BBC & UK media: you wrought this.

#Newsnight #BBC #BBCNewsnight #FFS
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Heart-warming puff piece on the travails of northern Israelis, and the anxieties they suffer while they wait for their government to (wink, wink) "finish the job". Can always rely on Jason Burke. If he's not an MI5/MI6 asset, he should be.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/13/frontline-northern-israelis-lebanon-iran-war
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social
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Look for peace in the year 2073.
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Sadly rare today, a Grauniad article recommendation

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/11/elevating-injured-mojtaba-khamenei-supreme-leader-shows-iranian-military-machine-autopilot
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@tessairini.bsky.social Nice framing in that headline.

Would it be couched as a question if this were an Israeli school?

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/10/iran-minab-school-bombing-shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-what-evidence-us-responsible
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The BBC is so rabidly Zionist I reckon even Netanyahu must occasionally raise an eyebrow.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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Also discussed: Jared Kushner, Bill Barr, the Kahanists and Meir Kahane, "Greater Israel", what kind of blackmail would actually control a shameless man like Trump, more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobDD8J9vXg
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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social
1mo
*Our media’s sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing?*

by @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-iran-war-is-unfathomably-depraved?hsLang=en
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One faction of viziers spent 13 months saying "no forever wars" and babying their isolationist Nazi base and feeding them dog whistle content

And then another faction sold the mad king a war and then went on TV and basically said, "we did it because Israel told us we had to"

Incredible
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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"The litmus test of whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner."

Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of-days-inn
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Starmer calls for Iran to end this aggression and de-escalate. Fair enough. But why does he not have the balls to call out the real villain here, i.e. Jeremy Corbyn?
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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social
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This is terrible news. Jeremy Corbyn must resign. With Kier Starmer in charge, they would be twenty points ahead.
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Controversial opinion. D Girl is a better episode than Pine Barrens.
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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social
1mo
youtu.be/SYgXDRdkJRc?si=b_t5IhSwV5rHxyVt
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social
2mo
People currently spluttering that you can't criticise Starmer for things Peter Mandelson did are the same people who spent several years treating antisemitic tweets from anonymous 50-follower accounts like they were press releases direct from Labour head office.
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@iammilliam.bsky.social Oh! Just realised. I recently read your 33.3 on The Kinks' 'Village Green' album. Enjoyed it hugely. Appreciated your honesty in not lauding every single song they did to the heavens. Agree wholeheartedly about 'Plastic Man'.
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If he knew, he’s corrupt.
If he didn’t know, he’s incompetent.
I think we all know, he’s both.
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Starmer is shocked - shocked! - to discover that Peter Mandelson is a liar.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social
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OMG OMG OMG HE'S DOING THE "ANTISEMITIC HATE MARCHES" THING!!!! He's really doing it! In January 2026! All the hits, babe!
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