Listening to a World music programme - this one focussing on the Pacific Islands - on the radio and one of the guests just introduced themselves thus:
"I'm from Aotearoa, but your listeners are more likely to recognise it by its Colonizer Name of New Zealand"
Fuck. Yeah.
'It's him, it's him!' - Venezuelan mother spots deported son in mega-prison footage
Some relatives of accused and deported gang members say their sons have been wrongly swept up in a #Trump administration crackdown.
Well this has come as a shock …. It turns out billionaires could pay more tax and still have a nice lifestyle #brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #conservatives #trump #DonaldTrump #Musk #elonmusk #tesla
Paltrow told intimacy co-ordinator to 'step back' before sex scenes with Chalamet
The star didn't want to feel "stifled" while filming "a lot" of sex scenes with Timothée Chalamet.
Astronauts Butch and Suni finally back on Earth
Dolphins circled their capsule after it landed off the coast of #Florida.
@mountainwitch@kolektiva.socialThis interviewer tried so hard to bait Chelsea but failed. Chelsea knows what she wants to say.
"Chelsea Manning, legendary whistleblower and activist, interviewed by BBC’s Rebecca Kesby about her attendance at a hearing for accused United Healthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione in Manhattan on February 21st, 2025. Manning explains her attendance as focused on “very grave concerns about how [the criminal justice system] is handling this case [of Mangione’s].”
“You have a very simple crime that’s being treated as a political crime, as terrorism,” Manning told the BBC. “It’s being treated as terrorism, which is unusual. I don’t recall a case like this rising to the level of terrorism; how they’ve turned it into a spectacle, how they have carted this person around in front of television cameras… It feels like there is a protected class of certain individuals who are treated differently by the criminal justice system: the mayor of New York, Donald Trump—“
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHUsMFst5et/?igsh=MWpiZGFnajVvNXhlMw%3D%3D
BBC Axing One Of Its Longest-Running Shows But Ploughing More Money Into Scottish Drama
#News #BBC #BBCStudios #RiverCity #Scotland
https://deadline.com/2025/03/bbc-cancels-river-city-scotland-more-budget-1236329412/
Remind me again why this isn’t genocide…. I know the politicians and the wanker in the White House think it’s not, but I can’t remember why #trump #DonaldTrump #uspolitics #uspol #politics #bbc #gop #gaza #gazagenocide #israel #IsraelWarCrimes #gaza
'It opened up a whole new life for me.'
The UK is shuttering about 40 #libraries a year:
ACK. Sending a complaint to the BBC… They've made a major error in their copy here:
Carney revealed it on Friday during his first speech as prime minister when he hearkened back - with a shiny polish - to the origins of this former colony. He hailed "the wonder of a country built on the bedrock of three peoples: indigenous, French and British".
See it?
That should say three peoples: “Indigenous, French and British".
Indigenous should ALWAYS be capitalized when referring to the people who have lived in this country for millennia before colonial powers came.
#USA #CanPoli #CdnPoli #BBC #EditorialStandards #Indigenous
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c798je778n4o
Plastic 'nurdles' washed up after ship collision
The cargo ship Solong collided with the tanker Stena Immaculate in the North Sea on 10 March.
How to make your own Patrick “Pat” Butcher from Ghosts (UK) costume! #bbc #campcounselor #comedy #ghosts #ghostsuk #jimhowick #scoutleader #cosplay #costume
https://carboncostume.com/patrick-pat-butcher-from-ghosts-uk/
@red_rooster@sueden.social@fulelo @Remittancegirl @randahl
That is a really sad story. Consider during the #Nazi times in #Germany many people were execute because listening to #BBC and #VoiceofAmerica because these were considered enemy stations.
Brave people that put their life at risk because they wanted to know the #truth
'Do you have communist links?' US sends 36 questions to UN aid groups
> United Nations aid agencies have been sent questionnaires by the US asking them to state if they have "anti-American" beliefs or affiliations.
> Among the 36 questions on the form, sent by the #US Office of Management and Budget (#OMB) and seen by the #BBC, is one asking if they have any links to #communism. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70enzddxywo #MAGA #USpol #UN
Alright, DOCTOR WHO and Delia Derbyshire geeks who happen to play the synth, Spitfire Audio has reduced a BBC Radiophonic Workshop plug-in. The samples here are from the archive tapes! And WHO composer Mark Ayres was involved in assembling this!
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