#dispatches

[6thofapril1917]

you guys wanted my unpopular sas:rh opinion so here goes: i think that not having paddy and eoin kiss onscreen is a far stronger narrative choice and makes far more sense for paddy’s character than having them kiss onscreen. i do not think that paddy and eoin were ever in a relationship. were they in love with each other? absolutely. truly, madly, deeply. profound devotion. would they ever have acted on those feelings before eoin’s death? fuck no. for me, half of the reason paddy is so torn up by eoin’s death is because he never got the chance to tell eoin he loved him because he’s a coward and a failure and he destroys everything he touches and they’re blowing poetry out of his brain and replacing it with men screaming. but that’s just my take

[nothing0fnothing]

"Innocent until proven guilty."

Yeah bro. I agree.

So when 5 different accusers and 20 different colleagues all agree he's a rapist guess what? That's proven to me that he's guilty.

[wandering-wolf23]

PSA

Things I should not have to say:

Don't threaten to blow up pro-shippers on social media. That's called a terroristic threat. Don't even joke about it. You might think it's funny and it might get a few eye rolls from the adults in the room, but the DoJ/FBI/Homeland Security/People it gets reported to have no sense of humor.

Trust me. I work with them. I swear any sense of humor gets trained out of them.

At best, they're going to knock on your door and explain to your parents/partners/assorted housemates what you're doing online. At worst, it's a no knock raid because they think you're a terrorist.

All it takes is one person reporting what you said. What may be an obvious joke to you probably isn't to the team of people going through the cyber tip line. While you might be joking, Cletus in Montana with the pile of tannerite talking about how he wants to blow up the government probably isn't. There have been too many Cletuses recently for online threats to be ignored.

TL;DR: Don't be a fucking dumb ass and make threats on social media. It's a good way to ruin your life.

[ltwilliammowett]

Dispatches for England, by Terence Lee (1944-)

[marscia]

I recognize your kind

[tf-animated-out-of-context]

[prideandprejudice05]

this thought about the russell brand doc is just playing on my mind rn

the way he like came out early and said “big media” were coming after him when the dispatches doc repeatedly said “we asked the bbc/channel 4/insert big media production company here for a freedom of information request on the complaints made against russell brand but they said no in order to protect russell brand”

like dude you can’t be out here ranting about big media when the only thing protecting you now AND then was big media

[samueltanders]

That dispatches documentary made me feel sick. Russell brand is a truly vile, disgusting man who has pivoted into an "anti media" Internet personality, probably because he knew this day would come and he wanted right wing nut jobs behind him to back him up and say the media is working against him and its all lies ( which he did yesterday).

It's been said that comedians have put jokes in their sets about Brand, a way to bring to light what he did and his lawyers made them remove it. What else has he done that wasn't in yhe documentary because women were scared into keeping quiet because of Brand's lawyers? Massive respect to daniel sloss being the only comedian willing to speak out.

[cassowariess]

Weird shit.

In the UK we have an investigative TV program called Dispatches.

For two weeks in a row, a "mystery Dispatches special" has been scheduled to air on Saturday night, then postponed at the last minute. So now it's possibly airing next week instead (if it doesn't get postponed again).

The last time there was a "mystery special" was in 2023 when Russel Brand was outed as a sexual predator, so someone is clearly trying to keep this thing from airing. Either that or the TV crew are making sure their episode is watertight against a potential libel case.

[cinematic-literature]

Old Boyfriends (1979) by Joan Tewkesbury

Book title

Midnight Express (1977) by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer

A Book of Common Prayer (1977) by Joan Didion

Going Crazy: An Inquiry into Madness in Our Time (1976) by Otto Friedrich

Living Well is the Best Revenge (1971) by Calvin Tomkins

Heavily Tattooed Men and Women (1976) by Spider Webb

Maya Plisetskaya (1976)

Secret Passages and Hiding Places (1974) by Jeremy Errand

Dispatches (1977) by Michael Herr

Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (1962) by W. H. Auden

Slapstick (1976) by Kurt Vonnegut

Colette: A Taste for Life (1977) by Yvonne Mitchell

The Laszlo Letters (1977) by Don Novello

Cheap Chic (1975) by Carol Troy and Caterine Milinaire

[6thofapril1917]

90 percent of trench warfare addicts quit right before they’re about to take paris. dig another trench

[pinehutch]

On my mind:

Almost 20 years ago, late winter and early spring, wandering across campuses and downtown and crying at all hours and never sleeping and the day I hid in the closet during a panic attack and listening to Eels a lot, to keep going to the end of my degree

Zagajewski's "Try to Praise the Mutilated World," as ever

The things I have said yes to and no to, variously

Work stuff (acute) and work stuff (chronic)

Countdown to five year dead dadiversary

Five years??

The video of the woman insisting that the viewer continue

[tsunoderailleur]

cycling to distract from the horrors

[tf-animated-out-of-context]

Bumblebee, to some parked cars: Hello?! What am I? Chopped rivets? What's with the attitude here?!

Sari: Uh, Bumblebee? I don't know where you come from, but on my planet, cars don't really have attitudes.

[marscia]

[nothing0fnothing]

"the UK media is slandering Russell Brand to silence him because he's too popular online!!"

Lol OK so where was the Channel 4 Zoella exposè? I've not seen a Dispatches episode titled "More than meets the KSI". Why's Russell Brand getting targeted for his fame while Dan and Phil have been safe this whole time.