Charlene McKenna as Captain Swing in Peaky Blinders S5

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Timothy D. Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

I feel the Savage Lands series doesn’t get the hype it deserves.

The only thing that confuses me is her powers. There’s no rhyme or reason to them. Sometimes she can do certain things then sometimes not ..

But everything else about this series is amazing. Now on to the final book ..

Bloodlands

(after Timothy Snyder) a man walks through a window: the joke with a thousand faces— stop me because you have heard this before; a postcard from our imminent murder  says Wish You Were Here! the redistribution of hunger. a man walks in with a bar, two rabbis and a blonde (stop me) says ‘who is going to pay for all this glass?’ 14 million times 1 and between one and nothing an infinity. a man walks in with a nun— we do not know them  we cannot tell a rescuer from a rapist (stop) a postcard from our imminent murder. * * * Written October 2022.

Empire of evil

History majors know that the stuff Timothy Snyder writes about has stayed with me more than anything else because it's so messed up

[Album of the day] Truth Corroded - Bloodlands

Adelaide, AUS // 2019 // Unique Leader Records

[Genres] death thrash, deathcore, tech death/thrash

[Thoughts] I find this album hard to classify, so it's a good thing I don't care to do so. This is good shit, listen to it. My favorite track is "The End of He Who Reigns." There's a lot of similar stuff on Unique Leader Records' page, and I can give personal recs if you ask for something specific (i.e. more deathcore, tech death, etc.).

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The phenomenal new album from Australian Death Thrashers TRUTH CORRODED.

Featuring guests Steph Carpenter (Deftones), Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation), Ryan Knight (The Black Dahlia Murder, Arsis), Kevin Talley (Dying Fetus, Chimaira)

tvrundown USA 2023.02.06

Monday, February 6th:

(streaming weekly): Vinland Saga (netflix), Trolley (netflix), Under the Vines (AcornTV, next 2 eps, season 2 finale), Bloodlands (AcornTV, irish crime thriller, season 2 opener, first 2 eps)

(hour 1): All American (theCW), Fantasy Island (FOX), The Neighborhood (CBS) /   / Bob Hearts Abishola (CBS), The Bachelor (ABC, 2hrs), America's Got Talent (NBC, 2hrs), Kids Baking Championship (FOOD)

(hour 2): All American: Homecoming (theCW), Alert: MPU (FOX), NCIS (CBS), The Bachelor (ABC, contd), America's Got Talent (NBC, contd), C.B. Strike (HBO, season 3 "Troubled Blood" opener)

(hour 3): NCIS: Hawai'i (CBS), The Good Doctor (ABC), Quantum Leap (NBC), The Watchful Eye (Freeform, regular timeslot), Independent Lens (PBS, "Outta the Muck", 90mins), History's Greatest of All Time (HIST, hosted by Peyton Manning)

(hour 4 - latenight):   The Daily Show (COM, guest host Chelsea Handler)

Charlene as DI Niamh McGovern in Bloodlands S2

Timothy D. Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Bloodlands - BBC1

Bloodlands – BBC1

Gill and I stuck with Bloodlands (mainly because we like all the actors featured), but found the story a little too far fetched and (yes we know it is fiction!) just a bit too unbelievable. Neil rating 5 out of 10

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Cannibalism in the Ukraine: GHOUL (Petr Jákl, 2015)

Cannibalism in the Ukraine: GHOUL (Petr Jákl, 2015)

Ghoul is a “found footage” movie, a postmodern affectation that pretends it is a documentary that has been ‘found’ after some gruesome disaster. The genre was popularised (although not originated) by the Blair Witch Project in 1999 which, like Ghoul, had young film-makers heading off to investigate the paranormal, and wishing they hadn’t. One of its most famous antecedents was Cannibal Holocaust…

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i think there's really complex but angry thoughts i have on the goysiche response to the shoah, and evolving 21st century responses to it, and how much scorn has been heaped on jewish directors, taika waititi and jonathan glazer specifically, who want to address the fucking fact that nazis were people. nazis were people. the thing is that they're derided as libs for it, but i think the reality is that what they want to talk about is to uncomfortable for us in world that wants to treat the shoah as a boxed-off morality play and nazis as wacky movie villains who were completely removed from society and the human condition. but the reality is that nazis were human, they came from a human society, and a very human group of humans and the entire society they came from murdered jews who they did not see as humans. waititi and glazer might have different lenses and film making styles but i do think their focus on nazism as society is significant.

last post of the night i promise

tbh i'm posting this to get my untangling of this political messiness written down clearly.

The Polish Home Army (the Armja Krajowa, or, AK) staged an Uprising in Warsaw in August 1944 as the Germans seemed to be fleeing West away from the front, and the Red Army approached the outskirts of the city. The Polish Communist underground (the Armja Ludowa, or AL) was also there, but they didn't have the contacts with the Polish Government-in-Exile that the AK did--plus the AL couldn't reveal themselves to the AK because the AK would have shot them.

So Stalin learns that the AK has staged an uprising, and instead of being like "Ok cool yes let's go help liberate Warsaw" he's like "lol no no no do nothing, put your weapons down, stop marching West, and let the Polish patriots and the Nazis murder each other because once I'm done with Nazis ima crush Polish nationalism and be in charge of Poland after the war."

And England was like "ummm we kind of joined this war after Germany violated Poland's borders; shouldn't we like, do something?" And Stalin was like "lol sit down Winston."

So the Germans call for re-enforcements while the Red Army is waiting for the Germans and Poles to destroy each other, massacre thousands of civilians, and burn Warsaw to the ground. Also some members of the AK shoot Jewish fighters who who'd managed to survive up until that point.

And then the Red Army didn't march in until January, 1945.