barbaracassani

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Long suffering ts / js developer. I was born Italian, but I have been a Londoner for ages. I like to talk about code, politics, and cinema / architecture / arts. She/her.

#developer #frontend #typescript #react #rxjs #cinema #brutalism #london #centrist #libdems

Missed the Eurovision - without spoilers, do you have any specific recommendations of bits/songs/voting to watch?
Genuine question: earlier I heard someone saying that using the expression "#cis #woman" is #discriminatory (and others approved). Why would that be? I do use "#cishet" about myself, if the context demands it. Is it better? Worse? Should I stop using the expression?
Here's a picture of a red panda!
If Italy had announced the ban on ChatGPT 24 hours later than they did, now we would all be going "haha nice April Fool's joke".
Hello, here's a Red Panda!

Is been nearly a year. Lest anyone in #Europe, or in "the West" at large, forget: we are at war. #Russia hates us and our institutions. And #Ukraine is paying the cost in lives, every day, simply for wanting to be more "European", more "Western".

As we go about our lives and usual worries, remember that #Putin would gladly see his tanks and soldiers storm your city and murder your family — if only he could. We are at war, and we must win.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/19/london-based-ukrainian-chef-olia-hercules-one-year-on

‘We will never be the same’: chef Olia Hercules on Ukraine’s year of war

As the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine arrives, author Olia Hercules recalls those first horrifying days, and the pride she feels as she watches her home country’s fight for survival

The Guardian

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0268690/ I love, adore even, this pared down, minimalist New York drama. It was a biggish production with famous actors (Turturro, McConaughey, Amy Irving) and it was distributed abroad as well. The #Sprecher sisters directed it. Does anyone know what happened to them? I couldn't find any news or credits for them more recent than ten years.

#cinemastodon #cinema #films #filmStudies #indieCinema #americanCinema

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) - IMDb

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing: Directed by Jill Sprecher. With Matthew McConaughey, David Connolly, Joseph Siravo, A.D. Miles. In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.

IMDb
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#Brexit is not democracy: it's a job preservation scheme for the Eton/Oxford cohorts.

We as a country fell for it hook line and sink. Three years, and it's working perfectly well - for the 0.0001% who promoted and enacted it, that is.