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CrazyITGuy42

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Programmer, animal lover. Loves history, photography, birding, trains, planes.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 12h
True. However, he is also the inevitable apotheosis of the conservative political, legal, and theological project of the last 30 years.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 4h
1/ Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centres have started a "data centre war" for which Russia is ill-prepared, argues a Russian warblogger. He forecasts a disastrous collapse of Russia's digital economy if Ukraine's retaliatory attacks on Russian data centres continue. ⬇️
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Most of AI (in business terms) is driven by a false belief that TECHNOLOGY is what drove the internet and telecommunications booms of the last two decades. Technology unlocked better communication and business processes. THOSE then drove the boom. Tech was a means to an end, not the end in itself.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If people remember Padres-Brewers, and I think they will, I hope it's that two fairly evenly-matched teams who play sound fundamental baseball is always more exciting than two sluggers on each side and a bunch of guys getting a paycheck.
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 16h
A thing I didn’t get until grad school is that Peanuts strips showing Franklin in the same classroom as Peppermint Patty were a deliberate statement that really pissed some dickheads off, enough to get them complaining to the syndicate
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 14h
::low whistle::
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 15h
This is evil. This cannot be allowed to be. I was at an event at Fordham Law School this evening, and was walking past the fountains at Lincoln Center. I was thinking I need to bring my kids to Manhattan more because it's such a great place for kids to just walk around and inhabit. I'm sickened.
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 19h
The Math Dump
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The Math Dump - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Every post about the unfitness of the AI community to advise us on a path forward should begin with the observation that nobody else wants a world of data centers. I certainly prefer this to a gigantic featureless, noisy, stinking white building. AI proponents want a world of data centers to power their products. This […]
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sewers are one of the most transformational interventions to human health in history, yet they are rarely understood or recognised for their impact. So we are holding an event about them next Tuesday. In person in London or watch online! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/searc...
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The secret life of sewers
From the Big Stink to the fatberg, London's history has always flowed through what (and how) we flush away. Sewers are one of the most transformational, yet least recognised interventions in the histo...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026
I had a colonoscopy yesterday and of course I wrote about the experience. Come read why my colonoscopy was not bad at all, why I encourage those of you putting it off to actually schedule it if you can, and what a teddy bear has to do with the whole experience: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/08/c...
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Colonoscopy Post-Mortem
First, so as not to bury the lede: It went great, there’s nothing in my colon they are the least bit concerned about, and I don’t have to come back for another colonoscopy for a decade,…
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why is Elon Musk so very very rich?
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Why is Elon Musk so very very rich? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dear LGM Readership: I was digging around in the history of the financial disclosures of Elon Musk’s companies, as one does, and it appears to my no doubt naive eyes that on net those companies have collectively lost tens of billions of dollars, and that to the extent this isn’t true it’s because operating losses […]
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Counterproductive authoritarianism
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Counterproductive authoritarianism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Donald Trump narrowly winning two presidential elections in conditions highly favorable to the out party may suggest the conclusion that playing dirty is always good politics, but I don’t think that this is true. Trump’s illegal taxpayer-funded campaign ads are very bad, but I continue to think that to the extent that the matter they […]
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Update on US-Ecuadorian maritime ops: "An Ecuadorian judge declared 32 crew members of two vessels that were intercepted and bombed by the United States in Pacific waters innocent on Wednesday." efe.com/mundo/declar...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
« AI is bad, but it's ok for coding »... Indeed, it's pretty weird (derogatory) that in Aug. 2026 folks are still believing and pushing this fantasy.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 07/10/2026
BREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl
ORDERED that Plaintiff’s [74] Motion to Unseal is GRANTED IN PART. The Clerk of the Court shall unseal in full the [65-2] Delta PowerPoint. Defendants shall submit to Plaintiff and the Court any proposals for narrowly tailored redactions to the [65-1] JLL Plan, accompanied by particularized and substantial written justifications, no later than October 14, 2026. Plaintiff shall file any response to the proposed redactions no later than October 19, 2026. The Court will then review the proposals and rule by separate order.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 07/10/2026
It's not really fair that I blame her more than anyone else for Roe v Wade because 50 other senators helped... But she is the only one who got on the senate floor and gave a defensive angry gaslighting speech chiding us for daring to think Kavanaugh would do what we all knew he would do.
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CrazyITGuy42 @crazyitguy42.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UI is not copyrightable in most cases. see Lotus v. Borland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_D....
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Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland International, Inc. - Wikipedia
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wrote about Thurgood Marshall recognizing the bad-faith legalism of his conservative SCOTUS colleagues before just about anyone else. www.liberalcurrents.com/thurgood-mar...
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Thurgood Marshall Saw It Coming
The supercharged bad faith of “constitutional originalism” threatens everything we hold dear.
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Mark Coupe Photography @mcoupephotography.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdSupermodel. Any bird looking like it's posing for a magazine cover. I think this Northern pygmy owl qualifies. #birds #owls #northernpygmyowl #mcoupephotography
Northern pygmy owl posing on a treetop.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
1/ How easy is it to destroy a major bridge solely with aerial bombardment? Both Russia and Ukraine have attempted it, but the example of the Zatoka Bridge shows that it is very difficult to do. ⬇️
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Someone called Relay hired a firm called Montana Research to send me a survey Not a problem, I love surveys, happy to fill it out Got partway in and discovered the topic was on... ::drumroll::
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“But a new analysis of her notes…offers a firm rebuttal. Science historian Alistair Sponsel & crystallographer Brian Sutton argue Franklin knew the earlier photo had revealed a helix—the epiphany Watson claimed for himself—and that is precisely why she made a second, more refined version”
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights & sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958”
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 06/10/2026
For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...
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What is AI, and why is it harmful?
YouTube video by Olivia Guest
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thousands of Cornell students have taken over the main plaza on campus to demand the Cornell 7 be held accountable for their crimes. 21% of undergraduate women are raped or sexual assaulted during their time on campus.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Olympic canoeist who went through "nightmare" Reflecting Pool case is pushing two government watchdogs to probe "incompetence and wrongdoing."
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Former Olympic canoeist asks government watchdogs to probe ‘nightmare’ Reflecting Pool case
The Trump administration’s “sprint” to charge Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn, his attorneys wrote, “mirrored the rushed renovation itself.”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
if this fucker is going to spite us and live past 90 like his dad did he should at least get to experience the rest of us tearing his legacy down around his ears
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
there are many reasons I think Night Watch is the best Discworld book it has some of Terry’s best character work, and sharpest social commentary, and tightest plotting, and getting to see the younger version of everyone is a blast and also it has maybe the best stupid pun he ever wrote
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
But the helmet has gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that work stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Somebody needs to do something." Marimar Martinez's attorneys insist they have the evidence to charge Border Patrol agent Charles Exum with wrongdoing in her October 2025 shooting in Chicago. From @chicago.suntimes.com on her new lawsuit: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol sues feds — and keeps pushing for criminal charges
Marimar Martinez was labeled a "domestic terrorist" and criminally charged after she was shot by agent Charles Exum last year. Since her exoneration, she has fought the Trump administration's aggressi...
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CrazyITGuy42 @crazyitguy42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I see they are toning down the rhetoric. /s
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Heartache Kits @hsticka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just heard @npr.org say "no one knows how to fairly divvy up the bill" regarding the increase in utility costs due to data centers. Easy. Data centers pay. The infrastructure, increase, their own bills. If I walk into a store and fuck up everything in there, I have to pay for it. Why don't they?
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last year, Chicagoan Marimar Martinez was shot **5 times** by a Border Patrol agent & all agents accounts were contradicted by evidence. Now she is suing the federal govt. Worth reading whole piece; agents cheered for shooter via celebratory texts (“beers on me") blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/05/m...
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Marimar Martinez Sues Feds A Year After Border Patrol Agent Shot Her 5 Times
A reconstruction of the shooting commissioned by Martinez’s legal team found agent Charles Exum was standing to the side of her car and was not in danger as he fired, her attorneys said.
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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 05/10/2026
Today, almost 6 months after publication, I get an email from the copyright office saying they can't proceed with this copyright registration. Why? Because they detected that some of the text in the book was generated by AI. (Spoiler: zero percent of the book was generated by AI.)
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Brianna Hildebrand: What The F*ck?!
Alt: Brianna Hildebrand saying What The F*ck?!
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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 05/10/2026
Oboy. So, remember how I published a book with @neonhemlock.bsky.social in April called The Mystery of the Bitten Peach? I went ahead and registered the copyright. As you might imagine, the main reason I bothered to do that was *because* of the AI companies stealing copyrighted material.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇
Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.
Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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iolanthe @iolantherosa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mr Red-shouldered Hawk would like a word. Always with the complaints with that species! 🪶
A Red-shouldered Hawk shouting at the photographer.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One thing that’s become apparent to me as AI generated text proliferates is how much we’re being influenced by short attention span/clickbait styles of writing becoming the norm—or even the new accepted & desirable standard.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
I think that Cohen and Tacitus would have gotten along fabulously, assuming they were not on opposite sides of a battle
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times
Cohen’s father had taken him to a mountain top, when he was no more than a lad, and explained to him the hero’s creed and told him that there was no greater joy than to die in battle.

Cohen had seen the flaw in this straight away, and a lifetime’s experience had reinforced his beleif that in fact a greater joy was to kill the other bugger in battle and end up sitting on a heap of gold higher than your horse. It was an observation that had served him well.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo “It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.”
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today is the 64th anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, so it’s time for the story of the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington—because Goya’s portrait of him had been nicked from the National Gallery the previous summer, just 19 days after it went on display
Sean Connery in Dr No’s lair, about to go up a short flight of stairs when he spots a portrait of the Duke of Wellington on a stand. The original had been stolen from the National Gallery the previous year, and this was a joke by the Bond production team
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