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Great-grandpa Allan: 1835, Ireland. Me: since Balliol College, Oxford & @education.ox.ac.uk - chalkface teacher to professor: 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🇿🇦 🇧🇬 ☄️ 'We must be still and still moving.' T. S. Eliot. @ Linktr.ee/dralant

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CNN @cnn.com · 3h
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has funneled just over $100 million to a group trying to defeat a one-time state tax on California’s billionaires this November. cnn.it/4hFof3A
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 3h
This 👇 is the polar opposite of Sally Fields “you like me!” m.youtube.com/shorts/CscF8...
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Sally Field's Iconic "You Like Me!" Speech At The 57th #Oscars For Winning Best Actress #shorts
YouTube video by Oscars
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 7h
"Only two other countries have left GRECO before — Russia and Belarus."
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 1h
Diet Coke Diet coke Diet coke...
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 7h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 3h
A STAR IS BORN premiered #OTD in 1954. Judy Garland was nominated for an Oscar, but lost to Grace Kelly for THE COUNTRY GIRL. "The biggest robbery since Brink’s," Groucho Marx called it. George Cukor's lavish musical is on Tubi 'til Sept 30 if you'd like to marvel at Judy (and James Mason's) work.
Judy Garland and James Mason in a promotional photo for George Cukor's A STAR IS BORN (1954).
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 2h
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2h
Quite a day for the humanities. No better argument for learning tactics for the close reading of texts than what we saw today. Hawks are quite different than Hawkeyes, Mr. Schmitt. Ex Corde, A Hawkeye
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 2h
👁️ Out at 5am for some light twisty exercises, and greeted by the Moon's (slight) corona. 🌕
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 7h
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 5h
Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
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Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
Nearly a week after her party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), won the parliamentary elections, the mayor of Marrakech was named Morocco's prime minister on September 29.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 6h
This is connected to the Schmitt debacle from earlier - the Republican Party now talks only to itself using language that only they employ, everyone else is expected to follow along or have the power of the state come down on them
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h
Artificial intelligence is a stupid term. For one thing, it’s neither artificial nor intelligent.
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Dr. Dani Sanchez, MFA, PhD (She/Her/They/Them) @analgesicsleep.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was first American woman to direct a full-length feature film and the highest paid silent film director at Universal in 1916. She directed over 100 films in 2 decades. #SilentFlickerSunday #Suspense #LoisWeber #SilentFilm
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😆 #travel
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 12h
✨ Woman creates angry male tumult when politely clarifies his error.
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UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 9h
Happy Silent Movie Day! 🎞 ✨ @filmpreservation.bsky.social has newly added 5 silent films to their online screening room, including 3 preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive: My Lady’s Lips (1925) The Roaring Road (1919) Automobile Thieves (1906) www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2026/9/...
William Powell and Clara Bow facing each other, looking pensive.Two men riding in a race car from the 1910s on a dirt road.Two cars from the 1900s driving alongside each other on a dirt road. One driver is handing a rope to the other car.
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Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.social · 8h
Pauline Kael was once asked what was her favorite film: “In my entire life? Well there’s a French movie you’ve probably never heard of that I like best - “Menilmontant” a silent film made in 1924 by Dmitri Kirsanov starring his beautiful wife.” What better way to celebrate National Silent Movie Day?
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 6h
Getting his fever dream is in sight...👽
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 6h
In addition to the names of the Cornell 7 we should also make famous the administrators and law enforcement officers who originally thought an apology letter would be sufficient.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h
these look more and more like late Brezhnev, late Chernenko photos
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h
Quite how someone with zero experience of TV news could have caused the lowest ratings in 60 Minutes’ history is, of course, a mystery.
radaronline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS After Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger as 'Anti-Woke' Editor Blamed for Torpedoing '60 Minutes'
Bari Weiss has been blamed for 60 Minutes' slide in viewership this season after making sweeping changes to the news network.
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Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action @joindayenu.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: Amid nationwide protests, Amazon is building 8 new gas power plants to run its next wave of AI data centers. Amazon already operates 825 data centers across 149 properties in the US alone — more than any other hyperscaler. More on the Cleanview report: newsletter.cleanview.co/p/eight-new-...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14h
Free access to museums is one of the most spectacular things about the UK. This is a great decision.
lemonde.fr
UK decides against charging foreigners for museums
The government announced in March it would explore the idea of charging foreign visitors to boost funding. But after months of consultation, the culture ministry decided against the move, saying it co...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 9h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h
Russell Brand is a serial rapist who is currently out on bail preparing to stand trial at the Old Bailey on rape and sexual assault charges in the next few months. He also has a documented history of public indecency and narcotics abuse. He's right at home with Öz, JD Vance, Kennedy and Rollins.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 12h
✨ Wasn't born to follow...
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 11h
He wants to go to Mars - but can't see his feet.
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HITCHCOCK- Jacobean Artist @jacobeanvisions.bsky.social · 11h
👽 So, Kim, did you know! - Hitch might also come back after death?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h
There were three high-profile resignations at DOJ yesterday that you need to know about.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 12h
🇬🇧 🎨 'The UK government says national museums in England will remain FREE FOR ALL, ending months of speculation that international visitors could be charged to enter institutions such as the British Museum, Tate, the National Portrait Gallery...' ✨ www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/28/f...
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Culture secretary confirms free admission for all at England’s national museums will remain
The announcement by Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, came after recent discussions of introducing admission fees for overseas visitors
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Mike Thicke @mikethicke.bsky.social · 12h
I disagree with the argument that colleges and universities should "lean in" to AI by incorporating it into all aspects of undergraduate education. Rather, I think they are best positioned to do the opposite: offer temporary *refuges* from AI and technology. #AcademicSky
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College After AI
Colleges can save themselves by saving reading
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✨ Wasn't born to follow...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
We are publishing the name of the alleged shooter because we believe transparency in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing is of vital public interest as investigators, lawmakers and the public seek to understand what happened and how ICE operates more broadly in this state. Read more here:
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13h
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 15h
You might not understand this, but when you say “showing up at” you mean “getting cruelly tricked or forcibly dragged into,” because they are small children.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 14h
"I stand by my decisions as Special Counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump." Jack Smith delivers his opening statement as he testifies to the Senate about his investigation into Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 14h
Spain aims to ban evictions until 2030 amid housing protests
lemonde.fr
Spain aims to ban evictions until 2030 amid housing protests
The protests were sparked by the eviction of an 87-year-old pensioner, Maricarmen Abascal, after her rent for the home she'd lived in for 70 years was hiked by 275%.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 14h
👁️ Perfect wave ...
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Dr. Fröhlich (prefers not to) @edgarallandoh.bsky.social · 14h
You barely notice those disgusting children.
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 14h
29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610 Caravaggio, Italian (1571-1610), St Jerome Writing, c 1605-06, oil on canvas, 112 x 157 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 14h
👽 A Golden Age!!! - with a few minor aches and pains. #midterms 🇺🇸
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h
The people's occupation of Puerta del Sol in Madrid continues to grow in size and ferocity. They know the real invaders are not working class immigrants or people of color, but vulture funds, landlord parasites and transnational capitalists who drive workers from homes and suppress wages.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
She never fails...
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vizierprime.bsky.social @vizierprime.bsky.social · 22h
“Everyone will benefit” leaves one question unanswered: Can I claim my share, or do I have to stay on the owner’s good side?
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 16h
The moment when Democrats delivered healthcare to more than 30 Million additional American citizens.
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