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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎

@dralant.bsky.social
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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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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 2h
Lord of the Manor. Woof!
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 3h
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 2h
Golfing days are soon over...sad..
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 3h
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 3h
They allowed this to happen...
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Debate
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 4h
Always with the rapist's language. Never fails.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 4h
👁️ Since Helsinki nobody asks for or expects transcripts..✍️ #journalism does #trumprussia 🇺🇸🇷🇺
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 4h
👁️ Beginnings of a lifetime interest in depicting quiet liminal spaces - hotel lobbies, cafes, theatre seats, that country petrol station - between the before and what's to come. 🎨
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 4h
Fox News’ role as a GOP propaganda machine is clear to anyone who has bothered to peruse its programming — Donald Trump knows it, Rupert Murdoch knows it, disgraced Roger Ailes knew it, and longtime viewers like me certainly know it. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4h
Amazing how much progress we’ve made in online privacy. We moved from websites being intrusive without telling you, to websites intrusively asking your permission to be intrusive.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h
The nuclear codes are in the room too...👁️
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 19h
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h
💫 The antifa allies were finally on their way...
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h
🇺🇸 I often miss Hunter Biden's laptop... #midterms ✍️
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h
📚 Bookmarks! 🇮🇪 Galway 🇫🇷 Paris 🇬🇧 Oxford
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h
🇬🇧 The Classic cinema where I first saw that 1968 epic space film. 🎬 - a few years later that ten-year-old would read that Kubrick's Jupiter was a few miles north in Elstree...👁️ #Hampstead
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h
🇮🇪 Sourcing the family homestead in #Longford. - 'more milk than beer' as dad often joked
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h
✍️ "He is totally a real person." 👁️
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 6h
“The Single Most Toxic Issue in the Midterms”: How America Turned on AI Data Centers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"The single most toxic issue in the midterms": How America turned on data centers.
On the latest episode of "Stress Test": The AI building boom has become the season’s sharpest attack line—and candidates are running scared.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10h
creep tool, you can ban it apnews.com/article/norw...
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Privacy concerns put smart glasses under scrutiny as Norway seeks temporary ban
Norway's government is proposing a temporary ban on AI glasses in certain public spaces. The smart glasses can snap photos, record conversations or stream video without people knowing.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 6h
🇬🇧⚠️ The list of jolly fumbling but REALLY FUN privileged evil doers is something...
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Boris Johnson Speaking in Parliament
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 23h
⚠️ It's always mob mission creep ...first a little game or a joke ...then the whack...
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Robert De Niro as Al Capone with Baseball Bat
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 13h
👁️The midday flights - Europe and the Middle East...✈️
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 11h
👁️ My first match up between film and #literature...✍️ 🎬 📚
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 7h
🇷🇺 Don't go. 🇷🇺 And if you are there...get out. 🫪
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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 7h
NATO’s Military Committee chair Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone and envoys from all 32 allies met Ukrainian military leadership. Dragone affirmed the alliance’s unbreakable support, warning Moscow that hybrid attacks will fail. www.kyivpost.com/post/86372
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 7h
👁️ Literacy? I had to cross Europe and place a short typed and translated letter before a bank clerk - who after 'studying' it in real time then asked for my address. - which was at the top of the page - where it always is. 👽
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 7h
"The Israeli government exploited the trauma, the pain, the fear of the Israelis after the October 7 massacre to change the status quo from conflict management to ethnic cleansing," says Maoz Inon, who lost his parents in the October 7 attack.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 8h
Kids are spending longer than ever in ORR custody, and attorneys have turned to habeas petitions to get them out. Jill Williams of Acacia and Becky Wolozin of the National Center for Youth Law explained the strategy to me. austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-chil…
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 8h
And the list keeps growing. Justina Shiroka Pula was elected President of Kosovo today, October 7. On September 29, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri became Morocco’s first woman Prime Minister. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
convicted felon Peter Navarro, who now works in the White House again after serving a four-month sentence, goes on TV with the White House behind him to promote a new product that he'll personally profit from -- a book called "Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison"
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 13h
RIP, 92. 🎬 Supermom passed on so many acting roles to bring up her kids ...then it was Martha...
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 11h
👁️ My first match up between film and #literature...✍️ 🎬 📚
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 11h
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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 15h
Christa Pike’s death sentence wasn’t simply because she was an adult, unlike her co-defendant. She was intimate with the Black boy who was her co-defendant in the murder case. Her sentence was a warning to white women who cross racial boundaries. #r4today
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DD @gingergray.bsky.social · 14h
Remem. #CaroleLombard on her Oct 6th Birthday♥️ Maybe my favorite Old Hollywood screwball comedy actress. Oscar nom. for MY MAN GODFREY. Also in TWENTIETH CENTURY, NOTHING SACRED, TO BE OR NOT TO BE, MR AND MRS SMITH. Hard to believe she was gone at 33 💔 #TCMParty #FilmSky #MovieSky
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h
While the flow of oil through Hormuz has now reached about 85% of its normal rate, the cost of moving it has become staggering as a result of insurance and special security. The cost of carrying oil from inside the Persian Gulf to China rose to a record $1.3 million a day Monday, according to data
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Dalio Says We’re Nearing Point Where AI Bubble May Burst
Billionaire Ray Dalio warned that artificial intelligence is a “classic bubble” that is nearing a bursting point thanks to rising interest rates and the need to turn wealth into cash.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 12h
A+
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 11h
👁️ And 'race?' - is there a stopwatch? - a landing site? - winner's cup?
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 11h
👁️ Do not be a 'retainer.'
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 11h
✨ '...proposals for special safeguards to protect the bloc from leaders who could flout democratic values and hold hostage decision making...' 🇪🇺✍️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘No more Viktor Orbán’: EU plans 15-year probation period for new member states
Enlargement commissioner Marta Kos outlines proposed safeguards to protect EU from undemocratic leaders
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 17h
On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Since 9/21, high schoolers across France have shut down more than a thousand schools, demanding teachers, smaller classes, and buildings that aren't falling apart. The state answered with tear gas and nearly 2,000 arrests in a single day. Here, a right-wing reporter getting schooled by a HS student
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta’s ad ban on progressive Lula shows US #tech #billionaires aren't just aiding far-right figures—they ARE the transnational #oligarchy seizing power across borders. Big Tech, Donald #Trump, and jailed Jair Bolsonaro’s son Flávio operate as one global network targeting democracies. #Zuckerberg
News graphic featuring side-by-side portraits of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva looking serious on the left and Mark Zuckerberg smiling on the right. White text below reads: "Facebook Blocks Lula’s Campaign Ads Days Before Brazil Election / But allows paid posts calling for the military to ‘take back power’."
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Dmitri. #freeLink @momus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the most predictable consequences ever: Strikingly, every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
UNICEF - More Than 64,000 Children Killed or Injured in Gaza Since October 2023 www.unicefusa.org/stories/more...
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More Than 64,000 Children Killed or Injured in Gaza Since October 2023
Despite a nominal ceasefire, the number of child casualties keeps climbing.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 13h
RIP, 92. 🎬 Supermom passed on so many acting roles to bring up her kids ...then it was Martha...
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 22h
2026. Her last birthday ...102 🍂🎬😔
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 18h
We will always...
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Rick Blaine: We'll Always Have Paris
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