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Lutz101 @lutz101.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"I teach this film not just because I love it, but because it inspires me to rethink a very familiar text through my students’ shared cultural references and weighing social concerns." - Maggie Hennefeld www.thecine-files.com/teaching-to-...

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The Cine-Files » Teaching To Be or Not to Be

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It was the 3rd of January he randomly bombed Iran too, I remember because it was my birthday weekend, and then obviously tried a coup on the 6th the next year, think this might just be his natural reaction to the end of the Christmas season & running out of Quality Streets

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/01/2026

Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.

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Dan Wellman @danwellman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Want to know what the UK would look like under Farage? Look at the US right now. The US far-right *is* the UK far-right, with the same people pulling all the strings on both sides of the Atlantic. The useful idiots are different, but the ideas, the tactics, and the funding are the same

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The Disasters of War — Laurie Lipton, 2003 www.laurielipton.com/the-sleep-of...

A drawing in black and white of a person lying in bed watching TV there's a remote control next to their bare legs in the left hand is a mug with Picasso's granica on it and then in color has the person's feet we see on the TV screen the screaming woman and a child also screaming his left arm has just been severed

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I have told family to take away the car keys of a patient who was far more functional than Trump. Was able to take care of himself but exhibited impaired judgment in complex situations. He has nuclear weapons

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Feeding the hungry and curing the sick are much cheaper than war, but this administration considered them so expensive that they broke the law so they could starve and kill poor people.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

If you want to argue based on the greatest good for the greatest number, consider that few things are as expensive as war. If you want to help people, it's cheaper and more effective to help by doing things like feeding the hungry or curing the sick.

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TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Hamish, more sense in his tail than most politicians have in their heads.

A Siamese type cat, on a couch, reclines against several cushions.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/01/2026

Funniest outcome here would be Maduro being acquitted by a US court because the Trump administration didn't think through the case and puts one of their idiot TV pundit prosecutors on it... and then countersuing.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

As usual @aliceolilly.bsky.social is spot on about constitutional matters. There are always potential Trumps: the difference is whether gatekeepers do their jobs. And here Congress has long abdicated its proper constitutional role.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 03/01/2026

grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text

A Bluesky user based in Venezuela posted 'I live near a military air base and five earth-shaking explosions were just heart.'
User @thenordic.bsky.social (a random asshole) replied 'was it too hard for you to to [sic] add a link?' along with a link to an AP piece. Quick, don't look, what do you think the odds are that this user responded gracefully to being told that OP was on the ground and reporting firsthand?

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Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2025

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden

Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Kids today don't understand how hard it was to cuddle a showgirl without a voyeur gorilla interrupting everything. The past is lost.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

“Knowing facts is the same as insider trading now so we’re suing you for reading a book”

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

“You can’t settle an argument with facts or explain anything with evidence because it disrupts the revenue model” is some thing.

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David “Darkness” Weiner @davidweiner.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I think every Godzilla movie that has Mothra in it should be classified as a musical, since Mothra won’t get out of bed without a whole song-and-dance routine.

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

"the news is integrating a gambling app where you can bet on which wars will kill the most people via ranked tier lists" is a real biblically accurate sodom and gomorrah moment im ngl

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Can I brag about my students a bit? For my Female Filmmakers class 60 students chose a filmmaker & either created a new Wikipedia page or expanded an existing page. They knocked it out of the park! Lots of great new info! Lots of non-English sources translated! Great insights abt filmmaking! 😊

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The older I get I question the theatre's ability to influence electoral politics - in the West, anyway - but it's maybe the best way to influence people. Passion is no substitute for skill. You need both - & it's a lot harder than it sounds, because skill smooths edges..

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Stoppard's advice to Belarus Free Theatre, whom he advised for many years - if you want to influence politics, you must write great plays & stage them well, 'because people only listen to those who know what they're doing.'

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Legend. Arguably did more to shape “New American Cinema” than anyone else.

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Ben Model @silentfilmmusic.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New book event! I’ll be giving a talk ‘n play presentation on “The Silent Film Universe” at the The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen on Thurs Dec 4th. The lecture will be both in-person and virtual. generalsociety.org/future-lectu...

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Pamela (Davis) Fausey-Giorgio @pfauseygiorgio.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I'm looking forward to this tomorrow (online and in-person in NYC): Ben Model and his wife, Manna Allen, and other silent film historians and colleagues helped me get through the early months of COVID-19 when they hosted Sunday screenings and talks.

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Spring in Leningrad, 1987 by Sinitsa Andrey Yurievich

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I'm super stressed right now so here's a recent favourite landscape from a few months ago again - Dunvegan in Alberta, Canada. This aerial embroidery took forever but was worth it 💚 the higher up perspective is more intricate and slower to sew I've found, more fiddly! #art

A large embroidery hoop lying on a stone slab. The hoop contains a sewn aerial view landscape of Dunvegan, Canada. A river cuts through the middle with a forest area to the south and agricultural fields and houses to the north.

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.

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Shock Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Woman Who Asked If He’s A Good Christian

Hundreds protested Tuesday at an ICE facility in southwest Colorado after agents detained two children on their way to school.

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Nola Pfau @ohnola.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

An easy one: Any comics film adaptation that exists without the original creator being able to pay off their house is a moral failure

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

"if you don't care enough to bother to fix something, then you are telling the audience you dont really care about them."

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🎶No hay bala que mate a la verdad cuando la defiende la razón🎶 It you are not using your reason to make sure you are communicating the truth effectively, then you are doing a bad job of defending the truth no matter how right you are about what the truth is. youtu.be/GFmHhV807BY?...

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MUEVETE-RUBEN BLADES

YouTube video by CUTO SOSA

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Alex @soundvis.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

These are the best type of hands. (Also, as an origamist can I just say that giving models away to appreciative people is the best bit!)

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Water Body, 2025 by Eli Horn www.instagram.com/elihorn_/

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Alexandra Pasternak www.instagram.com/sashpasternak/

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The Scam Goddess episodes on Shaun King are required listening.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Still can't get over the time Shaun King fundraised to climb the 14 highest peaks in the world and then came to WA state to get a practice run on a hill before he left for Everest or wherever and gave up after a 45 min hike on the main trail because it was too difficult

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I feel like I have discovered the greatest thing: since I don't like to read hardcover, I generally wait a long time for books to come out in paperback; but wait no more! The large print versions come out simultaneously and they're paperback. Bonus: nice and easy on the eyes. Living my best life.

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Becca Syracuse @bookdesignbee.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

*crying in art director* Please please please let your #portfoliday gift to yourself be adding your contact info (email), portfolio (link), and NAME to your socials. Some of you are missing opportunities because we can't reach you!!!!! 🫣

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

FRIDAY MURDER TIME! This week's story is bloody horrible and I want to preface with a few things. Us historians of homicide often find weird delineations in the historiography. Studies of murder often omit certain 'types' of homicide as nontypical. These are usually parent-child murders.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
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Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent. I love kids but I can barely afford my pets. Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.

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Daniel Robinson @drobinsonfilm.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Someone once said of the Brooklyn Bridge: Great art doesn’t fill a need, it creates a need. Nobody needed Beethoven’s 5th… until he wrote it, and now we don’t want to imagine the world without it.

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