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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22m

Possibly the funniest thing in here is Jones’ lawyers describing The Onion as his “ideological nemesis.”

Meet the Press @meetthepress.com · 27m

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block $1.5B defamation judgment

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 50m

in plinky-plonky cover versions...

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 3h

All a big chuckle to this grotesque fuckwit and these media clowns just lap it up and clap like the shit handed chimps they are.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5h

Boris Johnson, "I tried to get the scientists to say that lockdown was a bad idea"

*they all laugh*

There were 26,000 covid deaths because Boris Johnson ignored scientists and delayed the first lockdown by a week

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 6h

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 6h

Logopolis (Christopher H. Bidmead, dir. Peter Grimwade, 1981).

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 6h

Oh. My. God. PTA nailed it.

A security guy confiscates an "Exodus 8:2" sign being held up by a quiz show audience member in a scene from Magnolia (1999).

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 7h

Also, if we're really doing pareidolia, to me it looks like a pair of horns...

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 10h

I literally just turned in a round of edits to my editor at Bloomsbury for my book about the founding of JPL and the Suicide Squad, and this is painful to see.

JPL has been responsible for some of our most incredible achievements in science, and this is going to set us back.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 19h

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 17h

George Beeves (not to be confused with Christopher Beeve of course).

Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 19h

Desperately trying to resist replying to any of the Columbus threads with "but surely his early screenwriting shows at least some talent?" because Bluesky.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 23h

screenshot 3 is incredible

amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 1d

inspiring 💗💖

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22h

Luckily when terrestrial television dies, we’ll be able to be completely dependent on disruptor billionaires who can’t budget properly and think all media is free and are probably going to go bust at the same time because it’s still just unproven spec tech, so that’ll be good.

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 23h

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Making Tron Ares, starring Jared Leto $180,000,000
Utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my studio is dying

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 1d

As a coral reef ecologist by training, this is the single-greatest heartbreak of my otherwise blessed life: the extinction of the greatest ecosystems on earth, in our lifetime, with full knowledge it would happen, because humans love fascism & tat more than life 💔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 1d

Blur
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Cyril Shaps
Played mostly doctors
Cyril Shaps
And dotty professors
Cyril Shaps
And the Archimandrite
Cyril Shaps
In a teacosy

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering Cyril Shaps, born this day in 1923.

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John Russell @johnrussell40.bsky.social · 1d

If instead of putting renewable electricity straight into the grid you use it to make green hydrogen, you lose ~one third of the embodied energy. Burning that hydrogen in a power station increases the losses further and is a fine example of madness. www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2021/6/...

Quote: "Put an energy value of 50 kWh of electricity in and get hydrogen out with an energy value of 33.3 kWh, or 67% efficiency."

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh - catnip!

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Leese on Life @katherineleese.is.tired.fyi · 1d

A Doctor Who pure-historical where the TARDIS breaks down in 1750 BC Mesopotamia; luckily, it’s actually a really simple part to fix as long as they can find someone to sell them some good quality Sumerian copper.

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Etched, I'm telling you. *Etched*

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Great thread and responses! Regarding non-realist TV, reminds me of a recent thread from @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social . I'm hoping against hope that Channel 5's Play for Today will attempt to revive the entire form rather than just trade off the brand. bsky.app/profile/n-au...

Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 15d

It's Bluesky so I would like to now talk to you, with authority, about something I know nothing about.

TV production.
UK TV can't afford to make TV (see article) so...

Here's a still from Blake's 7 series 4 ep9 "Sand"
Isn't it terrible. So unconvincing.
TV is so much better now...

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

... and one reason they got Fisher back so soon was because they needed someone to step in after Ted Lewis (of Jack's Return Home/Get Carter fame, no less!) didn't work out. Ironically Lewis's story was called the Doppelgängers, though no summary I can find has ever explained quite why!

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Disagree with you hugely about your verdict but I'm not going to cancel you for it! 😂 Stones is an all time fave for me. Couple of fun facts, tho: it's an evolution of an idea called The Stones of Time that Fisher first pitched in the Hartnell era with a spaceship buried under the Wessex Downs. 1/2

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 7d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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