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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 8h

Okay, for all you quiz junkies, I made a just-for-fun version (results aren't recorded) that shows you 6 samples:

jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 8h

Mashup idea: 'What Do I Have to Do?' by Kylie Minogue x 'Get Set' by Taxiride

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 12h

Welcome to Trump's peace in the Middle East: One day later, Israel's Finance Minister declares: "There will be Jewish settlement in Gaza"

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 11h

The 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' theme music started up in my head when I saw that absurd Trump pic

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 12h

I kind of love this though! I would love to know Ancient Greek but it’s so daunting

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 13h

I thought I was so smart learning both Italian and Latin in Duolingo, thinking each language would help me with the other one, but they are only just similar enough to trip me up

male Latine loquor; semper verbum malum dico

parlo male italiano; dico sempre la parola sbagliata

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 13h

She didn’t mention her specific age but I see what you’re doing here

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

On what would have been Margaret Thatcher's 100th birthday, a reminder of what this awesome woman said at her funeral.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

Giant filler-puffed lips the colour of cirrhosis are in, tho

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

Tel-e-phone. Brrrrrrrrring!

Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what I did the OP for! As an adult you look at them like “goofy yes, scary no”, never realising some kid is shitting themselves at being threatened to “feel the noize”

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

I wished I could

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

As a kid I was shitscared of Chocky

Side note: this is fast becoming fodder for @scarredforlife.bsky.social

Chocky (Series 1 opening titles, 1984)

YouTube video by weegerri1sm

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

I love this, Ben! You took a stand against Blackboard erasure

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

A sensible choice!

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

Yes – it sounds *metallic* doesn’t it

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

I also like a good family tree or other similar diagram showing the character alliances and relationships

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

They are both not too dissimilar to the ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ TV theme, which was actually written to be scary. I still get chills at the final chord changes

Unsolved Mysteries - Opening Theme - 1988 (HQ Audio)

YouTube video by Darren J

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

Someone else on the internet (I forget who) said the 1980s Village Roadshow logo was so terrifying they would have to flee the room

It’s spiritually akin to the Four Corners theme

Village Roadshow Pictures logo (1985)

YouTube video by PFS2021Channel Susatir-Gaulves-Reeve

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

These live on in some historical, fantasy and science-fiction novels, and I regularly refer back to them when I can’t remember who Zaganov or Cheng are

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

What’s something objectively not that scary that terrified you when you were a kid?

This question is inspired by my friend who still can’t watch Four Corners because the theme music has scared her since she was little

ABC Four Corners Theme Full Version, 1980s–1990s

YouTube video by Alex Peters

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 2d

TIL my favourite Beatrix Potter character HUNCA MUNCA, the Queen of Rage and Disappointment, is named after King Arthur’s daughter in ‘Tom Thumb’, a 1730 satirical tragedy play by Thomas Fielding

The play reportedly made Jonathan Swift LOLIRL for only the 2nd time ever

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 2d

Important thread on how Abbott thinks the racist vibes straight from his own raw onion are more reliable than the First Nations oral histories extensively backed up by white science

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 2d

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 3d

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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