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Shelley Stamp

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Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

gene kelly is antifa

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 1d

Another one? It’s almost like…

Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 1d

In honor spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Griffith, father of cinema.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually really exciting what a human brain can do compared to a large language model with rigid rules

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 2d

a man walking down a sidewalk with a bag of garbage in front of a don villa 's van

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 2d

My opinion? Bigelow > PTA. An utterly propulsive thriller that doesn’t center white dudes, doesn’t fall back on a tired rescue plot, and deals with some very real sh*t. #AHouseOfDynamite

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 2d

For a girl like me coming of age in the 70s, Diane Keaton’s iconic style was everything. Loved her. RIP

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 2d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 3d

a man in a maroon shirt sits at a desk with a book

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 3d

Well, I’d watch Guy Pearce read the phone book, so….

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

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USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 4d

Okie dokie.

Cybel Martin ASC @cybeldp.bsky.social · 4d

Kathryn 👏🏾 Mother 👏🏾 Fking 👏🏾 Bigelow 👏🏾👏🏾

That. That was my review of #AHouseOfDynamite.

See it before people start spoiling.

#nfotd

Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 4d

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Just criminal. 😠😡🤬

Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 4d

Netflix has 12 pre-1980 films in October. They had as many as 21 in July.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) is now their oldest American film.

List in alt text. #FilmSky #Streaming

Netflix Pre-1980 Titles (Oct, 2025)

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
WILLY WONKA (1971)
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
JAWS (1975)
TAXI DRIVER (1976)
THE SENTINEL (1977)
JAWS 2 (1978)
ANIMAL HOUSE (1978)
DRACULA (1979)
THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN (1979)
RICHARD PRYOR: LIVE IN CONCERT (1979)

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 4d

Please tell me you’re writing a piece about anti-fascism in popular movies of old?!?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

STORY: ORANGE MAN LIE AGAIN

OLD WAY: “CRITICS SAY STATEMENT MAY BE MISLEADING.”

ANIMAL WAY: HIT KICK DRUM, YELL “LIE!” HIT TAMBOURINE, WHISPER “but other side lie too” IN SOFTEST MIKE JOHNSON VOICE.

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 5d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 5d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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