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Alan Pringle
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Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations. Cary and Asheville, NC.
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · Nov 15
A quick #introduction:
* Enjoys #chocolate, #movies (especially 70s and 80s #horror), #PopCulture, and #technology
* Avoids mushrooms, real housewives, and most superhero movies
* Works at scriptorium.com, where I help companies streamline #content processes with more efficient #ContentOps
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 3h
These photos will brighten your day.
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 2d
And I'm delighted to see #NC in the mix.

Thanks, @joshsteinnc.bsky.social .
ylepidemiologist.bsky.social Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 2d
1/ Fourteen states and Guam joined forces to launch a Governors’ Public Health Alliance. With federal support shifting and funding drying up, states are stepping up to coordinate, innovate, and protect your health. We're breaking this down along with some other #publichealth news you should know👇
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 5d
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 3d
"I've changed. People change. I'm not the same Jerri Blank who informed on those blind orphans. I'm not the same Jerri Blank who revealed the hiding place of those Guatemalans... such as yourself. And I'm not the same Jerri Blank who took a crap in the Fleishmann's holly bushes... last night."
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 5d
People often ask me, "When you retire, will you move to #Asheville full-time?"

My answer is: "Not if the primary #hospital up there continues to get called out for all the wrong reasons."

avlwatchdog.org/mission-hosp...

#healthcare #MissionHospital
Mission Hospital faces new immediate jeopardy recommendation as state agency flags major safety risks • Asheville Watchdog
Mission Hospital should again be put in immediate jeopardy, the worst sanction a hospital can face, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has recommended. The finding, made by…
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 6d
Watching season one of One Step Beyond, a #tv anthology series focused on the paranormal. Very much a cousin of The Twilight Zone.

Hadn't heard of it until I found the #DVD set at the #ThriftStore. Also streaming on Tubi and elsewhere.

#PhysicalMedia

m.imdb.com/title/tt0052...
One Step Beyond (TV Series 1959–1961) ⭐ 7.8 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
25m | Approved
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 7d
#TigNotaro on former friend #CherylHines: "You're okaying a particular ride for this country to go on."

Their #podcast was hilarious, but I COMPLETELY understand what Tig did. Anybody with a moral compass would have done the same.

#RFKJr

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Tig Notaro details falling out with Cheryl Hines over RFK Jr.: 'I needed to step away'
Tig Notaro says she 'needed to step away' from friend Cheryl Hines when her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced his run for president.
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 10d
Complete #MissMarple #ebook collection for 99 cents (US):

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#AgathaChristie #books
Agatha Christie: 13-Book The Complete Miss Marple Collection (eBook) - 2025-10-12
HarperCollins Publishers vi Amazon has Agatha Christie: 13-Book The Complete Miss Marple Collection (Kindle Edition) on sale for $0.99.Note: Eligible Prime members may apply earned No-Rush Shipping cr
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 11d
Lidl in Cary, NC
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 12d
Hard pass.
Cartons of pumpkin egg nog lined up across a shelf
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Josh Stein @joshsteinnc.bsky.social · 12d
Reader’s Digest ranks Asheville as the Nicest Place in America! Come check out Asheville and the rest of western NC to see all they have to offer. www.rd.com/article/ashe...
When Hurricane Helene Hit, Asheville, North Carolina, Banded Together—And Became 2025’s Nicest Place in America
After a devastating hurricane, residents rallied together … and provided a blueprint for what real cooperation and kindness look like.
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 20d
"The Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking!"

Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies

www.bbc.com/news/article...

#TV #comedy
Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96
She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played BBC One's crime-busting Hetty Wainthropp.
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 20d
Today's dilemma in my clothes closet: finding pants for my first on-site business meeting in YEARS...

#fashion #VennDiagram
Headline: Pants for on-site business meeting Venn diagram with two circles: STILL FIT and NOT DATED.
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 20d
Confirmed book was on list and filed claim just a few hours ago.
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 21d
Sure enough, #Anthropic fed a book I coauthored into its #LLM. And I just filed a claim.

The list of "borrowed" works is now live:
buff.ly/FyPnS53

#AI #copyright
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 22d
Quick update: list of books #Anthropic pulled will be posted to the settlement website by October 2, along with claim forms.

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Details: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
Homepage | ANT
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 23d
A real chance #Anthropic "borrowed" a book I coauthored, so I have provided my contact information to the counsel handling the class action #lawsuit.

Will find out later if that book was indeed among the ones that Anthropic pulled from LibGen.

#copyright #AI #books

buff.ly/W0A3v8y
Homepage | ANT
Important Update: The Court granted preliminary approval on September 25, 2025.
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 24d
Crew at my local #Aldi has a sense of humor, and I'm here for it.

#Halloween
A plastic skeleton wearing glasses and an ALDI shirt in chair at checkout
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 27d
I saw All That Heaven Allows at an @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social screening in #Raleigh earlier this week.

Off-the-charts production design + Technicolor = visual candy

#movies
citizenscreen.bsky.social Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 27d
Publicity photo from the set of ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) featuring Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman, director Douglas Sirk, and Agnes Moorehead.
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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 27d
“We were never thinking Cary at all,” Wood explains. “It wasn’t a place that we came to, because for forever there wasn’t really much around.”

indyweek.com/food-and-dri...
Making Moves: Lawrence Barbecue Relocates to Cary
The popular Boxyard RTP restaurant focuses on great food and good fun in a new space.
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 28d
OK, this is an #AI application I can see as being helpful. Not everyone can be a photo-tool whiz, so conversational editing could provide a simplified path for adjusting photos.

buff.ly/tkrxK3O
Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos.
We’re expanding the ability to edit your images by simply asking in Google Photos to Android devices.
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · 28d
And I use none of these #SocialMedia platforms or #media outlets accordingly.
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28d
The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · Sep 22
Found #DVD at the thrift store just before #RobertRedford died. Great movie about #journalism that doesn't occur at top papers right now.

Not widely #streaming, like too many #movies of its era.

All the President's Men (1976)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
All the President's Men (1976) ⭐ 7.9 | Drama, History, Thriller
2h 18m | PG
www.imdb.com
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · Sep 20
162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health.

www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom...
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky
American College of Physicians Calls for Removal of Secretary Kennedy at HHS | ACP Online
Statement attributable to:Jason M. Goldman, MD, MACPPresident, American College of Physicians
www.acponline.org
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · Sep 19
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