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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧

@alexfranq.bsky.social

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average social media enjoyer 📷 jr project manager at versant media “you’re not alone in this, none of us are” ✨ fan of: animals 🐈‍⬛ | films 🎞️| videogames 🎮

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · Oct 31

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💙 instagram: asweeneyphoto
💙 twitter: franqueiralex
💙 letterboxd: dannyboyle

Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 6h

i got fucked up today cause its been 21 years since 'I'm Not Okay' by My Chemical Romance came out

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1d

The concept of rich men using a technology that’s ruining the planet to exploit the dead so they can avoid paying the living is so viscerally vile it made me shudder.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

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

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

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

www.scientificamerican.com

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 16h

you have 0 excuse now to not play yakuza @devilligan.bsky.social

PlayStation @playstation.com · 16h

The PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October includes:

🌫️ Silent Hill 2
⏳ Until Dawn
🧛🏻 V Rising
🐉 Yakuza: Like a Dragon

…and more. The full lineup: play.st/476NXsf

Game library varies over time, country/region and plan. PS Plus is subject to a recurring subscription fee taken automatically until cancellation. Terms apply: play.st/psplus-usageterms

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 18h

revisited my absolute favorite x-men film last night boxd.it/bntOgL

A ★★★★★ review of X-Men: First Class (2011)

this movie will always be my favorite x-men movie.

boxd.it

Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 19h

somewhere between rage and serenity.

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 19h

omg she’s standing like people

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

i don’t think that’s allowed

google search for “how old is chatgpt” with AI results saying it is nearly three years old

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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 1d

A biopic about the life of DRACULA star Bela Lugosi is in the works from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and the writers of ED WOOD.

Young Bela Lugosi Biopic In The Works From ED WOOD Writers

A biopic about the life of DRACULA star Bela Lugosi is in the works from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and the writers of ED WOOD.

dlvr.it

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

im curious how well they are made, like can you just put those in the wash

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

imagine them in little braids actually tho lmao

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

what another horrible day to have eyes

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

i need to publically shame men who aren’t 3 very specific men.

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

i first read this as huge shack if that helps you understand where my brain is at.

Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

i think we need to bring back public humiliating men.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

... what

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "You hear those sirens going off? That's good. A good sound. That means they either got the bad guy or they're gonna stop the bad guy. You didn't hear that sound bc nobody wanted to do anything. Listen to the beauty of that sound. That's the real deal sirens, not politically correct sirens"

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

can we offer you an owl bear bum in these trying times? #NoBigNeil

Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

reflecting on how if i never stumbled upon Baldur's Gate 3, i would've never found @neilnewbon.bsky.social and @devilligan.bsky.social 's wonderful, whacky and fun streams, forever grateful to both of them for helping me find some of my best friends through their communities.

Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

if i said what i wanted to say i would be put on a watchlist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

also my mom said “why do you keep making famous men get on their knees for you” and i feel like she could’ve worded that better 😬👀🫠

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Drew Struzan has passed away at the age of 78

He created many iconic movie posters

The Thing poster and Back to the Future poster

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Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

what a legend omg.

Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 1d

funnily enough i was just informed that they’ll both be at mcm birmingham in november and i really do hope they meet!

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