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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 9d

👁️ Have a great week
Somehow...

LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 9d

William Powell for The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 32m

👁️ Epstein would approve.

🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 41m

👁️ Nobody checks this angle.

#TrumpRussia
#r4today ⚡

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 7h

Film director Raoul Peck grew up in Haiti and the Congo, and is no stranger to authoritarianism. So it was an easy “yes” when he was offered access to Orwell’s entire body of work. Peck talks to Audie about his take on Orwell’s legacy and what it has to teach us.

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Why Orwell's '1984' is having a moment in 2025

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 47m

⚡ Winning in Moscow. They are yet to question how all this benefits this guy...

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 5h

Timeline cleanse… R.I.P. Dianne. May her memory always be a blessing. 🙏

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Annie Hall (4/12) Movie CLIP - Cooking Lobster (1977) HD

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 55m

Both.👁️

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 3h

Today in “just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do something…” news

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

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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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16h

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 1h

💫 I know it so well. The bookshops, cinema, coffee shops, Keats, pubs, and Heath.

Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 5d

Curves - Hampstead

Admiring the curved track as the train departs from Hampstead London Underground station.

🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 1h

The lies, vanity, and sheer lack of everything.

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Dr Sarah Brand @sarahgailbrand.com · 6h

Babies won’t be allowed to be born in the UK until they have a post graduate degree in Physics.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 17h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h

🇺🇲 ⚽ The #FIFA2026 main office is in the Trump Tower. 👁️

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

She's plainly repulsed by him, understandably so.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

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NellMinow @nellminow.bsky.social · 8h

People who have been pardoned can no longer take the 5th and lying under oath is still perjury, not covered by the pardon. Just sayin’.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10h

I sense a pardon on its way.

A tweet by Jacob Shamsian reads: “The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she’s getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.”

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17h

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

Trump on his UN speech: “They killed my teleprompter. They did not let the man who operated it in.”

This is a lie.

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 15h

Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” was published on October 14, 1892. The book was the first collection of Holmes stories, which Conan Doyle had been publishing in magazines since 1887. #OnThisDay

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 9h

The guy on the left has the cash that the guy on the right wants.

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 1d

"How to Stand Up to a Dictator" author @mariaressa.bsky.social explains how social media companies used the Philippines as a testing ground for mass manipulation before employing their tactics in the U.S.

via @thedailyshow.com

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 9h

The toxic misogyny has been a reliable throughline of the Trump Era since 2015.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 9h

Cant believe this is what they are focusing on, when they aren’t even able to keep the government open.

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 9h

TREMENDOUS
Nobel Ceasefire Prize!!!

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 9h

‘It’s just a ceasefire, not a peace’ – Labour MP on Gaza deal
www.channel4.com/news/its-jus...

‘It’s just a ceasefire, not a peace’ – Labour MP on Gaza deal

We spoke to Emily Thornberry, Labour MP and chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs committee.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 11h

Director Lewis Milestone and/or writers Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer find a clever way for Adolphe Menjou to deal with the closing line of The Front Page (1931). In the original play, it's "The son of a b**** stole my watch!"

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