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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 1d

Reply to your alt text: Yes, this is Hamlet (1996). The grave digger is a comic role, so Billy Crystal is an excellent choice.

I picked this up at the library and it's next in my queue. I'm currently watching the awful Hamlet (2000) starring Ethan Hawke in the title role.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 2d

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 3d

Mimeographed worksheets.

a group of students in a classroom with a map of the world on the wall behind them

Alt: A classroom of students at their desks in the early 80s are each lifting their still-warm paper from the mimeograph copier and sniffing the page with delight. From the movie, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 4d

"The drive-through speaker crackle is actually screaming," the teenager at the window tells me.

I listen—beneath the static, something writhes.

"From who?"

"Everyone who said 'no pickles' but got them anyway. Their rage accumulates."

She hands me my burger. Extra pickles.

"I said—"

"I know." She looks exhausted. "But if I get your order right, someone else's anger has nowhere to go."

I bite into pickles I didn't want. The speaker quiets.

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 3d

This meeting could have been an email. Or even just a post-it note.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4d

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 6d

An anthropology win!

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 6d

I like to think that in 10,000 years, anthropologists sifting the detritis of suburbia will uncover giant plastic bones and try to figure out their meaning or intent. "Probably ritualistic purposes" one jots in her notebook.

Litterbox Comics @litterboxcomics.com · 6d

NEW COMIC: Treat Yo' Self!

#treatyoself #treatyoselfday

Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 6d

I like to think that in 10,000 years, anthropologists sifting the detritis of suburbia will uncover giant plastic bones and try to figure out their meaning or intent. "Probably ritualistic purposes" one jots in her notebook.

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Oct 31

Book cover for Pet Cemetery featuring an angry cat’s face hissing as a silhouette of a man stares off. Text and title read:

I just
FED YOU
Stop yelling at me...

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 6d

“It is attempting to solve a problem that wasn’t a problem before AI showed up" is ABSOLUTELY the defining quote about how AI gets rolled out in every use

www.404media.co/what-happene...

What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer

A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.

www.404media.co

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 6d

Oh no! I ignored the latest donation drive to everyone’s peril!

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 6d

Nightmare fuel. The perfect gift for your least favorite child.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 6d

This is an original Little Miss No-Name doll.

museumoffailure.com/exhibition/l...

Little Miss No Name — Museum of Failure

An alternative to Barbie. It wanted to teach little girls compassion and the realities of life for those less fortunate.

museumoffailure.com

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 7d

It's all fun and games until one of them learns the gravity of the situation.

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 7d

The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king! -- Hamlet: 2.2

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 8d

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 7d

I love this! The wise scholar learns from the world around them. Makes me think of the recurring bit with the shoeshine guy from The Police Squad tv show from the early 80s. youtu.be/7udsYPVhl6Y?...

Police Squad: Johnny The Shoeshine Guy 1

YouTube video by back2rule

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 8d

I decoded your message using the ROT26 cipher. Well said!

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Eric Poe @ericpoe.bsky.social · 11d

Renfield respected the dignity of the other by cleaning up his room -- by quickly eating all of the room's flies and spiders -- when he found out that Mina Harker (née Murray) was going to pay him a visit.