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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 3d

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does #Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?
filmstories.co.uk/features/oka...

Okay then, Google: tell us what to do | The future of entertainment websites

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?

filmstories.co.uk

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 10h

I’m sometimes wearing three layers and the girls are still reporting for duty.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 15h

Trying to find a picture of me for some presentation slides where my nipples don't look like they could cut glass challenge (impossible)

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 16h

Someone should do a PhD on the influence of Miriam Toews on trans women's writers, the gals really do love that dark humour and sparse prose (I love Miriam Toews).

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 16h

God, I love... documentary film youtu.be/Cxe_YMJ4nUs?...

Are Dan and Phil in a Relationship?

YouTube video by Dan and Phil

youtu.be

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Shakira_-_she_wolf_hall.mp3

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

Patrick Wolf Hall.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

The lads!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 1d

It‘s all just… pseudo-insightful ChatGPT gubbins. Just promote your thing and show off about how well you’re doing so everyone is jealous of you like a normal person!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

There's no bollocks like the specific sort of bollocks you see on Screenwriting LinkedIn.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

Fellow Ozians! Our October offerings are out now - TWO Patreon only episodes of @onceuponavhs.bsky.social about The Wiz (1978) and the OG, the urtext, the great American fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz (1939) - there’s no place like home, bitch!
www.patreon.com/onceuponavhs

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

They’re up!

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

Have been looking forward to this one!

lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 6d

Just been made aware that the new documentary The Librarians is available for free on BBC iPlayer for the next 12 mths. It investigates what librarians in the US are going through right now as they unite to combat book banning & defend free speech. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Storyville - The Librarians

A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

Currently editing the @onceuponavhs.bsky.social Patreon bonus episode on The Wiz (1978) and, baby, baby, baby - Jack Halberstam name drop in the first 15 minutes? Yes.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 2d

My Avengers Endgame would be some museum doing an exhibition of all the iterations of the ruby slippers/silver shoes from cinematic history

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 4d

Wonder how they're getting on in the parallel world where Liza Minelli played the Grand High Witch.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 5d

Revolting children! Vee are talking about The Vitches this veek with our good Judy @robwillb.bsky.social - available verever you get your podcasts

Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 5d

New episode - The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social of @bonabooks.bsky.social

linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes it’s hard being the number one fan of history’s least moored superhero team, but someone’s gotta do it (it took them 20 YEARS to get to 100 issues).

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 6d

Nico and Karolina from Runaways turning up in this new Doctor Strange title as Glinda and Elphaba 🩷💚

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 6d

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 6d

The Tories talking about English degrees is just them playing the hits for a right wing press that will lap it up. Kemi Badenoch is a flop politician in charge of a failing party. This should be the Tories time to shine, but all I ever hear from them is her doing a voxpop. Student newspaper stuff.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 6d

My new online poetry course starts in two weeks!

✅ Six-week course, two-hour sessions

✅ Imaginative exercises

✅ Creative strategies

✅ Supportive, informal environment

✅ Feedback from a professional published poet

✅ Weds evenings, 6-8pm GMT, starting Oct 22nd

www.stefmo.co.uk/service-page...

Poetry and Play - Online Course | Stefan Mohamed

It's important to take your writing craft seriously - but it's all too easy to forget that it should be fun too. 'Poetry and Play' invites you to stretch your creative muscles, experiment and have fu...

www.stefmo.co.uk

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 7d

I can’t work out what it’s for?

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 7d

The ChatGPT book review emails are getting really fucking cursed you guys

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