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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 16h

yeah I can't think of a reason roman artifacts would be in britain

screenshot of tags on a tumblr post. tags read: #yeah i was at the british museum looking at roman artifacts like. this is fucking weird why are these here #(I'm Italian I've been to literal Rome)

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Collective Action Comics Podcast @cacomixpod.bsky.social · 1d

This is my favorite post of all time

A tweet from @a_lolbrarianbthat reads "We went to the planetarium today and when the voiceover said 'this is the earth' one of the kids booed"

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11h

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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Mikey Papadopoulos @mikeypap.bsky.social · 11h

Damn you Trump for making me pity John Fucking Bolton

Politico @politico.com · 11h

BREAKING: John Bolton is indicted for allegedly keeping and sharing classified information.

John Bolton is indicted for allegedly keeping and sharing classified information

The charges against Trump's former national security adviser come as the president has pressured DOJ to pursue criminal indictments of his political foes.

www.politico.com

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 11h

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Mikey Papadopoulos @mikeypap.bsky.social · 11h

In RFK’s defence, my parents never had the child they wanted

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Nu Pogodi! Enjoyer @lameposting.bsky.social · 14h

Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 15h

Women don't like the vehicle

a picture of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile

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Mikey Papadopoulos @mikeypap.bsky.social · 16h

Huge if true

devonlive.com @devonlive.com · 17h

There is a list of steps people need to take in the next few days

British Gas urges people to prepare as 'four consecutive days coming'

There is a list of steps people need to take in the next few days

www.devonlive.com

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 17h

A story in three parts

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Mikey Papadopoulos @mikeypap.bsky.social · 20h

Man's crowning achievement

Deeply Unsexy Scary Gorgon Costume @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 21h

You know you can just order resin teeth off the internet. No one can stop you.

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 20h

I SAID I WOULD MAKE IT: A bot that reposts articles from The Guardian where the picture has cropped off the bottom of someone's head. Yep, that's it.

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Mikey Papadopoulos @mikeypap.bsky.social · 21h

Uber driver baffled by lack of 5 star reviews

TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 6d

I see your ex is taking the divorce well

A car in London covered in bizarre anti Sadiq khan and ant Keir starmer slogans. Taken from a Facebook post

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sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · Jun 20

Gaius Julius Caesar as presented in Asterix & Obelix, with a speech bubble drawn to imply he is speaking the quoted skeet

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 2d

19.00 ONE-NIL
Prequel to 'The Equalizer'

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

“I object to seeing brown people on my street but I will give up this view if graduate requirements are shortened from two years to 18 months” give me a fucking break.

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Mikey Papadopoulos @mikeypap.bsky.social · 2d

Show me an expression you see regularly

Mikey Papadopoulos @mikeypap.bsky.social · 3d

Rash dash for a gash fash splash

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 3d

screenshot 3 is incredible

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 3d

inspiring 💗💖

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 3d

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Mikey Papadopoulos @mikeypap.bsky.social · 4d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jul 21

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.

IG risolve

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