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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! I'm not a chef, I just cook to chill out and the world is stressful enough I get lots of practice haha

Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 1h

Tried my hand at making a quiche Lorraine today - is this the sign to abandon it all and setup a bakery cafe?

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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 5h

A new British horror film, set in a rural police station, is about to go into production. Here are some early details about Sticks & Stones:
filmstories.co.uk/news/sticks-...

Sticks & Stones, a new British horror film, unveils cast

A new British horror film, set in a rural police station, is about to go into production. Here are some early details about Sticks & Stones:

filmstories.co.uk

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 8h

How many liters of water did he burn for that line?

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 10h

I couldn't think of a single 1985 flick, all my guesses were one year either side 😭

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 1d

A double-bill with crocodile flick "Crawl"

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 1d

Good news for your week

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

A decade after the Paris Agreement, global greenhouse gas emissions are barely rising, up just 0.3% a year since 2015, compared with 1.7% before. buff.ly/JXM4dIv
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Paris Agreement at ten – ‘brakes slammed on’ emissions growth, finds…

Annual increase slowed fivefold to just 0.32% since agreement signed

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 1d

I love seeing all these parent posts

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 1d

My Dad was very quiet when we visited Uni open days, like he'd suddenly woken up and found himself in an odd place

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 2d

Leonardo DiCaprio mad he didn't think of this

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 4d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Nathan Graham Davis @ngdwrites.bsky.social · 3d

FYI - we're going through holiday pages NOW, since we're going to be filming this episode at the end of October. So if you were planning to submit a page, now's the time!

(Still plenty of time to get non-holiday pages in)

www.nathangrahamdavis.com/spotthepro

#scriptsky #screenwriting

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 3d

A bit fucking close

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 3d

This post has ripped me back to my International Baccalaureate Philosophy oral exam on Baudrillard. Time to revisit his work.

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François Heisbourg @fheisbourg.bsky.social · 3d

Bottom-line : this is basically doable and consequently the Russian taxpayer may soon be paying the costs of Western military support to Ukraine

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 3d

Belgium has laid out its red lines for using Russian assets to fund a €140 billion reparations loan to Ukraine.

This includes an agreement by EU countries to share all current and future risks related to the plan for an amount exceeding €170 billion.

Belgium lays out red lines on €140B Ukraine loan

Belgian PM Bart De Wever has suggested that the Commission’s scheme to leverage Russian frozen assets effectively amounts to confiscation.

ow.ly

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 3d

It so self-destructive. If your 90-100 minute piece of AI slop that people have to pay to see is creatively the same as the 1 minute slop that's free on TikTok, why would they watch you? A race to the bottom.

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 3d

Thankful for my Italian local being open until 2AM. Sometimes you just need a pint on the dot of midnight.

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 3d

More and more my respect is reserved for people writing (poetry, short form, novels, essays, comics etc). Something about the Film/TV world warps minds. It's like the actors shilling NFTs a few years ago. But 10x as dumb and cynical.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder:

The world is on fire.

It’s okay to find joy in dumb things.

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe that's the line they're contracted by OpenAI to write...

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 3d

I imagine they've been spending this time shredding every single Epstein document.

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Cameron McGrath @camgottaplan.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever I see this I wonder how they blew their cash. Like the string of celebs with alimony who shilled for NFTs and Crypto.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 3d

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 4d

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 8d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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