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Godfrey Parke

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Short Story Scribbler - Erratic Cartoonist - Shameless Punner Teetering on Trenchant/Trivial Commentary (probably the latter) Science Respecter … SF Bay Area resident

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Godfrey Parke @psmaclaren.bsky.social · Nov 28

Thanksgiving 2024
10th and Market, SF
3:05 pm

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 8h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Godfrey Parke @psmaclaren.bsky.social · 7h

Looks like a Hootenanny is due!

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Godfrey Parke @psmaclaren.bsky.social · 7h

The first Hooters opened prematurely.

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 19h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Godfrey Parke @psmaclaren.bsky.social · 9h

Probably so, but Warning from Space remains a delightfully weird representative of 1950s Japanese sci fi/fantasy, just so bewilderingly entertaining.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10h

If you want proof that people are incapable of learning here is your reminder that Titanic had a sister ship called the Brittanic that was pressed into service as a hospital ship during WW1 and was so successful that they called her unsinkable and then she sank on the next voyage

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🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 89th Birthday to 🇬🇧British theatre, radio, film and television actor, narrator, presenter, writer and explorer #BrianBlessed OBE born #OnThisDay in Mexborough, England

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Prankster, Now With Corpse Bride @prankster36.bsky.social · 1d

"The Monster Club" (1981) is an insanely goofy horror anthology with some of the dopiest lore you will ever hear. Vincent Price has to do an exposition dump early on about all the various mixes of monster species that includes words like "vamgoos" and "shadmocks"

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Godfrey Parke @psmaclaren.bsky.social · 1d

Warning: Steak cravin’ mad raven.

Godfrey Parke @psmaclaren.bsky.social · 1d

Red tethered therefore caught red-handed.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 1d

Wisdom from George Saunders, in his newsletter:

It’s interesting the way that the world these days seems to make us feel that we need to have an opinion on everything, even when having a certain opinion may not change anything we do, or anything about the way the world responds.

We seem to be losing the ability or desire to just be silent on certain questions. (Silent and sad; silent and interested; silent and alert.)

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · 2d

I'm watching Curse of Frankenstein for the first time (I love Hammer horror but somehow always missed this one). I love Peter Cushing's take on Victor. From the moment he's on screen you understand that he's someone who, through immense privilege, can't comprehend his actions having consequences.

Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein in Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

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Godfrey Parke @psmaclaren.bsky.social · 2d

No broom to sling a cat.

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Witch‘s familiars — Heavier than they look

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Chris Thursten @cjpt.bsky.social · 2d

Grand Moff Tarkin says that the target area is only two metres wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Godfrey Parke @psmaclaren.bsky.social · 3d

Half of a seer-sucker outfit.

Godfrey Parke @psmaclaren.bsky.social · 3d

I see …
Fortune!
Fame!
30% rain!

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 3d

PRAY FOR DOLLY PARTON ❤️‍🩹

Freida Parton, sister of Dolly Parton, asks for prayers for Dolly’s health. She says with prayers she know Dolly is going to be just fine.

We all love you, Dolly! Praying 💛

people.com/dolly-parton-sister-was-up-all-night-praying-for-singer-amid-health-struggles-11826073

A happy Dolly Parton reads books aloud to happy kids

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · 3d

Wait, is that the ORIGINAL voynich manuscript? Where did you GET that? Wanna try playing a round of Druids and Dicotyledons?

xkcd.com/593/

[Weird root vegetables surround a strange script.]
[Megan holding up book to Cueball.]
Megan: This is the Voynich manuscript— a book, allegedly 500 years old, written in an unrecognized script. It's some kind of visual encyclopedia of imaginary plants and undeciphered "recipes".
[Megan points while Cueball opens the book.]
Megan: It could be a hoax, a lost language, a cipher, an alien text, glossolatia — no one knows.
Cueball: No one? But it's obvious.
[Megan continues to talk. Cueball holds the now closed book.]
Megan: ... Obvious? Linguists and cryptographers have been stumped for decades.
Cueball: They forget. Human nature doesn't change.
[Close up of Megan and Cueball - the book is off panel.]
Cueball: Just imagine someone found a book from our time, full of lists, illustrations, tables, and long, dry descriptions of nonexistent worlds written in an invented language. What have they found?
Megan: ...Dear Lord. It is obvious.

[Three people are standing around pawns and a die. One (a Cueball) is holding a sheet of paper, another (another Cueball) is holding a book, the third (Megan) is holding a scythe. At the top of the panel there is a frame with the following text:]
500 Years Earlier:
Person #1: Forsooth! I concoct an elixer of courage.
Person #2: Nae! The source booke sayeth that requires some wolfsbane!
Person #3: Your druid doth lose two points.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 3d

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 4d

Comic

1 - man on phone

STOP DOOM SCROLLING.

2 - man walking a dog thru a busted neighborhood, with for rent signs and trash.

PUT DOWN YOUR PHONE AND TAKE A DOOMWALK OUTSIDE

3 - chugs from plastic bottle

DOOMDRINK SOME WATER

4 - Inhales toxic air and exhales a skull

DOOMBREATHE

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frank zeppo (noah) @noahpasternak.bsky.social · 4d

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 4d

Snow Trail (1947) is rightfully remembered as the debut film of world's sexiest man ever Toshiro Mifune but I really don't think it can be underscored enough how insanely good Takashi Shimura is in it as well

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Godfrey Parke @psmaclaren.bsky.social · 4d

Blast from the past: Didn’t catch any z’s and I believe the tape choice was my contribution, but the liner credits/spinal title should match the handwriting.

Skewed photo of old tape cassette with home recordings of eponymous Debut albums of Peter Case and Fine Young Cannibals.

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