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Tim Coronel

@timcoronel.bsky.social

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Toiling in the word mines for decades. Publishing/comms lecturer at Unimelb. Opinions, I got plenty. Join your union/s!

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 7d

in furious agreement www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

‘Everything that is wrong with the human race’: inside Hollywood’s bizarre war on the leaf blower

For 18 years, Cate Blanchett has railed against the hated garden gadget – and she’s not alone. From Hugh Grant to Danny DeVito, the backpack blower has united stars in unlikely, furious contempt

www.theguardian.com

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 2h

I guess we know where he got off.

Pervert caught performing sex act on himself at train station

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 5m

This is what the internet is for

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6h

Fleabag season 3 writes itself

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 8h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 44m

all part of the programme

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Nihilistic Wrong Hordak 🏳️‍⚧️ @shadow27.bsky.social · 12h

The next couple questions are just as good with Simon tearing into Shapiro and holding fast:

SHAPIRO: You would rather put a gun in your mouth?

SIMON: I mean, what you're saying to me, effectively, is there's no original way to do anything and...

SHAPIRO: No.

SIMON: Yes, you are.

SHAPIRO: That seems like a kind of absolutist take.

SIMON: Not only I think is it a fundamental violation of the integrity of writers and also of copyright to - you know, when I sold all the scripts I sold, you know, 150 to HBO and, you know, maybe another 50 to NBC, I didn't sell them so that they could be thrown into a computer with other people's and be used again by a corporation. So...

SHAPIRO: So would you ever agree to a contract that saw any role for AI at all?

SIMON: No. I would not.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 4h

The person who wrote this is chief culture editor for the Economist, and I have so many questions about what he does in that job and how he got it.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 8h

Here's my primer on Americans: they're weird, and usually think they are the only country in the world.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

I’m sure this is fine. abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

abcnews.go.com

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 9h

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 9h

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 9h

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 2h

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2h

this is a good story but it shows that people still fundamentally misunderstand LLMs - there is no "working properly", they're inherently probabilistic models. hallucinations aren't a bug, they're a fundamental part of language models. these aren't fact machines!!!

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 2h

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK

www.thecanary.co

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Donna Benenson @donnabenenson.bsky.social · 8h

"...the NPC’s list of sponsors reveals the problem. Among them are no less than ten firms with links to the arms industry that is profiting from Israel’s destruction of Gaza, including four of the very largest defence manufacturers in the world – BAE, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Thales."

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 8h

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 2h

someone who understands opsec needs to talk to these fucken frogs because ICE is 100% going to kill them and harass their families. Not saying don't do this, just saying make sure you're safe.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 2h

We'll see what happens, but anyone who blindly trusts that any progress will be made in Gaza is, umm, perhaps being a tad naive.

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Michelle Suiter 🇵🇸🍉🕊️ @michellesuiter.bsky.social · 2h

With no conclusive evidence whatsoever RFK Jr told pregnant women not to take Tylenol bc it caused austism
Now he’s looking for the proof to back up his claims
Worst Sec. of Health ever!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 18h

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy

Nature Sustainability - The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the...

www.nature.com

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Nekrởtzar @nekrotzar.bsky.social · 4h

ICE wasn’t prepared to face amphibious units.

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🏳️‍🌈Gosh Darnit of the New Jersey Darnits😷 @goshdarn.bsky.social · 14h

The whole obsession Trnmp has over the peace prize is that Obama won it in 2009.

That's it. He refuses to be denied a prize that the black president won.

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 3h

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’