Amanda Scott 💙
@amandascott2023.bsky.social
Jungian. Cinéphile. Lawyer. Chess fanatic. CEO NanoApps Medical Creative Dir. Alias
"You are the music while the music lasts.'
T.S. Elliot
Sydney Aust. No DMs
"You are the music while the music lasts.'
T.S. Elliot
Sydney Aust. No DMs
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'Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.'
C. G. Jung
C. G. Jung
Day 10. I'll be watching 'In A Lonely Place'
Dir. Nicholas Ray
Noirvember is a global month-long holiday celebrated in November by cinephiles focusing on the film noir genre –
created in 2010 by film writer Marya E. Gates as a month-long challenge.
#Noirvember
Dir. Nicholas Ray
Noirvember is a global month-long holiday celebrated in November by cinephiles focusing on the film noir genre –
created in 2010 by film writer Marya E. Gates as a month-long challenge.
#Noirvember
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Day 10. I'll be watching 'In A Lonely Place'
Dir. Nicholas Ray
Noirvember is a global month-long holiday celebrated in November by cinephiles focusing on the film noir genre –
created in 2010 by film writer Marya E. Gates as a month-long challenge.
#Noirvember
Dir. Nicholas Ray
Noirvember is a global month-long holiday celebrated in November by cinephiles focusing on the film noir genre –
created in 2010 by film writer Marya E. Gates as a month-long challenge.
#Noirvember
Ennio Morricone 🙏 #BOTD
"I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie."
Ennio Morricone
Composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works
"I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie."
Ennio Morricone
Composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Ennio Morricone 🙏 #BOTD
"I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie."
Ennio Morricone
Composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works
"I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie."
Ennio Morricone
Composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works
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This is correct.
democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This is correct.
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The shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize, the prestigious literary award whose winner will be announced on Monday in London.
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize, the prestigious literary award whose winner will be announced on Monday in London.
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Noirvember is a global month-long holiday celebrated in November by cinephiles focusing on the film noir genre –
created in 2010 by film writer Marya E. Gates as a month-long challenge.
Day 9. I'll be watching Force of Evil (1948), 4K restoration
Dir. Abraham Polonsky
#Noirvember
created in 2010 by film writer Marya E. Gates as a month-long challenge.
Day 9. I'll be watching Force of Evil (1948), 4K restoration
Dir. Abraham Polonsky
#Noirvember
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Noirvember is a global month-long holiday celebrated in November by cinephiles focusing on the film noir genre –
created in 2010 by film writer Marya E. Gates as a month-long challenge.
Day 9. I'll be watching Force of Evil (1948), 4K restoration
Dir. Abraham Polonsky
#Noirvember
created in 2010 by film writer Marya E. Gates as a month-long challenge.
Day 9. I'll be watching Force of Evil (1948), 4K restoration
Dir. Abraham Polonsky
#Noirvember
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Alain Delon 🙏 #BOTD
(November 8, 1935 – August 18, 2024)
2024:
"I hate the current era; I'm fed up with it! I constantly see truly detestable creatures. Everything is fake; everything is replaceable. Everyone laughs at others without looking at themselves. There's not even respect for one's word."
(November 8, 1935 – August 18, 2024)
2024:
"I hate the current era; I'm fed up with it! I constantly see truly detestable creatures. Everything is fake; everything is replaceable. Everyone laughs at others without looking at themselves. There's not even respect for one's word."
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Alain Delon 🙏 #BOTD
(November 8, 1935 – August 18, 2024)
2024:
"I hate the current era; I'm fed up with it! I constantly see truly detestable creatures. Everything is fake; everything is replaceable. Everyone laughs at others without looking at themselves. There's not even respect for one's word."
(November 8, 1935 – August 18, 2024)
2024:
"I hate the current era; I'm fed up with it! I constantly see truly detestable creatures. Everything is fake; everything is replaceable. Everyone laughs at others without looking at themselves. There's not even respect for one's word."
Won't see this in the US, where energy prices will go thru the roof thanks to oceans of new AI data centers.
“We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,” Trump on Truth Social. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!”
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“We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,” Trump on Truth Social. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!”
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Won't see this in the US, where energy prices will go thru the roof thanks to oceans of new AI data centers.
“We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,” Trump on Truth Social. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!”
bsky.app/profile/mark...
“We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,” Trump on Truth Social. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!”
bsky.app/profile/mark...
Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
“It is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“It is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
“It is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“It is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"When the game is over, the king and pawn go back to the same box".
Proverb
Sydney Hyde Park - I enjoy playing there but I have the most fun watching the homeless totally thrash judges, magistrates and lawyers.
Proverb
Sydney Hyde Park - I enjoy playing there but I have the most fun watching the homeless totally thrash judges, magistrates and lawyers.
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"When the game is over, the king and pawn go back to the same box".
Proverb
Sydney Hyde Park - I enjoy playing there but I have the most fun watching the homeless totally thrash judges, magistrates and lawyers.
Proverb
Sydney Hyde Park - I enjoy playing there but I have the most fun watching the homeless totally thrash judges, magistrates and lawyers.
'Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.'
C. G. Jung
C. G. Jung
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
'Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.'
C. G. Jung
C. G. Jung
Albert Camus #BOTD
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Albert Camus #BOTD
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus
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In July 2016, when he learned that his former lover and muse Marianne Ihlen lay dying in Oslo, he wrote her a letter... "Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine."
Leonard Cohen
September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016
Leonard Cohen
September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
In July 2016, when he learned that his former lover and muse Marianne Ihlen lay dying in Oslo, he wrote her a letter... "Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine."
Leonard Cohen
September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016
Leonard Cohen
September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016
Joni Mitchell 🙏#BOTD
"I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow and doesn't want to lead."
Joni Mitchell
"I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow and doesn't want to lead."
Joni Mitchell
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Joni Mitchell 🙏#BOTD
"I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow and doesn't want to lead."
Joni Mitchell
"I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow and doesn't want to lead."
Joni Mitchell
'People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.'
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.'
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
To win a Pulitzer prize for breaking news photography, a photographer must capture either “a single photograph or a series of photographs of an event that occurs with no advance notice and requires spontaneous coverage in the moment.”
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
To win a Pulitzer prize for breaking news photography, a photographer must capture either “a single photograph or a series of photographs of an event that occurs with no advance notice and requires spontaneous coverage in the moment.”
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Trump’s lies about gas prices dovetail with his lies about grocery prices:
Consumers already know his claims are false through their own life experiences, making the whole pitch oddly self-defeating: tinyurl.com/5e9w9fsb
Consumers already know his claims are false through their own life experiences, making the whole pitch oddly self-defeating: tinyurl.com/5e9w9fsb
Trump: "I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. If you look at energy, we're getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline."
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Trump’s lies about gas prices dovetail with his lies about grocery prices:
Consumers already know his claims are false through their own life experiences, making the whole pitch oddly self-defeating: tinyurl.com/5e9w9fsb
Consumers already know his claims are false through their own life experiences, making the whole pitch oddly self-defeating: tinyurl.com/5e9w9fsb
"In the short term, AI will destroy a lot of jobs. In the long term, like every other technological revolution, I assume we will figure out completely new things to do," he told Dopfner.
Assume? From his $43 million estate on the Big Island of Hawaii that AI paid for?
Assume? From his $43 million estate on the Big Island of Hawaii that AI paid for?
Sam Altman says he would be ashamed if OpenAI weren't the first company run by an AI CEO
Sam Altman is fully ready to be replaced by AI. He said in a single-digit number of years, AI will be able to lead a major OpenAI division.
www.businessinsider.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"In the short term, AI will destroy a lot of jobs. In the long term, like every other technological revolution, I assume we will figure out completely new things to do," he told Dopfner.
Assume? From his $43 million estate on the Big Island of Hawaii that AI paid for?
Assume? From his $43 million estate on the Big Island of Hawaii that AI paid for?
While Trump builds a gold-gilded ballroom, his approved dismantling of USAID by Musk's DOGE has already led to an estimated 426,000 deaths, mostly children.
This never makes the news.
A Lancet study projected by 2030 an additional 14 million deaths, including more than 4 million children.
This never makes the news.
A Lancet study projected by 2030 an additional 14 million deaths, including more than 4 million children.
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
While Trump builds a gold-gilded ballroom, his approved dismantling of USAID by Musk's DOGE has already led to an estimated 426,000 deaths, mostly children.
This never makes the news.
A Lancet study projected by 2030 an additional 14 million deaths, including more than 4 million children.
This never makes the news.
A Lancet study projected by 2030 an additional 14 million deaths, including more than 4 million children.
The president repeating claims first made by Musk, head of his so-called 'Department of Government Efficiency,' who said this “might be the biggest fraud in history.”
So where are these bogus claimants? Where are these massive savings?
They don’t exist. They never did.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
So where are these bogus claimants? Where are these massive savings?
They don’t exist. They never did.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The president repeating claims first made by Musk, head of his so-called 'Department of Government Efficiency,' who said this “might be the biggest fraud in history.”
So where are these bogus claimants? Where are these massive savings?
They don’t exist. They never did.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
So where are these bogus claimants? Where are these massive savings?
They don’t exist. They never did.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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"Um, I not, I don't know, eh, what you're talking about with the, ah, children."
Speaker Mike Johnson
No one believes you, Mike.
Speaker Mike Johnson
No one believes you, Mike.
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"Um, I not, I don't know, eh, what you're talking about with the, ah, children."
Speaker Mike Johnson
No one believes you, Mike.
Speaker Mike Johnson
No one believes you, Mike.
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I don’t know which is more unfathomable: that a single human has accumulated $30 billion, or that a single human has accumulated $30 billion and is totally cool with laying off 30,000 employees in the early days of a recession.
Jeff Bezos’ stake in Amazon is up almost $30 billion since Friday.
Jeff Bezos Becomes $10 Billion Richer As Amazon’s OpenAI Deal Boosts Stock
Jeff Bezos’ stake in Amazon is up almost $30 billion since Friday.
www.forbes.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I don’t know which is more unfathomable: that a single human has accumulated $30 billion, or that a single human has accumulated $30 billion and is totally cool with laying off 30,000 employees in the early days of a recession.
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“…a bunch of MAGA billionaires flushed millions and millions of dollars down the toilet losing to a brown, Muslim democratic socialist.”
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"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“…a bunch of MAGA billionaires flushed millions and millions of dollars down the toilet losing to a brown, Muslim democratic socialist.”
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