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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 21m

Caring what you're looking at is what makes someone part of art, which is the communication of meaning between human beings

tho

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 36m

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 6h

John Brown Jr, son of the militant US slavery abolitionist, married a woman with the amazing name of Wealthy Hotchkiss (1829–1911)

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 9h

Ethan Hawke is very funny in ‘The Lowdown’ as hapless gonzo rabble-rouser Lee Raybon

Marty: “You probably got one of those thingamajigs pinned to the wall with little crazy strings connecting it all.
A conspiracy board”

Lee: “Well, I’m a visual thinker!”

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 18h

When I read 'The Bright Sword', Lev Grossman was at pains to explain in his author's note that he inserted an anachronistic North American fruit into his Arthurian tale purely so he could refer to Sir Bleoberys as 'Sir Blueberries'

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 20h

Reading ‘The Mighty Dead’ by Adam Nicolson, I just learned there’s no poultry-feasting in Homer because “chickens … reached the Aegean in about 500 BC, known to the Greeks as ‘the Persian Bird’.”

lol

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 21h

My singing neighbour is currently running through her repertoire of wailed favourites including ‘The Edge of Glory’ and ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now’

Oh god. She just improvised a new wail to “and if you touch me like THAYYY-YAYY-YEAHHHH-AT!”

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 22h

"It's hard to be lower on the totem pole than being the director for a sequel to a horror movie" – Bill Condon, 2006

Do you think this is true?

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 23h

I hope there's no psytrance in heaven archive.md/hB9kq

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to all the Israeli ravers who got hannibal directived so their fascist state could do Holocaust 2.

i hope the molly in heaven is meth free.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 23h

I will never recall where I read this, but there were ancient Egyptian archaeologists who studied the centuries-old artefacts of their own civilisation

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Stuart Rutherford @stalruth.dev · 1d

People are saying that "oh so bsky feeds all our images into AI datasets!" when he's saying the opposite of this, all cos he's a tech guy and they have no comms people!

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

“Passe le bonjour à ta maman pour moi!” – Rové LeManus

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Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 1d

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 1d

“Torment nexus deactivation tutorial” could refer to the torment nexus, a nexus of torment, or it could refer to tutorials, a useful way of delivering information.

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 2d

how to deactivate torment nexus

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

Today I tried to track down a fake slopspirational quote attributed to 'Keeping Up Appearances' star Patricia Routledge (RIP)

Patricia Routledge didn’t really say that

On keeping up appearances by churning out slop

open.substack.com

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

And to my shame I haven’t yet mentioned lsraeI’s deliberate campaign to exterminate Gaza’s journalists and healthcare workers: those who directly observe, document and testify to the scale of lsrael’s atrocities

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

And of course if your political goal is to completely destroy your victims’ capacity for infrastructure and civil society as well as killing the people themselves, and you also attack aid workers & foreign observers who would monitor you, that further obscures the full scope of your genocide

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 1d

And that's just estimating traumatic injury deaths. Missing are indirect deaths which in previous conflicts run btw 3 & 15 times higher than direct deaths.
This article last year suggested a conservative estimate was 4 indirect deaths for every 1 direct death. So real # is likely 200,000 to 300,000

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

www.thelancet.com

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

One bit of internet enshittification I loathe: replacing clear fixed datelines with ambiguous relative datelines like "four days ago"

Hey BBC: when's fucken 4 days ago? You're making me get out a fucken calendar? It gets less accurate over time, like "4 months" ago could be any time in June 2025

Screenshot of a BBC online news story from "4 days ago": "Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96" by Ian Youngs, Culture reporter

Screenshot of a Guardian news story from Friday 3 October: "Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96" by Hannah J Davies

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 1d

Many more are buried in rubble or vaporised by bombs

a Lancet study in June (when officially recorded deaths were 37,877) estimated a real toll of 64,260. UN data shows 40% were children & 22% women

This was before lsraeI started the mass starvation & aid traps. Now, lsraeI kills 100 Gazans a day

Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 2d

The official death toll in Gaza has now surpassed 67,000

Equivalent to the population of Napier

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 2d

by contrast, the laugh of disgust is a sound of distress at having to touch something disgusting. Because the experience lasts longer than a single moment of disgust, it's like I have to make the noise last longer too

Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 2d

the laugh of disgust is different to the groan I make when I watch a disgusting thing, like a jouissantly gross moment in a video, or a moment of gore in a horror movie

That is more like I have just been punched in the gut: "auhhhh"

there's something cathartic & almost gleeful in it

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 2d

When I have to physically touch something disgusting (like cleaning cat spew or cat litter box, or kitchen compost bin, or ancient fridge items) I make this gutteral noise that I call "the laugh of disgust"

it sounds like coughing and groaning and sobbing at once: "chauh-chaauuh-chaaaauhhh"

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when it was the height of trickery to fake out a race-starting signal with “Ready… steady… SPAGHETTI!”

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