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Marlowe 🦇
@marlowechris.bsky.social
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Not the one who wrote Shakespeare.
Writer, editor, explainer, fact-checker
for hire: movies, music, technology.
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Sunny, Suni, what's the difference. This has been up for two days and has not been corrected. Does ABC News have any editors left?
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Text mistakes Suni Muslims and instead declares them to be "sunny". It reads: "Leo made the appeal during a Mass on Saturday in Istanbul for Turkey’s tiny Catholic community, which numbers around 33,000 in a country of 85 million, mostly Sunny Muslims"
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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A Redditor is mildly freaking out because a friend noticed the air fryer looks like a grinning face. Now the owner can't unsee it and finds it unsettling @pareidolia.bsky.social
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Photo of a white air fryer on a wooden table. The placement of the controls and handle makes it look like the head of a plastic robot doing its best to please humans
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Photo shows a modern day Bonfire Night commemoration with costumed men preparing to burn an oversized effigy of Guy Fawkes
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Photo of a commercially released cassette tape of Bow Wow Wow's earworm single "C:30 C:60 C:90 Go!"
October 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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AI generated image shows the White House with construction workers building a Death Star in place of the vaporized East Wing
October 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I tried to cheat on a crossword puzzle by asking DuckDuckGo's Search Assist AI to find five-letter character names in Shakespeare
Search Assist AI reply says: Some five-letter Shakespeare character names in Clyde Aaron from "Titus Andronicus" and Balthazar from "Romeo and Juliet"
September 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Remembering the cultural icon Terence Stamp
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An image from the 1962 movie "Billy Budd" showing Terence Stamp in the title role with Robert Ryan as the Master of Arms
August 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Let's use AI for research, shall we? Oh look, the actress Sarah Palmer who portrays #Gwengoolie on #Svengoolie also played roles that I could have sworn were played by Grace Zabriskie #TwinPeaks @richkoz.bsky.social
Screenshot from a DuckDuckGo search for the actress Sarah Palmer that conflates her with Grace Zabriskie, who portrayed the 'Twin Peaks' character Sarah Palmer
July 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Artwork shows Judge Dredd with the catchphrase "I am the law!" in giant red letters
July 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Of course there is a relevant xkcd
Xkcd comic showing Palpatine, random guy, and Darth Vader IT WAS I WHO ALLOWED THE ALLIANCE TO KNOW THE LOCATION OF THE SHIELD GENERATOR. YOU MEAN "IT WAS ME." YOU'RE FOLLOWING AN ARCHAIC GRAMMAR RULE. IT WAS ME WHO ALLOWED THE- NO, MY MASTER, AN ARCHAIC TONE IS APPROPRIATE HERE. THE SENTENCE SOUNDS- IT WAS I WHO ALLOWED- COME ON, THE ACCUSATIVE CASE IS FINE. NOMINATIVE PRONOUNS ARE- IT ME 1 I ALLOWED IT MY MASTER, PLEASE NEVER SAY THAT AGAIN.
May 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Gif of The Count from Sesame Street
May 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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How i arrived on Bluesky
Photo of a black kitten ready for an imaginary fight. Credit https://www.warrenphotographic.co.uk/36537-black-kitten-frightened
April 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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March 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Designer Jens Martin Skibsted is giving away free red baseball caps to help Greenlanders welcome Mrs. Vance and Mr. Waltz.
Designer Jens Martin Skibsted is giving away free red baseball caps to help Greenlanders welcome Mrs. Vance and Mr. Waltz. The photo shows a red baseball cap embroidered with Make Americans Go Away on the front and the Greenland flag on the side
March 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Designer Jens Martin Skibsted is giving away free red baseball caps to help Greenlanders welcome Mrs. Vance and Mr. Waltz
Designer Jens Martin Skibsted is giving away free red baseball caps to help Greenlanders welcome Mrs. Vance and Mr. Waltz. The photo shows a red baseball cap embroidered with Make Americans Go Away on the front and the Greenland flag on the side
March 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Image shows a painting of Julius Caesar being assassinated. A text overlay says March 15 - Beware the Ides of March
March 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Pat Bag of The Bags, before she was Patricia Morrison. Pictured here in a linocut by Mark Vallen
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Linocut portrait of Pat Bag, later known as Patricia Morrison, by artist Mark Vallen
March 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Maybe not *favourite* but noteworthy. "The Hunger", Tony Scott's 1993 directorial debut, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon
Still from 1983 movie "The Hunger" showing Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie
February 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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A quote from Christopher Marlowe against a background of bookshelves: I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper, and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books burned. Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus Act II, scene 2
February 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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A quote from William Shakespeare I know he would not be a wolf But that he sees the Romans are but sheep. He were no lion were not Romans hinds. Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 3
February 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Black and white photo of a fenced path surrounded by winter trees. Overlaid is this text: "The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.' To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: 'If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think.'" — G. K. Chesterton
February 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Photo shows empty liquor store shelves that display signs reading "Buy Canadian Instead"
February 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Enoki! I was hoping for something poisonous but this is good too
January 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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This Raymond Chandler quote keeps popping up in my thoughts
#fires #SantaMonica #noir
#SantaAnas
Quote from Raymond Chandler: "There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."
January 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Quote from Raymond Chandler: "There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM