Marlowe 🦇
@marlowechris.bsky.social
Not the one who wrote Shakespeare.
Writer, editor, explainer, fact-checker
for hire: movies, music, technology.
Writer, editor, explainer, fact-checker
for hire: movies, music, technology.
Remembering Ron Asheton, who died on this date in 2008. Inimitable, one of the greats
underappreciatedrock.org/ron-asheton
underappreciatedrock.org/ron-asheton
Today in Music History: Remembering Ron Asheton
The Beatles released 'All You Need Is Love'; John Coltrane passed away; Simple Minds made their live debut; Virgin Records signed Keith Richards to a solo deal; Bono received the French government's h...
www.thecurrent.org
January 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Remembering Ron Asheton, who died on this date in 2008. Inimitable, one of the greats
underappreciatedrock.org/ron-asheton
underappreciatedrock.org/ron-asheton
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January 6, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Welcome to the Public Domain, MOROCCO (1930) 🎩
🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
January 2, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Welcome to the Public Domain, MOROCCO (1930) 🎩
🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
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Anyone who doesn’t understand how to read a royalty statement, there are professional auditors who will do it for you and they only get paid if they make a recovery for you. If you don’t know any, HMU. I know lots of them.
"Use AI tools to analyze royalty statements and contracts"
oh my god please read your fucking contracts and ask a human being about things you don't understand.
oh my god please read your fucking contracts and ask a human being about things you don't understand.
December 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Anyone who doesn’t understand how to read a royalty statement, there are professional auditors who will do it for you and they only get paid if they make a recovery for you. If you don’t know any, HMU. I know lots of them.
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Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays from your friends at BCI. 💫 Thank you for being a part of our community this year. 🦇❤️
December 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays from your friends at BCI. 💫 Thank you for being a part of our community this year. 🦇❤️
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Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet
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A number of my works are available through the National Library Service, which provides work via audio and braille, and I encourage their use. All my contracts allow for this service to provide access to my work.
www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-s...
www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-s...
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
A number of my works are available through the National Library Service, which provides work via audio and braille, and I encourage their use. All my contracts allow for this service to provide access to my work.
www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-s...
www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-s...
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Someone ask for a snowball? ❄️🥶
These little floofs (𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴) hibernate in the snow!
Snow provides good insulation and protection from predators -- which is important when you weigh just 4-8 grams. 😮
🦇 Ussuri tube-nosed bat
📸 Yushi & Keiko Osawa
These little floofs (𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴) hibernate in the snow!
Snow provides good insulation and protection from predators -- which is important when you weigh just 4-8 grams. 😮
🦇 Ussuri tube-nosed bat
📸 Yushi & Keiko Osawa
December 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Someone ask for a snowball? ❄️🥶
These little floofs (𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴) hibernate in the snow!
Snow provides good insulation and protection from predators -- which is important when you weigh just 4-8 grams. 😮
🦇 Ussuri tube-nosed bat
📸 Yushi & Keiko Osawa
These little floofs (𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴) hibernate in the snow!
Snow provides good insulation and protection from predators -- which is important when you weigh just 4-8 grams. 😮
🦇 Ussuri tube-nosed bat
📸 Yushi & Keiko Osawa
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I have just found out that some reprehensible fucking dork has made an AI chatbot based on the character I played on The Magnus Archives and *it has my voice*. I genuinely don't think I have ever felt so fucking violated. My actual voice. Saying things I have never said. I feel sick.
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I have just found out that some reprehensible fucking dork has made an AI chatbot based on the character I played on The Magnus Archives and *it has my voice*. I genuinely don't think I have ever felt so fucking violated. My actual voice. Saying things I have never said. I feel sick.
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Huge news! This is the week that #LadyKillers is back! Our new season begins on Tuesday 16 December at 3pm on BBC Radio 4 and the trailer's available NOW on BBC Sounds. If you're outside the UK, listen weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
December 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Huge news! This is the week that #LadyKillers is back! Our new season begins on Tuesday 16 December at 3pm on BBC Radio 4 and the trailer's available NOW on BBC Sounds. If you're outside the UK, listen weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
Journalism, how does it work
Oh WSJ social person, I am sorry for this but
Mick Jagger: frontman
*Keith Richards*: guitarist, the man in your picture, the subject of this story.
Mick Jagger: frontman
*Keith Richards*: guitarist, the man in your picture, the subject of this story.
December 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Journalism, how does it work
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Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
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December 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Water your tree.
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Water your tree.
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Conservationist Kristen Lear discusses efforts to restore agave plants in the American Southwest and Mexico, and what restoration means for both pollinating bats and your tequila. Plus, scientists can now track individual butterflies during monarchs’ epic migrations. 🦇 🦋
A Toast To Bats That Pollinate Agave, And Tracking Monarchs
How bats, agave plants, and tequila are connected. Plus, tiny trackers on monarch butterflies reveal their migration journeys.
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Conservationist Kristen Lear discusses efforts to restore agave plants in the American Southwest and Mexico, and what restoration means for both pollinating bats and your tequila. Plus, scientists can now track individual butterflies during monarchs’ epic migrations. 🦇 🦋
Pepys House (at his alma mater Hitchingbrooke School) may be renamed due to "recent research" revealing his actions towards women. Did they just now read the Diaries? @samuelpepys.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Pepys concern may lead to Hinchingbrooke School house change
The academy says it may rename a house over concerns about Samuel Pepys' historical treatment of women.
www.bbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Pepys House (at his alma mater Hitchingbrooke School) may be renamed due to "recent research" revealing his actions towards women. Did they just now read the Diaries? @samuelpepys.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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?
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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?
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
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
www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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
www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
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The greatest Thanksgiving special ever made by any TV show in history.
There is no debate. Don’t even bother.
There is no debate. Don’t even bother.
WKRP Turkey Drop
YouTube video by Brian Henigin
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The greatest Thanksgiving special ever made by any TV show in history.
There is no debate. Don’t even bother.
There is no debate. Don’t even bother.
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...