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To the divine, mischievous spark in you ✨🗺️
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‘The Hunt For Ben Solo’: Steven Soderbergh & Adam Driver’s Secret ‘Star Wars’ Movie Was Greenlit Before Disney Pulled The Plug [Exclusive]
‘The Hunt For Ben Solo’: Steven Soderbergh & Adam Driver’s Secret ‘Star Wars’ Movie Was Greenlit Before Disney Pulled The Plug [Exclusive]
Shoulda, woulda, coulda, I guess. Six months ago, I learned that Steven Soderbergh and Adam Driver had quietly developed a post- “Rise of Skywalker” “Star Wars” film titled “The Hunt For Ben Solo,” written by Scott Z. Burns, but out of an abundance of reporterly caution, I didn’t go forward with the story. This week, Driver himself revealed the project’s existence in an Associated Press interview, confirming that he and Soderbergh had worked on a “Star Wars” movie that never came to fruition. Continue reading ‘The Hunt For Ben Solo’: Steven Soderbergh & Adam Driver’s Secret ‘Star Wars’ Movie Was Greenlit Before Disney Pulled The Plug [Exclusive] at The Playlist.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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🔭 Asperitas Clouds Over New Zealand

Image Credit & Copyright: Witta Priester

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Trees and mountains line the bottom of a landscape image with blue sky visible above. The sky is otherwise dominated by a large and unusual cloud that is brown and gold and has many waves and structures. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
August 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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"I think it is the very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years."

In August 1897, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a letter to Bram Stoker to let him know how much he enjoyed #Dracula. Today you can read the letter here @ransomcenter.bsky.social! (HT @ecolleary.bsky.social)

#booksky 🗃️📜🦇
“My dear Bram Stoker, I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula. I think it is the very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years. It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax." Letter from Arthur Conan Doyle to Bram Stoker August 20, 1897 Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin "It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid. The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls. I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book. With all kindest remembrances to Mrs. Bram Stoker & yourself. Yours very truly, A. Conan Doyle.” Letter from Arthur Conan Doyle to Bram Stoker August 20, 1897 Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin
August 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Background paintings by Sue Mondt for The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005), created by Craig McCracken, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
July 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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This hauntingly beautiful portrait of Violet Manners, Marchioness of Granby was painted by American-born artist, James Jebusa Shannon in 1896.
An oil painting of Violet Manners, Marchioness of Granby who sits holding a notebook while staring at the viewer. The painting is all loose strokes apart from her face which has great detail.
May 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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A few days ago, I found a #manicule on the margin of my copy of Giambattista della Porta’s De Furtivis Literarum Notis (1563), and I asked for bibliography that would allow me to learn more about manicule typologies. Several people recommended Sherman’s Used Books. Thanks a lot! 📚

#bibliophile
March 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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🔭 Light Pillar over Erupting Etna

Image Credit & Copyright: Davide Caliò

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A slope of volcano is pictured with red glowing lava running down its side. A dark starry sky is in the background. Up into the sky a red column is visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
February 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Annecy : la reconnaissance d’un terrorisme masculiniste. Une première ?
L’attentat déjoué à Annecy a reçu peu de couverture médiatique, une discrétion qui ne surprend plus lorsqu’il s’agit de violences perpétrées contre les femmes et les minorités de genre. Pourtant, cet…
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February 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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"Philosophy means 'love of wisdom' right? And wisdom needs all the lovers it can get right now." @theabigailthorn.bsky.social
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Was Nietzsche Woke?
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February 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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If you share a link from X, the value after ?t= is used to track who shared the link

So if you are a reporter and not trimming that off, you are essentially helping Elon Musk build a social graph of your sources

Usually anything from the first ? onwards in a link are unnecessary parameters anyway
February 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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"It is important to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated." – Dumbledore (book quote) 📖
February 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I just reread the poem "Home" by Warsan Shire and I'm posting it here in its entirety because a reminder is warranted.

no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well
February 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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J’ai vu passer des posts en français de gens qui désespèrent de ce qu’il se passe aux États-Unis

Je comprends le sentiment

Mais provoquer le désespoir est au cœur de la stratégie politique de l’extrême-droite

Parce que les gens qui ont perdu espoir ne voient pas l’intérêt de se révolter

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February 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Your reminder that good still exists all around us ❤️
February 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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🔭 Nacreous Clouds over Sweden

Image Credit & Copyright: Vojan Höfer

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Vivid and lustrous, wafting iridescent waves of color wash across this skyscape from northern Sweden. Known as nacreous clouds or mother-of-pearl clouds, they are rare. But their unforgettable appearance was captured in this snapshot on January 12 with the Sun just below the local horizon. A type of polar stratospheric cloud, they form when unusually cold temperatures in the usually cloudless lower stratosphere form ice crystals. Still sunlit at altitudes of around 15 to 25 kilometers, the clouds diffract the sunlight even when the Sun itself is hidden from direct view.
February 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM