Steve in Portslade
@portsladesteve.bsky.social
dad, Christian, Portslade resident, Star Trek fan, liberal and democrat (also a Liberal Democrat)
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![9.00pm - 10.00pm
New: The Sycamore Gap Mystery
New: The Sycamore Gap Mystery. This series goes inside a community in turmoil and inside the police hunt to solve the Sycamore Gap tree mystery - a crime of extraordinary vandalism that shocked Britain. (Ep1/2)
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December 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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In case you needed one more reason not to use AI …
The CEO of ChatGPT is blaming a teen’s suicide on his failure to follow the terms of service:
Adam Raine, 16, told ChatGPT he was suicidal and the AI bot told him his feelings were valid and even provided suggestions and detailed instructions.
The CEO of ChatGPT is blaming a teen’s suicide on his failure to follow the terms of service:
Adam Raine, 16, told ChatGPT he was suicidal and the AI bot told him his feelings were valid and even provided suggestions and detailed instructions.
OpenAI says teen's 'misuse' of ChatGPT is to blame for his suicide, because he broke the TOU: 'Users must comply with OpenAI's Usage Policies, which prohibit the use of ChatGPT for suicide or self-har...
The lawyer presenting Adam Raine's family calls the response "disturbing" and I have to agree.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
In case you needed one more reason not to use AI …
The CEO of ChatGPT is blaming a teen’s suicide on his failure to follow the terms of service:
Adam Raine, 16, told ChatGPT he was suicidal and the AI bot told him his feelings were valid and even provided suggestions and detailed instructions.
The CEO of ChatGPT is blaming a teen’s suicide on his failure to follow the terms of service:
Adam Raine, 16, told ChatGPT he was suicidal and the AI bot told him his feelings were valid and even provided suggestions and detailed instructions.
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Just caught up with a friend who got back in touch recently after we hadn't seen each other for OH GOD twenty five years. He's recently written a book about hand-rearing baby gorillas, which is not where I thought he'd end up, but wow. Here is the book: summersdale.com/titles/alan-...
ANYWAY...
ANYWAY...
Gorillas in Our Midst
Step into the fascinating world of Bristol Zoo with Alan Toyne, a dedicated zookeeper and primate expert whose extraordinary story of hand-rearing two baby g...
summersdale.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Just caught up with a friend who got back in touch recently after we hadn't seen each other for OH GOD twenty five years. He's recently written a book about hand-rearing baby gorillas, which is not where I thought he'd end up, but wow. Here is the book: summersdale.com/titles/alan-...
ANYWAY...
ANYWAY...
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19th century wooden “walking” doll with a wheel of eight legs ~ when costumed, the doll’s long dress would cover most of the leg mechanism, allowing the doll to “walk” when moving, while appearing to have only two legs at any one time www.theriaults.com/events/listi...
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
19th century wooden “walking” doll with a wheel of eight legs ~ when costumed, the doll’s long dress would cover most of the leg mechanism, allowing the doll to “walk” when moving, while appearing to have only two legs at any one time www.theriaults.com/events/listi...
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some of it is just because they are stupid and evil but i think at least a little bit of it is that the most morally complex work of art or literature they've ever been exposed to is BLADE RUNNER (1982)
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
some of it is just because they are stupid and evil but i think at least a little bit of it is that the most morally complex work of art or literature they've ever been exposed to is BLADE RUNNER (1982)
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How long until we find out that the pardoned turkeys funneled millions of dollars to the Trump family buying their cryptocurrency? 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
How long until we find out that the pardoned turkeys funneled millions of dollars to the Trump family buying their cryptocurrency? 🤔
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25 November 1938 | French Jewish boy, Henri Herszhorn, was born in Paris.
In 1942, he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
In 1942, he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
25 November 1938 | French Jewish boy, Henri Herszhorn, was born in Paris.
In 1942, he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
In 1942, he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
Recorded this and enjoyed watching it this evening. An incredible adaptation except for one massive problem:
When they entered the basement at Carfax (shot in an ahead of its time found footage style), my son's school bag fell off the table and I had a heart attack and died.
When they entered the basement at Carfax (shot in an ahead of its time found footage style), my son's school bag fell off the table and I had a heart attack and died.
Tonight.... He's back from the crypt. #LouisJourdan #SusanPenhaligon #FrankFinlay stars in:
🧛♂️ COUNT DRACULA (1977) 9:10pm. Part One of the classic 70s adaptation. (the concluding part is showing tomorrow, Wednesday 5th November at 9pm) #TPTVsubtitles
🧛♂️ COUNT DRACULA (1977) 9:10pm. Part One of the classic 70s adaptation. (the concluding part is showing tomorrow, Wednesday 5th November at 9pm) #TPTVsubtitles
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Recorded this and enjoyed watching it this evening. An incredible adaptation except for one massive problem:
When they entered the basement at Carfax (shot in an ahead of its time found footage style), my son's school bag fell off the table and I had a heart attack and died.
When they entered the basement at Carfax (shot in an ahead of its time found footage style), my son's school bag fell off the table and I had a heart attack and died.
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53. Unfortunately, everyone, both the best people you know and the worst people you know, is at least partially right about The Last Jedi.
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
53. Unfortunately, everyone, both the best people you know and the worst people you know, is at least partially right about The Last Jedi.
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Augustine was a real one for this
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Augustine was a real one for this
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I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
What happens when you get your people to program your bullshit machine to say you're the best at everything?
You become the Best Piss Drinker Of All Time
You become the Best Piss Drinker Of All Time
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
What happens when you get your people to program your bullshit machine to say you're the best at everything?
You become the Best Piss Drinker Of All Time
You become the Best Piss Drinker Of All Time
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And then I said "Sir, it's the Enterprise!"
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
And then I said "Sir, it's the Enterprise!"
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If the Pope saves us from a Catholic theocracy imposed by Evangelical Protestant voters…
I don’t even know how to finish that thought.
I don’t even know how to finish that thought.
It is going to be really funny when JD Vance inevitably Fucks Around and gets himself excommunicated
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If the Pope saves us from a Catholic theocracy imposed by Evangelical Protestant voters…
I don’t even know how to finish that thought.
I don’t even know how to finish that thought.
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
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Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
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[Thread] All the times Arnold Schwarzenegger almost reprised his role as Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer (Predator, 1987) in another Predator movie, but oops, he didn't.
You could make a movie just about that.
1/38
You could make a movie just about that.
1/38
a close up of a man 's face with the words if it bleeds below it
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words if it bleeds below it
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November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
[Thread] All the times Arnold Schwarzenegger almost reprised his role as Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer (Predator, 1987) in another Predator movie, but oops, he didn't.
You could make a movie just about that.
1/38
You could make a movie just about that.
1/38
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Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
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note that when someone talks about food aversion, or a caregiver of someone with food aversion talks about it, your common sense advice (make your own! Fake it with packaging! Buy this other brand!) isn't going to be helpful. It's not our first day. We've thought of it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
note that when someone talks about food aversion, or a caregiver of someone with food aversion talks about it, your common sense advice (make your own! Fake it with packaging! Buy this other brand!) isn't going to be helpful. It's not our first day. We've thought of it.
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
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Today's the feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. The Gospel at Mass today is St John's account of Christ driving out the animal sellers and money changers. The old dispensation is uprooted and overturned. Glass by Carl Edwards, 1958, in Temple Church, London. 1/2
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Today's the feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. The Gospel at Mass today is St John's account of Christ driving out the animal sellers and money changers. The old dispensation is uprooted and overturned. Glass by Carl Edwards, 1958, in Temple Church, London. 1/2