Stephen Wm. Irving 🐉🚀🎬

Family man, Creative Arts teacher, writer, Tigers fan 17,19 & 20 AFLM Premiers, 007, Batman, Star Trek/Wars, Brooks, Birmingham, Phelan, McKinty, Hammer & Penny

[Stephen Wm. Irving 🐉🚀🎬 @GhostSwirv]

OMG It's DARTH MINION

[Melanie Usher @mjgal]

John Farnham's son James posted this today as the legend celebrates his 77th birthday. That's his one year old grandson Jett on his lap.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 120 years ago.

None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...

What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.

The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.

Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...

By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.

And the film itself nearly went with it.

The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.

This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...

[Hy Bender @hybender]

Coolest use of a drone

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

950 days later...

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

The shadow docket is one problem. The other is a Supreme Court making up facts that aren’t factual, in secret, and outside proper judicial fact-finding process. They get the last say, so they just make it up. (E.g.: how is dark money transparent?)

[Stephen Wm. Irving 🐉🚀🎬 @GhostSwirv]

Had one of these babies back in the 70s, used to cut a box-load of super-8 films with my high school friends.

Sadly the box got tossed by mistake after spending too much time at my parent’s house.

Really miss the hands on splice ‘n dice of building a story from scratch.

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

The tools of an analog storysmith 🎞️

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Luca Guadagnino's ‘Artificial’ has been acquired by NEON

The film stars Andrew Garfield as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

(via @MattBelloni)

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

This is...a lot.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is one of the most fair and balanced advertisements in history of world. Everyone should watch it.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This man is deeply disturbed. This company needs to be removed from every computer paid for by taxpayers. It is fascist metastatic cancer trying to replace the government.

If Democrats need an issue to run on, curing America of Palantir is a very good one.

[Stephen Wm. Irving 🐉🚀🎬 @GhostSwirv]

While I love the image of Kirk questioning the strange logic of a deity … I sincerely hope we haven’t ventured into a universe where Trump is a God-like feature, but I fear we may have already warped there? 🧐

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

There are many reasons that you don't do this.

Specifically, one reason for such compartmentalization is to make sure that a spy inside the USG never gets a full list of such things.

Why would the administration need such a list?

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

There are many reasons that you don't do this.

Specifically, one reason for such compartmentalization is to make sure that a spy inside the USG never gets a full list of such things.

Why would the administration need such a list?

[Matthew Belloni @MattBelloni]

News: ARTIFICIAL, the hot-potato Sam Altman movie that was dropped by Amazon, has been sold to NEON, the independent theatrical distributor behind Oscar best picture winner ANORA. Barring last minute complication, announcement is coming this week.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The framing undersells it. This isn't officials drifting back into a bad habit out of convenience. Caine administered a Signal chat with an eight hour delete timer alongside Hegseth and Rubio, the same Caine who sat before the Senate weeks earlier and swore under oath that he always communicated through proper channels.

Rubio's own State Department told a federal judge last July that he doesn't use auto-delete functions on messages that might qualify as federal records. The FOIA release contradicts that on at least three separate group chats, one with seventeen participants including the vice president and the commerce secretary.

The White House's answer to all of it was to call the story old news. Not a denial. Not a defense. Just a shrug aimed at the calendar instead of the facts.

[Stephen Wm. Irving 🐉🚀🎬 @GhostSwirv]

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[VicScreen @wearevicscreen]

A huge weekend for Victorian storytelling. 🎬✨

Victoria showed up in full force for the Castlemaine Documentary Festival, celebrating powerful stories from local filmmakers and voices from across Australia and beyond. 🎥⭐

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is a Mack truck sized hole that Trump will drive through to steal even more money from us.

This is the worst Court in history.

[Cinephilia, anti-authoritarianism, & fuck AI @CCinephilia]

Yesterday, for Mel Brooks' 100th birthday, 7,000 fans gathered in the main square of Bologna, Italy, to sing “Happy Birthday” to him. Mel himself replied with a video message, and then the crowd watched Young Frankenstein together.

❤️

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench.

It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."
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"In holding otherwise, the Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

[Tom Santos @tommysantos14]

Odd. No response from @elonmusk.

Actually, not odd at all. Elon tends not to engage when actual facts are introduced to the bullshit he spews.