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[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

No road crosses the crest of California's Sierra Nevada for 137 miles.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe”

― Carl Sagan

[Tristan Gemmill @TristanGemmill]

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[Omid Djalili @omid9]

I’ve seen a lot said about Ed Miliband meeting the Islamic regime foreign minister. But this concise article by @JakeWSimons says it best:

“When jihadists are your underdogs and democracies are your oppressors, you’ve lost the moral argument.”

Our Foreign Secretary should take the time to consider how his handshake looks to the many thousands of Iranian parents “whose children were slaughtered like animals on the streets, or blinded and castrated with shotguns, or hanged for the crime of wanting freedom, or executed by armed men as they lay in hospital.”

https://t.co/AJ3ocoqRaN

[Tristan Gemmill @TristanGemmill]

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[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

One room, twelve actors, 19 days and $340,000. Sidney Lumet had never directed a film before 12 ANGRY MEN (1957), and he turned every one of those limits to his advantage.

Read all about it 👇👇

Lumet later admitted he hadn’t spotted the obvious problem. “It was very difficult to shoot a movie in one room,” he said. “That never occurred to me. I just plunged in with complete ignorance.”

What he did have was a cinematographer with pedigree. Boris Kaufman had just won an Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954), and the jury room he was given to light was no bigger than an average hotel room. Twelve actors, a camera and a crew had to fit inside it, with removable walls to make space.

Before a frame was shot, Lumet kept the cast in a rehearsal space every day for two weeks, running the script over and over with no cameras, so they knew what it felt like to be stuck in a room with the same eleven people. That preparation would carry the shoot.

With little time or money, planning was key. Once Kaufman had lit a chair, everything filmed from that position was shot there and then. The crew worked their way round the room three times: once in bright afternoon sun, once as storm clouds gathered, and once with the overhead lights on. Scenes were shot out of order to save time. So when Lee J. Cobb’s Juror 3 rounds on Henry Fonda, the two sides of the argument were filmed seven or eight days apart, and Lumet had to hold “a perfect emotional memory” of how hot Cobb had run a week earlier.

He kept the ensemble alive too. Off-camera actors weren’t allowed to sit aside reading or knitting; they gathered round the lens and played the scene. Lumet sat as close to the camera as he could, saying the lines in his head, and sometimes called “Print!” on takes he never meant to use, just to relax a struggling actor.

Then there was the fi. “I shot the first third of the movie above eye level, shot the second third at eye level, and the last third from below eye level,” Lumet wrote. “In that way, toward the end, the ceiling began to appear. Not only were the walls closing in, the ceiling was as well.” Further to this, the lenses lengthened as the film went on, from 28–40mm up to 100mm, pulling the walls in behind the jurors. Over half of the film’s 387 camera setups were saved for the final 30 minutes, so the cutting quickens as the space shrinks.

And when the verdict is in, he lets everyone out. The final shot of the jurors leaving the courthouse was filmed from high above, with the widest lens in the picture. After an hour and a half of tightening, Lumet wanted “to literally give us all air, to let us finally breathe.”

Lumet finished in 19 days, one ahead of schedule, and reportedly $1,000 under budget. It was his first feature, but the man was already a master.

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

Bird Photographer of the Year 2026 winners.

Such wonders. The two gannet pictures are stunning https://t.co/dhyc2MmaqF

[Tristan Gemmill @TristanGemmill]

@tymboyszn Minus 99

[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

This is pretty cool. I drew a 36-year old West African woman living on $5 a day.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JD Vance: I'm trying to focus on doing as much of God's work as possible right now. And if that leads to the end times, okay.

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[Tristan Gemmill @TristanGemmill]

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[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Let me introduce you to Sarina Esmailzadeh, another hero from my country, Iran.

She was 16 years old. And like so many teenage girls her age, she had a YouTube channel.

She filmed herself baking cookies. She vlogged about her life in Karaj. She talked about compulsory hijab, about what it meant to grow up as a girl under the Islamic Republic, and about her dreams for freedom.

She laughed on camera. She joked. She danced. She was full of life.

On September 23, 2022, Sarina joined the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. Amnesty International reported that security forces struck her repeatedly on the head with batons, killing her. She was only 16.
I know I keep repeating her age. But how can I not? She was sixteen.

She wanted the world to understand what it means to be a girl standing against bad laws, discriminatory traditions, and a political system that seek to control a woman’s body, her mind, her clothes, and her future.

Sarina stood against all of it. And I have a question:

How many women in the West know her name? How many college students and campus activists know her story?

I want everyone to know her name. Because the regime could kill Sarina, but it could not kill what she stood for.

We are not giving up. We will continue the path Sarina and so many other brave Iranian girls began.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

A cleric in Iran just announced that if a woman gets to choose her own clothes, then a man gets the right to rape her.

Do not scroll past that. Read it twice.

That is not a slip of the tongue. That is not a fringe opinion from the back of a mosque. That is Kazem Rohbakhsh an official worldview of the Islamic Republic of Iran, finally spoken without the mask.

For 45 years this regime has told women they are the problem. Cover yourself, or you "tempt" men. Dress modestly, or you "deserve" what comes next. And now the punchline, straight from the cleric's mouth: If you dare to be free, then we are free to sexually assault you.

Let me be clear about something.
That is the whole ideology of the Islamic Republic of Iran in one sentence. A regime so terrified of women that it believes your only choice is a headscarf or a predator.

So here is my answer to the mullah, in simple words:

Women don’t need to cover themselves to control men’s behavior. Men need to control themselves.

A woman's body is not a bargaining chip. Our freedom is not a crime. And your "right to rape" is not a right. It is a confession. A confession that your ideology is too weak to win a single woman's heart, so you must crush her body instead.

[Badger @Bertrom]

My students were always a bit gobsmacked when I showed them this in the Film Industry and Synergy classes.

[Benjamin Butterworth @benjaminbutter]

Ethel Caterham, from Surrey, the oldest person in the world, marks her *117th birthday* today.

Ethel is the only Briton in history to turn 117-years-old. She is the last Edwardian alive.

Happy birthday, Ethel!

[Tristan Gemmill @TristanGemmill]

Vincent Ball, 102, commemorating VJ Day with his son Jonny in Sydney - and making the evening news!!

[⚒MARK⚒🎗️ @m4rk1964]

Chris Eubank has written a book about the Titanic 😱

[Tristan Gemmill @TristanGemmill]

Here’s a thought. Get rid of Tuchel and put Baz McCullum in charge. He’s available. No danger of negativity on his watch. We’d have won 7-5 if he’d been running the show.

[Tristan Gemmill @TristanGemmill]

Very sad news about the great Sam Neill. Worked with him in 2011. Absolute gent!

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt