Vanessa Yardley

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Aussie Screenwriter. Raconteuse. Railing Kill enthusiast.
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“The Hollywood blacklist cleaned a lot of women out of the industry, and she was one. Then historians and critics erased her, because all they’ve ever cared about is great male directors … archives did not even want her papers... deemed not worthwhile.”

Credit at last for female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood historywww.theguardian.com Despite her activism during the golden age of cinema, Mary C McCall Jr was all but forgotten. Now a new book is about to set the record straight

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I’ve sold AI to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook, and by gum it put them on the map.

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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists

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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

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coke and pepsi machines sneaking up on each other like a Spy vs. Spy panel

renee's corner cafe (bank), corner detail, route 52 and main street, sawyer, north dakota, 1987

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The last paragraph is delicious enough to spread on toast.

I love it when everyone's been up so long you start getting this kind of punch-drunk reporting.

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companies and firms do not implement AI products to make work easier, better, or more enjoyable for the average worker but to cut labour costs and reduce staff www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Nearly half of US firms using AI say goal is to cut staffing costswww.smh.com.au Some 45 per cent of firms surveyed said they had added technology since January 2022 to automate what had once been employees’ tasks.

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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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Denis Lushch’s cartoon has been updated - the right wing trick that just keeps on working in the world

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A friend from Chicago sent this to me: her local branch of Chicago Public Library created an exhibition of left-behind water bottles titled "Thirst: An Exploration of Modern Dehydration," and it made her think of me. We've been friends for 40 years. She knows me well 🥰

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In place of a meat lord you would have a potato QUEEN! Beautiful and tubery as the dawn!

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Screeeeeeeaming

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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Reminder. The good guy in this scene is Jones.

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Me: I know panty hose are a little dated but I love how they even out my skin tone Bank Teller: So is this not a robbery? Me: No, it is

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You have to love these flaccid Calvinist hot takes by highly successful people. Systemic inequality is good, actually, bc it allows the elect to demonstrate their profound virtue and genius. If you are truly pious, you will achieve prosperity via God's special underwear gnome economics

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The ‘diabolical’ situation for working class talent in TV is only getting worse. Here Lucy Beaumont, among others, tells us “I honestly want to jack it all in, because I like helping working-class talent – and I can’t.” 💔 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘I’m sick of it!’ The diabolical reality of being one of the few working-class people in TVwww.theguardian.com From nepotism to pay so bad that even Bafta winners are quitting the industry, the odds are stacked against working-class talent. No wonder stars like Lucy Beaumont want to ‘jack it all in’

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The Game of Thrones franchise just makes me wish we could get a big budget prestige fantasy TV show that doesn’t constantly throw disturbing shit at you. Give all that money to the people who made Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

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Magnificent photo of Farage one nanosecond before encountering a full face McDonald's milkshake.

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come across an unfamiliar aristocratic surname - Faà di Bruno - among the judges on this FWW-era military tribunal I'm working on, looked up the family and am reeling at the world's most surreal family crest

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“Turning Red” is one of the realest movies I’ve ever seen about the adolescent experience, wtf this is such a galling reminder that stories about fathers and sons get framed as “universal” but stories about mothers and daughters are “niche” and “not everyone can relate”

Just fold the studio into Disney and kill it already. Make Toy Story sequels till the sun fucking burns out. Love how this shift conveniently happened when more woman/POC were really pushing to direct their own stories. Defining their experiences as not "universal" is saying the quiet part aloud.

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"I was told, at extremely regular intervals, 'You should try to write about things you know about.' And I would say, But I do; I know about Orion, and dragons, and imaginary countries. Who do you think knows about my own imaginary countries, if I don’t?"

Ursula Le Guin tells you how to be a writer. lithub.com/ursula-k-le-...

Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writerlithub.com This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. How do you become a writer? Answer: you write. It’s amazing how much resentment and disgust and evasion this answer can ar…

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Trying out Cara.app, an Instagram alternative that bans generative "A.I." cara.app/gregpak

Greg Pak (@gregpak) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platformcara.app Rhymes with "rock." Get vaxxed and vote. Actual human comics writer, filmmaker, photographer. Darth Vader, Lawful, Lilo & Stitch, Planet Hulk.

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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

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I feel people need to remember that Meta will very very likely absolutely NOT honor your opt-out requests, even if they are accepted. There has been similar events in the past, and they always preferred to sit it out and/or pay penalties instead. Be careful what you post to their apps in the future.

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The San Diego corpse flower bloomed for the first time since 2018. I thought they were called corpse flowers because they stink but it's apparently because they eat ballerinas.

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this meeting could have been a wilhelm scream

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Post-apocalyptic movies are wrong about road warriors wearing punk rock leather They’d wear whatever clothing survives the apocalypse. If a shipping container full of Rise of Gru t-shirts is all that remains the raiders are wearing Minions

So glad I spent the money and imported the Andor 4k steelbook from the US (thanks for not releasing physical media in Australia anymore, Disney! ). The photos don't do the metallic artwork justice - it's sooo luxe. Now all I need is a 4k player...😉