The lab equipment in Young Frankenstein is very literally the same lab equipment from the "real" Frankenstein.
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Strickfaden replied that he had all the equipment in his garage and would loan it to them for $1,000. Brooks paid him $2,500 and also made sure that Strickfaden's name, which was not in the credits for 1931 Frankenstein, was included in the credits for Young Frankenstein.
When filming Young Frankenstein in the 70’s, Mel Brooks tracked down the original designer for the 1931 Frankenstein (Kenneth Strickfaden) with the intention of politely asking the old man to do a quick consultation on the lab equipment to try to reasonably replicate it...
And Nien Nunb, voiced by Kenyan student Kipsang Rotich, was speaking in his native Kalenjin and in Kikuyu. This translates as "All you over there, come here." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7nV...
Star Wars' Nien Nunb speaks perfect Gĩkũyũ and Kalenjin
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Wait wait, forgot one of my favorites: The Jawa in the original Star Wars movies are speaking Xhosa, a South African language. It's chopped up, pitch-shifted, and nonsensical, but translatable. "Uhutini!" means "What are you saying?"
Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social · 15h agoWe all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.
It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.
Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · last yr.A woman weeps over the genocide in Gaza as she waits to be arrested as a terrorist for holding up a piece of cardboard. Parliament Square today.
As a white kid in a liberal state, my childhood education in public school on civil rights was extremely reverent of MLK jr, and mentioned Malcolm X as “this other guy who believed in violence anyway let’s move on.” And my adulthood has been a process of unpacking who made that curriculum and why.
Sandy Hendry@sandyhendry.bsky.social · 21h agoMartin Luther King was much more successful than Malcolm X for example. Before that, there was no need for a bloody civil war in most countries that abolished slavery. Just votes. Independence can also be bloodless. Gandhi in India, Walesa in Poland, Mandela in South Africa. The list is long.
Lots of people rightly asking Sandy, Senior Editor at Bloomberg, what happened to Martin Luther King, Jr., but it's worth looking at the second sentence and noticing how slavery was famously abolished in the United States and Haiti specifically via *necessary* bloody civil war/revolution
Sandy Hendry@sandyhendry.bsky.social · 21h agoMartin Luther King was much more successful than Malcolm X for example. Before that, there was no need for a bloody civil war in most countries that abolished slavery. Just votes. Independence can also be bloodless. Gandhi in India, Walesa in Poland, Mandela in South Africa. The list is long.
Key findings: this is what @lucympowell.bsky.social is doing to trans children. She is a bully who is deliberately and needlessly harming CHILDREN. She should be removed, she is unfit to be Education Secretary or to work with any children.
Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 3h agoNot Safe To Be Me. Horrific reading. @prideineducation.bsky.social & C2BT analyses social media responses to the video made by Katie Neeves about the harm & distress @lucympowell.bsky.social’s anti-trans schools “guidance” has caused to a 13-year old trans girl. cool2btrans.co.uk/not-safe-to-...
I am confident that this technology will be very racist www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Can one photo of your face reveal how ill you are?
AI may help doctors judge how ill a patient is using a single photograph of their face, say US researchers.
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Or we can just skip forward to inflicting brutal legal consequences on every single person involved in this obvious scam that will absolutely kill people.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h ago“The breakthrough could pave the way for AI facial analysis to assist doctors in making difficult decisions about the best way forward in terms of treatment for their patients.”
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“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
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A pro-life white woman ruling that a law officer was justified in killing a Black baby seated in his mother’s lap, shooting her as well because of suspicion of stealing diapers is as accurate of a summation of how the US has historically wielded its institutions against Blackfolk as I can think of.
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18h agoJUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.
1) It is good that this woman is now changing her mind and potentially voting the right way 2) These conversations are fundamentally flawed as long as they don't come with a "okay, so what did you learn about the mistake you made and the information that led you there and how will you change that"
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 15h ago3-time Trump voter who lost her job from DOGE: The betrayal is pretty significant. Come time for presidential elections, it's gonna warrant a conversation of what party we vote for. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
absolute knee-slapper of an interview with Walter Isaacson here: basically every question is some version of "have you at long last come to see what absolute pieces of shit these people are?" and Isaacson resolutely refusing to engage over and over again www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
Walter Isaacson Launches New Podcast to Examine the Builders of AI, Including Elon Musk
The biographer on his new show, where he interviews Peter Thiel, Dario and Daniela Amodei, Musk and more and whether Musk has changed.
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What if 30 masked men board a train in all black shouting racist chants, will they get in trouble if they listen to their phones out loud?
just bcos ppl find music on public transport irritating doesn't mean they want the prime minister himself to step in and start dictating everyones behaviour. it's like if you made mr. bean a fascist dictator. like it's just that's not the job of a prime minister.
we used to call the blair government 'the nanny state' for a reason all this government does is nanny us. right down to where ppl pee even they're pathetic and annoying little middle managers who feel the need to interfere in our day to day lives they're like life coaches none of us fucking hired
Heidi Alexander MP@heidialexander.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's so frustrating when the actions of a few spoil your journey. Our new campaign reminds passengers to use headphones on trains, and highlights the penalties. And local leaders get new powers to tackle music, vaping and littering on buses. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people invented multiplayer gaming
Tao Neuendorffer@taonf.bsky.social · 2d agoDanielle Bunten Berry, American game designer and programmer known for M.U.L.E. (1983), one of the 1st influential multiplayer video games. Dani insisted that the future of gaming is interconnectedness. She was one of the 1st in gaming to publicly identify as transgender dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK...
Coyote vs Acme is now Warner Bro's best performing movie this summer and they nearly threw it out for a tax writeoff Warner Bros:
ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · 19h ago‘Coyote vs. Acme’ has officially surpassed ‘Supergirl’ ($126M) worldwide, making it the summer’s highest-grossing film produced by Warner Bros. But it’s distributor Ketchup Entertainment benefiting from its theatrical release.
Putin “Demands control over several European cities” These people “akshually he has no ambitions in Europe”
@philadelphiensis.bsky.social · 15h agoThis is the heart of the total and utter nonsense that Biden's war mongering has caused. And really propaganda swallowed and furthered by desperate Europeans, you need NATO to be safe, when NATO members are the cause of most wars historically. Putin, a paper tiger has no real ambitions in Europe.
No, the 19th century nationalist movement of Zionism is not an integral part of being Jewish, the religious attachment to "Israel" as a concept is not Zionism, and just saying "but I'm Jewish" doesn't mean anything with regards to those facts.
Rachel Cunliffe@rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 22h agoI don’t normally post media appearances, but this feels like an exception. On Politics Live today I’d planned to discuss Green Party infighting after the Zionism motion, entryism, Labour’s response. That kinda thing. It ended up with… well, you’ll see. Final segment. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18h agoJUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.
It’s Libby Purves babbling about “thousands of men of fighting age” here, by the way. They just drop that kind of chat like it’s nothing, now. It’s hard to explain just how drastically your average panel zombie has radicalised in the last decade, particularly in the last five years.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h agoThis week, the lads ask whether Britain might see riots like the ones in France. Hosts and guests talk at length about the terrors of immigration, and it doesn’t occur to any of them that Britain has in fact seen years of sustained rioting, arson and fighting with police by the far right.
It's bananas that it is now state policy that universities can't teach or discuss systemic racism, and gender studies is being outlawed, but they are *obligated* to host people denigrating their students...in the name of free speech.
how it feels talking to democrats about politics these days
GamerDad@gamerdad8six.bsky.social · 3d agoThe dumbest people will see who the democratic nominee is in 2028 and choose to not vote for that person over a single issue even after this fucking clown show we dealing with right now