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Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 4h

Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold during a break from filming Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 7h

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 3h

This evening I walked over a subway grate and a gust of wind blew my hat 30 feet directly up in the air and I had to chase it into the middle of Tremont Street, in case you were worried my life could stop being ridiculous for five goddamn minutes.

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Jennifer de Guzman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 3h

Cruelly, I will not give him my salsa

A tan and white cocker spaniel looking up pitifully.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 8h

DJ at the controls.

A blue-grey oriental cat sits on a warm amplifier and studies her owner with hauteur.

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Benjamin @banjosectmint.bsky.social · 10h

My order arrived and I have just finished watching Bunny Lake is Missing, I can now agree with all that has been stated. Cracking stuff.

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Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 10h

Dune 3: You Should Have Someone Take A Look At That

Poster for Dune Part Three depicting a phallic object with an unsightly bulge on one side

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 11h

More Death from the St. Agnes Convent. Here's the centre panel of an altarpiece made in Prague between 1521 and 1525, showing Jesus saving the donor of the artwork from Death's grasp by putting them in a wristlock. My guess is Death counters the move by clocking him with that hourglass...

Votive Altarpiece from Zlíchov

Christ the Saviour

Last Judgment

PRAGUE, 1521-1525

ORIGINS UNKNOWN, PERHAPS FROM THE ST VITUS CATHEDRAL IN PRAGUE, LATER IN THE CHURCH OF SS PHILLIP AND JAMES IN PRAGUE-ZLÍCHOV

The centre of the original altarpiece used to comprise a relief with Jesus Christ saving the donor of the altarpiece from the claws of Death after an interpellation by Virgin Mary and St Andrew. On the wings were reliefs with Christ on the Mount of Olives, Christ appearing to the Three Maries, St Jerome in repentance, Stigmatization of St Francis, St Matthew the Evangelist, St Mark the Evangelist, St Luke the Evangelist and St John the Evangelist. The extension of the altarpiece was formed by a semicircled lunette with the Last Judgment, a composition based on the print by recht Dürer.

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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Daily Brad Dourif character! 51. Leslie, one half of the senior partners at Wesley Snipes’s architectural firm in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever

A man in glasses and a bow tie sits behind a desk

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 16h

Perhaps the most dangerous hunting accidents in the Middle Ages weren't accidents at all: they were actually instances of killer rabbits hunting humans. All people from emperor to lowly peasants feared these rabbits, especially the killer Rabbit of Caerbannog (from Monty Python😊).🧵7/7

A rabbit is reloading a crossbow in the left side of the image while another rabbit on the right side of the image is carrying away a human that has been hunted. The human is hanging upside-down from a staff that is being held over the rabbit's shoulder. In the centre is a human hiding in a small tree, seemingly hoping that he won't be killed. Beneath his is another, smaller rabbit that is looking up at him in the tree.
Ref: Roman d’Alexandre, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264 (14th century).

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 20h

Many thanks for letter from Mary Danby. I'm toying with the idea of sending her my 'waxwork' horror story, rejected by H. van Thal. It's certainly horrific. Expect 'Pan' will say the same as 'Fontana', but always worth trying. Beautiful, huge green dragonfly in garden yesterday.

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Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social · 14h

Do yourself a favour and read these. I love this series.

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 14h

This one’s a very fun time, and only more fun and more timely with each passing year.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 17h

Oct 1st 1973 - Luisa Rey drinks to the idea of writing a book on the Swannekke Island Scanda. 📽️📅 Cloud Atlas (2012)

2 Screenshots from the movie "Cloud Atlas" (2012): First, a close-up of a newspaper headline reading "Oil Lobbyists Arrested in Swannekke Island Scandal" from the San Francisco Examiner, dated October 1, 1973. Second, a warmly lit room with a woman sitting on a couch, smiling and holding a newspaper, with the subtitle "I'll drink to that."

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 17h

Selling two tickets for: La Derive (1964), essential but lost French New Wave movie by Paula Delsol Almost sold out … BFI Southbank NFT3, Thursday 15th Oct, 8.45pm £18 FV for each - physical tickets. DM for next step. #LFF #lffstubs

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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 19h

Drive By-Troll Having been inside all year I spotted a Hillman Imp in a garage it was metallic green with a mustard stripe The light from the shed roof spotlit its glory Later online Tony from Northampton told me "Hillman's were shit mate". #NationalPoetryDay

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 19h

Day 1 of spooky season and I am reminded that, in a childhood of reading deeply unsuitable horror fiction, the standout scariest was Ghosts by Ed McBain: it was one of his 100% unsupernatural hardboiled cop novels, and to see familiar characters get haunted was as scary as if it was happening to me

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 19h

National Poetry Day, you say? It has to be this:

Kim Addonizio
TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY
IN THE NEXT STALL
If you ever woke in your dress at 4 A.M. ever
closed your legs to a man you loved opened
them for one you didn't moved against
a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach
seaweed clinging to your ankles paid good money for a bad haircut backed away
from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled
into the back seat for lack of a tampon
if you swam across a river under rain sang
using a dildo for a microphone stayed up to watch the moon eat the sun entire
ripped out the stitches in your heart
because why not if you think nothing & no one can / listen I love you joy is coming

Tattoo on my arm that reads “listen I love you joy is coming”

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 19h

I’m very proud of this design. It was a joy working with @pacarnahan.bsky.social

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 20h

This morning’s misty scenes

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 20h

For National Poetry Day, Frank O'Hara

Poem [“Lana Turner has collapsed!”]

By Frank O’Hara
Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
lana turner has collapsed!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 19h

Yes, yes, dogs saying "sausages", but this video of dogs in a pub catching squirts from a soda siphon is the greatest That's Life video of all time. youtu.be/IahcZyBsDG8?...

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Three German Shepherds In A Pub

YouTube video by kd fr

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THE HALF MAN (kindle or paperback) "a witty, baudy, surreal, head trip of a book that mixes occultism & East End gangsters" "like a collaboration between ‘Evil Dead 2’ era Sam Raimi & surrealist Luis Bunuel" "Hateful Eight on acid" "Bloody entertaining fun" "What they said. It's a riot"

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Paddling (canoeing) across Windermere today, into the teeth of a pretty stiff Force 3 wind - lumpy, and just this side of whitecaps - I came across a swimming squirrel, looking very stressed. Not a planned swim, I'm guessing. It was 300m to either shore, so I'm not sure s/he was going to be okay.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Beautiful picture of an older woman, 1654. Exactly the eyes of gentle old age. By Michael Sweerts, whose day has been today.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We have been to Harrods for a long visit. Saw Esther Rantzen outside filming an interview. Have booked seats to see EVITA on Wed evening. Going to Basildon.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Forgot to thank everyone who cited their favourite/scariest/freakiest episodes of Sapphire & Steel the other day. THANK YOU EVERYONE! Slowly working my way through it (it's for a Thing) and yeah, scary af.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nude wrestling match, with mixed audience, from 1650. Truly amazing painting for its time, or any time really, by Michael Sweerts. He was born on this day in Brussels in 1618.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PRINT OF THE DAY I do sometimes photograph things other than the London Underground! Today we’re heading up to Scotland & the brilliantly yellow West Street Station on the Glasgow Subway. I love the futuristic look of these trains in this composite photo. If you like this print see link attached

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Successful first day in Prague. Ended with an evening stroll, passing the Museum of Alchemy just as they were setting up a puppet theatre production of Faust in the courtyard! It was pretty great! Very much informed by Švankmajer (they did the "Padlookay! Pilookay!" routine, I grinned like heck)...

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Daily Squibs @dailysquibs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

POSSESSOR (Cronenberg, 2020)

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𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡: 𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙰𝚇 𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙰 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This show is so good. Ethan Hawke as a fuckup alt weekly writer/used bookstore owner stubbornly sticking his nose into the dirty doings of the powerful. Now they're adding Betty Gilpin and Tommy Lee Jones. I'm excited.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 30/09/2026

Oh yes. They're in and out of the garden all night

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 30/09/2026

Hello, Bad Cat!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Drawing from the live model in the 1650s. Look at those elegant young pupils! Future rich amateur artists. But well trained by Michael Sweerts in Brussels!

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Haha check this one out

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sep 30th - On the eve of the Robinson Family's hyperdrive leap to Alpha Prime, Global Sedition terrorists attack the construction site of the Hypergate 📽️📅 Lost in Space (1998)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Lost in Space" (1998): First, a futuristic space construction site labeled "Hypergate Construction Site Earth, September 30, 2058" with spacecraft and a large structure against a starry backdrop. Second, a dramatic scene of a spaceship exploding in space, with debris and fire spreading outward. Third, a close-up of a character inside a spacecraft, speaking with the subtitle "Okay, last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer," surrounded by digital displays.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Born yesterday in 1618 in Brussels, painter and traveler Michael Sweerts. Here by himself in 1656. We're celebrating his belated 408th b'day today.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sep 30th - Charlie Bucket found the last golden ticket. The next day he went to Wonka’s factory. 📽️📅 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (1971): First, a young boy with messy blonde hair looks excitedly at a golden ticket he's holding. Second, a close-up of the golden ticket with decorative edges and text that reads "Wonka's Golden Ticket." Third, the young boy stands with an older man in a nightcap and a woman holding the ticket, both looking surprised and happy.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for an Ennio Morricone earworm! One of my favourite Charles Bronson films; ace score; brilliant set-pieces; I have the 88 Films blu-ray)

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Ennio Morricone - Violent City

YouTube video by Hollywood

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jeez, just remembered I dreamt about an A-bomb going off. I started off at Ground Zero, but managed to outrun it. Phew.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesterday's breakfast was fryed bread tomatoes poridge and tea. We have to clean the toilets today.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 29/09/2026

You know how I keep going on about how the Bee Gees were actually *fucking weird*? Prime example. "Sweet Song of Summer" sounds absolutely nothing like the title, but exactly like what you'd expect from a 1982 John Carpenter remake of The Wicker Man, if you can imagine such a thing.

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Sweet Song Of Summer

YouTube video by Bee Gees - Topic

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Your Daily Dracula – Sesame Street ‘Batty Bat’ (2019) www.youtube.com/watch?v=287O...

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Sesame Street: Batty Bat | Animated Lyric Video

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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