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Ire….gor mortis

@derbren.bsky.social
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books, bikes, cats, cheese, and cinemas. Non-practising German. Unreliable narrator, ready for my close-up. Probably have a crush on you. For more, go here: linktr.ee/DerBren

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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 16h
just got a haircut in Hackney like some sort of young and trendy person
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 19h
I’m intrigued @lrb.co.uk
Pablo Scheffer is a consultant editor at the TLS.
Tom Stevenson is a contributing editor at the LRB.
Paul Taylor is professor of health informatics at UCL
David Todd teaches history at Sciences Po.
Michael Wood could hardly arrive more tidily.
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Prince Charles Cinema has a new 25 year lease!!!!!
The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its
Future
The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come.
After 21 months of uncertainty, we're delighted to have secured the future of the cinema, and we couldn't have done it without the support, commitment and belief of many, many people.
To every one of the 168,645 people (and counting) who signed the petition and ensured we never felt outnumbered.
To the Soho Society who recommended that Westminster Council officially designate us an Asset of Community Value, and the Council who did so.
To the members of the media who championed our cause in such a positive way, often including their own experiences, acting as a welcome reminder as to why we exist.
To the global community of filmmakers, producers, actors, writers and everyone else in between.
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
new criterion for choosing a good cafe just droped: no AI generated music
a sticker on a cafe door: Licensed music played here
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
tfw you accidentally change your lock screen by sitting on your phone and it just happens to choose the best picture
my new lock screen: my cat sat on the side table in my kitchen. The shot is in profile.  she’s gorgeous, but then I’m biased
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Anyway here’s Ann-Margret in “All that Jazz” (1931)
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
there’s a time and a place for a 🦔. Indeed, there is! My grandmother’s maiden name was Igl, which means hedgehog, and her very talented joiner brother made a kitchen bench and table that has a little hedgehog carved into the back! if you zoom in, you can see it behind the little boy.
A red wooden bench and table on a pavement. Several people standing around it. A little boy is sat on the bench. When you zoom in, you can just about make out the hedgehog carved into the back of the bench behind the little boy
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
my cat doesn’t produce hairballs. Except once. I came home from the shops and she looked at me sheepishly. Then she started walking in circles around something oblong on the rug, intermittently looking at me, then at the thing again. It was her first hairball and she was as bewildered by it as I was
 a startled looking tuxedo Cat innocent patch on a blue rug. A red scratch toy next to her.
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
snap
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
stages of Sunday morning with cat
Ninotchka demanding cuddles after herbreakfast . I had gone back to bed and she pushed onto my lapN wanting warmth but no more cuddles. she’s on top of my duvet where my knees are.N asleep on top of the duvet one paw stretched out, her head resting on it, weirdly similar to the way I fall asleep
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
so lovely to finally see the @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social myself. It was packed! great party. Thank you!!!
The Kirkdale shopfrontA painting of the Kirkdale shopfrontbirthday greetings to Kirkdale from illustrious author
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@nhaliloglu.bsky.social came, then left me because she got a ticket to go see the bloody Bayeux tapestry, who else is here?
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
10 miles walked. Now off to @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
exhibit 1
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
lol. he probably also loved that she bailed him out. The poor woman had to get a job
She married Jeffrey Archer in July 1966, whom she met at Oxford University when he was studying for a diploma in education. 28]
In 1974, the Archers were struck by a financial crisis when Jeffrey lost over £400,000 in a bad investment. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, the Archers were forced to move out of their large house in The Boltons. 291 She took up a teaching post at Cambridge University which, together with her husband's eventual success as a novelist, saved them from financial ruin.'12]
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
googled her. but does she have fragrance lads
• Full Name: Dame Mary Doreen Archer, DBE
• Birth Date: December 22, 1944
• Marriage: Married Jeffrey Archer on July 11, 1966, until his death on October 5, 2026.
• Profession: Physical chemist and solar energy conversion specialist; she has held academic and leadership roles at Oxford, Cambridge, the Royal Institution, the Science Museum Group, and the National Energy Foundation.
• Children: Two sons, William and James.
• Honours: Appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2012 for her services to the NHS. © Youtube +3
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
we are taking a sick day (we are not sick)
me on the sofa with a blanket. My cat on my lap, i’m reading gaining ground by joan Barfoot
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ok
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t have space on my book shelf for these anymore. I don’t want to throw them away, would love to give them to somebody who can use them. ifanybody you’re interested, let me know. feel free to share. @pamhutch.bsky.social @filmfan1971.bsky.social
four festival catalogues of Cinema Ritrovato (2022, 2023, 2024, 2026)
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it’s been a pretty tough weekend, but this was such a highlight. Thank you!!! i’m going to settle down on the sofa with the cat and read this from start to finish now and I strongly recommend that you all follow @davidwaywell.bsky.social and buy this book
A drawing of an owl in a tricky situation 
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
whenever people say that social media is toxic, I would like to let everyone know that there are incredibly sweet people who do kind things for you even though they’ve never met you. @davidwaywell.bsky.social surprised me today when his book landed in my mailbox
The book Pea Green boat by Stewart Lee, illustrated by David Waywell. A black-and-white cat is looking for attention next to itTo Irene

Sorry to hear that you’re having a tough time, but for the sake of all of us, you need to get back to shit posting asap
sending thoughts
David Waywell
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I bought this jug in Copenhagen about 10 years ago. I bought the salad bowl at Broadway market today. either mad coincidence or blatant product privacy :)
A grey and white striped midcentury style jug on a table next to Lowe salad bowl in the same style
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
another fun fact: “Einheit” can mean “unit” as well as “unity”. So on this Tag der deutschen Einheit have a picture of this tiny bilingual unit. #caturday #TagDerDeutschenKleinheit
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OK, this is ridiculous. I didn’t mean to bake a loaf of sourdough but I had the most ridiculous bubbly starter that I needed for something else and I couldn’t let it go to waste so I baked this. I won’t eat it. If anybody’s near Tottenham and wants a fresh loaf of bread, it’s free to good home
A freshly baked loaf of white sourdough on a cooling rack
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
back on the running bullshit #cope
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Aaawwww. I actually have a pic of Ninotchka watching Ninotchka.
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
London Fields right now
a grey to pink gradient sky over a park in the dusk
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
wait would pictures of Ninotchka’s feet work?
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
sometimes I wish I could walk Notchka in the park and strike up those little dog walking friendships and wavy three sentence convos where you don’t quite stop walking and people could chat me up and ask about her breed and I would say Malaysian greenpearl digger or longhaired Mandarin temple cat
A black and white Malaysian greenpearl digger
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
reverse parking #caturday
A black cat wedged between two calves
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love the look of these shoes but they make me waddle like a Leningrad Cowboy
a woman’s foot (ok, my foot) in extremely pointy, flat, black slingbacks
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
got some front crawl aids @wildobliquities.bsky.social
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ordered the German 7Up
2DVD box sets of Die Kinder von Golzow
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
behold, my omelette game
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this one?
detail from Bosch’s garden of earthly delights
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
my neighbours’ little girl drew our house. That’s Ninotchka in the window.
A child’s drawing of a house. One of the windows has a cat with a massive whiskers looking out
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Saw Gloria Swanson as an unlikely convent girl in Queen Kelly at the BFI yesterday. The most Stroheim has a ever Stroheimed. (with a great introduction by @pamhutch.bsky.social)
Gloria Swanson and Walter Byron
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
just saw this on the BFI website. What the hell does it mean? whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
“Contains triggers that might potentially spoil the plot of the film. Please check the BBC website for further advice.”
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#caturday at Ninotchka towers
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Then I kept on cycling and ended up here. Whistler would have painted this well.
a view of the Thames from Kew bridge. there’s very little water. dramatic clouds and bits of blue sky overhead
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
when I saw this example of first-world twee there it made me want to set fire to something
PLEASE
HELP YOURSELF
&
TAKE SOME FOR A FRIEND
www.theblesproject.co.uk
instagram @blessstories_
the bits of paper at the bottom (that you’re encouraged to take) say “Hope”
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
e.g.
a shop called “What Mother Made”
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reading through a diary entry from a day a few months ago. Tough relationship stuff, analyses, frustrations, big feelings. It ends:
“gotta stop. Cat vomiting on carpet.”
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Ire….gor mortis @derbren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
well the guy was a Covid denier and I still need to do some sanding to make them close, but my shutters have been hung
a cat Sitting in front of a Window with newly hung shutters
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