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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Trump--a Russian asset and/or useful idiot with the morals and mentality of a moronic mobster--the "leader of the free world"? You must be joking.

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Well, to be fair, he IS a "very stable genius". He told us that himself. And when has he ever lied about anything?

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party clown @tabwootwo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

the meow himself

Painting of a black and white longhair cat looking back at the viewer over his shoulder. Voluminous black inky tail. Dusty pink background and old marble columns in the background.

Same painting but now the cat in question is being held up next to it. He is not observant.

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

John Barrymore once said that reading a book with footnotes was like continually having to go downstairs on your wedding night in order to answer the phone.

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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The matchup we've been waiting for.

Illuminated movie marquee reading EVERYMAN - FRIDAY 24TH OCTOBER FRANKENSTEIN VS SPRINGSTEEN

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

THE COUNSELOR exposes what is wrong with much film writing. All too often critics bewail the lack of cinematic originality. But when something genuinely original, like THE COUNSELOR, comes along, something that isn't formulaic, how do they greet it? All too often, with derision and incomprehension.

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I endorse this post.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/07/2025

Stephen Sondheim introduced his childhood pal Tom Lehrer in 1998 for an exceedingly rare stage performance, part of a tribute to Cameron Mackintosh. (This will always be my favorite Lehrer song. Interestingly, he here changes one word: "squirrel" becomes "sparrow.") www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-e...

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Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park (live, 1998).

YouTube video by Arnesen

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Poet & essayist Walt Whitman, photographed & painted by Thomas Eakins in 1887. Today was Eakins’s day. @catherineh.bsky.social

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"WTF, Moloch!" erupts Netanyahu. "You let in Trump! So why not me?"

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

had to excavate and share this passage from The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron

screenshot reads: "...he would shape this one. Later that same night, the effects artist got a phone call from his friend. "I've got it!" Cameron said. "He's a cop!" The form the T-1000 would take for most of the movie was a Los Angeles police officer. This solved the storytelling dilemma Winston had raised and also gave Cameron an opportunity to underline a central theme in both of the Terminator movies--how people, especially those in violent jobs, like soldiers and cops, can become barbarized.
"The Terminator films are not really about the human race getting killed off by future machines. They're about us losing touch with our own humanity and becoming machines, which allows us to kill and brutalize each other," he says. "Cops think of all noncops as less than they are, stupid, weak, and evil. They dehumanize the people they are sworn to protect and desensitize themselves in order to do that job." Cameron's creation of an LAPD villain in his 1990 script eerily predates and is strangely linked to one of the darker moments in the department's history."

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

MY BIG BEAUTIFUL WEEK by Donnie Trump (1) Erected pole which is YUGE, much bigger than the one I usually play with!!! (2) Turned Rose Garden into parking lot where I can keep my toy cars!!! (3) Started my very own war!!! With naughty Iran!!! Why should Vlad & Ben in Ukraine & Gaza have all the fun?

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Parisiens (2015) photography by Anne Billson

A Parisian street by night; in the background, a shuttered Asian restaurant and a shop with a blue-lit interior. In the foreground, a young woman, in a green jacket and red lipstick, holding a can of Coca-Cola, and a young man in spectacles checking his mobile phone. Both are wearing beanies.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Jan van Rijswijcklaan (2024) photograph by Anne Billson

A deserted tram stop in the middle of an unusally car-free avenue in the De Singel area of Antwerp. The ground is wet after the rain, and the unearthly orange sky hints at another downpour in the near future.

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Telly" was/is indeed a contraction of "television". But it was also derisively called (not only by those who didn't own a set) the "idiot box."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Important to know that the very footage that is appalling all of us--rows of faceless men in riot gear, protestors running, clouds of gas--is what Trump and Miller and the MAGA-sycophant anti-city press have had a collective hard-on for since the campaign. This will be wall-to-wall on Fox all week.>

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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 24/05/2025

Star Turn (1936), the one and only novel by French film director René Clair. About a film star who increasingly loses himself in his roles, until it all comes apart when he has to play the part of God. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Old Hollywood joke (if it IS a joke) : Q : Why are they remaking Casablanca? A : They got it right the first time.

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

FUN FACT : If you look quickly during one of the callbacks in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE : THE FINAL RECKONING you'll see an ID card that reveals Ethan Hunt was born in 1964. Make of that what you will.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

"A kazoo mocking a Stradivarius"

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Using taxpayers money to write back to children? Has Clinton NO shame, NO decency, NO integrity? Surely there is some way he can be retroactively made to pay for this heinous offence? Not to mention the even more heinous crime of a former president wearing CAT SOCKS? Impeachment & imprisonment NOW!

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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Hey, Microsoft Word users. I used this in March to disable AI scraping on mine. You may want to as well, if you haven't already. #privacy

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 01/05/2025

As it's Indie Press Day let me draw your attention to these handpicked titles from The Brooligan Press, a nonprofit in which 100% of the revenues go directly to the authors brooliganpress.blogspot.com

Cover images of six titles from The Brooligan Press: Ferocity by Stephen Laws, The Ex by Anne Billson, The Companion by Laurence Staig, Valley of Lights by Stephen Gallagher, Darkfall by Stephen Laws

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

OK. I waited. No one else did it. So... Tom Lehrer. The Vatican Rag. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhY... You're welcome. 🤣

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Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag - fabulous version - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

David Speers used to phone Scott Morrison's office almost every day when Morrison was PM, one of the very few journalists that did it every_single_day However, never dismiss ambition and ruthless hunger for ratings for respected, thoughtful analysis - they are not the same thing

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Hi @support.bsky.team This is a fantastic content creator & very well trusted source for Australian users. He contributes a great deal to BlueSky His account was hacked many weeks ago (@strangerous.bsky.social) So far he's still waiting to get any info from you (please repost & tag Support)

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Eric Idle @ericidle.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Are they blind? Merde a Largo. It’s a shabby gangsters hideaway.

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Keith Goulette 🎃 @keithgdesigns.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

You can probably just call it Ballerina

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Alison Croggon @alisoncroggon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 17/04/2025

“It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising,” our columnist David Brooks writes, adding: “Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.”

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Opinion | Time for a Civic Uprising

It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A wheeze worthy of the great Arthur Daley. If not Eric and Donald Trump Jr... I mean Ronnie & Reggie Kray...themselves.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

That time Legend’s PR managed to fit a two star Guardian review into their poster & hoped everyone would think it was four star

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Also FAHRENHEIT 451 (1966) in which Francois Truffaut made audiences an offer they couldn't refuse, having her play not just one but two characters. Two JCs for the price of one!

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a book that is burning with the word lolly on it

ALT: a book that is burning with the word lolly on it

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

But wait--there's more! John ("Honest John") Howard was there too!

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Three years before Richard Curtis' NOTTING HILL (1999), I published my novel STIFF LIPS, "An engagingly creepy story of status anxiety in Notting Hill, where one flat appears to be stuck in a macabre capsule of its own sordid past amid the surrounding gentrification" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502552485

The cover of STIFF LIPS, a novel by Anne Billson: whey-coloured face, red lips, plastic red and green flower, eyes not visible.

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Check out Clifford's A BATTLE IS FOUGHT TO BE WON. One of the most haunting war novels ever written. Set in Burma, where Clifford served during WW2, it asks what courage is and delivers a surprising answer. Also worth checking out : his last novel, the bleak but brilliant DRUMMER IN THE DARK.

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson8.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

"And that he mummified his father's corpse and keeps it in an attic?"

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Amazing that without even mentioning a name, EVERYONE knows exactly who it's referencing.

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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Jail for the people developing this, the people selling it, and each individual person who uses it.

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