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Vicki Smith

@eclecticmayhem.bsky.social
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Gen X Brit based in the USofA. Avatar by @Taraocomics.bsky.social (thank you Tara!) Banner is the target used by The Archers; I am nothing if not a product of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 7h
The only ethical action is to take the funding that RFK Jr has given for this proposed trial and use it to give the birth dose to as many newborns as possible RFK Jr is an anti-vaccine eugenicist with zero expertise in pediatrics, vaccination, clinical trials, ethics, or equipoise
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 4h
I would imagine there will be a pre-med administered in his room/on the ward & then he’ll be wheeled off for anesthesia. The pre-med might be enough for him to fall asleep with doggy. I hope all goes smoothly. 🤞🏻
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larry.earth (he/him) 8647 @larry.earth · 7h
fuckyouimvoting.com
Fuck You, I'm Voting
Election Day is the deadline, not the date. Check your registration, make a plan, vote early.
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Thompson Twins' title song for NOTHING IN COMMON (1986) starring Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, and Eva Marie Saint. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP0N... #FilmSky #MusicSky
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Thompson Twins - Nothing In Common (Official Video) (4K Remaster)
YouTube video by Thompson Twins
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 07/10/2026
UPDATE: If you wanted to attend the Jim Henson event at the Smithsonian on October 23 (where you can listen to me and Henson Archivist Karen Falk talk about 6 amazing objects) but found it was sold out . . . here's good news: they've moved to a larger venue! More seats are now available at the link:
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Jim Henson: A Creative Life in Six Objects - In Person
From inventing beloved characters to crafting fantastical worlds to creating television for the whole family, Jim Henson’s creative genius was unparalleled. The Jim Henson Company Archives Direc...
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/10/2026
His is a fundamental misunderstanding of the locus and purpose of the faith. The Christian faith is not marriage nor procreation or hetero normality The faith is the sufficiency of Christ…. Everything else is just wrapping paper for bigotry
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How I arrived on Bluesky
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Buster Keaton's Car Disaster
Alt: Buster Keaton's Car Disaster from Three Ages (1923)
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 06/10/2026
And if you find the idea of shopping at Amazon repellent, please consider getting one of these tote bags for when you shop at a genuine book store. eatf.art/jeff
A tote bag featuring a painting of a bird above the text EAT MY NUTS JEFF BEZOS
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: "'ello!" The first of forty visits to the cellar of the monster's castle that features The Trap Door, by association the glory of a Willie Rushton voiceover, and the stop-motion skill of future Wallace & Gromit co-director Steve Box.
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The Trapdoor - Breakfast Time
Watch more Cartoons here :https://bit.ly/37L30II Berk is busy preparing his master's breakfast - from worms and other vile concoctions, when a strange yellow creature comes out of the trap door in the kitchen floor and eats the breakfast, closely followed by a large Big Red Thing which chases Berk u
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Inside Out Sadness Crying: I Miss You
Alt: Gif from Inside Out of Sadness Crying
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's Buster's birthday, as good a day as any to remind yourself that splendid beauty has existed and can exist in this world in any circumstances.
Buster on the handlebars in Sherlock, Jr.
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
2027 LONDON UNDERGROUND A3 CALENDAR I’m proud to announce my 2027 Tube Mapper Calendar, sharing special moments from my journey exploring every stop on the Tube, Overground, DLR, Tram & Elizabeth line Buy Here tubemapper.com/buy-tube-map... Please share with anyone who might enjoy it
Tube mapper calendar Tube mapper calendar Tube mapper calendar
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Glad they caught it & that the less invasive surgery is possible, hope you’re on the mend soon!
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FCC Excellence in RF Design Award @panoptidog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oakleigh Chudderson, who bumbled his way through homeschooling and has 0 marketable skills thinks he’s more deserving of the job than someone who speaks 3 languages and started practicing the American SATs at 12. And he’s ready to join the SS about it.
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YAY! As a former inhabitant of Wood Green, and a formerly frequent traveler on the Piccadilly Line:
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Captain America: I Understood That Reference!
Alt: Captain America: I Understood That Reference!
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Something from these guys will be on my desert island discs. Not sure what, but they have secured a spot for sure www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...
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‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring
Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about supporting one another through bereavement, being happily uncool and battling the resurgence of homophobia
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
Photo of one of our “Admin Dogs”, Tinsel before she was adopted. She’s a white chihuahua, with bug eyes and prominent, protruding, lower canine teeth. She’s the spit of Max Schreck as Nosferatu (1922)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's some news I can't believe I've kept to myself for so long! My second novel, End of a Century, now has a bold & beautiful new look courtesy of the brilliant designer and illustrator @gailmyerscough.co.uk. I'm a huge fan of Gail's work, so this is a dream come true. Isn't it gorgeous? #BookSky
A gorgeous new cover for 'End of a Century', designed by the great Gail MyerscoughHardback edition of End of a Century
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Deborah Kerr in the Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger film "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" - Both Kerr and Powell were BOTD
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh man, I missed that post! If it’s not too late, the WWI railway station (Assignment 2) is hella spooky & so mournful! An old acting buddy, Phil Bird, plays the faceless man in Assignment 4, so I have to put in a shout for that one too.
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Sapphire and steel
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy Birthday Michael Powell, here seen performing a magic trick with a single sheet of paper. I only planned to post that one shot of the paper drifting down, but then I was reminded of the miraculous sound of it all! The unearthly choir! The footsteps! The echoes! And half the set is a painting!
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jimmy D, are you stretching & warming up before each ping pong encounter & are you warming down after each game?
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Stretch Roundhouse
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
13 Monsters Good And True I think there are so many genuine monsters in the world that I am consoling myself by drawing little monsters who are good.
Drawing of 13 little 'monsters', rather cute little critters who wouldn't harm a fly, in fact they'd probably give it a bowl of milk and a tiny bed for the night.
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/09/2026
accidentally shared this in the "goals for the day" channel in my discord server instead of the "memes" channel which is directly above it. gonna be a long, arm-tiring day 😔
"one of my coworkers has a standing desk that he uses sitting down. it looks like this"

[rough stick drawing of a guy with gibbon arms extended way above his head to type at his tall tall desk]
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For #OliveArtClub, please make art based on this sparrow so well-fed by tourists in Tallinn that it could barely fly. Birds are a good start for drawing animals as they are so poofy and this is the poofiest. All skill levels & mediums welcome, no AI. I took the picture, feel free to share
Round soarrow
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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m so proud of this actually
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ooooh no i love her
Nigella Lawson on Bake Off looking down at a big bite of walnut coffee cake on her fork and saying, "This is a bit indelicate, sorry."  Nigella Lawson on Bake Off taking a gigantic bite of cake one second later.
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much fucking blood in him?” Lady Macbeth Act V, Sc I
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happily, the venue where I saw just about everything from 1990 to 2005 (and worked there as a Barbican Steward for 7 years) is still a cinema! Whoop!
Photo of the subterranean depths of The Barbican Centre, City of London featuring Cinema 1 & the Pit theatre.
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Such a lovely deco building. Aldershot was a military town for a long time so there were definitely enough punters to keep two cinemas busy! Very sad to see how run down the place is now.
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The movie theaters where I saw STAR WARS, SUPERMAN and STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (Odeon, Aldershot & ABC, Aldershot) are now a nightclub & banqueting venue & derelict - respectively. 💔
Monochrome photo of the, then, Empire Cinema, (an Odeon during the 70s & 80s) next door to the ABC Cinema (as I knew it) on the High Street in Aldershot, Hampshire.Screen shot from Google Maps street view showing the former Odeon Cinema.Screenshot from Google Maps showing the former ABC Cinema.
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Doomsday: two d's, two o's, one y, but it's not where you 🎵 thiiiIIIIIIiiiiiink. 🎵 "
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Colloween 🎃 @colken.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We Scots have a reputation to maintain and an acknowledgement of the sacrifices of our ancestors, like Jamesy from Govanhill who went out for a fish supper and came home 2 years later
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Elisa Davis @elisa515.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hope everyone who is having problems switching to the new Criterion Channel apps will work them out soon. FWIW, all I had to do (I'm in the US) is sign into my account using the password for the Criterion Channel. Worked fine on both my phone and TV. Haven't tried computer or iPad yet.
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Bill Paxton: Game Over, Man! (Aliens)
Alt: Bill Paxton: Game Over, Man! (Aliens)
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Which medieval creature are you? Pause to find out.
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m so sorry, James. Sending best wishes. Vx
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 26/09/2026
It's time to play "What's the Score?" Listen to the 5 music clips and guess the movies AND the composers. Then, see if you can spot the common theme or connection between the 5 films. Send your answers to my DM and I'll give you your score! See replies for rules and hints:👇 #filmsky #moviesky #games
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"What's the Score?" The Movie Music Guessing Game! Sep. 26th, 2026
How to play: Listen to the 5 music clips in the video. Your job is to guess the title of each movie the music is from, and the name of the composer for each one. You get one point for each correct mo...
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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Destroying the legalization of free and easy online gambling is intimately tied into the first plank of the winning platform, anti-corruption. These platforms exist solely to extract, steal, and immiserate. They should not exist and their influence on politics and life in general is wholly toxic.
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Gene Kelly Dancing in Singing In The Rain
Alt: Gif of Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor from the Moses Supposes routine in Singing In The Rain (1952)
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La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I Know Where I’m Going! is my favourite film, so I’ll take the opportunity to share some photos from my pilgrimage to Mull.
The Western Isles HotelThe waterfall phone boxCarsaig pierMoy Castle
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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Film night with Thierry. It has been tough for him for obvious reasons over the last couple of weeks, so we went classic, romantic and hopeful ❤️😎 #FilmSky boxd.it/gu0sVR
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A ★★★★½ review of I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Those doorways shot like portals to another world…
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A4 prints of Japan jonathanestore.bigcartel.com
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Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Brit in the USA, four cups of coffee, so far.
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