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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Every photo of this man projects “mean dumb asshole” which is exactly what you’re looking for in a Librarian of Congress

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Lunchtime reading: THE HEARING TRUMPET by Leonora Carrington. Delightfully bizarre. #booksky 💙📚

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy Mother’s Day!

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My 6-yo grandniece always asks me if whoever I am showing her a video of has died. When I showed her Gene Kelly doing the barn dance routine from SUMMER STOCK ‘50, she asked me if he died. I said, yes, and she replied “he probably danced too hard”

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Finished this little gothic gem this evening. I need more Caroline Blackwood books in my life. Thank you to @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social for the copy 📚💙 #booksky #nyrbassics

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Don’t threaten me with a good time! I loved VICTORIAN PSYCHO by Virginia Feito 🔪 #booksky 📚💙

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I love this for you, my friend! ♥️📚

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Just finishing up BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA by Dorothy Allison. Heartbreaking but full of fighting spirit. Bone is such a great character. #booksky 📚💙

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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The look on Zelenskyy’s face when Trump says “they respect me” is *chef’s kiss*🤌

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Wow - we got access to rare earth minerals and all we had to give up was our global reputation

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Don’t threaten me with a good time! I expected VICTORIAN PSYCHO by Virginia Feito to be dark and bloody but I did not expect it to be funny as well. A razor sharp (pun intended) gothic satire of classism and the country estate in Victorian England. A+. No notes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #booksky 📚💙

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Some books I have read and enjoyed recently: LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER by Joshua Chaplinsky MARGO’S GOT MONEH TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe RAZORBLADE TEARS by @blacktopkid.bsky.social FINDING ME by Viola Davis #booksky 📚💙

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

What a great book! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @blacktopkid.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Felix Gonzalez-Torres ‘Portrait of Ross in LA’ represents his lover’s weight (in sweets) before AIDS took its toll. Each day, as visitors help themselves to sweets, the weight drops, only to be replaced by the museum, granting a longevity denied to Ross. Heartbreaking. www.out.com/gay-news/fel...

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The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all

By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Da...

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Currently reading: EILEEN by Ottessa Moshfegh #booksky 📚💙 #nowreading

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Cary Grant in, Bringing Up Baby (1938) Directed by Howard Hawks

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

May we all find this level of courage in these unsettling times.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Ketamine is a hell of a drug.

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Can’t wait for four more years of gaslighting and filth 😵‍💫

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Shirley Baker (1932 – 2014) prolific UK social documentary photographer, known for her working-class inner-city subjects around the Manchester area from 1960 until 2000 #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph of a white child in hooded coat, upper half on a street between two symmetrical rows of the back of houses, in snow with a tall tree to the left and a telegraph pole to the right and all under a grey sky

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God @thegodshow.com · 19/01/2025

You know Donold demanded they give him credit in this notice. It makes me want to puke.

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Jo Coyne @jopolkadot.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A Taste of Honey Tony Richardson 1961

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Gorgeous (but cold) day for a drive to North Wales. Searching for dragons at our favorite castle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #travelsky #wales

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Ronnica Fatt @ronnicareads.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Biden and Trump fighting over who gets to be the knight that saves an app they both endangered sounds like a poorly written story that confuses love and abuse. #tiktok

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/01/2025

Pouring one out for TikTok. There are a lot of people, including queer and trans people, whose lives will be wrecked by the decision to ban it. It will also significantly reduce the ability of young queer people to see positive representations of themselves. It’s a sad day for many.

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Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Nancy Mitford once asked Evelyn Waugh how he dealt with fan mail. His reply is 👌

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Ivor Novello in "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" - BOTD

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I love that photographer Laszlo Willinger cited Vivien Leigh as one of his favorite sitters. His portraits of her from 1940 are divine. One of them even made the cover of my book, Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait ♥️ #booksky #filmsky 📚💙

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tiffunnireads 📚 @tiffunnireads.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Yall don’t ask me to get Rednote, I’m not gonna do it, yall have fun over there 🥹 when the honeymoon phase is over lemme know how it is then I’ll think about not getting it again

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Caligula had the decency to try to appoint an *entire* horse, not just the ass

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The special counsel's report (volume 1) summarized in a headline.

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"In both films, women must navigate the male-dominated capitalist system in which they live, using their beauty as currency. Both films also confront the male gaze that supports and consumes them." I wrote about THE LAST SHOWGIRL and DANCE GIRL DANCE for @indiewireofficial.bsky.social

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Before Pamela Anderson in ‘The Last Showgirl,’ Maureen O’Hara Stood Up to the Leering Male Gaze in ‘Dance, Girl, Dance’

How Pamela Anderson's critique of ageism in 'The Last Showgirl' parallels Maureen O'Hara in Dorothy Arzner's 1940 'Dance, Girl, Dance.'

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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I can now announce my book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire is going to be published by University of Chicago Press in Fall 2025.

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My first new book of 2025 is Betty by Tiffany McDaniel 📚💙 #booksky

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Introducing the kiddo to the best Disney live action film of all time! #filmsky

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The last days of 2024 are terribly sad, as the entire silent film community mourns Donna Hill @rudyfan.bsky.social, a superb historian and a warm, kind person. Rest her sweet soul. Here is Donna Hill's wonderful blog Strictly Vintage Hollywood. strictly-vintage-hollywood.blogspot.com

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Strictly Vintage Hollywood

A look at classic films worldwide and stars of the golden age of filmaking.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Leonard Freed. Grand Central at New Year’s Eve, NYC, 1969.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/12/2024

FDA Bans Captain Morgan Rum After Having Way Too Much Of That Shit In College theonion.com/fda-bans-cap...

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

God I can’t stand Mark Zuckerberg

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

My author copy of CINEMA HER WAY arrived this morning! I recorded an unboxing video and revealed the names of the nineteen women featured in the book here:

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Cinema Her Way: Unboxing and Interview Subject Reveal

After a ten year journey, I'm an author!

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

25 books I want to read in 2025 (a thread) 1. BETTY by Tiffany McDaniel #booksky #25in2025 💙📚

Cover of the book Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

All the books Santa brought me for Christmas. I gave him a very specific list and he delivered! Weyward was a gift from my sister-in-law. What books did you all get for Xmas? Follow me on booktok 👉🏻 @kjbreads 📚💙 #booksky

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Every book I read in 2024 (a thread) My top fave was THE VASTER WILDS by Lauren Groff. Excellent historical fiction. #booksky 💙📚

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

big news: from 8 Jan 2025, the absolute unit tweet will be on show in an actual museum (the National Science and Media Museum).

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