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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remembering the delightful Edward Everett Horton on the anniversary of his death (September 29, 1970)

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today would have been the 80th birthday of the Third Programme - BBC Radio 3’s remarkable predecessor. My latest for the BBC marks the occasion with a dip into the programme archives, unearthing some forgotten gems from the Third’s early years…

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The Third at 80 – a brief history of the unexpected

Weird and wonderful highlights from the early years of BBC Radio 3’s celebrated forerunner The Third Programme

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Public transit archive gold lurking at the back of a bookshop. @norloll.bsky.social, imagine!

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

americans on bluesky: 🤯🤯🤯

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There was that time I sent an email denying a student’s request for a retrospective extension, and accidentally missed out the ‘l’ in my own name, so signed off ‘Meanie’.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stranded in Iceland in a surprise emergency stopover. Scroll to the top and enjoy this vicarious travel nightmare saga from the safety of your couch. British Airways does not come out of this tale of chaotic crisis management, terrible coms and snooty service at all well.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Incompetent wall construction.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Any future independent Scotland needs to not do this.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys

A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house. A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it. It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I feel a letter to my MP coming on.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My first morning in the Omaze house. I didn’t sleep. I could hear crying from behind the door I’m not allowed to open.The only thing to eat is frozen prawns. I went for a wander round the 4 acre garden and found a box of VHS tapes marked ‘For the next one’. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it’s all fine

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HippFest @hippfest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Featuring the following sensational titles: 🍿Sat 26 Sep QUEEN KELLY (1929) 🍿Sat 17 Oct SPEEDY (1928) 🍿Sat 24 Oct FAUST (1926) 🍿Sat 7 Nov MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929) + Shuttle bus from Linlithgow Station - Hippodrome for those traveling by rail! 🎟️ Book: www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/tas...

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Taste of Silents

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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 08/09/2026

A statistically significant amount of white smoke!

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...

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Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

People have really not grasped how laughable & outrageous the two announced Cambridge 'investigations' are. One is extremely narrow--what support measures were available to Jason Arday (hint: they'll find all boxes were ticked). Second is so broad as to be meaningless: how senior hires are made. 1/n

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This looks fabulous. Hope it gets a UK release.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Did he then take it with him, download it to his system, and then have it shredded

British Museum held private viewing of Bayeux Tapestry

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s not many songwriters/musicians/actors who get an an article in Nature when they die.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Songwriters are writers. Nothing she will ever pen will touch the rhinestoned hem of a Dolly song.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Britain Must Pop The Ratbag Columnist Balloon Or Face Ruin

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Complete this sentence. I own a ridiculous amount of: Books Perfume Mid 20th C film ephemera Birkenstocks Kitchen equipment (actually tho?..) Clothes I don’t wear

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Name a movie where the title character *isn’t* the main character.

Poster for Johnny Guitar (1954), Joan Crawford’s name and image above the title, Stirling Hayden (Johnny) smaller, below.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Also, some cohorts are smarter than others. Some years, the ambient level of intellect, engagement and effort is just higher. Those students shouldn’t be penalised by sharing out the same ration of A grades as the more plodding cohorts. Who they will then compete against for jobs/grad scholarships.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Love this! This is not my research ‘community of practice’ (I’m mid century film socs and cinephilia) but the questions and mapping process is the same. What survives—paper docs, media recordings, interviewees who remember—will differ, but if you can map it closer to the moment, do.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Superbad was always a surprisingly dark, bleak little film. And farsighted in sinister ways. I mean, we all know McLovin’ is in ICE now. Hill’s ever more disappointing real life trajectory feels very true to its anxious misogynistic spirit.

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.

Patrick MacGoohan in an episode of Columbo; he’s seated at a glass desk in a wood paneled office with plants and wearing a black turtleneck with a tweed jacket.

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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 22/07/2026

Every accusation is a confession. As a former theater operator, I can tell you from experience that the current right-wing conspiracy theory about The Odyssey’s ticket sales has currency because this is, in fact, how small ideologue studios juice their own numbers to make their sales seem strong.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches?
Has hating a minority group become your entire personality?
Do you obsess over other people's toilet use?
If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help.
Contact our team: youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

to the online male intellectual there’s nothing tangible you can do to make the world better and everything is a thought experiment. nothing is real. nothing matters. if you’re happy, you’re stupid. if you’re hopeful, you’re naive. the posts smell like stale cigarettes.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026

First time in recorded history that a man has been simultaneously arrested by the cops and the fashion police

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 19/07/2026

R.I.P. Jennifer Finch. L7's bassist has died at age 59. stereogum.com/2505697/jenn...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 17/07/2026

I said what I said, but I never thought it’d need saying to somebody who works for Science 👇

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I remembered this meme and thought about quilting Little the bigs! Big the littles!

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Leslie J. Anderson @lesliejanderson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The last time men forced women back into the kitchen we put shrimp in jello. We’ll do it again!

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Every damn day.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is true. Watching Ryan Coogler explain the formats for Sinners was pure nerd joy.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I will never get used to the peculiar way in which Americans use the terms ‘seasoning’ (pretty much any added flavour, apparently) and ‘spicy’ (any food with a bit of heat to it, even mustard and horseradish, but also—weirdly—any pet or human that is not obsequiously compliant).

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Gender politics-wise, it feels very current. It also has some very ahead of its time narratively central product placement and a really interesting casting of a black actor in a not terrible bit part as one of the other drivers in an extended race/chase.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

OK. I’ve been a bit ‘I’ll catch it on catch up, maybe’ about superhero movies for a few years now. But I LOVED I, Tonya. So now I’m in. Also I Tonya and Cruella both had exceptional use of needledrops.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I have not seen the film, but I have seen the poster. And I, too, covet this coat.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Silent Era Germany: All right, we have movies with lots of Fritz Rasp, a good amount of Fritz Rasp, some Fritz Rasp, or just a bit of Fritz Rasp. Audience: What about no Fritz Rasp? Silent Era Germany: I don't understand the question.

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Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sorry not to make it to HoMER2026, especially since it’s in the UK and the programme has so much art house and film society stuff going on.

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