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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 4h

I have no idea how many times I’ve seen this masterpiece. It’s been part of my life since childhood, when I was a bit freaked out, but also awestruck & fascinated. But tonight was the first time I wondered if it might also be the last. I simply know it *too* intimately now! youtu.be/V0bUd6KrQGg?...

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2001: A Space Odyssey | Terminating the Hal 9000 | Full Scene | Warner Classics

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 5h

Sobering interview with Clive Stafford Smith, a personal hero of mine. Viewed from one of the three-quarters of the world’s countries that have abolished the death penalty, any murder by the state is barbaric, let alone one as cruelly botched as Christa Pike’s. www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...

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Death row inmate Christa Pike survives two lethal injections in Tennessee - The Latest

Female convict Christa Pike has been taken to hospital after surviving two rounds of lethal injections in Tennessee, after spending three decades on death row for a 1995 murder conviction of a schoolm...

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 5h

Darwin suffered a lot with anxiety & chronic illness, which is very relatable.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 7h

#ArtistFaveNonAlbumSingles 2 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky The Beatles - Free as a Bird (1995) youtu.be/ODIvONHPqpk?... I remember how sad & nostalgic this felt when it came out, how long ago the Beatles seemed back then. Yet we’re further away from this song now than it was from Revolver.

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The Beatles - The Beatles - Free As A Bird (Official Music Video) [2025 Mix]

YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 7h

Film & TV Viewing Tally for SEPTEMBER 2026. The past week I felt down & unmotivated to watch anything. A pretty varied month, though! Star City (7 episodes) SNW - 5 Tori Amos, Live at Montreux, 1991 & 1992 Somewhere (2010) 70 Up (2 episodes) The Princess Bride (1987) 7 Up: The Story STX - 2

Tori Amos singing at the piano, in the Live at Montreux 1991 & 1992 DVD.

Lakshmi Chadha (Priya Kansara) inside a spacecraft at launch, in Star City.

The remaining participants of the 7 Up documentary series sitting in red cinema seats, as part of the final part of the series, 70 Up.

Spock (Ethan Peck) in sickbay, reattaching Puppet La’an’s arm while Puppet Chapel and Puppet M’Benga look on, in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Level-Five Transporter Accident”.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Houses of Parliament, sunlight effect (1903), by Claude Monet

Painting by Claude Monet of the Houses of Parliament in London silhouetted against the sky, with sun glinting on the Thames in the foreground, to the right of the picture.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because it’s a Ronald D Moore series, & also time travel, I’m hooked on watching clips of Outlander on YouTube, & it’s weird seeing Ed Speelers playing a villain. And yet, he’s such a distinctive actor that watching him feels comfortingly familiar! 😁 #StarTrekPicard

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#ArtistFaveNonAlbumSingles 1 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Tori Amos - Baltimore (1980) youtu.be/5E7_L0lUqlk?... A 16 yr old Tori Amos entered a competition to write a song for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. The result (which won the competition) gave not the slightest hint of what lay ahead. 🙂

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Baltimore - Ellen "Tori" Amos

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𝖢𝖠𝖳 𝖡𝖴𝖳𝖫𝖤𝖱 𝖲𝗋. @catbutlersr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Science Sundays Helping a new friend

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Skagen Beach in Moonlight (1899), by Peder Severin Krøyer

Painting by Peder Severin Krøyer of a beach in the evening, with a first quarter moon in the sky, and in the distance a boat on the calm sea.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

5 favourite British films… as of right now. #Filmsky A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger) Local Hero (Bill Forsyth) Little Dorrit (Christine Edzard) Hope and Glory (John Boorman) Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#OrchestralTunes 30 #MusicChallenge Tori Amos - Night of Hunters (2011) youtu.be/rkV4THMO9Gc?... Ending as I began, with Tori, duetting with her niece Kelsey on a song that feels both ancient & new, a variation on a Scarlatti tune & a plainchant, from her most moving album of the last 25 years.

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Night Of Hunters

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The narrative structure of @bluejo.eurosky.social’s new novel had me (in a good way!) like the shifting realities of her Serenissima itself. And then, 3/4 through, a sunny clarity emerged, answering a big question I’d had all along, before returning to mistier waters! Playful, magical & clever. 🙂

Book cover of Jo Walton’s novel Everybody’s Perfect, depicting a young woman in a cloak and mask, surrounded by diverse Venetian carnival masks.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yet, despite all of the [waveth handes 360 degrees], still so much beautye yn the worlde. So much art made by so manye, as strategyes for survival, consolacioun, courage, joy. And you, out ther, makinge somethinge beautiful. You are the best.

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Naomi Watts in David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" - BOTD

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Ben Braithwaite @benbraithwaite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Farewell to the immortal Dr Slinger Franscisco, the Mighty Sparrow, genius, Calypso King of the World! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksyN... @elizacarthy.bsky.social

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Good Morning Mr Walker (Slinger and Norma go To The Dancehall Mix)- Eliza Carthy and the Restitution

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The portal of Rouen cathedral in the morning light (1894), by Claude Monet

Painting by Claude Monet of the facade of Rouen cathedral, painted in mostly greyish hues, with parts of the building catching the early morning sunlight.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#OrchestralTunes Day 29 #MusicChallenge #Filmsky Hans Zimmer - Interstellar (2014) youtu.be/jP_RRMi_4Ts?... Amazing use of a pipe organ in this wonderful film! It’s a score based on a single theme expressing the love between father & daughter, & impossible to imagine the film without it.

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Interstellar - Orbiting Gargantua

YouTube video by Stefan Nicolaescu

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Burmeister and Wain’s Iron Foundry (1885), by Peder Severin Krøyer

Painting by Peder Severin Krøyer of workers pouring molten iron in a foundry.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean, these shots! As the director Chris Fisher said, “Tomorrow’s Enterprise” is at heart an intimate character study of Uhura, yet some of the cinematography was so big & beautiful, it took my breath away. #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW

The Enterprise near a black hole in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Tomorrow’s Enterprise”.

Part of the saucer section of the Enterprise near a black hole, with the tiny figure of Uhura on the hull in the distance, in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Tomorrow’s Enterprise”.

Uhura wearing a spacesuit on the hull of the Enterprise saucer section, in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Tomorrow’s Enterprise”.

The interior of the Enterprise shuttle bay, with the black hole outside and various human and alien characters inside, in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Tomorrow’s Enterprise”.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#OrchestralTunes Day 28 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (1910) youtu.be/ihx5LCF1yJY?... VW’s overwhelming response to an old, very beautiful tune, performed in Gloucester cathedral where it was premiered over a century ago. Also wonderfully filmed!

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Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis HQ

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Portrait Of Ingeborg Motzfeldt Løchen (1898), by Erik Werenskiold

Portrait painting by Erik Werenskiold of a seated young woman in a green dress.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This could not be more wrong. I am, in fact, afraid of the dark!

Paused image of a medieval illustration of a bat.

Above, it reads: Pause to reveal your medieval creature.

Below, it reads: bat. You’re not afraid of the dark.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#OrchestralTunes Day 27 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Thomas Tallis - Spem in Alium (ca 1570) youtu.be/BuP37WelWBs?... An orchestral of human voices! I can find religious music, especially from the Medieval & Renaissance periods, difficult to relate to personally. But this piece is exalted, sublime.

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Thomas Tallis - Spem in Alium, Motet for 40 Voices

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#StarTrekSNW #StrangeNewWorlds S4 first watch 🖖🏼💚 Loved: Level-Five Transporter Accident Off-Hour Like Chronitons… Orders of Magnitude Tomorrow’s Enterprise . Enjoyed a lot but need to see again: Valles Marineris Human Best Friend A Case of Chiaroscuro Once La’an a Time . Season was just peachy! 🍑😊

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Men of Skagen setting out for night fishing, late summer evening (1884), by Peder Severin Krøyer

Painting by Peder Severin Krøyer of fishing boats setting out to sea in the evening, with a full moon near the horizon, and what looks like a skate or ray fish washed up on the shore.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#OrchestralTunes Day 26 #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs (IV: Im Abendrot) youtu.be/L6ESgYOZilQ?... Exquisite, autumnal songs written at the end of Strauss’s life. This final one (“At Sunset”) was strikingly used by David Lynch for the opening titles of Wild at Heart.

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4 [DEU/ENG] Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – Strauss, R: 4 Letzte Lieder: No. 4, Im Abendrot

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

According to behindthename.com, in the United States the name Zora (Slavic & Czech/Slovak origin, meaning “dawn”) declined in popularity in 1940 to virtually nothing, until experiencing a sudden surge in 2018. What's the betting the parents were all #StarTrek fans? #StarTrekDiscovery

A table showing a sudden increase in popularity of the name Zora in the United States between 2018 and 2025.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#OrchestralTunes Day 25 #MusicChallenge Robert Simpson - Symphony No 4 (I: Allegro moderato) youtu.be/3f4MRAdzUmY?... I met this man several times, back in the early ‘90s. He’s somewhere between Beethoven, Sibelius & something more modern, with an energetic warmth & wonderful orchestral sounds!

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R. Simpson: Symphony No. 4: I. Allegro moderato

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy #StarTrekDiscovery Day! I was instantly reminded of this incredible moment as I watched the new Star Trek tonight. 🖖🏼💙

Michael Burnham in the Red Angel suit, approaching a dark hole in space in the Star Trek: Discovery episode “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tori Amos, who taught herself the piano once she could reach the keys, & by the age of three was already composing her own songs. Photo from www.yessaid.com/photos-misc.... @abbymsommer.bsky.social

Black and white photo of Tori Amos as a very young child, sitting at a small piano keyboard.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Midsummer’s Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach (1906), by Peder Severin Krøyer. As always with Krøyer’s paintings, every face and figure is a portrait of someone he knew, many of them friends or family.

Painting by Peder Severin Krøyer of a large group of people, including children, grouped around a ceremonial bonfire on a beach on a midsummer evening.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jean Sibelius (1949), by Yousuf Karsh. Karsh photographed the composer at his home in Finland, and described him memorably, saying, “the structure of his face reminded me of carved granite, yet with infinite warmth and humanity.”

Black and white portrait photograph by Yousuf Karsh of Jean Sibelius as an old man, his eyes closed meditatively, his face lit against a dark background.

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