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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 02/09/2026

Takeshi Kitano for Canon 📽️

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seconded! I love this album so much. There are so many great songs here but this is the one that hooked me in first: youtu.be/bn7wmxAOTn8?...

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Chris H. @percolatorpete.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Early in his career, Angelo Badalamenti often was credited as "Andy Badale." This is his earliest recorded appearance that I can find, from 1962. An instrumental called "Old Spice," written and arranged by Angelo and John Abbott, released as a single under the name Clyde and the Bird Watchers.

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Clyde And The Bird Watchers (Old Spice)

YouTube video by Obscure Oldies

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Ben Waterhouse @beninoregon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Want to help Oregonians hear one another's stories? My team at Oregon Humanities is hiring for a full-time position to support our audio and video storytelling. The focus is project management and audience development, not necessarily technical production. oregonhumanities.org/who/jobs-and...

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Communications Associate, Multimedia — Oregon Humanities

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This whole post for the Donald Pleasance epi is great fun, but I really love this tidbit about Joyce Jillson, who was: “… The official astrologer for 20th Century Fox Studios during the 70s. Apparently she was consulted on what would be the best opening days for movies, incl 1977's Star Wars.”

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always read Mary Oliver outside but reading this poem by the river on the first morning of October in the last thirdish of my life hit really hard

October
There's this shape, black as the entrance to a cave.
A longing wells up in its throat like a blossom as it breathes slowly.
What does the world
mean to you if you can't trust it to go on shining when you're
not there? And there's a tree, long-fallen; once
the bees flew to it, like a procession of messengers, and filled it with honey.
I said to the chickadee, singing his heart out in the green pine tree:
little dazzler, little song, little mouthful.

cave.
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The shape climbs up out of the curled grass. It grunts into view. There is no measure for the confidence at the bottom of its eyes-. there is no telling
the suppleness of its shoulders as it turns and yawns.
Near the fallen tree
something a leaf snapped loose
from the branch and fluttering down tries to pull me into its trap of attention.
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It pulls me
into its trap of attention.
And when I turn again, the bear is gone.
Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?
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Look, I want to love this world
as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.

Sometimes in late summer I won't touch anything, not the flowers, not the blackberries brimming in the thickets; I won't drink from the pond; I won't name the birds or the trees;
I won't whisper my own name.
One morning
the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident, and didn't see me and I thought: so this is the world.
I'm not in it.
It is beautiful.

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Aah BOOO Rah, Scary PDX Stereotype @acjaggard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Donated $15 to the Cornell Sun student newspaper. Superb coverage of the Chi Phi rape case www.cornellsun.com/page/donate

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Support the Sun! - The Cornell Daily Sun

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I suspect this is even funnier to my British friends.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People are comparing their copies of PiL’s Metal Box and how they’ve aged in this thread and I love them all.

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Editor Sophia Dasser and reporter Cereese Qusba of the Cornell Daily Sun are the reason we now know about the gang rape case at Cornell and the university’s shameful under-reaction. Nice work, ladies. (📸 Heather Ainsworth)

Two young women, one in a hijab, huddled over lap tops in a newsroom.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today in Ashland I watched some deer kids get the major zoomies, galloping around their mom as if on a race track. Finally she jumped in and soon everyone went back to nibbling on apples.

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Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Take a moment to read this, and you will not regret it.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favorite surprise in all these responses was Chris naming Derek Jarman’s Blue. I saw Blue at the NY Film Festival when I was maybe 21 and didn’t fully understand it and also never, ever forgot it. I should watch it again; I suppose it ls mysteries would hit me much different at 55.

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Five greatest British films of all time: 24 Hour Party People The Filth and the Fury Lawrence of Arabia Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python and the Life of Brian Honorable Mentions: 28 Days Later Bedazzled A Hard Day’s Night Night and the City The Third Man

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy birthday to the great John Sayles! 📽️ 💙

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Name a film with a female director: High Art by Lisa Cholodenko, about ambition and the art world. I feel like it’s a coming of age story but for your 20s, when you start becoming an adult and may be shocked at your own choices. Exquisite performances and female characters that actually feel real.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Between us, there are five MDs, two PhDs, and six master’s degrees—but more importantly, a shared commitment to serving the people of Baltimore,” Alia and Brown said. “We are Black history. We are our ancestors’ wildest dreams. And we’re just getting started.”

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Goodnight. 🖼️ Tuesday Riddell

Woodland at night with full moon, silhouetted trees, wildflowers in foreground. In the centre there is a tented structure of branches; in the darkness inside are lots of little pairs of eyes. Painting.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Approaching The Dalles, Oregon heading west on interstate 84 through the Columbia River Gorge is always special.

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Black discs become bottomless voids; giant inflatables seem to squeeze themselves between the gallery walls and floors; reflections shift and change, confusing your perceptions. It’s a joy (except the top floor gallery). Runs until 18 Oct. You might spot the photographer in the last 2 photos.

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David Castleton (Author) @david-castleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Abbey Steps, leading up to the clifftop St Mary's Churchyard, Whitby. The 'benches' at the side were originally coffin rests, where weary pallbearers could lay down their caskets. Whitby Abbey is haunted by a white lady, who appears in a window. #spookysunday #folklore #gothic #ghosts #history

Stone steps with railings and a bench at the side, looking out towards a cliff, a river estuary and the sea.

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SvenThe @sventhe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy #Caturday Philippe René Doumic (1927–2013) Portrait of Jean-Pierre Melville and his cat (Melville had a lot of cats. You can see some of them in Le Cercle Rouge) #JeanPierreMelville #FilmSky #Cats

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John Looker @johnlooker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"People who spout their emotions like blood exhaust me" — Rilke, speaking to Stefan Zweig as recalled by Zweig in his autobiography. “When he entered a room full of company, he did it so quietly that hardly anyone noticed him.” #Rilke #Zweig #poetry #literature #poets #writers #literature #books

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am in Ashland, Oregon, and just watched eleven turkeys solemnly walk down the Airbnb’s long driveway like a procession of barristers before turning around, as one; a last turkey, panicking, careened towards them in as ungainly a fashion as possible. They made a left at the mailbox.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh hey, here’s my photo of the full moon tonight. I’m also available for weddings and graduations. 🙃

This photo looks like it was taken underwater - it’s blurry and squiggly and the only clear thing is a bright white jagged line that looks almost like lightning bolt. It’s the result of taking a photo of the full moon but moving away too quickly for the image to take.

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As somebody else said: the first forty years are text, the rest is commentary!

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Jamie Fisher @jamie-fisher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He writes: “All over the world people are haunted by the same ghosts just in different houses.”

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Michael Morrison @michaelmorrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m unreasonably intrigued by the idea of maybe owning Dorothy L Sayers’ motorcycle. Damn fascinatin’ as Lord Peter would put it.

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American Bird Conservancy @abcbirds.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Steal the Look: Northern Flicker ⚫ Did someone say craft night? The bag is packed and I’m ready to swoop in for some DIY fun. And since my tongue is already wrapped around my brain… I’ll happily take the lead on deciding our food order. 👅 Dotted with curiosity? Learn more: abcbirds.info/4hf3LA2

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

America’s Joy Spreader in Chief

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kicked off my sabbatical tonight watching the Oasis concert film with an old friend in an ancient theater I frequented when I first moved to Portland in 1997. Such a prismatic experience, all these layers of history, the band and the venue inseparable from my own life. Feeling deeply grateful.

A long, nearly empty corridor in a cinema bursting with neon signs and red track lighting. It looks very, very 1980s.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Flying Fish aficionados, the city is forcing the best seafood place in town to build a permanent patio structure and they need our help asap to cover the $100,000 cost. Please pass the word to help these excellent stewards of both our community and our waterways to stay in business! 🐟

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Flying Fish Patio Project by Flying Fish Company LLC Portland, Oregon - Indiegogo

Flying Fish Company in Portland Oregon is being forced to build a permanent patio structure. We need your help to cover the $100,000 cost.

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Emily, my kindred spirit

Fall, Leaves, Fall by Emily Bronte
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night’s decay
Ushers in a drearier day.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Crows heading downtown at sunset again, baby squirrels running riot all over my neighborhood, the thread of a spider web tickling my hand ... Sweet autumn has finally arrived.

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Jamie Fisher @jamie-fisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last note on this: I think it’s also worth asking who gets called “adoring.” Women writers are “adoring.” Male writers are critics.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For Earth 🌍 , Wind 🌪️, and Fire 🔥 Day—we never forget the 21st night of September—here is a depiction of the Four Elements in a manuscript from Bruges, 1470-1480, fr. 137, fol. 1r. (© BnF) : « Dieu Créateur et Ovide avec l’œuf » @labnf.bsky.social. See: journals.openedition.org/crmh/13890?l...

manuscrit fr. 137, fol. 1r.

(© BnF) : « Dieu Créateur et Ovide avec l’œuf »

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So much life in my backyard this morning!

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Haha okay, insomnia, it's #SmallPoemSunday! Hi, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social , here's The Sign Says:

The Sign Says

No Solicitation!
except the Tamale Lady!

and I say, yes, Tamale Lady,
knock on my door, come up
to me on the sidewalk with
your white five gallon bucket
full of foil wrapped, hand made,
homemade tamales.

I buy four every time. I trust
your kitchen better than
any restaurant or grocery store.
I know love
when I smell it.

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