Vicki Smith
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Vicki Smith
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Gen X Brit based in the USofA.

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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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so the answer is no, no one can pull off a lampshade hat
i just wanna know what in my internet history made the computer think i was in the market for a $12,000 horse lamp
January 6, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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Hey Bluesky, send us your best ducks

(Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)
January 6, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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thoughts/prayers to everyone who made their “most anticipated TV shows of 2026” list before finding out that Kumail and Armando Iannucci were on the new season of Taskmaster
January 5, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.
January 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Made another scrappy, scruffy puffin based on Jill McDonald’s Puffin Post illustrations.
A lovely things about these not being “for” anything is that it allows them to be imperfect & hamfisted: there being no pressure on them means my sewing is actually slowly slightly improving a bit with each one
January 4, 2026 at 12:14 PM
In The Holiday (2006), Arthur (Wallach) tells Iris (Winslet) that Cary Grant was born in Surrey. WRONG!Archie Leach was, quite famously, born in Bristol, several counties away. I couldn’t watch this, otherwise delightful, film for years because it made me angry, now I fast-forward through that bit.
January 4, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Tonight’s highly pleasurable viewing: the great Powell & Pressburger’s The Small Back Room, from 1949. Gorgeous b+w cinematography, a brilliant dream sequence mid-film, & great repeat pairing of David Farrar and Kathleen Byron from Black Narcissus. This also gets me closer to being a P&P completist.
January 4, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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It’s Julian’s birthday tomorrow.
January 4, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
January 3, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie.
January 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
@say-hey.bsky.social STUNNING photo shoot!
Rama Duwaji is a Syrian-American animator, illustrator, and ceramicist who is set to become the First Lady of New York City on January 1, 2026

I am obsessed with these photos of her for The Cut by photographer and art director Szilveszter Makó
January 2, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Made another bockety little Jill McDonald style party puffin: no idea what for but that’s the joy of it.
Absolutely stink at sewing but I hope this no pressure making for pure pleasure might improve my non-existent skills & I truly do love the mental peace of pottering away at these felt fripperies
January 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
What book is sacred enough to be sworn in on?

I’m going for a First Folio. 🎭
January 2, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Okay. I can think of a few exceptions though.
January 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Here’s an excellent 90s Rom Com that gives Bill Pullman his due as a hottie. #TCMParty #SleeplessInSeattle
January 1, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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Running my hands over some bells just to peal something.
Getting some mail together just to seal something
December 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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What I will see the New Year in with. I’ll attempt to time it so, at the moment of midnight, Pamela Brown - with her wonderful face of secrets and shadows - suddenly falls into frame to warn Torquil that “she’s running away from you!”
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
How I am walking* out of 2025:

*running
December 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.
December 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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..and always great to run into a fellow Prince fan! 💙
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December 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Seeing an enjoyable movie or TV show, by generation:

Boomer: "that's that girl from the other movie, what's her name?"

Gen X: Buys the DVD for the commentary track

Millennial: Buys a car window sticker showing their family as characters

Zoomer: Draws yaoi fan art to make the boys kiss.
October 28, 2023 at 11:52 AM
Bringing this one back for today’s anniversary and adding their resting place.
December 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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One-of-a-kind, brilliant, original. Carrie Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016)
December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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A food delivery truck parked outside an alleyway into town, giving the impression of a portal from the drab to the magical - only open for 15 minutes on Christmas Eve.
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM