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Remembering legendary film & theatre director and actor James Whale on his 136th birthday.

#BOTD on 7/22/1889

Seen here with Boris Karloff during the filming of FRANKENSTEIN (1931).

#filmsky #moviesky
July 23, 2025 at 5:20 AM
As someone who has been prone to wearing the hat and furry coat combo with a dollop of slap, I spend too many moments of my frittering life thinking about the wrongness of this album cover of #NeilSedaka #androgenynotandrogeny
June 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Footage of the Minnesota assassin Vance Luther Boelter, a life long registered republican and "Christian" nationalist incel that hated women. He's 100% MAGA.
June 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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This life so bruised and weird
All of it
June 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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June 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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An extraordinary writer of great range, fiction to biography to memoir, Edmund White leaves a lasting mark as a great American man of letters, spanning two centuries & providing reading pleasure to many generations. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a...
Edmund White, Pioneer of Queer Literature, Is Dead at 85
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3
May 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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April 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Tickets are available here to this very special concert celebrating the work of Derek Jarman.

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
February 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Tove Jansson ( 1914 - 2001 ) ' Comet in Moominland ' 1946 ♥️
#artoftheday #womenartists #illustration
February 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046
February 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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'The Archer, East Finchley' by Hilary Masetti
hilarysketches.co.uk
January 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Charles McGee ( 1924 - 2021 ) ' Girl Blowing Bubbles ' c. 1955 ❤️ #Americanart #portrait #bubbles #painting #artoftheday
December 12, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937 ) Detail from 'The story of Babar' pp 20-21, 1931 ❤️
#illustration #ChildrensBooks #elephant #driving
December 5, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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'Night Sights, Piccadilly' (1922) by Wendela Boreel

(Private collection)
December 3, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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December 1, 2024 at 11:15 AM