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@daveyh39.bsky.social

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

Rara Avis

@raraavistoo.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years

Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion

www.theguardian.com

June 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Rara Avis

@raraavistoo.bsky.social

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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Anonymous

@youranoncentral.bsky.social

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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Daniel Sturniolo

@dansturn.bsky.social

This life so bruised and weird
All of it

June 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM

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Lucy Gray

@lucymaygray.bsky.social

#booksky

June 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM

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Jim Aloisi

@jimaloisi.bsky.social

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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The New York Times

@nytimes.com

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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On a clear day

@icanseeforever1.bsky.social

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.