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Alex MacFarlane
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Peripatetic postdoctoral scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.
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good times good times #LetterboxdFriday 📽️ #LastFourWatched
Beau Travail, This is Not a Burial it's a Resurrection, Croupier, The Epic of Everest
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Daily walks VASTLY livened up by every type of mushroom deciding to fruit in my surroundings. Today, inkcaps.
two ink cap mushrooms, which are pale and upright ovoid in shape, fruiting from acorn-covered ground that's otherwise covered in acorns a bigger clump of ink caps, not as tall yet, and grass
September 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The spores stained the world around them grey-white.
clusters of white, slimy-looking mushrooms growing from a fallen log amid leaf litter and small green plants, with white staining around the mushrooms a close-up on the slimy-looking mushrooms growing from the log
September 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Three out of four films with blocky outlines on their posters. #LetterboxdFriday 📽️ #LastFourWatched
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, The Day of the Jackal, Lupin III: The Hemingway Papers, Honey Don't!
September 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Mushrooms in the woods.
a small purple mushroom growing amid mud, grass, brown leaves and small green plants two little pale brown bracket mushrooms growing at the base of a mossy tree a round mushroom photographed top-down with a brown cap that has a cracked effect, growing amid brown leaves and small green plants
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I was at a vineyard in France a couple of days ago and met this important member of the team, named Decibel, purred at me and tried to lovingly claw my hand, a perfect being
a mostly white cat with a ginger tail and some small ginger dots on his head is lying on his side on a table, forepaw splayed in play
September 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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?????
the BBC iPlayer screen at the end of a film, where it says "if you liked Point Break" it suggests that I watch the Scottish Parliament budget statement from 24 June, while also recommending the far more congruent action films Die Hard with a Vengeance and Miami Vice
September 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I forgot about my favourite screen in Hail, Caesar! (2016)
cream text on a black background says DIVINE PRESENCE TO BE SHOT
August 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Unexpected guy in the garden today.
a common frog or toad clings to the side of garden furniture, in a close gap between the furniture and wooden slats
August 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Sometimes I really enjoy the way colours and lines line up. #LetterboxdFriday 📽️ #LastFourWatched
The Invisible Fight, The White Reindeer, Insomnia, Topkapi
August 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Good films, good films. #LetterboxdFriday 📽️ #LastFourWatched
Calendar, Godland, A Dog Barking at the Moon, L'île Rouge
August 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Definitely the funniest pros & cons list I've seen while looking up a walk.
good: interesting scenery, easy to navigate, lots of paths if you want to extend the walk. bad: in a live firing range.
July 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Belatedly, really fun to see Hausu in the PCC last night. Having seen many more Japanese films since my first viewing, it's even more obvious how it's a stand-out. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 📽️
Hausu, Hard Boiled, Sword of the Stranger, The Great Ecstacy of Woodcarver Steiner
July 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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every cat today is responding to the rain by being on the bed :3
grey long-haired cat sprawled across an unmade bed
July 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Good run, good run. #LetterboxdFriday 📽️ #LastFourWatched
The Story of Yanagawa's Canals, The Andromeda Strain, Mars Express, Hi Mom!
July 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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More scifi should look like this.
four people in beige clothing stand in front of a silvery desk where a fifth person in beige clothing is seated. the curving wall behind them is red, with lots of small tv monitors and lit-up panels of lights. the floor is white. a nude man shown from the waist up, his arms extended in front of him, with a curved box over his head that looks like it's studded with diamonds. he's stood in a room with reflective silvery walls.
July 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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The Wild Road by Gabriel King The Golden Cat by Gabriel King
June 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Cool.
David Cameron, who made seven visits to Afghanistan as prime minister between June 2010 and November 2013, the period now under scrutiny by the SAS public inquiry, was repeatedly made aware of the concerns by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, according to multiple people who attended the meetings. Mr Karzai "consistently, repeatedly mentioned this issue", former Afghan national security adviser Dr Rangin Dadfar Spanta told Panorama. He said Lord Cameron could have been left in no doubt that there were allegations of civilians, including children, being killed during operations carried out by UK special forces. A spokesperson for Lord Cameron told Panorama that "to the best of Lord Cameron's recollection" the issues raised by President Karzai were about NATO forces in general and that "specific incidents with respect to UK special forces were not raised".
May 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Today is a good day to harvest wild garlic.
so much wild garlic in the woods, an abundance of wild garlic, a plethora of wild garlic
April 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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some of the packaging even calls it tingly! which is underselling the experience
two google products results for a tingly mint and tea tree shower gel that's a very bold green colour
March 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday 📽️ finishing the week with Saint Maud (2019), a film that perhaps too well captures the feeling of anxiety so bad it causes you physical pain! very good, don't know that I'll ever watch it again
Saint Maud, Ieoh Island, Logan Lucky, Escape from Mogadishu
March 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday 📽️ on a cold Saturday morning.
Howl's Moving Castle, Cyclo, Anaïs in Love, Chiara
March 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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So much has been lost to us in papal fashion.
a screenshot of a film, where a nun in fairly humble clothes faces the pope dressed in an elaborate cream and turquoise coloured woollen overcoat with a broad-rimmed cream-coloured hat, with turquoise and yellow tassels hanging off it
March 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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it's #LetterboxdFriday o'clock 📽️
Querelle, Secret Reunion, The Devil's Advocate, Princess Mononoke
March 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Periwinkle in the sun! ☀️
a mat of waxy green leaves on the ground, with a couple of small purple flowers
March 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM