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Duncan Watson
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LIKES * : Cats. Films. Books. Photography. Painting. Music (jazz, classical, much else). Donald Trump.

* (One of these "Likes" should be more correctly filed under "Loathes." See if you can guess which.)
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duncanwatson8.bsky.social
A brilliant piece by a former British diplomat about what it feels like to live in Trump's America – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...
A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump's America
I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports Alexandra Hal...
bylinetimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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tabwootwo.bsky.social
the meow himself
Painting of a black and white longhair cat looking back at the viewer over his shoulder. Voluminous black inky tail. Dusty pink background and old marble columns in the background. Same painting but now the cat in question is being held up next to it. He is not observant.
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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miriamcosic.bsky.social
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nickcohen.bsky.social Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · Nov 29
RIP Tom Stoppard. With the Russians returning Europe to the barbarism of the Cold War here is his Professional Foul, a great play on the need to confront tyranny honestly
Play of the Week - Professional Foul (1977) by Tom Stoppard & Michael Lindsay-Hogg
YouTube video by Play For Forever
youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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elizmccrack.bsky.social
The matchup we've been waiting for.
Illuminated movie marquee reading EVERYMAN - FRIDAY 24TH OCTOBER FRANKENSTEIN VS SPRINGSTEEN
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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pulpcurry.bsky.social
I endorse this post.
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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adamkeiper.com
Stephen Sondheim introduced his childhood pal Tom Lehrer in 1998 for an exceedingly rare stage performance, part of a tribute to Cameron Mackintosh.

(This will always be my favorite Lehrer song. Interestingly, he here changes one word: "squirrel" becomes "sparrow.")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-e...
Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park (live, 1998).
YouTube video by Arnesen
www.youtube.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Poet & essayist Walt Whitman, photographed & painted by Thomas Eakins in 1887. Today was Eakins’s day. @catherineh.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
had to excavate and share this passage from The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron
screenshot reads: "...he would shape this one. Later that same night, the effects artist got a phone call from his friend. "I've got it!" Cameron said. "He's a cop!" The form the T-1000 would take for most of the movie was a Los Angeles police officer. This solved the storytelling dilemma Winston had raised and also gave Cameron an opportunity to underline a central theme in both of the Terminator movies--how people, especially those in violent jobs, like soldiers and cops, can become barbarized. "The Terminator films are not really about the human race getting killed off by future machines. They're about us losing touch with our own humanity and becoming machines, which allows us to kill and brutalize each other," he says. "Cops think of all noncops as less than they are, stupid, weak, and evil. They dehumanize the people they are sworn to protect and desensitize themselves in order to do that job." Cameron's creation of an LAPD villain in his 1990 script eerily predates and is strangely linked to one of the darker moments in the department's history."
June 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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huxleymorgan.bsky.social
Black and white image of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, smoking a cigarette. "The world is not divided between east and west. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
June 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
duncanwatson8.bsky.social
MY BIG BEAUTIFUL WEEK
by Donnie Trump
(1) Erected pole which is YUGE, much bigger than the one I usually play with!!!
(2) Turned Rose Garden into parking lot where I can keep my toy cars!!!
(3) Started my very own war!!! With naughty Iran!!! Why should Vlad & Ben in Ukraine & Gaza have all the fun?
June 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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annebillson.bsky.social
Parisiens (2015) photography by Anne Billson
A Parisian street by night; in the background, a shuttered Asian restaurant and a shop with a blue-lit interior. In the foreground, a young woman, in a green jacket and red lipstick, holding a can of Coca-Cola, and a young man in spectacles checking his mobile phone. Both are wearing beanies.
June 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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annebillson.bsky.social
Jan van Rijswijcklaan (2024) photograph by Anne Billson
A deserted tram stop in the middle of an unusally car-free avenue in the De Singel area of Antwerp. The ground is wet after the rain, and the unearthly orange sky hints at another downpour in the near future.
June 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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markharris.bsky.social
Important to know that the very footage that is appalling all of us--rows of faceless men in riot gear, protestors running, clouds of gas--is what Trump and Miller and the MAGA-sycophant anti-city press have had a collective hard-on for since the campaign. This will be wall-to-wall on Fox all week.>
June 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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jordanharper.bsky.social
The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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neglectedbooks.com
Star Turn (1936), the one and only novel by French film director René Clair. About a film star who increasingly loses himself in his roles, until it all comes apart when he has to play the part of God.
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May 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
duncanwatson8.bsky.social
FUN FACT : If you look quickly during one of the callbacks in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE : THE FINAL RECKONING you'll see an ID card that reveals Ethan Hunt was born in 1964. Make of that what you will.
May 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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hippopeteamus.bsky.social
"A kazoo mocking a Stradivarius"
May 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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miriamcosic.bsky.social
Hey, Microsoft Word users.

I used this in March to disable AI scraping on mine.

You may want to as well, if you haven't already.

#privacy
May 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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stephengallagher.co.uk
As it's Indie Press Day let me draw your attention to these handpicked titles from The Brooligan Press, a nonprofit in which 100% of the revenues go directly to the authors brooliganpress.blogspot.com
Cover images of six titles from The Brooligan Press: Ferocity by Stephen Laws, The Ex by Anne Billson, The Companion by Laurence Staig, Valley of Lights by Stephen Gallagher, Darkfall by Stephen Laws
May 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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kellydeer.bsky.social
😂
April 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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mikecarlton01.bsky.social
Imagine having the future of your country, your liberty and independence, at the disposal of the lying Orange Oaf and that jumped up little turd Vance.
Trump Pressures Ukraine to Accept a Peace Plan That Sharply Favors Russia
The U.S. proposal would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which Ukraine has rejected.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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maranoagirl.bsky.social
OK. I waited. No one else did it. So...
Tom Lehrer. The Vatican Rag.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhY...
You're welcome. 🤣
Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag - fabulous version - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
www.youtube.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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ronnisalt.bsky.social
David Speers used to phone Scott Morrison's office almost every day when Morrison was PM, one of the very few journalists that did it every_single_day

However, never dismiss ambition and ruthless hunger for ratings for respected, thoughtful analysis - they are not the same thing
April 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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ronnisalt.bsky.social
Hi @support.bsky.team

This is a fantastic content creator & very well trusted source for Australian users. He contributes a great deal to BlueSky

His account was hacked many weeks ago (@strangerous.bsky.social)

So far he's still waiting to get any info from you

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strangerous.bsky.social stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · Apr 21
So after letting me know weeks ago they’re investigating my hacked account @strangerous.bsky.social, BlueSky is still yet to let me know if they’ve actually done anything, I’m still being contacted about things hacker is doing with account. Should I give up? @support.bsky.team ? Anyone home?😔
April 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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ericidle.bsky.social
Are they blind? Merde a Largo. It’s a shabby gangsters hideaway.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Apr 17
Embarrassing that this sycophantic ass-clown is representing us on the world stage. We have become a joke to the world in 3 months.
April 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM