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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2m

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 1h

Ah man, another legend gone. Drew Struzan's posters defined the cinematic wonder of Hollywood in the 80s and 90s.

Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 2h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 2h

Hey folks, just to let you know that Neil and I are doing a BG3 on his channel at 8.30 PM BST. He just hasn't got around to posting it up here yet! 😅

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 4h

They've done this to the big WH Smiths in Brighton and it's now a bizarre chimera of a place, part Toys R Us, part TG Jones (whatever that is), part Post Office. None of it feels permanent or worthwhile and it begs questions about how safe the future of the Post Offices in WH Smiths are.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 8h

After 110 years on Cornmarket, stationery shop W.H. Smith has been rebranded T.G. Jones – a name invented by investment company Modella Capital, which acquired the high street shops in June. The Abingdon branch was renamed in August. www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/cornmarket/e...

The new frontage on Cornmarket - alas, not Smith but Jones

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 5h

Clym! Clem is my dog!

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 21h

LGBTQIA+ is rebranding as LGBTQIA MAX

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 22h

We absolutely, positively DO NOT need to learn to live with anyone who wants some of us FUCKING ERASED. Rowling & her money is doing real harm to trans men & women across the world and she needs to fuck off into the sun at her earliest opportunity. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Into the sun.

Laura 🍁🍄🦇🎃 @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

oh no. no. absolutely the fuck not. fuck off.

a bullshit statement from Keira knightley saying she was not aware of a boycott against jk Rowling before taking a job on the new audio series and that she's "sorry" and "we're all going to have to figure out how to live together and we've all got very different opinions"
She can fuck off.

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 1d

The best Godzilla podcast talking about the best Showa era Godzilla movie! Very exciting!

Glitterjaw @glitterjaw.bsky.social · 1d

Don't let the smog monster melt you into bones! @avartwork.bsky.social joins SKREEONK for Godzilla vs. Hedorah, which tackled the existential threat of pollution as one of the weirdest and most gruesome Godzilla films 💀

Find the pod: glitterjaw.com/skreeonk

Cover art by: @hamishsteele.bsky.social

SKREEONK!
Godzilla vs. Hedorah

Artwork by Hamish Seele of Hedorah's angry eyes as smog looming over a newsprint colored 70s horror manga rendition of the characters from Godzilla vs Hedorah among tons of pollution and facing melted skeletons with flying Godzilla in the background

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 1d

That's a blingy zilla!

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 1d

And also a new Phasmo stream:

youtu.be/3PkMyiIe6So

Tom and Clym play PHASMOPHOBIA #5

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 1d

TWITCH PEEPS - No stream today, but it's a horror double whammy on the YouTube channel, as I've released a new Crow Country stream:

youtu.be/dyBuYa9VWvk

Tom plays CROW COUNTRY #2

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 1d

HORBL.

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noelle sociohat @sociohat.bsky.social · 1d

gamer who doesn't listen to audio logs or read journal entries in games because they respect privacy

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 1d

SACRE BLEU!!!!!!

a baby is sitting in a high chair making a surprised face and saying wow .

ALT: a baby is sitting in a high chair making a surprised face and saying wow .

media.tenor.com

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 1d

Well worth digging through this. Lots of great stuff here:

John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

YouTube seem to have put together a playlist of films that they are offering for free. Some corkers in here. www.youtube.com/feed/storefr...

YouTube

Find the latest and greatest movies and shows all available on YouTube.com/movies. From award-winning hits to independent releases, watch on any device and from the comfort of your home.

www.youtube.com

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 1d

Never a bad reason to have a shot!

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In heaven, everything is fine ✏️ @ejschuster.bsky.social · May 30

Pig Man

a digital drawing of a spiny little monster with skeleton hands and feet

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

the complete departure of right wing men from actual sex and sexuality for a hallucinatory sexual politics of grievance and whining is really something

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 4d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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EveryFairyDies/Lorelei Brown @everyfairydies.bsky.social · 2d

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging

www.theguardian.com

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 2d

TWITCH PEEPS - We're back with our first ever PHASMO COMMUNITY EVENT tonight! 7.30 PM BST - twitch.tv/devilligan

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 2d

I’d rather people just joined in with the shitposting than feel I have to turn off replies.

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 2d

Like if I’m clearly shitposting I don’t need to be reminded that ‘everything is terrible actually’. I really, really know that but I’m busy shitposting through it.

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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 2d

Can we all keep it a little lighter? Really not into the Bluesky tendency to swing towards doomsaying at the drop of a hat.

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