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Séamus Reilly

@ewzername.bsky.social

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Spotify playlists, occasional photos, and luke warm takes.

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · Jun 23

A chronological, as complete as Spotify allows, Quarrymen to Threetles, Beatles playlist.
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a splendid time is guaranteed for all

Playlist · seamusr · 712 items · 1 saves

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

See also this episode of @99pi.org
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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 1d

At last! Now they've finally realised what AI is for, perhaps they'll stop trying to foist it on every other aspect of our lives

Panel of an old Roger Mellie cartoon - from about 30-odd years ago - in which he is presenting a 'wanking machine' which he has invented for Tomorrow's World. Drawn by Chris Donald.

Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 23h

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 1d

At last! Now they've finally realised what AI is for, perhaps they'll stop trying to foist it on every other aspect of our lives

Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

If you do albums...

Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

Uptown Top Wanking

Russell Hillman (but said in a spooky voice) @allhellismrsun.bsky.social · 1d

Change a letter, ruin a song.

Breaking The Lav

Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

1+1=3. Combine 2 song titles to make a 3rd.
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1+1=3

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

All Singing All Talking All Rocking.
A Warner/Reprise sampler from 1973
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all singing - all talking - all rocking 1973

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

The Warner Bros. Music Show sampler. 59p in 1975
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warner bros music show 1975

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

US & UK charts, 14 October 1972
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14 october 1972

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

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Secret Mall Apartment | Official Trailer HD

YouTube video by Secret Mall Apartment

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 1d

Let me write the movie

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

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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Bruce Gorrie @bsgorrie.bsky.social · 1d

Not that one. 1968.

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of.

Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

US & UK charts, 14 October 1972
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14 october 1972

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

The Warner Bros. Music Show sampler. 59p in 1975
open.spotify.com/playlist/1JH...

warner bros music show 1975

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

I love revisiting films I recall fondly and they're even better than i remember. Stalag 17 is one of those.

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

All Singing All Talking All Rocking.
A Warner/Reprise sampler from 1973
open.spotify.com/playlist/20h...

all singing - all talking - all rocking 1973

open.spotify.com

Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

1+1=3. Combine 2 song titles to make a 3rd.
open.spotify.com/playlist/5WN...

1+1=3

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Nick Portnell @nportnell.bsky.social · 19d

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Everything is awful and we all feel pretty helpless, but here are some songs to hide within during the autumn of 2025.

Autumn 25 🍂

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 1d

98 Billy Paul?

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Séamus Reilly @ewzername.bsky.social · 2d

US & UK Top 20 singles and albums, 13 October 1973
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13 october 1973

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