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idca @idca.bsky.social · 1h

just realised that we didn't have buffalo soldier! anyway

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1h

I've just seen this photo of them, and my god does it spark joy.

Three sumo wrestlers on bicycles in London

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 3h

caribbean queen is one of mine, ngl this happens to me all the time

lyric from caribbean queen:
"In the blink of an eye I knew her number and her name, yeah
She said I was the tiger she wanted to tame"

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 3h

i'm sure there's a better one where she actually sings "move closer...soft and gentle helps you move closer..." but coverage of this stuff is patchy

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 3h

it only grew more culturally relevant as time went on (you might have to click thru, it won't embed properly) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPQ...

www.youtube.com

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 4h

the whole internet loves egyptian lover, a lover who comes from egypt! *five minutes later* we regret to inform you...

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 5h

astronaut with gun meme:
"so it's all jam and lewis now is it?"
"always has been"

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 5h

25. when harry met sally (1989)
a rewatch and a good one, i don't think i'd have seen this since i was a teenager and obvs you relate to it completely differently from this age. billy crystal looks weird but i said that before. 4.5*

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 9h

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 8h

i watched a documentary about him a while back and it's very clear from early on but they made a real point of being ambiguous, even at the end it's a bit "many people have said this, will we ever really know?!? (yes)"

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 9h

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 9h

guy who's never tasted sweets before:

Ruskus @rusky.bsky.social · 9h

Sugar.

Wow

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 9h

just 5 for troye i think, the one i'd have been happiest to put in was a no hoper and i couldn't justify it

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 9h

obvs it's all well established now but this is a whole new strata for me of the "is luther gay?! (yes ofc he is)" conversation that must have been going on at the time

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 9h

just noticed that the second series of tell me lies turned up on iplayer and i yelped, may be taking this too seriously (there is no level of too seriously to take this)

idca @idca.bsky.social · 9h

i feel like 'got a date' may one of the campest songs we've ever polled (highly complimentary)

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 11h

need to get my eye in for them, sleepless in seattle and roman holiday are on today already

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 13h

quickly learning that it’s the only chart that counts

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health

Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 21h

investigating sienna spiro rn and there seems to be a lot of brit soul singers knocking around the charts atm, doubtless all laying the ground for the inevitable adele comeback in due course link.deezer.com/s/31jZLPBE1Y...

Die On This Hill

SIENNA SPIRO - song - 2025

link.deezer.com

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 22h

#TheTwen2ie5 day 15
36. remi wolf - cinderella
🇺🇸
released - march 2024
charts - #6 billboard japan hot overseas 🇯🇵 🔥 🌊

ME AND THE BOYS IN THE HOTEL LOBBY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3pE...

Remi Wolf - Cinderella (Official Video)

YouTube video by RemiWolfVEVO

www.youtube.com

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 22h

need to start watching romantic comedies again, used to watch all the old 50s ones and i kinda ran out but i probably need to take a deep dive into the careers of jennifer anniston and sandra bullock, 90s seems like fertile ground. hallmark movies as well, feel the need for some real slush

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 22h

watched when harry met sally for the 1st time in a long while. struggling with the idea of billy crystal being any particular age at all, he's sort of an eternal 43 whilst simultaneously being both younger and older

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 23h

we did some research on the rockwell follow-up album a while back but sadly it failed to live up to his early promise, this passage on the wiki entry is esp brutal

As Rockwell had done on his previous album, he solicited the help of another prominent recording artist to sing with him on the first single. Instead of Michael Jackson, however, this time he got Stevie Wonder to record the song "He's a Cobra" with him.[2] The song was a flop.

The next single, "Peeping Tom", appeared on the soundtrack to The Last Dragon,[3] but it too was a disappointment.

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idca @idca.bsky.social · 1d

was there an earlier version of kaufmann who was less like this? i can't remember him being any different tbh