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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 7h

Tonight’s viewing 📽️

www.imdb.com/title/tt1181...

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) ⭐ 7.7 | Comedy, Drama

1h 54m | R

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 12h

All from my TBRs but I believe they fit the bill…

‘We Do What We Do in the Dark’ by Michele Hart

‘Behind the Green Curtain’ by Riley LaShea

‘The Sex Therapist Next Door’ by Meghan O’Brien

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 12h

youtube.com/watch?v=Gh8G... 🎧

girl in red - Serotonin (official video)

YouTube video by girl in red

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 15h

Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GF... 🎧

R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World

YouTube video by REMVEVO

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve loved this new version of my favourite Pet Shop Boys track since i first heard it months ago. Unfortunately, the video I just stumbled across is very boring, non sequitur balloon women notwithstanding.

youtu.be/hN2WWCPsIkM 🎧

Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring [New Version]

YouTube video by TBBM [TheBlueBallMusic]

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 1d

youtube.com/watch 🎧

Electronic - Feel Every Beat

YouTube video by electronicofficial

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/xR5xGHPUEew 🎧

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve loved Chris Wood’s ‘One in a Million’ since I first heard it 20 years ago.

In this age of streaming I’m forever disappointed that his ‘The Lark Descending’ album isn’t available on streaming platforms.

Today I found this and I can’t not share it.

youtu.be/uP1OHzGHRjQ 🎧

One In A Million - A Short Film About Fish & Chips, Love And A Ring

YouTube video by Freewheelers Theatre & Media

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 2d

The poster is as bad as it looks, for sure.

We enjoyed the movie. Think double-barrelled She’s Having A Baby. Not a sex-comedy by any stretch.

Full of pointless drama caused by people making bad choices, but I liked both female leads and bought into their story.

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 3d

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Suede (53) Maisie Peters (35) Regurgitator (30) Taylor Swift (30) Huey Lewis & The News (22). #myweekcounted 407 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

Suede Maisie Peters Regurgitator Taylor Swift Huey Lewis & The News

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 3d

#NowWatching 📽️

The Threesome (2025) ⭐ 6.2 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

1h 52m | R

www.imdb.com

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 3d

If you see this, quote your favourite Pokémon!

(wrong answers only)

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 3d

#NowWatching 📽️

Something's Gotta Give (2003) ⭐ 6.7 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

2h 8m | PG-13

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 3d

Mash up bands:

Blood, Sweat & Fire

Auntie Social @auntiesocial.bsky.social · 3d

Mash up bands:

Led Leppard

boofus 🎃 @te-kanawa.bsky.social · 3d

Mash up bands:

The Grateful White Band

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I AM DAD @iamdad.bsky.social · 3d

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 3d

I'm reading If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia.

Small-town romance with strong Gilmore Girls/90s vibe, featuring a lovable pooch and a single dad with two adorable daughters.

An illustrated book cover for "If It Makes You Happy" by Julie Olivia.

The scene is set on a sunny autumn day in a quaint town square, with a gazebo on the right and small shops with apartments above them in the background. Orange, red, and yellow leaves blanket the trees, fall from the sky, and litter the ground, which is lined with pumpkins.

In the foreground, a man and woman walk arm-in-arm. The man is on the left, wearing a brown leather jacket, a blue button-down shirt, and jeans with work boots. He has dark, messy hair. The woman, with long, dark brown hair, is on the right, wearing a black sleeveless button-up mini dress, a white long-sleeved shirt underneath, and tall black boots. She is holding the leash of a black and white Border Collie dog walking beside her.

The title, "If It Makes You Happy," is large and stylized in white, hand-written script across the upper half of the image.

The author's name, "JULIE OLIVIA," is in smaller white capital letters near the bottom center.

A quote on the right side reads, "Pure rom-com magic." -B.K. Borison, New York Times bestselling author of First-Time Caller.

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 3d

At 12-13 she discovered my stash of 70s erotic paperbacks* which she confiscated**, informing me that "most of the things they do in those books are illegal." [2/2]

* I've always preferred text to pics

** A fair cop, over time I had pilfered them from my parents' ready-for-the-book-exchange bag

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 3d

At around the age of ten, my mother gave me a couple of books to read. We never talked. [1/2]

jessica BONEStown @midnightmasseffect.bsky.social · May 16

did anyones parents *actually* talk to them about sex?

its been a plot point in like every TV show and movie about raising kids for like centuries at this point but does it actually happen?

i think "the birds and the bees" speech is entirely a ficticious construct

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 3d

Thirty days of musics 🎧

Me @ last.fm: last.fm/user/anxovert

A dense list of 50 artists is displayed on a bright yellow background with black text. The artists are: Taylor Swift, John Grant, Suede, The Divine Comedy, Fightmilk, Olivia Rodrigo, Huey Lewis & The News, Maisie Peters, Jon English, Regurgitator, Elle King, John Hiatt, Damian Cowell's Disco Machine, Leonard Cohen, Self Esteem, Warren Zevon, girl in red, U2, Childish Gambino, Van Halen, Zolita, Brooke Alexx, CMAT, Kanye West, The Beautiful South, Pet Shop Boys, Tears for Fears, Boney M, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott, The Housemartins, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Cure, The Indelicates, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Cake, Elton John, IKE, Joe Jackson, Kenny Rogers, Kirsty MacColl, Kiss, Madonna, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Ryan Adams, The Smiths, Tom Jones, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Barbara Pravi.

The bottom left corner shows the text "Top 50 Artists / anxovert (12 Sep 2025 - 11 Oct 2025)".

The top of the image has a header with "last.fm LABS".

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 3d

You do you. If you tag 'em as explicit, anyone who doesn't want to see them, won't.

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Spike @do-not-fold.bsky.social · 4d

From here:

www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

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Bips McCallister @hoomph.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t believe your brain if it tells you you aren’t good enough

A solved Rubik’s cube standing in front of a mirror with a reflection of an unsolved cube

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misternatural.bsky.social @misternatural.bsky.social · 4d

Brilliant 1990 track by Nick Cave, when he was arguably at his peak.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqhO...
#punk #punks #punkrock #punkrockhistory #womenofpunk #goth #alt #IndieMusic #ProgRock #ElectricGuitarForAll #Bandcamp

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song (Official Video)

YouTube video by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

www.youtube.com

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Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 4d

Browsing a portfolio of Lynn Paul Russell's art in the magnificent @honesterotica.bsky.social archive, and this piece was too good not to share.(appropriately tagged, so you shouldn't see this if sexually explicit content offends.

If this was drawn from life, this chap must be popular at parties...

An illustration by Lynn Paula Russell from The Essential Kama Sutra (2003)

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