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Brian

@bwianair.bsky.social

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London based woke snowflake. Interested in everything, including horror, weirdness, art, nature, science. No time for Nazis, Tories, TERFs or the like.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 1h

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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 1h

It's great and the lead actress is brilliant.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 1h

Incredible film. Deeply disturbing although you see very little on screen.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1h

Red Rooms is a tense, evocative, subtle, and complex film that pairs well w movies like Anatomy of a Fall. Billed as horror due to events that happen offscreen, but more of a hybrid. Disturbing, dislocating, with stunning choreography and acting. (Def understand aversion to watching it, tjo.)

Red Rooms poster with red title text and black and white photo of Juliette Gariépy, the lead.

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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 1h

Which is what I just did. Great minds, etc. 😁

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 1h

Looks like it's this: www.theguardian.com/world/2004/s...

In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema

Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.

www.theguardian.com

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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 1h

Wow, aren't you a dick.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 2h

It's 10pm here and I've been in bed for two hours already, reading 😁

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 2h

#TeamNegroni

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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 2h

I haven't! Will add it to the list.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 3h

What makes you proud to be British? For me, this is right up there.

A one-star review from a Texan tourist visiting Liverpool:

freddytexan (16 reviews)
“My wife and I visted Liverpool for our 30th wedding anniversary from Texas. Our evening was ruined when a man dressed as an adult baby called my wife a "Mad yank slut" because she'd never heard of a band called Steps.”

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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 4h

Fridges? 😁

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 4h

It's either that or a ghost. Only possible explanations.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 4h

I love stuff like this.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 7h

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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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 4h

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 4h

Do you, or someone you know, need writing done? Matt's great. He's very funny (and wrote for Dangermouse, what more do you need?)

Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 5h

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk