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feral streep @seanpaulmahoney.bsky.social · 2d

Glenn Close saying “giving cunt” is the best thing you’ll hear all weekend

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OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 3d

#NoKings Miami!

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 7d

When you’ve pissed off WeRateDogs so much they’re calling you “fucking losers” on Main you have absolutely lost all merit in the court of public opinion

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BORDER PATROC
ICE AGENTS KILL DOG
DURING UNLAWFUL SEARCH, REFUSE TO RENDER AID, AND LEAVE WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES

weratedogs This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE.
Unsurprisingly, they did not care enough to help the family as they tried to save him. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3d

#ComedyTh In the Heights. Wonderful night in the theatre, a musical that actually sings; what an absolute pleasure.

photos from a stage musical showing jubilant group scenes

photos from a stage musical showing the main male character interacting with a group and an woman, and the comic relief

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3d

#latergram Gathering in the lovely #ComedyTh where there’s barely a bad seat in the house.

group of people sitting in a theatre eating choc-top ice creams

view of the stage in an elaborate theatre

a stage set with festoons of hanging lights

view across the auditorium of an elaborate theatre showing a balcony with bunting

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3d

The old NAB between Grill’d & N.Lee

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3d

Quite bizarre rear/north facade of the redeveloped #AustralianCatholicUniversity onto the new open space created by the demolition of a multi-storey carpark.

view of an old building with a new extension on top, a new grassy park in front

view of an old building with a new extension on top, a group of sculptures in front

view of an old building with a new extension on top from a laneway

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3d

#Netflix Dept Q, 2025. Excellent police mystery drama over 9 episodes, with unrepentant, damaged protagonists and multiple knotty problems. Acting is great (as are all departments) and Scotland looks both wonderful and troubled.

photos from a television series showing three people sitting in a large dark room, and two men looking into a shed

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3d

#PrimeVideo Blacula, 1972. The first 20mins is almost unbearably awful, but then it settles nicely and is pretty effective. The 23-yo first-time director and the experienced star both ended up doing well.

posters for a film showing a black Dracula figure surrounded by various smaller bloodsucking action figures; one main man has a stake looking like a giant spliff

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3d

Promised #SmithSt development (seemingly ultra-luxurious; I’m finding it hard just to get more details but here are some images).

image of proposed development showing a shop with apartments above

images of proposed development showing far views of an apartment development

images of proposed development showing garden areas and an apartment living space

images of proposed development showing apartment interiors

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3d

Neighbourhood developments: new #EclipseCinema, empty shops full, used shops empty, promised #SmithSt development (1/2)

External & internal photo of a new tiny cinema under construction

former designer studio shopfront for lease

photos of an old shopfront that’s been turned into a ruined frontage to a show suite for a new development

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 3d

#OKru To the Devil a Daughter, 1976. Music influencing Children of the Stones, a plot echoing Rosemary’s Baby, and a sequence presaging 1979’s Alien, cut like a dance from the Suspiria remake - this is a bag of spare parts. Effective; nearly a worthy of earlier #Hammer Wheatley except ploddy pacing.

photos from a film: a priest leans forwards, a nun collapses backwards

photos from a film: two women separately lie on beds mirroring each others actions

poster for a film: a young nun above a woman pinned by robed figures

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 5d

Injecting some facts into the 'Victoria is the crime capital of Australia' debate - these are the latest (2023-24) offenders per 100,000 ppl figures from the ABS. Even if they've gone up by 16% in the last year, as reported, they're still the lowest of any state.

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 5d

happy 10 year anniversary to one of the most prophetic tweets of all time @cavalorn.bsky.social

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 7d

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 9d

That’s a remarkably unflattering photo of the gym changing room!

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 9d

#streetart roundup including Carrotman, now with added heart. About the final sign: I can never not pronounce this to myself as “exciting”.

street art showing local celebrity Carrotman, the second photo someone has added a heart

street art showing Snoopy; also repainted walls, one with old street art showing

street art showing a Lego man & a walking man with his hooded head in a carrier bag; also artwork - a sculpture of a deflating yellow balloon, and an ad with an abstract wave pattern

street art showing a sushi roll/bird hybrid, a sign altered to say ‘No dumplings’, and a sign saying ‘Pedestrians watch for exiting cars’

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 9d

Dinner date with a Welshman at #Salona #SwanSt #Richmond. Sadly the food, although pleasant, was not very exciting.

photos of four plates at a Greek restaurant

two cranes lit up red against the night clouds

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 9d

#Stan Sinister, 2012. Unpleasant things astir in a house where the light switches never seem to work. Very nasty in a Hitchcock Frenzy way: we are complicit in the characters’ discomfort. Scary.

photo from a film showing a man in a dark house with a baseball bat raised

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 9d

Some AI slop showing an essential use of our resources: a male face ‘from’ different countries, demonstrating clichés & assumptions, flattening variety & multiculturalism, reinforcing nationalism, & producing weird results: - who says Australia (etc) isn’t Indigenous? - WTF is ‘Montonegro’?

nearly 100 male faces created by artificial “intelligence” to supposedly show the same man from different countries

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 9d

#Netflix The Thursday Murder Club, 2025. Wannabe Knives Out is a clunker with star actors a-sea in cosy rural murders. The hapless director shows no sense of cinematic vision & puts page to screen in the flattest, most literal way possible. Only Helen Mirren can be bothered to act, occasionally.

photo from a film showing four famous actors cosplaying old fogies

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Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 9d

On recommendation I ordered some shoes online (which I normally would never do!): New Zealand designed Oszea, waterproof fabric, all-black for work via the gym, the only drawback so far is that the sole peels away showing white after only slight wear…

photos showing the unboxing of a pair of black shoes

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 9d

Mind blown: the Clangers came from Noggin the Nog!! 1967’s book Noggin and the Moonmouse introduced a prototype Clanger; then they got their own series 1969-72 and became immortal. 💕

two illustrations from Noggin the Nog, a 1960s children’s Viking series, and two from the Clangers, and 1960s-70s children’s series set on a moon with a community of strange pink knitted creatures that live underground on soup dispensed by a monster

Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social · 9d

#SumnerTheatre #MTC Destiny. Poorly written and acted, with an interesting set spoilt by not-knowing-when-to-stop (revealing of the whole production), to me this was a terrible way to commemorate the brave people who resisted and existed under apartheid. Extremely disappointed.

photo of a theatre production with a yellow house, sloping roof and a triangle of sky