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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈

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Bookish, arty, science loving leftist Trekkie, partner, cat daddy, invisibly disabled, woke, European. “Big Starfleet Nerd is an accurate description.” He/him. https://linktr.ee/michaelangie

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · Jun 26

So here’s my latest labour of love, a piece on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, one of my favourite films. Inevitably it’s subjective (I sobbed at the end of my recent rewatch!), but I don’t mind that & am quite happy with it. 🙂 beyondthatnextstar.blogspot.com/2025/06/laur... #TwinPeaks #DavidLynch

Laura was the One: Trauma and Transcendence in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

CONTENT WARNING / TRIGGER WARNING: This review discusses themes of sexual assault, incest and murder, though it doesn’t include graphic de...

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 6h

Palmettos (1917), by John Singer Sargent

Watercolour painting by John Singer Sargent of palmettos, their leaves bright green in dappled sunlight and shade.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 6h

Portrait of Marguerite van Mons (1886), by Théo van Rysselberghe

Portrait painting by Théo van Rysselberghe of a girl in a black dress standing with her hand on the handle of a pale blue door.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 6h

Yosemite (1938), by Edward Weston

Black and white photograph by Edward Weston of a cliff face in Yosemite National Park, with snow cover and trees on the summit.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 6h

“Soft Kitty is only for when you’re sick!” 😂

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 6h

Same here. Loved his early books way back when, but at some point in the last 20 years or so he just got a bit ranty & eventually offensive on more than one issue.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 8h

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 9h

“Looking for Par’Mach in All the Wrong Places” is so funny & I love it so much. 😂 #StarTrekDS9

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a film that encourages you, paradoxically, to slow down because time is short. 💙

Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 9h

Today is the 26th anniversary of The Straight Story and an ideal opportunity to watch this true little miracle of a film by the great David Lynch.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 10h

The caldera of Olympus Mons, the highest point on Mars and the largest volcano in the solar system. The caldera is about 50 miles across and up to 2 miles deep, and over 13 miles high. Photo taken by the ESA Mars Express spacecraft.

Photo by the Mars Express spacecraft of the enormous caldera, formed by several nested smaller ones, of the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars.

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Louise @mlouisep.bsky.social · 20h

I’m an adult in the same way a tomato is a fruit.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, no worries, I didn’t take it in that way at all. 🙂 Thank you for being so understanding. And I’m so sorry your brother died in such a traumatising way. It must have been extraordinarily painful for you & others left behind. My bereavements were all more or less expected, which is a bit easier.

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AdmiralW @admiralw.bsky.social · 1d

#StarTrekDiscovery
This scene illustrates so well why S5 is a great final season. The way it reflects on the series past through the lens of its characters growth, how far they've come from where they began, both within and without, both with each other and within their own agency is pitch perfect.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

You’re welcome, Davide! I remember the show Bowie & Eno did in 1994 for War Child, where Kate contributed this piece: two framed identical black rectangles, each with a little red light in the centre. I think Bowie picked it out as his favourite! www.katebushcollectibles.com/memorabilia/...

'Little Pieces From Big Stars' Original Art | Memorabilia | Kate Bush Collectibles

| | 1994 | UK

www.katebushcollectibles.com

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

The River Sambre at Charleroi (1896), by Maximilien Luce

Painting by Maximilien Luce of two figures walking by a river at dawn or sunset, through a semi-industrial landscape.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

Summer Landscape, Wheat Field, by Emile Claus

Painting by Emile Claus of a path through a wheat field in summer.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

Marilyn Monroe in the Nevada desert during the filming of "The Misfits" (1960), by Eve Arnold

Colour photograph by Eve Arnold of Marilyn Monroe in the Nevada desert while filming The Misfits. She’s wearing a blue denim jacket and has her arms folded, good humouredly pouting at the camera, and her hair is a bit windswept.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

Me too! 😂 I wanted a GIF of her saying that, but couldn’t find one. 🖖🏼💚

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

I live just a few miles from Glyndebourne. Bless the Weather really feels like rural Sussex to me.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much, both of you! Always love this challenge. What’s the mini-challenge this month?

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

Have you seen this? www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Kate Bush and artists harness power of Running Up That Hill for War Child appeal

Musician invites 52 UK visual artists to create works based on song lyric to raise money for children affected by war

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

Very weird, which is par for the course with Lynch! Also funny. And not that scary really. Just a very strange atmosphere. Each episode is only about five minutes long, so this first one will give you a taste of it if you want to dip a toe in!

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

😂 Great pick!

Also the Terrarium one is so moving. 🥺

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

#ArtistFave15 J. S. BACH
#MusicChallenge Day 15

Mass in B minor (Sanctus) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p9I...

Closing with an uplifting chorus from one of the biggest & greatest masses ever composed (the other is by Beethoven). Parts of this make my spine tingle!

Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, Sanctus: I. Sanctus (Chorus)

YouTube video by Collegium Musicum 90 - Topic