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

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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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Not wanting to sound dramatic or self-pitying, but this is pretty much how things are with me at the moment. Sleep is a welcome respite from pain. 😟
Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) on his family vineyard in France, in the Star Trek: Picard episode “Remembrance”. He looks unhappy. Caption reads: It’s the waking up I’m beginning to resent.
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The Cone Nebula (NGC 2264), photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. This nebula is about seven light years across, and lies 2,700 light years from Earth.
Photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Cone Nebula, a huge dark cloud partially obscuring the reddish gas behind and surrounding it.
November 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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#ArtistFave15 BJÖRK
#MusicChallenge

Day 1: Human Behaviour (1993) www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0mR...

Björk starting as she meant to go on, with a bold, striking & unique single - & a stunning video too! Her music would only get more challenging & original from here.
björk : human behaviour (HD)
YouTube video by björk
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November 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The Shallows (ca 1911), by John Singer Sargent
Watercolour painting by John Singer Sargent of a shallow edge of a river with scattered rocks on the bank, in sunlight.
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Vénitienne, I (Marcella) (1912), by Théo van Rysselberghe
Painting by Théo van Rysselberghe of a nude woman seated sideways on a cushion, with her right leg covered by a yellow sheet.
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Dancing Bedouins, Iraq (1956), by Inge Morath
Black and white photograph by Inge Morath of two Bedouin women in Iraq, dancing while a small group of other people watch, along with several mules.
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Arrival of the Normandy train, Gare St-Lazare, Paris (1877), by Claude Monet
Painting by Claude Monet of a steam train arriving in a big, roofed Paris station.
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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(1/6) Despite basing so much of its epic story on Sisko’s relationship to entities that exist outside time & encouraged the Bajorans to base a religion on them, #StarTrekDS9 doesn’t often do timey wimey episodes, but when it does they’re often good ones. There are two near the end of S6.
A view across Deep Space Nine towards the opening wormhole, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Mars, photographed by the UAE Hope orbiter, showing the vast Valles Marineris canyon system, compared to which the Grand Canyon on Earth is absolutely minute! With image processing by @andrealuck.bsky.social
A photograph of Mars from the Hope orbiter, showing the Valles Marineris canyon system.
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The moment in “Time’s Orphan” where Chief Miles Edward O’Brien, the most important figure in Starfleet history, loses patience with the time portal & shouts “bollocks!” 😂

Is this the first time in #StarTrek that someone swears in English? I know Picard says “merde” several times in TNG. 😁
Miles O’Brien (Colm Meaney) in a cave, trying to get the time portal to activate in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Time’s Orphan”.
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Sunset over the Thames, by Emile Claus
Painting by Emile Claus of a view over the Thames embankment in London, with light traffic on the street below and the glint of the setting sun on the river.
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Audrey Hepburn on the set of Funny Face, Paris (1956), by Richard Avedon
Black and white photograph by Richard Avedon of Audrey Hepburn dancing on the set of Funny Face, with a man dancing behind her.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Marlene Dietrich, Columbia Records, New York City (1952), by Eve Arnold
Black and white photograph by Eve Arnold of Marlene Dietrich in a recording studio, holding some sheet music with a brass player sitting behind her.
November 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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From the Holocaust to Gaza - the wonderful Alie Ward & Professor Dirk Moses bring us a timely update, including new research, myths about genocide, & changing public & legal sentiment since their first episode 18 months ago, as well as government crackdowns on non-violent protest. Stunning episode.
pepphelan.bsky.social Pep @pepphelan.bsky.social · 3d
As usual, an incredible episode of @ologies.bsky.social with - this time a second installment of GENOCIDOLOGY with Prof. Dirk Moses.

The first instalment was amazing, and this follow up episode just as incredible.

#Science #Knowledge #Scholarship #Humanity

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NEW 2025 Interview: Genocidology (CRIMES OF ATROCITY) Part 2 with Dirk Moses
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November 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in a home on a planet that's earth like, we see a couch and some windows looking out on greenery and sunlight and trees. And then there's Picard. He's much older now and a bit more festively plump and he's wearing non Starfleet clothing, all tan. He's sitting and grimacing and holding onto his belly, like that thing you do after you eat too big a meal and then grunt and groan as you sit down because you think you might split your pants. There's also another person but we can't really see em. No caption, just v full.
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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I feel like I’ve always known this building (just like this shot from The Goodies!), & worked nearby in the 1990s, when I used to sometimes walk past it. But I’ve never been inside. Lovely thread on a building that was futuristic when built, & feels like an inseparable part of London. ❤️
November 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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#ArtistFaveLP
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (1971)
#MusicChallenge

1: At the Chime of a City Clock www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gxE...

A wonderful song with an almost epic feel, with evocative lyrics & gorgeous string writing. The saxophone is a surprise, but doesn’t feel out of place. Nick at his best!
At The Chime Of A City Clock
YouTube video by Nick Drake - Topic
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November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Jupiter, photographed by the NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft in December 2000, en route to Saturn, where it would explore the ringed planet and its moons until 2017.
Photograph of Jupiter by the Cassini spacecraft.
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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An absolutely iconic shot from my childhood. 📺🐱
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Deep Space 9 scene. The Sisko, Bashir, and Odo (🎵 buckets of fun🎵) are in the kitchen and shoulder to shoulder hovering over a bunch of food. Sisko is wearing some of that classic shimmery & colorful DS9 loungwear and cooking over a stove. He's holding out a spatula for Bashir to take a look or do a taste test. (Side note, I always wonder, does it go back in the pot? Do they use 20 new spoons doing taste tests?) Anyways, Basir looks nervous at whatever it is he's seeing. Odo, like a little brother wanting to be included in the party, stands just behind the two looking over Bashir's shoulder with great curiosity. Closed caption reads, "Beets are a very misunderstood vegetable."
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 gigs you've seen:

Tori Amos (1992)
The Chieftains & guests (including Kate & Anna McGarrigle, ca 1993)
Jane Siberry (1993)
Martin & Eliza Carthy (2014)
David Bowie (kind of - Lazarus original production, London, 2016)

My live music experiences have mostly been classical!
wizball50.bsky.social Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 2d
Introduce yourself with 5 gigs you've seen:

Suede
Brian Wilson
Guided By Voices
Tom Waits
The Breeders
ladyiris5.bsky.social Lady Iris @ladyiris5.bsky.social · 3d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.

David Bowie
Warren Zevon
The Who
Pink Floyd
B-52s
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Like so many films I love, The Piano is a complete unity of unforgettable images & performances & music. None can be separated from each other, & it’s impossible to imagine the film without its score. This wonderful piece still makes me spine tingle 32 years later! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L20...
The Heart Asks Pleasure First - The Piano(1993)
YouTube video by 싸우나뮤직 ssaunamusic
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November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Simplon Pass Crags (ca 1911), by John Singer Sargent
Watercolour painting by John Singer Sargent of a craggy rock face in Simplon Pass in the Alps.
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Portrait of a Young Spanish Woman (1883), by Théo van Rysselberghe
Painting by Théo van Rysselberghe of a young Spanish woman in a bright yellow cloak.
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Haystacks, snow effect, morning (1891), by Claude Monet
Painting by Claude Monet of two haystacks in the snow on a dazzling sunny morning.
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM