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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 1h

lmao

Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 1h

Hair metal is *so* back!

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 2h

a little late but what an innovation lol www.billboard.com/lists/top-10...

Billboard launched the debut strip club chart in August, and will continue to track the top-played strip club hits each month throughout the year.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 11h

New obsession

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

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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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 13h

cf Sean Lock's Survival Book, which was... edible.

Day 1, eat page 1 Day 2, eat page 2… Day 9, don’t eat this page it’s poisonous

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 14h

This, but covered in lemon curd
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A...

Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 1d

Watched Good Boy (effective!), cried, and was bought cake. Not necessarily a bad start to the week.

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 2d

One of the signature actresses of her or any era, and a woman who paved a path most Hollywood actresses -haven't- followed: dressing to express joy and a sense of self. On Diane Keaton: time.com/7325208/dian...

The Astonishing Versatility of Diane Keaton

Keaton, who died at 79, is often remembered for her comedic performance in Annie Hall, but she did so much more throughout her career.

time.com

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the opening of The Dark Knight (on ITV) before bed. Not ashamed to say I really like this one.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 2d

Oh he’s seething #darts

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d

I say it all the time but how is there no regular weekly TV programme about cinema or art or music (apart from Later, sometimes) or media, or books - and yet there seem to be about 45 programmes a week on the Royal Family or true crime.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 2d

‘The Birmingham campaign has been inundated with people who want to show solidarity with people of colour and religious minorities under increasing threat. “People are literally begging us on WhatsApp, can we have a poster?”‘

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation

www.theguardian.com

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton at The Schwab’s Pharmacy counter in 1983.

Farewell to one cinema's greatest legends Can’t believe we’ve lost her. Such a shock. Rest in peace Diane Keaton. “La-dee-da, la-dee-da” forever.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 3d

💔

Diane Keaton (RIP) as Kay Corleone in The Godfather (1972).

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

THAT director aside, Diane Keaton’s performance in Annie Hall opened spaces for women in film: what romantic leads could look like, dress like, sound like; that there could be a place for an oddball who wasn’t a screwball. That’s all her - Keaton was such a brilliant actress and icon, truly

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 3d

Plus Dave Arch attempting peak era Axl Rose’s highest notes on Sweet Child O’ Mine 🤦🏻‍♀️ #Strictly

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 3d

Bless Chris, he’s trying, but much like Thor: Love and Thunder that Paso was awful #Strictly

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a lot wrong with the world, I’m just grateful for these idiots who continue to be morons.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 3d

Beavis and Butt-Head thinking they can make a “deposit” at a monetary bank has ended me.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 4d

“There’s a lot of testosterone up there.” #darts

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 4d

“For two of the world’s best, there’s been some shoddy darts in this game.”

Love Wayne Mardle #Darts

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 4d

You only just moved in together and you're already at the "contacting the Guardian" stage? Dump him, girl

My partner, Jayden, and I have just moved in together. He is a big fan of this wicker basket that he’s shipped from his old flat, but I want it gone.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 4d

He’s a sweetheart!

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 4d

Happy that one of my longest standing crushes - I’m so old I remember when League of Gentlemen won the BAFTA - is only getting better with age.

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