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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 1h

I had that dream again

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 5h

Tom Mix plays horse for his daughter Thomisina ca. 1925. Some of Tom’s hats stand guard.

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 2h

Bette Davis and William A. Wellman inspect a record player on the set of So Big (1932)

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 1h

Tonight's viewing - "Madame X: An Absolute Ruler"

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 5h

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”

#ShakespeareSunday

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 8h

Henry Holden as a jester

#DevonshireHouseFancyDressBall

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 8h

Victor Cavendish as Jean de Dinteville
from Hans Holbein's painting, The Ambassadors

#DevonshireHouseFancyDressBall

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 8h

Lord Hyde as Romeo

#DevonshireHouseFancyDressBall

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 8h

Lord Stavordale as Petrarch

#DevonshireHouseFancyDressBall

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 8h

Viscount Acheson as Raoul di Nangis

#DevonshireHouseFancyDressBall

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 8h

Lord Battersea in Elizabethan dress

#DevonshireHouseFancyDressBall

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 8h

I saw it in multiple Crowley biographies over the years, but always attributed to a different witness.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 8h

Over the years I've seen this story about Aleister Crowley attributed to a variety of people, but the details are always the same.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 3d

Great segment @wnyc.org on Designing Motherhood at MAD. I wrote the foreword for the catalog and can attest, it's a great show www.wnyc.org/story/how-de...

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 9h

🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.

1950s/60s? shot of a TV screen. Female presenter

1950s/60s shot of a TV screen. Unknown guitarists

Blurry pink shot of a TV screen. Women in evening dress

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 9h

Gumbasia (1953) by Art Clokey

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 9h

Arthur Tress

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 9h

“The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.”

#AleisterCrowley

Crowley and family 1910

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 10h

Glenn Mazen in Taming of the Shrew 1963

press photo with printer markups

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 10h

#OTD 1940- The ever dapper Tom Mix becomes the ultimate fashion victim when his large aluminum suitcase becomes a deadly missile that hits the actor in the back of the head and kills him.

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Young fans admire the dead body of Tom Mix at his open casket viewing.

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 1d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 11h

In 1971, comics legend Jack Kirby created SPIRIT WORLD, an adult-oriented magazine based around the paranormal. Featuring his trademark collages, Spirit World freaked DC Comics out so much that they published it under a non-existent imprint, Hampshire Distributors!

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 16h

Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to live in 2025.

The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.

A metal head with a mouth wide open as if it is screaming. Inside are a full set of dentures.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 11h

excerpts from Art Clokey's Mandala (1977)

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 11h

The Mysteries of Myra (1916)

A mostly lost silent serial about a clairvoyant named Myra whose life is threatened by a Satanic cult called the Black Order.

The cult was inspired by the Golden Dawn, the secret society of practitioners of the occult led by Aleister Crowley - BOTD in 1875

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