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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 3h

Blur
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Cyril Shaps
Played mostly doctors
Cyril Shaps
And dotty professors
Cyril Shaps
And the Archimandrite
Cyril Shaps
In a teacosy

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 3h

Remembering Cyril Shaps, born this day in 1923.

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J Black Sunday @trashstratum.com · 17h

There are a lot of folks who should feel some sense of accountability. Most of them won't.

Screenshow of a YouTube video of the Downtown Seattle Association's "State of 2022" panel discussion featuring Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison, then KCHRA CEO Marc Dones, and Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson, hosted by Brandi Kruse.

Screenshot from YouTube of Brandi Kruse's "undivided" podcast from late 2024, featuring Kruse and Seattle City Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth (D3).

Videocall style photo from KUOW of their Week in Review from 2021 featuring Brandi Kruse, KUOW host Bill Radke, Crosscut editor Knute Berger, and then Crosscut reporter now Seattle Times reporter David Kroman.

Photo from Cascade PBS from this year's Cascade PBS Ideas Festival with Brandi Kruse, senior FIRE fellow Nadine Strossen, and Reason editor Nick Gillespie.

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 22h

Today's DOOM LOOP for @soseaemerald.bsky.social:
"Jackboots"
See the whole thing here: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

Diane Keaton could have directed Annie Hall but Woody Allen could NEVER have directed the music video for Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven is a Place on Earth"

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official HD Music Video)

YouTube video by Belinda Carlisle

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 1d

This cartoon is from Oct 2022. These two clowns are now begging the president to invade the city they've based their careers on slandering (neither of them actually live here). What a world.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 2d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 2d

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

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Blue sky nice guy @handle.invalid · 2d

Mariners win

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Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 2d

History maker ✨

With tonight's appearance, Lauren Barnes is the first-ever player in NWSL history to reach 250 regular season appearances. Congratulations, legend! 👏

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༺ƊǗƝƓĘƠΝƁÏƬƇΗ🌙🦇.𖥔 ݁ ˖ @dungeonbitch.bsky.social · Oct 10

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Northwest Film Forum @nwfilmforum.bsky.social · 2d

🏳️‍⚧️ STUFF IS HAPPENING AND YOU'RE INVITED 🏳️‍⚧️

Starting October 16th, the first annual Seattle Trans Underground Film Festival kicks off at Northwest Film Forum and continues through the weekend!

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Simon Threadgold🎃 @dimwittedly.bsky.social · 3d

They should give him the Jobel Piece* Prize, for being a narcissistic sex pest with *unconvincing hair.

Jobel, bewigged creep from Dr Who Revelation of the Daleks.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 4d

imagine wearing a 7th doctor jumper to a tory conference in a world where this story, and many other stories, exist

"Helen A was intended to be a caricature of then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[4][5][2] Hancock stated that she "hate[d] Mrs Thatcher with a deep and venomous passion".[3] In 2010, Sylvester McCoy said that the production team was "a group of politically motivated people and it seemed the right thing to do. [...] Our feeling was that Margaret Thatcher was far more terrifying than any monster the Doctor had encountered." Andrew Cartmel, the story's script editor, said that he "was very angry about the social injustice in Britain under Thatcher" and was "delighted that came into the show."[4][5] The Doctor calling on the drones to down tools and revolt was intended as an allusion to the 1984–85 miners' strike and other industrial disputes in then-recent memory.[5] Most of this element was eventually toned down"

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Shannon Appelcline 🌮 @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 4d

How does Designers & Dragons Origins have an inspiration in Doctor Who?

This is a thread from earlier today, about how the I, WHO series of books about the Doctor Who Novels was an inspiration when I started collecting my Dungeons & Dragons product histories into books. (Click through for more.)

Shannon Appelcline 🌮 @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 4d

(The interviews will have the whole story.)

But when I set about putting those product histories into book volumes starting in 2020, I had a new inspiration: a series of books called I, WHO.

www.madnorwegian.com/185/books/do...

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 4d

elsewhere in the seattle mariners extended universe a fan is eating small amounts of dirt he collected from the t-mobile infield every day because he wanted to change the vibes after game 1 and since it worked he’s trapped eating dirt every day

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 5d

One more my precious

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 5d

Capt Tietjen has a long record of actions that diminish public confidence in SPD. We cannot afford that. I want to give the new chief the benefit of the doubt, but this decision reflects either bad judgment or a lack of due diligence, neither of which will be accepted when I’m Mayor.

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct

Mike Tietjen, who was promoted over a gay acting commander, was suspended, reassigned, and reprimanded after multiple complaints in 2020, including an incident in which officers taunted a trans woman.

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Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.org · 5d

“In an age of brain-lacerating tech & herdlike algorithmic group-think, [Hal] Hartley stands out in ever-greater contrast as a quietly intransigent auteur force.” VICE

See WHERE TO LAND tonight at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center presented by us!

grandillusioncinema.org/film/where-t...

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J Black Sunday @trashstratum.com · 5d

So now he's going to judge someone for something that happened 3̶3̶ 22 years ago.

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J Black Sunday @trashstratum.com · 5d

"I tell them I had dreams once, grandiose ones of standing up while others bent the knee. Now I see that all the knees of my pants are worn through."

One Battle After Another (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

****/****starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hallwritten and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson by Walter Chaw One Battle After Another feels like contraband. It’s the sort o...

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🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · Apr 20

rock and roll photos

Its a woman in a baby pink outfit with teased blonde or brown haur standing next to and above musical instrument and computers looks like an old apple from the 80's of course she is playing or pretending to play a keyboard on screen it reads Musical Instrument Digital Interface which also means midi rock and roll photos

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J Black Sunday @trashstratum.com · 5d

Ah well, I'll still have Sudden Manhattan, which is a far better After Hours than After Hours, because it's clear that Shelly, unlike Scorsese, loved NYC.

accepting life sudden manhattan by adrienne shelly

YouTube video by Teresa Lobos

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J Black Sunday @trashstratum.com · 5d

These are, like, the smallest sprouts on the smallest red potatoes in the time and place that we're in right now, but I am still really pissed off that I will not be able to stomach watching Adrienne Shelly's Waitress because this piece of trash has a prominent role in it.

CBS Philadelphia @cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social · 6d

Actor Cheryl Hines says she lived in constant fear for her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s safety during his 2024 presidential campaign.

Cheryl Hines says she feared for RFK Jr.'s safety during his 2024 campaign: "I knew our lives would never be the same"

Actor Cheryl Hines says she lived in constant fear for her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s safety during his 2024 presidential campaign.

www.cbsnews.com

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 6d

“LET’S DO THE FUCKING NEWS!”

Frank Booth, a villainous character from David Lynch’s movie, Blue Velvet. Frank is a middle-aged white dude in a leather jacket, holding an oxygen mask to his face.

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