Ian
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22. Favorite Musical Performance in a Film Noir
Everything about this is GOLD, from the set-up, to the direction, to the energy that you can feel resonate from the celluloid, to Elisha Cook Jr.'s expression which is frankly, unsettling.
#NoirvemberChallenge #Noirvember #FilmNoir
Phantom Lady (1944)
Everything about this is GOLD, from the set-up, to the direction, to the energy that you can feel resonate from the celluloid, to Elisha Cook Jr.'s expression which is frankly, unsettling.
#NoirvemberChallenge #Noirvember #FilmNoir
Phantom Lady (1944)
You Like Jive? 1944 Phantom Lady Jazz Drum Solo Robert Siodmak Ella Raines Elisha Cook Jr. Film Noir
YouTube video by BS
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November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
22. Favorite Musical Performance in a Film Noir
Everything about this is GOLD, from the set-up, to the direction, to the energy that you can feel resonate from the celluloid, to Elisha Cook Jr.'s expression which is frankly, unsettling.
#NoirvemberChallenge #Noirvember #FilmNoir
Phantom Lady (1944)
Everything about this is GOLD, from the set-up, to the direction, to the energy that you can feel resonate from the celluloid, to Elisha Cook Jr.'s expression which is frankly, unsettling.
#NoirvemberChallenge #Noirvember #FilmNoir
Phantom Lady (1944)
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I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
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Six-and-a-half years ago, while researching something else at Caversham, I happened across a little fact and thought, "Oh, that's interesting, I must do something with that some day..."
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great Yarmouth Town's 'amazing' place in TV football history
How a small, non-league team became the first football club from Norfolk ever to appear in a live TV game.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Six-and-a-half years ago, while researching something else at Caversham, I happened across a little fact and thought, "Oh, that's interesting, I must do something with that some day..."
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Network DVD and Blu-rays are available again via Future Network/Quoit Media futurenetwork.wales?v=7885444af42e Liquidated stock apparently. Now I can finally buy Bottoms Up! on blu-ray and never watch it.
Future Network – FREE UK DELIVERY! NEW TITLES ADDED WEEKLY!
futurenetwork.wales
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Network DVD and Blu-rays are available again via Future Network/Quoit Media futurenetwork.wales?v=7885444af42e Liquidated stock apparently. Now I can finally buy Bottoms Up! on blu-ray and never watch it.
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Episode 1 of Kevin Eldon’s Speakers is available now from all good podcast shops.
No-longer-living Beatles Producer George Martin, United States Citizen Leon, and DIY expert Steve Cobham are all here to speak to you, and you alone.
feeds.acast.com/public/shows...
No-longer-living Beatles Producer George Martin, United States Citizen Leon, and DIY expert Steve Cobham are all here to speak to you, and you alone.
feeds.acast.com/public/shows...
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Episode 1 of Kevin Eldon’s Speakers is available now from all good podcast shops.
No-longer-living Beatles Producer George Martin, United States Citizen Leon, and DIY expert Steve Cobham are all here to speak to you, and you alone.
feeds.acast.com/public/shows...
No-longer-living Beatles Producer George Martin, United States Citizen Leon, and DIY expert Steve Cobham are all here to speak to you, and you alone.
feeds.acast.com/public/shows...
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Walking away from the dentist unharmed, eagerly agreeing yes yes I’ll come back every six months!! like someone promising to go to church every week because God spared their life in a flood.
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Walking away from the dentist unharmed, eagerly agreeing yes yes I’ll come back every six months!! like someone promising to go to church every week because God spared their life in a flood.
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And still available!
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
And still available!
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Yesterday we welcomed a team from NHK (Japan's biggest broadcaster) interviewing @public-history.bsky.social about the amazing story of the Wiltshire Thatcher and the cover of Led Zeppelin IV (with Stairway to Heaven!). Broadcast in the New Year.
More at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
More at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Yesterday we welcomed a team from NHK (Japan's biggest broadcaster) interviewing @public-history.bsky.social about the amazing story of the Wiltshire Thatcher and the cover of Led Zeppelin IV (with Stairway to Heaven!). Broadcast in the New Year.
More at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
More at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
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“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Ah, man. Just heard via @black-peaches.bsky.social that Lô Borges died, responsible for songs like this, from one of my favourite records ever (Clube da Esquina, 1972) ♥️ youtu.be/4b7xEYhOJQ4?...
O Trem Azul
YouTube video by Lô Borges - Topic
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Ah, man. Just heard via @black-peaches.bsky.social that Lô Borges died, responsible for songs like this, from one of my favourite records ever (Clube da Esquina, 1972) ♥️ youtu.be/4b7xEYhOJQ4?...
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The modern world in old Ladybird books. The diesel.
“It is sad to think that the last steam locomotive to be built in Britain left the workshops in March, 1960”
Artist: Robert Ayton (1961)
“It is sad to think that the last steam locomotive to be built in Britain left the workshops in March, 1960”
Artist: Robert Ayton (1961)
November 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The modern world in old Ladybird books. The diesel.
“It is sad to think that the last steam locomotive to be built in Britain left the workshops in March, 1960”
Artist: Robert Ayton (1961)
“It is sad to think that the last steam locomotive to be built in Britain left the workshops in March, 1960”
Artist: Robert Ayton (1961)
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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1925: The sound effects of a swordfight are rendered by two actors, with some added drama from the kettle drum at BBC studios in London.
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
1925: The sound effects of a swordfight are rendered by two actors, with some added drama from the kettle drum at BBC studios in London.
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Today I found an Ent
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Today I found an Ent
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Home through the rain (1969)
Artist: John Berry
Artist: John Berry
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Home through the rain (1969)
Artist: John Berry
Artist: John Berry
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My favourite stretch of the Antonine Wall, the Roman frontier in Scotland, can be found at Dullatur. Here the Wall's enormous ditch is remarkably well preserved, tangible evidence of the impressive scale of this 38-mile-long monument.
#RomanSiteSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
October 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
My favourite stretch of the Antonine Wall, the Roman frontier in Scotland, can be found at Dullatur. Here the Wall's enormous ditch is remarkably well preserved, tangible evidence of the impressive scale of this 38-mile-long monument.
#RomanSiteSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
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UK Politics has just taken an unexpected turn...
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
UK Politics has just taken an unexpected turn...
@impq.bsky.social I saw this in The Works today. A Panda Pop version of Infinite Dreams. The Blaze Bailey story gets more than two paragraphs. Dan should have tried to get Bruce to sign one of these, would have been magical audio.
October 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@impq.bsky.social I saw this in The Works today. A Panda Pop version of Infinite Dreams. The Blaze Bailey story gets more than two paragraphs. Dan should have tried to get Bruce to sign one of these, would have been magical audio.
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Oct. 20, 1925: Behold a photograph of Mars described as the most detailed image yet taken of the planet. It was shot through infrared light.
October 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Oct. 20, 1925: Behold a photograph of Mars described as the most detailed image yet taken of the planet. It was shot through infrared light.