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Sophie Mac
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"There were so many ways this didn't make sense that no one quite knew what to say."

"Like reflections in water, the movie light ripples across her face."

"A dark omelette on bleak toast."

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The Seven of Wands. There may be challenges from unexpected sources ahead
A Seven of Clubs, which is the suit of wands in tarot, lies on the seam of a pavement, which is marked by a line of tar or something similar. It's been rained on, so looks very soggy.
December 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Christmas lights #London
A giant Christmas bauble made out of lights that you can walk through the middle of. It's been to look like its fallen from a tree and landed on the footpath, next to building. A reindeer made out of gold-coloured metal and golden fairy lights. It's in front of the ruins of St Alphege Cripplegate, a medieval church which was originally part of ye olde London Wall. So this is the part of the church they decided counted as city wall and didn't destroy in the 16th century.
December 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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#Graffiti #London #StreetArt
Black spray paint graffiti on a white painted brick wall by bambi of Princess Diana as Mary Poppins. She's floating down to the ground, using her umbrella as a parachute, and her bag has a Harrods logo on it. There are two small children, a girl and a boy, looking up at her in wonder as she descends. The children are younger than Jane and Michael, the children from the original film.
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Jagged Edge (1985). As part of my own Jeff Bridges season, this film was a must. I think I've only seen bits of it on TV and hadn't watched the whole thing until today. There are so many layers and backstories, making it a fantastic watch #FilmSky
A screenshot from the film showing Jeff Bridges as Jack Forrester, wearing a grey jumper and walking up a flight of stairs. Glenn Close as Teddy Barnes follows him, listening intently as Forrester describes the night he found his wife murdered.
December 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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We're Not Married! (1952) The most striking thing about this film is the fact that almost every character seems overjoyed to find out they're not married #FilmSky
Black and white screenshot from We're Not Married! From left to right, Marilyn Monroe as Annabel Norris, David Wayne as Jeff Norris and James Gleason as Duffy. Marilyn Monroe is holding a letter with her husband and all three are reading it
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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K-PAX (2001). Next in my Jeff Bridges season, he stars alongside Kevin Spacey. From the very start of the film I devoured it. There's a truly magical quality to it. Softley, Softley catchee monkey. Will you admit the possibility that Prot is from K-PAX? #FilmSky
Screenshot of Jeff Bridges playing Dr Mark Powell, a psychiatrist. He's sitting in his office, wearing a suit, eyebrows raised, glasses halfway down his nose. Screenshot of Kevin Spacey as Prot. He's sitting next to a dog, whose nose is in the very right-hand side of the picture. Prot is wearing sunglasses and talking to someone who's not visible in the picture. A screenshot of Howie, played by David Patrick Kelly. Howie is looking intently and expectantly out the window of a mental health unit.
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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The Beast In Me (2025). A proper crime thriller. It makes you feel so tense so much of the time. It even made me jump a couple of times. Clare Danes is the perfectly unself-assured writer opposite Matthew Rhys's unsettlingly convincing narcissistic neighbour #TVSky
Claire Danes as Aggie Wiggs asleep in an armchair in her house. It's completely dark outside her house. Peering eerily through the window is Nile, played by Matthew Rhys.
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Seabiscuit (2003). It's a true story, and... wait for it... wait... It's cheesy as fuck, but all the better for it. Touches of National Velvet in here, but how couldn't there be? #FilmSky
Two brown race horses on an American-style race course, so all earth and/or sand rather than turf. Seabiscuit is at the front (of course).
December 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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A corvid, possibly a raven (I'm never quite sure) with a rainbow sheen on it's black feathers sits on a winter branch of a tree, looking back over its shoulder towards the camera with its beak ever so slightly open.
December 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Bugonia (2025). Saw this with a colleague who wanted to see it again. They billed it as a horror. It's not. It's incredibly worth seeing though. If you haven't already, don't read about it or watch the trailer, just go. 2025 has been so good for movies! #FilmSky
Photograph of Jesse Plemons as Teddy. He's sitting at a table wearing grey shorts, green t-shirt, orange high-vis gilet and a baseball cap. He's in a work canteen. He looks unkempt. Photograph of Emma Stone as Michelle Fuller in Bugonia. She's wearing a power suit and white shirt in a very corporate looking office with a big window.
December 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters (2007). Thought it would explain the link to Hitler. Really the far-right tore the family in two, those that admired and those that reviled. It's socio-economic history, too, and it's just sisters chatting. It's childhood to grave and fascinating #BookSky 📚
The cover of The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, edited by Charlotte Mosley. It's a cream cover with writing in black and red. There's a sketch of a 1930s young woman looking at herself in the mirror of a compact. Her long black hair is up and she's wearing a three-strand pearl necklace and red lipstick.
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Lost in La Mancha (2002). A film about The Man who killed Don Quixote, which was never meant to be. It filmed for six days, everything that could go wrong did go wrong and the idea was abandoned. Seems pointless watching a film about something that didn't happen, but it's oddly compelling #FilmSky
Johnny Depp on the set of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Part of Amsterdam festival of light
Two either glass or perspex swans that are modeled as if taking off from the camal. Their wings are flapping and their necks outstretched. They are lit up in bright white and the picture was taken at night.
November 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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#StreetArt #Graffiti #LeighOnSea
A black and white spray painted image of Poseidon, the protector of seafarers, I think. He has a long flowing beard. Poseidon presided over the seas, horses, storms and earthquakes and was god of the waters. This image has him with blank eyes, which makes me think it might be an image based on the Artemision Bronze, which was recovered from the sea having lost inlays in the eyes amongst other things.
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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The Big C (2010-2012). If you didn't think cancer could make you laugh, you're wrong. Sure, at the very end it tore me to pieces, but up till then it was mainly laughing, Laura Linney, Alan Alda, Susan Sarandon, Cynthia Nixon, JB Hickey, Phyllis Somerville, Idris Elba. Currently on Netflix #TVSky
Laura Linney as Cathy Jamison and her doctor, Dr Todd Mauer played by Reid Scott. They're in his examination room and Cathy is looking back over her shoulder, away from Dr Todd.
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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This amused me far than it ever should have
A chip shop in Amsterdam called Chipsy King XL. The sign is orange and yellow and wooden frames of the pretty windows are green. It's an old building, but the sign is modern plastic.
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Cat poster for your Sunday. Don't think this really counts as graffiti, but I really like it as #StreetArt #Manchester
Small square illustrated cat poster. The background is orange. Thecat is blue and white. The cat is sticking out its tongue. The cat has an orange heart visible on its chest and it's wearing a white ruff with orange spots.
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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#Graffiti #Manchester
A small brown dog with large eyes and big pointy ears is painted on a wall, on top of ripped posters and other old graffiti. I think the dog is signed Dmstrr.
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Look @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social at this photo @foxlanebooks.bsky.social has posted. See anything you recognise?
A grey, very furry cat lies on his side on a cardboard box. The box is on a rug and there are shelves around the rug. On one shelf is a selection of Tom Cox books, including 21st Century Yokel, Ring The Hill and Notebook.
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Notes From A Big Country by Bill Bryson (1998). Collection of columns first seen in the Daily Hell. Luckily there's only one sentence in the whole book where he aligns himself with that despicable rag. Gets better towards the end. Penultimate column had me crying with laughter #BookSky 📚
Copy of Notes From A Big Country by Bill Bryson lying on a white duvet on a bed. The cover is a collage of a man in a suit with his hand in his pocket, which is in black and white. There's a massive straw boater, also in black and white, which covers the whole of the suited man's head. The background for the entire cover is a painted stars and stripes in washed out colours, so the red is more orange than red.
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The Giver (2014). A bit like the premise of A Brave New World, in that everyone thinks everything is great until they don't. Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep. Good use of black and white, washed out colour and full colour. Plus a surprise appearance by Taylor Swift #FilmSky
Screenshot from the film of a black and white futuristic cityscape.
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Look what I found yesterday, in deepest Londres! I adore this big fingers up to Farage, Johnson, and all the other morons on the Leave campaign and the twats who voted for it
A picture of a pub called The European. The pub sign is the EU flag. It's night and the front of the old building looks very pretty all illuminated. There's a cosy, warm, inviting light in the windows
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Love I found these in this order. In tarot they're Three of Swords and King of Cups. The Three is a tumult of emotion, maybe hurt from others, but a reminder not to be overwhelmed by or get stuck in it. The King indicates the skills to maintain boundaries, stay true to yourself as others test you
A 3 of Spades, which is tarot is the Three of Swords. The playing card is on a red bricked footpath with moss between the bricks. A brown autumn leaf has blown onto the card. The King of Hearts, which is the King of Cups in tarot. It's also lying on the red brick foothpath. I walked past both of these, which is quite a nice reading to get from the world.
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Crazy Heart (2009). The cinematography and original score in this are outstanding (worth seeing just for those), outshining a middling story. Performances from Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal are top notch as always. There's even the surprise appearance of Colin Farrell with a pony tail #FilmSky
Screenshot from the film. Two men lean against the side of a rust-coloured mini-van. On the left is Colin Farrell playing Tommy Sweet, with pony tail, and on the right is Jeff Bridges playing Bad Blake with a beard and hair that just brushes his shoulders. He's wearing a cowboy hat. The sky is blue and there are a few small white clouds dotted about.
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Memento (2000). A very blue and beige film with an anything but beige storyline. Unsettling and gripping. Like Leonard you never really know the entire story #FilmSky
Tattoos on Leonard's arm saying, "Fact 3. First name John or James". Picture of Guy Pearce with bleach blond hair in his role as Leonard taken against a blue wall. It's a head and shoulders shot. He's wearing a blue shirt, almost the same colour as the wall, and a beige suit jacket. He looks exhausted, but he's smiling.
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM