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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 7h

😁
Stick it on a Betamax for me 👍

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 8h

No sign of it on VMs catch-up 😞

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 8h

No sure if I get that on Virginmedia

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 8h

reskeeting in the vain hope of just one order this weekend 🤣

ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 1d

family health emergencies mean I've had to pull out from trading at tomorrow's Partizan in Newark. That's a big hit to cashflow so I've just put a 10% off code on the shop to grab some orders instead - use PARTIZAN10 at Checkout to qualify. I'll ship out existing show pre-orders on Monday!

homer simpson from the simpsons is driving a car and says d' oh

Alt: homer simpson from the simpsons is driving a car and says d' oh

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 8h

SkyArts.... Missed most of it but I'm hoping it'll be repeated in the week

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 8h

Missed most of this Yardbirds documentary 🙄

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 9h

So much talk of economics and far right radicalisation but my increasingly view is we are all - myself included - underestimating the impact of both internet culture and (more importantly) the economics of the internet/social media on politics and radicalisation

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 12h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 12h

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 8h

Chips in brown gravy
Never reaching the end 🎶

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 9h

I can't afford infinite cocaine for all these goddamn monkeys.... 😟

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 9h

Runners - and their shadows - cross a sunlit stretch of the #ChicagoMarathon course in Pilsen.

Upside-down photo of runners crossing a street during the Chicago Marathon, showing their legs and shoes above and their shadows cast sharply on the sunlit pavement below, creating an abstract, dynamic composition.

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 15h

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 9h

Oct. 12, 1925: The Chicago police chief threatens to arrest the owners of a theater for showing “Her Sister From Paris,” a film starring Constance Talmadge as a dancer named Lola. City censors “think Connie is ‘indecent and immoral’ in the way she does her hot mama stuff.” 1/2

Talmadge and John Gilbert in a scene from “Her Sister From Paris;” she also played Lola’s twin, a frumpy housewife

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 9h

Earlier Kalatozov crane shot shenanigans
This amazing shot from the 1957 Soviet war film “The Cranes are Flying” : r/BeAmazed share.google/bT8Nn0sqWIwB...

From the BeAmazed community on Reddit: This amazing shot from the 1957 Soviet war film “The Cranes are Flying”

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 10h

FAO @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 10h

An astonishing bit of craft, given the equipment available in 64

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 10h

we only built the lifesized model

foam and fibreglass model of a reclining Cadbury's Caramel bunny, approx 5' tall, built for Cadburyworld in Birmingham.

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Coman Fullard @comanfullard.bsky.social · 10h

So very #UnknownArmies

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16h

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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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 10h

I immediately thought of Soy Cuba...
This 'impossible' crane shot from Mikhail Kalatozov's SOY CUBA (1964) might be the greatest one shot scene of them all : r/cinematography share.google/BbiPJdz0Raur...

From the cinematography community on Reddit: This 'impossible' crane shot from Mikhail Kalatozov's SOY CUBA (1964) might be the greatest one shot scene of them all

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 11h

A cracking little thread, this.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 11h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 11h

Went for a walk, found a coffin in the woods, standard...

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 11h

I guess the owner is out.... Feeding....

Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 11h

Disappointed we weren't treated to the Strictly house band singing "I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars" in that little MGMT Time to Pretend segment

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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 11h

From The Lie of AI by @wesleygoatley.bsky.socialThe Idler 104,August - September 2025

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 14h

"Go pot" is a new name for it but I still think it's unhygienic to eat your breakfast on it.

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