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I am a truthful man from the land of chimneys. My posts are like a wounded faun seeking refuge in the matrix. 🎶 Music & bothering waves 🎬 Sci-fi & horror flicks 🎨 Art & creative creatures

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · Aug 22

🧵 So in a break from the gloom I'm gonna share something wonderful:

In 2020, after years of searching, I finally managed to score an original copy of the Sunday Times magazine containing THAT almost mythical 'A Life in the Day of Tom Baker' article...

Vintage Sunday Times magazine. Open on 'A Life in the Day of Tom Baker' article. Featuring a pic of Tom propping up the bar in his favourite old London pub. To the right is an advert for a green Mercedes car.

A close up of the picture of Tom in his favourite haunt.

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 39m

Also I miss his (increasingly but wonderfully absurd) email updates. Sadly I wasn't one of the chosen few out of the paper hat nailed to a tree.

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1h

Adding to this week's surrealness, I scored another Bill Drummond book. I'm not a completist, I think he dislikes those, but his visits to under the junction are special to me. I once briefly chatted with his pal (in the old place) while they were there seeing if his paintings floated. Marvelous.

A dark grey book with the title "under the junction" by "Tenzing Scott Brown"

A black and white sketch of (and titled) The Head of Poly Styrene

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 2h

... solicitors.

Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 3h

Puffin, cone and bollard

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 2h

Okay, all sorted with the help of a lovely human. I genuinely love it (not sarcasm) when your phone support person briefly breaks off script and you exchange a few funnies like ol pals. More proof humans simply cannot be replaced with shitty AI.

also I drank far too many coffees

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 3h

When you've been on the phone to your bank for 30 minutes already and you finally get to the person you apparently need to talk to and the fucking line goes dead. Hahaha. Awesome.

#HalloweenHorrorStories

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 1d

T-shirts (2025) photograph by Anne Billson

A woman in charge of a stall on the seafront at Sitges, surrounded by t-shirts depicting images and logos from horror and sci-fi films such as Night of the Living Dead, Metropolis, Eraserhead etc

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 19h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/m...

Renato Casaro, ‘Michelangelo of Movie Posters,’ Dies at 89

www.nytimes.com

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 10h

Today is the centenary of the birth of the great Tony Hart who opened the eyes of generations to visual art and who is forever associated with this, the shimmering Gallery theme from Vision On – which was also pretty much everyone’s introduction to the vibraphone. youtu.be/-ZNkJXKV7_w

Vision On - The Gallery Tune - BBC1 1960/70s

YouTube video by Lost 1960s TV and Radio

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 7h

I'm so sorry, Guy. Words are always lacking but you're in my thoughts.

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

I met Linnea Quigley once. She was absolutely lovely & signed my vintage french poster. This is not my pic as I'm not entirely sure where my poster is rn 'cause I still haven't framed it, but this variant, which is obvs the best. She was on twitter. It sucks she's not here, like a lot of cool folks.

Vintage french Return of the Living Dead poster featuring the character Trash, looking raunchy in front of a bunch of skeletol zombie inc tar man. The top reads "le retour des morts vivants"

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

Hello, it's been the strangest couple of days for reasons I cannot talk about, and I've lined up Return of the Living Dead 1, 2 & 3 to watch because I've a hankering for them. (Well 1 & 3 anyhow). That's what's happening.

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds v familiar 😹 (from my familiar)

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 2d

Roddy cat brings one of these in almost daily. They usually survive so I rescue and release them. I say "them" but it could just be one really lucky / unlucky critter.

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 2d

Oh Roddy, you shouldn't have!

*pretends to be delighted but then quietly takes unwanted gift back to store*

A little brown field mouse in a drinking glass

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 2d

I can't watch anything with him in but I'd happily watch anything with you in. Conflicting.

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out it was capitalism, not pop, that would eat itself.

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine if billionaires were putting their money into THIS instead of building plagiarism machines, survival bunkers and space penises.

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 2d

Something good. And how.

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.