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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone loves Cola Bottle Nathan, the lovely haulier who binges on fizzy cola bottles! *5 seconds later*…

registered hyperclam 2 🏳️‍🌈 @mootzilla.bsky.social · 19h

oops! he's a racist

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Saw these on Facebook and thought it was funny that the Hollywood Twin is showing XXX films in TAXI DRIVER, but by 1981 it has flipped to double bills of screwball classics and late Visconti which might have been programmed by Scorsese himself.

Travis Bickle in front of the Hollywood Twin cinema on 42nd street. The marquee indicates that it is showing adult movies.

Jackie O also outside the twin in 1981. The marquee has Bringing Up Baby/The Philadelphia Story and The Damned/Death in Venice. A Google image search suggests she’d been at the Visconti double.

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure who needs to see this but…

Toilet Routine sign in kids play centre.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1d

I keep seeing people ask, "Why does ICE go after harmless people like little kids and old tamale vendors instead of the hardened criminals they say they are trying to get?"

Allow me to clear this up for you.

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 1d

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Is there any other act that has totally disassociated themselves from a segment of their back catalogue in the way that Kraftwerk have with their pre-AUTOBAHN records?

Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 1d

‘Bees are on the what now?’

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 10d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone loves Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you that Machado supports the extrajudicial murder of her own country’s citizens by a foreign power.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1d

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Fuckzeck*

* A Ruckzuck joke for the heads.

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 2d

Just going to assume the next Kraftwerk album is called Dynamische Preisgestaltung, or something.

A screenshot, pinched from @stevejvickers.bsky.social, showing ludicrously high ticket prices for a Kraftwerk gig.

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Might actually pay £1,600 to hear them play the first three albums. I’d stretch to £2k if they threw in Tonefloat.

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, I meant Ralf, Florian died.

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 1d

I joined a film society once and I soon realised that I like watching films and don't like talking to other people about them.

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, not spending £100+ to watch Florian press the spacebar on his laptop, sorry.

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 2d

Being a full-time-ish student again means that I spend a lot of time with people in their 20s. Yesterday someone asked when The Lion King was released and another one said ‘I think it was the seventies?’

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve said this before, but speaking as both a former teacher and a leftie, the idea that teachers are particularly ideologically left-wing is bollocks. They tend to support Labour as perceived as more likely to fund schools and increase pay, but otherwise you will find all kind of reactionary views.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely outstanding work from a man who calls himself ‘John-Paul Satire’.

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 2d

They knew something about Gary Glitter...

Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 2d

Some of them worked better than others...

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure if you are familiar with the ancient computer game 'Rock Star Ate My Hamster', but it had characters called things like 'Derek Claptout', 'Tina Turnoff', and 'Witless Houston', and this kind of thing always reminds me of that.

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 3d

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 3d

Live coverage of the party:

youtu.be/W5wtaMQYJGY?...

Satantango - Baile en el bar - Tarr

YouTube video by Edu Tanti

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 3d

Does this mean I will have to finally read the one of his books I have which has been in a box for about 6 years?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist, for his “visionary oeuvre.”

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The award comes with prize money of almost $1.2 million.

nyti.ms

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d

9 October 1978:

The death of Jacques Brel, whose many astonishing songs included 1961’s Le moribond.

The birth of Nicky Byrne from of off Westlife who had 1999’s Christmas number one with a cover of the English language remake of Le moribond, Seasons in the Sun.

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 3d

That makes this even more incredible bsky.app/profile/face...

Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · Sep 10

Robert Bresson could have spent his final days spinning Westlife’s double A-side ‘I Have a Dream’/‘Seasons in the Sun’. He would probably have recognised the latter as an adaptation of Jacques Brel’s ‘Le moribund’.

Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · Sep 10

Said this before but Louise Brooks died in 1985, she could have watched Live Aid! Salvador Dali died in 1989! He could have been into the Happy Mondays!

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