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Bookish, arty, science loving leftist Trekkie, partner, cat daddy, invisibly disabled, woke, European. “Big Starfleet Nerd is an accurate description.” He/him. https://linktr.ee/michaelangie

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · Jun 26

So here’s my latest labour of love, a piece on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, one of my favourite films. Inevitably it’s subjective (I sobbed at the end of my recent rewatch!), but I don’t mind that & am quite happy with it. 🙂 beyondthatnextstar.blogspot.com/2025/06/laur... #TwinPeaks #DavidLynch

Laura was the One: Trauma and Transcendence in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

CONTENT WARNING / TRIGGER WARNING: This review discusses themes of sexual assault, incest and murder, though it doesn’t include graphic de...

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 4h

I’m very glad it’s lessened for you over time. I find it difficult because my health is fragile anyway and my body feels a lot older than it is! But I also have a sort of background worry about losing my partner, who almost died in 2014. I guess we all just have to be grateful for every day we have!

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 4h

Agreed! Yes, I tend to be a S2 defender, but that aspect of it is really unfortunate. I like what they were trying to do, going deep into Picard’s psychology with the house as a metaphor for his buried memories & family history, but Yvette’s story wasn’t handled well. Must have hurt a lot of people.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 2d

(1/22) Yes, I realise that they’re holograms, & that Riker & Troi look the wrong ages. But I don’t feel it’s either new or clever for me to point out these things out, or the narrative awkwardnesses they cause. Instead I’d like to post about the things I do love about “These Are The Voyages…”

The conference hall for the signing of the Federation Charter, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “These Are The Voyages…”

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 12h

Madame Hessel dans sa chambre au Château des Clayes (ca 1935), by Édouard Vuillard

Painting by Édouard Vuillard of a grey haired woman sitting in a very cluttered room, with pink walls and an open window.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 12h

Young Woman with a Black Skirt (early 1880s), by John Singer Sargent

Watercolour painting by John Singer Sargent of a young woman standing in a white blouse and black skirt, facing the viewer.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 12h

Portrait of Maria (1890), by Théo van Rysselberghe

Drawing by Théo van Rysselberghe of a woman asleep in bed, her face half hidden under the bedclothes and her head resting on two pillows.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 12h

Winter Idyll (1945), by Edward Weston

Black and white photograph by Edward Weston of a naked woman sitting on a swing, hanging from the branch of a tree.

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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 15h

#NaomiWatts brings up #DavidLynch during her #HollywoodWalkofFame celebration speech:

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 14h

I love the two mutinous Michaels. 🙂

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 14h

#ArtistFave15 J. S. BACH
#MusicChallenge Day 14

Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major (I: Allegro) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEUK...

I know it should really be a harpsichord soloist, but I don’t care - I love the piano! 🎹 🎶

J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050: I. Allegro

YouTube video by Richard Tognetti - Topic

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 14h

Funny, I am just reading an extended section on them in Carl Safina’s book, Becoming Wild!

Cover of the book Becoming Wild, by Carl Safina.

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David Bowie News @davidbowienews.bsky.social · 20h

David Bowie - The Secret Life Of Arabia

“Heroes” (1977)

Track of the Day

David Bowie – The Secret Life Of Arabia (1977)

From “Heroes” released in 1977. Picture by Sukita.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 15h

Same!

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 15h

Far Beyond the Stars is perfect in every way. The Visitor affects me the most personally, but FBTS is the ultimate masterpiece.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 15h

For me, it has fewer likeable characters than usual (all the Bertrams are awful!), but it’s still a wonderful novel. My favourite used to be Emma, but as I’ve grown older it’s Persuasion now. I couldn’t not take a photo of those dangerous steps on a visit to Lyme Regis!

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 15h

I always loved that font, especially in the lovely colour from The Undiscovered Country.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 15h

Star Trek Challenge: Tell people about yourself by listing one episode from DS9, VOY & TNG with no context.

TNG: Family
DS9: The Visitor
VOY: The Disease

Ross Webster @tehborg.bsky.social · 17h

Star Trek Challenge: Tell people about yourself by listing one episode from DS9, VOY & TNG with no context.

TNG: Elementary Dear Data
DS9: Babel
VOY: Scorpion 1 & 2

Captain Lancaster ✨ Trekkie PNGTuber @trekkielancaster.bsky.social · 17h

Star Trek Challenge: Tell people about yourself by listing one episode from DS9, VOY & TNG with no context.

TNG: The Inner Light
DS9: Past Tense
VOY: Year of Hell Pt.1/Pt.2

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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 15h

Dougie and Janey-E together again.
#NaomiWatts #KyleMacLachlan #TwinPeaks

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 15h

Jupiter, photographed by NASA’s Juno, which is on an extended mission orbiting the planet.

A photograph by the Juno spacecraft of Jupiter, looking up at the planet from below.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 16h

She played Diane Selwyn/Betty Elms, the dreamer of a dream of Hollywood. And now Naomi Watts is on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her pal David Lynch would be proud! 🎥 ⭐️ #MulhollandDrive #TwinPeaks

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect! 🖖🏼💜

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

The Apple Tree, by Emile Claus

Painting by Emile Claus of a flowering apple tree by a river on a spring day.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

😊🥕🥕🥕

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

It always amazes me that they went to the time & trouble & money of creating prosthetics to background characters in that way. Quark & Odo are arguing, & an alien we’ve never seen before walks past & is probably never seen again!

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1d

I once saw a shop sign and read it as Snoopy’s Massage Parlour. I can’t remember what it really was, but it was nothing like that! Even weirder is that I’ve remembered it all these years. 😂