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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 32m

Love it! I can hear Dudley Simpson's crashing cymbals of doom as Davros makes his big entrance

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Bear Claw Billie @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 33m

more people need to feel the rush of “I love women… I… *am* women?”

even if the answer ends up being no, it’s a good question to ask!

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 2h

So good! I'm sure if we'd been in the same school we'd have been besties :)

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 2h

I was 11 when this came out so hadn't started taking pop TOO seriously (I'd started my Bowie phase, as if he sang about serious stuff like GLASS SPIDERS !!!) so loved the video with the haunted house coming to life and the unconvincing body double for the dance break!

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 2h

you'd have to be a joyless contrarian to not love this track!

Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 2h

Breaking out the emergency joy earlier than planned:

OTD 1987: George Harrison – Got My Mind Set On You
Massive hit single heralding my favourite George album
(which, in turn, got teenage me into the Beatles, ELO, Roy Orbison…)
Incredibly catchy and sheer fun!

George Harrison Got My Mind Set On You single – George turned to one side, in mirrored shades, holding his Gretsch guitar, framed against blue sky and white clouds

George sitting playing his guitar and throwing a look to one side, unable to keep his face straight in the cosier / sillier Got My Mind Set On You video

George Harrison Cloud Nine LP – George grinning in mirrored shades, holding his Gretsch guitar, standing in front of blazing clouds

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 2h

Haha, some of my younger hookups think I'm wise but I'm like, "No, I've just had a lifetime of foolishness!"

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 2h

Not by much! Xx

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 3h

My Bible!
In spring 1987 I discovered three cultural icons things that completely transformed how I see the world around me: Douglas Adams, David Bowie and Monty Python. Alienation and absurdism so often go hand in hand

Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 3h

OTD 1979 Douglas Adams’ The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the book of The Book)
“the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences…”
In which everything we love is bulldozed for stupid reasons by bloodyminded bastards who just hate everyone.
Yeah.

Evergreen: DON’T PANIC

Original book cover: “The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (in large, friendly letters) by Douglas Adams, based on the famous radio series)

From the original back cover: “DON’T PANIC” in large friendly letters. Possibly too late by now.

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 3h

"It's a game... within a game"

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 3h

Oooh sounds right up my straße

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 3h

Yes it does! Haha, I'd forgotten that. I also think Laura by Scissor Sisters sounds a bit like the Thomas theme too.

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 3h

To invert Mr. Rotten's famous lyric, I know what I want and I don't know how to get it.
😢

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 3h

RIP Diane Keaton. Nobody has ever looked as good in cream knitwear as you did in Something's Gotta Give.

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 10h

Dave @daveb23.bsky.social · 12h

AI becoming self-aware and wiping us out is a very remote possibility.

Nuclear war wiping us out is a possibility.

Climate change is a certainty, it's happening now and it's accelarating. The warming trajectory we are on now is an extinction one, for humans and for a lot of other life.

🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 12h

ADORABLE!

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 14h

If you see this QRP with a game that released the year you were born.

Breakout (Atari, 1976)

I'm ***ANCIENT***

🏳️‍⚧️Myrly Angelic || (Vtuber) @myrly.bsky.social · 17h

If you see this QRP with a game that released the year you were born.

Lemmings!

Coverart for the video game "Lemmings" featuring a variety of lemmings doing various tasks in the background. In the foreground a single large Lemming, with green hair and wearing a blue onesie, looks to the right with a concerned expression

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 14h

she was soooo good. I had such a huge crush on her

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 16h

Oh yeah I remember you telling me this before! That's good.

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 16h

Get on the NHS waiting list but also save up for a private assessment, mine cost £500

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 17h

"In the cantina, margaritas keep the spirit high..."

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 17h

Okay, I did not know this existed until today.

E.T.'s TELEVISION DEBUT!
E.T. AND FRIENDS:
MAGICAL MOVIE VISITORS
A fun-filled look at the classic movie and television creatures who have made you laugh, made you shudder, and have touched your heart!
Host: ROBIN WILLIAMS
Special Appearance by The Coneheads
(Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman)
8PM CBSO 3, 7,13
©1982 Universal City Studios,Ine.

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Paul Frightlaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · 17h

Farewell, Diane Keaton. She was wonderful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p32O...

Annie Hall (11/12) Movie CLIP - Seems Like Old Times (1977) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

www.youtube.com

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 17h

Found her - Penny Barber.

🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 17h

who's the bottom in the 3rd pic?

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Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social · 18h

Damn, not Diane Keaton too. RIP to a wonderful actor. (You know, when I came home from Ken Market aged 18 with my men’s coats and waistcoats and big trousers, in my head it was her in Annie Hall I was channeling.)

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 18h

Oh this is so sad. Diane Keaton was wonderful

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 18h

Well la di dah 😢

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