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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 6h

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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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 18h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 8h

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 15h

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 1d

New sportsbetting app boasts 80% addiction rate

www.thebeaverton.com

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 1d

Local son happily purchases board game that will unwittingly cause parent’s divorce

Bucks Game Emporium, Ontario - Daniel Martow is pretty jazzed about the board game he just purchased that will, unbeknownst to him, lead to his parent’s divorce in one year.

www.thebeaverton.com

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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 23h

Canadians: Take the turkey out of the freezer. It's *probably* not too late.

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Jaded Cynic @jadedcynic.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this....while munching on pizza and dip from my wife's b'day feast!

Brilliant idea - if you have any other visions, please share with us! ❤️

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infinite brians @infinitebrians.neocities.org · 1d

this sword appeared to me in a vision

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Jaded Cynic @jadedcynic.bsky.social · 1d

The only MLB game I ever attended was the Expos versus the Phillies and it went to 13 innings and I got home exhausted at 1 am.

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 1d

BASEBALL FANS UPSET AT RECEIVING EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF BASEBALL

"I came here hoping to see the normal amount of nothing happening. But this is more nothing than I prepared for," said one attendee.

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Jaded Cynic @jadedcynic.bsky.social · 1d

IT, but Pennywise feels possessive and protective of the kids and just watches over them and keeps them from harm.

The Boobadook @bookiesnacksize.bsky.social · 1d

The Thing, but it just wanted to be a dog, because he was the goodest boy

ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 1d

Nightmare on Elm Street but Freddie Kruger just wants to get a decent night's sleep...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

There's a cat in this photo. See if you can spot it.

Tortie badly concealed under the lip of a box

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PRL @usrbinprl.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Dik-dik pic.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 1d

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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 1d

Ffs it’s not hard. We have these at the Lidl, there’s someone there to help you if you have your hands full.

And by entering the store you have fulfilled the agreement, and if you wanted to not do the gates, you could use the staffed till.

And you won’t break them anyway.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 2d

No Sainsburys, I won't scan my receipt to leave the shop. I've paid for my shopping and fulfilled my half of the contract. You can't trap me in the shop, if your gates break, that's on you

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TheAstroPub @paulshelley.bsky.social · 1d

It ain't easy being green

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Anime Herald @animeherald.com · 1d

From Anime to Transformers to Tabletop: How the VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross Became an Icon in 3 Fandoms: Caelyn Ellis explores the history of the Valkyrie VF-1, and how it became an iconic, irreplaceable part of three distinct fandoms.

#macross #transformers #battletech