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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 15h

J. Draper has an incredible YouTube channel about London history and recently did a video about how the UK beat the fascists in the 1970s and it's really good. youtu.be/XeHviTKEqSo?...

How We Beat The Fascists Last Time: The London History Show

YouTube video by J. Draper

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

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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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 15h

I realise Forest, Wolves and Villa have had shaky starts to the season, but I didn't think it was *that* bad.

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 15h

#TheTwen2ie5 day 12

Kate Nash - GERM (UK, 2025)

I confess, I did not know that Kate was still recording in 2025, let alone that she would come out with this anti-TERF banger, and a banger with footnotes and sources too! YT comments full of furious TERFs too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Mo...

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 15h

looking for some MOTTE STUFF
BAILEY this evening
looking for some MOTTE STUFF
BAILEY tonight 🎶

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 15h

Goth - The world is a terrible place, and that makes me sad.
Punk - The world is a terrible place, and that makes me angry.
Ska - The world is a terrible place, but I have a trumpet.

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 15h

It really sucks that snob gatekeepers framed classical as high brow music so now any time you talk about it, people assume you're trying to signal intellect

But the music itself isn't pretentious, thats cultural baggage. I just like it when sounds are arranged in a cool way, like any other genre

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 15h

Like, I literally can't think of a more immediately hummable tune than Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 15h

Papa Smurf is the Babeuf of comic book stories.

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 16h

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 15h

Seems fitting for the horniest decade.

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 14d

(Nun speaks to Giant Walrus)
Agatha. Agatha spitt it out. Agatha
(Walrus spits out penguin wearing wimple)
(Nun slaps penguin)
Consort NOTTE with the Wallruss
Ten Hail Marys and NO SUPPERE
(Walrus thumps away, penguin grumbles)

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 15h

They're not wrong.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 21h

It’s just PUA misogynistic bullshit by another name right?

If you’re presenting yourself fraudulently to someone, that’s already *really* bad, but I’d also wager than basically anyone who does this isn’t actually emotionally prepared to have a relationship, and has an immature view of what one is.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 1d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1672

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 23h

Small wet carrots are great.

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 23h

Same, but without sarcasm, about the Pirate Bay guys.

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 23h

But it's not been two weeks since their last uniform design change.

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Ali Esbati @aliesbati.bsky.social · 23h

Tycker om farfar och nalle

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 1d

A chance encounter

illustration inspired by the Scandinavian fairytale, "Bride of the Lindworm". A prince in the form of a lindworm perches on a moss-covered rock and peers curiously at a shepherdess from across a dark pond. The woman reaches toward him. The scene is set in a dark forest.

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 1d

And if you want some old-fashioned stuff, the kids are on that, too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxvl...

Girl Tones - Burnout (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by GirlTonesVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 1d

Makes the guy who got in our local paper for poisoning himself by eating a bag of licorice boats every day for a couple of decades seem like the sensible one.

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 1d

not the best pics, but have seen samples from my minis caster of some unreleased @forgeofice.bsky.social models getting newly remastered/re-released in resin soooon...

two femme warriors in fantasy bronze age/lost world adjacent armour and gear - open helmets, breastplates and leather skirts - one armed with a labrys held ready crosswise across her belt line, and the other with a sword held at rest and her left hand pointing.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1d

I like Bluesky because on Twitter I was the really earnest left-wing person but on here I’m a kind of exciting edgelord because I think that, say, replacing the police with a board comprised of 16-year-old musical theatre students could have its problems

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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure you swing by Liz Bourke. 2 euro per hardback, 1 euro per soft back!

#Octocon #Octocon2025 #Fantasy #SciFi #ReadingCommunity

Collection of books sold by Luz Bourke. Liz Bourke sits behind the table who has short hair and a pink medical mask.

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