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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 15h

“There’s a lot of testosterone up there.” #darts

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 15h

“For two of the world’s best, there’s been some shoddy darts in this game.”

Love Wayne Mardle #Darts

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 1d

You only just moved in together and you're already at the "contacting the Guardian" stage? Dump him, girl

My partner, Jayden, and I have just moved in together. He is a big fan of this wicker basket that he’s shipped from his old flat, but I want it gone.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 23h

He’s a sweetheart!

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 23h

Happy that one of my longest standing crushes - I’m so old I remember when League of Gentlemen won the BAFTA - is only getting better with age.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 23h

The most alluring sight on TV this year is the increasingly irate, increasingly frustrated, increasingly Northern Reece Shearsmith on #Taskmaster.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 2d

Geezer Butler.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 4d

Something about laying a log, I dunno.

Tewkesbury toilet jammed by 'avant-garde plumbing sabotage'

A toilet is out of order after a vandal got creative with willow branches and chicken soup.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 4d

I'm too fucking tired to debunk every stupid thing that Ryan Murphy said about Christine Jorgensen or how the public response to Ed Gein was catastrophic to the the perception of trans people so I'll just point to my book. We covered all of it.

bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

bookshop.org

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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 4d

“Drive” was released on this day in 1992 as the lead single from Automatic For The People. In a 1992 Melody Maker interview @millsish.bsky.social said, “‘Drive’ is just telling kids to take charge of their own lives. Among other things.” Video directed by Peter Care.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UE7...

R.E.M. - Drive (Official HD Music Video)

YouTube video by remhq

www.youtube.com

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 5d

RIP lovely Jilly Cooper, the only subject of a @backlisted.bsky.social episode to write us all thank you letters afterwards. ❤️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88

The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent has confirmed. The author, whose 18 novels include Riders and Rivals, “defined culture, writing and conversation since she was first published over fifty years ago,” said her agent Felicity Blunt. “You wouldn’t expect books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the test of time but Jilly wrote with acuity and insight about all things - class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility.” Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 5d

“Nobody was buying paintings by surrealists. They were considered revolutionary troublemakers.”

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

René Magritte’s ‘superstar of surrealism’ to go on sale in Paris

La Magie Noire, bought by family of wartime resistance heroine 90 years ago, expected to fetch more than €7m

www.theguardian.com

Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 6d

Forever Jefferson D’Arcy.

Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 6d

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 6d

And yeah that’s mad.

Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 6d

Happy for you!

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve seen teams come back from 3-0 down, but I think five goals in a few minutes is pushing it a bit.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 6d

I think you’re safe.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 6d

Like I said…

Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 6d

Ha, spoken like a true Sky Blue.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 6d

Might as well promote Coventry now #PUSB

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 7d

Paintings by gender-nonconforming Czech artist and illustrator Toyen, 1930s-60s, a member of the Czech and French Surrealist groups whose work often explored eroticism, gender, and poetry.

Surrealist painting depicting a figure with orange hair seen from the back, wearing a light dress with a wide skirt, and an open back revealing emptiness instead of a body. They hold a green butterfly net. The landscape is a brown empty ground with a dark grey sky.

Painting in a dark palette of a large plant-like figure with fabric textures in red and green, sitting in a black and green room with a grid floor and white door, and an image of white classical sculptures embracing in the background.

Surrealist painting of a large textured brown and cream-colored orb with a large green eyeball in the center. It sits on a rocky beach with blue-green water in the background.

Painting in a dark color palette depicting a feminine figure wearing green gloves and a leopard print dress with a human-cat face on it. Two dark shadows stand on either side of the figure against a folding screen, and two large light brown moths perch near the top.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you Frank Ifield! You did this!

Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 7d

Have put Country Kings at the BBC on in the background - I can’t with this team #BCFC

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