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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 15d

Enjoyed the first ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social where @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social focus on a week in vintage television, putting it into cultural context

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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · Aug 10

Cheers John and Mike - it was a fab walk around a part of town new to me. Also, so well researched, I didn't realise that we were privileged to attend a 'for one walk only' event!

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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · Aug 5

Baby uchiki kuri!

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · Aug 4

1. The only viable government is one based on cutting the still-beating hearts out of sacrificial victims.
2. Do not let the Spanish take over your country.
3. Quetzalcoatl is the one true God.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 4

Ten lessons the Aztecs can teach us today | Sebastian Purcell

You don’t need to solve your soul before setting your house in order. In fact, the outer path might just be the way to reach your inner peace

www.theguardian.com

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · Jul 29

Literally no-one called it Indie Sleaze.

NO-ONE.

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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · Jul 26

Happy Port Eliot weekend for all those who celebrate!
Remembering good times.

A poster advertising a talk at Port Eliot Festival from 2015. An archway from the house is pictured, surrounded by sea.

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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · Jul 17

And to you too!

A Xmas gift tag from the 1970’s with an elf on

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · Jul 12

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · Jul 11

Never change, England

A street sign in Upton, England reading "Play Area and Cholera Burial Ground"

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Jul 2

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com #science #mattdamon

Caption: Our team is working on these unsolved mathematical problems, but also pitching them as a trilogy of action movies starring Matt Damon

Images: Posters for the three movies

The Riemann Hypothesis starring Matt Damon
(image of Matt running heroically surrounded by elements of a formula)

The Yang-Mills problem starring Matt Damon
(image of Matt fearlessly jumping a motorbike surrounded by eparts of a quantum equation)

The Goldbach Conjecture starring Matt Damon
(image of Matt falling bravely from a building surrounded by numbers and symbols.

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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · Jun 29

PSA: The Wojchiech Jerzy Has collection falls off the BFI player tonight!

player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...
Would love to see these on a release [email protected] ?

Wojciech Jerzy Has

Acclaimed for his surreal vision, explore a selection of works from the great Polish filmmaker.

player.bfi.org.uk

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · Jun 29

WHY? Why not?! The world can feel like it’s on fire with political unrest & decimation of funding for independent voices. But we need storytellers - can this small gesture of community/solidarity make our small corner of the film industry a better place

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD -TELL YOUR PEOPLE

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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · Jun 27

Oh my word...

Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · Jun 27

Heads-up: this, in August @grantabooks.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicola-bar...

Nicola Barker in Conversation with Isabel Waidner

The Booker shortlisted author of Darkmans launches her profound and comic new novel, TonyInterruptor, in a conversation with Isabel Waidner

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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P.G. Wodelouse 💀 @pgwodelouse.bsky.social · Jun 23

Blimey, Douglas Slocombe shot the absolute hell out of The Servant (Losey, 1963)

Terrific, quintessentially English motion picture

Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) observes the sleeping Tony

A moment of high tension as Susan tries putting Barrett in his place, ordering him to light her cigarette

A key moment in the film, as the shadow of a naked post-coital Barrett looms on the landing while Tony and Susan try to take in what’s happening

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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · Jun 18

From my local library too!

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · Jun 14

When your thatcher just won't stop...😮🫣

Spotted today in beautiful Walberswick on the Suffolk coast

📷 My own

#thatch #suffolk

A thatched ridge with cats, Badger, hares and a fox

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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · Jun 13

Mrs Cholmondley in bloom this morning.
Happy end of week everyone!

A purple flowering clematis upon a blue trellis up a brick wall

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Jun 10

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · Jun 7

Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

A row of brightly coloured posters against a white tiled wall. The posters say ‘Design and Disability’ on each left hand bottom corner. On the left lime green poster, a photo of Davina Starr, a member of drag syndrome in a white wig and bright make up under a spotlight. The central light blue poster has a black and white photo of Marvel Harris wrapped in a towel emerging from the sea. The right pink poster is an image of Sky Cubacub in a pink binder and dragon scale headdress.

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NW London Time Machine @timenw.bsky.social · May 17

Marine Ices and The Enterprise pub, Haverstock Hill, Camden, circa 1975.

Photo by Blackthorne57 on Flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/laver...

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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · May 16

This week I have seen Rialto and Patrick Wolf and this has made me very happy indeed.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Mar 23

One of my biggest personal takeaways from it is that building worlds and building community go hand-in-hand. Another is unarmouring and just being your own, strange, gentle self in what you share is kinder way of navigating, not only for others, but yourself. In a territory of bruises, it’s needed.

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · Mar 22

Hi, can I ask a favour please. Do you have a Youtube account? Can I ask you to subscribe to my channel (m.youtube.com/@Jeanie_Finlay? ). It would be very helpful to get over 1000 subscribers for very boring reasons. THANK YOU ❤️

A picture of Dolly in my favourite wig era, for the algorithm

Dolly Parton in the 1970s with a full wavy blonde wig, a red flower in her hair, a red plaid shirt tied at the waist and dark denim jeans. She’s leaning against her tour bus which has a yellow and blue butterfly emblazoned on the back.

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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · Mar 21

Lining out my sanitarium dreams today at Porchester Hall
#Marienbad #Empusium #MagicMountain

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · Feb 14

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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Mark Davyd @markdavyd.bsky.social · Feb 9

It's your first Survey Sunday! TAKE THE SURVEY: musicfansvoice.uk

The Music Fans' Voice survey launched earlier this week and a huge number of live music fans have already taken part... but thousands more are needed. And that includes you.

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