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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · Feb 23

outside the library

view into.an empty library and the outside reflected in the door glass

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 11h

Jackson Lamb heading to the bog: "Methinks a Donald is in order."

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 11h

😮😂 Michael "Mike" Michaels

maybe that's where George Michael took the surname from; Cypriot family didn't he have...

Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 14h

well we can forgive him that

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · Mar 13

🎶 Griffith Griffith your name is joke / Something Something the Saxon yoke

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · Mar 13

Griffith Griffith, Ireland's own Neville Neville

Arthur Joseph Griffith was born at 61 Upper
Dominick Street, Dublin on 31 March 1871.[2] of
distant Welsh lineage. His great-great-
grandfather, William Griffith of Drws-y-coed
Uchaf, Rhyd-ddu, Caernarvonshire (1719-1782),
was a farmer and supporter of the Moravian
Church cause. His great grandfather, Griffith
Griffith (b. 1789), emigrated first towe United
States a then to Ireland, where some of his
sisters had settled in Dublin among the Moravian
community there

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 15h

The original flyer for Bowie's gig at the Friars club, Aylesbury, September 25, 1971

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

arrival of the first transatlantic train

is transmitted on the Telekinetic broadcast system

The Tunnel (Wauer, 1915)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8j...

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 15h

got married for a 4th or 5th time in her late 80s iirc

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 16h

never heard of that one will check out w interest 🙏

another sub-Atlantic crossing...
bsky.app/profile/hanr...

Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 21d

"Journey of the Oceanauts" by Louis Wolfe (1968)

I had misremembered all the details but somehow @matthewcr.bsky.social decoded my garble 🙏

Cover is Journey of the Oceanauts, slightly psychedelic cover with some undersea creature

Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 16h

Asta Nielsen at home, early 20s ish

♥️ the lavish clutter of that era; would give the Kondos etc. a heart attack

publicity postcard with Nielsen in some kind of day gown, sitting on an armchair close to a table on which she rests one elbow, there are heavy drapes and carpets

Nielsen lying on a day bed, in a room with heavy drapes and carpets, endless footstools etc.

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · Mar 2

aye

close up on a detail of the spontaneous wall collage, the single word "Fear"

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

arrival of the first transatlantic train

is transmitted on the Telekinetic broadcast system

The Tunnel (Wauer, 1915)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8j...

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1d

you know you should :)

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

Telugu has this little word అనేది "that which is called" (e.g. nijāyitī anēdi viluvaina lakṣaṇam "that which is called 'honesty' is a valuable trait") that often introduces a subject in a nominal sentence (i.e. A is B). it generally doesn't need to be translated. but i think it's neat & kind of poetic