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Charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine he/him
Jumping on the films/plays/books/gigs-I-loved-this-year bandwagon. Separate bookcentric post to follow presently.
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2025 threesomes
Another year gone! I’ve been busy seeing and listening to things, as usual, some of which have been those mentioned below. Top 3 theatre Firstly, The Invention of Love at the Hampstead Theatr…
https://somewhereboy.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/2025-threesomes/
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Dr. Vaughn Joy
2 days ago
I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence. May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
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Jamie McKelvie
6 months ago
Dune 3: If You're A Fan Of The First Two Dune Movies You're A Dickhead
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Rachel Mann
4 days ago
‘It was that prolonged, flat, cheerless week that follows Christmas …’ One of the great passages on the interval between Christmas and New Year from Anthony Powell …
#ADTTMOT
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Una McCormack
11 days ago
“Now here is the lake, and I still haven’t changed.”
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My most beloved film ❤️
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I love this in Ivy Compton-Burnett's MANSERVANT AND MAIDSERVANT. The 'HMM' at the bottom is the printer's way of identifying that this is gathering H of M[anservant] and M[aidservant] (pages earlier on are labelled e.g. GMM and FMM), but it looks like a sardonic commentary on the action.
12 days ago
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Henry Morris
13 days ago
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Awkward Egg
6 months ago
PSA: How to pleasure a woman
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Jay Hulme
18 days ago
When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet. Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq4ydrprpgo
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Danny Lavery
19 days ago
“That’s a new silver fox! It’s stunning.” “Thank you.” “It must have been pretty expensive.” “It was.” "The Shop Around The Corner" Without Any Christmas or Romance Is Still A Pretty Good Movie About Luggage Inventory
www.thechatner.com/p/the-shop-a...
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"The Shop Around The Corner" Without Any Christmas or Romance Is Still A Pretty Good Movie About Luggage Inventory
“That’s a new silver fox!
https://www.thechatner.com/p/the-shop-around-the-corner-without
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Rick Burin
19 days ago
They don’t, need it be said, make ‘em like they used to.
boxd.it/c1dKpn
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A ★★★★★ review of The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
This just looked close to perfect this time. Lubitsch’s delicate handling of the most sensitive subjects, using the grammar of his door gags at the darkest moment. His transparent love of Felix Bressa...
https://boxd.it/c1dKpn
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Athena Kugblenu
22 days ago
I feel like this should be the lead story on every news outlet. They're quick to tell us about the taxi rides that asylum seekers are given so waste is obviously high on their agenda
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John Lees
23 days ago
It’s maddening that I just heard this tribunal decision covered on BBC News, which led with “Sandie Peggie wins her case,” expanded with “Sandie Peggie secures a partial victory,” then only on listening further did it become clear she actually lost on most of the substantive points she was pursuing.
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Stonehenge! Where a man's a man And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
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28 days ago
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Alice Wickenden
28 days ago
The thing about both the WI and the Guides is that transphobia is best countered by like, meeting trans people and talking to them. It is far easier to stoke hatred when you have shut down avenues for normal daily interactions.
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Betwixtmas Kat Brown
28 days ago
Nothing says feminism like forcing women to do something they have been vocal about not wanting to do.
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Sam Smith. Not That One.
28 days ago
Once more preaching to the choir (I hope): If GC people were really concerned about women's safety and rights, they'd be focusing on this, not persecuting a minority in an effort to scrub them from existence.
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Dr Florence H R Scott
28 days ago
Feminism is when you have to have a certain set of chromosomes to make jam! Given the WI has been explicitly trans-inclusive since the 1970s, I'd be interested to know if there is even one recorded instance of this causing an issue for cis members
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Matthew Sweet
about 1 month ago
This is a wonderful thread. Scholarship, creativity, a portrait of a generation.
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Jonn Elledge
about 1 month ago
A hermit who takes a newspaper is not a hermit in whom one can have complete confidence.
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Viz Comic
about 1 month ago
subscriptions >>>
shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs
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Joe Keenan
about 1 month ago
Elon Musk (pointing his phone at a fellow partygoer): “Hi, I’m Elon. Wow! Seen a mirror lately? You look like the love child of a marshmallow and a shoe shine brush! HA! You look like Wallace Shawn let himself go! Or a bowl of tapioca got syphilis from a …Wait, am I on selfie mode again?”
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Rob Palk
about 1 month ago
When my wife left me it cured me of any fantasy that being "Left" was desirable
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Kirkdale Bookshop
about 1 month ago
I wish I could remember how I first heard about this poem (Briggflatts, by Basil Bunting). Did somebody tell me about it? Or did I hear a bit on the radio? In any case, it's been one of my favourite things for many many years (especially if you hear BB doing it out loud: incredible)
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I hope this won't mean the Telegraph goes really right-wing
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about 1 month ago
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Sarah May
about 1 month ago
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
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Habe gehört, dein Vatis Lieblingslied aus Dichterliebe ist 'Ich hab' im Traum geweinet'
about 1 month ago
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Featuring: 'Splinter Wonderland' 'Stoole Nacht' 'Deck the Chairs' 'Little Wonky'
about 1 month ago
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John Oxley
about 2 months ago
It is weird how much travelling in this country is just making a short term interest free loan to a train company/government.
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Conscious of not having heard anything of my hero Simon Russell Beale since he pulled out of Titus Andronicus in September, I turned to Google for news of his health. Nothing, but it did suggest another salient and knotty question.
about 2 months ago
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All aboard for Passchendaele
about 2 months ago
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the_beka
about 2 months ago
This resets everything we've done. Incredible!
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Rose Ruane
about 2 months ago
30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live. Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
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Jeremy Millar
about 2 months ago
I mean, look at that cream, look at that custard Detail from Pie Rows, 1962
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Dr Florence H R Scott
about 2 months ago
Sitting there like Jeremy Bentham
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Funniest Facebook comment I ever saw was by a friend of a friend riffing on 'HP Lovecraft' being how Harold Pinter referred to sex. PINTER: Buckle up, Antonia, it's time for some [pause] ...
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about 2 months ago
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺
about 2 months ago
Horrific, stupid news from
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
— they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly9zwqvn53o
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A movie you've seen more than seven times - with a gif
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about 2 months ago
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Quote with your favourite film and album from the year you were born
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about 2 months ago
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In 2008 I received a spam email with the subject line 'Michael Jakson glued up a person a plaster' containing a link to a video purporting to show Bred Pitt's birthday, and 17 years on whenever I have to glue or tape anything I still think 'Michael Jakson glued up a person a plaster'.
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Richard Morris
2 months ago
A gem of a painting from 1955 by Joan Eardley of a brother and sister outside a Glasgow tenement. I like the way she has managed to define the sitters; she knew a truly successful painting had to go deeper than a mere visual record.
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If you see this, post 4 female characters you love
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2 months ago
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When you're whatever I am (which isn't interesting enough to have a label yet) coming out isn't a big deal. But this does remind me that I first came out at 6. Happened upon 'homosexual' in a dictionary and told my mother I was it. She kindly suggested it might be wise not to repeat it too widely.
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2 months ago
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I'd missed the sad news about Björn Andrésen. Lots of people are memorialising him with photos from Death in Venice, of course, and I had quite a thing for him myself when I was about 15, but you have to feel queasy. Attention must be paid. Ryan Gilbey gets it.
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Björn Andrésen obituary
Actor who starred as the angelic boy Tadzio in the 1971 film Death in Venice - but found the resulting fame a ‘nightmare’
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/28/bjorn-andresen-obituary
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I've spent the last few nights watching TALKING TO A STRANGER while it's on iPlayer (another month to go; it's also on YouTube in lower quality). I was vaguely aware it was highly thought of but not prepared to be blown away as I was. It seems monumentally brilliant.
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BBC obit of Prunella Scales really encapsulating the biting wit of Fawlty Towers
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Coates is Odd This Day
2 months ago
The youngest person in the house is old enough to drive
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Simon Pulleyn
2 months ago
Yikes. This is getting on for 47 years ago. I remember it as though it were yesterday. I feel freeze dried from another era.
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King's Singers - BBC Radio frequency changes 1978
YouTube video by Gracchus Pompey
https://youtu.be/EfQ5bNA6amQ?si=nATe7G1LEwFRSGlF
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Jason Hazeley
2 months ago
This is one of those moments (a bit like playing Connections) when a Brit beholds the chasm between US and UK culture. Those cereals: Oysterettes, Holland Rusk, Honey Grahams… meaningless.
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