Matt Lyon
@mattlyon.bsky.social
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⟢ illustrator/doodler ⟡ he/him ⟣ 📧
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Love a good caff. Big shout-out to the Hygienic Bakery
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Cafes in South West London in the mid-1970s - Flashbak
In the mid-1970s, Grenville Horner was out and about in south-west London taking pictures of the local cafes
https://flashbak.com/cafes-in-south-west-london-in-the-mid-1970s-481391/
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Vechir na Ivana Kupala | Yuri Illienko | 1968 Probably one of the most beautiful films I'll watch this year
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Synth porn
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‘One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying’: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis
Gay porn in the 80s was home to beautifully moody synth music that is only now getting rediscovered – tragically too late for many of its creators
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/04/gay-porn-soundtrack-composers-lost-to-aids-crisis-80s
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Resist! Also, aside from all the ethical reasons to boycott gen-AI, OpenAI's president is Trump's largest donor...
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Brave New World? New report warns generative AI is already costing creators their livelihoods
Built on evidence from over 10,000 creators, the move lays bare the real-world damage generative AI is already doing to creative careers, and the fight for fairness is only just beginning. The Ass...
https://www.creativeboom.com/news/brave-new-world-new-report-warns-generative-ai-is-already-costing-creators-their-livelihoods/
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"Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking" - Derek Jarman, BOTD 31 January 1942
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archivetvmusings
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Sapphire & Steel (27th January 1981). A new assignment beckons for S&S - the one with the old pictures and the bowler-hatted faceless man ....
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The way all these chocolate bars fit perfectly together in the box is so satisfying 🍫
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I hope Smiths Horror Bags are included
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U.K. CRISP PACKETS BOOK
From Salt ’n’ Shake to Space Raiders, this nostalgic little book peels back the foil on three decades of U.K. crisp packets. The incomplete crisp packet collection by Chris Packet 1970 - 2000.
https://sportsbanger.com/products/u-k-crisp-packets-book
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‘Love can be an addiction’: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency – in pictures
For the first time in the UK, the photographer’s magnum opus is going on display in its entirety – introducing new viewers to New York’s edgy downtown scene and a generation lost to Aids. Here, she lo...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jan/15/nan-goldin-ballad-of-sexual-dependency-in-pictures
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Letterboxd stats time 🍿📽
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about 1 month ago
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So long 2025
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In no particular order, my ten favourite first-watch films of 2025. As always, so many discoveries and long-overdue treats. Alt text for further details and honourable mentions
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✨🎄 Christmas Star Rise 🎄✨ ☆ Seasonal Yuletide greetings! Enjoy the festivities ☆
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about 2 months ago
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
‘Remember shoegaze? If you’re under forty you won’t,’ Stephanie Burt (
@notquitehydepark.bsky.social
) writes. It’s back: ‘There’s a shoegaze revival underway, and it’s youth-led, and characteristically trans.’
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Stephanie Burt | Shoegazing
Remember shoegaze? If you’re under forty you won’t, though you might have come across it later. It’s the rock...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/december/shoegazing
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Season's greetings
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Object of the week: Mid-century Christmas card designs by Ealing Studios
As an annual tradition throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Ealing Studios’ advertising director S. John Woods designed a special Christmas card. The results were typical of the studio’s graphic design ...
https://www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-archive/features/object-week-mid-century-christmas-card-designs-ealing-studios
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One of my favourites, incredible work ❤
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THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHARLES KEEPING
YouTube video by pete beard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptpqU5rEE28
about 2 months ago
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It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, 1971 RIP Rosa von Praunheim
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
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Palestine Film Index Currently 700+ films, along with additional texts and resources
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Palestine Film Index
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oJN9_AnDxd44QxwAxtwREfc3VRMcieqY_wQcxJErPsc/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0
about 2 months ago
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Big fan of this Jacob Epstein sculpture from the Festival of Britain: Youth Advances, 1951
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about 2 months ago
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Jack Fraser
about 2 months ago
Hey why not buy a copy of one of my books as a Christmas gift for someone! Here’s a review for The Bookshop from one of the middle-aged men who have surprised themselves by enjoying it. Available from all the usual places.
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Wonderful ♡
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2 months ago
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Rewatch long overdue
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Faith, desire and defiance: revisiting Antonia Bird’s controversial drama Priest
Antonia Bird’s film about faith and sexuality caused an outrage upon release in 1994, but now looks like the nuanced human drama about tolerance that it always was.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/faith-desire-defiance-revisiting-antonia-birds-controversial-drama-priest
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Yes 🖤
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Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize
Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/09/nnena-kalu-first-artist-learning-disability-win-turner-prize
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A favourite shot of Mrs Wilberforce’s house, sadly long gone
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Great film, and always a delight to be reminded of the soot-blackened buildings of 1950s London
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70 years of The Ladykillers: how the locations look today
As the classic Ealing comedy turns 70, we went walking around King’s Cross to see whether Alec Guinness and his motley band of robbers would recognise it today.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/70-years-ladykillers-how-locations-look-today
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Martin Parr - Newport, Wales, 1988
#RIP
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Mat Pringle
2 months ago
More pictures of the individual folk horror themed bunting.
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Vulture
2 months ago
John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’
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The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters
John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’
https://www.vulture.com/article/john-waters-best-movies-2025.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=bluesky
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New (old) AFX, c. 1992 / 93
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AFX - 36 bath beats q
YouTube video by toffo (sbd // xthl)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gyGTYFkpE
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Not so secretly
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The Outsiders: why Francis Ford Coppola’s coming-of-age drama is secretly gay
It’s about rival gangs of straight boys in 60s Oklahoma fighting it out – but the abundance of male beauty in this 1983 adaptation of the SE Hinton novel tells another story
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/02/outsiders-francis-ford-coppola-se-hinton-adaptation
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David Wojnarowicz at ACT UP’s FDA Action protest, 11 October 1988. Photograph by Bill Dobbs
#WorldAIDSDay
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Road to Saint Tropez | Michael Sarne | 1966 Udo Kier's first film
#RIP
3 months ago
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RIP 🖤
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3 months ago
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Pen, paper and lots of tea
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Just learnt that Affinity is now free. Up yours Adobe
3 months ago
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Paranormal investigations powered by a ZX Spectrum
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt9J...
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Complete with ubiquitous Luncheon Voucher signs in the window
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A Boiled Egg Sandwich Etc At East End Cafes and Shops, London 1975-78 - Flashbak
Photographer Chris Miles takes us around London's East End in the mid 1970s to see the cafes and shops we used to know.
https://flashbak.com/east-end-cafes-and-shops-1970s-479866/
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This is a whole new aesthetic with Second Life vibes
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chud atlantis
Hello everyone, sorry to go so long without posting something. I caught covid in August and it's taken me months to start feeling relatively back to normal. I am still struggling with fatigue and some...
https://mcmansionhell.com/post/800217589248819200/chud-atlantis
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Technicolor dreamboat ♡
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How Rock Hudson became Hollywood’s square-jawed prince of 1950s melodrama
In celebration of Rock Hudson’s centenary, we remember his golden decade of 1950s melodramas, when his robust physicality and warmth as a performer made him an irresistible romantic lead – and the hub...
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/rock-hudson-melodrama-all-that-heaven-allows-magnificent-obsession
3 months ago
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"Acid House music has been described as a sinister and evil cult"... Hell yeah, sign me up. Also, bonus points if you spot a young Paul Hartnoll in Sevenoaks donning some fetching knitwear
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Inside Acid House Parties & Ecstasy! | A Trip Round Acid House | World In Action
YouTube video by ITV Retro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YANS3DhnZy0
3 months ago
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Interesting bit of retro-futurism, BBC's Tomorrow's World programme in 1967 filming the light machines of Mike Leonard at his house in Highgate - with music by his tenants, Pink Floyd.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzY9...
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Pink Floyd - Tomorrow’s World, Stanhope Gardens, Hampstead, London (12/12/1967)
YouTube video by Pink Floyd Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzY94p6uFAs
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Scarred For Life
3 months ago
ULYSSES 31 - THE KINGDOM OF HADES (1981): CBBC Broom Cupboard-era favourite, famous for its sing-a-long theme tune, had more than its share of dark moments. Here, the dead of Hades literally turn their back on the living, their touch decaying everything in their path...
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"The Guy Fawkes burst into a thousand flaming particles" Artwork by George Soper, 1894
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‘If I’d known the skeletons were real I’d have been even more disgusted’: how we made Poltergeist
‘Steven Spielberg lit up when I told him I couldn’t do the face-tearing scene. Those are his hands you see in the film. I could never have ripped my face off with the same joie de vivre’
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/03/if-id-known-the-skeletons-were-real-id-have-been-even-more-disgusted-how-we-made-poltergeist
3 months ago
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RIP Peter Watkins
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Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90
Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/31/peter-watkins-director-war-game-dead
3 months ago
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Tonight's double bill 💀
3 months ago
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Atari Halloween costumes, 1983
3 months ago
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This year's Halloween House 🎃 Enjoy all the treats and spookiness 💀
3 months ago
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Ken Russell alert
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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The Lonely Shore
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https://wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-lonely-shore.html
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