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Football, politics, history, music, movies, books amongst other things. Order varies frequently. Grumpy old man but sometimes I can be even grumpier
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Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

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Gene Tierney touches up her own lipstick on the set of THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR

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Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Lee Grant in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

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Sidney Poitier in rare behind-the-scenes photo from In the Heat of the Night (1967)

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One of the first full-length British films to be shot in colour was Noël Coward’s between the wars social drama “THIS HAPPY BREED" (1944) directed by David Lean, starring Celia Johnson, John Mills, Stanley Holloway and Robert Newton 🎬 Eagle-Lion 🎞 Technicolor #FilmSky

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Grosse Pointe Blank a favourite film in the house

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Midnight Cowboy (1969) Director: John Schlesinger #filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞

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Are the two quietest people of the last week the two people that enjoy hanging around with actual dictators? Farage and Infantino..

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Happy 25th Anniversary to Neko Case's second studio album released ‘Furnace Room Lullaby’ originally released February 22, 2000 | Visit https://album.ink/NekoCaseFRL to listen to the album

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#moviesky #movies #filmsky #moviechallenge #moviecharacterchallenge Day 22 - movie character who is an ant Flick

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50 years ago today. 22nd February 1975 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel are No1 in the UK singles chart. "Come up and see me, make me smile Or do what you want, running wild" #70s #SteveHarley #music #MusicSky

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Remembering Ranking Roger on his birthday. Photo taken when The Beat played Birmingham’s Bingley Hall after a Jobs For Youth march in November 1981

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Judge a man by the company he keeps.

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Brilliance from @privateeyenews.bsky.social !! @bas.ac.uk ❄️🥼🧪🌊

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#filmsky #movies #moviesky #moviechallenge #moviecharacterchallenge Day 21 a movie character that hunts monsters Ripley

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#filmsky #movies #moviesky #moviechallenge #moviecharacterchallenge Day 20 a movie character who hosts or attends a pool party Dirk Diggler

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Don't hold your breath waiting for Farage to refute Trump's lies. Will he stay silent (I know who'd have thought) hoping people will forget his hero worship of the big orange turd

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America First...Buy American... Putin did.

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Sad News 😢 Rick Buckler, drummer of The Jam, dies aged 69 after short illness. Rest in Peace Rick #thejam #rickbuckler #drummerlegend #riprickbuckler

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#filmsky #movies #moviesky #moviechallenge ##moviecharacterchallenge Day 19 a travelling salesman Elmer Gantry

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#filmsky #movies #moviesky #moviechallenge #moviecharacterchallenge Day 18 a Humphrey Bogart character Dixon Steele

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#filmsky #movies #moviesky #moviechallenge #moviecharacterchallenge Day 17 a movie character who leads an army into battle Leoniadas

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#filmsky #movies #moviesky So just boarded flight... 4 plus hours ahead.. Sidney Poitier double bill lined up In The Heat Of The Night The Defiant Ones

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Forget the nonsense about which month Rachel Reeves left the Bank of England. This is the real CV fiddling story.

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Postmen in the snow, New York in 1952 by Saul Leiter.

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FAVORITE PROTEST SIGNS…

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#filmsky #movies #moviesky #moviechallenge #moviecharacterchallenge Day 16 a movie character who is undercover/informant for the police Mr Orange

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‘Now we’ve lost our supernova.’ Patrick Barclay. By @kevinmitchell50.bsky.social

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz

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2/15/76: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie John Cassavetes masterpiece w/Ben Gazzara ++ More: @splicedpersonality.bsky.social: www.wbur.org/news/2019/04... @aheartofgould.bsky.social / @bwdr.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2020/02/28/k... @newbeverly.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2016/11...

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Antwerp, January 2025 #streetphotography #photography #photooftheday #fotografie #fotograaf #photograph #urbanphotography #streetphotographers #streetphoto #streetsnap

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Thelma Ritter in "Pickup on South Street" - BOTD

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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#filmsky #moviesky #movies #moviechallenge #moviecharacterchallenge Day 15 a movie character you don't want to see upset or angry Walter Sobchak

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“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

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