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Curious small friendly Southern African antelope. Does like noticing stuff, boardgames, history, reading SF etc. history, BGA, Memoir 44, beer. Stuff like that.
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It's World Book Day and I'm indecisive so for March Madness YOU can choose the next book I read! Options are in the link below, please comment with your choice (as I don't think we can do polls here yet)!

New Indiana Law Requires Women Voters To Show Husband’s ID

NEW BLOG: Local citizens‘ assemblies: why do councils set them up and what can they do? Patricia Preller and @alanrenwick.bsky.social discuss what we know about the over 40 local citizens' assemblies convened in the UK since 2019.

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I've watched enough Scooby-Doo to know you don't visit a place with a name like "Deadman's Island"... 🤔 #Ghost #Haunted #Fortean

Repost with your apocalypse skill Drinking. I'm fucked aren't I? On the plus side, I won't care.

"If we stay here, maybe nobody'll ever know what happened here..." Bogart, his M3 Lee tank and his outnumbered, dehydrated squad get into an almighty desert dust-up defending an oasis against the Afrika Korps. Gritty, tactical, action-packed brilliance. www.imdb.com/title/tt0036...

I've finally found the most impressive CV in cinema history. AS IF the same man worked on #CaptainBlood (1935), #TheAdventuresOfRobinHood (1938), #CitizenKane (1941), #DiamondsAreForever (1971), #TheBluesBrothers (1980) and #Scarface (1983). Go on, Tom! www.imdb.com/name/nm08246...

Historic Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles theonion.com/histori...

RIP Sam Moore Heard Soul Man when I was a kid & was thrilled and elated immediately. Have played it countless times since, especially when I’m down & it always brings me back up. Here’s the best live version: youtu.be/fTY6RKE8rdU?...

Imagine not ‘getting’ Guy Pearce. Warner Bros. is full of dickheads. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Reflections in the Water, 1890 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12903/

𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝕤𝕜𝕪 07.05.2023 Burbage Rocks, Derbyshire, England. Lucky me, I saw a Stonechat on the rock. 昨日のわんぽ。岩の上でひと休みしていたニシノビタキに会えました。

Suspicious Sheep Acrylic #painting These sheep look very Suspicious- they also look like an arty pose for an album cover! #Derbyshire Gritstone #Sheep in snow by suescottartist.co.uk

‘Ayahuasca now pervades an international genre of psychedelic art in which Indigenous Amazonian themes merge with tropes of Eastern mysticism, science fiction and computer generated fractal geometries.’ @mikejay.bsky.social on ayahuasca and peyote: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The House of Lords is now on Bluesky. Follow here for updates and content from the UK Parliament’s second chamber. We will be sharing a range of content about the work of the House and members. If you have feedback or want to tell us what you’d like to see, please get in touch via Chat.

Contemplating swapping my Times sub for an FT sub. Has anyone else done that recently and is it a low-regret change?

There’s a version of this going round on Facebook. Here’s the original. It’s by… me! Furthermore, if you like it, I can draw one for you! https://www.worldofmoose.com/products/everest-cartoon

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"Let's go back in time..." Who is seeking #PassageToMarseille? Where have #TheFilthyFive escaped from? And why is #HumphreyBogart #SailingIntoTheDangerZone? Find out in my special feature for @latereviewer.bsky.social. latereviewer.com/2021/10/05/s...

Happy birthday Mr Woody Allen and Mr Ridley Scott 🎂 @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

The pitch document for this was as long as the title of the sketch. It got thrown on the pile of material, courtesy of Arthur Mathews, and suddenly everything else on the pile felt like it was trying way too hard.

Guy Who Posted Craigslist Ad Wasn’t Expecting Dame Judi Dench To Buy His PS4 theonion.com/guy-who-post...

Year 5, I kept getting told off by Mrs. Bradley for copying one of the (lesser) stunts in #TheAdventuresOfRobinHood (1938). 30+ years later, Mrs. Bradley is getting a copy of this, the talk I did for Showroom Cinema for #ArtOfAction, where she's mentioned. latereviewer.com/2024/11/26/r...

With Bluesky hitting 25m subscribers and a lot of new historical board gamers here, I thought I'd repost this Historical Board Game Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/BtYDoBn I've been keeping it up to date as new accounts come in, but let me know if I'm missing someone. #boardwargames #boardgames

Today is Primidi the 21st of Frimaire in the year 233. Frimaire is the month of frost. Today we celebrate the sugar maple. #JacobinDay More information on the sugar maple

THE GOP SUCKS SUCKS Sucks sucks ˢᵘᶜᵏˢ #MyEchoChamber

By the way, my co-edited book - Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - just got published with #EquinoxPub. Had an on-campus launch for it yesterday with a few of the contributors. Use the code RELIGION for 25% off when ordering here www.equinoxpub.com/home/pagan-r...

President-elect Donald Trump named Steven Cheung to be the White House communications director in his second term, elevating the longtime press aide after Cheung has reliably adopted the president-elect’s combative tone in public statements and denounced Trump’s political rivals.

WOW! Filament are gigantic arcs of material lifted off the Sun's surface by powerful magnetic fields. Here, we're looking along its length. You could easily pass Earth under it.

An iconic figure of liberal Victorian politics & with Cobden one of the two great free trader voices of that century. Bright served in Gladstone’s first two govts before breaking with the grand old bean over Home Rule. He was also elected in abstentia to Queensland’s legislature in 1869…

Feeling low or depressed? This might help take you out of it for a while. Powell & Pressburger's THE LIFE & DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP is on at 13.30 on BBC2. I like it very much.

Everyday Americans explain why they subscribe to The Onion's print edition. Even after the apocalypse, you’ll still be the most well-read person in your tribe. Join America's Finest Membership here: membership.theonion.com?campaign=701...

Oklahoma Law Requires Ten Commandments To Be Displayed In Every Womb theonion.com/oklahoma-law...

Infinite Growth Forever: global-tetrahedron.com

The Onion has purchased InfoWars.

I'd kill my abandoned Twitter account to keep old posts from being ingested by the AI but every single thing in the history of 1. social media companies, 2. the AI industry, and 3. Elon Musk says they already have a vault full of everyone's deleted data and have been feeding it to the AI for months

Made a starter pack for exoplanetary astronomers! Reply to this skeet if you’d like to be added! 🔭 🧪 go.bsky.app/8T1wFxu

It's perfectly understandable that you might have arrived here and be wondering whether you should have stayed on Twitter to "win the battle of ideas". Everyone has to reach a conclusion on the issue that they are happy with. This was my thought process: /1

The Party's Over: the Death of Legal Twitter (a blog) familybrief.org/2024/11/07/t...

Fantastic game of Here I Stand at SCGCON in Liverpool today - 8 hours and a French auto win in turn 4, at the end of this turn @gmtgames.bsky.social

Today is Sextidi the 26th of Brumaire in the year 233. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate pistachios. #JacobinDay More information on pistachios

Second game of Red Dust Rebellion in a week. That's a pretty good sign @3mbg.bsky.social !