Kerry
@kerrypolka.bsky.social
known to one and all as a guy who is just around. she/her, us/uk, london n19. movies, theatre, books, civitas. previous lives: the bay, pdx, pōneke, naarm melbourne. cities are good! 🚆🕎
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no spoilers but: surprisingly a lot in common between Channing Tatum produced dance extravaganza MAGIC MIKE LIVE and 1678 nonconformist allegorical novel THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
thank you online ad network for noticing my upcoming birthday! however I really cannot stress enough how much this is not a problem I have
Cole Harry found himself in the midst of a sudden divorce. His ex took the apartment, the furniture — and his Rancho Gordo Bean Club subscription. When heirloom beans are caught in the middle of a messy divorce, who should get custody? @soleilho.com asks Bay Area food club leaders to chime in.
It’s Over — But I’m Keeping The Bean Club
When heirloom beans are caught in the middle of a messy divorce, who should get custody? Bay Area food club leaders chime in.
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well a fun thing I just learned is that despite only having lived in new zealand for like two years, my immediate reaction to a government emergency phone alert is "OH NO TSUNAMI??????"
yesterday we went to a big open hill in north London to watch the sun be defeated by the moon, and there were loads of people in little groups hanging out and sharing eclipse glasses and eating snacks and generally having a nice time, and at the end some people applauded. EXTREMELY wholesome evening
the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w agoI don't understand why this keeps getting overlooked: Joe Biden won in 2020 in the middle of Peak Woke. I'd go one step further than @brianbeutler.bsky.social does here: Biden *defended the BLM protesters!* www.offmessage.net/p/woke-one-a...
Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
Jim Swift@jimswift.bsky.social · 3w ago
What a stat: "according to our analysis of HMRC figures, the 119,000 residents of Camden who pay income tax contribute more (£4.7bn) than all the residents of Birmingham and Glasgow combined (£4bn)." (no comment on substance - just a great use of statistics) www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-fi...
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
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nothing better than a tourist town that resents the tourists. thank you for coming to my ten-seat microbrewery and vintage ice cream shoppe. you son of a bitch
It's always the right time for "There Will Come Soft Rains," but today is REALLY the right time for "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Lisa DeBruine@debruine.bsky.social · 4w agoToday is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
I think it's good that Mamdani is Just Doing Stuff but more people gotta realize that it is not a matter of Will or motivation or whatever but because the NYC Mayor, as an office, is one of the uniquely powerful individual offices you can hold in the United States (seriously)
I blame the collapse of tenured positions. The discourse is just displaced academic sniping, we shouldn’t be privy to it without a JSTOR subscription.
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last mo.Can THE ODYSSEY beat ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER for the modern record for Most Endless Discourse About A Good Movie (OBAA went from September 2025 to March 2026)
gj university challenge writers on this Short Kings set, great bit
serious question: can anyone explain why the kerning on the penguin moderns is so intentionally dogshit
just watched CRUISING (1980) and: did Peter Weir use Boccherini's Musica Notturna as the outro in MASTER & COMMANDER (2003) as a nod? like, they both ft the tune playing while a boat sails off into the sunset
Cinema Rediscovered@cineredis.bsky.social · last mo.We've reached the weekend and a jam-packed Day 4 of #CineRedis26
(shock jock voice) IT'S THE TOP OF THE HOUR (airhorns blasting) AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, ANOTHER 30-MINUTE BLOCK OF PHILIP GLASS'S 'AKHENATEN', T-T-TOTALLY COMMERCIAL FREE
After the first overtime ends they do a second overtime where a FIFA official holds each Spanish player by the legs while Messi shoots on the goal
lol just realised the third place playoff was in Miami France, England, Mbappé, Saka, Bellingham, last night they were all Florida Man
as well as the game being meaningless and therefore great fun also love the commentary not holding back, "jude bellingham surprised tonight because a lot of people think he's quite a selfish person!"
honestly might not bother with the final, what could top that for entertainment value
This is unfair, the Maginot Line held up way longer
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last mo.If you're in line to make a historical reference about the collapse of the French defenses, please stay in line
every once in awhile we have to hand it to Oregon, and hosting the game on the state tourism website is p good stuff
The Oregon Trail Game Online - Play For Free! | Visit Oregon
Play the classic Oregon Trail game online free — no download, no sign-up. Guide your wagon from Missouri to the Willamette Valley. Can you survive dysentery? Play now in your browser.
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Anarchic Squid@leahanelson.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhere on the World Wide Web can I find the original version of Oregon Trail? Elle Wood was playing it in Elle (somewhat anachronistically bc that’s set circa 1995 but whatever) and I want to show tween what it was actually like (amazing, perfect).
Maradona was fun because VAR didn’t exist and clean cocaine did.
