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@solsjo.bsky.social
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Jaws (1975) 🇺🇲
Director: Steven Spielberg

When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing that the loss of tourist revenue will cripple the town.

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@lynchantropen
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima (Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, ultranationalist, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku)

It tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates.

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@jemmesedi
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
David Lodge, the erudite author of academic comedy and a wide-ranging literary critic, died on Wednesday in Birmingham, England. He was 89.

His death was confirmed by his literary agent, Jonny Geller.

The author of 15 novels and more than a dozen nonfiction books as well as plays and screenplays, Mr. Lodge was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and his work has been translated into dozens of languages.

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@bobthetraveler
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Happy birthday...
Nestor Alexander Haddaway (born January 9, 1965), known mononymously as Haddaway, is a Trinidadian-born German Eurodance singer who achieved global fame in the 1990s.
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@repeattofade
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Happy birthday...
Gunther von Hagens (born January 10, 1945) is a world-renowned German anatomist, scientist, and businessman best known for inventing Plastination in 1977. This revolutionary technique preserves biological tissue by replacing water and fat with reactive polymers, such as silicone rubber, allowing bodies to be displayed in a dry, odorless, and durable state.
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@natieliaponte
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Happy birthday..
Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), famously known as the "King of Rock and Roll," was an American singer and actor who became one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century. His fusion of country, gospel, and R&B revolutionized popular music and challenged the social and racial barriers of his time.
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@s1m0n4
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
HBD
Domenico Modugno (Italian pronunciation: [doˈmeːniko moˈduɲɲo]; 9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel blu dipinto di blu", for which he received the first Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. He is considered the first Italian cantautore.
He was elected as a Member of the Senate of the Republic for Rome.
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@ivanademmel
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Happy birthday..
Sergei Parajanov (1924–1990) was a visionary Soviet film director, screenwriter, and artist of Armenian descent whose work is celebrated for its poetic, symbolic, and non-linear style. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century.
Parajanov is best known for a handful of masterpieces that defied the Soviet doctrine of socialist realism.
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@morgan
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
In Pacific Palisades, schools in the burn scar have started to reopen. Debris by the ton has been trucked away. Where walls of flame reduced coastal mansions to ashes, morning carries the scent of lumber and the clatter of construction crews, hammering.
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@peterjriley2024
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
In January 2025, Los Angeles experienced some of the worst wildfires in California history. The wildfires claimed more than two dozen lives and destroyed thousands of structures. Rankings from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) indicate that the Eaton Fire in Altadena was the second most destructive fire in state history, and the Pacific Palisades fire was third.