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Alex Rhys-Taylor

@alexrhystaylor.bsky.social
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Cities, sensations and spaces. Open minds and strong stomachs. Sociology, ethnography and social history. Parenting in bulk. Rarely accused of sorcery.

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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i can stockpile food for three days IF the black out / polar vortex / russian attack happens IMMEDIATELY after the food delivery arrives. any later and we’re done for.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... top marks to both the courtroom artist and the picture editor.
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Daniel Thomas pleads not guilty after alleged dinghy slashing in Channel
Far-right activist who was filmed appearing to slash boat with blade is refused bail as he denies charges
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.nts.live/shows/otaku/... in retrospect it seems the whole balearic/trip hop/chill-out/back-to-mine genre of the early 00s was xennials chasing the donkey kong country dragon
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Otaku: Donkey Kong Country OST 17th August 2026
Playing Soundtrack, Video Game Music. Soundtrack selections from the classic Donkey Kong Country series of video games.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🤣 👍 🎱
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
the ronnie o’sullivan mural in sheffield is excellent and captures perfectly what i see as the essence of the man #snooker www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Artist defends Ronnie O’Sullivan mural in Sheffield saying it isn’t finished
Critics say painting looks more like a zombie but artist Chris Ashmore says ‘touch-ups’ are still to happen
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
we’re going to get eclipse sun stroke aren’t we?
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... @poplarharca.bsky.social @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social doing the bare minimum possible while families have no running water. such abysmal mealy mouthed quotes in this article too. the press officers can’t even be bothered.
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They cannot even flush their toilets: life in east London blocks where taps often run dry
Devons Road estate residents describe months-long ordeal of not being able to wash, clean or cook for much of the day
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
academic writing needs more ”no thanks to…” anti-acknowledgement sections.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
*Cold open* *They check their phone* *Carries on blanching asparagus*
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
finished alan moore’s jerusalem (an incredible work, but i want a medal for getting to the end) to start his newest ‘i hear a new world’. the dedication is emphatic
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
1985 episode 1 of neighbours is wild! starts off with a nightmarish dream sequence (surreality long before bouncer’s famous dream) and daphne arrives as a stripper. proto twin peaks vibes u.co.uk/shows/neighb...
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Neighbours, Series 1985, Episode 1 - Classic Neighbours | Watch on U
First episode of the classic Australian soap. Des Clarke's bucks party gets out of hand.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🫠 watching storm chaser documentaries just to feel a vicarious breeze
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... if only someone had written a rigorous-yet-engaging academic treatise on this subject about a decade ago.
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Am I a chicken-shop lefty? Here's what a French fast food row taught me about politics | Coco Khan
Feathers are flying over the halal chicken chain Master Poulet opening a branch in gentrified Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine – it’s an issue of wealth and class we know only too well, says writer and podcaster ...
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
if kermit the frog really is part of the #worldcup final half-time show, then all the star spangled hydration breaking cheerleaders will be forgiven.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
cabot square is the most poorly designed open space in london. this is the final word.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
two new cajun/creole seafood joints opened up around here in the last 6 months, and (via influencers) a big hit with gen z londoners. another twist in black atlantic culture.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
www.tes.com/magazine/new... i think it’s fair to say that the academisation of schools has been a total shit show and benefitted very few (including the £200k pa execs). and yet there’s no mechanism for returning them to local authority control. just transferring them to other corporate entities.
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MAT to be broken up after behaviour policy backlash
Athena Learning Trust’s nine schools will transfer to other organisations after trustees acknowledge a ‘clear need for change’
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202... fmmfl 🤦‍♂️
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‘Emotional connection’: Wonderwall becomes England’s World Cup anthem
Oasis tune has been sung from Texas to Massachusetts and soon in Mexico City – and the players have joined in too
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
everybody interviewing publicans and police for their response to proposed 5.00am pub opening for ‘the match’. the real winners here are obviously coke dealers.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
honestly, for all the games of laxative twister and naked high jumps, it IS beautiful, innocent and unexpectedly moving. ‘Jackass: Best and Last’: A Moving Look at Male Friendship and Aging (Really) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/m...
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‘Jackass: Best and Last’: A Moving Look at Male Friendship and Aging (Really)
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/education/20... don’t stop until the end of their holidays sees them boarding the plane as part of group C before getting the National Express back from Luton airport.
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Academy school leaders in England face pay cap to curb ‘banker-style’ salaries
Nearly 100 academy chief executives earn more than £200,000 a year, and at least one more than £500,000
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escalatenow.bsky.social @escalatenow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Current status #GreenwichFootTunnel. There just has to be a solution to ensure this crucial piece of cross-river infrastructure is fully reliable and accessible for the thousands of people choosing active travel. @willnorman.co.uk @sebdance.bsky.social @transportforall.org.uk #WoolwichFootTunnel
A row of electric bikes against a curbed white tile wall 
InLime bikes propped against a curved white tile wall White text on black background 
One Red Cross
One green tick
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
there are an awful lot of former NASA/aeronautic engineers inventing domestic heating/cooling devices smaller than your toaster.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
i hope it goes without saying, but i think the under 16 social media ban is so stupid. smacks of old new labour, a political miscalculation that’ll bite labour in a couple of years. but also illiberal and ethically flawed. it’s not like there are youth clubs and print media to fill the vacuum.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... the 9/10 parents figure at the top here is sus. surely it is 9/10 parents that voluntarily responded to the consultation. not a random sample in the least.
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UK parents support an under-16 social media ban – but what do their children think?
These young people recognise dangers of ‘addictive’ social media but have differing views on a total crackdown
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#2 has been told she get more points in PE if she shows a “growth mindset”.
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homer simpson from the simpsons holding a sign that says the end is near
ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons holding a sign that says the end is near
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
mid 40s and the advertising algorithms really started throwing shit about various ailments and their cures hoping something will stick. anyone else getting mad adverts for feet warmers/circulation devices?
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
1860s @nytimes.com had a billiards column. what happened guys?
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
the city i live in is the city of angles
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
donald duck in the cool blue mathematical land of billiards youtu.be/cdVRvYnqj6w?...
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Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land - Billiards
YouTube video by Subterranea
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... is there anything more english than an exploitative over-entitled landlord?
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Andrew sublet three cottages while paying ‘peppercorn rent’ to crown estate
Report into royal property affairs reveals disgraced ex-prince generated private income from Windsor Royal Lodge
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
FT says US in talks to expand nuclear weapons deployments in Europe. I say the team behind Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ cannot start shooting the remake of ‘Threads’ fast enough.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
the planets seem to have aligned and i’ve been asked to review a book that i really wanted to read. it happens like, every few years or so.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
youtu.be/9-pkeLfy-ho?... this is excellent. "snooker seems to thirve in times of recession". i wish somebody had told me it was added to the amazing bbc archive 4 months ago. c'mon guys
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1982: Why are People Queuing Up For Snooker? | Nationwide | Classic BBC Sport | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
centre alignment for text over 3 lines long. e.g. a page long abstract. seeing it more and more. and in professional settings. is it a gen z thing? whatever the cause, it needs to stop.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
today i defeated a domestic fat-berg. it was a not-too-distant relative of the whitechapel fat-berg (sorry thames water). it was a truly filthy and odious experience. but spiritual in its own way. atoning for infrastructural sins.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
read that as ‘sarah connor’ at a glance
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
its eid-al-adha, there’s a breeze and a hundred family meals are being prepared round here. i wish i could tell you how good the neighbourhood smells. star anise, warming onions, loads of citrus and fish. a lot of fish. and plumes of rice steam. but it transcends the sum of its parts.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... hard to imagine what Robert brown-envelope-from-porn-baron/property-developer Jenrick would have against planning officers.
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Reform UK civil service plan ‘would sack more planning officers than exist’
Analysis of party’s proposed cuts also suggests it would get rid of two-thirds of psychologists who support prison staff
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
i given it less than a week before the daily mail rehashes an old article on uk bushmeat trade and the threat if ebola.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
i’ve found around 20 feature films (not yet all verified) that depict people having sex on a pool table. are there any that feature sex on a snooker table? or is this too disrespectful for the green baize? or just too english?
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“we have to make sure both protests are scheduled for the same day ok? and to make sure the media predict a riot.”
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a man and woman are looking at each other with a showtime logo in the corner
ALT: a man and woman are looking at each other with a showtime logo in the corner
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
angela rayner’s is the only name that you can chant to the tune of seven nation army. that’s all i’m saying.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m... ❤️
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Snookering you again: Big Break to return with Stephen Hendry on trick-shot duties
The BBC is to bring back the classic gameshow after 24 years away, with Paddy McGuinness to present
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
now is the time for the PM to be photographed in that Stone Island jacket again.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
love a good typo. especially one that makes me thirsty. “entrepreneurial sprite”.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
local elections got us all enervated. rightly so. watch out for the algorithms exploiting this affective shift.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
YOU should probably come to this 👉@goldsmithsuol The CUCR Summer Lecture Series presents Dan Hancox: Music Sound and Cities. It’s right up your street. Book here www.eventbrite.com/e/dan-hancox...
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
interesting chance convo with a ‘safety by design’ 👮officer today… she told a story of a really brutal attack in woolwich next to new build offices… wherein the residents heard non of the screaming outside because the advances in sound proofing and glazing technology.
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Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
YOU should probably come to this 👉@goldsmithsuol The CUCR Summer Lecture Series presents Dan Hancox: Music Sound and Cities. It’s right up your street. Book here www.eventbrite.com/e/dan-hancox...
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