Reposted by Al RobertsonRicksListeningPage @rickslisteningpage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#NowPlaying🎧🎶🔥 Glastonbury 1994 - @orbital Released on @londonrecords tidal.com/album/545179... 021
Al Robertson @alrobertson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Looking forward to the updated FCA warnings: "Remember that the existence of your species may go down as well as up." 1138
Reposted by Al RobertsonJ G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Applying Freud's principle, we can see that reason safely rationalizes reality for us. 011
Reposted by Al RobertsonJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For all its flaws, social media still consistently makes me appreciate how many smart, clever and funny people there are out there. 0313
Reposted by Al RobertsonGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026great art articulates eternal truths 1048471481
Reposted by Al RobertsonNearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026𖦹 The Best Of Men 𖦹 I am still so proud of my Folk horror audio drama 🖤 The Best of Men is based on Shropshire’s Satanic folklore. Enter a landscape defined by its stories, where the Devil walks unfettered amongst us. www.buzzsprout.com/411730/episo... #Folkhorror #audiodrama #folklore 04411
Reposted by Al RobertsonSarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Would YOU like to support a friendly, not-for-profit tabletop gaming event? Now in its 5th year, Trick or Retreat is open to sponsorship! ToR is a relaxed residential retreat for making friends, crafting, and a whole lot of tabletop gaming. Find out more at support.trickorretreat.uktrickorretreat.patchworkfez.co.ukSponsorship - Trick or RetreatHello, friend! Would you like to sponsor Trick or Retreat 2026? Now in its fifth year, Trick or Retreat is a relaxed event where folks enjoy crafts, go for little walks, and play tabletop games. A lot... 12123
Reposted by Al Robertson🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This this THIS RIGHT HERE 141381393
Reposted by Al RobertsonIan Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If you do so, please support your local bookstore or buy direct from the publisher. We do not supply Amazon but we are distributed by Gardners Books. Thank you. tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pend... 0348
Reposted by Al RobertsonPremee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 09/09/2026I mean I did think about it, but listen, the ancient evil made a very compelling case, and -- 3638
Reposted by Al RobertsonLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026– good lord, Parikian, what on earth is that? – well, sir, it’s rather complicated – yes, I can see – it’s an arboreal conglomeration of small Spanish dishes such as you might find in a slow-moving creek or stream – oh fuck – yes, it’s my… – please don’t – bayou tapas tree – get out 2529260
Reposted by Al RobertsonFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/09/2026Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this opinion piece was the most-read story ft.trib.al/R2CCsIJ 072
Reposted by Al RobertsonDiane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 07/09/2026🗃️ 🐡 For Labor Day, a mystery... Is this a portrait of three workers or one man moving in sequence? A cinematic perspective would have been radical in 1875. Was the artist influenced by early motion photography? I spy only one wine glass. Is it a clue? G. Caillebotte, "The Floor Scrapers" (1875) 5467
Reposted by Al RobertsonLuca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out. 11340701383
Reposted by Al RobertsonRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Edward Hopper (1882-1967), New York, 1944. 16711
Reposted by Al RobertsonKevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Feel like I have to post this insane fight scene from Nemesis 58428
Reposted by Al RobertsonMatt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise. 47126033780
Reposted by Al RobertsonDavenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Reggae Britannia, a fascinating documentary about how this wonderful rebel sound changed British music forever. youtu.be/ISL96z47-1o?...youtu.beBBC4 Britannia - Reggae Britannia (2011) Dir. Jeremy MarreYouTube video by Play For Forever 19727
Reposted by Al RobertsonHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/07/2026‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton 231141366
Reposted by Al RobertsonLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually." 5660331257
Reposted by Al RobertsonAndrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Today's writing features ghosts & history, two very different ways of experiencing the past. 0111
Reposted by Al RobertsonSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/07/2026Transport of a balloon from Lake Neuchâtel to Lake Biel, 1915. Museum Burg Zug www.burgzug.ch 828979
Reposted by Al RobertsonPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026It is awful here today. 530270
Reposted by Al Robertsonqntm @qntm.org · 07/07/2026The US Kindle edition of There Is No Antimemetics Division is discounted to $2.99 for this week only!amazon.comAmazon.com: There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel eBook : qntm: BooksAmazon.com: There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel eBook : qntm: Books 24813
Reposted by Al RobertsonStephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 05/07/2026It’ll keep you awake: it’s stay sitting up in that chair or get stabbed through the head. 78113
Reposted by Al RobertsonChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good. 423162
Reposted by Al RobertsonDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Last day, UK #author folks and narrators! Register your hardbacks, paperbacks, ebooks, audiobooks (CDs and electronic file versions) for Public Lending Rights payments! And here's the page in the portal with guidance for how to split rights when there are multiple creators (e.g. for audiobooks). 💙📚bl.ukPublic Lending Right (PLR) - authors, illustrators - British LibraryPublished authors, illustrators, editors, translators or audiobook narrators could could receive up to £6,600 per year from public library loans. 12729
Reposted by Al RobertsonTanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 24/06/202624 June 2016. The day after when EU citizens across the UK were told to ‘go home’; when the then PM said he would not protect our rights. Stories largely forgotten. BLEA - Brexit Lived Experience Archive - which I am launching today, is here to preserve this history. #Brexit brexit.migravox.orgbrexit.migravox.orgHome - BLEABLEA. Brexit Lived Experience Archive Documenting experiences. Personal experiences provide valuable insights into how Brexit is lived and understood by those directly affected. Recording these accoun... 13269140
Reposted by Al Robertsonændra. @aendra.com · 22/06/2026This is razor sharp in a way I've not read from any other writer on the topic. So many lines I could quote. It's absolutely excellent. Go read it. 223787
Reposted by Al RobertsonDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play. 181196328
Reposted by Al RobertsonPete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Finally! The Early Recordings Of Musical Youth are out today! Forty-five years since they were first committed to tape; and six years after my first speculative message to their producer and mentor. As renowned reggae fan Morrissey once put it, these things take time! www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...patreon.com“And, along the way, there were the moments you dream about when you start an archival record label.” | Pete PaphidesSo this how it started. “Hi Toney. I hope this finds you well. My name is Pete Paphides. I’ve been a music journalist most of my life and th 2265
Reposted by Al RobertsonRunalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 19/06/2026New Review - another Clarke Finalist and this time I strongly recommend a trip to the creepier side of science fiction - There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a unique read www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/6/...runalongtheshelves.netThere Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm — Runalong The ShelvesPublisher – Penguin Published – Out Now Price –£18.99 hardback £7.99 ebook An antimeme is an entity with self-censoring properties. Some are benign; but others, less so… These entities can f... 74612
Reposted by Al RobertsonSathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Under 16s to be banned from social media, and a white supremacist who fuels riots on our streets, still allowed to run a whole platform. 411408444
Reposted by Al RobertsonRené Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Pure reason / La raison pure - 1948 #artbots #magritte 0252
Reposted by Al RobertsonClaude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Cliffs near Dieppe - 1882 botfrens.com/collections/41/content… 0457
Reposted by Al RobertsonAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“ 163726965
Reposted by Al RobertsonMax Ernst @max-m-ernst.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Birth of a galaxy www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/birth-… 0268
Reposted by Al RobertsonAnne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I ranked movie corridors! (and didn't once write the word "liminal") This was a lot of fun.theguardian.comThe 20 best corridors in film – ranked!Ahead of the release of Backrooms, we invite you to lose yourself in our list of the most terrifying – and most inviting – hallway scenes in cinema 67466107
Reposted by Al RobertsonJuliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Allowing third parties to curb trans people's rights to participate in society opens up everyone's manner, clothing, physical appearance to intrusive scrutiny and potential challenge. History also shows allowing erasure of rights for one group soon sees others targeted. This is not a 'them' issue. 113271
Reposted by Al RobertsonUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. 05919
Reposted by Al RobertsonBen Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 13/05/2026Fascinating review of Muskism from Nik at Geese, my favorite new magazine. Nik makes an affirmative case for the "woke mind virus" as an "oppositional collective intelligence" coordinated through network technologies www.geesemag.com/articles/the...geesemag.comThe Virus Elon Musk Fears: On Muskism, Technofeudalism, and Subaltern Cybernetics — geese magazine.Elon Musk is not just a billionaire eccentric, but the face of a new ruling-class project: the fusion of capital, state power, algorithmic control, and the human mind itself. Muskism defines and des... 13014
Reposted by Al RobertsonRhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 28/04/2026This is a neat summary of the effects of gen-AI related Enshittification that I hadn’t seen before 5337115
Reposted by Al RobertsonScott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Many years ago, when I had far fewer followers, I asked the universe for help identifying a panel I clipped from a comic during our first trip to the UK in 1977, but had no luck. Being a romantic, I carried it in my wallet until it was in tatters, and would love to replace it. Can you ID the comic? 41287177