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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The cone put there to warn you not to fall into the pothole has fallen into the pothole

Several traffic cones congregate around the line markings on a road. One of the cones has fallen into a pothole.

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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Coming to an arts centre in a market town near you! * *And occasional cities like Dublin, Manchester, Leeds and Norwich Tickets available here - www.TheUmbrellaManShow.com

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 11/09/2026

Midcentury American hotel letterheads, gleaned from the papers of actress/author Ilka Chase.

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

📣 Call for papers! Next year's @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social conference will be on the theme of Pleasure and the City Submit your abstracts by 22 February 2027 Conference details: 🗓️ 2-3 September 2027 📍 @ljmuhistory.bsky.social, Liverpool 🔗 urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

Grainy screenshot of an arch with blue lettering reading Pleasure Island. Some buildings in the background, a small number of individuals walking in the foreground.

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 09/10/2026

As tiresome as it is to hear Andy Burnham saying "innovation nation" over and over, it's arguably even worse to hear this talk of industrialisation. We have great, valuable export industries in the arts, TV, the BBC and higher education. All are being filleted; thousands out of work, and what for?

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

OK, probably true, but this isn't the fault of being diagnosed is it! It's the fault of social attitudes to these disorders and the way they're dealt with which isn't helped by people saying they're being overdiagnosed which just makes people think someone's looking for an easy way out.

The experts said too often diagnoses of mental health problems and ADHD and autism were ending up as labels that defined people by their "difficulties rather than their strengths and potential", harming their prospects at school, in work and in relationships.

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why do I keep scrolling. What am I expecting to happen that hasn't happened already

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Gyms for our brains," you say?

Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Under Labour large swathes of the UK outside of London and Manchester are losing access to much of Europe and Britain's cultural heritage. Burnham talks a good game about regional pride even as his government mindlessly watches many of its foundations collapse beyond the Southeast and Northwest

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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FASHION LIFE La robe Mondrian d’Yves Saint Laurent (1965) est l’une des créations les plus emblématiques de l’histoire de la mode. Inspirée des compositions abstraites du peintre néerlandais Piet Mondrian, elle reprend ses célèbres aplats de couleurs primaires (rouge, bleu, jaune)

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I mean what else would you want to do with a sunny Sunday

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is the empty chair part of the installation? Seems weird for the poster to be pointing to it if not

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Theo Beastly @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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sargent.major 🔴🏆⚫️ @sargentmajor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

114’s press corps is dril posting through it, excellent

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We had Fairground which I still remember to this day - Think big big big at the beginning. Put a question mark in and you’re winning.(?) Fair’s fair on the fairground!

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today. Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure you can stand by huge cuts to faculty and then also complain that specialised faculty’s absence directly impacts student experience - isn’t that the point?

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The amount of courage and integrity this man has…. may he be always blessed with a social conscience.

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Delighted my article in this is out and thanks so much to @sophcocooper.bsky.social and @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social for all the hard work editing it.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever the Ireland team decide to do we should support them. They have been abandoned by a cowardly government and a useless FAI.

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

because that model of historical study “reading the documents and writing down what they say” is precisely what the AI boosters think history is, and that AI can do it. But making clear the historian’s choices, position, aims and objectives in writing the history forms a stark contrast with AI

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here it is.

diet. Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw?
Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play.
When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored and miserable, you don't want to cat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit "tasty". There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let's have three pennorth

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mayo County Council archive has a wonderful folder of hand-written ‘boycott posters’ - not just about him but others too - hoping someone will do some research on them if they haven’t already. Maybe I should!

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

First time I’ve heard Blue Jeans by Blur on the radio ever I think - thank you #trousersday #bbcradmac - such a banger

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I agree with Neil. This is a fascinating and hopeful read.

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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Could the MPs maybe examine the decimation of UK HE; the state of the water companies; and the masked thugs attacking lifeboats volunteers before addressing poor scores in Eurovision?

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m saddened to hear of Bonnie Greer’s death, she was a passionate advocate of the arts, culture, education, and decency in society, and she will be missed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77

Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

John McGahern taking no prisoners. From John McGahern: A Writing Life by Frank Shovlin

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Look I get you might want to use, test, play with the LLMs. But heavens, if you are a writer or translator-adjacent, and post about your use of them, then you cannot get all huffy that others will judge, ask questions about your use of them.

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Only just realised they cancelled Football Focus and am belatedly gutted

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Unusual remark for an orange man

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says

Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Basque managers’ uniform shop doing a roaring trade in navy polo shirts

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The first rule of privilege is that you get to be unaware of your privilege! It’s so nice and comfy to believe you’re just really good at stuff and earned it all by your diligent labour and inherent virtue

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Manchester City, still awaiting a verdict on charges they broke Premier League rules for a decade, have equalled the British transfer record by signing Enzo Fernandez for 125m pounds. They've now spent more than 300m pounds on three new midfielders this window. Man City deny wrongdoing.

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with ten acts you’ve seen live: Daft Punk Hole Spiritualized Beastie Boys Grandmaster Flash Bright Eyes Rilo Kiley Public Enemy Ray Davies Leonard Cohen

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Maybe this is why we don’t see it more often!

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s just something you don’t see often. Like great aunts paragliding or something?

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hugely pointless but I think that Alisson throw was the first time I’ve ever seen a keeper take a throw in?

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