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Yorkshire CCC @yorkshireccc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What a finish from the captain 🤯 What a win 🔥🔥🔥

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Yorkshire CCC @yorkshireccc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Five to win, one wicket in hand? Not a problem for the Birthday Boy, our captain 🫡

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Mike Noble @mikenoble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ultimate Man shook my hand and then told me exactly how I was going to die.

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Belgian Scientists create “Ultimate Man" AI sex bot that they believe will replace real men entirely by 2035

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*UK universities, before someone comes at me about that.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Amazingly creepy moment this morning when the toddler looked at me and said: 'Daddy, fire in the sky. The fire in the sky...' Chilling.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Atkinson just begging that Saracens player to punch him: 'please, Ben won't let me leave. It's the only way I can get home!'.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Has anyone considered that Stokes is just constantly insisting that players go to shit nightclubs against their will, & this was the only way Carse could think of to get out of it? #Cricket

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Middlesbrough FC @mfc.co.uk · 15/08/2026

A DRAMATIC WIN ON THE OPENING DAY! 💪

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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A cinema in Canada never received their Spider-Man Brand New Day posters so one of the employees drew his own and it is one of the greatest things I have ever seen

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Cricket confession: I'm not a fan of The Hundred, a tournament that leaves me cold. But we took the 18-month-old there on Sunday, & she absolutely loved it. She regales us with tales of 'CLICKY BALL!' & likes to admire her Sunrisers flag. I am conflicted.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Really enjoyed this process @criterion.bsky.social . Posting with the caveat that I would probably end up making entirely different choices tomorrow.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm ashamed for all of us. Example after example of how transphobia requires the suspension of all reason and thinking. You cannot say this stuff and be considered a serious person. No brain engagement beyond vindictive cruelty. Nice one, Britain.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is devastating for universities - it will be devastating for British culture and society - and I think it will finally be devastating for the Labour government itself, stupidly and shortsightedly destroying our successful cultural sector for shits and giggles

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hot take: the villain Karswell is the goodie, he's a perfectly reasonable man who never does anything bad over than try to get people to stop hassling him. #Horror

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The absolutely magic Hyde Park Picture House knocked it out of the park again with a showing of Night of the Demon this eve with EoH.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Is it more acceptable now to admit that that was a shocking world cup, & that all the journos saying that it was a pretty good tournament actually were confusing sport with the fact that they had a nice holiday in the americas.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Absolutely yes. I was obsessed with this film as a kid, and with Talos especially. Terrifying and fun at the same time.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And, as there were people on my dinner table who didn't believe me about young hot Tennyson, I'll leave this here #BAVS26

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Farewell to this year's #BAVS26. It is a far, far better CONFERENCE that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better PERIOD OF REFLECTION ABOUT MY OWN RESEARCH that I go to than I have ever known.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A highlight of #BAVS2026 was the panel by @victorianhand.bsky.social, a mind bogglingly rich project, which reminded me of these ambiguous (long?) 19th Century hands by the unpleasant Charles Dana Gibson.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I was talking about some letters between Zangwill and Clifford Sharp of the New Statesman! The only way to describe them is tetchy, but Zangwill just can't not be funny. #BAVS2026

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In which Barr had to deal with some particularly embarrassing holiday planning drama (arrested by the Ottoman government). #BAVS2026

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Yorkshire CCC @yorkshireccc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A stunning Will Luxton knock in the Metro Bank One Day Cup 🔥 Well batted, sir 🫡

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My baseball caps: Unaffiliated tiger cap & Toronto BlueJays cap: left in childhood Isle of Wight cap: stolen by a Frenchman while playing petanque Italy cap: left at a Red Chilli Red Stripe cap: missing at Uni of Leeds open day Boston Red Sox 1: stolen by a Dublin gravedigger BRS 2: left on Eurostar

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Our toddler has two main interests currently and those are planes and cricket so congratulations to me on giving birth to a retired accountant anyway we're back at the airport cafe this morning

View from behind of man holding toddler, both with hats on, looking through a chain link fence towards and airstrip

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Does the chair of Centrica give a fuck what customers want? No, of course he doesn’t. What are you doing to do, freeze to death at him? Nope: you’re going to pay up instead and if you don’t, they’ll set lawyers on you. Fuck you.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I realise that the narrative that Tuchel decided to 'park the bus' after the goal has set in now, but it's just not true. Konsa was brought on to free up the wingers to attack alongside a back three. Kane even said that the messaging from the bench was to go for the 2nd goal. #WorldCup26 #England

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Bastille day ready! Bon 14 juillet à tous! Unless we play France in the final, in which case they'll be taken down to avoid confusion. Ca ira.

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ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔬𝔰 ☽|☾ 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰 @chaospriestess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Screencap of Sam Neil in Event Horizon, his flight suit features an Australian flag with the union jack replaced by a yellow circle on black and red, the Australian aboriginal flag

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Nothing worse than public commentators who dont understand sport. The point is to hope, to load your emotions, with a community, onto a team, trust them with it, & imagine what might be. Pundit brains treating sport like realpolitik. I hate it. It's not hubris to enjoy yourself. #WorldCup26

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

1. The wonderful room I got to present in. 2. I talked about how checked shirts are a sign of vulgar lowness before clocking that I was, in fact, wearing a checked shirt.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Great time at #VPFAPublics this week. And amazing to hear from @ebutler-way.bsky.social, @ccapancioni.bsky.social , & @helenaesser.bsky.social that papers at next year's conference in Aberystwyth will exclusively take place in bathing machines & on funicular railways, as unlikely as that sounds.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Relieved to be finally at the @vpfa.bsky.social conference & have Victorianist info & ideas piped into my brain. 'When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Victorian Popular Fiction Association.' #VPFAPublics

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Currently on my way to Liverpool for #VPFAPublics like Lady Audley on her way to burn down an Inn. Can't wait.

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Test Match Special {bot} @bbctms.xmirror.bot · 28/06/2026

One of many jewels in Ben Stokes' crown. Headingley 2019 still gives us goosebumps.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... As my OH pointed out, it's bold of Bielsa to claim that "I'm not a model", when he looked like this. #WorldCup2026

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I once saw John Simm spend an entire curtain call violently glaring at a man whose phone went off during Fortinbras's speech at the end of Hamlet at the Sheffield Crucible. Im sure that man was sent to his account with all his imperfections on his head.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Belgium once again doing inspired work. I didn't think it was possible to surpass their Tintin shirt from two years ago, but this is wonderful.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Proud and smug to have bought what is surely history's best World Cup Wall Chart, made by the Hans Holbein of football.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

You fuckin won’t tho and everyone knows it you gutless shills

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

One for the #MRJames /Yorkshire kids day-out crowd, but the fun family maze at Stockeld Park had unexpected Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance vibes.

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm once again asking murder mystery/detective dramas to stop: 1. Making the only actor you've ever seen in anything else the murderer & expect us to be surprised 1/2

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