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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 8h

no, a nice RSPB puffin badge. Maybe this has an special significance, but I wouldn’t know. I just like puffins.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 8h

This is probably right. I think I look pretty harmless but clearly they found something triggering.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 8h

I’d never seen either of them before in my life, but perhaps!

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 8h

no. I’m as blandly dressed as a middle aged man can be.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 9h

On a train. Rather weird experience: a couple got on at the same stop, and got off at the next one. They somehow took exception to me, and gave me a number of dirty looks. They didn’t say anything, but when they got off, she took my photograph and he banged the window next to me. Why? No idea.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Almost forgot: happy That Tom Hollander Interview Day to all who celebrate

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can currently download my Norman Conquest book for 99p. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you like hillforts AND Brochs, here's a fantastic combo for #HillfortsWednesday Edin's Hall: a Late Iron Age broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside an earlier Iron Age bivallate 0.9ha hillfort Scottish Borders / Crìochan na h-Alba Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday

Aerial photo looking down at the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with circular stone broch on the left and trees beyond

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm honored to deliver the 2027 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh. Across 6 lectures, On Science, Technology, and Social Values, I will work through the claim that what we build and how we put it to use carry commitments about who counts and what matters in collective life cahss.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The "chatbots might be actually sentient" discourse in the other place is, in fairness, causing me to question whether AI-pilled American elite types are sentient.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The sadness of the end of the cricket season.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

boo! that’s a real shame. So many people developed entire careers (IMHO) from ideas in that book.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You also need Kodwo Eshun’s More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction, and John F Szwed’s Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

By the way, if you want a book recommendation, get hold of Val Wilmer’s As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977. An education.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane’s centenary finds me listening to Interstellar Space. One of my, er, favourite things.

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy 100th birthday to John Coltrane, born 23 September 1926 in North Carolina. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3C...

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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme [Full Album] (1965)

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's how to support Radio Lento ❤️ Donate - ko-fi.com/radiolento Subscribe - www.youtube.com/@RadioLento Rate / review - wherever you get your podcasts Share / promote - in your newsletter or socials Comment - we love to hear from you.

green hops growing on a bush next to the River Stort in Essex on a sunny September day

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Do not confuse wealth with intelligence.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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What is LinkedIn?

The rise of mindful slop

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Chilling to Dub Syndicate. On-U Sound in the area.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hello and a warm welcome to new followers. We're a podcast of sounds from quiet places. No ads. No AI. No music. No talking. Explore 300+ episodes from places across the UK and beyond. Find us here - Podbean - radiolento.podbean.com Apple Pod bit.ly/LentoAp YouTube - youtube.com/@RadioLento

the curve of a river in September, trees still green. on a sunny day. no one else around.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Never mind Artificial Intelligence becoming sentient. The real breakthrough will be if tech billionaires ever develop self-awareness.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You mean, is he an Athelstan stan? He has taken to doing the Athelstan stance?

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I feel we may be nearing revelation of an occult truth of the British Constitution.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The New Weird was actually invented by Anthony Powell in Hearing Secret Harmonies. Take note, hipster buffoons.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s exhausting being shouted at all the time.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Deputy Leader of the Party. Though I have never understood what specific duties go with being Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That’s a shame. I’d read a book about that, but presumably he won’t have time to write it. Can‘t he be persuaded to give up his faintly pointless current job and get back to his typewriter?

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026

As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...

A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.

The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.

Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As you know, this is an Arnold Bennett stan account.

Photo of the cover of Arnold Bennett novel Clayhanger.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You cannot lose with Spufford. Any Spufford. All Spufford.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1066 and All That was a satire, not a guide to writing history.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have only now discovered Cate Le Bon and oh my. Fabulous.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just in time for the start of the law school year. Handy!

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m very determined but thwarted by it‘s unavailability on this blighted island til January. pfft, chiz, etc.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If 33 1/3 want a book on Motǒrhead’s No Sleep Til Hammersmith, they just need to ask. I’m here and have notes.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Working on my KLF-Dolly Parton mashup What Time Is Love? Always. Designed to be looped endlessly.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Philip Glass: half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Worth reading the thread that led up to this.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

is the analysis that this is a case of treating _oneself_ as a mere means to the ends of others?

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A man whose sole contribution to culture is recycling the primary research of others and opining about it is clutching his pearls about the decline of academic standards.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Very good thread this (much better, in my view, that the Substack that prompted it):

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Telibarb 🐾🐾 @telibarb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Oh. 🙁 RIP Frank.

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