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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 14h

Stumped to think who on this one. Northside? Tailgunner? That's all I've got

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LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Time Out has named Beeston as one of The 11 coolest neighbourhoods in the UK 2026, alongside Old Market (Bristol) Newington Green (London), Leith Walk (Edinburgh) and more. Link to full article here > www.timeout.com/uk/coolest-n... Big up to LeftLion alumna Eve Smallman for sorting it!

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The 11 coolest neighbourhoods in the UK 2026

With hyped new openings, thriving indie businesses and heaps of community spirit

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm having rather vivid and unwelcome flashbacks of Leigh Bowery's stage birth youtu.be/0bRFnIEZpPA?...

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Leigh Bowery at Wigstock

YouTube video by Jason Alejos

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a rule in all science fiction anthologies up until the nineties that the cover art must include metallic boobs

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sat next to a crying baby for the entire flight. I don't mind though. Feel like they were the only other passenger who truly grasped the unnatural horror of our undertaking. Man does not belong to the sky. The real monsters are those who remain silent.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have an idea for a screenplay about the career of Bread actor Peter Howitt deciding against writing and directing Sliding Doors

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I recorded two episodes of Pointless earlier this year, and we didn't know the guest until we were on set. Proved to be a good choice...

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Are there any very good teams this season? Man City are looking a bit ropy, Arsenal beatable and Liverpool a pale shadow. Only Brighton seem full-on.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I remember Concorde flying directly over the town in the Midlands I lived in, quite low and slow. It was a swan in a world of ducks.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Jim Radcliffe looks, sounds and acts like a biblical tale of a man who cannot find happiness and his belief it lives in money leads to it eating him inside and leads to rash decision like buying Gomorrah FC

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Love the deep earthylight this time of year and the fact a bunch of fields near my house have been rewilded and provide a new, weird walk

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Broadmarsh became the place shops came to die; I fondly remember meeting @alicatterall.bsky.social off a coach there and he noting that is was a cross between Broadmoor and Belmarsh I now overlook it as it slowly disappears and beautiful gardens+library appear

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Innit. Have a set of lessons to plan so might as well doing it with vitamin D + good coffee and tap, and a cormorant keeping me company

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is extraordinary. Where did you find it? Who made it? I've been looking at archive footage from Nottingham in the 70s for a student project and I wished I'd found this earlier.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I encourage my journalism students now to make all notes in presentations freehand, and after some hesitation they take a pride in their pages: annotations, doodles, elegant and elaborate margins. Analogue rules.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I tried reading that debate last night and it was the same bunch of metropolitan echo chamber dwellers echo chambering themselves into the usual self-righteous froth. Thanks for flagging up a sensical thread.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is have Bet Lynch just for the headline value of 'Goodyear for the Roses'

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watched ET last night with the kids and couldn't help thinking how great an idea it would be to make a sequel, with AI with all the kids played by influencers, ET to be sponsored by SpaceX and alternative endings provided by algorithm. I think Bluesky is a great place to find support for this idea

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Which implies the existence of 'unhappy science's: a group of white coated boffins shambling around in despair

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Crap drivers blame plants for crap driving, not the fact they are crap drivers who drive craply

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My Fitbit tells me my heart rate was in triple figures from the Jesus VAR check and final whistle, and I was lying on the sofa.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have done similar - but in front of students - on far too many occasions, and once wore a top that belonged to my wife with a plunging neckline that really does not suit a man in middle age. But all hail the colleague who turned up last year wearing a shoe on one foot and a trainer on the other.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's actually online, and worth a watch. I produced the short video beforehand and as I didn't have budget to pay a professional editor, dug him a wildlife pond on his allotment as payment.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ah, that's great news. I was so once involved in getting him to Nottingham for a staggeringly fascinating lecture, and had the ultimate honour of taking him out for a meal afterwards.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm on this remembering the wonderful Alex Britton, before looking at dodgy reffing and an exclusive* preview of the WSL2 season. 'Tune' 'in' *Unless I'm invited to say similar on another podcast, it's exclusive.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm doing a teaching qual later this year, and thus registered as a student. On Facebook, my age is 102. The algorithm is going insane, simultaneously serving me ads for nightclubs in Nottingham and funeral plans in Derby

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I was homeless in Portugal and had spent the previous night sleeping on a building site. Climbed down the next day,went to a tasca and on hearing my accent was bought coffee and given cigs by sympathetic Portuguese men sympathetic my queen of hearts had died

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

All three (four) of these have connections to Beeston. Ten points for first correct answer.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

AWP is, on viewing it now, rather than a eighties pre-teen, is fascinating as a period document about class, regional prejudice, Thatcherism and so much more. Plus, they filmed some bits in a house I once lived in and a pub I drink in, so bonus.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hope the police took an opportunity to check a whole bunch of hard drives while balaclava Nazis had their trip to Kent

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just heard that the former @nottinghampost.co.uk journo Alex Britton has died. Incredibly shocked. He was patch journo for Beeston while we were setting up the mag and was huge fun / support. Utterly lovely man, brilliant journalist

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Terrible timing to find out there is a Freeview channel that just shows Tipping Point on a loop AND being told I'll be not working Thursdays for the foreseeable. (On a serious note, I'm open to any interesting paid projects...)

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's quite a visceral thing, isn't it? I've been wearing lenses most of my life but there is still something body-horror there

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#booksky #books good news : I finally reconstructed this wall (less random than it looks but work to do) . Bad news : that's everywhere very nearly full and 4 sizeable piles of books with nowhere to go

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Started back in teaching today and had to be in early, so my anxiety dream was all about running late, not being able to text my boss as I needed my contact lenses in to read my phone, except they were now the size of dinner plates and I had to fold them into my eyes. Thanks, subconscious.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Split ticketing, inconvenient bit save a few bob

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Matthew Bannister. Turns out he's a really good guy, and I thanked him for the Chris Morriss show

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