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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This atmospheric woodblock print was made by Hiroshige in 1857. This artwork was greatly admired by Western artists in the late 1800s and was even being copied in oils by Vincent van Gogh in 1887. ☔️ Sudden shower at Ōhashi Bridge, Atake, Hiroshige Utagawa, I (1797 - 1858), 1857. EAX.4740

A woodblock print of Sudden shower at Ōhashi Bridge by Hiroshige Utagawa I.

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Join me on a journey through the shit I'm selling on eBay. 1. 20th Century classical music on vinyl. Seven period LPs - Ligeti, Mahler, Berio, Janáček, Schoenberg, Cage… ebay.io/m/VzBCKR

Grid of classical albums for sale on eBay

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is it possible that the greatest film ever made is almost 100 years old? Acquire for yourself a Napoléon mug, with a red-tinted still of the fabulous Albert Dieudonné as early-career Napoléon. www.redbubble.com/i/mug/Napol%...

Simple white china mug with a design from 1927 film Napoléon

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oil is a sliding thing

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If we actually get around to building any of the seven proposed new towns in Britain, can we call one of them SILKINGRAD?

Railway station sign put up in Stevenage in 1946 that reads 'SILKINGRAD'

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's this fella's birthday. I mean Napoleon Bonaparte, not beautiful, wistful Albert Dieudonné, who played him in Abel Gance's gorgeous 1927 five-and-a-half-hour epic. Anyway, for the day that's in it, here's one of my favourite essays, about the film: bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross15-19...

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I need you all to understand that A BIRD ECLIPSED OUR ECLIPSE

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Also, it must be pretty good ladder…

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/08/2026

🌐 On World Wide Web Day, we’re celebrating the Wayback Machine’s milestone of archiving more than 1 trillion web pages, preserving decades of the web we’ve built. Explore decades of web history with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org #Wayback1T #WorldWideWebDay @mark.bsky.social

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Writing about Grease turned out to be a much more interesting task than I expected - I mean this thing is beyond weird. I've made my piece about the film (really about the final 15 seconds of the film) free for all: open.substack.com/pub/bowbrick...

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GROSS/69 - 1978, part two - 3,000 words about the final 15 seconds of Grease

The strange apparatus of cinema…

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Thinking of taking up smoking so I can use these unbelievably cool matches from Club Enchanté in Cherry Hill, NJ.

Match book from Club Enchanté in Cherry Hill, NJ

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A short film about ancient times.

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Before Mamdani there was Eugene Victor Debs. And in 1927 the socialists bought a New York radio station and named it after him: WEVD. This fabulous, ultra-modern SPARK logo dates from the 1930s. Buy a t-shirt (or a mug, or a sticker or whatever) from my Redbubble store. rdbl.co/4vIWhso

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Amazing story of how the scientists and engineers tried to keep Skylab in orbit, then gave up on that and instead tried to ease it back into the atmosphere gently and then had to give up on that and just cross their fingers as it barrelled across the Southern hemisphere… www.nasa.gov/history/45-y...

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45 Years Ago: Skylab Reenters Earth’s Atmosphere - NASA

A few days before they left Skylab on Feb. 8, 1974, the final crew to occupy the station raised its altitude, hoping to keep it in orbit until a future space

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Basically, don't be a costumed loon...

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

No, Count Binface does not mean that British democracy is especially tolerant or accepting of outsider voices. Let's try not to be mugs: bowblog.com/2026/07/11/c...

Count Binface, novelty election candidate, wearing his distinctive dustbin-themed costume, at a microphone

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Did you see this green screen glitch in the BBC coverage? Where are they?

Screenshot of BBC TV studio for 2026 World Cup

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The interdimensional rift in the middle of the road in this old photograph of Youghal in County Cork is FREAKING ME OUT.

Black and white photograph from some time at the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th Century, showing North Main Street and the Clock Gate in Youghal, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Therefore, this Dicastery, in the faithful exercise of the functions entrusted to it, considers it necessary to state that this act constituted the delict of schism, with the canonical consequences for the sacred ministers and lay faithful involved. Indeed, as was already declared in 1988, "such disobedience-which implies in practice the rejection of the Roman primacy—constitutes a schismatic act" (cf. John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei, 3).

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If you're using a computer mouse now it's still essentially Doug Engelbart's 1967 design. You can own one of his original patent drawings printed on, well practically anything, really. Including, obviously, A MOUSE MAT: www.redbubble.com/i/mug/The-mo...

Computer mouse - original patent drawing with the name of the inventor Douglas C. Engelbart

Computer mouse - original patent drawings with the name of the inventor Douglas C. Engelbart

Computer mouse - original patent drawing printed on a mouse mat.

Computer mouse - original patent drawing printed on a t-shirt

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I guess if Greta had her time again it'd be Fridays for Production.

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New Adorno t-shirt just dropped. Recognise the logo? www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1818...

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

By the middle of the 20th Century the idea that grown-up couples could separate just because they were unhappy was essentially universal and by the end of the seventies it had come to stand for individual autonomy, freedom from social repression and the liberation of women.

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Divorce peaked in the USA in 1979 so obviously the top-grossing Hollywood movie of that year was Kramer vs. Kramer. Since then, divorce rates have returned to the 100-year baseline and relationship movies are about dating disasters, toxicity and trauma… Essay: bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross70-19...

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Right, book nerds, if I don't shift all these books I'm going to have to set light to them on a boat and push them out into the North Sea or something. There are 101 books currently in my eBay shop, from every genre and at every price. Message me here for MATES RATES!

Grid of books Steve Bowbrick is selling on eBay

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Radio fans, I've added another station to my collection of vintage RADICAL RADIO merch: short-lived punk/anarchist/situationist/hippy/autonomist collective Radio Alice that lived for only a year in Bologna and was ultimately taken off-air, mid-broadcast by armed police in March 1977: rdbl.co/4wOdfYp

Graphic based on a flyer for 1970s Bologna radio station Radio Alice

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The Internet, which we thought was going to be liberating, turns out to be a tool of control: repressive, coercive and damaging to our most basic freedoms: bowblog.com/2025/10/29/b...

Opening paragraph of a blog post by Steve Bowbrick:
So it has come to us, in a kind of dissilusioning rush, and much too late really, that the Internet (which we still deferentially capitalise, as if it were an institution of repute or an actual proper noun) is not a good thing, not a good thing at all. The first universal network, connecting everyone and everything – premised on openness, on flattening hierarchies, on eliminating friction and permissions and coordination costs and barriers to participation and all that – turns out, ultimately, to be the domain, literally the property in fact, of hyper-pragmatic, parasitic hyper-capitalist accelerationists intent on diminishing and dehumanising us.

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"Destroy and destruction; they're the only two words I know. Destruction and destroy." Marvelous Marvin Hagler, one of the truly great middle-weights, defended his undisputed world title an extraordinary 12 times between 1980 and 1987. Throw cushion, t-shirt, stickers, the works: rdbl.co/4lfsOBl

Male and female models wear shirts with the slogan 'Destruction and Destroy'

Two photos together - Marvin Hagler, middleweight boxer, wearing his famous 'Destruction and Destroy' t-shirt. Alongside it a black throw cushion with the same slogan printed on it.

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I've always done my own taxes but I think I might need some help as I find it terrifying. Does anyone have any recommendations of anyone who works with shambolic low earning writer types?

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Radio friends, enjoy this collection of t-shirts (plus the whole panoply of other stuff: mugs, stickers, aprons, dog blankets and so on) celebrating RADICAL RADIO. The collection, so far, features designs for four famous radical stations: WEVD, EAQ, WERD and Rádio Portugal Livre…

Screenshot of Redbubble store showing designs for four different radical radio stations from around the world: WEVD, WERD, Radio Portugal Livre and EAQ

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

So now I know that Welsh miners founded a city in Ukraine!

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

There's something startlingly naive about Blair's perspective. It's fascinating - slightly disorienting - that a consumate politician like him has somehow convinced himself that there's a place 'outside politics' from which our problems can be addressed…

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So I replied to an email with "this could have been an email." I mean it was hot.

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

You’ll be wanting one of these effortlessly cool ‘Stockhausen serves imperialism’ caps, modelled here by the creator: www.redbubble.com/i/hat/Stockh...

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

IG is a company listed on the London Stock Exchange: largest institutional shareholders: Blackrock, Vanguard, Artemis…

Outdoor ad for investment company IG. Illustration of a fat cat waeting a suit. Text reads: 'Forget fat cat brokers clawing your gains.'

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

EXTRAORDINARY SCENES over on eBay. Practically everything in my eBay shop - 200+ records, books and DVD/BluRays - is now priced below the lowest price I could find. It's a PRICE CRUNCH or something. Pick up a classic graphic novel or a Bucky Fuller book or an Orange Juice 12": bit.ly/bowbrick-on-...

Grid of items for sale on eBay - includes a biography of Groucho Marx, To Hell With Poverty by Gang of Four, a graphic novel called Patience…

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Detectorists, Great Yarmouth, around 2005.

Two detectorists work the beach at Great Yarmouth, behind them the stripey hot-dog stand and the sea. A high-contrast black and white 35mm photograph.

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Grease - 1978's top-grossing Hollywood movie and fixture in small town theatres everywhere - isn’t what you think it is. It’s a pretty dark and sometimes quite cruel movie and it has this startling, magic realist ending that I can’t stop thinking about…

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Grease. 1978's top-grossing Hollywood movie. Is the strange ending actually magic realism or is it really just a lazy resolution to a tortured and resistant text that honestly needed something… GROSS, the cinema history newsletter: bit.ly/4uN1KiJ

Still from 1978 film Grease with text overlaid: 'GROSS/69 - 1978 - Grease is a miserable thing but it has a magic realist ending that I can’t stop thinking about'

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Great first try from Nathan McBeth there, although I'd prefer it if the commentators called him 'the Scottish prop' as superstition dictates. #SixNations2026

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

LOVE ISLAND IDEA. We fly a drone over the compound and drop a couple of bags of Banagrams in there.

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

On my commute into central London I don’t encounter another ordinary pedal-cycle until approximately Maida Vale. It’s fascinating. Before that it’s all delivery kids on lethal-looking e-bikes. The outer boroughs are the domain of precarity and electricity.

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

One thing that I think is important, for those of who are not American, is to at least act like what happens there isn't important to us and that it is, in fact, laughable. I mean we live in a sovereign nation a long way away and we really shouldn't defer so pathetically to American pathologies.

The regal gold emblem of Donald Trump's Board of Peace with the words 'Board of Peace' replaced with 'Bored of Peas?' in a similar style

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Au Pairs Raincoats The Gossip Big Joanie Patti Smith

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

@dmandl.bsky.social Hey Dave, I was just leafing through my copy of Radio Text(e) and noticed for the first time that you were an editor of the book! One of my faves!

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Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Crimewave still running out of control in London

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