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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What is not to love about Belgian twinks in trenches doing things to each other in WW1?

Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I moved to the UK solely because of a love of layering. Sorry mortgage, wife, British children and established career. I must now move on in search of more northern climates.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve just finished this by M. John Harrison. I’ve never read him before. Where have I been. Brilliant. And his sentences. This one is seared into my brain for life.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Does everyone in that queue really look like they had the credentials to get into Heaven?

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just reading a review of something and they used "nourishing" in it. It's a perfectly innocent word but every time I see it used it's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I bought a mechanical keyboard at the start of the year. It has a totally silly volume dial on it but there’s something oddly satisfying about spinning the volume up and down.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I saw Dolly Parton play the Sunday slot at glasto while in a total state from the night before. I was crying when she said this one goes out to all your mammas. She was amazing.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My poor mother really. My father shows the biggest (though un-diagnosed) signs.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thank you Marie. I just got diagnosed a few weeks ago. I and my three diagnosed brothers would all agree with everything you wrote here.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Just finished reading this chunky beast. One of those novels you really have to live with and not just because of its sheer size.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The new Four Tet album is VERY hard to search for.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

All hail the Ventnor Book Bus. An annual book pop-up on a 1930s Parisian bus. Bagged all of these editions for a total of £20.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I just tried getting a small book club to read Jon Fosse’s Septology. They ran me out of the room after they realised it was a 900 page single sentence. May need to find a new bunch for Proust.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

they still offer ploughman's on the Isle. You and @jahduran.bsky.social know what to do. I will welcome you with open arms.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Listened to @luketurner.bsky.social and @jahduran.bsky.social discuss the ploughman's lunch on their latest Low Culture podcast. Can't recall the last time I was so captivated by talk of British food. The splash of serendipity is well-worth the subscription price. thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

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Low Culture Podcast: The Ploughman's Lunch | The Quietus

Back in the stressful early days of The Quietus John and Luke would often cheer themselves up by heading to the shops to purchase the constituent parts of a ploughman’s lunch – the traditional trio of...

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Sam Neil was brilliant and this is such key advice.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just finished watching Widow’s Bay. I was also a huge fan of The Americans. Matthew Rhys is an incredible actor but no matter how many times I’ve watched clips of him speaking in that Richard Burton Welsh accent of his, I’m always surprised that that’s his real voice. youtube.com/shorts/c4eMc...

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Matthew Rhys shares how his relationship with Keri Russell was revealed on the set of The Americans

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

As a Belgian I endorse this message

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 30/06/2026

“They’ve silenced her. “This is an attempt to punish someone who spoke the truth.” The "bizarre" moment @maitlis.bsky.social is forced to ask Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams to leave the studio.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

@luketurner.bsky.social the tailoring alone in this film would tick your boxes.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Was thinking about this film again this morning. A story of Swiss bankers visiting the military dictatorship in 1980s Argentina. Eerily relevant to today. Beautifully (and terrifyingly) told. Weirdly unknown but hands down one of the best films of the decade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nka...

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Azor | Official Trailer | Berlinale 2021

YouTube video by Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Did you not sign up for the Apple TV carrier pigeon alerts? They don’t always make it through a storm but when they do it’s a wealth of content at my finger tips.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Dorian, you forgot the men who can definitely beat a bear, honey badger or a goose in a fight.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I second Ian. Persepolis is an amazing book.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Just finished reading this beast. There's not a single full stop for 823 pages — the longest sentence I'm ever likely to read, but also a beautiful exploration of God and human existence. Not a casual beach read, and it's all done in a stream-of-consciousness style, but amazing.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 01/06/2026

This is counter-productive, authoritarian and chilling. The British state should not be in the business of banning commentators and journalists from entering the country, without compelling reason. Finding their views objectionable is nowhere near enough. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

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Two US political commentators banned from entering UK

Home Office says presence of Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker in UK ‘may not be conducive to the public good’

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 31/05/2026

There are lot of big evangelical claims made about AI. What we don’t do- nearly as much as we should- is treat them as the deeply political actors they are. That’s why Karen Hao’s book, Empire of AI is so vital. This is our @thenewsagents.co.uk conversation. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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How the tech bros of AI are breaking our democracy

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 29 May · 51min

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Which is a shame because 10/11 years ago there was a lot of great writing being supported by that middle tier. The kind of funny, interesting one-off features that the lone newsletter writer model can’t really support.

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is going to hit a lot of already weakened news sites very hard. The big ones will survive and the strategy will flip from clicks to mentions/citations in summaries. Individual newsletters aren’t really reliant on it for traffic. But that middle tier of sites will collapse even more

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The Quietus is 90% funded by subscribers, and we need another 500 this spring to help us fight the AI-pocalypse – with this in mind, there's a huge sale on our top tier subscriptions. If you like what we do, here's how you can help: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

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The Quietus Spring Sale is Here! Help us Fight the AI-pocalypse | The Quietus

There’s something appallingly physical about the language that’s used to describe the radical changes that are affecting every aspect of our culture. AI slop. Enshittification. It’s all rather revolti...

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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I can never touch one again but I miss my breakfast one, my walk to the tube one, my walk from the tube one, my 10:30AM one and on and on.

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