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He may have a profile like Apollo, but he's got a mind like Hampstead Garden Suburb he/him

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 6h
If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.
A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion 
E extreme shivering or muscle pain 
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 8h
There's a dinky Everyman's Library book called Picturehouse Poems, mainly US poems about the cinema, and it contains several gems, including this one which I can't find elsewhere online.
OLD FRANKENSTEIN

The old man never calls.
He quit making us
settled down with his bride
in a stone cottage
went back to his smoking jacket
wrote a book and tore it up
they say, I never saw it.

I learned to talk again
in spite of them all
every crowd and Burgomaster
—read by fires, by lakes
ate what I ran across
but killed no people
not for a long time now.

The flesh has not decayed, probably can't.
I carry a cane and that explains the walk.
I dress like a cheap old man
a man with peculiarities
a man you'd leave alone
to live in a shed in the woods.
He'll die, I won't.

He can't live forever
and he doesn't like it when I show up.
I haven't tried that in twenty years.
I accumulate birthdays like everyone else.
He could call. His wife
could call. My only family.
I wonder how it will be without him.

Bruce F. Kawin
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 21h
Lembit sat opposite me on the tube
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 23h
Excellent way to spend 17 minutes: a super new video of the choir of St John's doing Rejoice in the Lamb last year in Ely Cathedral. They're the only choir I know who don't think twice about bunging Rejoice in the Lamb in an evensong as the anthem, and it's the highlight of my week whenever they do.
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Rejoice in the Lamb - Benjamin Britten | The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
YouTube video by The Choir of St John's College Cambridge
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 favourite British films...as of right now: The non-negotiables: IF.... BLIMP CORONETS and let's say GET CARTER and LIFE IS SWEET #FilmSky
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I refused to read Dermot O'Leary's book because he didn't call it Dermotology
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So much incest in that family, even the bulldog's got a club foot.
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A fantastic and fantastically beautiful film!
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finally a leaflet talking about the real issues in the constituency
"Vote in Christian Values" - Saint Pancras was martyred age 14 by beheading
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brown pylon with red vascular underpinning
An imposing small ink drawing of a pylon behind a roof, with red wax pastel underneath and loose wiring
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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Want to get into Buster Keaton? Start here. 25 mins of "Jeez! What did he just do! OmFG! Oh what?!" youtu.be/5Q0FMxZBmO4?...
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Buster Keaton - One Week (1920) full movie HD
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 23/09/2026
lads, is it bad when bookstores are getting their windows smashed in?
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Famous in my part of north-east Somerset, an assembly when the local Gideon preacher told a story of some German schoolchildren he had observed failing to abide by queue etiquette and wondered 'if they might have got that idea from a man called Hitler'.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This man is being paid £280,000 to use acerbic as a noun.
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lowery, I am dying of thirst-aroonie.
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the very best things I saw at Edinburgh this year. David is a master!
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Christopher Burlinson @cmburlinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There are building works on my staircase, and this ghostly list of previous inhabitants emerges. Trevor Jones was a German lexicographer and Bletchley code-breaker; Thurston Dart a musicologist; Harry Creswick was university librarian; Cameron Wilson taught French; Freddy Britain was a classicist.
An old list of inhabitants of C Staircaae in Jesus College Cambridge.
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Quite possibly the most stylish thing you’ll see all year.
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Every time I see this cover I think, well, he had a good innings
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just a warning that if you ever fondly recollect The Golden Girls on TV, you may get a strongly worded note from a Mr. James Anthony.
crackpot email: Ken Jennings ~ The Golden Girls
NO - 'we All dont love that show'!
It was Stupid
and you know it Ken regards
James Anthony
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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RIP Stephanie Cole. Here’s my Stephanie Cole story: I was at a sitcom readthrough where I was filling in for all the roles that weren’t cast yet & for any actor who couldn’t make the readthrough. Often, at these events, you’re the only person in the room who won’t ultimately be working on the show
the wonderful Stephanie Cole wearing a black coat and hat.
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
R.I.P. Stephanie Cole. Seen here as Muriel Carpenter in Talking Heads - Soldering On by Alan Bennett (10th May 1988)
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stephanie Cole’s Talking Heads monologue, Soldiering On, is one of the saddest and most brilliant things, and her turn as Dame Lettie in Memento Mori was absolute comic terror. In interviews I never got the feeling she knew how great she was. And wasn’t she absolutely magnificent?
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friends fear he's reading Ivy Compton-Burnett again
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/09/2026
Happy #NationalFoxDay to all who celebrate! 🦊 #fox #poem #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin      heh an snappin      yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen
A page from a book, printed in a reddish-brown ink. The top left contains a stylised papercut picture of a slightly scrawny, scraggly-looking fox. Beneath it is the text of the poem, “Fox’, by Ian Hamilton Finlay, published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961):

see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it? 'See, dogs like us, we ain't such dogs as we think we are.'
Betsy Blair and Ernest Borgnine dancing in MARTY
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Plattenbau Berlin @plattenbauberlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thin red lines in the Sewanviertel.
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Plattenbau Berlin @plattenbauberlin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pre-Plattenbau glory from the godfather of post-war residential idealism.
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My big three: 1. Dying in a fire (probably informed by Tottie) 2. Having to go to war in the future (this was the time of the Gulf War and I didn't know National Service had been abolished) 3. The diminished seventh chord (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Saint-Saëns Aquarium both creeped me out)
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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Every year on this day I recall the awful moment when Frasier's producer Maggie Blanc phoned to tell me that the show's co-creator David Angell and his wife Lynn were on the first plane to hit the towers. A week later the Advocate asked me to write about David for their 9/11 issue. (1/2)
David Angell sitting in Martin's chair on the Frasier set.A photo of an article in the Advocate. There's a smiling picture of David Angell. The heading reads: "A creator and executive producer of Frasier is remembered by his colleague Joe Keenan. The text of the article reads: One day in the Frasier writer’s room we were toying with the idea that Niles, insolvent and desperate during his epic divorce from Maris, might stoop to writing a quickie self-help book, the sort that shamelessly flatters its readers in the hopes of achieving best-sellerdom.  We needed a title for it, something both punchy and pandering. As we were all calling out uninspired suggestions I glanced over at David Angell. He smiled to himself then, adopting a look of foot-stomping petulance, said, “It’s Not Your Fault, Dammit!’ by Dr. Niles Crane.”
We laughed at its ludicrous perfection, or at least those of us who’d heard him did.  David was very quiet, very soft-spoken. Unlike many humor writers who like to think out loud (making it hard for others to think at all), David mulled each comedy challenge in silence, speaking only when he felt he had something good, which he pretty much always did.  He brought the same quiet wryness to his conversation and his remarks were all the funnier for his murmured,  throwaway delivery.  He understood, to paraphrase Dorothy Parker, that a boy’s best friend is his mutter.
He was a wonderful writer, always smart, always witty, the dialogue pitch perfect.  Sometimes in the room his usual low-key drollness would give way to bursts of inspired goofiness that were both hilarious and incongruous, like a humanities professor interrupting his lecture on Middlemarch to share his Porky Pig impression.  Most of all he understood that a good show wasn’t about jokes; it was about people, and telling stories about them that involve us and surprise us and make us need to know what happens next.  
As good a writer as David was, he was an even better person, unfailingly kind and generous.  I’ll always be especially grateful for the su…
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lewis Hine Bibb Mill Girls, 1909
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
'I wouldn't suck it!'
Stephen Fry voxpop guy
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hats off to the Associate Professor of Divinity at Cambridge who has just proved there is a God
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This famously the moment that provoked an accusation of blasphemy from a viewer who believed Magnus had asked 'What was Jesus' Christian name?' (admittedly an unorthodox question for a round on Wodehouse)
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"would mean, for example, that Jewell would not be able to breastfeed in the future" this person is TWENTY NINE YEARS OLD and the BBC is scaremongering about their choice not to breastfeed a baby that they do not have and have given no indication of ever wanting to have
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Section 28 is back then.
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Plattenbau Berlin @plattenbauberlin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s been a few years. Time to bring back the glory of the Plattenbau to BlueSky…
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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For fellow theatre queens (and P&P fans) picked up a charity shop copy of Valmouth, turned out to be signed by the cast and Sandy Wilson and Sir Robert f***ing Helpmann! Told the shop they’d underpriced and was happy to pay more but they said it was my lucky find. Indeed.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
out: “picky bits” in: bringing back the term “cold collation”
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
here remember when lewis hamilton wrote this poem about princess diana for absolutely no reason
a poem by Lewis Hamilton which he posted on Insta in 2017:

The day we lost our Nations Rose
Tears we cried like rivers flowed,
The earth stood still
As we laid her to rest,
A day you & I
Will never forget
The people’s princess
Who came to see,
The love from a Country
We’d hope she’d lead,
Englands beauty
Captured in one sweet soul,
Carried the torch
God rest her soul,
With the gift she had
Shed light up the way,
With a smile to show us a brighter day,
Hearts still full
of the love she gave,
20 years since she laid in her grave
There will never be another like you,
Now a shinning star in the midnight sky
I will always remember you,
Princess Diana
As our sweet nations Rose [rose emoji]

By Lewis Hamilton
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of sultanas
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gamboge Radio-Rentals
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There just isn't any rest bite.
16:06 BST

Vic Marks
Former England spinner on Test Match Special

Ollie Robinson is bowling wonderfully.

Beautiful rhythm and he has a lovely action. He is hitting a length ball after ball.

Sometimes it moves, and sometimes it doesn't. There just isn't any rest bite.
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Ian Jones @ian-jones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I've taken a tour of the Carry On universe with stopwatch in hand, measuring the longest days, shortest plots and other horological messing about. nearertotheend.co.uk/2026/08/24/t...
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The passage of time in Carry On films
Jacques, James and Joey while away the afternoon in Carry On At Your Convenience In the Carry On universe, time flies with the insouciance of a budgie that knows how to predict the winner of the th…
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Macmillan Collector's Library are cute and dinky but I've been sceptical about their production standards ever since I opened their L.P. Hartley and saw THO GO-BETWEEN [sic] on the title page. And 'Maudsley' misspelled here and there in the text, I think.
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Name your favourite Bob Well, it can only be Bob Holness. He belongs in the pantheon of the immortals. Here is a paean I wrote apparently 15 years ago.
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That’s Blockbusters!
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love — That thy format is so pleasing; that the contestant must forge a path from top to bottom or from side to side; that a game may not end in a…
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Camp Miasma rules, holy crap
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm not on Letterboxd and I don't have a top 100 films, but I do have a top 40 list I revisit and revise every five years, of which this is the most recent iteration. Three-watch minimum. #FilmSky
40. ELECTION (Alexander Payne, 1999)
39. THE SWIMMER (Frank Perry, 1968)
38. ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
37. FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
36. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (Miloš Forman, 1975)
35. STREETWISE (Martin Bell, 1984)
34. THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
33. THE APPLE (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998)
32. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles, 1942)
31. NAKED CHILDHOOD (Maurice Pialat, 1968)

30. FANNY AND ALEXANDER (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
29. THE ARBOR (Clio Barnard, 2010)
28. MARTY (Delbert Mann, 1955)
27. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, 1955)
26. THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T. (Roy Rowland, 1953)
25. PAPER MOON (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)
24. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
23. I WISH (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2011)
22. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder, 1944)
21. A SEPARATION (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)20. ORDET (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
19. LES DIABOLIQUES (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
18. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
17. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley, 1938)
16. LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (Marcel Carné, 1945)
15. THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)
14. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (John Huston, 1948)
13. STILL WALKING (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008)
12. KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (Robert Hamer, 1949)
11. 12 ANGRY MEN (Sidney Lumet, 1957)

10. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy, 1964)
9. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, 1941)
8. ON THE WATERFRONT (Elia Kazan, 1954)
7. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
6. WAY OUT WEST (James W. Horne, 1937)
5. CRÍA CUERVOS (Carlos Saura, 1976)
4. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
3. LE SOUFFLE AU COEUR (Louis Malle, 1971)
2. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
1. IF.... (Lindsay Anderson, 1968)
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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I just watched Karel Kachyňa's LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC! What an absolutely audacious film.
The waving legs of a boy buried head-first in the ground up to his waist after falling off a church
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