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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19h

Ben Pearce, East London Line

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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 21h

I do this most mornings

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, excellent. Will listen. I also had crushes on various Brittas Empire people. An odd childhood in some ways.

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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remember my mother scoffing at a woman who'd written into the Radio Times to say Chris Barrie should play Mr Rochester. Rewatching Red Dwarf recently (I've just got to the series pictured) I can finally acknowledge what an erotic presence he was to me as an 11-year-old, especially in this persona.

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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Let's not editorialise, it may be a very good idea

BBC News headline reading 'Potty training scheme to roll out to 20 more areas'

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Anna Twigg @annatwigg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

BBC Two - My Night with Reg share.google/1xxsMogjMgra... 🚨PSA... My Night With Reg on BBC4 tonight at 10.15... I haven't seen this for centuries but I remember it being fantastic!!

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BBC Two - My Night with Reg

Six gay friends discuss love, friendship and infidelity over the course of three nights.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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

YouTube video by CLOSE-UP

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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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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Picture of Thurston Dart holding a serpent

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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Brittain co-wrote with Bernard Manning (not that one, another fellow of Jesus) one of my favourite things, a little pamphlet called 'Babylon bruis'd and Mount Moriah mended', a parody report of C17th puritans 'cleaning up' Cambridge chapels. Not laugh-out-loud funny exactly but worth a look.

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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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Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Easily remembered because you can sing the title to Ronnie Hazlehurst's theme tune, whose melody describes the fall and rise accordingly. You could mention this on any future date.

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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

I never feared it was coming Over Here, but at 8 I was terrified of having to be a soldier one day. A concatenation of things: the news, Snoopy as the Red Baron, Roald Dahl's Boy/Going Solo (horrible books to give to children that young; the bit when he has his adenoids out was also nightmarish).

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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 · 06/09/2026

They misspelled Vichyssoise the other week too. Stupid game anyway...

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