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St John Karp

@dazzlepansy.bsky.social
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Librarian, archivist, Egyptologist, ornamental hermit. Talk archives and mummies to me. Opinions are my own and not those of the Divine Zorb, whose numinous wrath sometimes speaks through me.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 13h
i think it may be conscious
a photograph of a slide rule
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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 29/09/2026
doing fanart(?) of the old netscape navigator icon website loading animation, when you would get treated to a little meteor shower any time a website was loading 🌠💫
vector art of the old netscape navigator icon meteor shower, with a white serif N in a circle and a meteor shower happening around it
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've posted a box of #free #DoctorWho novels for those of you within traveling distance to #NewYork! An excellent collection for a young Doctor Who fan. www.craigslist.org/view/d/new-y...
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Target Doctor Who novels - books & magazines - by owner - sale - craigslist
Big box of Target Doctor Who novels. Some are like new, some are former library books, so condition may vary. An excellent collection for a young Doctor Who fan! Free to a good home.
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Finlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
First broadcast fifty years ago today, I Claudius is still one of the finest pieces of television ever made. Here's me for Lion & Unicorn on what today's TV industry can learn from it. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/09/20/l...
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Last night on iPlayer: I, Claudius
Fifty years on from its first broadcast, ‘I Claudius’ is still magnificent, says FINLAY McLAREN.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Also just to see what historians get wrong about the Internet age - one of the things I’m an old Tory about is I don’t believe digital archives will survive for the most part, and there will be a bunch of things historians in the future just have to guess the meaning of.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 15/09/2026
The devil has admitted that he quietly changed the standard recipe of your favourite ready meal just to ruin your life.
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I changed your safe food recipe, admits Satan
The devil has admitted that he quietly changed the standard recipe of your favourite ready meal just to ruin your life. In a statement released today, Lucifer, 13.7 billion, took responsibility for…
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So did Cookie Monster: "Me, Claudius". youtu.be/K0VJtXB4i5A?...
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Sesame Street - Me Claudius (HQ)
YouTube video by LittleJerryFan92 *RETIRED CHANNEL*
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm an Aussie who's lived in the US for 18 years. I'm only just now realising this is why I always disagree with Americans about what season it is.
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Kenneth Williams' Dramatic Leespoons Performance
Alt: Kenneth Williams in Carry On Cleo: "They've all got it in for me!"
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I feel like it would be more economical if I consolidate the little muscle I have into one big pec rather than spreading it across two. Like a pec cyclops. A peclops.
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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026
This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Fun fact: "Magical Mystery Tour" is the only Beatles film that the Beatles both wrote/directed and starred in. In a significant sense therefore it is the only Beatles film.
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Okay, finally finished my first watch-through of #Blakes7 and reached the end of series 4. I wanted to jot down some thoughts. Warning, may contain #spoilers.
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John Ix @frogalapeche.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
When someone sings "Zydrate Anatomy" like it's the cleverest thing in the world, it saves me having to talk to them to find out they're dull.
The film poster for "Repo! The Genetic Opera". It looks like it sucks.
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
George from Seinfeld panicking. "My tokens, Jerry! They're getting funged!"
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alabandine2.bsky.social @alabandine2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Illustration by Gluyas Williams
Illustration by Gluyas Williams
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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
When I wrote for Frasier I never thought about what our apartment set was saying, except that Frasier was pretty posh and had a kitchen that rendered him inaudible to people six feet away. My niece Meaghan Roddy has thought about the set a *lot* and proves it in this terrific article for Dwell.
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How "Frasier" Brought ’90s Minimalism to the Masses
The beloved sitcom’s set introduced audiences to a vision of wealth that was quietly sophisticated instead of gaudy—its showpiece Chihuly notwithstanding.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960: Carry On Constable 1961: Carry On Regardless 1962: Carry On Cruising 1963: Carry On Cabby 1964: Carry On Cleo 1965: Carry On Cowboy 1966: Carry On Screaming 1967: Carry On Doctor 1968: Carry On Up The Khyber 1969: Carry On Camping #FilmSky
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#HarryPotter fans demonstrating their inability to separate reality from fiction. Trans people exist. Dobby does not. Get over it.
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Jaws has to get the band back together one last time to save the orphanage where he grew up. Features musical cameos by Crab Calloway and Stingray Charles.
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Okay, this complete n00b just finished #Blakes7 series three, so here are some thoughts. Again, never seen this before, don't know what's coming in series four, so keep a lid on it. Thread may contain #spoilers for series three.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Image: In a childrens library, a small boy contentedly reads a small picture book, while an angry-looking small girl storms past, carrying a very heavy book.

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Unfortunately for Charlotte, the adjudication committee decides that, for the purposes of the under-nines summer reading challenge, the six volumes of proust's 'in search of lost time' is considered to be one single narrative, whereas each of Roger hargreaves' mister men' books is a distinct work, thereby awarding the library's 'top reader' sticker to her brother Toby.
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Surely this is the start of a Quatermass film. "Quatermass and the Plant". Don't eat the rice.
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This glorious turkey is on my "always repost" list. Hudson. Hawk. Rocks.
Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard looking insane in "Hudson Hawk".
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A new mode of transport demonstrated in CONQUERING THE SKIES (1901), one of the earliest sci-fi films.
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I'm two series into watching #Blakes7 for the first time. I knew nothing about it before starting (and still don't — please don't spoil the second half for me!) So I thought I'd jot down my impressions so far as a complete Blake virgin. Thread contains #spoilers for the first two series.
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4SylvesterMcCoy @4sylvestermccoy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#Glasgow
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Classic #DoctorWho taught me that the three most common jobs in the universe are rebels, spies, and mutants, and the most lucrative of these is being a mutant. See, the jobs are right there. The trouble with young people today is they just don't want to work.
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime.
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Isn't this just the truth. It's been like two months of this. Them: Are you following the World Cup? Me: No. Them: Do you have 20 minutes? I'll tell you all about it. Me: I don't care! Them: I shall sing you the song of my people.
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New - Toolkit for Legacy (Weird) Media Assets. It offers practical guidance on preserving fragile and outdated media formats, from floppy disks and audio cassettes to MiniDiscs and microfilm. Congratulations @amsichani.bsky.social, @beatricecannelli.bsky.social and Leontien Talboom!
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New toolkit offers practical guide to preserving legacy media
A newly launched toolkit offers practical guidance to cultural heritage professionals and researchers on preserving fragile and outdated media formats.
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
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Chris Orton @chriso1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Waddling pyramid you go, Flounces flouncing in the snow; Pretty lady do not rage, When I say you're in a cage, By a lot of hoops secured— Of it, I am well assured. Head, of course, is left outside, Bonnet on your back doth ride; Sweep away the sidewalks clean, Of street sweepers, you're the queen."
A drawing from a 19th century newspaper of a woman wearing a massive hooped dress and a stern, imperious expression on her face.
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Scare-emy Haunt Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
in honor of Sam Neill, here is one of my favorite movies he ever made
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If people I know would stop dying for five minutes that would be greeeeeat.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.
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My Critics Are Missing the Nuance of My Membership in the Wealthy People Hunting Poor People for Sport Club
“Over the last couple of years, I’ve been focused on making a positive impact on how the future unfolds, especially in tech, AI, and which areas of the body ...
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Can an intergalactic space warrior defeat “joke” candidate Nigel Farage in the Clacton-on-Sea by-election? Katie Rosseinsky profiles Jon Harvey, the classicist, comedian and comedy scriptwriter who is the man behind Count Binface.
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The surprisingly moving story behind Count Binface, the man taking on Farage
As the main political parties refuse to take part in the Clacton by-election, only one candidate has stepped forward to challenge Farage – and he’s dressed as an alien and dons a tin bin. Katie Rossei...
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We've all had some embarrassing moments in library programming but I've never accidentally hired a rainbow dildo butt monkey for a children's event. Have I even lived? What kind of librarian am I?
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Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“Are you having sexual relations with this wizard?” In a land of myth and a time of magic the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of one man. His name: Sam Neill.
Merlin (1998) VHS
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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm fascinated by this dark and thoughtful take on fame: oldbytes.space/@retrofan64/...
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Retrofan 64 (@retrofan64@oldbytes.space)
@gloriouscow during my music career, I played on live radio shows, was a studio and touring musician, opened for Gaelic Storm, and even played on the same stage as Jewel (high school choir counts). ...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Is there a more instantly tantalising beginning to a book than the first page of the diaries of the Radnorshire clergyman Francis Kilvert, from the 1870s?
Tuesday, 8 February
From Wye Cliff to Pont Faen. Miss Child in great force. She showed me her clever drawings of horses and told me the adventures of the brown wood owl 'Ruth' which she took home from here last year. She wanted to call the owl 'Eve' but Mrs. Bridge said it should be called 'Ruth'. She and her sister stranded in London at night went to London Bridge hotel (having missed the last train) with little money and no luggage except the owl in a basket. The owl hooted all night in spite of their putting it up the chimney, before the looking glass, under the bedclothes, and in a circle of lighted candles which they hoped it would mistake for the sun. The owl went on hooting, upset the basket, got out and flew about the room.
The chambermaid almost frightened to death dared not come inside the door. Miss Child asked the waiter to get some mice for 'Ruth' but none could be got.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
*Spits coffee out…. 🤣 #BookSky
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St John Karp @dazzlepansy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Kenneth Williams: All right now girls, roll call. Now what's your name, young lady? Barbara Windsor: Prominent Grommets, sir. Williams:
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a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is saying matron take them away
Alt: Kenneth Williams gasping: Ooh matron, take them away!
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