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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 10h

I have just ordered 'Quaint Folk' by @bitterkarella.bsky.social As a former morris dancer, I ought to be ashamed. But I'm not! 😈

The Hartley Morris Men - mid 1970s, doing a Cotswold handkerchief dance.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Say "European governments" if you don't mind. A hell of a lot of us this side of the Atlantic see Trump and the USA for what they are.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A point I made recently in a co-edited book, although on a different subject.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Classic albums well past fifty In the locker. That's not nifty!

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's a whole philosophical line of thought about permanence & preservation I could write a 10K-word essay on, if I had the time. In fact I did something like that a few years ago - a conference paper & journal article, not directly analogous but parallel. Here's a para from the conference script.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yer man Egon Toast really IS an Aquaphibian!

Two 'Aquaphibians' from the Gerry Anderson show 'Stingray'.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Die Zukunft oder die Vergangenheit?

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ooh! A good ol' 'Flying Brick'. I had one of these once. Mine had a Pichler fairing - lethal in a cross-wind.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

All very true. BUT when the regime Carl Schmitt endorsed fell, the international agreements and processes that followed were not set up out of weakness but out of a different kind of strength. Miller's "strength" is that of a playground bully turned Gauleiter. We knew how to deal with THEM!

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Something else added to my stack of bedside reading arived today! 'A History of the Novel in Britain' by Philip Hensher.

Dook cover of 'A History of the Novel in Britain' by Philip Hensher.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Newsflash! Donald Trump to rename Washington DC.

Trumpton - a British children's TV show.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#Canada #LakeOntario LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO. LAKE ONTARIO.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This "[no one] should be told that their political beliefs make them responsible for violence against them" is all jolly fine and liberal of course...

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sorry, it has been so long since I posted a #bookshelfie. Please feel free to ask me about any of the #books you can see in this pic.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Well, he ain't Bags, but he ain't bad.

Vibraphone player Milt Jackson, known as 'Bags'.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Because he's a pure Aryan superman of course.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

PLEASE RE-POST! If you have posted about trouble with your X/Twitter account and someone has replied offering to put you in touch with 'external' people who can fix it for you, THIS IS A SCAM. You will be asked for money. #X #Twitter #Scam I led the guy below on a bit to see if he gave himself away.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The wonderful @tomgauld.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today. I confess. I piled up the 'Necronomicon', von Junst's 'Unassprechlichen Kulten', and 'The Book of Azathoth' so I could stand on them and reach a copy of 'Lady Don't Fall Backwards'.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Everyone always hates the Aquaphibians.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Would this be the first time in the history of British democracy that someone has suffered a humiliating victory? #Clacton #Farage #Binface

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I believe this picture to be genuine (Beacon Rock golf course). It's not even this year, though. It's 2017. Sh¡t got real some time ago, folks!

Golfers calmly play while a forest fire rages in the background.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

yogic flying. [as opposed to Yogi fleeing]

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There is no nobler calling than a writer Far better than a politician or a cage fighter Or Jedi knight like Darth Vader Or vigilante like the Caped Crusader I myself am a tragedian and a poet Though far too few people actually know it And I am most often seen Nearby Dundee and the Magdalen Green

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wonder. Here's what I had to say about McCarthy in my 2024 book.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Phenomenologist here. Heidegger's an interesting thinker but a wee bit politically suss - and I'm not convinced by that little moustache! I recommend Maurice Merleau-Ponty or my favourite - Gaston Bachelard.