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Writer | Editor | Art Criticism | Writing the City | Class | Science Fiction | Popular Culture | PhD student | Lecturer | Incorrigible Buyer of Books mikepinnington.cargo.site www.thedoublenegative.co.uk

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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 10h
I wrote about generous, multi layered Anthony Shapland exhibition, murmur, at Wrexham's Ty Pawb 📗🐦‍⬛📽️🎨✏️✍️
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 17h
Mirror Selves: Anthony Shapland – murmur www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2026/09/mirr...
Installation image of Anthony Shapland exhibition, murmur. Pictured here, a nest of easels, with an interested looking art critic standing to its right. A life model stands in Anthony Shapland's film work, being bothered by a starling. More starlings! These on a small screen in Wrexham's Ty Pawb.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 21h
I Could Read the Sky revisited: haunting memories of a migrant’s life – in pictures | Photography | The Guardian share.google/HKyUr9OHusrl...
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I Could Read the Sky revisited: haunting memories of a migrant’s life – in pictures
Hailed by Robert Macfarlane as a masterpiece, this 1997 novel of words and pictures has been reissued with previously unseen photographs
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ill. Stayed home yesterday, dragged myself in today for first 1-2-1s with third years. Possibly not my best decision ever.
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
SOLITUDE IS ENRICHING
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Taking a break from a bit of work I have a couple of film options: beginning shortly on BBC 2 is Hitchcock's The 39 Steps 🎥 BBC Two - The 39 Steps share.google/UyiYS230cDcG...
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BBC Two - The 39 Steps
A man is pursued by the police for a murder he didn't commit. Classic Hitchcock mystery.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And now for some good news: "Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026
Talisman Heinz Hajek-Halke, c. 1930
a cat outline of wet and fogged up glass, behind long exposure light trails of vehicles in a night time street scene
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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This Cultural Life - Elif Shafak - BBC Sounds
Turkish-British novelist Elif Shafak reveals her formative cultural influences.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Niche request - but I feel like certain people here will know. Can anyone recommend some hauntological sci-fi? Can be as narrow or broad an interpretation of that framework as you like. For example, I'd put Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men in there - big lost futures vibes at its core.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
England looking like Sunday league players v Spain here. Should have a canned laughter track.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's Saturday! Post a cartoon TV show you love 📺
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ALT: Ulysses Ulysses 31
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I watch Scotland games quite often (for an English person who doesn't really enjoy international football), because I love Andy Robertson. They're such a strange mix of unlucky and disappointing. Must be like supporting Everton.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BBC Radio 3 - Where the Light Sings, Live from a Mystery Lighthouse share.google/yNTnl7UIR7mp...
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BBC Radio 3 - Where the Light Sings, Live from a Mystery Lighthouse
One by one, the lights come on in a live musical adventure around Britain’s lighthouses.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
‘It’s the Bayeux tapestry of TV!’ After six decades, the seminal series bows out with 70 Up | Television | The Guardian share.google/VAcuSSFdOHVL...
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‘It’s the Bayeux tapestry of TV!’ After six decades, the seminal series bows out with 70 Up
The ‘hugely important artefact’ that’s followed 14 children since they were seven is set to air its final instalment. The now-septuagenarians and director Asif Kapadia talk about breaking new ground f...
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The guy the BBC just had on to discuss the RAF Hawk incident over Anglesey gave big Ace Rimmer from Red Dwarf vibes.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Decolonizing the Dead | Los Angeles Review of Books share.google/DA4WFZjnu9iv...
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Decolonizing the Dead | Los Angeles Review of Books
China Miéville’s first solo novel in over a decade is part Lovecraft, part le Carré—and quintessentially weird.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Writing a roundup of current exhibitions to share with students... Who for whatever reason - it seems - don't go to exhibitions. What to do.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Resident Evil at 30: how Capcom’s horror opus has survived and thrived | Games | The Guardian share.google/nxGqGjPOeGFT...
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Resident Evil at 30: how Capcom’s horror opus has survived and thrived
From owing a debt to obscure Japanese horror Sweet Home to the influence of Aliens and Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the franchise continues to petrify players three decades on
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Night-night
Bonbon, an outrageously handsome tabby cat, about to call it a night.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I miss Douglas Coupland as public figure. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Archive on 4 - Teen Spirit: Nevermind - BBC Sounds
Douglas Coupland examines how Nirvana’s Nevermind changed the outlook of a generation.
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Patrick Kindig @pdkindig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Poets love doing this, too 👀. Like, say, the author of a gay poetry collection that comes out next month (& that could easily be assigned in a grad workshop!) 👀👀👀.
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy Second Birthday to Wild Twin. ‘…this exceptional memoir…richly detailed and observant.’ Adelle Stripe ‘ A surging heart-song.’ Iain Sinclair There’s a new stash in Liverpool Waterstones if you’re looking for one or you can order one here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Two copies of book Wild Twin by Jeff Young, collaged covers, bookshelf in Liverpool Waterstones on the book’s second birthday
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Occasionally struck by a nostalgia for my old blackberry. Possibly to do with the keyboard; possibly to do with slightly simpler times.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and he went on to became an Oscar-winning screenwriter.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Writing is hard. Meanwhile, I'm writing a lecture for first years on, um, writing.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BBC Radio 4 - This Cultural Life, Joel Meyerowitz share.google/9d5SB6MhTfKD...
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BBC Radio 4 - This Cultural Life, Joel Meyerowitz
American photographer Joel Meyerowitz reveals his formative cultural influences.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Arts and humanities have a role in understanding space exploration | Space | The Guardian share.google/rKGxuuzrT9Ur...
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Arts and humanities have a role in understanding space exploration | Letters
Letter: Prof Abbie Garrington reflects on an interview with the physicist Laura Grego about the battle for our skies
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What’s Queer About The Legend of Zelda? - JSTOR Daily share.google/s849e88cfs7a...
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What’s Queer About The Legend of Zelda? - JSTOR Daily
Link may look like a classic video game hero, but his adventures complicate the heteronormative conventions of the genre.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Liam Young – Planet City – Perimeter Books share.google/g2jdMM8CiMUf...
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Liam Young – Planet City
Planet City is a project by Los Angeles-based film director and architect Liam Young, whose work is prominently featured in the 2020 NGV Triennial. It explores the potential of extreme densification, ...
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cringeworthy that the Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic is described as 'pulpy sci-fi' here... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Film Programme - Moira Buffini on Stalker - BBC Sounds
Moira Buffini, Stalker and Chernobyl
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker share.google/CIYQ1q5TSb2U...
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Blustery out there. If you're stuck inside this Saturday morning, Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes is on 🎬🩰👠 BBC Two - The Red Shoes share.google/oJ3b1M3kCKht...
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BBC Two - The Red Shoes
A young ballerina is torn between two creative but possessive men.
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
*Cough* Bayeux Tapestry exhibition *cough*. Obviously only one example to highlight the total idiocy of this comment among the huge contribution that Arts, Hums and Soc Sci graduates make to the economy and knowledge base of this country. Go away and read your brief, Minister.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Vampire by Edvard Munch, 1895 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase

© 2015 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BBC One - Play for Today, Penda's Fen share.google/UAN32mO3J8B9...
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BBC One - Play for Today, Penda's Fen
An awakened force in the landscape challenges a boy's clear and intense view of the world.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New Adventures in Hi-Fi is 30 (coincidentally, I had the great Wake Up Bomb in my head this morning). Probably my fave REM record.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why must Bob Ross start when I have to get ready for work?!
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
4 years since The Rock did one if the all time tweets
Rest in peace to Her Majesty the Queen, Elizabeth II. A great woman who sat on the throne as long as anyone in British history.
Sad she will never get to see #BlackAdam V IN THEATERS OCT 21st
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Jenn the Queen @jennb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"How sad it must be, believing that scientists, historians, scholars, and journalists, would devote their entire lives to deceiving you. But a con man proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth and honesty."
—Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Colson Whitehead share.google/vCeG1EFey1eC...
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BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Colson Whitehead
The New York writer on his latest novel - Cool Machine - and its three key influences.
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Rich Tate 🎃 @richtate.com · 05/09/2026
I love how they keep reframing this with language like RETRO TECH BOOM. We've all simply realized it's the only way we own anything. We're not buying out of nostalgia. We're buying so companies can't take it away after we've purchased.
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CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom | TechCrunch
U.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last year’s decline as interest in retro tech and physical media continues to grow.
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Good morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading and enjoying Pretenders to the Throne by Adrian Tchaikovsky. What are you reading at the moment?
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
First week - after some five years as a VL/sessional member of staff - at LJMU as a real boy, teaching theory on Design & Illustration. I have a desk and everything!
Liverpool's metropolitan cathedral is reflected in the glass entrance to LJMU's art and design school.
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading Pretenders to the Throne by Adrian Tchaikovsky, What are you reading at the moment?
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You'll tell me OK Computer is a masterpiece; I beg to differ.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Bends, by Radiohead, just now on 6music. Funny to be reminded of such a great song - title track of a great album - by a band who got increasingly experimental (mostly unsatisfyingly) and, let's be honest boring, in the years following.
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2026, Altın Gün share.google/tkap6AvEGB3B...
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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2026, Altın Gün
Live at the BBC Proms: Altın Gün and Derya Yıldırım join Jules Buckley and the BBC SO.
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