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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I do like the whimsy of this petrol station

Outer Space in York, covered in Daleks, there also is a cyberman. And a tardis. Apart from that it’s just a petrol station and a car wash

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All these tech guys going 'look, you don't need musicians anymore! We can just generate whatever music you want!' and it's the fucking POPE who has to explain to them that art occupies a space not replaceable by the products of machines.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo featuring three rectangular vertical wood sculptures with blue and green inlayed stained glass, side by side on a wet beach with reflections

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...

David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"You don't have to be weird to be weird, you don't have to be strange to be strange," as the late Mark E. Smith used to remark *This might not apply well in Italy, where, whatever it is, you kinda need to dress-for-it

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Septembers reading included... Always pleasant to escape into Edward Thomas's Fenlands. Otherwise, a mixed bag...

A pile of books, hardbacks and paperbacks, spines to view, with a background of plants (sage, and an apple tree).

In no particular order, the books are:

Rebecca Solnit Men explain things to me
Edward Storey Portrait of the Fen Country
Lafcadio Hearn Some Japanese Ghosts
A Goudie & H Vies VSI: Landscapes & Geomorphology
Jasper fforde Something Rotten
Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles
Gavin Knight The Swordfish and the Star
James Shapiro 1606 Shakespeare & the Year of Lear
Andrew Crumley Mr Mee
Jenni Erpenbeck Things That Disappear
Wm Shakespeare King Lear

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm half-British and half-Thai. A random right-winger verbally racially abused me in the street for no reason at all. That same man was in my A&E ward a couple of days later due to a cardiac arrest. I was the doctor who saved him. There's a moral in that story somewhere.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watch the concentration

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/09/2026

Shhhh Sneak preview of @beckbook.com's exegesis on Philip K. Dick Don't tell my editor 🤫 beckbook.com

THE LAST TEMPTATION oF BECK

Dick and Hubbard--two more different science fictior writers Can
scarcely be imagined. And yet, both claimed to have received visions, to
have been granted prophecy.

What do you do if God speaks to you? What do you do once you've
glimpsed the ultimate Truth?

Dick died in 1982, never having come to a conclusion about what had
happened to him. He left a record of what hed experienced, but left it to
his readers to form their own opinions. His work remains in print: no
church has declared it to be scripture.

That said: Dick did, in fact, invent a religion. It's in his novel Do An-
droids Dream of Electric Sheep? (later the loose inspiration for the film
Blade Runner). In the world of the novel, a new faith emerges after a
nuclear apocalypse. Its adherents call it Mercerism

Mercerism's practices revolve around a machine-the "empathy box"--
that one has to interface with by holding two handles. It bears an uncanny
resemblance to an E-meter. But this fictional device doesn't measure your
emotions: it stokes them

When you grasp the handles of the empathy box, you suddenly feel as
though you are a man named Wilbur Mercer, who is climbing up a
treacherous hill, only to be pelted with rocks by mysterious and evil fig
ures in your periphery. People use the machine to experience Mercer's
physical and emotional pain-as well as the emotions of all the other
worshippers using an empathy box at that moment.

In real life, this is what art does. It's what art is for. Art, at its best.
makes other people real to you. It gives you a glimpse into something
outside yourself, but just as real as you are, It's proof that we're not sur-
rounded by automatons

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Andy LeClair @andyleclair.dev · 28/09/2026

Warren Zevon with the quote bubble over the original post

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This year, due the economy, Mothers Day and Fathers Day will be combined to form a shorter and much cheaper Parents Evening.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Morning. Last week I found out for the first time that Champion The Wonder Horse (stalwart black and white 50s schedule filler up to 1993) was a spin-off. Champion was Gene Autry’s horse, and it was a 1955 cash in on the success of the Gene Autry Show. He’s like horse Frasier.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spoilt for gig-choice today (@robynhitchcock.bsky.social in Manchester, @songsbyadamross.bsky.social in Marple, Seamus Fogarty in Strines).... But it's daughters birthday tomorrow so it's a family meal in Skipton followed by running her back to Leeds with her presents. All gigs missed; nevermind.

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Someone from Exeter was buried on Friday and one of their wishes was to have dinosaurs and the Grim Reaper present. Legend. Photo source: Exeter & Devon Crematorium and Memorial Gardens

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don't you just love it when after a long week and a difficult day, the Apocalypse goes and turns up Friday evening?

A vivid band of fiery orange-red cloud against a blue sky with silhouettes of a tree, a house roof and another tree along the bottom.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🐻 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/on-whim-143945864

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GlennA @glennairey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How I Wrote ‘Rocket Man’

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I Spy Autumn. Mists - 5 points Now looking for mellow fruitfulness...

An early morning park. Across the grass a tree line is silhouetted against a light blue sky. Grey clouds above are edged with pink along their lower sides.

A slight haze may be visible above the grass.

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Distress over Chepstow Street this morning; I think an Arndale peregrine found breakfast and breakfasts friend was objecting. Certainly looked like mobbing behaviour, and something was making distressed calls. Nature red in tooth and claw.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the 90s, many people in Cromer woke up to find a biscuit sellotaped to their front door. After almost 30 years I feel safe to admit I was involved. Obviously, they were digestives, not hobnobs. We were pranksters, not psychopaths.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2026

#OtD 16 Sep 1973 Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by Pinochet's troops following his US-backed coup a few days before. He was brutally tortured and shot over 40 times in the Chile Stadium stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8846...

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Berry @berryh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have a joke about phlebotomy. It's bloody good.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 16/09/2026

[1973] One Pair of Eyes - A series of highly personal documentary films. Alan Garner, the brilliantly successful author is a man obsessed by violence; in the universe, in the ground, most of all, in himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lioUn_KUnZU

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All Systems Go! - Alan Garner (1973)

One Pair Of Eyes - All Systems Go! - Alan Garner (1973)Alan Garner, the brilliantly successful author of books that dazzle and haunt children - and haunt adu...

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This (not) just in: it’s perfectly fine for you to prefer one kind of art over another. But it’s absolutely not OK to decide that the art you prefer is superior and the art you don’t is inferior. De gustibus non est disputandum etc etc. I hope that helps.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Just me and a cat run this whole thing. I design everything, answer the emails, pack the orders. Pete mostly supervises. So when you buy something from my shop, you're keeping a small studio going. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

A grid of nine images featuring prints, T-shirts, a phone case, a mug and a photo of Gail and Pete the cat.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I do wish people would stop calling these 'donations' and start calling them what they really are, 'downpayments'.

Front top corner of Sunday Telegraph: headline reads 'Farage: £72m war chest will ready us for power

Reform receives second £36m donation from a crypto billionaire in just two days

By Gordon Rayner ASSOCIATE EDITOR'

Screenshot of The Guardian online front page with a picture of Robert Jenrick sat in a television studio alongside Angela Rayner. The headline reads:
'UK politics live
Reform's Robert Jenrick ‘very confident' £72m donations are 'perfectly legal'

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

New second hand record shop has opened in Kendal (Revolving Eye, in the New Shambles)... ...rude not to have a mooch, at least, and came out with these. Lost my Levitation cd a while back but, bizarrely, the sticker on the back of this one looks really familiar...

A record and four compact disc cases displayed on a bench.

At the back is a 10" Bark Psychosis single ('A Street Scene'), an image of coloured blurred lights in a dark environment viewed through a wooden window frame. The art is credited to David McKean.

Leaning along the bottom of this are two cd cases; on the left, a bizarre collage that is Levitations first proper album, 'Need for Not' and next to it, a grey and white drawing of a skull that is the cover of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's 'I See a Darkness'.

Lying flat are two more cd cases: on the left is a painting of emblems on a beige background being the cover of David Sylvian's 'Gone to Earth's and next to it, an abstract multi-coloured design for David Toop's compilation, 'Ocean of Sound'. Coincidentally, both of these were designed by Russell Mills.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”

p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

"It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)

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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Banana Splits, the greatest band ever, at the opening of a Toys'R'Us store in Illinois, 1972. La la la, la lala la 🍌

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grace e miya @graceemiya.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you Sorry to be so short with you But I'm tapped #FallFriday youtu.be/mSHaB0t2KVs?...

youtu.be

The Fall - Telephone Thing

YouTube video by Kevin Kriel

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026

Sir Edward Leigh MP: “What is happening in the West Bank... is ethnic cleansing... I am proud to say, as the longest-serving member of the Conservative Friends of Israel, that I absolutely and fully support what [Ed Miliband] is doing today, because it’s about standing up for freedom and justice"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Here’s the best shirt for Halloween. 🎃

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Re-up

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

'During the most recent Ice Age, when much of the British Isles were beneath a vast continental glacier, the depleted sea levels opened a "lost land bridge" between modern-day Pembrokeshire and the south-east tip of Ireland, around Rosslare.'

bbc.co.uk

Cave art discovery suggests first humans in Ireland came from Wales

During the most recent Ice Age, researchers believe there was a "lost land bridge" between Wales and Ireland.

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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Genuine caller on #AnyAnswers - (ranting in Northern accent) "I don't care if Reform take money from Al Qaida as long as I'm not paying for room service for immigrants in hotels".

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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Matt @MattCartoonist on #ReformUK #Corruption @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Reformatted my TBR piles and shelves. Felt productive; feels like I have new books! Old ones rediscovered; others unaccounted for... Still going to a big secondhand bookshop today, but with a stricter list...

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I appear to be in the middle of a Robin sing-off between this fellow & another hiding over the way. This one's been on the fence, in the tree, round the apple branches & on the grass. Not had a lot of birdsong round here for a while, or maybe it's been too wet for me to be outside to hear it?

A robin (bird) sat on a fence, staring straight at the camera.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

August books; been a difficult month, hence perhaps the retreat into varieties of fiction.

A pile of books, mainly paperbacks, with the colourful spines on view.

In order of reading, the authors and books are:
Robert Holdstock Lavondyss

Solvej Balle On the Calculation of Volume I

Jasper fforde The Well of Lost Plots

Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man

Robyn Hitchcock Stranded in the Future

J L Carr What Hetty Did

Jenni Erpenbeck Kairos

W E Bowman The Ascent of Rum Doodle

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