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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 3h

Mine keeps changing before I even complete the nine....

errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 17h

It's now gone like this... Given it's almost an hour after sunset and this is looking westwards, I can only think that the illumination is the reflection of the sunset on the sea...

An evening sky; while generally dark blue, clouds are illuminated on their underside and lit violetly/pinky/purple.

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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 · 02/10/2026

.... because then it's Vance in charge! Even he doesn't want that.

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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

Ah, wasn't sure if you were sharing the result of an afternoon down a Flanders buildings rabbit hole.

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

Nevermind; ever been? We stayed there three times returning from Belgian holidays, 2016-18. Children appreciated it, too.

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

A lovely place; if you're staying there, enjoy yourself! I may be jealous...

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

More mist and less mellowness in Manchester...

The view south down Deansgate with a verticality of buildings; tall ones in the distance disappear into mist.

In the foreground, a man stares at buildings. A glazed office block reflects a band of brightness while behind it, an incomplete building disappears into mist; it's higher levels lacking windows. Behind the van, two closer buildings made of sandstone frame the modern newer ones in yellowy-brown, their lines of perspective drawing the eye towards the unfinished building looming over them all.

Does this even make sense??

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

See also when best-selling books were written by authors, not actors. (Although I have a theory that these days, readers can easier hear ab actor reading their book - hearing their voice as they read - than an author they've seldom heard speak).

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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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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Blaxwich might be needing a new pier by the time the sun comes up... Goodnight, Hookland.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

... maybe Dr Regan should consider whether he, too, volunteered to do that research, and might also be being influenced... Goodnight, Hookland.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm sorry, it's not a proper illustration of Hadrian's Wall if it isn't by Ron Embleton!

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Any versions in particular? Or just the whole compounded effect of it all?

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I shall wave at a passing jet then, and hope it is yours.

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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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