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such a good and insightful writer on this sort of thing. how we categorise and how the way we categorise defines us, our behaviours and how we are seen, how we are channelled.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

strongly recommend giving yourself - and your limbs - a day off once a week or every three or four days or so. you’ll feel a lot better and the exercise will feel easier and better the day after. after two-three weeks it’ll all have bedded in.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

an later episode features, equally eye watering in different ways, features Coach Weinhaus himself, with ALAB and Coach, fulfilling a legal requirement after he unsuccessfully tried to sue the podcast.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

omg @thefence.bsky.social has a piece on pink slime journalism feat. “Coach” Weinhaus, as introduced by @helldude.bsky.social on a remarkable, approaching art, episode of the ALAB podcast (Ep 8: The Counterclerk) now advising and lawyering for f’ing Yaxley-Lennon/Tommy Robinson

an article from The Fence magazine about pink slime journalism appearing in the UK. a small dashed off cartoon in black brushstrokes in the bottom left hand features a newspaper man with a clapboard in the old style selling something apparently called Clown News

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

extraordinarily pompous voice: “i detect lies for a living and im v good at it”

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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I knew I couldn't have come up with this myself. here's your big bowl of raw minced beef, delicious

an in-store ad for Morrisons butchers counter which is illustrated with a posh cerami bowl filled with raw minced beef topped with a sprinking of diced white onion and some chopped parsely

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

Harry Redknapp is a phenomenal choice as brand ambassador for legal and employment organisational compliance software.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

by god the first side of the purple mountains album is absolutely incontrovertible. margaritas at the mall could be a top five track for me.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

when have i ever said that. also, yeah, not doing this one on main.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

quilp in dickens maybe? iago is marvellous ofc. partly because he is so completely honest. and macbeth is a study here as well.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

to answer the question i feel kipling should have something to say about this, but can’t locate the right example. without benefit of clergy and the end of the passage are neither quite about evil.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

omfg this is the fourth or fifth time i’ve heard love and happiness being played while i’m out and about. is there some sort of marketing or algo push of it happening? why am i hearing it all the time! it’s a good song! why am i hearing it so much!

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the story was true and family history, in Dublin.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

not answering the question, which is a good one, but the best example of evil came from a story my grandmother told me. before hearing it i was slightly dismissive of the concept as requiring a religious framework that i didn’t subscribe to. i don’t think that any more.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yeah i think the lusciousness was kinda what i needed. a bit of a mysterious absence in my listening tbh. what would you recommend for the broody, bird like and cascading?

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@grimpen.bsky.social see this reply has directly led to me listening to Dalbergia Retusa which it turns out is *exactly* what i needed this morning 🙏

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

as featured in the recent sciascia piece in the lrb

an excerpt from the LRB about Leonardo Sciascia’s grandfather

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i do like it for boiled beef and carrots! but requires v long simmering. with the resultant broth and a dab of english mustard, it's something else hot or as leftovers.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i mean the value of the mongrel is v much a kipling stance.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

to follow up, not my local pub (though it would have been-ish once) is playing The Groundhogs.

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

oh god you’re sorely tempting me with that - not that powers is consistently good, but i do like him. however i just think mieville’s writing is… bad, for want of a better word. (have read Embassytown and The City and The City - enjoyed his blogging actually)

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

Archilochus’ (680-645BC) satires and lampoons are proverbially supposed to have been so stinging and shame creating that they drove some of his targets to suicide from shame (he’s often cited at the beginning of genealogies of satire).

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

really don’t understand why we don’t have one. it’s a role that could really support and structure one of the UK’s most significant industries, help drive and enable our excellent tv and radio broadcast industry. shame.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

genuine question: how hard is it? just need pants that actually go round your waist (rather than sit on your hips) and straight leg rather than a tapered leg.

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

so you did this the other day and i was baffled at it being something controversial. succession is v clearly, v obviously a comedy/sitcom. it retains the beats, edits and mannerisms from actual previous comedies. it does slapstick. so now i want to understand who *doesnt* see it as such.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fred Trueman anecdote, with Fred Trueman accent, from the very earliest days of our wonderful new epoch. “You hear people on the train going ‘buy this buy that, sell, sell’. I just don’t want to *knoooooow*”

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And tbh this is everyone.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But otherwise and in general I find myself saying (internally) ever more frequently “Jesus just get off your phone for god’s sake” you’re in a busy public space! And it genuinely seems to be a problem that people can’t get off them.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

saw this at gigs where by far the worst (tho by all means not the only) offenders were older. Younger skewed gigs I’ve been to have been notable by almost going back to pre-phone visibility. Almost. Or you could be Eugene Robinson and just address people filming gigs and they put the phone away pdq

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

café les deux gares really is an excellent place to have a meal if you’re heading back from gare du nord, five minutes (rather full) stroll from eurostar check-in, but tucked around the side from the main station areas.

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

- rabies - the jagaroth apparently

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

- pylons filled me with *an awful dread* - dogs after i got attacked by one when little, thankfully there are lots of v good dogs around who have made up for it since - the witch’s house down by the stream - the sound of the toilet flush at night would send me into a panicked run back to my bedroom

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

tell you who would be incredibly embarrassingly bad at celebrity traitors: adam tooze.

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

People won't have been actually crossing once it got to be a large area of saltmarsh. They'll have lived on higher bits of ground and made fishing trips into the marsh which was more productive. Like the fens before they were drained.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i can imagine they would have had to wear pattens or the like certainly! (no idea at all obv)

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i love imagining that bit - quite a long bit! - of time. the periodic seasonal expeditions, the lore around when and when not to go. the “just made it” moments, the sucking of teeth, the period where it started looking not viable. feel The Broomway is the best, closest still navigable example today.

Broomway bridlepath, stretches across mudflats and sandbanks from foreground to horizon, the top third of the picture taken up with blue sky and the occasional high cloud.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ever encounter the guy on the mobility scooter with the elevator/lifting platform functionality around vauxhall bridge who used to blow a whistle, hold up traffic and feed vast numbers of birds? not your area and i haven’t seen him recently. i think it was about the birds for him though. i think.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

you forgot the importance of hitting that horn as soon as any friction or need for reciprocity or consideration is encountered.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

oh fuck off. better for what? she’s appearing as she wants to appear. she’s nothing to do with you. jesus.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ah i’ve spotted le responsible

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

why is my local pub playing the seeds. v rarely hear sky saxon’s weedy desperate tones out in public for obv reasons. i love it.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

it is unfortunate that the nirosta steel imbroglio has put a load of nirosta steel tracks into my head.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

just saw someone wearing a sultans of ping t shirt and feel like i need some counselling.

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

do love the classic gallimard look. and finally picked up a french copy of vies minuscules!

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

it has a cost! (ie yes it’s perfectly possible)

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the weird thing about Mr Beast is that he's both a Jigsaw-like guy obsessed with making people do death games and also a human doll that has been totally enslaved by the YouTube algorithm

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fizzles @fizzles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

spa terminus is legit one of the best places to buy food.

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