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I am a fish. Sometimes, I sell books. (Psytrance aficionado.)

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Totoro”. Studio Gibli, Japan
Framed by the dark, silhouetted trunks of ancient trees and branches laden with vibrant magenta foliage, an enchanted woodland realm opens into a soft, luminous mist. In the foreground, perched upon an emerald-paved stone path, the small white forest spirit (Chibi-Totoro) and medium blue spirit (Chū-Totoro) sit side-by-side, their backs turned as they gaze toward the glowing horizon. Rising beyond the grassy knoll, the colossal, gentle form of the great forest guardian (O-Totoro) emerges, his immense slate-grey head and wide, inquisitive eyes peeking through the canopy. A hazy canyon and pale, layered mountain peaks drift in the background under a soft, dreamlike sky. The illustration evokes a magical sensory atmosphere: the cool, damp fragrance of moss-covered earth and spring leaves, the quiet whisper of mountain breezes through high boughs, the faint rustle of spirit footsteps along ancient stones, and the breathless, reverent awe of stepping into a hidden sanctuary of nature.   Inspired by Studio Ghibli’s 1988 animated masterwork My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro), directed by Hayao Miyazaki, this stylized artwork celebrates the film’s profound roots in Shinto animism and environmental reverence. Set in the lush, agricultural satoyama landscape of Japan’s post-war countryside, the narrative re-enchants the natural world by portraying kami—indigenous spirits that inhabit ancient camphor trees, rivers, and deep woodlands—as benevolent guardians accessible through the pure, unsullied imagination of youth. Studio Ghibli’s legacy of traditional hand-drawn animation embodies the spirit of monozukuri (artisanal mastery and devotion to material craft), where thousands of hand-painted cels and richly rendered background art celebrate the textures of rain, wind, and foliage.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Evolutionary Mind. I'm interested in all three authors. Should be a fairly wild ride! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination & Spirit
Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna , psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham ,...
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wow, my best score ever. 13/15. It must be an especially trivial week.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tyra... Scratching my post Roman history and archaeology itch. It's a great read.
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Tyrants and Traders: Tintagel, Arthur and the Lost Kings
Discover exciting new research illuminating the most mysterious centuries of British history.How Roman Britain ended is one of the most controversial questions in British history. Unique among former ...
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@betteridgeslaw.bsky.social
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
...are you the machine?
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm reading this collection of Forster's short stories. They are marvellously strange and not what I would have expected from him. The title story is very prescient. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #booksky #dystopian #shortstory
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The Machine Stops and Other Stories
A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now...
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Even AI can't stop me looking like a potato in every single photo ever
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How will it pronounce 'scone'?
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
At first glance I assumed this was a half eaten biscuit.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Been waiting for this book all year!
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/09/2026
World, meet Gerald. He lives in a rockpool and he’s got some very important life lessons to share with you.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of the best author endorsements ever. #booksky #briandillon #liedown @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
'It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down'
Hilary Mantel,
Guardian Books of the Year
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
bro all your borogoves are mimsy rn
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is also excellent tidal.com/track/207977...
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Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq - Well, This Is Shit
Listen to Well, This Is Shit on TIDAL
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
tidal.com/track/105610... Heard this and thought of @oldenoughtosay.com #nomorefuckstogive #ukelele #luton
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Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq - I've No More Fucks To Give
Listen to I've No More Fucks To Give on TIDAL
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Betteridge’s Law @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Did IKEA Accidentally Create the Perfect $6 Hi-Fi Accessory for CD Collectors?
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Did IKEA Accidentally Create the Perfect $6 Hi-Fi Accessory for CD Collectors? - Betteridge’s Law
No.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
More cheese Gromit? #hobsbawm #booksky #morecheesegromit
A photograph of the cover of Emile Chabal's magisterial new biography of Eric Hobsbawm, published by Harvard University Press.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Every time I see John Deacon in photos he just looks really pissed off.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Eurotrash?? I'm there.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I would 100% watch this reboot.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Good use of an excellent book. @briangdillon.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
The eclipse of the sun projected onto a copy of Ambivalence by Brian Dillon via a pair of reading glasses.
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists
One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New train service connects Finland and Sweden for first time in decades
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New train service connects Finland and Sweden for first time in decades
The service will enable rail travel from Portugal to Lapland - what is believed to be the longest train journey in Europe.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My other half claims "it makes perfect sense". No explanation yet forthcoming.
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Bluebeauty ~ she/her/human being @bluebeauty.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Brünnhilde, 1936
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I almost just wrote "I can see the resemblance" - but I can't, and it would be quite rude!
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Fyi @thehamofficial.bsky.social
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just read it for the first time. Many thanks. Reminds me of some poetry I wrote on a night out at Megatripolis in the mid-90s.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
He's going to be very well caffeinated.
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Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Count Binface has a donation webpage at ko-fi 👇 ko-fi.com/countbinface
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Support Count Binface
Support Count Binface
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Worse than having a shit in the aisle?
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Al Ryan @alryanradio.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 27/06/2026
Imagine supermarket, hospital and station car parks that: ☀️ Keep cars cooler in summer. ☔ Keep people drier in winter. ⚡ Generate renewable electricity. Britain considered making it happen. It quietly decided not to.
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Very sad about this www.economist.com/britain/2026... #lomgwave #radio #weirdvibes
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The BBC switches off its oldest service
Long-wave radio’s time is up. Terrestrial television will surely follow
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Maybe I have unusually average feet? (I don't) I think it's just that they become a bit more flexible once they have been worn a few times.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Faffing.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It's fine. I've bought a few pairs over the years and they have all been great. The best part is that they are usually worn in so you skip the uncomfortable new shoe bit.
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
UPDATE I have drunk the rosé In the bar across the bridge …
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 25/06/2026
That feeling when you find the best shady spot to sit in. 📷: River God on the Long Walk at Woolbeding Gardens, West Sussex by Laurence Perry
Statue of a male god like figure in a shaded cave like area of a garden. He is in a seated position, wears a crown and holds an urn with water flowing from it. Around his feet is water that cascades down through the rocks.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Heatwave survivors: If you haven't yet read The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, now is the time. It is set in a flooded city of the future which has become tropical lagoons with only the tops of buildings emerging above the water. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #booksky
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The Drowned World
Check out The Drowned World - <p>When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Empire of the Sun’, reis...
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hoping for a Snowpiercer scenario only with just the people in the running to be the new labour leader (I assume there is more than one...)
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I am truly gobsmacked by this discovery. If true.
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Babe! Wake up! They just dropped TWO new Augustinian writings!
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Life goals
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It's a Christmas miracle.
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Might be relevant to you @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Flicking through a second hand book I found this delightful entry. Forced greengages! Edward Gorey is always wonderful. #booksky
An Edward Gorey illustration of Mr Earbrass perusing a box of second hand books.Mr Earbrass has driven over to Nether Milestone in search of forces greengages, but has been distracted by a bookseller's. Rummaging among mostly religious tracts and privately printed reminiscences, he has come across The Meaning of the House, his second novel. In making sure it has not got there by mistake (as he would hardly care to pay more for it), he discovers it is a presentation copy. "For Angus - will you ever forget the bloaters?" Bloaters? Angus?
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Fluoronaut @fluoronaut.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
@stuartmaconie.bsky.social this looks fascinating.
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(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Trailer for a documentary about Leo Records. I hope it finds distribution and some kind of streaming release; I'd love to watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h7X...
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Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends / AFF 2024 Trailer
YouTube video by Astra Film Festival
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