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Not everyone's cup of tea but definitely someone's single malt. John Waters: Real wealth is never having to spend time with assholes. (Nope, I'm not on chat.)

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/10/2026
#VanityFair
Vanity fair cover with Sam Altman stealing everything
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Deep joy. Last night's concert featuring Music For 18 Musicians is available on The Glasshouse YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/live/qWvf9JL...
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Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians, Quartet and Music for Pieces of Wood | Live from The Glasshouse
YouTube video by The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[Checking the submssion queue] Looks like it's Story Submission Sunday! Translunar Travelers Lounge is open for speculative fiction stories of 5000 words or under. Full details on our submission page; please check the guidelines before sending. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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Submissions
Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
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frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social @frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also out for some live Steve Reich at the CBSO centre.
Five vibraphones in the entrance hall of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra centre.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 03/10/2026
The pope holding a baseball bat in front of a burning data centre with the text "I like the pope, the pope smokes (dope crossed out) data centres".

Because he said ai art is shit
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Unlikely revolutionary Mr Rogers will lead the uprising: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Where’s Fred Rogers when you need him?
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frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social @frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.tfwm.org.uk/plan-your-jo... Afternoon, all: bits of Birmingham will be less accessible than usual between 4th and 8th October so here's the public transport info. You're welcome.
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Conservative Party Conference | Transport for West Midlands
All bus services will be running; however buses that usually use Broad Street will be diverted to avoid the road closure between Oozells Way and Lyon Queensway.
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Fliss Kitson @flisskitson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔊Calling women of Birmingham who want to learn an instrument / form a band … Riotous Collective Birmingham has been formed!! I’m on board to help with drums 🥁 December 5th will be the first workshop held at Muthers Studio - full info & sign up : www.tickettailor.com/events/rioto...
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robynhitchcock.bsky.social @robynhitchcock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
LOS ANGELES! I’ll perform an evening of Syd Barrett’s songs on this unearthly genius’s 81st birthday at the Lodge Room Los Angeles on January 6th 2027. With full electric band & lights blazing. Once more unto the UFO, dear groovers - and don’t spare the overdrive… folkyeah.com#/robyn-hitch...
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Jock @jockbsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New DREDD/BATMAN piece by Bill Sienkiewicz🔥
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/
A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."
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Molly Burgess Designs @mollyburgess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This mid-century modern moth is Faye 🖤🧡🩵 . . #blackcats #halloween #halloweendecor #spookyseason #midcenturymodern 
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 30/09/2026
There's something about creating a nice physical copy of an output that really helps with closure on a project. So worth it!
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frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social @frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
10 years ago at Edge Hill Station: Different Trains played by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Also known as the night that Steve Reich looked out from the mixing desk and said "It's Gonna Rain". (Yes, that's him in the black and red hat.)
A scattering of groups of people: there is a lit gazebo just off the centre of the photo, this is sheltering the mixing desk for a musical event. There are a variety of railway related power lines and structures ro rhe right of the photo. Whole photo topped off by dark clouds against a pale evening sky. Two men underneath the gazebo containing a sound mixing desk. The one on the left is wearing large black headphones and staring intently at the desk. The one on the right is wearing a black jacket and black cap: the inside of the cap brim is red. He's wearing glassea and his face is brightly lit from the right.
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frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social @frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
10 years ago at Edge Hill Station: Different Trains played by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Also known as the night that Steve Reich looked out from the mixing desk and said "It's Gonna Rain". (Yes, that's him in the black and red hat.)
A scattering of groups of people: there is a lit gazebo just off the centre of the photo, this is sheltering the mixing desk for a musical event. There are a variety of railway related power lines and structures ro rhe right of the photo. Whole photo topped off by dark clouds against a pale evening sky. Two men underneath the gazebo containing a sound mixing desk. The one on the left is wearing large black headphones and staring intently at the desk. The one on the right is wearing a black jacket and black cap: the inside of the cap brim is red. He's wearing glassea and his face is brightly lit from the right.
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frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social @frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hurrah!!
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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Easter 1974, Ohio, Mark Mothersbaugh, later of Devo, & friend
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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My latest: a defense of piracy in the name of film preservation. It's not often one gets commissioned to write one's dream piece, yet here we are! Featuring @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social @jamesflowerfilm.bsky.social and @willaharlowross.bsky.social
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Pirating the Pirates
Notes from the underground of film preservation.
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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📣 MCR people! 📣 For Delia Derbyshire Day 2026, we're having a relaxed low key, no budget get together at Manchester Central Library. Join us for nerdy chat and check out the new recording booth and production suite in the Henry Watson Music Library. More info coming soon...
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3455 prefers the classics
Two bunnies are standing near a record player, and one starts to play their preferred record, "Something Else" by the Kinks. Next to him, the second bunny is miffed that she can't play her preferred record, "Room On Fire" by the Strokes.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#poetrychallenge is coming to Kings Heath today between 2 and 4 at Heath Bookshop - pop in and request a #poem - after I’ve written it I will record and subtitle it to make sure it is properly accessible www.theheathbookshop.co.uk #creativity #birmingham
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The Heath Bookshop - A friendly indie bookshop in Kings Heath, Birmingham
The Heath Bookshop is a vibrant, award-winning, independent bookshop in the heart of Kings Heath in Birmingham. We opened the doors in September 2022 having met on a course with the Booksellers Associ...
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am a writer of the words & sentences (some funny). I’ve done most things: written gags, speeches, scripts, TV ads - if you require such an individual, then I am that person. Website (here) www.mathew-owen.co.uk any RTs (or whatever they’re called on here) gratefully received. Cheers👍👍
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Mathew Owen | Speech Writer | Manchester
Bespoke wedding speeches from a professional comedy writer.
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Jason Narducy @jasonnarducy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FRIENDS! I’m thrilled to announce my second book, Mostly The Van (Volume Two)! I recount the terror of singing the National Anthem at a sold out Chicago Bulls game, witnessing a motorcyclist on fire in Paris while on tour, and performing with Split Single at the Pizzagate restaurant. Link in bio.
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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#IDOB2026 starts this Thursday - the House That Brum Built takes over the Council House on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th September 2026. Explore ten rooms over two days: www.idob.co.uk #LibraryofBham
A poster. A cartoon figure, possibly Humpty Dumpty sat astride a bull and holding a flag. The figures are placed inside a circle. The words International Day of Birmingham running along the edge of the circle. Beneath this are details of the dates along with further text.
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🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike · 22/09/2026
Anyone lose a pannier this morning?
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Fliss Kitson @flisskitson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Morning read 👏🛶 Looking forward to soundtracking this with Pram at the Birmingham MAC performances Feb 6th 2027 macbirmingham.co.uk/events/stewa...
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Noise Annoys @noiseannoys78.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Huge amount of new stock in today. Crates on the left are all reggae,drum n bass,jungle & hip hop. Others are mixed, not too many 7”s but some gems amongst them
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frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social @frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ed Harcourt is just beind that side fill monitor.
View over the stage at Nottingham Palais. Lots of blue spotlights.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 20/09/2026
For anyone who's been waiting, canopyrobin.etsy.com is now open again for UK orders (selling pins to fundraise my transition)
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CanopyRobin - Etsy
Shop Botanical Pride by CanopyRobin located in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social @frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Off to Notts for the Afghan Whigs and Ed Harcourt. A meeting of the clans, I'm happy to say.
A poster for tonight's Afghan Whigs show at Nottingham Palais. The top of the image has a number tof televisions, each featuring one of their album covers.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Children of Men: everything is awful, most of the world is gone but they expect you in the office at 9 am sharp, and you’d better be wearing a tie.
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The lazy way #drawing #art #joncarling
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Every day, the stories from the UK read like a dystopian novel.
​Screenshot of a Reddit post from r/transgenderUK titled "Excluded from school for supporting a trans girl." A parent describes their daughter, who has Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS), choosing to use the boys' restrooms in solidarity with a trans classmate who was forced to do so, resulting in her being excluded from school.
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's so wild and wonderful that this robot has been wandering around Mars for FOURTEEN YEARS and we get to watch it trundle about and poke rocks and send home postcards. ❤️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
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Curiosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars - NASA Science
While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey Birmingham pals, I’m popping to Kings Heath next Wednesday if you fancy a chat. 2 til 4pm. I’ll read you a poem or two if you fancy it as well. We can have tea . #birmingham #poetry #conversation #bookshop
Me and my books
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 15/09/2026
Do I know any journalists or folks with large platforms who might be up for promoting the launch of some new trans-inclusive fieldwork guidance from researchers at a UK university? It's almost ready for launch and I want to make sure they're seen and used by as many people as possible...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 15/09/2026
Back at school, some trans kids and their families are being threatened with discrimination. But trans kids still have rights – and schools must protect them: goodlaw.social/4acv
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It’s still unlawful to discriminate against trans kids | Good Law Project
Back at school, some trans kids and their families are being threatened with discrimination. But trans kids still have rights – and schools must protect them
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Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk · 15/09/2026
HOTTIES IN ART by @jackshoulder.bsky.social comes out later this month and he was gracious enough to write a guest blog for Proud Geek about his favourite hotties in geek culture. Sound interesting? You can read the full blog here: proud-geek.co.uk/post/hotties... #queerbooks #booksky
Snippet from a guest blog by Jack Shoulder about hotties in geeky art. Text reads: HOTTIES IN GEEKY ART - guest blog by Jack Shoulder. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them save the world on a regular basis, others pull off cosmos-preserving feats, while others still might fight for big ideals like truth and justice, but do so on a more down-to-earth level. And that’s just the good guys! Geek culture abounds with hunks, heroes, gods and a weirdly sexy monster or two. Whichever media you choose to consume your geekiness through - be it movie, manga, comic or book - there will be a hottie especially for you. Read more at proud-geek.co.uk/blogBook cover for Hotties In Art by Jack Shoulder, text reads: HOTTIES IN ART by Jack Shoulder, out 24th September.
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frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social @frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sad news.
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Mayhem Film Festival @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
With just over a month to go before our 22nd edition, we are excited to reveal this year’s full festival line-up.
This year's Mayhem Film Festival design - a blood red moon over water, with the Mayhem logo over the top of it. The dates below read '15-18 October 2026)
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 13/09/2026
[1999] The Trip - 4later series that consists of rarely seen NASA space footage from the earliest days of space exploration to the 1990s, set to a dance music soundtrack. The show was created by producer Jacques Peretti. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo1na7kGH9k
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The Trip. Series 1 Episode 6.Full Episode
A late night video feast from some of the best 90,s techno, ambient D&B, crazy tunes shown on Channel 4's 4later program mixed by DJ Downfall Artists CRISTOP...
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Jason Thompson, Exemplar of Enjoyable Pedantry @jasonjtt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Today we remember those brave souls of Moonbase Alpha, wherever they may be. Lost for 27 years…
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Space1999 Breakawayday
ALT: Space1999 Breakawayday
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Turntable slipmats are back in stock. Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/slipmats
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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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Lazzie BOO!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
yes, and, um, some of us keep trying to tell people that this is how the supreme court ruling, and the EHRC guidance, is written. trans men can be excluded from any and all "single-sex" facilities if their appearance distresses someone of hegemonic class, for any reason, arbitrarily.
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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tyromancy (n.) - Fortune-telling by observing the coagulation and other characteristics of cheese. Use: “Who could have guessed that your lovely wedding gift—that antique fondue pot once owned by the famous Madame d’Esperance—would lead me to the unexpectedly lucrative avocation of tyromancy?”
A “Grandiloquent Word of the Day” meme for Tyromancy, defined as “Fortune-telling by observing the coagulation and other characteristics of cheese.” At right, a black-and-white Edwardian-style illustration shows a woman peering intently into a fondue pot. Beneath the definition is the example sentence: “Who could have guessed that your lovely wedding gift—that antique fondue pot once owned by the famous Madame d’Esperance—would lead me to the unexpectedly lucrative avocation of tyromancy?”
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frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social @frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
newtasty.bigcartel.com/product/grtee I would be remiss if I did not share this.
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Radioactive Blood GR Tee
THIS IS A PRE-ORDER, SHIRTS WILL SHIP OUT ON 1st week of OCT. Show everyone you love Ghost Rider, Suicide, The Gories, my Radioactive Blood zine AND you are non too please about what the USofA is doin...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As if the headline isn't enough incentive, do read this short news story to the last paragraph because MAN does it escalate! playbill.com/article/man-...
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Man Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock You
The dust-up happened at a 2023 press performance in London's West End.
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