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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 17h

Two day The Big Team thing to endure. Yay. At least this means no Xmas event I chirrup gleefully. Sadly not the case.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The purple of a michaelmas daisy is hard to resist. #Michaelmas

shiny green fly on a purple Michaelmasdaisy flower

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am very tempted to elbow in the throat the rancid arsehole playing a loud shoot 'em up game with no headphones on.

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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're very sad to hear of the death of Peter May, he was a wonderful writer and a generous and gracious presence at the festival over the years. Here he is, at the most recent of six appearances in 2024 - Sending love to Janice and the rest of his family. He will be missed.

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just a reminder for Monday, jugs out.

An old note asking for people to put your jugs out on aMonday

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

cuth pube

A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Blackberries in a Vase, Lilly Martin Spencer, 1897.

Blackberries in a silver vase on a red tablecloth, painting.

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And a meander into the Wellcome, seen the main exhibitions already so a chance for old favourites. Henrietta Lacks and the tide of optimism.

A vial representing the HeLa cancer treatment cells developed with no consent and a photo of Henrietta (Helen) Lavks whose cells they were.

An installation with the words Everything is OKAY like ripples on the tide. It fades in and out

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The sun bathes its neighbours"

Detail of a person figure smiling with spinning head".

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Usually I have zero contact with anyone at weekends. So far 3 update messages from my Brother on various Parents stuff (underlying good but also Care stuff I don't understand, so anxious) and ping from someone asking am I around next Friday (No).

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 26/09/2026

brother ignatz where the hell did you get those sausages from

this bittern's got way too many snausages

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And this was this week's glorious read. Library hold notification in on Monday, finished last night - a gleaming bit of writing. And now it travels back to it's home library after a jaunt to me. @sarasheridan.bsky.social

A luxurious covered book of entwined leaves flowers and a crown. The Jewell Keepers

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Always the best things to view

Looking down the river with a moon. So obviously at night.

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Jingle Bellend @mrweir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A big wet chef's kiss to the WH Smiths employee responsible for that sticker placement.

A sticker covering the P and I of the magazine title 'Pick Me Up!'

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hightlights of this week (excellent theatre excepted): really good chips in Sidcup and reuniting a happy dog with it's owner when they dropped its lead and it bolted.

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Had Quite a Not Good Day At All and am not really in the mood for going to see an exhibition I've booked for. But my arsehole of neighbours are being themselves so out of the house it is.

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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Morning all. Today I'm launching a new range of colourful & 'fun' bird posters celebrating a bird's essential piece of kit: the good old beak. There are over 16* BEAKY BIRD posters + 1 group portrait with more in the pipeline. xx Check 'em out: www.edwardphilips.co.uk/beakybirds.h... * i.e. 17

Bird beaks are multi-functional, rather like hands in humans. Used not only for feeding, beaks are also important for display, nest construction, singing (of course!) and even regulating body heat.

Poster of stylized bird portraits arranged in a grid that highlights diverse beak shapes and species names on teal panels, titled "BEAKY BIRDS" with a short caption about beak functions.

Two stylized yellow-throated toucans facing each other against a teal background; top-right text reads "YELLOW-THROATED TOUCAN" with the scientific name "Ramphastos ambiguus."

Stylized poster of a sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) hovering left-of-center, its extraordinarily long bill reaching a red tubular flower at the top right against a solid teal background, with the species name printed in the corner.

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Right, let's start getting scary. I mean, me, I lump around the house at night as it is. Theatre is packed out.

A poster for It walks around the house at night" with a silhouette of a person against a house.

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Detail from the (that was definitely underwhelming) floral thing at St Mary's In The Way

Statue of Mary with a very adult looking child

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

80 hours of embroidery! This aerial landscape is directly inspired by Dartmoor and I'd say I have another 30-ish hours to go? I'm now starting to fill in the fields for the sheep, the tor area will be done last as I'm still deciding whether I want a slope or not 😅 I hope you like it! #art

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view landscape. It depicts a moorland scene in a range of green shades, about 70% completed.

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Flip me, this was excellent. Drawn in to a very powerful solo performance which felt like it was a huge cast. "Your poison flows into our cradle cast children still"

An advert for a play Darkling showing a distorted face with scratched away eyes. Set against the horror of Bhopal and the story of life before v after

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Found a woman who killed a man by clatting him over the head with a turnip after he called her a mucky bitch The day is redeemed

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The hippo at the end of the rainbow 🌈🦛 #MammalWatching #SouthAfrica #hippos

A hippo wallows up to its belly in a small lake with green vegetation and red soil behind. A rainbow ends directly above the hippo

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 22/09/2026

Excited to be heading to Bristol tomorrow for Encounters Film Festival! Looking forward to seeing a lot of films, doing a couple of Q&As and finally getting to attend a BAM on Thursday night. If you're in that neck of the woods Wed/Thur hit me up!

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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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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I got thrown off the fancy-dress tour of Henry VIII's house for not keeping up." "Oh? Were you ambling?" "No, I went as Jane Seymour."

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And a bit of giraffe delight (definitely defined) and a blooming Round Robin at Dr Johnson's House.

Detail of a wooden figure making a giraffe. A gift from ww2 firemen to the museum curator Phyliss Rowell

Round Robin manuscript to Samuel Johnson
Manuscript by Sir William Forbes, 1774
This manuscript is known as a 'Round Robin and is an exact contemporary copy of a letter presented to Johnson, petitioning him to revise his epitaph of Oliver Goldsmith for Westminster Abbey. It is written within a circle with 12 copy signatures of Club members around the outer margin, including of Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, Edward Gibbon, R.B. Sheridan, and William Forbes. It was written in the round robin style so as to avoid any one member being identified as leading the complaint.
The letter is a polite objection to the memorial inscription Johnson wrote for fellow Club member, Oliver Goldsmith. The objection was not to the content but the language Latin. It was received 'in good I humour' by Johnson, though he declared that:
he would alter the Epitaph In any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.'
The epitaph can be seen in Poets Corner today - in Latin.

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Incidentally if you’re into Agatha Christie and particularly how she plotted/misdirected, these two did an excellent presentation and their book completely sold out while I was queueing for the loo. I’ve acquired a copy now from elsewhere. bookguild.co.uk/our-authors/...

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Sally and Tony Hope | The Book Guild

Sally and Tony are retired doctors. They met when they were medical students. On their first holiday together they took an Agatha Christie novel. They read...

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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Only way for our duckling to get over a pumpkin to the water is to slide

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@drangelabuckley.bsky.social absolutely fantastic talk this morning - great way to start the day.

Set up up for the Agatha Christie festival showing a railway inspired poster.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our Rebellion! exhibition opens on 23 October at the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead and will run until 20 February. Be sure to leave a comment if you visit.

Punk style poster with a protester with their fist in the air and the words
Rebellion/
Exhibition
23 October to 20 February
Williamson Art Gallery
& Museum
Slatey Road
Birkenhead
CH43 4UE
Davenant

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh give me strength religiousness nutter wandering through the train ringing a handbell. Piss off and leave people alone.

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ozzy takes a break from chewing on his carer, Sophie

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are now going to see a rash of pointless micro nation referendums aren't we. This seasons flags on lampposts.

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

First picture: actual visualisation of me and the "can you justs"

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Gothiron @gothiron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Huge cheers to my boss for not telling me something which has Quite An Impact on resourcing for The Wretched Project.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You’re Getting In My Hair, created c.1968 by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us

Painting of snaking flowering brown tendrils of human hairs with blue human eyes stashed on the unfinished head of a figure with only the eyes and brows partially painted in, the rest of the face sketched out in pale pencil but almost invisible

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