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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 27/09/2026

Marina Hyde on Me Too and many perpetrators:(commendably) lots Marina on Nick Cohen and GMG’s handling of that and support for its women employees: …

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Amazing detail of lickspittle @telegraph.co.uk “journalism” in this week’s @privateeyenews.bsky.social

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Clownf1st @clownf1st.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Too Much, Too Young Persons Railcard

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

sure would be nice if the UK had a government instead of 17 Sun polls in a waistcoat

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 18/09/2026

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others"

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 18/09/2026

I'm so pleased for that lad that he's getting away from home.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 13/09/2026

Hi Alex - do you have dates lined up for the in-person Festival?

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

‘I saw you across the harbour & wondered if you’d be interested in some of my new fish fingers’

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026

BBC with new, hard-hitting interview with balaclava clad criminals who seized a port: youtu.be/lr_vl62JblQ?...

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Just normal innocent men

YouTube video by Maz H

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 12/09/2026

Oh no, the horses have bolted, say the people who have left the stable doors propped open for two years, when they could have closed them.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 12/09/2026

Busy fiddling while Rome drowns in rising levels of crypto.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 12/09/2026

This house on Rightmove is a decrepit fixer-up until you reach and look at the third photo here, when it becomes a run-awayer.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 12/09/2026

Track my mood every day using my copies of the Fontana series of Great Ghost Stories. Today’s a solid Volume 11. What about you?

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 11/09/2026

Presumably for Kent Police ‘listening to the calls we had the night before telling us it was going to happen’ isn’t one of them.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 11/09/2026

Still, in good news today our legislators have safeguarded me and those I love from a future of being able to choose not to suffer and die in event of weeks and months of pain when terminally ill.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 11/09/2026

Every train company in the UK is the Eddie the Eagle of train companies. Every one of them. It’s at the point now when I expect to be late or miss a connection every time I travel. Useless, useless gougers.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 06/09/2026

He was wearing a lanyard with his name and town identified on the card, captured in the photos/video.

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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Took a picture of my friends dog at the train station and may have created the best horror movie poster ever

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/09/2026

I can disperse these clowns in 30 seconds, just give me a loud speaker and the authority to collect delinquent child maintenance payments.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ICYMI this is what the BBC were up to while Channel 4 were investigating Reform for allegedly breaking the law on party donations

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Having a relaxing first day off as the Clacton returning officer after a busy by-election. Phew, that was exhausting work! Wouldn’t want to go through all that again any time soon.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 03/09/2026

Good to see the Beeb picking up the big story about Reform and running with it.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 03/09/2026

In other news tonight: BBC buy disconsolate Chris Mason an emotional support puppy. Every journalist, friend or family of journalist, or anyone who owns a notebook banned from the Reform Conference. Tired TV comedy writer with neck pain says oh no, please not the bin again.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Channel 4 reporter: Hello. I am Mr. Alias and this is my extremely suspicious comically large donation that i can only make in the form of a bag of money with a dollar sign on it. every other reform guy: seems legit! let me tell you every single way in which i and my boss have broken the law

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 01/09/2026

when you don't need a weather app (Cat and Dogs beach, Sunderland)

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shardcore @shardcore.org · 31/08/2026

morning

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's the only global what....?

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🔴 NEW: Special advisers accepted hospitality from lobbyists and businesses 700 times + since Labour took power Glastonbury tickets, Taylor Swift, UFC fights + more SpAds sit outside the UK lobbying rules. So no one knows what was actually discussed🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-700-fr...

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The 700 freebies: how lobbyists and businesses courted Labour's special advisers

A Democracy for Sale investigation reveals the scale of hospitality accepted by ‘spads’ – and how little the public is allowed to know about it

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today in badly-worded headlines: www.scmp.com/news/people-...

South China Morning Post.
Taiwan man wins lawsuit but gets jailed for recording wife's affair with robot vacuum.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 28/08/2026

Vols 1, 2 and 3 sitting on my shelf at the moment.

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As the nights draw in, let's get into something spooky with four weeks of WRITING GHOST STORIES, all running online so you can join us from anywhere! www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-gh... #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #spooky #haunted #haunting

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Writing Ghost Stories - 4-week course

A four-week course exploring the essentials of writing a ghost story, taking in atmosphere, characterisation, pacing and much more!

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 28/08/2026

Maybe they were Australian?

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 28/08/2026

Sometimes I look at submission guidelines and see 'no simsubs' and just...sigh. Unless it's one of the amazing markets that turn around very quickly, in which case fair enough, I find it hard not to move on.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Don’t let folks tell you Gen Z students can’t read. Kicked-off my Duke first-year class with this favorite Lydia Davis story - projected text onto a whiteboard so we could annotate by hand. So many smart and insightful readings, by a group of 18 year-olds in their first week of university life.

If you ask her what is a favorite story she has written, she will hesitate for a long time and then say it may be this story that she read in a book once: an English-language teacher in China asked his Chinese student to say what was the happiest moment in his life. The student hesitated for a long time. At last he smiled with embarrassment and said that his wife had once gone to Beijing and eaten duck there, and she often told him about it, and he would have to say the happiest moment of his life was her trip, and the eating of the duck.

-Lydia Davis, Happiest Moment

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

there are mists and oozes in this occulted world and all the ghosts live there

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 27/08/2026

As well as the stunning photos like the one below, it's good to see this by Pietro Rojas shortlisted, this brown bear muzzled and strapped to a bike in a 'show' in Qatar as a reminder that it could equally be in 'Miserable Bastards Abusing Animals for "Entertainment" competition 2026'.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 27/08/2026

As with so many others, years of strong talk for kudos and likes until the point at which power is achieved, when money talks even louder and politicians roll over so it can scratch their belly and tell them they're a good boy or girl.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 27/08/2026

So much great work, or great careers, came out of it. Don't thik we'll ever see anything like it again.

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 27/08/2026

For years as a child I was haunted by a recurring dream of a terrifying silent angel standing by me on a riverside. It was more than a decade later that I saw Penda's Fen, and jumped out of my seat at this scene. I must have seen part of the film, way too young. Probably. "Child, be strange..."

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is incredibly amazing 💙👇

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 27/08/2026

I just want to take a moment to congratulate the title. (I'm sure it's a great read , and one that is more necessary day by day, given the dark enlightenment freaks), but just to be trivial for a mo, that title...<chef's kiss>)

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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...

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The 30,000-mile fish finger

There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...

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Iain Rowan @iainrowan.com · 27/08/2026

Drafting a new short story but trying something new: the pov is first person plural, which is going to be an interesting and fun technical challenge. The 'narrator' can only narrate what is collectively known. Greek chorus style, if the chorus were the odd liveaboards in a shabby marina.

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