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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 19h
Once saw a five and a half hour long 1927 silent film at the RFH. 🍑💀
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Nikki Morgen Comix @duknuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lammy the Yapper (commission)
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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
James was always c̶o̶o̶l̶ an old timey prospector.
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@pierrenovellie.bsky.social My Shinkansen was an hour late due to fires near the line and when I got off I was greeted by two separate TV news crews interviewing passengers about what it was like to be on a late train.
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Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Take a moment to read this, and you will not regret it.
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was in America at the time, so she rang me up because she was scared, but she had to do it via the operator because of the way the phones worked in the asylum and it ended up costing us £60.
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My wife once watched it when it was broadcast on telly while she was on her own at night in a psychiatrist’s cottage (her brother’s) in the grounds of an asylum during a big thunderstorm. She was quite scared.
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Ian McDougall @ianmcdougall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mario when he's asked what his favourite underground station is
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Turns out it got a mention in the 25 tour programme.
Bath Pavilion
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It was the unveiling of a bunch of new songs that would be on Morning Glory. Oh, and in the film I loved the Brazilian woman who loved Bonehead, what a gift.
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
hundred school kids, all trying to buy drugs off my wife because she had a mobile phone so was clearly a dealer. It was a hot Summer’s day, Liam & Noel were drinking outside. John Major had resigned. The gig was sweaty, we were at the front until a bouncer scooped my fainting wife up into his arms.
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Oasis film was surprisingly beautiful. Great camera operators set loose in the crowd capturing overwhelmed fans. The songs taken out of our era into a new time and place. My Oasis memory is getting tickets for a secret gig at a little hall from a new thing called a website. Just us and a few
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No thank you
“Enjoy skateboarding in a karaoke room”
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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some days you wake up and find a really strong wikipedia page with first-rate clockwise captioning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_...
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this exchange today
A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago: 
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago: 
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
HE WAS A JOURNALIST FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, WHY DID THEY SEND HIM TO SPACE?
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chris @yrpalchris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
watching The Man Who Fell to Earth, always thought this was a weird choice of tagline but I guess it worked
original theatrical poster for The Man Who Fell to Earth - circular colour image of a verdant river valley with Bowie and a thin white outline of a triangle superimposed onto it set against a black backdrop, title to the left of this image, company credits below - with tagline added by me in the negative space at the top of the image 'you'll see Rip Torn's dick and pubes!'
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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"So Bobby sends out our record with the dead f**king rat in an envelope, and they land with a thud on the desk of every preeminent DJ who immediately refuses point blank ever to play the Boomtown Rats in their life.” www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Rat Trap [1978] (Original Video) - The Boomtown Rats
YouTube video by The Boomtown Rats
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I had no idea that the phrase “Back to the old drawing board” comes from this Peter Arno cartoon from March 1st 1941’s New Yorker. It’s rather splendid to be able to date the birth of what would become part of everyday speech with such precision.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I do love 'House and Garden'.
Help! My 15-year-old son wants to paint his bedroom black. I've said no, several times, because currently his bedroom is papered in Morris & Co Willow Bough, with matching blinds (the aim was to give him something that would serve through adolescence to adulthood) - but he keeps coming back to it, and it inevitably descends into an argument. He's passionate about skateboarding and says William Morris is 'not a match for his aesthetic. Nor, he tells me, is the set of John James Audubon ornithological prints that were a Christening present from his grandparents, or even a Howard chair.The armchair and the prints, however, can be relocated to another room. The black is trickier, and I suppose my concerns are two-fold. Firstly, in terms of my aesthetic, I love the Willow Bough, and I'm simultaneously not thrilled about having a black room in the house. It's so dark, and I suspect it would open the floodgates to hideous accessories (he wants a giant beanbag.)
Secondly, I'm rather hoping that this is just a phase, but that raises the possibility that if I did allow the black then in 18 months' time he could
regret it. Is this likely? And if so, do I just hold out for a bit longer until the desire has passed?
Perhaps I can bribe him with something else? Or, is there a way through via some sort of decorating compromise?
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The rule “everything before the but is bullshit” for this type of article applies again here.
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Les Demoiselles
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Vive Jacques Demy! Vive les Demoiselles de Rochefort!
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lens flare on my nose!
Me in a vineyard in an eclipse
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Near maximum eclipse, a car drove by very slowly with the driver wearing a welder’s mask.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A new essay for all my trans siblings and our allies. "As the UK enters a new era of state-mandated segregation, I find myself asking: was it all worth it?"
ruthpearce.net
What we have won
It was the largest trans protest in British history. We travelled from across the country to central London. We were joined by allies, especially cis gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer people who re…
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 05/08/2026
REMEMBER The guidance coming into effect today doesn't dictate what you're allowed to do as an individual. It for service providers and business owners. Do not cower in fear, do not reduce yourself, do not isolate, that is one of the intended effects.
Photo taken at a protest, he background is tall old buildings of a city centre, a lightskined hand is holding a sign with a trans flag painted on it that says "fuck your "respect and clarity""
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Worth remembering how mind-bogglingly recent the Magdalene Laundries were. The last one closed down on 25th September 1996, which means the Magdalene system outlived Tupac by two weeks.
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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
They flew in from Australia and pretty much the first person they saw when they got into London was Jimmy, and they had to make up on the spot a reason why they were there
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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Jimmy Cricket also responsible for the greatest ever This Is Your Life moment when he contrived to bump into his big surprise guest who he hadn't seen for thirty years when he was walking down the street the day before the show
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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Legend substack.com/@slamshopp/n...
Social media post by Sam Shopp captioned about their “most prized possession” — a used copy of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë defaced so that every mention of “Jane” is crossed out and replaced with “Spiderman” or “Spidey.” The left image shows the book’s cover, a Barnes & Noble Classics edition, with the title altered to read “SPIDER-MAN” and a Spider-Man sticker placed over the original cover artwork. The right image shows an interior page (the deathbed scene with Helen) where “Jane” has been handwritten over with “Spidey” throughout
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Johnny McNulty @johnnymcnulty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"people are getting worse" is a Top 10 all-time fallacy, an illusion created by age and proven wrong by data. except right now. right now it's true.
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You’re rowing home You’re rowing home You’re rowing Norway’s rowing home
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I only gave it 2.5 stars on lb but for the last few weeks I’ve kept thinking about the Roy Keane performance in Saipan, the film with Alan Partridge as Mick McCarthy. He’s got this intensity and energy and conviction, even if it’s destructive.
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Evergreen.
Josh
@JoshMLabelle
We've assembled 100 people with
ADHD and 5 people with no soft skills to manage them, and given them a simple goal: make an impossible amount of money. We call it the games industry, and we think it's going to work great.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
😭😭😭😭😭❤️🤍💚
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Found a photo online
8 year old Emily Wilson in a school production of The Odyssey.
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A sweet translator’s note on Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey.
When I was eight years old, my primary school put on a production of a (much-shortened) Odyssey, complete with cos-tumes, song, and dance. The play starred the cute troublemaker in my class as Odysseus, the headmaster of the school as Polyphemus (the one-eyed monster outwitted by his tiny opponents), and me in pigtails as the goddess Athena.
It was a turning point in my life. I was enthralled by the production, not only because we could pretend to gouge out the headmaster's eye (thrilling though that was), or just because I was cast to play a goddess (ditto), but because of the story and the atmosphere it evoked: a world of magic and adventure, of diverse cultures (both human and nonhuman, welcoming and murderous, foreign and familiar), and of an individual's struggle to survive and return home. After this experience, I was inspired to read as many Greek myths as I could find, including versions of The Odyssey itself. I went on to learn Latin and Greek, to read classics at Oxford, and to become a professional classicist. Over the decades since my eight-year-old performance, The Odyssey has always been with me.
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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Incredible payoff
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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
He could just see Chuck’s face, a white oval turned toward the sky. “Look,” whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the PlayStation Stars were going out.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
James Burrows 1940-2026 RIP
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maria @orbsorbsorbsorbs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
of course! sadly, everyone was incorrect.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
jesus fucking christ
Steven Spielberg
DIRECTOR, "DISCLOSURE DAY"

E.T. was a little moist,
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Graham Stock @iamgrahams.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Right near the beginning of the rllmuk archive, in the Aug 2004 thread about the Doom 3 review, it was already "If only you could talk to the monsters..." and discussed like it was a traditional joke we made every time.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
i like this article on japanese wikipedia (autotranslated in my browser)
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