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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 3h
One of the first albums I ever bought. Still love it.
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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 15/10/2026
a field guide to Skarsgårds: if silver fox he be, that's Stellan you see unsettling but hot, Alexander you've got only dread doth you fill, then behold, that is Bill
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s difficult to pick as they’re all ace but Reading, Writing and Arithmetic for me as it was so fresh when it came out. And I have a cool picture disc version.
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Gone, but not forgotten.
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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have, in the past, when I've gotten the "I am calling about the accident you were in" call, described the Hindenburg disaster in such a way that it took the caller quite some time to realise that I was wasting his time.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hardly news, but the redesign of @bbciplayer.bsky.social is bloody awful isn’t it? Why is there no longer an A-Z option for searching for films? At least one on my watchlist isn’t covered by any of the ”helpful” categories. FFS
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Lewis @lewiswbt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh great, you've thought of a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet. Too bad it perpetuates harmful stereotypes about dogs and foxes. I hope it was worth it
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Pesky Splintergeist ~👻🌙~ @peskysplinter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The pins driven into his head were an exquisite mess of ecstasy. Pain. Pleasure. They all dissolved into just...sensation. Better than sex. Better than orgasmic drug highs. He was glad he found the lament configuration and joined "them". "And to think, I hesitated", said Winnie the Pooh
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I liked that one and the next one. Still have the last two to go.
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Bathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Just saw a massive advert for TOBLERONE MEETS BISCOFF at Victoria and plunged into despair that the ourobourostic wankery of the rest of culture has even overtaken sweets. Was this a result of stopping TV adverts to children? There are no new sweets, just remixes of confectionery for parents?
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy Monday. Just started the third volume of Maya Angelou’s autobiography
Cover of 2003 Virago edition of Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is of course great but it doesn't give you the right to start the y axis at 2,500.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/10/2026
Drum and bass & cheese afternoon
Dance to your favourite drum & bass tunes while you eat cheese and learn about the path to righteousness. Tuesdays 3pm.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have fond memories of This Other Eden and Popcorn but pretty sure I’ve read nothing more recent than that.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I loved Tootles so.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Good morning! I am getting towards the end of Headlong by Michael Frayn, which has, in true farce style, the most infuriating protagonist I’ve ever come across.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
God I must have read Stark twenty times as a teenager, including at least once finishing the last page and turning straight back to the first. Had a huge effect on me, and while I don’t doubt parts of it not aged well, from memory at least fairly prescient also.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Extraordinary, really. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Anne Carson · On Snow
As we talked I was watching snow drift down the dusk outside, counting it, one hundred and five, one hundred and six,...
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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Presumably the first anagram of arse cannon to win a Nobel prize
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh bravo!
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Ah, 4 October! Happy fifth birthday to this marvellous thing…
Tom Hollander, A Life in the Day: I wake up generally at 3 or 4am. Not because I'm like Margaret Thatcher, but because I need to pee. I pee in the darkness using my phone screen to illuminate the target, then often take half a sleeping pill ... Sometime between 6 and 8 I wake again, turn up the Today programme gently. If my girlfriend is there we hold each other in different positions. If she isn't I wrap my arms around a pillow and continue listening to the bad news. Whoever gets up first will go downstairs and start baking porridge. ... It takes about 40 minutes to cook and we eat it in such large quantities with olive oil and salt that we negate any nutritional benefits. But we enjoy it. And while it's cooking it gives us time to look at our phones. Sometimes in this waiting period I try to do three slow sun salutations to stretch myself out, but often I don't. I brew the first of many coffees. ... Owing to forces beyond my control, life has not been as busy as it used to be. … I look at myself in the mirror and try to see what others see. Examine my bald patch, weigh myself and pull my stomach in. Then let it out. Then pull it in again. If I'm feeling positive I might get dressed at this point and go for my second coffee on the street below. I've lived in the same flat for 20 years and one of the rewards for this loyalty is that I know all the shopkeepers and stallholders on the street, for whom I have become like a piece of the old furniture they sell. Hello Glen, hello Kris, Ghino! … Then take it home and leave it on the sideboard with any post that has arrived from my stalker. Then I might call my agent. "Isn't she? No, no, nothing important... just checking in..." Soon it's time for my midmorning nap. Followed by the preparation of lunch, which I start at 12.15pm. … If it's sunny I might go for a cycle ride down the canal, ifit's raining I might masturbate and doze, or speculate on the extraordinary injustice of Philip Green's knighthood…
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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Amazing news London people Persephone is coming back! 🥳
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah not sure I could go through that again.
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Snowy. @snowy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We need so much more of this.
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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For 'professional' reasons, I am a member of lots of small town Facebook groups. This bloke has been appearing in towns across Sussex (Horsham, Redhill, Crawley, East Grinstead) with no apparent explanation. This is precisely why I stay subscribed to these groups.
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s pretty short, shouldn’t hold you up for too long.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Won the Booker in 1974 I think
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
you may already know this but there is a book called “Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?” by (I think) Pierre Bayard in which he argues that both Poirot and Christie got it wrong.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s a lovely book eh? I often recommend Holiday by Stanley Middleton as an interesting compare-and-contrast
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
TYTD and Substance are fantastic singles collections. My other two faves are by Squeeze and The Pretenders.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s the only game I play, so maybe that has something to do with it, but its right up my street and has given me a lot of pleasure.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ah ok. It’s great fun, my character’s been going nearly a decade I think.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@bigbeardedbookseller.com hello! Just seen your reskeet from failbetter. Do you play fallen London?
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What i read in September: a pretty decent month all told. Faves included Switzy, The Village and Red Shift but not really a dud amongst them
A stack of eleven books on my dining table.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture
Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morning, I’m halfway through Le Grand Meaulnes
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah that’d be nice. Mix of standing and seated. so we stood. Ace gig.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We got them as well, with v little hassle. Their IG comments tell a very different story for some people. Saw St Etienne last night and they were fantastic.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bravo!👏
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