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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 3h

#OTD 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 - the first artificial satellite. Its radio signal is heard worldwide as it circles Earth every 98 minutes. The little metal sphere shocks America, demonstrates Soviet rocket power and ignites the Space Race.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2h

For #AncientSiteSunday the #Hellenistic theatre at Pergamon, #Türkiye, built in the 3rd century BC, alterations were made in the #Roman period. It's one of the steepest known ancient theatres. The capacity was about 10,000 spectators. 📷️ C. Bredfeldt 🏺

A full shot of the ruins of an ancient theatre, located on a hillside. The theatre's steep tiered seating structure is clearly visible, constructed of light gray stone blocks, weathering evident in various tones. The hillside surrounding the theatre is covered with grass, creating a contrast between the man-made stone structures and the natural landscape. Sections of crumbling stone walls and foundations are scattered throughout the grassy slopes.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 19h

Custer’s first stand

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 19h

Afro-Caribbean Muslim Young Man With An Air Of Insolence About Him When Delivering My Cold Dinner; His Lot

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 20h

How is it possible not to know what most of this means while at the same time knowing exactly what it all means? I'd bloody love to be in a Bacardi tent with Ian Wade.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 21h

State-owned then, before the great Blur Privatisation.

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X-Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 21h

Dettaglio sulle mani di Grace Kelly. Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock (1954)

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, so now you can't be a seagull and British?

News headline "Britons lose £171 million worth of food a year to seagulls"

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This remains one of the weirdest collisions of material ever made. Lovely lute stuff, mad noise shit, but also the very best version of Electric Counterpoint by Steve Reich. It's sublime. music.apple.com/gb/album/sof...

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Softloud: Music for Acoustic and Electric Guitars by Sean Shibe on Apple Music

Album · 2018 · 18 Songs

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 03/10/2026

I'd love to hear what favourite Reich pieces our readers have. It's probably Desert Music, Octet and 18 Musicians for me.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Brexit Brexile Brexodus Breturn Brentrer Breaction Brealism Breality Brecognition Brevulsion Breverse Bremorse Brecap Brebound Brevolution Brefreshing Brexecution Breavement Brextinct

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is Andy Burnham the first prime minister in my lifetime who actually likes fiction and poetry? I feel quite moved to hear him talk with genuine enthusiasm about Tony Harrison’s V.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As is traditional on National Poetry Day - the exciting first draft of Larkin's This Be The Verse discovered, after his death, in an old, worn Razzle magazine.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2026

#OtD 30 Sep 1919 compositors and pressmen working at The Daily Sketch newspaper in London, UK refused to print the paper until an editorial criticising an ongoing railway strike was deleted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1034...

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Alexa Wilson @alexadwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

USAF B-1 bomber from Fairford (topical, eh?) flying over on my walk this afternoon.

A massive long-range bomber against a pale blue cloudy sky.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Name a film with a female director. Chloe Zhao, The Rider. Someone sent this to me and implored me not to read up on it before I watched it. I went in cold. Bloody hell. It's extraordinary.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is just an absolute joy. Like listening to the funniest people in the writers' room just riffing. A familiar feeling! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Strong Message Here - We Care, We Fight! (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds

Is Ed Davey cut out for the attention economy? Armando and Stewart Lee have some tips.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can the media stop participating in AI psychosis

Tilly Norwood Says She’d Love to Work With Tom Holland and Olivia Colman: 'But Only If It Were Their Digital Twins' on an 'AI Production'

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I see you all, putting "fuck" into Shakespeare; I'm not falling for it, something rotten in the state of Bluesky.

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 27/09/2026

It's not a laughing matter but I just pissed myself at this.

The Israel FA will also appeal both yellow cards awarded to Saied Abu Farchi during Thursday's defeat to Austria. Farchi was given a second yellow after he celebrated scoring an equaliser by uprooting the corner flag, an action interpreted by officials as mimicking the firing of a rifle.

Israel dispute this interpretation. “Anyone familiar with him knows it was an imitation of a snooker player, like the legendary Ken Doherty," their spokesperson said.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 27/09/2026

#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965...

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh man, I've unposted and reposted this just because it cheers me up so much.

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Selfie Vivian Maier

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a 29-year-old journalist, Mariya Yizhvenko, she was killed in a Russian strike on a business center in Kyiv yesterday 💔🕯 Her death was shared by her husband, combat medic Danylo Yivzhenko, and her former colleague Oleksandra Nekrashchuk.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My son's latest for the BFI. Proud as all fuck.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He cited disinformation and foreign propaganda, a hatred of those who believe “there is a God and that he’s made up the rules for life”, and not knowing the Bible. Has anyone tried running these people through an AI detector?

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 25/09/2026

Centaur rodeos

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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Quick, quick everyone, turn your radios on, somebody in a Radio 4 play is "about to meet a ghost from their past"

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Berks of DeFrights...or Something. @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do people not do ‘the history’ any more? AIDS crisis. Race riots. Massive unemployment. Privatization and ruination of everything. institutional police racism. Misogyny. Homophobia. Famine. Rise of Murdoch. Recession. The far right reemerging from under their rocks. Lad culture. Bosnia. Rwanda.

When people think the 80s and 90s were great.

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lads! Tall Tales & Murder is almost upon us! (Sunday night on RTÉ and later in the Autumn on the Beeb.) You can hear me burbling on about it, as well as The Thick of It, Veep and Breeders, here. Something g to help you doze through the commute. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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Award winning actor Chris Addison on dark comedy and politics today

Podcast Episode · Behind the Story · 18 September · 32min

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Jack Ringland @jackringland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looks like she's going medieval on his ass.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Behind every powerful narcissist is a woman beaming pain into his fatty, time-limited heart.

Xi Jinping stands with his wife behind him. Next to Xi, Trump salutes and winces, as if in pain. Behind him, his wife seems to look directly at him.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 25/09/2026

Horror movie idea: An endless line of Trump sources calling and screaming at you "MARK HALPERIN"

My Trump sources say the president's worst nightmare imaginable has arrived... panicked texts and emails from GOP insiders are blowing up my phone. They're all saying the same thing: MARK HALPERIN

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Book/The Fall people: is there an affordable collection of MES lyrics? Only anthology I can find only has *some* of them and it's like a hundred fucking quid. Cheers.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Every celebrity has a lookalike in foreign media no.???: Russian Martin Clunes in the smash hit series Martin Clunes Cop

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Carl Winberg @winberg.ie · 25/09/2026

Remember when we all thought super-villains had to be smart?

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