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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Why have I never heard of this amazing woman?!

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

“And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain”

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Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi

12 track album

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Lincoln City goalie George Wickens watching the action towards the end of the Imps’ 4-0 win over Blackpool.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Please give if you can. If you can't, please share the shit out of this.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Went to see The Silence of the Lambs on the big screen for the first time since 1991. Stepping back even further now to Manhunter. They’re both so good. These two movies have transcended their original sources so completely; does anybody read Thomas Harris or even associate him with these films now?

Opening scene from Michael Mann’s Manhunter, William Petersen and Denis Farina sat on a piece of driftwood.

Molly Graham (Kim Greist) and Jack Crawford (Denis Farina) framed to perfection.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Good morning, and a very happy Edgar Froese Day to all who celebrate.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Ten years ago, inspired by the return of my childhood interest in birds, I set myself a target: see 200 British species in a year. The result was this book. Through 2026 I’ll be revisiting it, month by month. If you want to join me, just subscribe to my newsletter. levparikian.substack.com

The cover of Why do Birds Suddenly Disappear? White, with the title and so forth, and the subtitle “200 birds. 12 months. 1 lapsed birdwatcher.” The back of of a goldcrest is disappearing to the right of the cover.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

5 years since the Sunday Times absolutely hit the nail on the head. And that particular mutant virus is still at large and trotting out pretty much the same old crap for the Mail.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Rewatching Men. I think it’s wonderful. And pretty horrifying. It seemed quite divisive at the time, but seems to have vanished culturally (if I might be unforgivably wanky and condescending for a moment). It’s on All4 for nowt if you fancy seeing Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear being amazing.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I saw Daughters of Darkness (a 1971 let’s be honest EROTIC horror) years ago late night on the BBC and it has stuck with me ever since. Not like that. It’s set in a deserted seaside hotel in Oostende. I **love** out of season North Sea seaside towns by the way. (“Everyday is silent and grey.”)

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“Red sky in the morning, Really quite lovely indeed”

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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

It’s amazing to think Nigel Farage was once exactly the same.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Absolutely over the moon with my new slip mat from @gailmyerscough.co.uk. You should go check her stuff out, it’s aces.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

After too long hemming and hawing, picked up All The Haunts Be Ours, an astonishing compendium of folk horror containing 20 movies from around the world. Started the centrepiece documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched and wondered how I’d get on (it’s 3’15”). It flew by; amazing piece of work.

Blu-ray box set slip cover for All The Haunts Be Ours, a secondary descriptor declares that it is a compendium of folk horror. The cover graphic depicts a golden tree, before it standing stone and image of a magpie.

Images from the movies Witchhammer and Viy.

Images from the movies Il Demonio and Dark Waters

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

“On a willow twig a kingfisher perches. It watches the eels with interest, but these are well-grown and too big for him to catch” ‘What to Look for in Autumn’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

A tiny kingfisher gleams out from dense overarching willows bordering a narrow river

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I’m giving an online talk on Thursday evening at 8pm (UK time) about Birds & Flight. It’s free to RSPB members but anyone can join for a donation. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-by-le...

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Talk by Lev Parikian: Birds and Flight

Join nature writer Lev Parikian for a fascinating, entertaining talk about the marvel of flight, focusing on a variety of bird species

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Gail is great, for proof look at all her cool stuff FFS.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

And now…It’s been a while since I last watched Se7en, but here we are.

A scene - gluttony, if you must know - from David Fincher’s Se7en.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I’m rewatching Late Night with the Devil (which is great- David Dastmalchian is *fantastic*) and I’ve just realised it has a great mirror in the contemporaneous “3x3” episode of Inside No.9 (the one with Lee Mack, also brilliant).

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

The driver "managed to contact the control
centre at Network Rail and get the train
diverted onto the slow line", Calder says.

"That was absolutely crucial because this
train was scheduled to be travelling through
Huntingdon station on the tracks with no
platform at 125mph."

"It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere,
which would have been very difficult."

Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest
possible way" thanks to the "incredible
professionalism from the driver and the
police". Train drivers are trained on how to
take appropriate action, he adds,

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I may have missed a memo, but Amadeus still (ahem) rocks. Almost zero cultural footprint these days, but it’s still wonderful.

Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) looking imperiously down at everyone as they enjoy The Marriage of Figaro in Amadeus (1984).

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.

One consistent thing this time of year is that there are crows everywhere. I spend a lot of time thinking about crows. They have the most obnoxious vocalizations of maybe any animal, they’re aesthetically unpleasant and feel like a harbinger of death, and they know when they’re bothering you and they enjoy doing it. Drives me crazy how well they’ve adapted to LA. I saw one just this week going through a garbage can, methodically picking items out of it one by one and tossing them on the ground, looking for foodstuffs. It was making a horrible mess, a mess you’d normally associate with humans. They’re such a pest, and the worst part is you have to respect it. They’re fat and happy and they thrive. They’re annoying in a way that suggests profound intelligence. If they could get around to inventing money, they should get tickets for littering. Treated like equals. I have met crows that should be in jail. There’s one in my neighborhood that seems to have a problem with me personally. They’re my favorite bird.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Over on the Other Place I would occasionally put this thread together, most recently during lockdown, four years ago in fact, and I realised I'd not done it here. So, bear with, and feel free to mute as this is an epic (genuinely, I’m not sure we won’t reach hitherto non-invoked thread limits tbh).

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Evening, everyone. I am watching The Quatermass Xperiment and isn’t that just a cracking image?

A b+w still from the 1955 horror/sf movie The Quatermass Xperiment. A rocket has crash landed and is buried nose first in the ground. The tail, with large stylised fins, is set dramatically in front of several onlookers.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

We need to go back to idolising the FA Cup and treating it as the last and only truly great competition in the game. Plus, they still sing Abide With Me, which, after Nearer My God To Thee, is the best hymn.

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

There’s a lot wrong with the world, so maybe we could start with this guy and move outward.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

One more share for this. The sea, refugees, flags, and helping the people who are helping.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Years ago, Tokyo did a commission for me of my daughter and her new pooch, Belle, as a pup. (There’s also Cleo the hamster sat on her shoulder if you look carefully.) He’s a great talent and a lovely man…you should take a look at his shop if you can.

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Tokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Please help support my TINY business and either purchase something from my shop (stickers are only £3) or please share this so I can reach new customers. Thank you! www.infinitebacon.com

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

If you believed the producers of King and Conqueror, you'd think the original source material for the Norman Conquest was virtually nonexistent. In fact it's one of the best-documented events in medieval European history. You can even spin a 400+ page book out of it. www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/k...

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Might start popping back here. Hello everyone, I trust you’re all well?

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Once more for luck. Then I'll shut up about it (for a bit).

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BILL RYAN @faceyouhate.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

My new FREE TO ALL substack post is up. In a brief diversion from the main structure of these posts I'm taking a break by reading two long-time favorites: Elmore Leonard's VALDEZ IS COMING & Donald Westlake's KILLY. Lots to talk about with both! Please click billryan64.substack.com/p/you-aint-b...

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You Ain't Batman

On "Valdez is Coming" by Elmore Leonard and "Killy" by Donald E. Westlake

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

Hobbys at Lakenheath. More acrobatic than swifts. Ripping dragonflies in half and chomping them in mid air. Bloody great. Sometimes they stopped and took a breath #birds🪶 #ukbirding

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

Bill’s always been great on books and movies…this is different and very moving. I wish you well my friend.

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