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Anti-social, she/ze. Mostly living in the Mastodon Fediverse.

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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
On my train yesterday, a young man was embroidering a Norman ship from the Bayeux Tapestry, and a young woman was sketching what might or might not have been a Nazgul.
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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The team at Big Finish were all deeply saddened to learn of the death of Michael Keating, who is best known to our listeners as Blake's 7's Vila. Our tribute is here: bgfn.sh/ripmichael RIP Michael.
Michael Keating 1947 - 2026
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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Michael Keating was terrific. Such a clever actor.
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
A giant illuminated skeleton, representing Tom Paine's bones, at the back of a large box mounted on a tricycle, being driven by a young man in black with a top hat, and escorted by other figures in skeleton suits and orange hi-viz jackets, plus a bus (No. 100 for Manchester Shudehill), both advancing in an easterly direction along Chapel Street in Salford, at dusk in November 2019. Take your pick which I'm using.
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Sancho & Me (no, not me, Paterson Joseph) tonight at 7.30! Wish I was in Guildford to see it again! www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk/whats-on/san...
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Sancho and Me: For One Night Only
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Lisa Bowerman @lisabowerman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
How brilliant to hear Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren talk about denvillehall.bsky.social and our centenary appeal at the Olivier Awards. So important for our entire industry.
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Denville Hall (@denvillehall.bsky.social)
The unique care home for all members of the performing and creative industries. Est. 1926 / Charity No: 1148968
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National Theatre @nationaltheatre.org.uk · 09/04/2026
Don't say we never treat you 👀 Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma, with #HughJackman, and Terence Rattigan's tale of paternity and corruption, Man and Boy, land on #NationalTheatreAtHome this May. More info here 👇 www.ntathome.com/browse 📸 Simon Farrell, Manuel Harlan
Hugh Jackman in the 1998 production of Oklahoma. He stands on stage wearing a vest, shirt, and chaps, with hands behind his head, in a scene from the musical "Oklahoma!". The background features a rustic set, including a windmill and wooden fence. Another person sits to the left, dressed in period attire, near a wooden barrel.
Laurie Kynaston and Ben Daniels in the National Theatre's 2026 production of Man & Boy. Laurie is standing and Ben kneels on a table, both in 1930s-style costumes. Behind them is a large board with the cast list. The atmosphere is tense with audience in the background.
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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Congratulations to @unamccormack.bsky.social on her BSFA award - even though it is fiendishly difficult to photograph!
Una McCormack holds her (barely visible as it is transparent glass) BSFA award. BSFA Award, a glass octagon engraved with the award name and ‘Best Fiction For Younger Readers’
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Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
BSFA Best Fiction for Younger Readers: Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution, by Una McCormack
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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Some blingy books for world book day: A mid-15th century manuscript of Caesar's Gallic Wars, written on vellum, and that once belonged to the king of France; and our earliest printed book, the letters of Cicero to his friends printed on paper in 1472. Shiny! #WorldBookDay
Page from a manuscript (handwritten) book showing text and an elaborately decorated border, with the coat of the king of France at the bottom of the page. Page from a printed 15th century book with an illumiated initial E
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I've just discovered this is part of a whole season of BBC Ibsen adaptations and they're all on iPlayer.
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy Gauda Prime Day! Blake has fallen, but fear not, for the Liberator will rescue us from the miserable tree sanctuary, or failing that the TARDIS is approaching. #Blake #Blakes7 #GaudaPrime #GaudaPrimeDay
Part of a 32-year-old artificial green Christmas tree, decorated with red baubles and other small ornaments including the Liberator (bottom right) and the TARDIS (top left).
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Blakes7Bot @blakes7bot.torpidity.net · 25/11/2025
Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit JARRIERE: [V.O.] What are you going to do? SERVALAN: [V.O.] Turn Travis into a walking bomb. Uncouple those neural relays, Jarriere. [Pause] Good. [Pause] Now pass me a nitro grenade. blake.torpidity.net/m/211/218
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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Anton Walbrook in the Queen of Spades - BOTD
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hullo. @toft.bsky.social! Fancy seeing you here!
A crochet set, depicting what seems to be a pale grey alien, between you reindeer and butterflies.
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Looking forward to hearing about Queer Gothic on BBC Radio 3 - Sunday 19.15. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #QueerGothic
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BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Queer Gothic
Sarah Waters traces the queer roots of early gothic literature and architecture
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Soni 🐦‍⬛✨️ | TO THE UNIVERSES 🖤🤍 @sunnythecrow.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It's always a good day to post this picture ✨️
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
@thirdbird.bsky.social I decided it was time to get the old Bipussyhat out again... #Eastercon2025
Me in a hotel room mirror, wearing a pussycat in bi colours, plus a purple Worldcon Pride T-shirt from Glasgow and a lilac silk shirt plus black trousers.
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The wonderful musician Grace Petrie is on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends now! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, Michael Rosen, Barbara Flynn, Dylan Jones, Kemah Bob, Grace Petrie, Brad Kella, Stuart Maconie
Stuart Maconie and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Remembering Rod Marsh who died three years ago today, here seen on his way to 110 in the Centenary Test, March 14th 1977. It was his third and final Test hundred (Patrick Eagar) #cricket
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Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Tomorrow our January article comes out, and it's a big one! @scenicrailway.bsky.social goes *deep* on early Blake's 7 fandom and its very complicated fan/creator dynamics. To get ready, check out this new oral history from some on the creator-side about the show itself!
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‘When Star Wars came out, one of our directors was close to tears’: how we made Blake’s 7
‘I thought I’d be rushing around doing stunts. But instead, it was all about my tight, sexy outfits. After three episodes, I was thinking, “I hate this big hair!”’
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
It's Jane McGrath Day at the Sydney Test! The McGrath Foundation is now expanding funding of cancer care nurses in Australia to cover patients with all kinds of cancer, not just breast cancer. Buy your virtual seats to support cancer care nurses at www.pinktest.com.au #PinkTest #McGrathFoundation

A photo of Sydney Cricket Ground, with the old green pavilion on the right, players in whites on the green pitch, and a full house of spectators in the stands opposite. In the foreground are two pink plastic seats, with "Harriet" and "Susan" written on them.
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Look forward to seeing the 2025 People’s History Museum @phm.org.uk banner exhibition. Opens in Manchester on Saturday 18 January, and runs all year. sslh.org.uk/2025/01/04/p...
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PHM to unveil 2025 banners exhibition
The People’s History Museum 2025 Banner Exhibition opens on Saturday 18 January. Conservation Manager Jenny Van Enckevort with Young Communists Say Coal Not Dole banner, 1984. Image courtesy of Peo…
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Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
+ 'BBC2 IDENT CLOCK' + In between working on orders this morning I made a BBC2 clock for a friend's Xmas present. Popped a handful in the shop, available to pre-order for shipping in Jan. The shop will close on Monday PM for the year, so be quick. 🎄 🎁 🔥 hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com
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Charlotte Henry @charlotteahenry.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
PREACH. Fight back against those who tell us success can only happen if you wake up at 5am.
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Is anyone on #BlakeWatch this evening, and if so when?
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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Whole thread is worth reading but definitely please sign the petition. Wouldn’t it be great if a big social media platform made the right decision?
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Can someone let me know when Bluesky implement the option to mute reposts from individuals, rather than muting all reposts? Until that happens, I don't see myself spending time here.
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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
If you haven't yet, give a listen to the new episode of the Granta podcast, featuring my conversation with Josie Mitchell and Leo Robson about Henry Henry and the massive continuity of dukes
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Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org · 05/12/2024
Messages of support keep coming, thank you all. Sheila Hancock, actor and social justice campaigner, had this to say: "I am deeply worried about what's happening. The Observer and The Guardian must not be diminished in any way.” #savetheobserver 🙏🏻
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
@unamccormack.bsky.social Sent an email (in case it gets lost).
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
I'm extremely happy that my friend Clare Barlow is becoming the new director of the People's History Museum in Manchester! A great match!
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
@toft.bsky.social Keep meaning to tell you Bloomsbury are bringing out another book including Margery Kempe. Plus Julian of Norwich, Christine of Pizan and Marie de France. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/poet-myst...
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
'A welcome addition to medieval history, giving us a window into the lives of women that many people only know by name, if at all.' PHILIPPA GREGORY, author of…
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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Great advice.
Photo of a blackboard with the words “Made a lot of mistakes in my life, but adding more cheese than what a recipe calls for has never been one of them”
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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
This would be great! Suggestions? #sapphic #historicalfiction #lesbian #lgbtqia
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
(Tolkien poetry section is 26:30 to 40 minutes)
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
PSA: The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien will feature on tonight's Front Row. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jacqueline Wilson, JRR Tolkien poetry, BBC TV thriller Nightsleeper
Jacqueline Wilson her latest book, and two of the stars of BBC One's Nightsleeper.
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Peterloo Memorial Campaign @peterloomemorial.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Polyp, the founder of @peterloomemorial.bsky.social, has updated and streamlined his website, where you can now buy his graphic novels, including PETERLOO: Witnesses to a Massacre; COURAGE: Luddites, Peterloo, Chartists, Suffragettes; and PAINE: a Fantastical Visual Biography polyp.org.uk/books/
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Bookshop - polyp.org.uk
Click on each cover to preview and buy. (Via PayPal)
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
@unamccormack.bsky.social I was pleased to see someone at Didsbury Pride wearing a Friend of Garak top. I boasted that I knew Una McCormack and he did seem to know what I was talking about. I didn't remember to take a photo, so here is one of the 70-foot rainbow flag we carried through the village.
Five of the many people helping to carry a 70-foot rainbow flag, glimpsed underneath the flag as it billows upwards in the breeze; the sun is shining through the blue stripe.
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Dreamwidth Status @dreamwidth.org · 04/09/2024
Hello, Bluesky! We are moving our offsite status page over here: follow this account for announcements when we can't reach dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org to update it (or you're likely to not be able to reach the site to read it)!
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
There are now several videos of Manchester Sacred Harp singing at the Whitworth on Sunday. Rainbow includes me arriving late, dressed as a highwayman. This was because Lucy said "Why don't we dress up more?" And I explained more on Mastodon, but Bluesky has no room. youtube.com/@manchesters...
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Manchester Sacred Harp
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
It's the final day of the Pink Test at Sydney, which is dedicated to fundraising for breast care nurses. So far this week, they've sold 276,435 virtual seats, raising more than half a million Australian dollars. www.pinktest.com.au www.mcgrathfoundation.com.au #PinkTest #McGrathFoundation
A stylised snapshot of two pink seats, labelled Harriet and Susan, in a row at Sydney Cricket Ground, with the green-roofed pavilions in the distance in between modern stands. Tiny cricketers are visible on the green pitch, under a blue sky with white clouds. The snapshot carries the text "United in Pink: I've got mine #PinkTest McGrath Foundation".
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
@ikax.bsky.social Whether this will please you or not I don't know, but while typing out which cricketers appeared in the New Year's Honours I noticed that Ronald Hutton has got a CBE for services to history.
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Happy Gauda Prime Day! (I'm glad to report that my predictive text worked that out during "Gauda".) Do we have a plan for watching Blake this evening? #GaudaPrimeDay
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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Rare sighting of an analogue Tardis dematerializing manually. #skystorians #HistParl
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Jarriere @jarriere.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Making a brief pass through these parts to say that I believe today is the 305th anniversary of the death of Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, and I know it's the birthday of @philippa22.bsky.social, so happy birthday to her from Abby and me. I expect BlueSky will crop this to cut our heads off.
Me holding Abby, a tabby cat, in front of a window looking out on to a garden, with Morris willow curtains, and a glimpse of my grandparents' portraits in the corner of the room.
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The Propelling Pencil @proppencil.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Issue One of The Propelling Pencil is LIVE! Read 10 wonderful stories by @marthawrites.bsky.social @therelphian.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @ekmacdonald.bsky.social @liederfollower.bsky.social @terryholland.bsky.social thepropellingpencil.com/issue-one/
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Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians @acscricket.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
We're pleased to say that Cricket Grounds of Sussex is back in our online shop, along with Cricket Grounds of Northamptonshire. shop.acscricket.com These two books complete our series covering all 18 first-class counties; the previous 16 are available online at archive.acscricket.com/cricket_grou...
Cricket Grounds of Northamptonshire, by Andrew Radd. Cover pics: black and white photo of a match at Wellingborough School, with crowds seated under trees; colour photo of Finedon Dolben CC, showing a deserted pitch with winter trees and a church spire in the background.Cricket Grounds of Sussex, by Roger Packham. Cover pics: An Edwardian view of the County Ground at Hove (a distant view showing tiny white figures on an immense green field, bordered by several rows of black-clad spectators); and county cricket at Arundel Castle, a modern photo taken a ground level with informally-dressed spectators in folding chairs watching play.
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Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians @acscricket.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (known as the ACS) was founded by 30 cricket-lovers in 1973 and, as we celebrate our first half-century, has grown to 800-plus members spread across 20 countries. Visit our website, including a records section and online shop, at acscricket.com
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