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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The sign of a good OpenHouse location

A yellow sticker on rusty machinery that says "Danger Asbestos"

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO. TWENTY ONE.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I hope it wasn't something like a semi-colon or DROP xkcd.com/327/

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Exploits of a Mom

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The beautiful art of tissue packaging. It would be just what the great masters would have wanted.

Four images from Tempo tissue paper packaging. It includes, Vermeer's Girl with the pearl earring and The Milkmaid, La Grande Odalisque and the Mona Lisa.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When a crochet vest top looks like the cover of 1995's Help album.

A multi-coloured crochet vest top hanging in a market stall

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On this, currently in Hong Kong. I'd like to top up my travelcard digitally, but the machines only accept cash. So I now need to get cash from a cash machine so I can pay it into another machine to convert it back to digital currency.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Given the number of times I have to refresh at each stage, I am amazed that anyone has got through to book their events. Some slots are fully booked already.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 19/08/2026

Happy London Open House website crashing lunchtime to all those who celebrate.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Unfortunate 7pm start for the Proms there. At least it wasn't a 6pm start...

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It turns out that speck of dust that I can't remove from my camera lens was good for capturing a partial eclipse #eclipse

A tiny green crescent in the bottom left corner floating over a river. The Tate Modern is in the background along with a Thames Clipper. The background is quite gloomy because 95% of the sun is covered up

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The most middle class London booking clash possible. Both the British Museum's out of hour slots for members for the Bayeux Tapestry and Open House weekend bookings are happening over the same lunchtime next week.

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I updated my total eclipse webcam viewer for today's eclipse! Once totality begins you'll see a live-updating umbra, so you can race to the next webcam and see the eclipse happen over and over again. jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse...

A map showing the path of the 2026 total eclipse over Iceland and Spain, with markers showing webcams and a countdown until the eclipse begins, and it hitting the first webcam.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Business idea: AI-written novels, but solely to provide a literary basis for planning objections to major infrastructure projects. ('You can't build that windfarm there, that's the site of Lisbeth's tumulus from the cult novel 'The Bee Keeper of Maidstone'.)

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I think this gets at the heart of why I find the push for these types of AI so annoying. It turns into just meaningless words as we know the AI bot won't actually feel the same way. But maybe the direction of our world is just a sea of meaningless words and I'm just behind.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thought the BBC might have made a bigger deal out of the move out of Maida Vale. I think I got to go twice in around 2002 just as an audience member. Once was to see Super Furry Animals (no photos) and the other was for Shifty Disco 5th birthday John Peel celebration.

Photo from the upper gallery of a band playing a session in a recording studio.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Would be interested to see how it transcribes other instruments

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Jacques Lu Cont!

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Is this a warm up for the Olympics opening ceremony?

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Good cafe name, but could be bettered if it was the other way round

A sign which says "CAFE PI", for the cafe at the Andrew Wiles building in Oxford, which is part of the Maths faculty at Oxford university.

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Spookysaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

For no reason other than it's fucking brilliant, here's Chris Lowe from the Pet Shop Boys playing It's A Sin on the wurlitzer organ at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom

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Chris Lowe from the Pet Shop Boys plays It's a Sin on a Wurlitzer Organ

YouTube video by stoneybee

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There's a lot we can learn from museums. For example: imagine how much better England would have been last night if there had been a dry-stone wall in front of Pickford's goal.

A clearly photoshopped image of Messi stood in front of a drystone wall (from The MERL collection)

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I have visited @themerl.bsky.social and got a lot more out of it than Meta Glasses. Meta glasses don't have a Wagon Walk.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Was at Kew after hours this evening, which started late because they were struggling to open the door. The queue to the gate was very orderly. The most British thing was when everyone cheered after they finally managed to unlock the door.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Decamped to an air conditioned cafe so my laptop can cool down for a bit.

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Ros @hurricaneros.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

During an idle online search, I've stumbled upon what might be the greatest job title of all time. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Research Associate in Learning to do Math with Vampires and Spiders:Oxford Road

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 22/06/2026

Sky News helicopter was following the wrong taxi

The Day Today screenshot where Peter O'Hanarahanrahan says "he's in a cab" and Chris Morris snaps "Peter! You've lost the news!"

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Not following the football but looking forward to @noscoredraws.com becoming more unhinged over the course of the month through lack of sleep.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

On a train for a two hour journey. Another passenger has forgotten their headphones and decided that it's perfectly fine to watch it on her phone speakers instead. What's happened to people?

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

London Centric is so worth the subscription

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea

A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Generally avoiding World Cup content. But this is a great idea for team photos. The England team should do one in Morris dancing outfits including the fool.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This is my sort of game. Black Nielson - Calm Down it's all a dream youtu.be/tB3sv2fDRYY?...

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Calm Down It's All a Dream

YouTube video by Black Nielson - Topic

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This evening was a good evening to do a quick food shop on the Holloway Road

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Went to the @themerl.bsky.social, saw this and now want the exploratory booklet on Cheese and wine parties from the English Country Cheese Council.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Hopefully more than 12 people will see this. I didn't appreciate growing up in Oxford how lucky we were to have Nightshift compile what's on and support the music scene. I assumed everyone had their own version. I love that there is a detailed gig guide even in the last issue.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is where we've gone wrong with this country. Every city should have a bus that only goes in one direction making the sound of a locally relevant animal.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It is incredible how much rides on bangaranga

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

@craighamilton.bsky.social Thought it would be a good night to finally read this!

The cover of Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Made a coffee and had a good book ready for the long wait for Proms booking. All done and booked in 30 mins!

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Bring back juries. Or weigh audience votes by size of population?

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This is great! But the band also seems to have the most un-googleable name. No, I'm not looking for information about the saint, or... a 70s prog band from Naples.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I can't believe Nightshift is finally ending. I had a rare weekday off in Oxford last week, and it felt so homely to find a stack of these in Common Ground and to be able to read it there. Without it I don't think I would have gone to as many gigs as I have.

Copy of Nightshift magazine still printed in black and white after all these years.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Just your typical early Spring wake up call in Oxford #Maymorning

Sunrise over the High Street with a crowd of people looking towards Magdalen College tower.

Radcliffe Camera bathed in early morning sunlight

Morris dancers with sticks under the Bridge of Sighs.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Strawberry indigestion Sounds like quite a middle-aged emo band.

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I thought I've hit lows, but currently in a cafe where they are playing a bosanova cover of a Coldplay song.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

i believe this is related to the rise in people who are utterly incurious about anything not directly beneficial to themselves

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

People don't like change particularly if someone is telling them to change. Though if a technology comes along that is quite useful people will use it and it can happen quite quickly too (see streaming replacing TV viewing)

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Jellybean @jellybeanzzz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Going to share this every time someone recommends that I should read Brene Brown

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