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john bone

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contentedly retired academic (economics) diatonic accordion fumbler (www.youtube.com/@ekhezlaik/videos) shelfloads of #vinyl - not a collector though, just old. #COYI btw

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Once I had the idea that Chris Mason is doing Starmer's daily horoscope, I could not unhave it. Have a listen with that thought in your head. In terms of pacing, writing, and tone, it could not be more perfect.
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Greatest scientist between Newton & Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist, born #OTD 1831; formulated Theory of Electromagnetism, four equations which underpin modern information & communication technologies. Monument George Street Edinburgh | James Clerk Maxwell Foundation Edinburgh
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Cheers to the approaching weekend! This fabulous cup is reminiscent of a medieval chalice. It is decorated with scrolling tendrils and foliage, and lapis lazuli, garnet, opal, amethyst, rock crystal, tourmaline, mother-of pearl and red coral!
A silver cup decorated with semi-precious stones around the rim and the base.A close up of a silver cup decorated with semi-precious stones around the rim.A close up of a silver cup decorated with semi-precious stones around the base.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
utter waste of time, that interview.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Bowie’s musical trajectory might have been rather different had Asher chosen otherwise…
15th July 1968.

Kenneth Pitt Management Ltd., 35, Curzon Street, London W.1.

Dear Sir,

As we told you on the phone, Apple Records is not interested in signing David Bowie. The reason is that we don't feel he is what we're looking for at the moment.

Thank you for your time.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Asher

Head of A&R for Apple Records.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Shaping up to be a Ditherer vs Ditherer leadership contest.
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Cuts and damage that have the de facto approval of the @royalsociety.org, which continues to honour Musk as a fellow despite his breaches of their code of conduct.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You forgot to put ‘wilfully’ before the first ‘wrong’, and ‘inadvertently’ before the second.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Unexpected moment yesterday in the chamber, when he went off-script in his closing speech with an unsolicited admission and apology for his own relationship with Mandelson. Seemed admirable at the time. But maybe he’d just then been alerted to this leak.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is how politicians of the Labour right used to deal with the fash, btw
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
‘How Many Aunties?’, Black Hares Mount, Leeds, 1978, photo by Peter Mitchell.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Interesting that Burnham’s argument for less aggressive whipping is that this would “raise the status of members of parliament [and] let them appear more authentic to their constituents”, given his commitment also to PR which is somewhat inimical to the single-member constituency system.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The better of those two candidates, for sure. Neither got my vote though.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
All models, similarly, are wrong. One criterion of usefulness is the extent to which the behaviour of the model provides accurate predictions for the phenomenon. Likewise for metaphors?
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Sometime at the end of the second century a local aristocrat got buried close to what will become Berlin. He was laid to rest with a bronze relief showing the labors of Hercules and might have been a veteran of the Marcomannic Wars. Small world! Landesmuseum Brandenburg
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It’s worth checking if your local library service offers press reader. Mine does. So that’s today’s editions of pretty much most of what I ever need free.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Died (alas!) on this day in 1594, in Venice, the great Jacopo Robusti, commonly known as Tintoretto. Here, by himself, in 1587.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Economical with the ‘social history’.
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Dee Lilley🔻 @deelilley.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
House at the sea, Paul Klee 1918
House at the sea, Paul Klee  1918
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Stunning Iberian sculpture of a wolf head from El Pajarillo, Jaén, Andalucía, early 4th BCE. The ears pinned back and wrinkled muzzle suggest a threatening posture. It forms part of a large sculpture telling story of a hero who frees a youth from the wild animal. Museo de Jaén.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Style-ish
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This work was painted in the late 1940s when Theodore Major and his family lived in Wigan. After moving to Appley Bridge in 1950, he painted on board rather than canvas and relatively few works remain from the earlier period.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Kearton Brothers (Richard & Cherry): Born in the tiny Swaledale village of Thwaite in the Yorkshire Dales, these farmers' sons are credited by Sir David Attenborough with inventing natural history photography. In 1895, they published British Birds' Nests, the world’s first
This photograph from the 1890s depicts British naturalist brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton using a creative, high-angle tripod setup to photograph a bird's nest.Cherry Kearton (standing on shoulders) was a pioneer of wildlife photography and documentary filmmaking, while his brother Richard often authored their books. They are credited with introducing the "hide" method for observing and photographing birds, significantly contributing to the development of wildlife photography. Image: The Keartons photographing a bird's nest, 1890s. Cherry is on Richard's shoulders. National Media Museum @ Flickr Commons
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
No wing mirrors. Mortifying.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Manifold blows a gasket.
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BP boardroom turmoil deepens as ousted chair hits back at ‘lies’ over conduct
Albert Manifold disputes reports about his behaviour and says he always tried to set example
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Roger Reynard @rogerday.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Nothing much. Just Hammet looking as sharp as one of his novels
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 26/05/2026
These took a while to design. I lost my dad eighteen months ago and Father's Day felt like a tough job this year. I got there by thinking about what he gave me. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/fathers-day-...
Four Father's Day cards laid out in a repeating diagonal grid, each featuring a bold retro illustration on a deep teal background. Designs include a vinyl record player, a Polaroid camera, a bookshelf and a retro teapot with mug. Each card reads "Dad" in large cream lettering with a tagline: "Thanks for playing me the good stuff", "Thanks for developing the best bits", "Thanks for the recommendations" and "Thanks for the brews and chats."
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks for that. Interesting and entertaining. That 1963 London Government Act was a real peach.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
All there I think. 1. Mike’s neighbours secure ‘a’. 2. Place in Charlie’s neighbours.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/05/2026
Director Akira Kurosawa posing with the cast of Rashomon (1950) 📽️
From left-to-right: Daisuke Katō (policeman), Takashi Shimura (woodcutter), Toshirō Mifune (Tajōmaru), Machiko Kyō (Kanazawa's wife), Masayuki Mori (Takehiro Kanazawa), Kichirō Ueda (commoner), Minoru Chiaki (monk), and Akira Kurosawa.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
24th May is the feast of Pentecost. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 4452; Evangeliary of Henry II; circa 1007 CE-1012 CE; Reichenau; f.135v
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
sold out? He was lucky to get a seat then.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
apropos
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Tuchel has picked a good England squad and doesn’t care about the wider shout-verse | Barney Ronay
Every choice or omission stands up to scrutiny, although the FA’s technology department did not do such a good job at the unveiling
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
just behind you there, in the gardens, is a memorial to John Snow, born nearby, famous for cracking the cholera problem in London.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“Can you imagine a worse choice as reserve player on a seven-week trip than a footballer who thinks this is the correct way to behave, and the best way to support his teammates and his country? Spot‑on, Thomas. I wouldn’t want that guy wandering around the tennis courts between games either.”
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Tuchel has picked a good England squad and doesn’t care about the wider shout-verse | Barney Ronay
Every choice or omission stands up to scrutiny, although the FA’s technology department did not do such a good job at the unveiling
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt
Redish painted landscape with fields and a small homestead with purple hills in the background
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
looks plausible from the cover illustrations
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The arrival of the nuns at Nun Monkton came roughly a century after the Norman Conquest. In 1172, Ivetta of the Arches, an Anglo-Norman landowner, founded a small Benedictine nunnery which owned the village. The priory survived until 1536, when it was dissolved under Henry VIII. The village
The west facade and doorway, the Church of St Mary, Nun Munkton, North Yorkshire,, Spaecer Means, CC BY-SA 2.0
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Yes you’d mentioned that before. Magic moment indeed. I saw them (also post Blind Faith) at Oxford Poly, May 1974. Some great gigs there around that time, including top touring bands from the US.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Summer job, before taking up postgrad place, as assistant gardener in a small private school for girls. Nightmare.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live. Traffic Procol Harum Van Morrison Richard Thompson Blowzabella Vasmalom Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars Flaco Jiménez Shooglenifty The Hot Sardines
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
204 years ago now. RIP Pfeilstorch.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“He had no plans to rejoin the EU in the next 10 years and he quite fancied some kind of electoral reform. And welfare also needed looking at. This was all for later, though. Now he just wanted to let Makerfield know he was an ordinary, humble local boy. A politician they could trust.”
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Manchester Messiah Burnham anointed to fix Westminster politics
King of the North searches for the hero inside himself to an Oasis backing track to change politics for the better
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Great idea. Subsidise demand as a response to short supply.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Even on solely economic terms this is a poor characterisation. The enduring economic effect is on GDP level, not growth as such. No reason to suppose that rejoining would have anything other than a transitory effect on growth.
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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
unfortunate wording imo. The enduring economic hit from Brexit is to GDP level, not to growth as such. Describing it incorrectly as inhibiting growth enables brexiteers to point to decent growth outcomes as evidence of no damage.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A Swiss luxury train elegantly navigates two different track gauges without changing cars, showcasing innovative engineering in action.
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
#OTD in 1941, York Barracks. Infantry recruits practicing aiming their rifles at an aircraft, with the aid of a model plane held aloft on a pole. #WW2 #HISTORY
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...
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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.
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