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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Distant Fire has been my most personal project so far. Season 1 was a lot of fun. Season 2 goes further, deeper and is a little bit more playful. Appreciate if you'd check it out, and share it with someone who wants to be heard, and who wants to tell their stories out loud.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THEN: What do you mean they released a new version of Hey There Delilah with someone actually singing AS Delilah, replying to the song? That'll never work. NOW: Thirty-third listen in a row: This is the best thing to ever have existed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smju...

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Plain White T’s - Hey There Delilah (ft. LØLØ) (Official Visualizer)

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Plain White T’s - Hey There Delilah (ft. LØLØ) (Official Visualizer)

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

10 episodes of The Distant Fire are now out in the world. It's been emotional. There's a break next week - then Season 2 begins. 5/10/26.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hello Bonjour friends - gather your weapons against insiginificance at meet me at the door - there's a new episode of The Distant Fire out today and it's a corker.* thedistantfire.substack.com/p/the-distan... *Middle-aged British for 'good'

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The Distant Fire Episode #9: Running with Bellow’s Wolves.

What memory does for us.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The latest episode of my Substack/Podcast The Distant Fire is out right now. This week you get to tell the story of one of your greatest friendships, and go deeper to discover why the friends you have mean so much. thedistantfire.substack.com is where you start. Where you go is up to you.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Your weekly appointment with The Distant Fire has arrived, and today it's all about... today. This day. The only day we have. Have a listen, and spread the word you lovely people.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton - too much man. The sexy quota on the planet is in free fall right now.

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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think everyone should see this incredible picture of Dolly Parton: it’s by Stacie Williams (asterosperma on Instagram) and it’s called The Queen of Appalachia

A stunning screenprint image in a style which is part folk art, part religious icon. Dolly Parton sits on a throne-like wooden chair, surrounded by garlands of flowers and leaves. Orange butterflies (I think they are monarchs?) hover around her head. Her hair is huge and golden, and she is wearing a long, sweeping orange gown, which is turned up over her knee to show off her brown knee length high heeled boots. Two black bear cubs play around her, one on the floor and one in her lap. Dolly stares calmly at the viewer. Her right hand is raised in benediction, and in her left she holds a ripe strawberry which she is feeding to one of the bear cubs.

The original post is here https://www.instagram.com/p/B8rvBpTlRxZ/?igsi=Z2x5aTB5aHp5NXFp

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Spoiler: It's always about you.

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Fred Connelly @brendonconnelly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Will there ever be a National Film Board with a more impressive catalogue of work than the Canadian one? I fully recommend a deep expedition into their YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydia...

Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One of my favourite episodes of The Distant Fire's first season has gone live this morning. Includes the bonus recommendation of three of the greatest short stories ever written. I hope you enjoy.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Update to stuff that's been going on. Also - fun game of Spot the Friday Afternoon typo. I'm going to blame the heat. Have excellent weekends all.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Where do you go when the world gets too loud? This week on The Distant Fire we're closing our eyes and going to the place our imagination has built — and finding out what it's been trying to tell us all along.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This week in People are Amazing.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My favourite episode of The Distant Fire so far - not least because one of the exercises led me to an epiphany about a particular memory from my childhood. And there's some top quality beard on display in The COW Element too. See for yourself - dive in, and find your Happy Place.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Like J.H. Prynne's "The path clears by the use it gets", "the meaning is in the waiting" is one of those perfect lines of poetry that I always carry with me.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Bonjour Monday! Here's a new episode of The Distant Fire for you to devour. This one's all about the beliefs we hold true, and why a bit of a distance might be the best thing for us all. Be Excellent to Each Other friends, and have a beautiful day.

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The Distant Fire @thedistantfire.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you're asking yourself this question, the latest article on @thedistantfire is for you - and it explains why we're doing this. thedistantfire.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

The distant fire article banner - A sculpture of a man deep in thought with the words What's the use? written over him.

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

this is the line that sold me on the game the first playthrough

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Treehouse Of Harrison 🎃 @markharrison.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Strongly recommend Rez High by @brendonconnelly.bsky.social - well written and acted, and sounds great! In post-apocalyptic Yorkshire, a gaggle of kids search for answers about the before-times by playing a Grange Hill-style VR game. 5/6 episodes released so far, catch up before Friday's finale!

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REZ HIGH - Rusty Quill

Rusty Quill is an industry leading independent production company and podcast network.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My continuing reaction to Nolan's films is perfectly put here. I love that cinema as a whole will benefit, and gladly put down money for this, but I just wish there was something more human at its heart.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New Episode Alert! Episode #2 of The Distant Fire is now live, with a cracking One Minute Exercise to open. Enjoy!* *Enjoyment can also include subscribing and sharing this. Ta!

Title Card for Episode 2 of The Distant Fire - called The Hero Factor. It has the usual Supergraphic ident which looks pretty fab.

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Arctic Circle @arcticcircle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Been making radio shows filled full of otherness since 2002. There a bit weird right?! Here if interested: jointhecircle.net/radio

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This made me really, really want a Skool Daze in VR. If these words mean anything to you then you’ll love this. And there’s so much more to it than that.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thanks to everyone who got in touch to hurrah my new project. You're all excellent people. The first episode is live, and I wrote something to help those just starting out.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Today I turn 50, which is a bizarre and wonderful thing. It's also the launch of something I've been planning for a long while now — a project designed to encourage and enhance our understanding of ourselves through the stories we tell.

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The Distant Fire | Jon Lyus | Substack

The Distant Fire is all about you, the stories you tell and what they mean to you. It is a forever free programme of podcasts, written posts and more for you to find out more about you and who you are...

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Cracking read from @adlow76.bsky.social, who speaks the truth and made me think of the fact that Star Trek was always about the future, and Star Wars was long in the past and how they've really settled into position.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“Happiness itself is important, but I am so grateful that you taught me to appreciate happiness.” Every time I see the name Satoshi Kon I have this wave of sadness and gratitude. And I always think of his incredible moving last words: makikoitoh.com/journal/sato...

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Satoshi Kon's last words | Makiko Itoh : Not a nameless cat.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

ahhh this is all so good! read the entire piece!

Tilly, you never had to be 14, so I’ll tell you what google can’t. It feels like your soul gets a broken glass enema. You go from curious about this marvelous world to drowning in un-marvelous you. Who am I? How should I be? Am I alone? Your human brain answers “no one,” “invisible” and “yes.” I remember the bad barn play because that actor’s performance was so good that, impossibly, I left myself. My adolescent cells floated away from poor me and traded places with his. His performed pain dissolved mine, which was real. All from recognition. From connection. And then, you know, the play was bad again. But the air in the theatre felt carbonated with symbiotic human experience. That’s our main job, Till, attempting that. The imperceptible do-si-do of my matter and yours in the air between us. Communal escape or epiphany, it’s all medicine. And it’s what makes us different from, well… from you.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

John Cena remains a real one ❤️

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Fred Connelly @brendonconnelly.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

On #AudioDramaSunday I want to celebrate the release of Rez High. Not only a story about disability and accessibility, nostalgia and awful backwards-looking politics, the weirdness of school and terror of climate change, it's a sci-fi adventure show with funny bits. shows.acast.com/neon-inkwell...

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Neon Inkwell: Rez High 1 - Old School | Neon Inkwell

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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There Must And Shall Be Aspirin @boscobel1975.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’m here for the badass Greek poetry. This by Alicia Stallings is - well it’s epic.

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Al Ryan @alryanradio.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️

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STARLOG @starlogmedia.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

THE FUTURE IS BACK. Fifty years ago, STARLOG went behind the scenes of alternate worlds for the first time. Now it's back, exploring the visionary sci-fi and cutting-edge science that inspire what comes next. The future will be wild. You'll be ready for it because you read STARLOG.

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is an incredibly smart sentence.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

To be followed up by The Sink by @natashahodgson.bsky.social which is the most dreamlike show I’ve ever loved that isn’t Twin Peaks.

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

And because I'll never stop recommending it, 'Children of Men' is on BBC2 at 22.45, tonight. A darkly prescient, yet ultimately hopeful, work of art for the 21st century.

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

this was the moment I went from loving this man's work to loving him as a human and I'm so sad he's gone

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“But if it’s guilt you’re looking for, Buffy, I’m not your man…All you will get from me is my support. And my respect.” RIP to the man gave this scene (and all the others) such great humanity.

A screen cap of Buffy Season 2 episode Innocence where Giles says: it’s guilt you’re looking for, Buffy, I’m not your man. All you will get from me is my support. And my respect.

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