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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Looking forward to the usual 'Richie Wellens has once again named an unchanged eleven' (not) #lofc

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The words most often spoken after any reading out loud of this: “are you ok, Daddy?”

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Station Eleven was a prime example

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tom Jones (the book, not the famous Welshman) is what I've just written an old-fashioned blog about oldgeezerrereadingblog.wordpress.com

oldgeezerrereadingblog.wordpress.com

Old geezer re-reading

40+ years of books and stuff

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My first visit to Brisbane Rd this season, and the latest version of R Wellens's invitation XI fails to impress. Some good players (Gilbert, Connolly, El Miz) but not working as a team, and iffy defence still #lofc

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Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

...so read my long love-letter to this show, in which I explore all its complications and unanswered questions, here. juderogers.substack.com/p/the-unansw...

juderogers.substack.com

The unanswered questions of 70 Up

The death of Nick, goodbye to Neil, and the power of watching fourteen real lives in time-lapse – the return of my Mid-Week Culture Culture Blast

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

One of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect.

$Two cross-sectioned anatomical drawings of men's heads revealing their brains, which have been filled with marching robots from old pulp magazines. Their stare at one another with raw, exposed anatomical drawing eyeballs, which radiate a halo of spiky lines. The background is a psychedelic, fractal-shot colored cloudscape.$

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Long thread on the killing off of VCR

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Almost 12 hours of travel today, on 4 different trains - two German, one Belgian and one Netherlands. And the only one on time was the Dutch

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Completely forgotten about her. Yet she seemed to be everywhere back then

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who apart from Parsons and Pearson is 'frothing' now? (I trust you're including Tom Paulin and John Carey among the 'few')

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

To wildly generalise, JA with her famous free indirect style tells us what her chacters think; CD just tells us what his characters say they think (except for 1st person narratives in Copperfield and GE). Does this make her more modern?

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12/09/2026

every time I see this I am reminded that the one (1) thing stopping all of these policies is that most political parties don’t actually want democracy to be fair and equal

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Salzburg's centre is not at all spread out, so it didn't help that it was taken over yesterday by, of all things, a cycle race

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I haven't been to a #lofc home game yet this season, so I suppose I must shoulder some of the blame

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Agree - and as it happens we're in Salzburg after a few enjoyable days in Vienna (While one can't disguise one's touristness, it was nice to feel normal life going on around one in the capital). While we've found some quiet-ish places here, this weekend is somewhat overwhelming ...

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If AI systems are such a threat, can't we just switch off the electricity (and water) that keeps them going? Am I missing something here?

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ok, as long as everyone has to learn the words to Hen Wlad fy Nhadau

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

'The fairy garden' from Ravel's Mother Goose Suite

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You know that glib thing people used to say about how things online will live forever? It’s one of the dimmest ideas. Future historians are going to struggle with so many blanks. A digital dark age.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What if we demanded the money back from all the Covid Tory-mate scams - now we know it was a fucking grift, and we’ve got some perspective, panic’s over, we can see what you were up to - and got it back and spent it on libraries or the NHS or crisps?

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Well, he came on as a sub for Motherwell tonight and scored. (Incidentally, last night at least 5 ex- #lofc players scored, by my reckoning)

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/09/2026

This is deliberate. And it's illegal. “This level of criminality shows that water companies do not believe they, or the government, will ever do anything meaningful to stop them.” www.theguardian.com/business/2026/s…

theguardian.com

Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny

Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I see Levitt made a total of 8 starts for #lofc last season. One of those of whom it could be said 'Why bother buying this (quite good) player if RW isn't going to use him properly?'

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My father (86) had died the previous Tuesday. For various reasons his funeral wasn't until the day before Diana's, so we had to pray for her as well as him at his local village church, annoyingly

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tempted to add 'Pedantic, but...' to my bio

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Strictly speaking, 'casserole' is the name of the cooking utensil, so if that's what you're using, yes it is

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How I long for a manager who says he'll keep the players he's got and will try to improve their skills

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm still amazed that Wellens wasn't replaced at the end of last season #lofc

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you read down from the top of the current #PremierLeague table the teams' initials spell out BABEHIM. Just this week, probably

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thank goodness for real citizen journalists doing the work so many professionals failed to do

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The hellbound horror of GCSEs iandunt.substack.com/p/the-hellbo...

Once GCSEs started, that all ended. Education stopped being about learning and started being about passing exams. In fact, it barely counted as education at all. It degenerated into little more than a memory exercise. Can you take information from Source A - your revision notes - retain it, and then input it into Source B - the exam paper. This system produced very reliable exam results, which were used to promote the school to the next set of parents, but it did not produce, did not even aim to produce, people with a love of knowledge or a natural curiosity about the world. It was actually completely indifferent to curiosity. Speaking about it in that context would be like trying to insert Smarties into a slot machine.

At the point of GCSEs, we really do lose that greater educational virtue. We gain things - the work ethic, the need to perform - but we lose things too. And that loss, the complete absence of any genuine intellectual endeavor, is why GCSEs are often such a harrowing period.

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

(2/2) 'It was like waiting in a car for a traffic accident to be cleared away' ... 'He turned the pages of the little book like a member of the Browning Society keen on interpreting a text' ... and so on #GrahamGreene

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Re-reading Greene's The Human Factor. Struck by the number of similes used by GG - e.g. 'He gathered his papers and slipped quietly away, like a host who feels that a house party will get on much better without him' (1/2)

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How about a statutory requirement for all UK newspapers to be owned by UK companies that pay UK taxes? Especially the ones that routinely preach patriotism.

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Maire Davies @mairejed.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You may remember something called The Leveson Inquiry which highlighted many press abuses of individuals. It made a number of sensible recommendations for press regulation. governments have ignored them. They are still available to be implemented. Also Leveson 2. @hackedoff.bsky.social

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East London Kingfishers @londonkingfishers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Autumnal scene with the kingfisher and the blackberries at Walthamstow Wetlands. #nature #wildlife #birds #kingfisher #blackberries #walthamstow

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johndunn.bsky.social @johndunn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Calls for Leveson 2 are fair enough but if, as happened with Leveson 1, any proposals are ignored & quietly binned, then it’ll just be a waste of energy, time, & money. Leveson 1 legislative proposals, with modifications bring social media platforms within its ambit, should be implemented first.

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

'Two dedicated subeditors', eh? The kind of job the high-ups are always keen to eliminate

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Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

1/4 I want to talk about the delivery culture. There's this whole world of people ordering fast food from their armchairs. Each journey involves fossil fuels, most of the products involve packaging. The guys doing the delivering are paid bugger all and take awful risks on the road.

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

'What we want is a map of St John's College, Oxbridge' 'Oxford or Cambridge?' 'Dunno, whichever looks prettier'

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Previously undiscovered part of Oxford U revealed in today's Observer

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A great list of Kinks songs there. Top two inevitable choices, but would have ranked Celluloid Heroes and Come Dancing higher. Still have an irrational dislike of Dedicated Follower #TheKinks

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

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John Davies @jrsdavies.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Too many extras, too few Greek gods #Odyssey

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