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New episode alert 🚨 In this month's podcast, music historians Leah Broad and Samantha Ege discuss the lives and work of Samuel and Avril Coleridge-Taylor 🎶 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on our YouTube 📺

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is the last day of September. I should not be thinking how well the evening would lend itself to dining al fresco with a glass of chilled rose.

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

R18 has managed to secure a place helping out on a local archaeological dig (Roman villa) - she's been asked to bring a trowel if she's got one and I'm hoping I know someone who could advise if either of these would do? Both blades 13cm long, pointy one 6cm wide, rounded one 7cm wide.

A pair of diamond shaped pointing trowels, both around 25cm long in total. the narrower one comes to quite a sharp point, whereas the slightly broader one has a smoothly rounded tip.

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So the good news is that C16 has learned how to properly project her voice in her first few weeks at specialist music school. The bad news is that she’s learned how to project her voice properly, even when singing in the shower.

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Digital Humanities Lab, Exeter @dhlabexeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Job Vacancy! For this role the candidate should have expertise in 3D modelling, photogrammetry, immersive design and visualisation in cultural heritage and humanities contexts. This post is available from 2 November 2026 on a fixed-term basis until 31/10/2027. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/12...

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So close to being a two... Wordle 1,924 3/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Silver linings: R18's uni fouled up her accommodation so badly she's ended up deferring for year. Which means she's joined a couple of local orchestras and is looking to build her harp playing business... so I get a couple of hours a day of angelic soundtrack to work to while she practices.

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also looking to hear from someone who isn’t saving into a pension because they are self employed. Only need a few thoughts!

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Really keen to hear from someone who has opted out of their auto-enrolment pension scheme. You don’t need to be on air - just share a few thoughts with me. RTs gratefully received!

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don't even try to ask them tax questions

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Been slow catching up on Reacher and I can’t recall the novel for this one. But I’m not sure whether an English author would really have a character called Uncle Monty in anything these days.

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Do I know anyone who'd be interested in a 21 plate VW Polo "United" (blue) - 997cc learner special but with heated seats & stuff. Not sure if the dealer service package would transfer with it, but you might need to be near Bedford for that to be worthwhile anyway. c£12k.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026

if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just had an email from a clothing manufacturer assuring me that their new product is “The only insulted jacket you will ever need” and all I can think about is how one might go about belittling a garment and what impact that would have on its performance.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/09/2026

Okay this is once again a VERY SPECIFIC request and I once again ask that if you cannot provide a VERY SPECIFIC answer, that you boost or scroll on. I’m looking for a British tax adviser who can advise on British company ownership and taxes for an American citizen #iykyk

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please do share and complete Mariana's survey of sounds you have found culturally / personally important, wherever you have lived in the world! As noted, if you, or know others, who have lived in Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Ukraine, their responses would be especially welcome 🙂

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Juanma is Creating Lightly 🎨🖌😬 @creatinglightly.art · 15/09/2026

To whoever needs to read this: Always remember that more people love you and believe in you, than they actually tell you that they love you or believe in you, explicitly. Never forget that. You got this.

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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this year's interpretation lectures are going to be great

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Never admit to using [AI services]” “Why would you use that?” “Nobody wants AI” R18 on hearing that her mother had dallied in using AI to create a logo for her harp business.

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

tbh one would have hoped that number two would have been a basic design feature rather than a policy change made on the fly after months of operation.

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Interesting snippet from daughter's friend who's just started an undergrad course at Oxford - the students were told they'd been given a premium subscription to Chat GPT and all but two in the room groaned audibly; it's not something they want to be using.

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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lovely - but oh so poignant - pic of Paolo Gislimberti, a 33-year-old marshal who lost his life during the #ItalianGP at Monza #OnThisDay 26 years ago. We who love #F1 & indeed all motorsport owe marshals so much. ❤️

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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hi British policy scholars: does a firm acquire export credit guarantees before or after receiving an export license for a controlled strategic good? Or are the credit guarantee and licensing processes parallel/unrelated to one another? Thanks!

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Doug Gay @douggay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bluesky mind who in Glasgow is an expert on history of ecclesiastical stained glass?

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the iguanas, for today is their special day! This woodcut of an iguana was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg. 📷 Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio #NationalIguanaAwarenessDay #IguanaDay #RareBooks

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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 09/09/2026

Calling aspiring lawyers who want hands-on experience in the courts. Our new Legal Fellow will follow major corruption and economic crime cases across courts and tribunals . London-based. Deadline: 13 Sep www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/spotlig...

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Having given up on persuading the rest of the family to watch “My Cousin Vinny” I watched it again, alone, this evening. “That would explain the hostility” may have prompted an intervention from family members worried that I’d had some kind of seizure.

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Get on it #skystorians - really good department with lovely people.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 06/09/2026

If you want me, I'll be over in my own shop gailmyerscough.co.uk

A photo of Gail with the text ‘Goodbye Etsy. Hello to doing things my own way.’

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 06/09/2026

Morning all! Can anyone recommend a good locksmith in west-ish London? Not an emergency, but the Yale lock on my front door is increasingly tricky about shutting when I pull it behind me. It needs a really mighty slam.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

From our local freecycle site, indications that the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is not only pushing ahead with a range of Genuine People Personalities, but also branching out into bio-engineered hybrids; presumably the kangaroo aspect helps with steps.

A Freecycle ad for a circular robot vacuum cleaner. The text reads "Swiping and moping roobot"

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

any drainage experts up rn?

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In Leicester? Wanna make a placard for Leicester Pride on Sunday? Come to St Luke's (Halifax Drive, LE4 2DR) on Friday afternoon and join us in the church hall. It's free, materials will be provided. So will snacks, and a ludicrous amount of tea. Should be a good afternoon.

A poster for "pride placard making" at st kukes church, stocking farm - Friday 4th September, 2pm-6pm

Free event! All materials will be provided!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/09/2026

Headline: Space, the Next Frontier Sub: We are on the verge of filling orbit with data centers Article: ... only the laws of physics and economics stand in our way.

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Off to the West Country to deposit first of the offspring to live away from home. Slightly weird that it’s the wrong order with younger one away for sixth form while elder defers uni course for a year but exciting nevertheless.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is the 300-year-old Yew Tree Tunnel at Gormanston Castle in County Meath, Ireland 🇮🇪

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com · 02/09/2026

If you live in Jersey and bank with Revolut, you should be on your guard against scam phone calls... Cver a single four-week period, 75% of all scam crime reports police have received have involved Revolut accounts... www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...

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Revolut scam steals £180,000 from Jersey residents in just four weeks

If you live in Jersey and bank with Revolut, you should be on your guard against scam phone calls.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Jason Piper @jv8p.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Anyone know if the seats in a VW Passat estate fold right down to give a totally flat floor?

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