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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 1h

Just did a full aloud lol on the platform of Birmingham New Street at Sleeping Beauty's expression here ("don't blame me, I'm out of copyright" etc)

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 21h

Bit late to the party here but The Correspondent is pretty good, isn't it. Certainly feel inspired to barge my way into an English Literature seminar

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah unpleasant is right. I would have probably lapped it up age 14

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Antoinette going straight on the Golden Beat list. Strong group!

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rory malcolm @rorymal.com · 05/10/2026

peelsessions.club had a little bit of fun building this tonight after I got really, really into post-punk's heydey again recently

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Peel Sessions

Every session recorded for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show, 1967–2004. Filter by genre, band, year and origin; watch on YouTube.

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

B&Q playing Patrice Rushen's Haven't You Heard = somehow bought six paint tester pots instead of my planned three

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was that the early 2000s one? I sent off an application for that lol

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Having a nice Friday afternoon listening to World Domination Enterprises www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPKr...

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World Domination Enterprises - Asbestos Lead Asbestos 4K

YouTube video by ScottishTeeVee

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lol absolutely. Maybe they should have done that instead of the monster hunting video

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Longyfan @longyfan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To elaborate on that last repost, eimi – cryptics editor at the Indy – is gauging interest in an independent follow-up to the Independent crossword Email trulyindependentcrosswords@gmail.com with the subject line “truly” Comment #152 on the fifteensquared blog fifteensquared.net/2026/09/21/i...

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Independent Cryptic Crossword – the future – Fifteensquared

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ooo is there an octagonal library

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I listened to Choosin Texas yesterday and have had Bryan Adams & Mel C stuck in my head ever since

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem with this prompt is that all the good ones have been taken by all-women tribute bands (cf Joanne Joanne etc)

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm at a swimming pool all afternoon so happy to be a proxy nominator for any of these

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why not give the employer a realistic impression of what it'll be like working with them 👍

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gatekeepers preventing me from hearing Electro Chicken

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I found the film pretty but boring!

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Come see Murder Bridge do a karaoke set of our own songs at Bingo Masters Breakout @ the Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon tonight! I'm bringing the badges

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Insane xword from Brendan in today's Grau (complimentary)

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Faith from Buffy makeup is v weird imho

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Been wondering that about the new pub sign for the Rose in New Cross :(

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

sometimes the goal of science is to help us begin to understand the mystery and complexity of this astounding universe and sometimes the goal is to simply improve the human experience

a man eats a burrito over a wide funnel mounted over a stand holding a soft taco shell to catch what falls

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Moll Flanders? LOL Flanders more like etc

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Unless it's a close up of a sweaty human hand hovering over the red button

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

(chipmunk voice) if that's OK with U

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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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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

(on the list I only know her and Drew A, because BB has appeared on Drew's podcast - my millennial creds remain intact)

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

She turns up on drag queen Youtube a lot, good value imho

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oui! (can you tell I did German instead of French at school...😅)

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pass on my thx to the committee!!

Fancy breakfast upgrade voucher with a pic of a glowing cup of coffee

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Still voted Return of the Mack though, wot a banger

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John Information @katstevens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Manics are mostly ridiculous (complimentary) but this is one track of theirs that struck a chord. My mum grew up very close to here, in temporary housing, but studied hard, got her degree and managed to escape en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillgwe...