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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 20h

Looking forward to working with Greg on this.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 20h

Looking forward to working with Greg on this.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 20h

YOU’RE DEAD TO ME: LIVE WITH AN ORCHESTRA! Tickets are now on sale for our 2-hour Beethoven special recording at London’s Southbank Centre. Come see me, our guests, and the BBC Concert Orchestra as we explore the life and music of a musical titan www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/bbc...

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BBC's You're Dead To Me Live: Ludwig van Beethoven | Southbank Centre

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 20h

National Poetry Day, you say? It has to be this:

Kim Addonizio
TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY
IN THE NEXT STALL
If you ever woke in your dress at 4 A.M. ever
closed your legs to a man you loved opened
them for one you didn't moved against
a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach
seaweed clinging to your ankles paid good money for a bad haircut backed away
from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled
into the back seat for lack of a tampon
if you swam across a river under rain sang
using a dildo for a microphone stayed up to watch the moon eat the sun entire
ripped out the stitches in your heart
because why not if you think nothing & no one can / listen I love you joy is coming

Tattoo on my arm that reads “listen I love you joy is coming”

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 22h

Even if I rarely watch the programme in question, I will always read a Dempster review.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22h

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really sad to hear of the death of @annapicard.bsky.social, who I only knew on the other place and then here, but who I nevertheless felt I knew. A great loss to music and writing.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, if it’s 30 September, it must be... oh God. The 36th anniversary of the first—and, you may not be entirely surprised to hear—only transmission of a sitcom which was genuinely called ‘Heil Honey, I’m Home’, in which Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Jewish couple Arny and Rosa Goldenstein

Neil McCaul as comedy Hitler, mugging for the camera

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Streaming is done, Peter, it's over! There's no better feeling than having your personalised music preferences solved, you know that, I know that, the board knows it, dammit even Marjorie knows it, it's just the people of Uttoxeter who can't hear the vision yet

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Never heard of this band Suno v6 Pro Et Al but can’t wait to hear them live. When’s their next gig?

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ahead of the Ghosts film I’ve started a rewatch and damn if it isn’t just perfect from the off.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Proof of the fundamental interconnectedness of all things: when you’re reading a book by Natalie Haynes on the way to your regular Tuesday evening rehearsal and you arrive at the school where you rehearse and Natalie Haynes is finishing up an event and doing signings just outside the rehearsal hall

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I should be glad if something occurred to me as a main idea that occurs to Dvorak simply in passing.” – Johannes Brahms Anyway, here are four Stevie Wonder songs that didn’t make it onto Songs In The Key of Life.

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Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life – The EP

Listen to content by Stevie Wonder.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Had one of these from a “senior editor at Simon & Schuster” earlier. If the length and anodyne nature of the email didn’t give it away, the sign-off “keep being awesome” did.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As an example of the brutality of the editing process, I have just jotted down the words “cut the other eels – fuck those guys”

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Before very long you people are going to be wondering what the hell to buy your dad or your aunty or your weird cousin for Christmas. And when that day comes - and believe me it will - you will wish you had ordered a custom crossword from me.

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is hilarious. I am one of two people nominated for best host, and the other person is Louis Theroux. It's done by public vote. Vote for me! We can do this!

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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

★★★★ #Paraorchestra @southbankcentre.bsky.social - Lighting and dancers make a multi-media experience, but #SteveReich's @stevereich.bsky.social music is the star at this immersive presentation of a minimalist classic, says @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is the 321st anniversary of the last of the ‘wars of the fists’ (guerre dei pugni) on a bridge in Venice. Sometimes also known as battagliole sui ponti, or “little battles on the bridges”, or guerre de canne (wars with sticks), they could also involve cudgels, roof tiles, stones, and knives

Ponte dei Pugni, Pietro Liberi (1605-87)—a 17th century painting of a massive scrap on a bridge. It’s covered in people, wrestling and jostling, and is surrounded by spectators

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jiminy McEnroe was ok I guess, but my favourite players from that era were Bobby Borg, Joachim Connors and Imran Lendl

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things: – Typesetting – Vernacular – BPOTY – Pips & Nubs – Lobster – Hortle

levparikian.substack.com

Six Things, Volume 167

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The loneliness of the long-distance pianist. You can see the concentration in @jasonhazeley.bsky.social’s back – about halfway through a stunning performance of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians. Bravi tutti.

The back of a man sitting at a piano. Wooden floor. The lighting is low and there’s a hint of dry ice. Silhouettes of audience members in the background.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

JULIET: O comfortable friar, where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be, And there I am. Where is my Romeo? FRIAR LAWRENCE: fuck

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

– good lord, Parikian, what happened to you? – they put me into that tumbledown hut… – and…? – then they made me watch a 1970s children’s programme while listening to 1980s jazz-funk. It was … – oh no – a Crackerjack Shakatak shack attack – you’re dead to me

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve walked 3.84 miles today, which is good practice for next month*, but also I’m exhausted. 😬 *I’ve pledged to walk 100 miles during October for Ovarian Cancer Action, which is 3.22 miles a day on average. This might not seem much but I’m on drugs and stuff. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

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My Walk 100 Miles in October Challenge

Help Jane Hill raise money to support Ovarian Cancer Action

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Please amend as follows: - replace “seen” with “drunk” - replace “ten TV shows” with “four temperatures of coffee” – otherwise stet

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

18 years since he died. EIGHTEEN.

Paul Newman in a publicity still from 1954. Shirt, jacket, general handsomeness.

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've written Joe Harkness's obituary for the Guardian. I hope it pays good tribute to a wonderful man who was brave, honest and made the world a better place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Joe Harkness obituary

Writer, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have caught up with Bake Off. Thumbs firmly up. Please update your records.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Been reading about terror birds. They died out about 100,000 years ago, were up to 10 feet tall, 350 kg, flightless, could run faster than an ostrich, and had sharp sickle toes for grabbing prey and huge beaks for jabbing them to death. And people complain about gulls.

A terror bird skeleton. Big head, big feet, long neck.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve only seen about ten TV shows on the Top 100 list but will happily have a ludicrously overconfident and scathing opinion about it for clicks

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again a reminder, for important legal reasons, not to comment on the content of ongoing Bluesky discourse

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I did the washing up yesterday and yet now you tell me there’s more? This feels like a conspiracy.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I DON’T WANT TO DOWNLOAD AN APP TO ACCESS MY TICKETS I JUST WANT MY TICKETS

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A year ago today I went to my GP’s surgery after a summer of being treated for IBS, feeling somehow that we were missing something. By the end of the day I was admitted to hospital with Stage 3 ovarian cancer. Here’s the blogpost I wrote about it. janehill64.substack.com/p/have-you-g...

janehill64.substack.com

Have you got somebody with you?

Thoughts from the longest day.

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’d like to see posters with symptoms lists on the back of public toilet doors and in doctors’ surgeries.

OVARIAN CANCER
SYMPTOMS
→ Tummy pain
→ Bloating
→ Feeling full
→ Needing to pee more
Ovarian cancer symptoms can also include indigestion, back pain, changes in bowel habits, post-menopausal vaginal bleeding, and extreme tiredness.
ovarian.org.uk

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A fine walk and lunch in Wimbledon celebrating @jasonhazeley.bsky.social’s birthday in his and @davidmuttering.bsky.social’s company. Our first time walking to the island at King’s Mere – there’s usually water in the way.

Trees, parched land. The land is usually covered with water.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.

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Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss

ALT: Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s not that I’m feeling old, it’s just that a member of an orchestra I conduct was 1 year old when I started conducting that orchestra, and someone I’ve entrenched in my mind as a nice young lad of about 20 has just been made a high court judge.

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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Morning all. Today I'm launching a new range of colourful & 'fun' bird posters celebrating a bird's essential piece of kit: the good old beak. There are over 16* BEAKY BIRD posters + 1 group portrait with more in the pipeline. xx Check 'em out: www.edwardphilips.co.uk/beakybirds.h... * i.e. 17

Bird beaks are multi-functional, rather like hands in humans. Used not only for feeding, beaks are also important for display, nest construction, singing (of course!) and even regulating body heat.

Poster of stylized bird portraits arranged in a grid that highlights diverse beak shapes and species names on teal panels, titled "BEAKY BIRDS" with a short caption about beak functions.

Two stylized yellow-throated toucans facing each other against a teal background; top-right text reads "YELLOW-THROATED TOUCAN" with the scientific name "Ramphastos ambiguus."

Stylized poster of a sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) hovering left-of-center, its extraordinarily long bill reaching a red tubular flower at the top right against a solid teal background, with the species name printed in the corner.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Then left again, next left, then take another left, and one more, then left again, then hang left, and again…

A large pink banner for an exhibition of the work of M C Escher. It tells us “next left at lights”.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nice whimsical post you got there, be a shame if someone were to take one tiny part of it and pivot insanely to their own political hobbyhorse.

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🥰A brand new level is live in my birdsong game! bird-times.lovable.app/ely "If you were born today you'd think this was normal: a flat, dry landscape with a few birds shouting over the tractors. It isn't normal. It's a drained swamp." #IndieDev #Birdsong #GameDev

Screenshot of a 'Chapter Complete' card for Ely, a new level in birdsong guessing game Dawn Chorus Quest. The screenshot shows a medal surrounded by images of the birds the player guessed, and greyed out images of the birds no longer there. Pip, a long tailed tit who is your guide to the game says "if you were born today you'd think this was normal"

https://bird-times.lovable.app/ely

https://bird-times.lovable.app/ely

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Clore – meeting all your bassoon jazz-funk needs since 2025. They’re at The Vortex on 29th October. Do come! And please spread the word. www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/the-cl...

Four young men standing in front of a brick wall.

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