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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ITS READS LIKE RAVINGS OF A NUT CASE. HAVE A NICE DAY.

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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 9h

It is National Poetry Day in the UK, so for my contribution, I humbly share one of my favourite poems of all time, written by Robert Florence,

BATMAN'S AFF HIS NUT
Batman's aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
"Mate, I'm worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody's ma and da dies
And we're no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws."
And that was when Batman went
"Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?"
And that was when I was lit at:
"Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae."
And that's the Secret Origin of Robin
and everybody else.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 14h

Why on earth would my brain decide I need to hear Hitchin' a Ride by Green Day? A song I have not knowingly listened to for well over 20 years?

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Florence Nightingale Bangs Williams Rhode Island, Town Births and Baptisms Index, 1639-1932 #theladywiththelamp

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lads, how do you sell a car these days? Trying my luck with the old faves of Gumtree and FB Marketplace but absolutely no-one is biting. My Peugeot 308 remains unsold. It's a bit too old for some of the sites like Motorway, which seem more for slightly newer cars. And I'm not doing 'We Buy...'.

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amazing contrast to Starmer's buttoned up style as Burnham delivers his speech stripped to the waist and covered in peanut butter, repeatedly diving into the audience

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THE GHOST OF TONY BENN WANTS TO KILL YOUR CAT

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Painting by John Singer Sargent ‘Staircase in Capri’ 1878. Oil on canvas. Measurements 81.7 x 46.4 cm. Phenomenal portrayal of light.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Those crazy ol' Manics are out playing shows where they run shiny radio hit Your Love Alone is Not Enough into 1994's Die In The Summertime, a song which literally ends with the words "I WANNA DIE". Contrary, inexplicable, marvellous bastards til the end. Setlist pic nicked from Insta.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 25/09/2026

The world‘s most normal bed user

Photo of a fuzzy green domed cat bed with an opening on the front from which the right haunch of my cat Birdie is sticking out in comical fashion. It looks like a half chicken that would be served to you on a plate. her fur is orange brown and white with a white sock on her right paw. This bed is sitting on top of a wood floor and next to a black couch and a little gray ottoman.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They call me the wild rohh-ose But my name was

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 25/09/2026

Still trying to help get eyes on Hammam's fundraiser, but shares/contributions have been slower than ever I know things are awful right now, but a share costs nothing 💜 And it might put a fundraiser in front of someone who can contribute. Every little thing counts

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Picturing Erling Haaland being sold at police auction like a drug lord's speedboat.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is really good - all three tracks available to stream pre-release are fab. Bandcamp link as alternative to Spotify: sundayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/desire...

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Desire Path, by Absolutely Yours

10 track album

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I liked the original Word Cunt, myself... the belated sequel - where the reclusive ageing hero is tracked down to harshly critique a robot spelling bee - just didn't have the same sense of magic.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At the end of April 1888, Monet returned to Givervy from the South of France. Moulin de Limetz is one of two paintings in which he pictured the mill at Limetz-Villez, a village just over a mile south of Giverny, with a branch of the Epte, flowing gently past.

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is not the branding I would go for I think if I was tasked with producing signage.

A sign in a menswear section that reads 100 years of fash at M&S, with the letters ‘ion’ below and to the right of the word fash.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've had a longer version of this joke in my pocket (for special occasions) for several years now, and I love it dearly.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Libraries: Your kink is our pleasure.

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Cameron Loxdale @cloxdale.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Not sure on these new rule ideas

Ellen White: VAR shouldn't stop at pitch level, it should follow players into their homes

Theo Walcott: Red cards should be blue or green to bring out the referees' gorgeous eyes

Nedum Onuoha: Match of the Day is a fishing pun on Catch of the Day. I just think more people should be aware of that.

Gabby Logan: Fans should stop referring to their team as 'we' - you did fuck all out there, stop making it about you

Chris Sutton: The crossbar should be made of old hard bread

Danny Murphy: David Seaman's 2003 DVD 'Goalkeeping Nightmares' should be adapted into a feature film with Hollywood actors

Glenn Murray: Nine years ago a Forest fan repeated my joke at a dinner party only much louder and got a bigger laugh, the club should be deducted 10 points

Fara Williams: I agree with Chris on the crossbar being made of old hard bread.

Alan Shearer: If it's a draw the three points should be given to the team with the nicest personalities

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I will 100% be reading this. Betty Davis still sounds like a future that almost happened, where the fierce women and big freaks demolished the master's house. Essential.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A library getting its opening hours EXTENDED? A rare joy indeed, friends.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Current reading. Halfway through and not bad, maybe a touch self-aggrandising here and there. A useful history of the Left over the last 50 years (no doubt open to much dispute) with memoir, anger and jokes.

Book: how i've tried to change the world by alexei sayle

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well, let's get the bad news over first. Got a parking fine in Aberdeen yesterday.

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ukjarry.bsky.social @ukjarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Björk LP is now sold, but the Françoise Hardy is still available if you wanna hit me up.

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a slug🍚🐝🌱🦌💽🫙🚉 @drunk.moe · 19/09/2026

This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019)

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I must know more about this decision.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🎶 Goose jail! Ah-wooh-ooh! 🎶

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19/09/2026

maybe the greatest "letter gone missing" instance I've ever witnessed, deeply humbling

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Really enjoyed the phrase 'marine mammal medics' in this piece. Imagine being pushed out of the way by two people in wetsuits sprinting towards the beach. "MARINE MAMMAL MEDICS - stand aside!! We've got dolphins to save!" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Mumbles dolphin rescue sees medics refloat stranded mammal

Two dolphins were found thrashing in shallow water with medics "refloating" one.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cat Island, Aoshima Island, Southern Japan. Photograph Thomas Peter. Oddly reminds me of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone

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WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront

ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He is very nice & let me "have a go" on his organ last night. It is fabulous.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Waterloo station Left-luggage lockers Ev-ery Thursday night Cheating and lying Fondling some knockers He'll pay for this alright

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Goodness! All of my double entendres have come at once.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Told my teenage nieces that my new doctor is so young she diagnosed me as having 'mad rizz'. Highly recommend. Their looks of confusion, horror and disappointment will sustain me for quite some time.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Occasionally, I'm reminded of my all time favourite piece of internet: this Reddit post from 12 years ago in which a guy claims he ruined dinner with his girlfriend's parents by refusing to admit he knew what a potato was.

TIFU by enraging the parents of my girlfriend by pretending not to know what a potato is.
Let me tell you that I have made a bad mistake this evening.

My girlfriend (who let me tell you is only my 2nd girlfriend of all time) said I am "invited to dinner" with her and her parents. I was very aghast, nervous, and bashful to be invited to such a situation. But I knew it must be done.

I met them nicely, I should tell you, and it started off in a good way. The idea slapped my mind that I should do a comic bit, to make a good impression and become known to them as a person who is amusing.

When I saw that baked potatoes were served I got the idea that it would be very good if I pretended I did not know what potatoes was. That would be funny.

Well let me tell you: backfired on my face. I'll tell you how.

So first when the potato became on my plate, I acted very interesting. I showed an expression on my face so as to seem that I was confused, astounded but in a restrained way, curious, and interested. They did notice, and seemed confused, but did not remark. So I asked "This looks very interesting. What is this?"

They stared at me and the mother said "It's a baked potato." And I was saying "Oh, interesting, a baked....what is it again?"

And she was like "A potato."

And I was like "A 'potato', oh interesting. Never heard of a potato, looks pretty good."

And then they didn't see I was clowning, but thought I really did not know what is a potato. So I knew I would be very shamed, humiliated, depressed, and disgusted if I admitted to making a bad joke, so what I did was to act as if it was not a joke but I committed to the act of pretending I didn't know what a potato is.

They asked me, VERY incredulous, did I really not know what a potato is? That I never heard of a potato. I went with it and told them, yes, I did not ever even hear of a potato. Not only had I never eaten a potato I had never heard the word potato.

This went on for a bit and my girlfriend was acting very confused and embarrassed by my "fucked up antics", and then the more insistent I was about not knowing what a potato is was when them parents starting thinking I DID know what a potato was.

Well let me tell you I had to commit 100% at this point. When I would not admit to knowing what a potato was, the father especially began to get annoyed. At one point he said something like "Enough is enough. You're fucking with us. Admit it." And I said "Sir, before today I never heard of a potato. I still don't know what a potato is, other than some kind of food. I don't know what to tell you."

Well let me tell you he got very annoyed. I decided to take a bite of the potato, and when I did I made a high pitched noise and said "Taste's very strange!"

That is when the father started yelling at me, and the mother kept saying "What are you doing?" and my girlfriend went to some other room.

Finally the father said I should "Get the fuck out of his house" and I said it was irrational to treat me like this just because I never heard of a potato before. Well let me tell you he didn't take that kindly.

Now in text messages I have been telling my girlfriend I really don't know what a potato is. The only way I can ever get out of this is for them to buy that I don't know what a potato is.

I wish I never started it but I can't go back. I think she will break up with me anyway.

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