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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 6h
inconvenient for one side's midterms get-out-the-vote operation
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 6h
Annan is in D&G so maybe Borderlands includes that as well?
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 19h
Zelenskyy is leader of the free world
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23h
Loud blast at Riyadh airport as travellers evacuated and airlines cancel flights reut.rs/4yfygdX
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Loud blast at Riyadh airport as travellers evacuated and airlines cancel flights
More than a dozen ambulances were seen rushing to Riyadh's ‌international airport and travellers were evacuated from parts of the facility after a loud blast was heard there on Saturday, an eyewitness and people briefed ​on the matter said.
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Underwires conducting lightning?
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump.announces he will fund the winter bombing of civilians in Ukraine
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Tam Britton @tambritton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would be a natural Bill Forsyth plot.
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.boots.com/labalance-tw...
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, but a friend bought a 'menopause magnet' to wear in her pants and ended up walking round the office with paper clips stuck to her. £45
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Jake Kanter @jakekanter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Revealed: Royal Mail used an AI voiceover in a Christmas ad about human connection. We only know this because a startled viewer thought she heard the voice of her dead Dad: Paul Vaughan, the mellifluous BBC host and Paddington narrator. A cautionary tale. deadline.com/2026/10/paul...
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Did Royal Mail Revive BBC & 'Paddington' Voiceover Star With AI?
Daughter of Paul Vaughan, an acclaimed BBC and 'Paddington' voiceover artist, accuses Royal Mail Christmas ad of resurrecting her father using AI.
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Graphic Garbage @graphic-garbage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Diane and Leo Dillon, book covers for Ace Science Fiction 1968–1971
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spooky biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson
On Walking Backwards

My mother forbade us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around. They are victims of love, many of them.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026
Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson’s 2025 LRB Winter Lecture, ‘Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind’, announced her Parkinson’s diagnosis and the effect it was having on her hands and handwriting. Read: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8fP...
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Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
This​ is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes, true thank you - and he said you're never really accepted there if you don't look Japanese
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Younger son and his girlfriend moved in with us six months ago to save up to go back to Japan. But now they're about to leave 💔
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Putin hasn't yet succeeded in getting Ukraine, never mind Europe
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If I was at Channel 4, I wouldn't want to get hugged to death by the Beeb. It's so much bigger and seems to have less sense of direction
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But Channel 4 isn't publicly funded?
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Channel 4 does not receive public funding
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I always wished I'd had a sister but ummm
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Legs of Rudolf Nureyev Richard Avedon, 1967
a pair of muscular legs
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Went to Korea at the BM after failing to get Bayeaux tickets. Small but beautiful
Moon jar Temple bell
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Might buy this for the title alone to read on the tube
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
300 million books. Bloody hell
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bit incoherent yes
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kemi Kar krash with Gary Gibbon on c4 now
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Only person I know who enjoyed Jeffrey Archer's novels was my dad, a hardcore Thatcher fan. We had some cracking rows about him and her
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You only crap twice
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes I'm considering this option
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nine hours for non-members last time. Not sure I can face another go
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They are quite different imo - people seem to like one or the other. Think Aldi is better except for bread and booze
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tend to agree but I like listening to rather than reading William Burroughs
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Trump prototype
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They're quarantined, nobody else ill so far
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Isn't Aslan the lion meant to be a Christian symbol?
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The plague death story broke two days ago - now Rubio has commented it's suddenly news
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's not an 'outbreak' after one death. Steady on
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What? Is Presbyterian AI/autocorrect for Parisian? 'Celine single shoulder crossbody music, Presbyterian Arc Triomphe mini Tote bag'
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=75V4... Not the show so much, just this
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Doctor Who (1963) - Original Theme music video
YouTube video by Raq
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every South American election recently has basically been: Jesús Marx Bonaventura de Corruption (Alliance to Not Kill Puppies): 48.9% Pedro Sanchez-Hitler (Reform): 50.01% Geraldo Demonslayer (Bitcoin Liberation Front): 1%
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Confessio Viaticum @confessorprofessor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🎵5 British peeeerves... 4 Persian drones, 3 hacked phones, 2 Saudi loans, And a Pope from the Windy Ci-i-i-ty.🎵
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goatfell, Isle of Arran. Pic: James Raeburn
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 04/10/2026
Belgian Town or Onomatopeia for Vomiting? • Erps Kwerps? • Heuvel? • Hechtel-Eksel? • Wuustwezel? • Grobbendonk? • Peute? • Ulvenhout? • Rucphen? • Chaam? • Luykgestel? • Eerstel? • Houthalen-Helchteren? • Ichtegem?
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 04/10/2026
Happy Buster Keaton's birthday!
Buster Keaton (and Samuel Beckett).
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is this the Mrs T thing?
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I didn't think it was sadistic. More Satanic
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Text of a poem by Alice Notley
THE COMFORT
I needed a long bus ride uptown like a new hole oh well my only comfort the possibility you're unhappy, insane, etc
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Lois @loismcewan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Funniest thing about Middlemarch is rich people buying newspapers and everyone despising journalists. I had vaguely thought there was once a golden age
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