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I wrote about my J.D. Salinger phase and also a little about my John Buchan phase and also very briefly about how all the Puffin books of my childhood were confident that what a child needed after some nice E. Nesbit was H. Rider Haggard’s She

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Andy, the Maintainer @spreadsheetmonkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can't remember if it was a Private Eye cartoon or a round on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue called "Epitaphs", but have suddenly remembered the simple memorial: "Here Lies Jeffrey Archer"

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"You're listening to The Dipshit Boys where we do an episode by episode deep dive into The Nutshack, but first a word from our sponsor:" "Blingpingo is an agentic mixed reality B2B solution that works across teams to develop scalable marketplace solution paradigms for over half of the Fortune 500"

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reading through old notes I was reminded of a podcast which described Ian Dury as "British whimsy bullshit that sounds like an up-tempo Syd Barrett." Of course, opinions are like arseholes: shut the fuck up or I'll tear you a new one.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It just occurred to me that Mr Brightside is the straight Queen Bitch. They don't just share a theme of jealous voyeurism, but some of Brandon Flowers' lyrics read like a direct homage to Bowie's ("and I'm phoning a cab/'cause my stomach feels small/there's a taste in my mouth")

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"By the time I got to Sea Change the label was like, 'We’re going to sue you because you're not making music characteristic of Beck,'" Beck told Mojo.

Jimmy Hill looks almost over the top of his glasses, his eyebrows slightly raised and his hand perhaps about to stroke his vast chin.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The tension caused by a mosquito's whine makes me break speed records in my sleep. I can leap from diving to a shipwreck to whacking my ceiling with a rolled up magazine in 5 seconds flat.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just looked up that orange lyrics book. I paid about £10 in 2008. People are now trying to sell it for £300. I guess we're eating tonight, kids.

Scene from the Simpsons of Comic Book Guy marking up the price of Bleeding Gums Murphy's record 'Sax on the Beach' from £250 to £500 upon learning of his death.

Caption: "He's dead? Well, why didn't you say so?"

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My favourites were the times when the music teacher would split the room down the middle and have half sing Amazing Grace while the other half sang Never Ever by All Saints, with the lyrics on the OHP (if you were sat near the middle you'd try to shuffle that way).

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some of my best times were washing the dishes while listening to my tape of Dishes by Pulp, getting some perspective. I'll applaud anyone doing anything they didn't think they could do yesterday.

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Arguably the greatest song to be recorded 4 times by 3 iterations of a band under 3 different names and in 2 languages, and then remixed once before it reached number 2 (eventually scoring a number 1 when it was covered by my mate's little brother's band a decade and a half later)

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Best of all the animals

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Me reading Best Albums of the Year lists in 2009

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just listening to a 14 minute podcast. Admirable restraint, you might think, but I'm 8 minutes of intro waffle in and the presenter has just mentioned the subject for the first time.

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm finding out way too much for someone who fucks around so little

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Proclaimers - I would walk 500 miles to kick the pair of you in the bollocks, you ignorant, transphobic arseholes.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Regarding the last repost, I was thinking earlier that the point when Mitthew Romney was videoed ironing a shirt while wearing it would have been a good one to reflect on how low the intellectual standard for candidates had become.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think when it comes to picking a President in 2028, I hope the US public decides to go with someone with the capacity for abstract thought this time.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Morphine interview from my fanzine (1995). A formative moment for me. The day after my first night in London, alone, as a teenager. I was spat on by some tough looking lads in Hackney while trying unsuccessfully to find my way back to the flat of a friend of a friend, then having finally found it...

An interview in my fanzine with the band Morphine

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If pushed, I'd probably have to say that my favourite Anglo-Saxon king is King Ethelbert since he is the only one whose name contains an entire middle-aged British couple from the 1960s.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Idea for a Silver Jews verse:

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So much love for the Armando Iannucci Shows. Odd how everyone's so much younger 25 years ago. Great writing, by him of course, and by @andyrileyish.bsky.social and Kevin Cecil. The whole thing's a muster station for the socially awkward, the imposter syndromers. YES. www.channel4.com/programmes/t...

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The Armando Iannucci Shows

Armando's surreal 2001 comedy series that confronts our feelings and fears

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton on Johnny Carson.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I wish I was in London, this sounds really good.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Speaking of Simpsons quotations, I can't help putting any two items (drum n bass, snakes & ladders, even nuts and gum) into the quote "they charge for materials AND labour. Pick ONE, jerks!"

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Are we just skipping over him getting fired because of a podcast interview he did with Mumford und Söhne?

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

HP invented YA - No it didn't. How are you defining YA?! Post-Potter lit. - Ah. I see.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Channel 4 could bring back "Legal Name Fraud" in a big way. I'd be so excited to see the credits.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The thing about the fox killing is that, if the RSPCA hadn't confirmed it had happened, I'd have assumed it was a bitterly sarcastic tweet from someone protesting the brutality of the Boxing Day hunt.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Championship Manager 2003-04. Bring it on.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm holding out for Always Different, Always the Same, a series about every member of The Fall. At 2.5 hours, Room to Live: The Arthur Kadmon Story will be 10x longer than he spent in the group.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In the early days of Facebook, a self-proclaimed "Trotskyite" set her followers on me because I couldn't *possibly* know as much as her, as a working class kid who hadn't been to a fee-paying school. No, really. That's who these people are: entitled fucking morons.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm not among the electorate but Song 4 Mutya is one of the greatest examples you'll find of a lyricist talking to themselves.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

...He's seen them with his eyes, he's seen things, they're often in disguise, like carrots, handbags, cheese... Like Lennon being impressed that Macca knew all of Twenty Flight Rock, I was always impressed that my friend knew all the words to that song

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Does anyone else remember a UK terrestrial TV channel showing Juventus matches in 2006-07, when they were in Serie B? If so, which channel was it? This was the season before Channel 5 had Football Italiano and 4 years after Channel 4 ended Football Italia.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Britain is a land full of men so dull they're accidentally psychedelic, like staring at a white wall for too long. The question was "does anyone have any thoughts on why X band chose this title for Y album?" Imagine being this incurious; it's actually making my head spin.

Psychedelically Grey Man: "Does it actually matter?"

OP: "Curious that's all. If that's all right with you? Probably not by the sounds of it"

Psych. Grey: "A bloke writes a series of songs in collaboration with others. They decide on a title for the album. Their album. Their intellectual property. They can call it what they like. Or maybe they follow pop convention and use the title of one song, say for instance, "Little Blue" as an inspiration. Either way it doesn't really matter. (Thats from Queen BTW . On the album " Night at the opera" which I bought during daylight and nowhere near an opera house). It's just a nonsense question"

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"I only eat Pot Noodles and other people talking about their enjoyment of fancy restaurant food makes me feel inferior, so I need to find an effortless way to feel superior about dismissing their tastes as snobbery" makes sense. It's a mentality you might call Klostermania.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Shout out to Thai football club PT Prachuap, whose recent signing of Andros Townsend might save him from losing his eyesight to the eclipse.

From Wikipedia: "In May 2026, Townsend posted a social media video questioning why people needed to wear sunglasses to protect their eyes from sunlight but not from artificial light. He followed this up with another video claiming that when eyes are exposed to sunlight, 'your brain then sends the relevant UV protection back into your body to protect against the sun,' and urging viewers to 'ditch the sunglasses and let your eyes do their job.'"

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I started reading this as a post about Bob Mould and then just kept trying to understand it that way.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Early quote skeets: "Demon fiend, leave your tomb/seek out the virgin womb"/hey, Chris from Future Doom/You left your lyrics in the practice room Later quote skeets: Blood on the tracks and it must be mine/The fool on the the hill and I feel fine/Sun in the sky never raised an eye to me

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

oh my god the producer for Relapse did a livestream and finally explained the true solution to the mystery of why he was doing the accent (somewhat). Apparently Mark Batson at the time wore a rasta hat and was smoking blunts at the desk and Eminem started doing a Jamaican accent to poke fun at him

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Young Parisians are *so French*, they like Patti Smith.

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James @m-jm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It seemed odd to me that it would've been released on a Saturday, so I looked at magazine archives etc, and it turns out Ed Paule had the same thought a couple of years ago. 4th August seems likely to be the correct date: www.sydbarrett.com/feature-arti... Yes, it's a slow work day, why do you ask?

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FEATURE ARTICLE - The Piper Release-Date Controversy - Syd Barrett

Following the Paper Trail of Pink Floyd’s First LP

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A terrible day for trans people in Britain and a shameful one for the EHRC and government

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sWitch, A Real Live Dead One @switch-is.online · 18/05/2026

i once received a ton of texts from a very angry woman who kept calling me curtis jackson and yelling about ghosting her and i could not for the life of me get her to understand that the guy gave her 50 cent's name and my phone number

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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