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Michael Brown

@mabrownstuff.bsky.social
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Book, film and language lover, eager to travel to where good people and wine can be found and where MAGA is just a memory. Currently in Accrington.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September's best read. This from @janicehallett.bsky.social. As with her equally highly enjoyable The Twyford Code, a complex but riveting story, full of mystery and mayhem, readable,twisty and often highly amusing.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not too mind-boggling that nobody wants to visit a big Fascist outpost lurking at the western side of the Atlantic. Look what the crappy criminal-in-chief has made.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another simple translation. He's an asshole.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good grief. Amazing skill.
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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy European Languages Day 🇬🇧 Joyeux Jour de Langues Europèenes 🇫🇷 Buona Giornata Europea delle Lingue 🇮🇹 Gratulerer med den europeiske språkdagen 🇳🇴 Χρόνια πολλά για την Ευρωπαϊκή Ημέρα Γλωσσών 🇬🇷 Hyvää Euroopan kielten päivää 🇫🇮 Words are beautiful, let's take care of them
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are plenty of drooling rightwing wazzocks who might learn something quite important from this, as well they damn should. Then again, maybe they wouldn't because they're wazzocks.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Noticed this some time ago. Glad I'm not alone.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'd definitely have put Pose on there. And maybe Boston Legal too. But nice to see Better Things on the list.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This shouldn't sound correct... But for some reason it does.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is highly enlightening, but only if you've forgotten that some people can be utter pillocks.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For anyone who doesn't already know, for an animated film this packs a mighty emotional thwack.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It was one of the great joys of my recent life to know Bonnie Greer. A truly remarkable person who radiated such wisdom and intellect. And when she spoke the audience was rapt. A kind, generous, passionate and very funny human. Thank you for giving us you Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It sounds like a cryptic clue that has no answer unless you're a stone cold genius.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I can relate. Was in Whitby for the first time in June. Lovely place, with just the right amount of quirk, which is always a good thing.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There's no way a book about the development of European porcelain would be particularly gripping, right? Wrong. Here it is. Turns out the story is absolutely off the chain. It's genuinely nuts and startling, and all true.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm the first to admit I'm not the target audience for this frivolous candyfloss espionage, but I still think this is dumb as rocks and only an idiot would want it. If you're recording me saying that, it's still true.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BEST. CAPTION. EVER. 🤣🤣🤣
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sad news. I only recently read her "My Life on the Road" memoir and would recommend it to anyone.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@nicholehiltz.bsky.social A fantastically Happy Birthday to you.🎈
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
August's best reads. From Mary Rickert and Ben Reeves. Can't split them so choosing both, two very beautifully written and moving books teeming with life, death and more than a little of the otherworldly.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Who is this Shaun Muprhy of whom they speak...?
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Best first line ever for a Dr Seuss poem that was never written.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
She probably thought Trump was a nasty tool. Which is yet another reason to like her.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lovely. What an astonishing gift to give.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Anyone who gifts books is already extraordinary to me, but obviously Dolly Parton was so much more than that.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Which reminds me, wonderfully, of the station on the Tokyo train network back in 2005, where the door-opening chime was a very cheerful version of The Third Man theme.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Wretchedly sad news.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Weirdly I'm not convinced. But then it's Vance and if he told me my own name I'd check my passport just to make sure.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Good grief. Glad to know she and her friend are okay.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Moon doesn't have Fox News. Lucky moon.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... Damn every one of the foul racist morons. Let them be ill then.
news.sky.com
Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is parody talk, the sort of thing a bloated clown might say in the thrall of frothing madness...oh, hang on....
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Checks out…
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The book is a hoot, grimly funny and the demented narrator is a gem. Hope the film is as good.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Rubber chickens are always funny. This just takes it to another level.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Just finished reading this Tuppence Middleton book today. A very easy and even entertaining read about a serious subject. And it's extremely good.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Verify my age. I can clearly remember season 1 of Starsky and Hutch when it wasn't a rerun.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Watched it just an hour ago, so these images are fresh in my mind. And those are very good.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I've got handwritten To Do lists older than ICE.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Whitby, last Sunday afternoon. Difficult not to imagine the ghosts of the Elizabeth Dane approaching....
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Whitby. Yesterday evening. No notes.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The fact that Ron Johnson rhymes with Wisconsin is not nearly as funny as the garbage he speaks.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.
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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I don't want to brag but I've read all of the Guardian's best books list AND the Guardian's unofficial readers' picks list. Now to read the books on those lists.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.
A stack of books with their spines showing. Gordon Brown, Texture, Lakes, Sun
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
You've got to feel for the spectators though...
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Fantastic. And supremely fine work by all involved.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
If you start a new supermarket, you should just put an apostrophe and S on the end of the name, because that's what everyone is going to call it anyway.
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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I'm sorry, what über-sychophantic slobber is this?
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