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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hope the rest of your day leaves you full of shine and smile at least.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wouldn't know whether to stand and watch, enrapt and fascinated, or run away a little.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have been rather short-changed haven't we? Options on most things below the neck these days would be welcome.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I particularly like the Welsh version of helium balloons. Tickles my linguist bone.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Have to be a fool not to include..er, Fool. Highly entertaining.

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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 · 26/09/2026

42. Yikes. I look back on 42 with the distant view of an astronomer looking at Cosmic Background Radiation. I've got books I've had nearly that long that I haven't read yet. 42 is nothing.

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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

That's a lovely photo. They look like calligraphy.

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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

If you want some entertaining horror, a bit of Graham Masterton may do the trick. Tengu especially is a hoot, but The Pariah and Family Portrait are good dark fun too.

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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 · 25/09/2026

Not only that. Makes it even easier to remember. Happy birthday.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In 1985 a friend and I ended a nonstop 23 hour video session with Tenebrae. I think it was the wrong film for that slot. Definitely need to revisit it.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Been wondering about reading it. Definitely starting to lean in....

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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

Good bleeding grief. Moronic is putting it mildly.

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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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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy birthday, hopefully with one or two more pleasing surprises.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Excellent show. Properly embracing the themes, but with a high level of originality and quirkiness too. Brilliantly done.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It will be a depressingly lengthy list, but it should be carved in stone, so to speak, as a memorial to malignant stupidity and a warning for the future.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As you say, she was a pleasure to watch. Always felt like I was about to learn something.

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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

Intriguing coincidence. I read it just last week. Very fine work, as always.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm due at my own dentist tomorrow. Just a check up. I find lying there and thinking about whatever film I'll probably watch later is a help.

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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 · 15/09/2026

Very difficult to watch any of them whang on without getting a feeling similar to having stood much too close to a farmer spraying a field.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Complacent moron may as well just say he doesn't care.

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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not very encouraging. Might as well have said get the Tarot out.

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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

It's always so much further to go than I feel it should be.

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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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Michael Brown @mabrownstuff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026