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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 15h

How the month started to how it ended.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 13h

Pro cyclist here who grew up in abject poverty as an only child. When I started cycling seriously in my teens I needed extra calories mom couldn't afford. I used to go to the local food bank and pretend I had three siblings. They knew and never said a word. They were true saints.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 13h

September 30th October 1st

Comedian / actor / Pepper Pig's Mum voice actor Morwenna Banks; long blonde hair, red dress, pink tights, sat with head in hands and just looking really quite beautiful

Morwenna Banks in Vic & Bob's legendary bad dream / sketch parody of Masterchef. Her body is padded oddly, her head is lowered but her red-rimmed eyes look forward, long-ish black hair that looks wet and freezing cold. She is terrifying.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 14h

TIL that it's 70 years since the first commercial hard drive shipped. It stored 3.75 Mb of data, and was two metres high. 70 years! Today there's > 200 zetabytes of stored data, nearly a billion billion times more. Has anyone found the Marie Kondo of data? www.computerhistory.org/storageengin...

Picture of a stack of 50 black disks and the equipment to read the data around it. Also this text: "In 1954 Reynold Johnson assembled a team at the IBM R&D Laboratory at 99 Notre Dame Ave., San Jose, California charged with developing fast mass storage systems to replace punched cards and magnetic tape in accounting and inventory control applications. Informed by Jacob Rabinow’s ideas at NBS, IBM developed and shipped the first commercial Hard Disk Drive (HDD), the Model 350 disk storage unit, to Zellerbach Paper, San Francisco in June 1956 as part of the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) system. "

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On top of the shrinking, the colour of these glaciers in recent years makes me sad.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Out very soon...

Ivor Cutler: Selected Poems (Hoorgi House 2026)

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By, I've worked on some good stuff.

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fantastically odd still life: the world, the shells, and the snake. And can somebody explain to me the book illustration? A chaste Cimon & Pero? Why, Carstian Luyckx, why?

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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here’s a picture of Michael Nesmith to cheer you up this Monday evening.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/09/2026

‘What underlies the sense of affront is the assumption that the “people of England” are, as it were, a settled question, that the days of large-scale movements belong to the past, or ought to.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers

In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So this is happening on Saturday on #bbcRadio3

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

None of them being tear-gassed or batoned yet I see. Hmm

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Yoko Ono Bot Preservation Group (2017-2025) @yokoonobot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Self care starts with treating yourself to an owl. 30th Aug 2018 | 🔁 3 🩶 8 [url]

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Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Brew ha ha!" My piece in latest Private Eye on Heineken & Carlsberg axing Cask breweries while Cask bouncies back. (Sadly no space for the triumphant return of Jennings.)

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No, the 2026 drought isn't over yet! Historically low flow in the river Rhine, where it enters the Netherlands: 640 m³/s now, and expected to drop below 600 by the weekend. The lowest ever measured this time of the year was 750 m³/s. Unprecedented, again. waterberichtgeving.rws.nl/owb/watervei...

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Online Waterberichtgeving | Rijkswaterstaat

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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Throwing Muses. Philin Phlash, 1985.

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lifeboat service being a charity is fucking insane anyway. Also privatisation of the coastguard.

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Working on my musical memoir of a childhood in Sheffield tonight: Give my Regards to Bradway.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Top of the Pops (21st September 1978). Buzzcocks kick off the show with Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've).

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

Anyone see the Eurofighter typhoon that just strafed central London?

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The radio call to the Solomon Browne unanswered. The seconds of static that seem to drag on into minutes, hours, days. The repeat call, out into radio silence. Anyone attacking the RNLI is no mariner, has no concept of the power of the sea and should sit down and shut the fuck up.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Local distribution, 18 September 2026. Six miles, two hours, two deliveries, two rivers. A city at night. As the lights turn hostile. Soft rain continual.

A map of west Sheffield with the publisher's route picked out in blue.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friday night challenge - can we identify all these? If we number the left column as 1-5 from top to bottom and the right 6-10 I'll give you 6 as a Queen Elizabeth class post-30s refit (Barham? Malaya?) and 7 as HMS Porpoise - unless anybody has better ideas?

A box of Scale Models of ten Famous Fighting Ships of the British Navy, from Tremo Models. Ten miniature lead vessels sit inside the green box.

Close up of the left hand side. They're pretty detailed for lead models, and apparently the turrets can be rotated. Some of them look quite droopy mind...

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Autumn Bicycle Ride This Week magazine, September 18, 1938 🎨 Frederick Sands Brunner

Painting of a smiling woman in a kerchief riding a bicycle. The background is orange, with leaves of varying colors floating around.

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Glad to see this move forward and proud that our work in Westminster Council was heavily cited in the committee report. Go @benmiskell.bsky.social & co

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is new from scientists in my department: economic data from 300 households and 15 years of forestry/climate records. Really trying to do both the human and the ecology in human ecology.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy birthday to Alan King, guitarist with The Action. Here they are with Shadows and Reflections on the Swiss TV show Hits à Gogo from 1968. Watch the full programme at youtu.be/gWg6arnoOIs. And here's a playlist of 7 different versions of the song youtube.com/playlist?lis... (THREAD 1 of 3)

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Blades Archives @bladesarchives.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

go.bsky.app/2uHVb1w New starter pack for anyone interested in UK football history. Tag any accounts or content creators I’ve missed! ⚽️ #football #history

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

2/2 Some dangerous fun & games on the frozen Thames, seen looking toward London Bridge, by Abraham Hondius.

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

Supported Wilder for many years. For a long time I haven’t see what the patterns of play are. Up-over-around. Ok. But basic competencies of keeping possession and being organised are lacking. Cardiff, Fleetwood, other teams can play though is at will. #sufc

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

I’ve just dropped out of Ed Sheeran’s tour

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don’t do much social media these days… but some images from the summer won’t hurt Hope you are all well

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nell Gwyn, baring it all to play Venus for her portrait by Sir Peter Lely. Lucky him! And today is his birthday.

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jean-Pierre Gibrat

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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Peanuts cast from the 1968 issue of TV Guide : (L to R) Sally Dryer (voice of Lucy), Gail DeFaria (Peppermint Patty), Peter Robbins (Charlie Brown), Christopher Shea (Linus), and animator Bill Melendez (Snoopy).

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Kevin Eldon's Speakers @kevineldonspeakers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Speakers: un podcast par Kevin Eldon et Martin Bird. Épisode 11 - Bientôt disponible, restez à l'écoute! Lundi 21 Septembre Oui! Oui! Oui!

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Danny Murphy crediting David Moyes for coaching Iliman Ndiaye to press with intensity. lol. Muppet.

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Jason Heeley @jaseheeley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, the work of Charles Keeping is my new obsession.

Illustrations by Charles Keeping, for "Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary" (Oxford University Press, 1967).

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Extraordinary modernist townhouse in Ixelles. A 1959 collaboration between architect André Jacqmain and interior designer Jules Wabbes. And it's for sale, so you get to look inside. www.immoweb.be/en/ad/town-h...

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Contains a picture of baby Alexei Sayle that is exactly what you'd want a picture of baby Alexei Sayle to be. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"The title Have You Always Been Here? came from my partner, inspired by a heron we encountered on our walks. It's also a question that runs through the project itself: about attention, presence and what we fail to notice." Have You Always Been Here? Matthew Clegg longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Three pamphlets by Matthew Clegg - Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living - collectively titled 'Have You Always Been Here?'

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