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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 21h

A bit late to install a fire extinguisher next to Joan of Arc now

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In case you forgot or didn't read it the first time.... Predation and Corpse-Eating in Armadillos tetzoo.com/blog/2020/9/... #armadillos #mammals #xenarthrans

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Predation and Corpse-Eating in Armadillos — Tetrapod Zoology

It starts with the dragging off of a lamb. It ends with bearmadillos.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 17h

Ever since I first saw it, this scene has epitomised Amerlcan elegance for me. I wrote a short story about it for Radio 4 (never broadcast) and it's why I drink Gibsons even though nobody who works in a bar these days knows what they are. A perfect scene - RIP Eva Marie Saint.

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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 19h

1938, Sheffield, Bramall Lane. Originally built as a cricket ground, it hosted one Test in 1902, & Yorkshire played there until 1973. Now the home of Sheffield United, in the past it also hosted Sheffield FC, The Wednesday FC, & the 1912 FA Cup Final replay & international football

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jimpers crimpers @jimprov.sendusyourmoney.com · 19h

the book is astoundingly good, @beetlemoses.bsky.social !!! Out of nearly 200 pages, this one got me the best.

[Two yellow fish are speaking to each other near the surface of the water.]

"Bro I told you, it's him."

- "I don't know. . ."

[second panel, a large fish at the sea floor attempting to lure them by presenting a FREE! Photo with Kevin Hart prop-up banner, desk and what appears to be Kevin Hart]

"Something seems off. . ."

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 21h

Arup Christmas Party 1966. What a night! Probably would have been in the Palace Suite with The Boston Crabs (Alley-oop!) and the Huddster. Coaches at 2.30am! Where have we gone wrong :(

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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 21h

Found these pics of ‘60s Swedish outfit the Knotts over on FB. I love how they look 10 years old. Anyone know anything about them?

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 21h

Looks like this was a barnstormer of a match. Faroe Islands 2-nil up. Red card. Kazakhstan pull it back and also get a red!

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 21h

This Oxford Uni building used to be the High School for Boys. Couple of famous old boys include Ronnie Barker, so Spoons, naturally, named the pub next door “The Four Candles.”

Two cyclists ride past old building on wet road. Blue and cloudy sky.

Red brick building with close-up of The Four Candles pub sign.

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 21h

‘Titivation’ is such a great word. My grandma and mum used it loads.

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How dare you resurrect the memory of this offensive, tuneless dirge

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

En serio. Day with my teenagers. Huge enjoyment. Also unblocked sink.

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Public toilet in a Japanese forest, built from rammed earth and timber frame. The foundation is made of crushed stone instead of concrete. The hand wash and toilet bowls are also made of recycled wood chips. Tono Mirai Architects

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

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Molly Tie @mollytie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Who is gonna be in Sheffield on 11th October? Because if you are, come see me talk about my Punk book Rebel Grrrls as part of the Off the Shelf Festival!!! ❤️🤩 offtheshelf.org.uk/events/rebel...

Event listing for a chat with Molly Tie on 11th October at 6pm in Sheffield.

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also a verb. Eg ‘Brexit him!’ Carry out a bad tackle in football game.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📸 Cecil Beaton (1959)

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Punchline (in Scottish accent): Ah yoo mixin mah tohsteez?

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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of these for each decade since the 50s would be interesting

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How the month started to how it ended.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A sad window into what the end of the last glacial looked like in Scotland around 11k yr BP

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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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markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Haven’t read the report. Assume it’s references to Sham 69 and The Kids are United-based jibes.

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

Activist… great journalism

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