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Christine, making stuff… @christine-1953.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

In case any of my American friends need a boost, here’s Pete Seeger lifting hearts at a pivotal time in the USA. Hard to believe that it’s all to do again, and more… But “I do believe, we shall overcome…” youtu.be/LVQ6Y8szaBQ?...

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Pete Seeger - We shall overcome (HD)

YouTube video by gonzalo blanco

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Is the 'cold bath' the old puritanical 'If its not thoroughly unpleasant it can't be good for you'?

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Word of the day is ‘foozle’, from the 19th century: of a golfer, to bungle a shot. More generally, to make a complete mess of something.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Happy #NationalLibraryWeek ❤️📚

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Not that you'd know it from British media. I read a post recently that said, roughly: "To British news media, some events happened in the world today that weren't in the US".

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

When it really matters in this era of information technology and super-duper communications and you want to speak to gov. dept. you might as well have a set of messenger pigeons.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 07/04/2025

...and Jane Austen's worst review? Honestly, we found this flyleaf graffiti from a disgruntled reader quite encouraging. You can't please all of the people all of the time and all that.

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#booksky #bibliophilia 📚💙 Discover These 15 Enchanting #Libraries Sure to Thrill #BookLovers www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 04/04/2025

These are amazing!

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Absolutely THIS!!! 👍 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

5 Apr 1588: b. Thomas Hobbes #philosopher at #Malmesbury #otd (NPG) Nasty, brutish, short &c - except he lived to a ripe old age, dying on 4 Dec 1679

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Presumably if it bred with a sheep it'd have a baa code.

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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 03/04/2025

Just adding some joy to your Thursday!

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Thanks, and best wishes for your self. The politics of scapegoating the most vulnerable is utterly disgusting.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is how the media bullying about benefits nearly destroyed me - over many years (when I didn't know ASD and ADHD were an issue of mine). And with no hyperbole involved I feel I'm still just waiting to die because of it.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

via Angel Stroyan

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Royal Institution @rigb.org · 01/04/2025

We're excited to share an amazing discovery with you: never-before-seen writings by Michael Faraday, revealing remarkable and mysterious inventions. 📖

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

turns out Le Pen is not mightier than le courts

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

That's the second time this week that I have felt compelled to reference the great Allan Partridge and Radio Norwich.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Wow, great memories. The TV theme tunes videos on YouTube are brilliant to browse through - eg The Flashing Blade, Follyfoot and the rest.

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Grouchy Marx @grouchymarx57.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I've paid my landlord's mortgage off over the last 20 years, and in 3 months, I'll be homeless because he's pushing the rent up again. Until we treat housing as a human right for all, rather than a profit-making commodity for the few, we'll never see an end to homelessness and insecure housing ❤️🚩✊🏾

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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

😂🤣😂🤣 Thanks for the laugh Lorna. It’s true for a lot of us

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Helen Macfarlane died #OnThisDay 1860. Described on her gravestone only as ‘the wife of Rev John W Edwards’, she had led a remarkable life as witness to the European revolutions of 1848 and as a friend of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/helen-macfar...

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Helen Macfarlane 1818 - 1860 - chartist ancestors

Helen Macfarlane was the first translator of the Communist Manifesto into English - and was probably the most influential woman in Chartism. This is her life story

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

US Higher Ed dominance was built by refugees fleeing the Nazis. It’s just extraordinary the talent they recruited and in following generations. What comes around goes around.

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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Want to know why we are where we are? This book is essential reading.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Absolutely I know it well. Incidentally, what I like most about Marvin is not what most would expect, like Grapevine, What's going on and Lets get it on etc but the duets with Tammy Tyrrell - wonderful.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Brilliant, in itself but also for great memories - misspent youths of dark nightclubs in the eighties.

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

You are not worthless because you are workless. You are not worthless because you are workless. You are not worthless because you are workless.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It's at this point that you might want to consider panicking.

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#MorningVibe A prophetic word from the gifted Maya Angelou, giving us insight into the dysfunctional society & “leaders” we are experiencing today.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

One of the most delightfully funny books I've ever read is The Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile (He of the Not Terribly Good Club, of Great Britain)

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The name Allan Partridge seems to just leap from the screen here.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Yeah its the Bogart and Bacall version tonight which is a terrific film. Many seem to prefer either Bogie or Powell as Marlows but I like them both, though they are very different. I re read The Big Sleep recently but am still non the wiser about who killed the Sternwood chauffer.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Chandler's books are great. The two films tonight - the second is The Big Sleep - come very close to making it worth while having a TV.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you like Film Noir and/or Raymond Chandler, there's a treat tonight at 8 on BBC 4. Farewell My Lovely. The great Dick Powell as Marlow.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

'Eye on' is what all right thinking people say.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My favourite, coined recently, as far as I know, is: Disco Chicken.

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Labour's campaign material for Runcorn and Helsby by-election.

Harry Secombe as the Beadle in the film Oliver. He stands with a pompous beadle hat holding a pompous Beadle staff with a silver top. He is trapped in a pompous Beadle cloak with golden braid and the is on the verge of saying, "MORE?!?!" in response to Oliver's request for food.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

There are indeed roadworks on the path of righteousness.

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Nanny Ogg @nanny-ogg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This week at Book Club:

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It won't, they're all futile gestures to pander to the inculcated prejudices of the right, with the sole aim of staying in power. Which raises many obvious questions.

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Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Could do with such a sign in the north west of England - the Thelwall Viaduct used to scare the hell out of me. No idea why.

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

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