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Max Deveson

@maxdeveson.bsky.social
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BBC journalist, currently producing #bbcglobaleye, previously @bbcnewsnight

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ
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Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’d forgotten how incredible that Go Team song was! Thank you! (I guess this is what happens when humans create music that other humans hear and then tell other humans about).
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tearing up just reading your last line - “our deep desire to understand them”, perfectly put, thank you!
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’ll be avidly following all your music writing from now on.
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m just reading all your entries in the “100 best songs of the 19X0s...” lists and felt compelled to tell you I’m blown away by your incredible ability to convey so much concentrated and considered capital C Criticism in so few words. They’re like beautiful baroque miniatures.
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 16/08/2026
“Dancing Queen,” ABBA’s biggest hit and only chart-topper in America, was released 50 years ago today. After initially dismissing the song in his youth, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has written and spoken extensively about his appreciation for “Dancing Queen,” including in his book ‘World Within A Song.’ 💃
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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME
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Bony Frightower @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here's a piece of trivia: in her long, wonderful life, Dolly Parton managed to buy more books than any other individual in history.
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There is this weird moisture coming out of the sky and it’s freaking me out
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I still believe
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My daughters are growing up assuming every two years we get into a football championship semi-final and get a new Prime Minister
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Soggy traveller’s cheques
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Looking back now, I realize that growing up in MK in the 80s was like living in a Kraftwerk album
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The deepest mysteries of the gods may never reveal themselves
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I’ve got bad news about C6 and Am7
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
me: should i chronicle history or document current events? funk soul brother: write about now
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Long shot, but if anyone in North #Oxford has lost a tortoise with a surprising turn of speed in the heat, do get in touch..
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
[giving a critique after the first performance of 4'33"] ME: I guess my main feedback would be: there's no notes JOHN CAGE: oh great! ME: no hang on
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Tense Tory Love Song?
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My wife was annoyed with the tangled way I had wound up the hose, so I told her to stop kink-shaming me
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Jesus wept
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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Asked Aretha Franklin which wildlife charities she supports. She said RSPB ETC. Have a good weekend folks
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
An entire nation screaming at Elis to ask something, ANYTHING, about his parents. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Classy little dude you’ve got there though, congrats!
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I have heard this too, possibly from the same source as you
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
ITV has announced 70 Up, the documentary following contributors every seven years, is to come to an end. The director Michael Apted died in 2021. The Up film series has aired since 1964. Final episodes this year.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Walton Street’s much-loved second-hand vinyl store, Riverman Records, could be at risk. A planning application seeks to convert the shop into a one-bedroom flat, claiming ”removal of the discordant commercial frontage… [would] restore a traditional architectural rhythm to Walton Street”.
Riverman Records frontage at 153 Walton Street
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of
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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
THREAD: I’ve been posting pretty much daily on my Patreon site. All of my posts this year have been free to access, so all you need to spend is your precious time. Here are some recent things you might have missed. (thread) patreon.com/NeedleMythol...
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A place to talk about what we love about the music we love
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
If only the Asterix or Tintin translators had done Foucault as well
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 30/03/2026
friday I’m in loveless 🐐🐐 [📷: Charlotte Courbe]
The Cure’s Robert Smith and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields at Teenage Cancer Trust 2026
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Wait how did I not know about this and how can I sign up?
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It’s. So. Good.
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Today we published a report on younger news audiences. Authored by Craig T. Robertson, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on DNR and other surveys Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understandin... Seven findings in thread
group of young people sitting on stone steps, focused on their smartphones. Below the image, text reads: "March 2026. Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change. A new report by Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher."
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I would also recommend The Lost City of Z by David Grann or (for historical fiction) Golden Hill by Francis Spufford.
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Random Family is a masterpiece of narrative non-fiction about the 80s/90s crack epidemic in America, but maybe that’s not quite what you’re talking about? It feels like you’re reading a Great American Novel, but is all based on incredibly in-depth interviews. www.waterstones.com/book/random-...
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Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | Waterstones
Buy Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
100% this! Don't tell what I like based on what I already like. Not even *I* know what I like!
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
lol at the alt text
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
If you’ve got any left over, do pop over to South Oxfordshire, please and thank you (excellent VT by the way!)
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
In the words of Alexandra Burke, you don’t really care for music, do you?
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Let's talk about the Aylesbury tunnels.
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Luvh that guy
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Is this like Spotify Wrapped? What’s your FT Age?
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Max Deveson @maxdeveson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Paul is dead
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Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view.
And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone.

"When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/11/2025
Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 20/11/2025
R.I.P. Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, bassist of #TheStoneRoses and #PrimalScream buff.ly/qN3AvUA
Mani of The Stone Roses
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