Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 9hPretty sinister emphasis for those of us who still interpret ultimate as last, rather than greatest 140
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A little Friday night timeline cleanser. 🙂 18026
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sir Charles Thompson playing his best-known tuneyoutube.comSir Charles Thompson - Robbins' NestYouTube video by mogurin3131 000
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Every time Fifi passes the patio doors she gazes out, dreams of freedom and adds the patio to her map 000
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Alt: You are Ronald Fisher and I claim my five pounds 000
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Some can tellen.wikipedia.orgLady tasting tea - Wikipedia 100
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Can anyone remember what this excellent bit of trolling is from? It was on Arxiv when I snipped it but it must have been published by now. Something about twisted de Rahm spaces I seem to recall 001
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sir Richard Pump-a-loaf, the tale of a demented bread-boffer 000
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Vice Chancellors: what shall I do about the coming demographic dip and all this spare real estate on my campus? Prosperity Institute: hold my illicitly made hooch 142
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A golden oldie earwormm.soundcloud.comThe Dinner Ladies - Muscle in the BudStream The Dinner Ladies - Muscle in the Bud by DwayneC on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. 010
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fun fact (as the kids say) the THE once offered to send a lingerie model and a photographer to my office. I declined. 011
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I've been saying 'No THE, no apology' for years but if you were in any doubt read this 110
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Wonder if they still all have a copy of Gowers' Plain Words 010
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Two of a trade seldom agree" used to be a saying, apparently, though I only ever encountered it as the punchline of a Saki story 010
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm enjoying the tv show as a lightweight thriller, but it takes an effort not to constantly ask "who made that?" "where does the food come from?" "where does the waste go?" etc 000
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Silo is a great show for anyone able to suppress all curiosity about manufacturing, supply chains and infrastructure 110
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.” 15397105
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you can reliably distinguish by ear all the reels in the Breathnach and O'Neil collections, then you can talk to me about infinite personal music 001
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895445937
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sorry, it's still not enough to make me dredge up the words or music to Fairford Breakdown by the Albion Band 000
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great demonstration of the Tyndall effect in a wooded area by the scattering of beams of light by finely suspended particles of fog in the air: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi... 592005363
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can't find the strip but it's alt-texted here achinhibitor.livejournal.com/311213.htmlachinhibitor.livejournal.com"My wife, I think I'll keep her."For a long time, I thought that it was Bloom County that lambasted Geritol for its "My wife, I think I'll keep her." commercial as the motive for Mrs. Whacker chopping up her husband. But it turns out that it was Doonesbury. Today's Doonesbury rerun is that delightful snark, though not unhinged… 020
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Toaster @toaster.codes · 28/09/2026Just remember the rhyme! Masked by the sea, you’re alright by me, Masked by the planes, we’ll clap you in chains. 03212
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Joanie Caucus in Doonesbury left her first husband after he quoted the same ad 340
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026farewell Mighty Sparrow, based Calypsonian www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOWu...youtube.comMighty Sparrow - Capitalism Gone MadYouTube video by Edward Spencer 2219
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck. 10602170
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At this point, though, if someone contends they've never even heard of "Please don't throw me to the Christians" or Barrett, it may say more about the listener than the song. Or, for that matter, what they want to project to the world. 010
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you can't handle me at my Anna-Maxwell-Martin-in-Star-City you don't deserve me at my Anna-Maxwell-Martin-in-Ludwig 000
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).- 43678257
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026aged jazz musician is facing his final moments. They rush to fetch the priest who hurries in, bends to whisper into the dying man's ear, "anything still bothering you my son?". And the musician whispers back "country music". 3131
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Chu-Let-The-Dogs-Out✊🏾💚🇪🇺🇬🇧🇳🇬🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @chumantastic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just bought some anti-gloating cream from the pharmacy.. Can't wait to rub it in! 719120
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼John Vigar FSA @johnevigar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Remarkable flint flush work on the church of St Miles, Coslany, Norwich. 09813
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The more relevant question is how convivial the lunch beforehand was 020
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Not mine, but once I was the external examiner for a PhD viva, and as I got to the end of a line of questioning I looked over at the internal examiner and he'd fallen asleep 130
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The old 'My Music' radio show once mentioned a music catalogue that included that favourite Delibes piece, "Le Roi s'Abuse". Some of the ensuing discussion could not be broadcast 000
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026About the only thing to be said for the QS gossip-rankings is that they're highly sensitive to this sort of nonsense 010
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Laura Bradley @lurabardley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Journo request: I'm looking for Youths™ who are watching, or have watched, Friday Night Lights. Basically, anyone who is *not* a millennial or older. Are you this person? Do you know someone who is? DM me! 31925
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026after consideration, I have produced this necessary reference guide, perhaps @sundersays.bsky.social may be interested. If someone wants to provide funding after the fact, I can promise it won't constitute a donation in kind to Reform. 76415
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On the one hand Englishness is a construct, on the other hand me saying so does sound a little like a scary-looking guy in an expensive suit saying "what is this 'mafia' you talk of? I don't know what that is" 000
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Ah no, easy mistake to make, I was actually talking about Clavichordular, the baroquemaxxer who just got brutally temperament-mogged by Quarter-comma 011
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/20261/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions. 26895469
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026At the risk of sounding like a LinkedIn post, it proposes that human connections make more effective teams 010
Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼 @mcmwright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Likewise Lamb, for all his outward contempt for the horses, cares about them in a way that Ingrid never did about the dogs - Diana could go either way. 110
Reposted by Matthew Fright 👨🏼🦼rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026when the far-right piles on other rightwingers for not being racist enough, that's called getting reesmogged 880686