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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 13h

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Fear not... I've got hundreds of scientists researching this for you.

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Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · 13h

A colleague in Alberta has shared one of the finest pieces of writing I have seen in a long time (though there is one sentence that jars unnecessarily). Need I say he (my colleague) will be voting Hell, no! (should be an option) on question 10 (and, I assume) the rest? Anyway, do read this.

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The Annual Migration of Canadian Men To Canadian Tire

Hans Casteels went to Canadian Tire for one screw. He returned ninety minutes later with bungee cords, WD-40, a tactical flashlight, smoked almonds and enough winter equipment to clear snow

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Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · 13h

It's not as if we've got a lot of space, so selective use of primary sources will be necessary. You might have enough/access to enough?

Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · 14h

My contribution is going to look the other way, at the Caribbean where all sorts of interesting things happen and there are some interesting peripheral interactions between what will be TEC, the CoE, and an emerging CPWI. Hopefully, it will be readable when I am done. Hawai'i must be fascinating

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Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social · 14h

The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church invites chapter proposals for Vol. 2 of a 5-volume History of Anglicanism in the Americas. Especially seeking: early evangelicalism, TEC church parties, mission & frontier colonialism, development of TEC in regions.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 15h

Well, for one thing, there's the giant cat problem

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 15h

Word of mouth lasts longer than a sale-or-return promotion. In the poetry world, at least.

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Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good point. I had forgotten that. So rare it's not US Cricket being suspended.

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Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Autumn is here, so I feel I can mention this book, which, of course, spends some time considering Autumn Journal (and does its best with Autumn Sequel), though still my favourite MacNeice poem is Didymus from Ten Burnt Offerings, a linguistic and emotional tour de force. #booksky

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Louis MacNeice: In a Between World

Prof. Christopher J. Fauske April 2016 This powerful new perspective on MacNeice’s life and work explores his poetry, prose and drama as part of a biographical re-evaluation. Christopher Fauske places...

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

War is target fixation. War is concrete cicatrix. War is an unbanishable ghost. Hookland knows this. It pillboxes remain manifestations of invasion fears. The abandoned sound mirrors of its salt marshes still listen out for phantom planes. There is no psychic peace. – #DAKilory

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

HOLY FUCK. I’m blown away by the generosity of people here. This will fund researchers working on ovarian cancer. You are all amazing.

My Walk 100 Miles in October
Challenge
Jane Hill is raising money for Ovarian Cancer Action
Money raised so far: £3,184
636% raised of £500 target by 106 supporters

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Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Louis MacNeice: In a Between World

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Annie Chave @anniechave.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not bad at all for a domestic competition! 💪👏👏👏 Long live the County Championship 🏏

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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Following last night's AGM, we can officially confirm that women's cricket will commence in Iceland in January.

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

With my other head on:

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In 1066 it would have taken William the Conqueror's army about 2 hours to march the 6.3 miles from Hastings to Battle, but today I managed to cover the same distance in almost half that time thanks to Southeastern trains.

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I like to imagine Dick Davies and @fletchsport.bsky.social commentating on this last wicket stand. 🏏 I do hope there were people there to enjoy/suffer it.

Derbyshire v Essex, Chesterfield, August 06 - 08, 1947. The Essex first innings scorecard. Look at that tenth wicket partnership.

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I did not know he wrote a book.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Goodnight from Davey Smith, excited by the air being thick with bonefire incense sending smoke-wraith prayers to boundary gods. Goodnight from the midnight sisters of Bramble Street, sharing cigarettes, gossip and protective charms against the wounds of the night. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Cruelty begets cruelty, and the facts mentioned above should in no way condone the alleged behaviour of the foster parents. [Sharp is the subject of my forthcoming book.]

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Surely it is well known to anyone who has brought up children, particularly boys, that if a child is bullied & badly treated he will if possible ‘take it out on’ or in turn bully some person or animal weaker than himself?

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Here is Nancy Sharp in a letter to The Times expressing her disquiet on hearing that some reasonably intelligent people have become less sympathetic toward...Dennis O’Neill after reading that he & his brother Terence had been responsible for the death of two calves & for maltreating some hens.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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You reach the Gates of Hades & find them guarded by this: (📷: USFWS)

Spooky Season has officially begun, and we’re kicking things off with a three-headed ferret.

OK, technically it’s three black-footed ferrets, but October calls for a little imagination.

Once thought to be extinct, black-footed ferrets are one of North America’s rarest mammals. At the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center, staff work to breed and recover these endangered little creatures and return them to the wild.

Cute? Absolutely. Three-headed monster? Only in October.

Photo by USFWS

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Nick Webb @nickwebb2017.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🏏BBC county championship cricket live text page gets 27.8 million page views across the summer, averaging 464K per day Thanks to all who’ve joined us to follow red-ball cricket this year 👏🏽😎

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks to Jennifer Lee Tsai for this lovely review in @theguardian.com

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LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Colchester Town Hall from earlier today (I went on a Henry Collins and Joyce Pallot mural mooch earlier - more on that later). Anyway, this rather grand building in the Edwardian Baroque style was by John Belcher and opened in 1902. Reminds me of Alfred Brumwell Thomas’s Woolwich Town Hall a bit.

The view of the building and clock tower from the south east corner. Per Wikipedia:

Construction of the new building began in 1897. It was designed by John Belcher in the Edwardian Baroque style and was opened by the former Prime Minister, the Earl of Rosebery in 1902. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto the High Street; the central section featured an arched doorway with the borough coat of arms in the tympanum and flanked by Doric order pilasters. There was an ornate balcony above the doorway and there were also three pairs of huge engaged Corinthian order columns spanning the first and second floors each carrying a broken pediment. Pevsner described the design as having been completed "with more braggadocio than anyone".

A 192 feet (59 m) tower, funded by a donation from James Noah Paxman, the founder of local engineers, Davey, Paxman & Co, was erected at the east end of the building to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It featured four allegorical figures by L. J. Watts representing engineering, military defence, agriculture and fishery. At the top of the tower the architect placed a large bronze figure representing Saint Helena (the patron saint of Colchester) holding the True Cross. Councillor Arthur Jarmin travelled as far as Italy to locate a suitable statue of the saint, but could only find one of the Virgin Mary, which then had to be modified locally. Just below this statue four bronze ravens by Francis Carruthers Gould could be found, representing the portreeve who ran Colchester's medieval port. A chiming clock with five bells was placed in the tower, with another 15th-century bell which is thought to have hung in the original moot hall. The clock is known locally as Charlie, after Charles Hawkins, who paid for it; it was manufactured by Smith & Sons of Derby. The bells, were by John Warner & Sons.

The front of the building showing the main entrance. See previous image for description.

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I am hoping to reach you to see if you might be interested in a cricket thing I am working on. You can DM, if curious. Thanks.

Can confirm. A fascinating issue. And I feel honoured to appear in not one but two essays, albeit as a footnote in each case🙂

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Come hang! It is free

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway, Ollie Pope, Moeen Ali, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Reece Topley, et al, *this is the sort of thing you're condoning*.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't think we ever really find out, Steve...

A charming black-and-white illustration on an orange background shows Steve the otter standing upright in a witch’s hat and cape, holding a broom beside a pumpkin trick-or-treat bucket, in a whimsical cartoon style.
Text in image: “Suddenly Steve realised he knew what he wanted to be for Halloween, but not what he wanted to be when he grew up.”

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Surrey Cricket @kiaoval.com · 01/10/2026

Awards night at Surrey. ✨ A thread of all the winners. 🧵 🤎 | #SurreyAwards

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Conceptually, it's a great idea. Given CWI's latest financial statements and drastic curtailment of domestic tournaments, I'm not at all sure how it would be put together.

There is absolutely nothing about an October-November tournament on GT20's website or on St Vincent Cricket Association's web site and just a static link of Cricket West Indies' page, so heaven knows if anything is actually happening.

Small grounds in SVG, too. Though I assume they'll be keeping to Saint Vincent itself. So the scores could be exciting.

About what? Used to love coaching university rugby women. They were, indeed, Very Happy to Correct Me 😀 Learned a lot from them.