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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Noticed today that it's 40 years since Lyon October des Arts, when comic images were put on the side of bin lorries and this book was produced to commemorate it. I picked up my copy in Forbidden Planet a couple of years later at a much marked down price #SergeClerc #YvesChaland #EverMeulin etc.
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They don't encourage bulk buying at Prestonpans Scotmid
Crisps for sale in Scotmid in Prestonpans. The price is £1.25 per packet or two for £3
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If, like me, you aren't familiar with most of the acts playing Edinburgh Psych Fest this Sunday, here's a handy playlist with the most popular track on Tidal for each of them...
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Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026
Playlist - Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026 - 34 items
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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Highly recommend 'The Legacy of Slavery' exhibition at the Playfair Library (part of Edinburgh University Old College buildings). It's harrowing, overwhelming and utterly necessary. On Saturday and Sunday, free, e-tickets available from www.eif.co.uk/events/the-l...
Leaflet for "The Legacy of Slavery"QR code on a small card, allowing access to more information
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate
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Mike Sterling, A Halloween Comic Shipping First Week of November @mikester.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I still really enjoy that series, by the way. First issue came out right after my 16th birthday!
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Edinburgh Fortean Society @edinburghforteansociety.org.uk · 12/08/2026
Just saw the Eggclipse! (It was quite tasty) #Eclipse #Egg
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A seven hour playlist of Yorkshire related music for #YorkshireDay, inspired by the Craig Ferguson book
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Yorkshire Pop
Playlist - Yorkshire Pop - 97 items
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Yorkshire Salad (lettuce, onion, vinegar, mint) as is traditional for #YorkshireDay
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 18/07/2026
I happened across a picture of the original pedestrianisation signs for Rose Street in 1979 and boy were those pictogram pedestrians stylish back in the day 🕺
black and white street photo of Rose Street at corner of Kenilworth Bar, 1979. Shows a pedestrianised street with some modern planting and a large upright sign saying "Pedestrian Precinct" with the pictogram image of a man, woman and child, with distinctly 1970s clothing, shoes, haircuts and poses. Clipped from https://www.trove.scot/image/466052 Reference: SC 466052
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Spider Man Rides The Tube Not every superhero swings through the city, some catch the tube instead. It took a few attempts to nail the timing, but I finally made the SpiderMan poster look like Spidey is hitching a ride on a passing train. Captured at Oxford Circus station.
Spider man on the London Underground
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Is this like manifestation -- you say you want a million pounds a year and someone gives you it?
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Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift came after saying he needed ‘a million a year’ to stand as MP
Politician spoke to senior figures in Reform in March 2024 about covering lost earnings, sources tell the Guardian
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ideal for peashooters
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I hardly ever buy new comics these day, but I did enjoy the new Concrete, just a shame it has a typo on the very first page and another a few pages later. I know Dark Horse isn't the company it used to be and this might be the result of editorial cuts, just jarring to see in a much loved book
The cover of the first issue of the new Concrete series, Stars Over SandA typo on the very first page, a misspelling of Monument ValleyAnd then two different spellings of Dolbear in the same panel 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbear%27s_law
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
They're using go-go to sell Australian wine... #TopTune anyway youtu.be/MuWKRuN0ss0?...
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CHUCK BROWN & THE SOUL SEARCHERS BUSTIN LOOSE
YouTube video by toninho marçal
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Hattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Five book haul from Burns Yard today
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Imagine if Thatcher had resigned in 1981 after losing 1000 council seats in that year's local elections. Maybe we could afford clean water in our rivers and sea. Maybe we would have council houses etc. etc. Not sure what calamity Keir Starmer resigning saves us from...
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Yesterday's charity shop haul. Elvis vs Peaches vs Massive Attack. The Peaches record is a single that plays at 33. After the tune there is about 20 minutes of applause. The Valentine mag is from 1960, and as well as lots of pop pics, also has comic strip adaptations of two hit songs of the time
A 1960 Fleetway pop magazine called Valentine with Elvis on the cover
A 12" single by Ludwig Amadeus Horzon featuring Peaches
A Cd single of Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack with an HMV Import sticker
A DVD of the Brian De Palma film The Black Dahlia
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus
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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
RIP, Jerry Moriarty
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paul research @paulresearch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Upcoming November Group event at St Mary’s Cathedral in August. www.cathedral.net/event-detail...
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Afternoon Originals: November Group (string quartet) | St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral Edinburgh
Come and hear original music of all kinds, from album launches to electronics, in the amazing surroundings of St Mary’s Cathedral. Today, string quartet the November Group performs Paul Mackie’s new suite, 'Fragments of Time'.
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Vinyl group tonight. The theme is real people
A selection of records about real people
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Photograph of Satrapi next to quote:

“The world is not divided into countries.
The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.
And our governments are very much the same...”

“Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist”
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Matt Hill @gethill.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I picked up this copy of the Scotsman from November 1977 in Burns Yard a couple of weeks ago. Labour's Scottish and Welsh Devolution Bill is the lead story and I think it's probably the first time Tam Dalyell asked the West Lothian question, much discussed over the next few decades
The cover of The Scotsman newspaper from November 4th 1977An extract of the lead article where Tam Dalyell first asks the West Lothian question
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James Corcoran @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Joan Eardley Girl with poke of chips 1963
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The start of my #EdinburghBypassWalk at the Gyle
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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.
A photo of a Dell laptop screen taken between two train seats. The screen has a training video with the text "You never know who's sitting next to you" showing on it. The picture taker is sitting behind the person taking the training, so it's OK.
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Walking the Edinburgh bypass again tomorrow, this time starting at the Gyle and making my way back to Musselburgh station, essentially last year's route but in the opposite direction nigeblog.co.uk/edinburgh-ci...
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Edinburgh City Bypass walk - nigeblog
Way back in 2021 I had the idea of walking round the Edinburgh City Bypass, a local equivalent to Iain Sinclair and friends walking round the M25 in his book Orbital. Jan and I did the first section, ...
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Last Chance To Turn Around, a cover of the 1967 Gene Pitney single. From the 1996 Fall album, The Light User Syndrome #FallFriday youtu.be/wBtn6buIsw0?...
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Last Chance to Turn Around
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Did not know about jockey Tod Sloan, who gave his name to the rhyming slang 'on your tod'. Thanks to Derek Hammond and his 1998 book London, England. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_Slo... #EveryDaysALearningDay
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Tod Sloan (jockey) - Wikipedia
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Seventeen minutes is enough time to enjoy a cup of coffee. Get a grip Today programme
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A bacon roll and a glass of raspberry kefir to start this year's #EatWhatYouWantDay
A bacon roll and a glass of raspberry kefir
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Every copy of The Wire in WH Smith has the white cover and every copy in the @fruitmarket.bsky.social bookshop has the black cover. How did that happen?
The current issue of The Wire with white coverThe current issue of The Wire with black cover
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Five years and three days since The Rah's released their debut album, When Does It Become Real?
A utility cabinet in Prestonpans with a large blue sticker promoting the album When Does It Become Real? by local band The Rah's
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Paul B. Rainey @pbrainey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Digitally enhanced sketchbook joke.
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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This is from the substack of @iandunt.bsky.social - who knew he supported small press comics too? I think this snippet is an accurate portrayal of the plight of the small press artist!
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I believe it! from today's episode of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! available from @officialgocomics.bsky.social #PunkRockRuinedMyLife
A panel from today's episode of Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

A youth is listening to headphones. The text reads "Research shows that music listened to between the ages of 13 and 17 leaves a deep, lasting emotional impact."
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Paul B. Rainey @pbrainey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Single Middle Aged Brothers strip I drew.
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
No black ink on today's Ripley's Believe It Or Not? episode for @officialgocomics.bsky.social subscribers. Why do they keep having reproduction issues with this one?
Today's episode of Ripley's Believe It Or Not? as delivered to gocomics subscribers, but illegible because no black ink in the image
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Happy Jilted John Day to all who celebrate... Two three four! youtu.be/ybp-NbONgBo?...
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Jilted John - Jilted John 1978
YouTube video by fritz51304
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Fibreglass rhinos on top of a bus shelter. That's probably worth a trip to Dumfries... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why are two fibreglass rhinos guarding a Scottish housing estate?
Police told Robbie Coleman his artwork would not last the weekend but it is still there decades later.
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The last track on the last Fall album #FallFriday youtu.be/VsbG8hmmj9Y?...
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The Fall - Nine out of Ten (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Cherry Red Records
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Resisted buying this charity shop copy of Computer Love by Zapp. No sleeve, couldn't be sure it would play and the label on one side coloured red with felt tip pen, presumably by Alison
12" single of Computer Love by Zapp with the label coloured red with felt tip penThe reverse of the same record, with Alison written on the label
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Paul Davidson @elementalpaul.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I really like the @2000ad.bsky.social themed mural on the side of this property for sale in Ardrossan. Tellingly there aren't any photos of the interior on the listing. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Hobnobs at the seaside #MyBestLife
A marked down packet of Hobnobs with the Prestonpans shoreline in the background The shadow of a man sitting on a bench looking out to sea
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nigeblog @nigeblog.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I saw Timothy London (and band) play a great gig at Imperial College Union in 1987, three years before they had a hit as Soho. Musically they were right up my street, they looked fantastic, and they played a song that night which I don't think they ever recorded, that I still sing around the house.
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The Guide #330: From Oasis to Bowie, your stories of seeing pre-stardom acts
In this week’s newsletter: Everyone has to start somewhere … and in front of someone. Thankfully, these soon-to-be-huge artists left the mime act and dodgy covers (mostly) in the past
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