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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 17h

My cousin threw "we're all stories in the end" into her speech at my grandmother's memorial. It's truer and less trite than a lot of the things said at these occasions

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The fact that the episode ended before the voting started makes me think it was so one-way that they couldn't get a decent cliffhanger out of it. Not even a halfway point "Ooh this is close, which way will it go?"

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For over ten years, I've been running an experimental poetry press called Penteract Press. Penteract exists to give a platform to constrained, experimentally formal, and visual poets. [1/4]

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hello. I'm a person who has vital evidence that could identify the killer, and the killer knows this. Instead of telling the detective over the phone, I instead ask him to come to my house in an hour to find me dead

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/09/2026

y’all don’t go looking for this but. one thing I really wish everyone would internalise is that we’re not gonna win against the puritans, or the fascists, or anyone else, by accepting any part of their premise as valid. they do not have legit concerns

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Few things as guaranteed to send me into absolutely incandescent rage as mean, cruel, and frankly ignorant comments on social media aimed at people who are formula feeding a baby (something for which there can, of course, be a multitude of reasons, none of which are anybody’s business)

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And even if motorists are inclined to run red lights whenever possible (and obviously plenty are), once the first car has stopped no more are getting through. Whereas any number of cyclists can sweep past

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've always assumed they just seem like a reliable long-term replacement for countries that have become less reliable for financial and/or boycott reasons

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 19/08/2026

Starting a new semester so I'm gearing up for responses to students who want to use AI "just for research." My response to this is to try and recalibrate what the student thinks research is. It isn't just having a specific question or set of questions and setting out to find answers. 1/

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If our daughter had been a son, she'd have been called Lysander

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When my daughter was born we were definitely warned that feeding her formula milk would increase the risk of autism

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Morning

A drawing of a chicken, side view. At the top of the image it says “Chicken Game”. Underneath that, just above the chicken’s head, it says “Don’t look at this chicken”. Over the chicken appear the words “GAME OVER”

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I thought the same thing. He's got nothing left to achieve except the seemingly impossible. Also plausible that Pogacar completes his set with this year's Vuelta and dedicates the rest of his career to chasing 5 monuments in a season. Grand Tours could be about to get a lot less predictable...

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

And blood. If there's blood, see a doctor. Even if you think the pink tinge might just be beetroot

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is incredibly sad news. I speak from personal experience here that if you are a man over 50 who has symptoms don’t delay, don’t be embarrassed. Go immediately to your GP and don’t take no for an answer. Get a PSA test AND a physical examination. It isn’t pleasant but the alternative is worse.

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

To make it easier for authors to link to/screenshot a previously published #story, i have developed a Search By Date function which then displays your paragraph. Check it out here, and feel free to share your own www.paragraphplanet.com/searchbydate... pls RT

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Always client-focused, never employee-focused

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Absolutely. In not trying to compete with the bigger performances, Keating is, in his own way, just as compelling. And full marks for not playing Vila as the snivelling wretch Terry Nation presumably thought he was writing

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

In a show that didn't have Paul Darrow and Jacqueline Pearce, Keating would have stolen every scene he was in

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 17/05/2026

I'm actually gonna go even farther with this social criticism I think this all comes back to men being pissed off that now they actually have to try, put in effort, when it comes to attracting wives In this essay (post thread lol) I will--

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The thing is that, however much money you have, you are going to have to confront the human reality that there are more things in life you can't control than things you can. my guess is, that this becomes more difficult to accept the more money you have. You can control small things...

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I'm gradually learning this sort of thing as a parent. My daughter says things that make my wife boggle/panic, while I just fondly remember my own childhood thought patterns

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"All mouth and no trousers" just means Donald Duck, surely?

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

In the case of football, it's because so many Asian countries refused to play them. They briefly played as part of Oceania before joining UEFA

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

True. How about "almost entirely bought rather than predominantly streamed"?

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Yeah, the "is this worth buying" review is largely pointless now. The more intellectual/analytical/pretentious review that OP seems to value is probably as relevant as it ever was. If I read reviews these days it's of things I've already heard, to see if they agree with me

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Back when albums were bought rather than streamed, it would have been pretty shit for sales if everyone waited years to find out whether something was worth buying. And who says your opinion after a certain time is any more valid? It'll probably change again later

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

THIS IS NOT A JOKE Be Funny Or Die returns. How comedy works in our brains and makes us human. AUDIOBOOK and E-BOOK available again… at last. OUT NOW! TODAY! NOW! (Paperback in the works for next year.) amzn.eu/d/08CHfg9u

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

There's a fair chance it is in first person, but that person is the author/historian, not the late king

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

My hottest mental health take: A lot of depression and anxiety is situational, and warranted, because people live in shit circumstances. They’re poor, without resources, etc. and the reason it’s become popular to blame “mental health” is because it’s a way of evading responsibility.

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Yep. The Day Before You Came is also great. A shame they imploded at the beginning of what was clearly going to be an interesting phase

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

My wife still occasionally uses "You grew up with a dishwasher, I didn't" as an excuse. We've had a dishwasher for nearly 15 years

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Pulp poetry.

Common Peephole

She came from Greece,
she had a faulty socket.
Her eye fell out,
she couldn’t stop it.

That’s when I
caught her eye.

Brian Bilston

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

And every reason to spend those 2 years trying not to think about Space Babies

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Rhythm. And unambiguous communication of whatever the writer wanted to communicate. Obviously anything can be mangled by the reader's brain, and writing can be deliberately unclear or ambiguous, but "deliberate" is the key word there. Good writing knows what it is doing

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A THREAD. Which I have decided to call 'Reasons Why Owls Are Excellent'. 1. They are always putting the needs of others before their own.

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Duke of Edinburgh will always be Philip. Edward is just Edward

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Meanwhile plenty of the people living on them will still refer to Andrew's brother as Prince Charles

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Nick Lord Lancaster @nlordlancaster.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My brother once mangled the punchline to the other Edward Woodward joke and told me a man with three planks of wood on his head was called Edhead Woodhead

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