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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Work finished for the day; currently watching Wong Kar Wai's 'In the Mood For Love' and letting out an audible yelp every time a new qipao comes into shot. Jesus the LOOKS in this thing

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026

HUGE RELIEF. i just realized that i'll have no problems once all my little plans for the near future come to fruition. phew

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📣 Brand new zine published to celebrate Labor Day: "Don’t Cross the Picket Line : Strike Solidarity for Beginners." Free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/dontcross/. This 24-page zine was created for anyone who's *not* part of a union and doesn't know much about unions or strikes.

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

After a networking event yesterday, I think I'm no longer allowing strangers to respond to me telling them what I do for a living by saying 'Are you worried about AI?'. Buddy, we've just met, and your idea of small talk is 'You strike me as replaceable. What's up with that?'. No thanks.

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@devononearth.bsky.social As a KJB listener, my particular brand of parasociality seems to be that I have a li'l Dev in my head who gets activated by powerful fits in movies - esp. 70s movies, Senegalese movies, and 70s Senegalese movies. I say this now, because I'm watching Touki-Bouki and BEHOLD

Screenshot from 'Touki-Bouki'. Set against a blue sky, a man is wearing a bright yellow tartan coat/jacket with large lapels, a purple vest, red neckerchief and big sunglasses. The subtitles read 'I get it.'

Another screenshot: the lower half of the outfit. Standing astride a fallen motorbike with a cow's skull strapped to the handlebars, he is wearing tight flared trousers - olive with various vertical stripes of red, orange and white.

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Realised that trees can act like a pinhole viewer for the eclipse, so I popped out and did a little self-portrait shoot in lighting that won't happen again until I'm 92

Nick looking off to one side, a line of light highlighting one eye

Nick looking pensive, scattered with little crescents of light

Nick in contrasty, crescent-patterned light

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One thing I really should have been more prepared for is the impact of AI on the 'terrible overwritten brief that the client doesn't even understand themself' industry

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

@archive.org Just wanted to check - is bookserver.archive.org/catalog still running? Trying to get it set up on KOReader and getting a timeout - can't find much recent documentation of it

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

'We have seen, in the context of propaganda, how subtly and how insistently the enemy seeks to engender tension and confusion. Quotation from the enemy is thus a service to the enemy.' (from 'Radio in Wartime' by Charles Siepmann)

1. In war, more even than in peace, we look to radio first and foremost for news. The wartime requirements of a radio news service are (a) authenticity. Immediacy is less important. To sacrifice authenticity in the interest of a scoop is dangerous. We are used to the scare headlines of the press. Radio's equivalent of headlines (sensational tone and overdramatic presentation) are even more dangerous because of radio's hold on the listener's imagination. We need no fuel for the flames of our anxiety. We have seen, in the context of propaganda, how subtly and how insistently the enemy seeks to engender tension and confusion. Quotation from the enemy is thus a service to the enemy.

(b) We rely on radio not only for authentic news, but for perspective. To highlight minor incidents is to breed misunderstanding and false hopes. The needs of wartime in this respect are not different from those of peace. They are simply greater.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Look upon my worksite ye Mighty, and despair

One vast and headless figure in a hi-vis jacket towers over a warehouse yard

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lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

looking through a book of famous photographers’ contact sheets in the library and omg it’s so humanising to see their actual banger to biff ratio

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Ok, the Steamed Hams renaissance mostly passed me by, but I've just encountered this and I love it www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVmw...

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Steamed Hams but it was banned in the USSR

YouTube video by Tyrone Deise

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Simultaneously excited and a bit overwhelmed by all this – as a musician the first port of call for me is probably going to be @subvert.fm, but definitely going to be trying to find more ways that this movement overlaps with my life www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

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Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era

The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, th...

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Folkandroots @folkandroots.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Next Friday (12th June) join us at Aces & Eights #tufnellpark #London for an evening with cinematic indie-folk band Pavey Ark and support from Nick Siepmann folkandroots.co.uk/pavey-ark

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Beautiful thread about some beautiful threads

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Absolutely gorgeous way to set expectations at the beginning of a project

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

37 today; was under the impression that it was a fairly uninteresting number, but apparently not. Here's to a lucky and sexy year

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I've been following the output of The Folk Union for a while now (prob thanks to @folklondon.co.uk) and it's definitely done a fair bit in terms of challenging, clarifying and galvanising my thoughts on folk music. If nothing else, read the paper linked here thefolkunion.com/folk-the-spe...

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The Folk Union

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

god help me i am once again becoming a person who posts

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I have watched this roughly a dozen times on the trot and I still can't quite put into words what it makes me feel

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Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🚨 "Sometimes you find yourself inside a moment. Sometimes you’re called upon to have free will. But have you cultivated enough chi to kick off? To misbehave? To transgress?" ✍️ @seanmorl.com loom.ly/OLJlUHQ

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How can I fight fascism if I get anxious asking for my reserved seat on the train?

Red gyms, the sermon on the mount, anarchist callisthenics. What does living out our values look like in an anxiety epidemic?

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

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All Good Bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk · 05/03/2026

hello there! sometimes it just takes a couple of lean weeks and you can find yourself with your back to the wall scrabbling to raise money to pay a bill. we have the rent to pay and could do with your help so we can pay it. things are looking up at the shop but February is always a tricky month

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As an avowed hater of UI bloat, I've just discovered a joyous thing: a Chrome extension called 'Custom CSS by Denis' that, as the name suggests, allows you to add custom CSS when on a given domain.

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Nick S @nsfolkmusic.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Deadline is today - Praxis's guide is excellent, so get your response in

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Glen Wilson @glenglenglen.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I’ve worked at the Southbank Centre for over 8 years now. In that time I’ve become desensitised to mad conversations that wouldn’t happen anywhere else. But in my first few years I noted down ‘overhead’ snippets that would be ridiculous in any other setting. I’ve just found those notes. Strap in.