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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 21h

My new book - Fire Horse: Writings on Japan 1973-2026 - 12 essays illustrated with photographs, of my reflections on 50 years of changes in the role of women and belonging in Japan - bookended by childhood entries from my Puffin Club diary 1973-1977. rudlinconsulting.com/product/fire...

Book cover for Fire Horse: Writings on Japan 1973-2026 with a photo of the author as an 8 year old dancing in a Japanese kimono

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'View from the Window.' (c1950) Margaret Green was a painter of narrative landscapes and figure compositions of subtle strength and quiet lives; she remained largely unknown to a wider public - a story familiar to many women artists of her generation.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'The Brothers.' (1928) A child prodigy, Joan Manning-Sanders was aged 15 when this work was painted and was the youngest artist to have shown at the RA Summer Exhibition in the late 1920s.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Indian diaspora in the EU soared 26% in the two years up to January 2026, at 1.7 million people. The diaspora in the U.S. and Canada grew about 12% and 13%, respectively, while it shrank 31% in the U.K., the estimates show." asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/bi...

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Young Indians flock to EU as immigration curbs bite in US, UK

Recruits scale language barriers to chase jobs, but anti-migrant clouds gather in Europe

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I even couldn't help liking Since You've Been Gone. Ah the power of cheap music #totp

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fancied Chris Gifford something rotten then. Saw Squeeze live in Tokyo. One of the best gigs ever Then saw him 10 years later looking at the meat counter in Brighton Waitrose. My husband taught his daughter Rose

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mullet and estate agent suit and tie #totp But a banging tune nonetheless And as an alto always torn between which chorus part to sing

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mean I know I shouldn't but I would #totp

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mute mute mute #totp top tip to any student sharing new digs with someone that looks like the guy from Toploader - pack your bags and run.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Our European operations are at risk of collapse," a Japanese auto executive said, due to "made in EU" legislation on EVs. Toyota has 12 EV models, but almost all of them are imported to the EU from Japan + other countries. 1/2 asia.nikkei.com/business/aut...

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Looming 'Made in EU' bill threatens Toyota and other Japanese EV makers

Europe moving to eliminate tax breaks for electrics assembled outside bloc

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Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Drawing of Man Seated with Left Leg Resting over Right Knee www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokus…

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Am watching an old episode of 24 Hours in A&E (for some weird reason I find it comforting at the end of a difficult week) and I think that anyone that has an issue with brown immigrants ought to be forced to watch multiple episodes in a Clockwork Orange style. Perhaps followed by Gogglebox.

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Spec Savers

ALT: Spec Savers

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm sure the whole train carriage is thrilled to know that Hannah has her splint off and the physio is going well and she should be able to play hockey again soon.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So it's return to the 20th century for returns to Amazon. Big long queue in the post office to return it via a real human being who was efficient, but with a whiff of hostility. No please or thank you offered. Also managed to get into my business bank account thanks to a friendly real human being.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So the trifecta of broken-ness has happened. Logged into my accounting software to be greeted with "HMRC are experiencing some problems with their VAT service. If you need to file a VAT return, we recommend that you try again later once full service has resumed."

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Beginning to get very tired of this exhortations + cheeky messages as a decorative touch. I do not want to see a sign saying "nice bum" or "get naked" when I am perform my ablutions. You can play a game with this listing - how many signs do you see? I reckon 13. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

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Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

4 bedroom detached house for sale in Mill Lane, Aylsham, NR11 for £450,000. Marketed by Minors and Brady, Wroxham

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seem to be having one of those everything is broken days. Can't get into Coop Business banking online since their weekend upgrade. Attempt to return Amazon item (I am trying not to buy from Amazon + this has just hardened my resolve) via Morrisons resulted in a screen telling me to call a US number!

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Joe Merrick @joemerrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To commemorate the collaboration between Pokémon and the ESA, a special Pikachu plush was sent to the International Space Station from April 11th through June 17th What a picture. Absolutely stunning

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That wouldn't happen to be tax paid on profits made, in no small part, from the delusions and often outright misery of thousands upon thousands of his fellow countrymen, would it?

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UK’s top taxpayer says he would ‘not wish to be reborn’ in Britain

Betfred founder Fred Done threatens 500 shop closures over tax rises that have left him fearful for the UK’s prospects

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nipppon Steel will install an electric arc furnace to produce greener sheet steel for automotive use, in an existing US Steel plant in Slovakia.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also looks like production under contract to Chery will still go ahead at Nissan Sunderland.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The triple irony of having to put on my noise cancelling earphones to block out the whiny noise of someone complaining on their phone on the train about how their day was ruined by having to listen to someone complain all day.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sometimes I wonder if saying to criminal/antisocial idiots - "what would your mum think?" might work. But from bitter experience some just laugh + with others (kids) I see the mum (and dads) standing there sniggering + egging them on. At which point I want to move to some remote part of Norfolk.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'Early Autumn, Hyde Park' (from 'The Colour of London', 1907) by Yoshio Markino

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Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Kawasaki, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)" www.artic.edu/artworks/2890

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My next post on the Japanese troupes in Victorian Britain - and the abuse of child performers and servants. pernillerudlin.substack.com/p/8-otake-th...

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8. Otaké - “the missis of the Japanese jugglers”

“The boy is six and not only four and a half years of age”

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Things I was afraid of as a child: The monsters under my bed The dark Being out of my depth in water Alsatian dogs (the pit bulls of the 1970s) Ma Soeur Shimizushima (teacher at my girls' Catholic school in Sendai, Japan) Dr Who

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was at a Norwich Society lecture on what impact the Normans had on Norwich and one of the questions at the end was "if the egregious invasion of Norwich had not happened how different do you think Norwich would be today?" and I remember saying out loud to my neighbours wow 1000 years of beef!

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem has died at 92. On a visit to Japan in the 1970s, Steinem asked Kyoko Michishita, who became her translator, if she could meet Japanese feminists. Michishita (with the camera at the end) packed her apartment as full as possible, and took some film.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Would love a couple of these for the alley next to our house

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

*** BREAKING NEWS *** I'm getting reports of an adorable dog at the Bridport Hat Festival He's called Pip.....more updates as they come in

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Scenes like this did a lot of damage to Mosley and the BUF in the 1930s. Though that relied on Conservative papers reporting them.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mr P has put the BBC Radio 4 #Today programme on. I'd forgotten how unlistenable to it is. For me with hyperacusis (hearing sensitivity) having people shout over each other to the accompaniment of a dishwasher being emptied vehemently is about the worst start to a morning.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (British Artist, 1889–1946) "Amongst the Nerves of the World", 1930. Oil on Canvas, 98 × 73 cm. Museum of London (United Kingdom) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

'Japanese Lanterns.' (1930) During the interwar years, Eric Slater borrowed motifs from the Ukiyo-e masters of woodblock printing Hokusai and Hiroshige, and finessed them for his own means; the final flowering of a tradition of British printmaking until a revival in the 1980s.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My latest Substack post - in which the Royal Tycoon Troupe takes over the Great Dragon Troupe, and Otake steps up in status. But there is a row in the troupe, a court case, and a lady slack wire walker falls off - but is probably a man. pernillerudlin.substack.com/p/7-otakesam...

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My jaw dropped to see that Alejandro Betancourt's company has appointed as General Counsel the previous head of the fraud, bribery & corruption division at the UK’s Serious Fraud Office. - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

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Alejandro Betancourt: the man who would be Trump’s ‘viceroy’ in Venezuela

The US has turned to a wily and divisive insider to help it develop the country’s oil reserves

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Me + hubby+ 24 year old son have discussed Dolly Parton (which my autocorrect keeps trying to change to Silly Person) + we are in huge agreement that she is an all round wonderful human being + we should all aspire to this as a legacy. Tricky without millions to spend. Ideas please.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Having visited the recent Whistler exhibition at the Tate I decided Whistler was my favourite. Not Sargent. Too much fluffy portraiture. And then I see this.

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