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Pip Kazan

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ME/CFS-afflicted novelist Philip Kazan. It’s better to burn out than it is to rust, and I wish somebody had told me that when I chose the rust option.

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WooooOoOooOendy 👻 @wednesdaygj.bsky.social · 1h
Babe, wake up. A new ‘die of beaties’ just landed
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bluesky synchronicity triumphs again
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, well. For our wedding a photographer T worked with in a London restaurant offered to do the pics for free if we let her sneak in a pig's head (for art. Obviously.). We did, she did and in our wedding pics there is a pig's head at our feet, on the steps of the Marylebone Registry Office.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
having a chuckle imagining the Joyce Carol Oats breakfast cereal, every morning you pour yourself a bowl and have no idea what to expect
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm half-British and half-Thai. A random right-winger verbally racially abused me in the street for no reason at all. That same man was in my A&E ward a couple of days later due to a cardiac arrest. I was the doctor who saved him. There's a moral in that story somewhere.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Great God Pan
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ
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Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a map issued to Polish airmen in WW2 that has all the place names spelled phonetically because they were being given directions in English by ground control.
A map of a part of Kent & Sussex with placenames spelled phonetically for Polish speakers. Too many to list, but highlights include Heistynz (Hastings), Istbon (Eastbourne) and the magnificent Tanbrydż-Łelz (Tunbridge Wells)
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Have you got a copy of Fly Tipping by RAF Fairford? You do? Oh that's wonderful. My name? Fairford. RAF Fairford.'
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Champion The Wonder Horse was my first introduction to the the truth that life is, at root, unjust and unfair. I may have been 6, but even I could see that the so-called Wonder Horse did sod all while all the heavy lifting was done, unsung and unpraised, by Rebel the dog.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anyway so happy to be back in *good old* Blighty
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trying to analyse my USA visit. I have ME/CFS-enhanced jet lag (akin to waking up from a general anaesthetic) but will have some OPINIONS to air upon recovery.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Eating a Doctor Kargs while wearing noise-cancelling earbuds
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Landslide Mountain Slide
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Last couple of hours in Vermont
A shadow in Lake Champlain Lake Champlain, Adirondacks
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.
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Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking for Plymouth podcasts who might let me on to discuss my Plymouth-adjacent novel....
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
American wiener
A Milwaukee-style wiener with lurid yellow and uranium-glass-green relish
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Straight-up herrenvolk shit.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vermont. Farmhouse, leaves on the turn, a Bald eagle
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Weirdly, we went to Joseph Smith’s Vermont birthplace a couple of days ago. Creepy af, although fairly near to a creemee stand/weed store.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pilgrimage to the temple of smoked meat: Schwartz’s in Montreal
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In Montreal for one night before heading down to Vermont to see the in-laws. Up on the Plateau. Just had the most boisterous, hilarious, fun conversation about bands in a beer store with complete strangers. Faith in humanity on the rise again.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m in Montreal!
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Gene Hunt 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Middle England today
Kombucha girl meme. Positive face: concentration camps. Negative face: concentration camps near my village
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Ah, but Christopher, you have written the word ‘is’ immediately after the word ‘pen’, vich shows you are obsessed mit the genitals also”
Viz/Davey Jones cartoon, Dr Sigmund Freud and the Bank Heist Mystery, in which the great man explains that “THE ROBBER'S GUN SYMBOLISES A PENIS, AND THE BULLETS HE FIRE FROM IT REPRESENT ALL SPUNK COMING OUT THE END” and “AND THOSE POLICEMEN'S HELMETS ARE YOUR MOTHER'S TITS”
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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
USians pretending to be Scottish (or Irish or Italian or ...) really highlights the absurdity of ethnonationalism. 311 years is 12 or 13 generations. That's several thousand 12x removed ancestors. Historic rates of illegitimacy mean it's less than even odds that this guy is even a blood relative.
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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sigh 🥲 This is easily the most beautiful version of Willie o Winsbury I've ever heard. Her voice sends my heart adrift. #ChristieReeves #folk #ballads #Scottish #history #1700s #romance youtu.be/9GXbeJ797-E?...
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Willy o' Winsbury - Christie Reeves
YouTube video by Christie Reeves
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
These poor fools have never eaten a Hong Kong scrambled egg.
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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am selling the desk I had in chambers in London WC2. It’s a William IV mahogany partners’ desk with 4 drawers, size 134 cm w x 97 cm l x 70 cm h. I used AI to tidy up the photo background but the desk is as seen. Please DM me or request a FM from me if you’re interested in buying it
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lucy In The Eye With Diamonds, as my son amusingly but unhelpfully said when I told him.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not now, non-migrainous migraine aura!
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Migraine Aura Headache Visual Simulation
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HAM: Calligraphy (Bot) @hamcalligraphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Because of the void everything is possible. Without the void nothing is possible.", Written in Bold Black Script www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…
This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is inscribed with seven columns of text, the columns with varying numbers of characters. The calligraphy on this album leaf was inscribed by Fung Ming Chip (b. 1951; standard Mandarin transcript...
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧪Anti-vaxx is a modern luxury belief held by people who grew up in a society that worked to make everyone safe by collective vaccination.
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Someone posted the other day that one of the worst, most exhausting aspects of today’s culture is the time and sheer energy we have to expend to try to confirm something we see, read, hear is actually true.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s the end of consensus reality, you’re soaking in it.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I thought this said ‘pieshelter’, and looking back at 60s Britain I sort of believe, now, that we had pieshelters. I mean, of course we did.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I absolutely worshipped Carry On Screaming as a relatively young kid - couldn't think of anything less scary - so delightedly showed it to my own kids when they were about the same age. ...they still haven't forgiven me, in their twenties.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is the future liberals want
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Friends fear he's gone full Scriabin
DG album: Scriabin, Symphony No.3
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Make a band edible Procul Ham
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: Salem’s Lot Nuclear annihilation Dentists Greasers
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Of COURSE it’s in Devon. Ffs.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No word of a lie 🧵
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The shared bond, from what I saw living there at the time, was rather specifically between white Americans.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As a corrective to famous gobshites like Trump lying about helping on 9/11, there’s Steve Buscemi, who put on his old firefighter gear & reported to his old Engine Company 55. He helped look for survivors & victims in the rubble for days afterwards. He did it anonymously & avoided cameras.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And this is what I really looked like in the late 80s
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boarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
so many issues now as discussed are plagued by the false/easy prerequisite that one imagines anyone governing and governing seriously
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