Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 8hYou've bought all our best bacon for a century and still we want you to come back. 010
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh, go on. My 9 albums #my9albums www.my9albums.com/s/naRajf40E0 070
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Read: Sarah Hart: Once Upon a Prime (2023). A delightful collection of nuggets about maths and literature, inspiring and not too complicated for a layperson. If you like Borges, Perec, Carroll, etc, read this. 010
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-Maarupmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 167184694631
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17171611964
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026September reading [✓] Favourite: in a varied and pretty great month I think Rhine Journey just manages to take the gong. 161
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Read: Ann Schlee: Rhine Journey (1981). Great novel about interiority and the difficulty of social and familial bonds. Full of insights and beautiful language. #SpinsterSeptember 292
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed 3545231096
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I turned my back, and in the meantime London literary events – that used to cost nothing, a couple of quid (including a glass of sour white) or the price of the new book discussed mandatorily purchased – have become priced at £35 or so. For me to listen to you flogging your book? Are you kidding? 010
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Simultaneous ding from the microwave and click from the kettle: this must somehow be a sign of an auspicious week. 030
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20847541190
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My top ten: Fleabag, Detectorists, Office (UK), Happy Valley. Either I haven't watched enough tv, or there are only four (close to) perfect series from this century. Huh, all British. 000
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger. 442230730
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Læst: Stine Pilgaard: Meter i sekundet (2020). De har ret: Hun *er* sjov. Og hun kan noget med sprog. Men jeg tror også, at hun kunne skrive noget, der var sådan virkelig godt. 000
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-Maarupweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63107122532
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Gosh, what a sweet song we've just learned in my choir: John Dowland, Come Again Sweet Love. youtu.be/iWzHCw1cmho?...youtu.beThe Firste Booke of Songes: No. 17, Come Again Sweet LoveYouTube video by The King's Singers - Topic 000
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I genuinely turned the book over to see if it was a magnaprint edition. 24 lines per page! 000
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupBen Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026once again: the reason we have libraries is to keep librarians off the streets where they cause trouble 214157
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Read: Len Deighton: Bomber (1970). A 500 page novel with a slow build-up, lots and lots of technical detail, ending in the relentless killing of most of the characters. It sounds dire but it is in fact a marvellous and evocative WWII book. 030
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Happy 21st of September! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...youtube.comEarth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO 000
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them 65972160
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What the hell, iPlayer seems to have removed the option of seeing the list of films alphabetically/chronologically in favour of a netflix-style choice of woolly categories which probably don't even include them all. Way to enshittify, bbc. 110
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Authors! If you must respond to your bad reviews, do it as graciously as Oliver Hardy when Walter Winchell trashed the film 'Nothing But Trouble' in 1945. (Bookmarking this post in case I need it in November.) 410625
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Read: Leonard Michaels: The Men's Club (1978). Novella about the first meeting in a group of men and their inevitable stories of women and sex. Of its time, but also relevant for today. Oh, and funny. A very enjoyable read. 130
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140716477
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupThis Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One of the staircases in the City Chambers in Glasgow. Designed by William Young and built in the 1880s, its internal decorations have to be seen to be believed. Luckily, they run regular tours so you can take a peek inside. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowcitychambers 838665
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupGlenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 14/09/2026All three artists and these characters are in The One Matt Bors Comic, a book coming this fall. 101
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There are three comics from this century I regularly think about. The Matt Bors one below, The Terrible Sea Lion by David Malki … wondermark.com/c/1062/ 120
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297737667
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Read: William Thackeray: Vanity Fair (1848). Ticking one of the big Victorians off the list. Funny, gripping, entertaining, with great characters, but also too long. 010
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Mary Norton's least successful sequel 010
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Read: Winifred Watson: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (1938). Frothy, silly, delightful Cinderella story about frumpy, middle-aged spinster Miss Pettigrew's crazy day among the rich, young and beautiful. Late in the book we learn her advanced age: forty. #SpinsterSeptember 1175
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Roll on, zombie apocalypse: olives were almost half price, so we're prepared. 020
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess 000
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-Maarup聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A girl I dated in my early 20s once while asleep opened her eyes and sat up to say “my apartment has two bathrooms” and I was like “no it just has one” and she laid back down and said “it hides when you come over” 566951
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-Maarupceej @ceej.online · 12/06/2024My wife, a prodigious sleep-talker, failed to disclose her affliction when we started dating, which led to the fright of my life the night she sat bolt upright in bed and in a low flat monotone loudly declared that “THIRTEEN BABIES REMAIN UNFATHERED.” 1304555527
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Rewatched the wonderful Annie Hall last night, first time in ages. Reminded why it took me years to love When Harry Met Sally which I resented for its wholesale theft of the Allen universe. Here: split screen convos, use of It Had to Be You, addressing the camera, walk and talk in picturesque NY. 110
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Read: Barbara Pym: Quartet in Autumn (1977). Booker nominated, bleakly funny portrait of four old widowers/spinsters. Good, but I think I preferred Excellent Women. #SpinsterSeptember 031
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026First day of school 732642
Reposted by Steffen Rayburn-MaarupSimon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." 39720
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 31/08/2026August reading [✓] Favourite: either The Equestrienne or Bazán's short stories, both outrageous and fun. 000
![Scene is morning on a suburban street, a DAD, MUM and their four year old daughter LUCY are in their front garden, taking the first-day-of-school photo.
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DAD:
OK stand by the hedge - smile Lucy!
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[We see both daughter and dad as he takes the photo]
*Click*
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[We see just the Dad looking at the photo he has just taken on his phone]
DAD:
No I’ll have to take it again… she blinked…
4 [Again we see both Lucy and dad as he takes the photo - but this time Lucy has grown bigger]
DAD: Smile Lucy!
*Click*
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[Again we see just the Dad looking at the photo he has just taken on his phone]
DAD:
No I’ll have to take it again… she grew….
6 [Again we see both daughter and dad, but this time she is bigger still]
DAD: Smile Lucy!
*Click*
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[Dad looking at phone again]
DAD: Nope. She grew again.
LUCY [From off-scene]:
*URRRRGH*
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LUCY [Now a 6th-former]:
Of *course* I grew, dad!
I’m like, a *living organism* persisting through *time* in a constant state of *growth*?
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DAD: Well yes, I know that darling
It’s just you seem to be doing it a bit *faster* today than -
VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE:
Awright babe
10 [We see a TEENAGE BOY, spotty, grinning, etc]
11 DAD: [looks shocked]
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LUCY:
Take one of me and Kev, Dad!
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