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Rogier van der Weyden

@rdeweyden.bsky.social
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Not the Painter. Collagist and photographer, writes the occasional poem. Proudly overburdened with mitochondrial challenges since the early sixties.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 3h
Scrapbook #Collage pages from April and May 2007.
A page from a collage scrapbook. In the left margin at the top, handwritten from bottom to top in black ink, is the date "5/5/2007". To the right of this is a large black-and-white photograph of 6 or 7 WW1 British soldiers gathered around a burning box in a trench with some small trees. To the right of this is a small colour photograph of a red-haired woman in a black jacket. Under this, upside down is a tall black-and-white photograph of a man kneeling in front of many piles of bank notes. To the left of this is a black-and-white portrait photograph of a man in dark glasses, wearing a hood and smoking a cigarette. To the left of this is a small black-and-white photograph of a European man in Arabian costume kneeling in front of a dark doorway in a sunlit wall. To the left of this is a black-and-white photograph of a woman with long blonde hair, wearing a short dress and high white socks. She is sitting back in a curved booth in an ornately decorated room with her legs crossed and her arms holding the backrest behind her. To the right of this is a small blue rectangle and then, rotated to the left, a colour photo of a red pamphlet called "SUPERSTITIONS". Under the woman in the booth, is a black-and-white photograph of a man in a dark, early 20th century suit and a woman in a dark matching set with a furry hood. walking along a pavement. Another woman is behind them in the distance, wearing a long dark coat and carrying a large white bag. To the right of this is a small colour portrait photograph of a man wearing a green bucket hat. To the right of this, rotated to the left, is the letterhead of an official US agency.A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a transparent sticker headed with a blue rectangle under which is the word "EPSON" and then a lot of Japanese characters. To the right of this is a small opened-out yellow cardboard box with Japanese characters and a picture of a white Spark Plug. To the right of this, rotated to the left and handwritten in black ink is the date "30/4/2007". Under this is a tall thin black-and-white photograph of a person in a large dark coat with high-visibility strips standing in a doorway looking down at piles of bank notes. To the left of this, are three vertical carboard spine covers from Japanese import CD cases. From left to right they are black, green and black. There is a lot of detailed Japanese writing on them. Under them on the left is a colour photograph looking down on a shallow wooden box containing various small objects, butterflies, rolled up bank notes and plastic figures of Christ. To the right of this with a thick black border is a colour photograph looking over restaurant tables towards a woman in a black dress who is laying out cutlery. There is a large abstract painting on one wall. To the right of this is a close-up of the hands of a woman in a painting. Under this is a small black-and-white photograph of a man and a woman sitting up in bed. The man is on the telephone and the woman is looking at him from close to.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 23h
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... Theft of a much-loved voice by a subcontractor owned by the owner of Royal Mail.
independent.co.uk
Row erupts as Royal Mail admits using AI voice for Christmas advert
AI companies behind the voiceover denied using a direct clone of Paul Vaughan’s distinctive voice, but declined to comment when asked if AI could have been trained on his work
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc... As a purest I'm not even sure that Gromit should be having his diaries published but at the very least Martin Freeman should read a disclaimer saying he was reading the words on behalf of his good friend. Gromit is one of the last axles of decency we have.
theguardian.com
Gromit finally gets a voice … and it’s Martin Freeman
After 37 years, the staunchly silent dog will speak for the first time in the audiobook of his autobiography – and it turns out he sounds like a hobbit
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 29/04/2007.
A page from a collage scrapbook. In the top of the left margin is the date "29/04/2007" handwritten in blue ink. To the right of this is a colour photograph of a woman and man in business attire, embracing and kissing against a wall in an office. Under this is a red rectangle with a black border and the word "AGAINST" in white. To the right of this is a colour portrait photograph of a severe looking man wearing old-style headphones. A smaller version of this showing more of the man's shoulders is pasted in the bottom left corner. Under this spanning the whole page is a colour photograph of the silhouettes of people against a sunrise. One person has their arms outstretched while other hands are raised int he air. Under this on the left is a colour portrait photograph of a woman in a white jacket with a severe black haircut with a fringe. Under this is a red rectangle with the text "SUE OUT" in white. To the right of this is a black-and-white photograph of two people holding hands with outstretched arms in front of an indistinct crowd. Under this on the left is a small colour photograph of pink blossom against a blue sky. On the right of this is a half-tone, black-and-white image of a man's eyes. The border around this image is has rough scrawls of thin black ink lines.A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a vertical rectangle of gold foil pasted into the book. The bottom right corner is torn away and there is a v shaped notch just above this on the right. To the right of this is a black-and-white photograph showing a man in a light-coloured, wide-brimmed pork-pie hat sitting a table with a small child in a white shirt on his knee. The table has a bamboo place setting with a plat and half-eaten burger, a glass and open can. To the right of this, written from bottom to top in blue ink is the date "29/04/2007". Under this is a black-and-white portrait photograph of a man in dark jacket and white shirt. There is a red line under this. To the left of this is a colour photograph of a woman with long, dark hair, wearing shorts and a white sleeveless shirt, sitting on a chair with an acoustic guitar held over her shoulders. To the left of this is a light-yellow album cover with a red border. There is a small black-and-white square photograph in the upper left. The text "ARCHITECTURE" is written rotated to the left below this with the text "& MORALITY" written horizontally over the top. To the side it says "By Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark" which is underlined in red. Under this, rotated to the left, is a colour photograph of electronic music recording equipment. Under this, rotated to the left, is a cartoon of a rangy person wearing a white shirt and dark trousers. On the shirt is says "RONWOLF WRH GET A JOB". To the right of this is a colour photograph of a woman with blonde hair, wearing a blue top. There are two men in the background. Over the bottom of the image is the text "Laura Ve" in a handwritten font.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Next book.
A colour photo of a hand holding a hardback edition of the book When the Sky Falls : Ahu History of Shooting Stars by Jade Angeles Fitton. A dark blue cover with a rough canvas texture on which is a woodcut-style illustration of a meteor in clouds over an English landscape. Title in large white serif with subtitle in small sans. Author in medium serif at the bottom with small blurb at top and bottom.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/10/2026
Juice xkcd.com/3308/
4-panel comic. (1) [Two people, one with a ponytail, sitting and typing at terminals opposite each other. A sign on the wall reads “Juice Mission Control,” with JUICE in huge letters.] PERSON 1: Jupiter Icy Moons Exploder checkin is complete. All systems nominal. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail. [People turn to look at each other.] PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: Jupiter Icy Moons *Explorer*. (3) [Person 1 turns back to his terminal.] (4) PERON 1: Control, everything is fine, but I need to schedule an urgent spacecraft update. [Person 2 facepalms] PERSON 2: Oh no.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BBC News - Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The USA is a failed state led by psychotic and bloodthirsty individuals.
bbc.co.uk
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it," the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... Well this is a wild ride!
theguardian.com
A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the bizarre tale of Otto Z
The long read: After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 08/04/2007.
A [age from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a colour posterized image of a child's birthday party with a yellow background and white table cloth. To the right of this is a line illustration of an ancient battle, possibly that of Thermopylae with soldiers in a ravine being beset by hordes of other soldiers from above. To the right of this, handwritten in black ink from bottom to top is the date "8/4/2007".Under this is a colour photograph of a painting of an Iberian lady with a headscarf and possibly an amphora on her shoulder. At the bottom left of the image is the smiling image of a man with short hair and a dark jacket. Under this is a rough illustration of a man in front of a bed though behind the end frame. The wallpaper of the room is green and there are two drawings of men in suits. The characters "WEDNES" are written in green and rotated to the left at the top left of the image. To the left of this is a stylized image of a man in blue holding a woman in pink as they pass in opposite directions - they are behind each other. The background is yellow. Under this, rotated to the left, is a colour photograph of a woman in  a satin green Empire Line dress, a brown overcoat and bonnet. She is gripping the overcoat at the waist with her right hand and holding on to her bonnet with her left. To the right of this, rotated to the left, is a colour closely-cropped portrait photograph of an actress playing Frida Kahlo.A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a small newspaper article headed "Michael Holden's All Ears". The name is in black and the tile is in orange. This details the conversation between two men in a chip shop. Underneath is a cartoon image of the two men with other customers. To the right of this is a square cartoon of a small girl sitting on the yellow roof of a coal shed eating sardine sandwiches. Under neath is a an article headed "We love to eat" in orange and "Nan's edgy sardine sarnie". Under that is an article describing this. To the right of this handwritten in black ink from bottom to top is the date "8/4/200" (sic). Under this is a plastic sleeve with a colour portrait photograph of a man in a blue shirt with large goggles. Under this is a colour photograph of a US road receding into the distance across scrubland. To the left of this is a colour photograph of a man in a baseball cap holding a phenomenally-large grey rabbit - a probable fake.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Suggestions for which of these books to read next, Meteors or Fairies. Keep in mind that I will ignore the results of any vote so don't take it seriously.
Two hardback books on a wooden floor one resting slightly over the bottom left corner of the other. When the Sky Falls : A Human History of Shooting Stars by Jade Angeles Fitton - a black cover with a white woodcut illustration of a shooting star in clouds over an English landscape. Fairies : A History by Francis Young. A white cover with a green circle showing a forest interior.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No! We are the SHEEP! We ARE the sheep, We are the sheep, And here we are!
A stop-motion Bo Beep and her eight sheep from the The Teletubbies.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Grief! He's on form at the moment.
theguardian.com
From Bentley Pauncefoot to Yetts O’Muckhart, I’m obsessed with Britain’s weirdly named villages | Adrian Chiles
I was stuck in traffic when a road sign set me dreaming. If the places on it were people, what would they be like? Could Leigh Delamere be anything but the glamorous heiress to a biscuit-making fortun...
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 30/03/2007.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top is a square grid of 10x10 small squares each with a smaller square inside it. Each of these outer and inner squares has a random colour making for a kaleidoscopic whole. Under this on the left is a thin horizontal block of red oil pastel with a photograph of a typical sci-fi rocket in red with black engines and white lettering on the tail fins - "T2". This is embedded in text which has been overwritten with blue oil pastel. To the right of this with a red border in oil pastel, is a set of five rows (A-E) of five rectangles (1-5) with wave diagrams inside each. Handwritten at the top left of the page, in fading ink from bottom-to-top, is the date "30/03/2007".A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a black-and-white photograph of five people people sitting or standing in front of a forest backdrop. There is one woman standing second from left who pays a large black semi-acoustic guitar. To the right of this is a colour photograph of a woman in a strappy white wedding dress. She has long dark hair and a tiara. She stands in front of several paintings. To the right of this in fading dark in written from bottom to top is the date "30/03/2007". Under this is a close-up colour photograph of several bees from the underside of glass against a blue background. To the left of this is a colour photograph of two spiky yellow flowers against a green background. To the right of this at the bottom is a black-and-white photograph of an asteroid. The image is labelled "Asteroid Itokawa" in white at the top and has a dimension line at the bottom marked "540 metres".
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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Share a Smile 😀
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Collage - Wire Fraud.
A digital collage backed with an aerial photograph of a desert city. A surreal collage of two land-based drone operators surrounded by computer screen showing images of various dubious humans, looking over a renaissance image of murder overlayed with a military drone.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 27/03/2007.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left written vertically from bottom to top is the date "27/03/2007" handwritten in blue ink. The page is completely occupied by a deep-field colour photograph of stars in white and orange. Pasted over the top centre is a complex geometrical diagram of triangles and rhombuses. The outside of this square is filled in with blended red oil pastel. Corresponding to this at the bottom is a colour portrait photograph of a man with white hair. The rest of the image is filled in with rough blue oil pastel.A page from a collage scrapbook. At the bottom right of the page, is the date "27/03/2007" handwritten in blue ink. At the top left outlined in red oil pastel is a colour photograph of a man poring over a map with a camel behind him. To the right of this, outlined in blue oil pastel is a colour photograph of a woman with medium-length blonde hair, wearing a white coat and holding up a large test tube with light blue liquid in it. The background is a microscope photograph of cells stained red. Under this on the right is a small colour portrait photograph, closely-cropped, showing a man holding an automatic pistol vertically in front of his face. The right and bottom edges of this are outlined in red pol pastel. To the left of this is a horizontal colour image of a beige mountain on Mars.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 24/03/2007.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a colour portrait photograph of the head of a stormtrooper from Star Wars. To the right of this is a colour image of two patterned shopping backs above a series of letters taken from an Evian bottle which have been rearranged to spell "naive". To the right of this is a "THIS WAY UP" sign which is upside down so that the two arrows point down. Under this is the handwritten text "DOWN WITH DOGMA". To the left of this is a vertical black rectangle which is textured slightly and is part of an image from the next page. Under this is a thin strip of a colour photograph of the arm of a person wearing a white shirt. To the left of this is a colour photograph of a female Nasa Astronaut in an orange jumpsuit carrying her helmet in front of a blue background. To the left of this is a black-and-white photograph of a man in a long coat and Fedora hat standing behind a large tripod and square camera, with his hand on the lens. To the left of this is a colour photograph of a blonde woman leaning on a table and looking up and to the right. She wears a black-and-white flowery blouse and is in front of a bamboo screen. Under this is a colour photograph of a large Baobab tree against a sunset, with a smaller one in the distance, To the left of this handwritten from bottom to top in black ink is the date "24/03/2007". To the right of the tree, rotated to the right, is a colour photograph of a small pair of binoculars resting on a white background. To the right of this is the beige cover of a book called "THE LEY HUNTER'S MANUAL - A GUIDE TO EARLY TRACKS" by Watkins. A line map goes diagonally from bottom left to mid right. Under this, rotated to the right is a cartoon drawing of a man in ragged leggings and green jacket, To the right of this is a small black-and-white photograph of two people walking with rifles over their shoulders.A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top right, handwritten in black ink is the date "24/03/2007". At the top left is a tall photograph of a man with short dark hair and a beard. He wears dark aviator style sunglasses, with an open-necked white shirt, brown trousers with a black belt the buckle of which has large gold letters - "JACK". He wears a digital watch and his thumbs are in his pockets. Under this is a slight continuation of the image of people with rifles from the previous page. To the right of this is the middle of a colour photograph of a person in a blue jacket and stripy blue trousers sitting on a bench with one leg under the other. They have a tight shiny red leather boot with a slight heel. Their hands are clasped with a cigarette between the fingers of one hand. To the right of this is the upper part of this photograph showing that the person in a man with unkempt dark hair, wearing an open-necked pink shirt with a handkerchief in the pocket of the blue jacket. He sits in front of a low block of flats and the sky is blue. Above this is a colour portrait photograph of a man with dark hair looking down and to the left. He rests his cheek on one arm.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Ibsen Wig Disaster.
A surreal collage showing the Playwright Ibsen having his grey hair shot off by Ruth Wilson over a picture of the White House in a flood and debris. The heading is a newspaper headline saying "IBSEN WIG DISASTER".
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BBC News - No 10 insists RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I suppose it depends on whether you are talking about bikers being hit by Americans driving on the wrong side of the road outside the perimeter.
bbc.co.uk
No 10 says RAF Fairford is 'safe' after US withdraws bombers
US media reported a new threat led to the bombers being removed on Sunday, following an incident near the base last week.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... When Weirdos Collide ...
theguardian.com
Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’
Former Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiser
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 24/12/2006.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left of the page, handwritten in blue ink from bottom to top is the date "24/12/2006". To the right of this, rotated to the right, is a large colour photograph of a wrecked and rusty building against a grey sky. The building has two wings each with two pavilion type towers. To the right of this at the top is a colour still from a video showing a jet fighter from behind flying over the sea. Under this is a colour photograph of a pair of hands spooning milk from a bowl to the mouth of the stature of a Hindu deity. Under this is a colour photograph of a blue police box with a woman, with long blonde hair, wearing a dark anorak and a man in a brown striped suit and light brown jacket standing in front of the police box with a tower block against a grey sky in the distance. To the left of this is a small colour portrait photograph of a man in a dark suit and blue shirt sitting against a distressed brown background with one hand on his cheek. To the left of this is a small colour portrait photograph of a woman with long straight dark hair in a fringe. Under this is a colour painting of a white-haired man in a green top with his chin in one hand. At the bottom right is the cut-out headline "a rare moment of indecision" in black on light blue.A page from a collage scrapbook. On the left is a thin page-high strip mimicking film sprockets. Near the top, rotated to the right is the word "Films". To the right of this is a black-and-photograph image of a large cone-shaped lattice building with a saucer shape on the top. A sepia drawing of the same structure is to the right of this. The date "24/12/2006" is handwritten in blue ink from bottom to top at the top left of the page. Under the drawing is the headline "An Archaeologist's View of Ireland" in green on white. To the left of this is the word "ATAXIA" in thin letters. Under these two headlines in a colour photograph of the interior of some sort of large performance space with gantries and spotlights. Pasted slightly over the bottom right corner of this image, is a small photograph of a green radio set with curve handle. To the left of this is the green text "Safe climbing" with a green line above it.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 23/12/2006.
A page from a collage scrap book. At the the top left, one above the other, are two double-page spreads from a book about greatest albums. At the top with the picture on the left, is the Kraftwerk album MenschMaschine (Man Machine) with the La's eponymous album with the picture on the right. To the right of this is a colour photograph of the inside old red phone box with a dial telephone. To the right of this, handwritten from bottom to top in blue ink is the date 23/12/2006. Under this is an archaeological drawing of objects with numbers. To the left of this, rotated to the right, is a double page spread of a journal with handwriting and a small colour photograph of a woman on the left and a large photograph of two women on the right. To the left of this is colour photograph of the back cover of an old book with a small black-and-white photograph of a woman tuning a large radio pasted at the top. Under this, rotated to the left, is a colour photograph of 5 orange plastic chairs on silver bases arranged neatly in a row on the right in a beige room. To the right of this rotated to the left, is the text "F&F SHADING" handwritten in large block letters roughly shaded, in blue ink. Tot he right of this is  a double black-and-white portrait photograph of a woman in a white blouse and a man with a bushy moustache, wearing a suit. There is the edge of a purple Visa stamp over the left side and the text "PHOTOGRAPH OF BEARER" in a lined box at the bottom. Handwritten over the black at the top of the photo is the signature "Charles H. Fort".A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top, rotated to the right is a blurry black-and-white photograph of two people in anoraks in front of an arched window. To the right of this is a colour photograph of a small Asian girl in a blue dress, crouching down on grass near a small stream and poi ting to the left while a small dog looks at her. A horse grazes on the grass behind her and behind it are lots of sheep. There is a blue sky with cumulus clouds on the horizon. Under this, rotated to the left, is the handwritten date "23/12/2006". To the left of this, rotated to the right, is a colour photograph of a person sitting on a padded chair looking back towards a group of people dancing in an orange haze. Under this, rotated to the right is a black-and-white photograph of a woman in a dress and black tights, lying back on a bed in a room with oval patterns on the  wallpaper. She has her arms above her head and kicks out her legs. She smile contentedly. Handwritten vertically on the left in large block capitals, is the text "EDIES!" To the left of this and the orange haze photograph, rotated to the right, is a black-and-white photograph of a lot of people, mostly men in light suits with one man in a tattered shirt and denim overalls. To the left of this, rotated to the right is a blurry black-and-white photograph of man with long dark hair, wearing a dark top. To the right of him is pasted an image on a circular seal showing the moustachioed man from the passport photograph on the previous page. The text in the outside ring is "FORTEAN TRAVELLER" repeated twice while the inner ring says "BEGINNING ANYWHERE ONE MESSAGE A CIRCLE". Under this is a small colour photograph of an abstract image which might be a light fitting held against a warehouse roof. A transparent copy protected sticker overlays this image. Around the photograph is text handwritten in blue in saying "I don't want to Believe!".
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Mattias Adolfsson @mattiasadolfsson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Electric
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Next book.
A colour photo of a hand holding a paperback edition of the book A Little History of Mathematics by Snezana Lawrence. A yellow cover short on the right revealing a vertical stripe of blue. A stylised woodcut image of three ancient Greeks holding up an annotated right-angled triangle. Title at the top with the word "Mathematics" larger in blue with the rest in black. Author in blue at the bottom. Blurb at top right and bottom left.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Kristin Hersh mid-story at the Philharmonic Music Room tonight.
A colour photo of a woman in a halter top and camouflage trousers sitting on a red chair with a light blue acoustic guitar on her lap. She is talking into a microphone on a stand in front of her. There are light-coloured rectangular panel's mounted vertically behind her.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Good to see.
theguardian.com
Country diary: The breathtaking sight of a tuna taking flight in British waters | Anita Roy
South Hams, Devon: These are monstrous animals, growing to 3 metres and reaching 40mph, and I was lucky enough to see a pack in hunting mode
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 19/11/2006.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left, handwritten from bottom to top in blue ink is the date 19/11/2006. To the right of this is a deep orange sky over the silhouette of several houses. To the right of this, rotated to the left is a small black-and-white portrait photograph of a first world war officer with slicked-down hair. Under this is a black-and-white portrait photograph of Albert Einstein. To the left of this is a full-length black-and-white photograph of a man standing in front of a rock face. To the left of this is a black-and-white photograph of a ballerina in a gauzy dress against a black background. To the left if this is a black-and-white portrait photograph of a woman with long dark hair holding her hands over her head. Her eyes have been filled in with pure white. To the left of this, extending down the page, is a black strip with large white dots in two vertical columns which are probably part of a computer tape. To the right of this is a black-and-white photograph of a man with a moustache and wearing a dark suit next to a woman with long dark hair, wearing a dark skirt and white top. They stand behind the reception desk at a hotel. There are pigeon holes for keys behind them and a poster saying "BOOK YOUR THEATRE TICKETS HERE". At the bottom of the image is the handwritten text "Brian and the Model". To the right of this is a black-and-white photograph looking up at a woman and a man in a room. The man is behind a large book. There are black lines fanned out from the bottom of the image as if they were laid out on a glass table and we are looking up through it. At the bottom of the page is a cut-out with the handwritten black text "I think an albatross is ...".A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left, handwritten in blue ink is the date "19/11/2006". Under this is the word "VERSUS" in large red capitals on a black background. Under this, rotated to the right, is a colour picture of a blue sky, with some cumulus clouds at the edges but with a large patch of cirrus cloud in the middle. This is tinged with rainbow colours. To the right of this is a column of four colour aerial photographs of crop circles. To the left of this, rotated to the right, is a, engraving of tall stalks with large cabbage-like tops in front of distant shrubbery and a house. A man tends a cow to the left. At the top of the image is handwritten in blue ink and underlined "giant cabbages". On the right of the page is a vertical strip of black with three columns of large white dots, similar to the image on the far left of the previous page. At the bottom of the page is a thin white strip with the text "SLATE         ©COPYRIGHT           JLB Miniatures" printed on it.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Oh! THAT Naomi! Nice!
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Unlikely revolutionary Mr Rogers will lead the uprising: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Where’s Fred Rogers when you need him?
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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026
And streaming on the BBC iPlayer is the 1997 film, “Breaking the Code”, a factual drama about #AlanTuring.
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Breaking the Code
Factual drama about Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who cracked the Enigma code and turned the tide of World War II, while at the same time suffering homophobic persecution.
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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026
In advance of Sunday evening’s broadcasts of “A man from the future”, BBC 4 TV in the UK tonight will be showing three PSB shows: “Pet Shop Boys at the BBC”, “Reel Stories” and “Radio 2 in the Park” (2024 PSB concert). www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p0... #PetText
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 11/11/2006.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a cartoon by Tom Gauld showing an image of woman washing clothes on the left and a man sitting at a typewriter on the right. There is a column of five instances of the word "DRIP" in a panel to the left and five instances of "TAP" on the right. To the right of this is a column headed "Washing Blues" talking about Nora Barnacle's laundry list and James Joyce. Under this, rotated to the right, is a stick figure and simple line version of the painting Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth. To the left of this is a colour photograph of a man in a light cream polo-necked sweater and a man in a black top staring at the camera. At the bottom of the page is a colour photograph of a small lighthouse between single-story buildings on a cliff with the sea and clouds on the horizon. The date "11/11/2006" is written from bottom to top at the bottom right.A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top, rotated to the left is a column of nine white bookshelves with various books. In the centre of the page, rotated to the left, is a large colour photograph of some green mounds surrounded by low-rise city buildings. On the left is a column of five colour photographs of women - the word "lady" is between the second and third image from the top. On the right of the page is a strips of various small colour images. Under this is a colour photograph of an uncapped black fountain pen against a fading purple background. Handwritten in the bottom right of this image is the date "11/11/2006". To the right of this, rotated to the right, is a column of 3 colour photographs of various SLR cameras. At the bottom of the page, is a further strip of book shelves like at the the top of the page.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next Book.
A colour photograph of a hand holding a library copy of a paperback edition of the book Memoirs of a Geezer : The Autobiography of Jah Wobble : Music, Mayhem, Life. A black cover with a black-and-white photograph of a man in an open-necked shirt and a fedora, looking to the left. Title in large jagged orange letters, subtitle in small and medium sized grey letters. Blurb at the top.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 05/11/2006.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a horizontal blue rectangle of oil pastel surrounded at the top and sides with red oil pastel. Under this is a white box with a print out of the poem Ennui by Sylvia Plath To the right is a cartoon drawing of someone pointing to a book in a store window which is being picked out by the shopkeeper through a hatch in the display. To the right is a colour photograph of lilac flowers with yellow centres over a further colour photograph of light blue flowers on greenery. Under this, exposed by a torn edge f the cartoon, is a flash in yellow blue and red on white, with a small blurry colour photograph of two people dressed in white against a black background. To the left of them is a colour photograph of a man in an open-necked shirt and straw hat. To the right of this is a colour photograph of a small white lizard on tarmac. Under this is a colour photograph of small white flowers on green and to the right a colour photograph of a small deep purple flower with a textured black centre. To the right of this, rotated to the right,  is the number 42 in large purple blocky characters overlaying black-and-white photographs. Under this is a small colour portrait photograph of a man with a blue tank top. To the right of this is small colour photograph of a man in a suit, standing in front of jars of coloured liquid with brains inside them. On the right, handwritten from bottom to top are the dates "5/11/2006" with an arrow pointing left and "5/11/2006" with an arrow pointing right - to the next page.A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top is a futuristic-looking circular graph of zodiacal signs with North at the top overprinted on a colour photograph of stars. To the right of this, rotated to the left, is a colour photograph of a teenage boy in jeans and an anorak, holding a Kestrel in one hand while he sits on a wall. Pasted in the bottom left corner of this image is a tiny colour photograph of a boy in oversized military fatigues saluting in front of a deep blue sky. Under this is an image of a piece of writing printed with an old font, headed "AN ACCOUNT OF ONE ANN JEFFERIES". To the left of this is a colour drawing of a man with a bushy moustache and pipe gently holding an open hand behind a small fairy in a long wispy dress in front of an old gaslight. To the left of this, rotated to the left, is a black-and-white photograph of four men, side-by-side from the neck up. Under this is a colour photograph of a woman with long, dark hair standing in front of blurry rocks in sunshine. To the right of this, rotated to the right is a cartoon drawing of a small girl sitting in the branch of a gnarly tree.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026
“A man from the future”, the new album by Pet Shop Boys with Juliet Stevenson and Manchester Camerata Octet, is out on October 9th. The exclusive double coloured vinyl LP is available to pre-order only at the official Pet Shop Boys store - wmg.lnk.to/psb-amftf
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have you been on your break yet?
Classis Liam Neeson "I will find you!" photograph - a man in a black top stands in a room with picture on the wall holding a phone to his ear.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 08/10/2006.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a black-and-white photograph of the altar end of a small country church taken across the Churchyard and graves. To the the right of this is a stylised painting of a tree pattern with red leaves. Under this is a colour painting, closely-cropped, of King Kon about to pick up a blonde woman. To the left of this is stylised colour painting of a complete tree under and arch with black birds and people gathered around it. Under this is a colour photograph of the silhouettes of small people (representing aliens) gathered around a taller human with their arms outstretched. The floor is rusty red fading into a bright white background. The date "08/10/2006" is handwritten in black ink reading from bottom to top across the left of this image. To the right of this is a black-and-white photograph of a man in a white coat with one arm folded across his middle, standing in front of a pole with an arm angled out to the side. His arm appears to be connected with a pipe to the device. The gaps between the images are filled with blue oil paster.A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top right is a colour photograph of a man holding a large swordfish in his arms. To the right of this is a colour photograph of a large pig with black spots, standing on grass in front of pine trees and a brick-built house. Under this is a colour photograph of a white van with an open side and a sign with handwritten menu items. On the side of the van beside the open hatch is the text "How do you like your chocolate?" in curly lettering. Under this is a drawing of men in Mongolian costume appearing to play golf. Pasted diagonally over this so that its vertical runs at 30 degrees to the horizontal is a cut out cartoon showing a woman with long hair screwing up her eyes with a giant bubble representing her head full of red objects which are her thoughts. Under this is a black-and-white photograph of a man in an open-necked shirt, dark jacket and baseball cap, standing in front of part of the Manhattan skyline and parts of a bridge. The date "08/10/2006" is written reading from bottom to top on the left of this image. The gaps between all the images are filled with rough red oi pastel.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
humanists.uk
Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Marc Riley. @marcrileydj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Funnily enough I mention on here just a couple days ago that I was strapped coz I hadn’t gone to mass the day before. I got off lightly really… I think the Ducking School would have been more fitting…
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 08/10/2006.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top is a large black-and-white photograph of a man in a dark suit, and flat cap with a bushy white beard, standing with a stick in the rubbish-strewn yard of a brick-built house. Under this on the left is a black-and-white photograph of a US Naval officer in tropical rig looking up at the side of a freighter which has been pockmarked with many rounds of ammunition. To the right of this, reading from bottom to top is the text "THE MAN WHO OBSESSED OVER LISTS". To the right of this is a colour photograph of a man with long hair in a centre parting and a beard, wearing headphones in the centre of a tangle of wire from various audio mixing equipment. Under this is a black-and-white photograph of a woman with blonde hair looking at a man with short dark hair, wearing a light T-Shirt. He is grabbing her arm. On the left of the page at the bottom, is a heavily pixelated square black-and-white photograph. The date "08/10/2006" is handwritten in black reading from bottom to top in the bottom left of the page.A page from a collage scrapbook. The top half of the page is felled with a colour reproduction of an abstract painting of complex swirling patterns in black, green, yellow, and red, on white. Under this is a grid of 6x2 square, colour still photographs from a film, showing various people and interiors. Under this on the left is blurry colour photograph of a man in a blue baseball cap in front of an orange wall. To the right of this, reading from top to bottom, is the text "WHAT'S INSIDE" in black on white. To the right of this is a square colour photograph of a limp-looking whitish-purple flower in front of green leaves. The date "08/10/2006" is handwritten in black ink, reading from bottom to top in the bottom right hand corner.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 23/09/2006.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the very top left is the text "ncus label". Under this is a black-and-white photograph of a man with a semi-acoustic guitar. To the right of this, rotate to the right, is a small black-and-white photograph of the stars over a military jacket pocket. To the right of this is a black-and-white photograph of a smiling woman with a guitar. There is a grey-green rectangle above this image. Under this is a colour photograph of a man holding a radio-control box above his head in front of a blue background. There is a small tropical girl doll and a toy console in front of him. Written from bottom to top in black ink is the text "The modified Toy Orchestra". To the left of this is a colour photograph of a man in a green shirt, shouting into a microphone on a stand. Under this are the letters "PCI". Under this is a black-and-white photograph of a group of men in leather jackets and headphones standing in front of turntables. Under this is a stencil silhouette of the head of a dog, the white space filled with rough pen zig zags, with a thick red line at the bottom. To the left of this is a colour photograph of a small coloured pebble with a few centimetres of an upside-down ruler under it. At the bottom left of the page is the handwritten date "23/9/2006" in black. On the right of the page written from bottom to top is the handwritten text "Small Poem for a Birthday. Witching Hour is over. Full Price on Everything." in black.A page from a collage scrapbook. AT the top left is a colour photograph of a man holding up a parabolic microphone in front of a golden sunset behind a telegraph pole. The letters "SAMA" are written diagonally over the bottom left corner of this image while there is a small blue abstract vertical rectangle at the top left. To the right of this is a colour photograph of a woman with a red coat and blonde hair playing a violin in front of a black background. Under this is a black-and-white portrait photograph of a woman with a blonde bob looking directly forwards with her chin in her hand. There is a white rectangle at the bottom right of this image with the text "JONATHAN STRANGE" in an antique font. To the left of this at the top is a small horizontal orange rectangle with abstract yellow swirls. Under this is a black-and-white photograph of a man trying to fit his fist in his mouth. Under this, in a small plastic sleeve, rotated to the right is a black-and-white photograph of two men on stage with guitars. To the right of this, rotated to the right, is a small colour photograph of a man with a red megaphone to his mouth. At the bottom left of the page is a blurry photograph of a Budweiser-branded dartboard. Written upside down in black ink at the bottom of the page is the date "23/9/2006". Written from bottom to top in black in on the left side of the page is the pome from the previous page.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name Ututu
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Vicki @vickiap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wasp on a fizzy drinks can.
A Little Yellow Bastard (LYB or wasp) on the tab of a soda can.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A panoramic view from the quayside at Portmeirion.
A panoramic view taken from a set of steps at a harbourside looking out over an estuary towards distant mountains on a sunny day.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 17/09/2006.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the the top left, arranged so they are at right angles to they way they were printed, are a number of strips cuts from small-ad pages in a music magazine. To the right of this, rotated to the left is a colour photograph of a sunny snow field with lots of small snowballs at random places. Pasted over the small adds at the bottom, is a small black-and-white photograph of a person in a fire-proof suit being supported by a man and a woman on either side. To the left of this is horizontal brown rectangle with abstract blobs of darker of lighter colour. Under this is a colour photograph of a thigh with the large white letters "oé" over it. To the right of this is a tiny image of a vertical black rectangle with the words "IMAGINARY WEAPONS" in the middle with a dark red image of The Pentagon. To the right of this, rotated to the left, is a colour photograph of a woman in a red-and-white striped T-Shirt with a man in a darker, long-sleeved shirt. Under this is a further horizontal brown rectangle. To the left of this is a colour photograph of a woman with long black hair, wearing a yellow top. Above her is a thick brown line. The gaps between images are filled with very rough red oil pastel. In the bottom right corner is the date "17/09/2006" handwritten in black ink.A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top are two photographs of stone statues of women from South East Asia. They are both topless and the one on the right is missing its head. There are further statues in the background. Under this are two Japanese colour prints showing ornately-dressed, mythical Japanese figures in mid-battle. Under these on the left is a black-and-white photograph of a girl and a boy in Edwardian dress, each holding small bunches of flowers. The girl on the left has been tinged with purple, while the boy is tinged with sepia. To the right of this is a colour photograph of a man with a moustache, wearing a light-blue, short-sleeved, button-up shirt holding a silvery fish with a very long tooth-filled snout. Two other men stan behind him. They are all under a pitched roof made of corrugated iron and supported by a wood frame. The walls are open. On the very right edge of the page about a third of the way down, is a small black-and-white square cut from a larger image in a newspaper. At the bottom right is the date "17/09/2006", handwritten in black ink.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Scrapbook #Collage pages from 17/09/2006.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top is a colour, double-exposure photograph. In the background, tinged with green, is a closely-cropped image of a man staring forwards. Over this is a simple painted image of an eye over two dark circles. Under this are four colour photographs of various oriental tines. Under this in a plastic sleeve, rotated to the left, is a silhouetted image against a dark orange background, of a bird which has flown off with a cable attached to an audio plug. There are a number of names in white above this. The date 17/09/2006, rotated to the left, is written in black pen in the bottom right hand corner of the page.A page from a collage scrapbook. A digitally-created composition. At the top left is an L-Shaped black-and-white photograph of a woman with long dark hair in a ponytail, looking to the left and a man with short black hair in profile looking to the left. Under this image is a grey image of a diagram of nuclear energy and a strip of four processed images of a worker pouring molten steel. Under this are two copies of a diagram of a small nuclear accelerator separated by a blurry abstract in grey. At the bottom is the word "ALPHA" highly magnified to show the dots. The date 17/09/2006 rotated to the left, is written in the bottom right corner of the page.
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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... His best yet!
theguardian.com
I’m an avid fan of chard – but you can have too much of a good thing | Adrian Chiles
My veg patch has turned into a chard jungle and now it’s chard for breakfast, lunch and supper, writes Adrian Chiles
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