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Rebecca Brite

@rebeccab.bsky.social
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Editor, singer, reader, filmgoer, opera lover, cat servant... Mostly reposts from a longtime American immigrant in Paris, now largely retired. Enby, she/they.

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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That smile!
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hatch End station originally opened in 1840 on the London & Birmingham Railway. It was rebuilt in 1911, and poet John Betjemen described it as "half-way between a bank and a medium-sized country house".
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm so old I remember when there were NO PODCASTS. In those days, Wikipedia was indeed slop. It could be useful, but you had to double-check everything it said, which often meant sourcing the info yourself. Sound familiar?
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/09/2026
Absolutely amazing.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Brilliant
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...
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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Franglais language wars reach the vehicle hire sector 😂
A white Rent-a-Car van with the following text on the side, in French: 'But why write Rent A Car [in English]on your van when it means 'rent a car'? Because it's a semantic aberration and we'd made a bet with the marketing team to write 'semantic' on our vans. They owe us €5
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Not far from the Wigmore Hall; must have a look next time I'm there for a concert.
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
One of my favorite South Bank landmarks.
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Around the periphery of London stand over 200 tax posts, erected in the 1860s to show the point from which tax was due on coal and wine arriving in the capital. The tax was used by the City of London to pay for infrastructure projects. This post is near Northwood.
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Priceless thread for my Paris and NYC peeps and anyone who likes to cook at a pretty basic level.
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My Russell in his youth, for Black Cat Appreciation Day.
Head of a young male black cat with golden eyes
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
During the 19thC the Metropolitan Board of Works created the Thames Embankments through London to house its new sewers and to prevent flooding. They created ornate lamps for the embankments. This is one of a pair on the Chelsea Embankment, designed by Timothy Butler.
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"accused of plagiarism" – and had his whole background picked over by a flock of vultures, going all the way back to his childhood. Ghouls. And I say that as used to be one of them. But that was a different time.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
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Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune
Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In the days before the invention of plastic, baleen - the feeding apparatus of whales - was used in manufacturing where a flexible material was required, such as chair seats, hooped skirts and corsets. Baleen was traded here in Whalebone Court.
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Looks like this guy has the same makeup artist as Vance.
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
AI companies (preparing to start up the book-shredder 5000): why does everyone hate us
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Paxton & Whitfield in Jermyn Street, St. James's is said to be Britain's oldest cheese shop. It's origins date back to a market stall in 1742, becoming the partnership of Harry Paxton and Charles Whitfield at the end of that century.
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A wonderful, truly singular book by one of my favorite writers. It's sui generis, and I love seeing it recommended by another of my favorite storytellers. Here's to a Lafferty revival!
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Just sayin' ...
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Ostler's Hut at Lincoln's Inn is the smallest individual historically-listed building in London. It dates from 1852 and was built to shelter the ostlers responsible for tending the horses of lawyers and visitors to Lincoln's Inn.
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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
These two high profile Frenchmen both have one immigrant parent. Yet Jordan Bardella never has to deal with questions about whether he is 'really' French. I wonder what could possibly account for that difference?
the white politician Jordan BardellaThe black footballer Kylian Mbappé
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 09/07/2026
Elect a clown, get a clown show.
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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
10 years ago today I was in a bar in Barcelona being taunted by a bunch of French rugby fans from Toulon, who could not believe what a ridiculously stupid decision the UK had just made. Their team lost though, so there's that
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
How I found out Starmer had resigned: people on social media complaining about the loud music anti-Brexit activist Steve Bray was playing the whole time.
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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The moon and Venus last night over Montmartre
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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
On this day in 1781, George Stephenson was born. We have him to thank for many things including the standard gauge of 4ft 8½in between the rails. Thats 1,435mm in new money. #history www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/o...
The original Rocket locomotive at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry in 2019.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 06/06/2026
On Bluesky? All of us
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
At the start of the 18thC Thomas Twining purchased Tom's Coffee House at No. 216 Strand and began selling dry tea leaves. Twinings, now owned by Associated British Foods, still sells tea from the original premises.
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ChrisInParis @chrisinparis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Lovely rainbow last night in Paris during the Bluesky meetup. Big thanks to @jonhenley.bsky.social @donnad.eurosky.social @columnist.bsky.social and @stevenhseggie.bsky.social for making it happen!
Rainbow over train tracks at Gare de l'est
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/06/2026
The arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice if we bend it. There's no karmic comeuppance for fascists. There's just us. Community and hard work and a willingness to to take risks and fail.
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Do not, repeat not, start Alexis Hall's new London Calling novel at nearly midnight thinking it will help you get sleepy. All you will do is laugh till you're hopelessly wide awake.
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 22/05/2026
There are officially over 400 artists on HireHumanArtists.com🎉 More human artists than you would ever conceivably want to even try to look at all at once! Hire one for your next human project, wouldja?
hirehumanartists.com
Directory of No Gen AI Artists
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
In 1852 the Crystal Palace moved from Hyde Park to Sydenham Hill. To serve the many visitors a new railway was opened. Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire in 1936 and the railway closed. Some of its route can still be traced, including the entrance to the Crescent Wood Tunnel.
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The New River, which flows through North London, is not actually a river. Created over 300 years ago, it is also hardly new. You can learn more about the New River here in my video youtu.be/8BKhbftRoZ8
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
why aren't other countries helping us with the strait of hormuz after we started an unjust war, cut off trade, and insulted them for a year?
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
When I was growing up in Omaha it was still a big beef city with stockyards. We had a field trip to a slaughterhouse! Don't recall at what age, prob. middle school? But a nicer one was to the lovely NE state capitol bldg in Lincoln and Morrill Hall at the university, with its mastodons.
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The Grey Coat Hospital at Westminster was founded in 1698 by local parishoners as a school for poor children in what was then a very deprived area. It moved to the current building, a former poorhouse, in 1701. It has been a girls' school since the 1870s.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
How does The Onion know what the Trump administration is going to do before it happens? Clearly there must be a lot of leeks inside the White House
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I cannot vote for Democrats because their excessive regulations hamper free enterprise. Here’s why I’m revamping my company’s entire operations to appeal to Donald Trump’s ego.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!
Disclose.tv
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NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality."
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 06/02/2026
The best thing about philosophy is that all the great philosophers in history were basically wrong about almost everything, so there's really not that much pressure to be right.
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This statue of St. Volodymyr, Grand Prince of Kyiv, was erected at the corner of Holland Park and Holland Park Avenue by London's Ukrainian community in 1988 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of his conversion to Christianity.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I love the noise Canada Geese make as they fly overhead and their instinctive communal sense of aesthetic organisation, plus the way that not one of them will ever barge in on social media with their opinion on a piece of writing without clicking on the link to find out what the piece actually says.
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D @artemiswinter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Imagine watching #Casablanca in the theater 83 years ago tonight and not knowing how it ends. It must have been amazing. #TCMParty
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
It’s pretty clear by now that animal intelligence far surpasses that of humans.
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Rebecca Brite @rebeccab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
OMG look at all those islets.
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Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Passing Alley is a narrow cut-through at Clerkenwell between St. John Street to St. John's Lane. It was moved during the late 19thC when the area was redeveloped. Until at least the middle of the 18thC, in its earlier position, it was named in maps as Pissing Alley.
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