Reposted by Rob McManusProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 24/09/2026PHOTO OF THE DAY. A woman in New York City walking her dog in the driving rain (1957). 📷 Saul Leiter 0473
Reposted by Rob McManusJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published 541632391
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026How on earth...? www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comOxford United apologise for launching ‘United 93’ clothing range around 9/11 anniversaryOxford United have been forced to abandon a new range of American sports-influenced merchandise given its jarring association with one of the aircraft hijacked on 11 September 000
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Lucky streak www.maptap.gg September 17 96🔥 99🎯 98🎯 100🎯 97🔥 Final score: 982maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 000
Reposted by Rob McManusMorten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla... 512434
Reposted by Rob McManusDave Bagpuss Forsey 🍻 @bagpuss.org · 16/09/2026Grand Designs is back on Channel 4 tonight and I really would like this to get to 150k views to satisfy my dopamine levels #granddesignsyoutube.comGrand Designs – CondensedGrand Designs is 25 years old and has hundreds of episodes. But if you don't have time to watch them all, here's an average episode condensed down to about a... 46529
Reposted by Rob McManusJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this. 3324321152
Reposted by Rob McManusThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026History is about interrogating documents and questioning narratives; and law is about the rules that bind us and the rights that protect us. Neither are STEM; both are essential. 812126
Reposted by Rob McManusMark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Devastated to hear that Carol Tregorran has woken up. #TheArchers 351
Reposted by Rob McManusAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Benoit Blanc: while at first glance this appears to be an open & shut case of a simple Co-yo-tae’s inexplicable compulsion to catch a singular road runner, it has unravelled a scheme of corporate malpractice & maleficence that… Foghorn Leghorn: I said, boy, boy I said, are you mocking me, boy? 0456
Reposted by Rob McManusHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The Barbican’s chief operating officer says if there’s one thing she could have on her headstone it would be ‘She solved wayfinding at the Barbican’ Lovely piece by @grindrod.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6c42...ft.comWhat happens when the future gets old?A modernist icon, London’s Barbican Conservatory is in need of renovation 3427
Reposted by Rob McManusJeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Remarkably high turnout in Saxony-Anhalt state election. Polls close at 18:00 CET, with first projections due not long afterwards. 1254
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Lucky picks today www.maptap.gg September 6 99🎯 99🎯 100🎯 100🎯 92🏆 Final score: 974maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 000
Reposted by Rob McManusOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Happy 58th anniversary of the party Joan Didion gave to celebrate the publication of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, at which Otto Preminger dropped acid, Harrison Ford and record label boss Earl McGrath got wrecked and played living artworks, and 13-year-old Griffin Dunne watched... 🧵 216449
Reposted by Rob McManusTechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Took a picture of my friends dog at the train station and may have created the best horror movie poster ever 361466254
Reposted by Rob McManusMark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Fruits of the heatwave - a crazy crop of grapes from the very old vine in our back garden. The most we’ve ever had previously is a bunch or so. 3252
Reposted by Rob McManusGail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 28/08/2026Pete’s Prize Draw Every order placed this Bank Holiday weekend goes into a draw. One order wins £50 to spend in my shop. Pete will pick the winner. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk 6216110
Reposted by Rob McManusThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026So: have just seen Coyote vs. Acme And yes, a really good film about litigation - actually one of the best films I have seen about practical litigation. As well as a really good film generally. May write it up if there’s enough interest. 3659245
Reposted by Rob McManusMark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song. 12879299
Reposted by Rob McManusChris Orton @chriso1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Many Happy Returns to Rupert Grint. 032
Reposted by Rob McManusRob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 19/08/2026Unironically REM's best song because it's joyful seeing them genuinely enjoy themselves for once www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9G1...youtube.comSesame Street: Happy Furry Monsters Song with R.E.MYouTube video by Sesame Street Classics 714141
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026TIL the actor whom plays Kenton Archer is the grandson of Clement Attlee. He’s also in this (which is very good): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukDrama on 4 - No, Prime Minister - BBC SoundsPrime Minister Margaret Thatcher appears in a sketch with the cast of Yes, Minister. 122
Reposted by Rob McManusRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Without getting too preachy about this, "suicidal empathy" is pretty much the core idea of Christianity: a religion built around a Christ who submits to death on a cross, because of his love for others. 525046
Reposted by Rob McManusNeil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Perhaps the unlikeliest of comedy sketches to crop up in 2026, but also one of the funniest:youtu.beBritish Pork: It’s Got the Lot | SNL UKYouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK 717347
Reposted by Rob McManusStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Everyone on the Eurostar is always so nice! It’s a big part of why I always travel by train when I am able. Lovely piece by my colleague Henry Mance on that: www.ft.com/content/93ce...ft.com 2112917
Reposted by Rob McManusToby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get. 1834492756
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026“I think we should go with the IronBru”. “No, let’s save that for the closing ceremony- I’ve got a better idea” #glasgow #commonwealth 010
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026C5 ruining the opening ceremony of the a commonwealth games by missing out a huge chunk of the athletes’ parade for an ad break. #iaskyou #hopeless 001
Reposted by Rob McManusSpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The moment the voice comes in in Beethoven's Ninth is probably my favourite moment in music. As if he can't hold back, can't stay within the form he is working within, and needs the human voice to express, well, joy. 1153
Reposted by Rob McManusmensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026German broadcast. Nailed it 139149784993
Reposted by Rob McManusMiguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Yes, Argentina the first ever World Cup finalist to not have a shot in the 90 minutes. 21975216
Reposted by Rob McManusIan Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I'd have given Spain the Falklands if that had gone in. 28112
Reposted by Rob McManusOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026that challenge by Enzo Fernandez on a yellow is the absolute most boneheaded play I've seen in this tournament. that would've been a candidate for a straight red 1853235
Reposted by Rob McManusGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 19/07/2026THE GREATEST HYDRATION BREAK EVER #WCfinal #SpaArg 1527879
Reposted by Rob McManusRuth @bouledenerfs.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Google "Cucurella" right now. 1614576
Reposted by Rob McManusMegan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Oh well, don't forget that it's already come home twice in the past five years. 216237
Reposted by Rob McManusLiam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Rooney knows it: We completely invited that on ourselves 4913
Reposted by Rob McManusArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c 153817843
Reposted by Rob McManusIan Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Haven't seen any football in years. It seems to have morphed into some kind of high-speed wrestling. Exciting. 415116