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Rob McManus

@rfpmcmanus.bsky.social
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One should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of ones life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
PHOTO OF THE DAY. A woman in New York City walking her dog in the driving rain (1957). 📷 Saul Leiter
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started 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
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Statue of Our Lady & Joe Bugner, Valladolid
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How on earth...? www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Oxford United apologise for launching ‘United 93’ clothing range around 9/11 anniversary
Oxford 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
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lucky streak www.maptap.gg September 17 96🔥 99🎯 98🎯 100🎯 97🔥 Final score: 982
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍻 @bagpuss.org · 16/09/2026
Grand Designs is back on Channel 4 tonight and I really would like this to get to 150k views to satisfy my dopamine levels #granddesigns
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Grand Designs – Condensed
Grand 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...
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
History 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.
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible Yuzu
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Devastated to hear that Carol Tregorran has woken up. #TheArchers
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Benoit 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?
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The 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...
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What happens when the future gets old?
A modernist icon, London’s Barbican Conservatory is in need of renovation
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Remarkably high turnout in Saxony-Anhalt state election. Polls close at 18:00 CET, with first projections due not long afterwards.
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Lucky picks today www.maptap.gg September 6 99🎯 99🎯 100🎯 100🎯 92🏆 Final score: 974
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Happy 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... 🧵
Front cover, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, featuring a psychedelic montage of brightly painted faces and figures, presumably designed to represent a trip
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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Took a picture of my friends dog at the train station and may have created the best horror movie poster ever
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fruits 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.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Chartreuse Burtons
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 28/08/2026
Pete’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
Pete the cat with a poster explaining his prize draw.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So: 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.
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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.
[RACIST ACADEMICAL]
I am the very model of a racist academical,
With footnotes and citations to make bigotry seem credible,

I traffic in ideas that have long since been discredited,
Like human races being real and IQ is inherited!

I’ll sign an open letter that legitimates my bigotry,
My gender ideology is thuggery and piggery,

If criticized it’s academic freedom I will hide behind,
My high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

[CHORUS OF CHUDS]
His high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!
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Chris Orton @chriso1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Many Happy Returns to Rupert Grint.
Sheeran
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 19/08/2026
Unironically REM's best song because it's joyful seeing them genuinely enjoy themselves for once www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9G1...
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Sesame Street: Happy Furry Monsters Song with R.E.M
YouTube video by Sesame Street Classics
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Might stay up
A screenshot of tonight’s weather forecast, which has a greater than 95 percent chance of rain between 3 and 6 a.m.
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
TIL 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/...
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Drama on 4 - No, Prime Minister - BBC Sounds
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appears in a sketch with the cast of Yes, Minister.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Without 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.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Perhaps the unlikeliest of comedy sketches to crop up in 2026, but also one of the funniest:
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British Pork: It’s Got the Lot | SNL UK
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Everyone 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...
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’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.
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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
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
C5 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
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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The 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.
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Yes, Argentina the first ever World Cup finalist to not have a shot in the 90 minutes.
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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'd have given Spain the Falklands if that had gone in.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
that 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
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Tom @tomvictor.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wayne Rooney as either statler or Waldorf, no I’m not checking which one is which
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wayne Rooney as reported by FIFA
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Errm that’s not what my timeline is saying
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Knighthood for Wagne Rooney #SPAARG
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
THE GREATEST HYDRATION BREAK EVER #WCfinal #SpaArg
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Ruth @bouledenerfs.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Google "Cucurella" right now.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Oh well, don't forget that it's already come home twice in the past five years.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Rooney knows it: We completely invited that on ourselves
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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hydration break.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Haven't seen any football in years. It seems to have morphed into some kind of high-speed wrestling. Exciting.
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Argentina.
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