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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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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 17h
Ever since I first saw it, this scene has epitomised Amerlcan elegance for me. I wrote a short story about it for Radio 4 (never broadcast) and it's why I drink Gibsons even though nobody who works in a bar these days knows what they are. A perfect scene - RIP Eva Marie Saint.
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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 17h
So farewell then... #FilmSky
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 06/10/2026
This is as magnificent as an obituary as the life of its subject demands. Jeffrey Archer, perjurer, fantastist, charismatic grifter went to prison yet died ennobled; but somehow I still feel nostalgic for this specific breed of untrustworthy wrong'un www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
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Jeffrey Archer obituary: MP, peer and multimillion-selling author
Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare, politician with a ‘gift for inaccurate précis’ who became a prolifically successful writer, dies aged 86
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reading the section about his Shepherds Pie & Krug parties reminded me of being told by an attendee that non celebs got Shepherds Pie & Tap Water
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Made the mistake of spending 10 minutes on LinkedIn in. It gave me the same feeling I used to get when reading personal statements on undergrad applications (UCAS forms). “If so many good people have done so many good works, how can there be any problems left in the world?”
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
PSA: during every single stupid fucking discourse like this, I've taken my bearings from Hugo Rifkind. Never steered me wrong.
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And summer’s lease hath all too fucking short a date
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Orwell had the last word on this
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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 · 19/09/2026
First departure from #tharchers by popular vote
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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
‘I like the utterly batshit base’
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Zookeeper’s breakfast?
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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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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maths?
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Drink Need Drink
ALT: Drink Need Drink
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Crypto-friendly party given huge donation by Crypto-bro out of the goodness of his heart
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Invisible to Neigh-dar
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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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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That general anaesthetic can’t come quickly enough
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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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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Presumably the Met will also get the unredacted version without the names of donors beeped out
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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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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
And where’s the fun in that?
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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
India wants a word …
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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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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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More likely from diesel taxis etc
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Presumably they were just lawyering the story..?
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One would hope that each night she carefully and surreptitiously unpicks her day’s work
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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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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Mauve Macfisheries
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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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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Shame J G Ballard’s not around to write it up
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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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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
…which if it was the Moderna one was part funded by Ms Parton
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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 McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Reminded me of this share.google/rHetG9zQol57...
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Not The Nine O'Clock News - "My aunt, who I live with"
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