Reposted by Rob McManusJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 17hEver 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. 1354781
Reposted by Rob McManusJanine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 06/10/2026This 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...thetimes.comJeffrey Archer obituary: MP, peer and multimillion-selling authorLord Archer of Weston-super-Mare, politician with a ‘gift for inaccurate précis’ who became a prolifically successful writer, dies aged 86 94810
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Reading the section about his Shepherds Pie & Krug parties reminded me of being told by an attendee that non celebs got Shepherds Pie & Tap Water 010
Reposted by Rob McManusJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Made 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?” 169512
Reposted by Rob McManusJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026passing 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 37631109
Reposted by Rob McManusIan Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026PSA: during every single stupid fucking discourse like this, I've taken my bearings from Hugo Rifkind. Never steered me wrong. 0212
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And summer’s lease hath all too fucking short a date 000
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 541631391
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... 512534
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. 3424421159
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026static.klipy.comDrink Need DrinkALT: Drink Need Drink 020
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Crypto-friendly party given huge donation by Crypto-bro out of the goodness of his heart 011
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
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That general anaesthetic can’t come quickly enough 110
Reposted by Rob McManusMark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Devastated to hear that Carol Tregorran has woken up. #TheArchers 351
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Presumably the Met will also get the unredacted version without the names of donors beeped out 000
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? 0446
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... 🧵 216349
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 361467254
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026One would hope that each night she carefully and surreptitiously unpicks her day’s work 17310
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
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026…which if it was the Moderna one was part funded by Ms Parton 020
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
Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Reminded me of this share.google/rHetG9zQol57...share.googleNot The Nine O'Clock News - "My aunt, who I live with" 051