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Richard James Foster

@richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
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Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 linktr.ee/richardfoster

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Nick B 🔶 @aviarm.com · 3h
To put this in perspective, the world burns 45 tonnes of diesel *per second*, so the initial 300k tonnes is less than 2 hours worth of global consumption. And that's before the Ukrainians cast their vote via Flamingo missile. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
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Nick in Moldova @brit-in-moldova.bsky.social · 10h
Ouch. Taken from Facebook. Man: “Why is the diesel red?” Woman: “Because it has Ukrainian blood in it!”
Ouch.

Taken from Facebook.

Man: “Why is the diesel red?”
Woman: “Because it has a little Ukrainian blood in it!”
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 9h
The US 🇺🇸 is now fueling the war machine of a genocidal state, of course things are going to change. Putin is invading West.
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Jeff Livingstone @defjeff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Been enjoying the Mellow Birds graffiti phenomenon over in the West End of Newcastle recently. Via the excellent Radge Mag on Insta, thought you’d appreciate their responses to the dickhead councillors getting worked up about their output. Just leave it up, lads. Offending children indeed…
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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Budding music journalists out there--we have had a lot of questions about this competition, and anyone who has not published three *paid* pieces of music writing is eligible. You can also be any age. Please click through for the full T&Cs; we want to hear from you.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
"UK cask ale volumes have more than halved in less than a decade"
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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 07/10/2026
It's taken two years but I'm delighted to reveal Scanner: Library, my first music software instrument is out now, featuring sounds from 40+ years of personal archives. It's deliberately simple but offers 10 million combinations of sounds www.soniccouture.com/en/products/...
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Corr
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Your mum sounds like Kat, the matriarch in Heimat
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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I hate this so much. The BBC should be providing good quality, good value programmes that the private market won't cover. You and Yours (which I kind of hate), Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking are exactly the sort of programming that the BBC is i) good at, ii) not haemorrhaging money to make.
bbc.co.uk
BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours
The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Some very generous comments about my #JoyDivision piece in @thequietus.com from the great @gijsbertkamer.bsky.social here. I’m very touched!
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DJ St. Paul @djstpaul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Over de eetstoornissen van Winnie de Poeh. Over 40 Jaar EKKO. Over de muzikale week. En samen met @gijsbertkamer.bsky.social over de band die zijn leven veranderde, Joy Division. Een nieuwe Boutique!
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#299: Madra Salach, The Ex, Jungle By Night & Karen Finley
St. Paul’s Boutique · Episode
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Interesting read
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Berlin mania for graffitiing everything: part 2662752778
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
See also: publishing in general.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Aha! That! It’s worth seeing if it does bloom.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hutton is great.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The distribution of sheep across Europe Original post
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Echtwaar??
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A series, no less!
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Madly enough… a friend in Berlin told me yesterday that should write potboilers about a Hopelessly Randy Detective, whose John Thomas leads him astray every time he is about to solve a French Connection-style crime in the big glamorous city. I would have the pen name: Emmanuel Stone.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
heraldscotland.com
Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a great read. Yet more proof of Mrs Thatcher’s moral bankruptcy. His conman dad was skewered in Brewer’s Rogues, Villains and Thieves.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is v warm coverage of the late Jeffrey Archer on Radio 4 Today focusing on book sales & chsrity with fraud, perjury & disgrace mainly as something to bounce back from. He probably got more second, thitd & fourth chances that anybody else in British public life in the last half century.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This sounds mad: I was really, really moved at the age 3,4, by a recording of Handel’s Royal Fireworks and Water music. I interpreted the cover (fireworks display) to be the velvet cushion they laid the head of Charles I on. It made me VERY MELANCHOLY. (A scene from an Accrington sitting room.)
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every South American election recently has basically been: Jesús Marx Bonaventura de Corruption (Alliance to Not Kill Puppies): 48.9% Pedro Sanchez-Hitler (Reform): 50.01% Geraldo Demonslayer (Bitcoin Liberation Front): 1%
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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 04/10/2026
#nowplaying What's Drone Month in German? Drohnenmonat, it seems. And where did Klaus get his kosmische knitwear? That's an Unanswered Question.
An album release on two compact discs: Cyborg (1973) by Klaus Schulze.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nothing new!
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’ve only ever spent one night there at some do.
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Dr Emily Skeletonpain @limeyemily.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every day I open this app and have no idea what anyone’s talking about. And every night you better believe I’ve developed a strong and correct opinion on those topics
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hahahaha- TOUCHÉ!
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I never thought I would go into bat for someone like Rees-Mogg but here we go. Even fleetingly. Still, what was the thing about leopards and spots? (Carlson has been studying too hard at Big School and needs a nice rest.)
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Echt mooi en inzichtelijke interview, trouwens.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Try the Heimat route that’s fun.
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Tommy van Avermaete @tommyvav.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Na drie jaar aan omzwervingen en terugtrekken uit de 'literaire wereld' is Lucas Rijneveld er weer. Mooi interview.
volkskrant.nl
Lucas Rijneveld is terug, na drie jaar: ‘Even was ik bang dat ik het schrijven kwijt was’
Na drie succesvolle dichtbundels en twee bekroonde romans (International Booker Prize!) werd het stil rond Lucas Rijneveld. Nu verschijnt er een nieuwe bundel: Als zee uit hond. ‘Overal waar ik kwam w...
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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Latvia: tonight's SKDS exit poll suggests that the right-wing SV/AJ alliance made up of Suverēnā vara and Apvienība Jaunlatvieši are set to win national parliamentary representation for the first time. #vēlēšanas #vēlēšanas2026 #Latvia
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The small towns are where it’s at imho. It’s just that you need a bus or RE to get around
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is interesting: two northern cities I’ve never hit, Oldenburg had their own stamps I think?
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trier is great! I didn’t want to go into German towns & villages cos that’s something I know a bit about. Who knows Rees, fi?
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s a place I really want to go to as it happens! That area is fascinating
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not been
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My fave DE cities / big towns off the top of my head in roughly this order: Essen; Bochum; Bremen; Köln; Dresden; Hamburg; Leipzig; Berlin; München; D-Dorf; Krefeld; Dortmund; Mülheim; Münster; Hanover. Berlin could slip down… I really want to go to Erfürt, Rostock, Braunschweig & Magdeburg.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Berlin is full of arrogant fucks.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The doth sent me fucking mental, man. Thick sods.
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Aside from the whole "Peter Mannion: that's fucking mental" of it all, it's just incredibly lazily done. They might have an approximation of the colour palette, but the actual visual style, typeface, use of white space is all wrong. Plus, isn't "doth" Germanic, which the original famously is not.
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tbh I’m more pissed off about the awful ignorance by some Tom or Ollie who can’t even get the farkin spelling to be more accurate to make the “joke” better. If they can’t look up doth, how they do the bins and defence and what not?
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All very Bismarckian…
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s fucking nuts - and DOTH? DOTH?? Back to the Victorian-style school, Tory bodkins! Learn your country’s language and lose 146532 Gove Points on your way to the Panopticon.
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