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Tonight, I learned that there were far more Victoria Beckham solo singles than I had remembered.

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Jamie Muir @jamiembrixton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really hope the publication of biographies of Anita Brookner and Barbara Cartland at more of less the same time creates a literary Barbenheimer effect.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/09/2026

‘Whatever regrets she had, Anita Brookner preferred the world her way, which is the reason that the terrifying self-encirclement of her best characters is so completely authentic.’ Andrew O’Hagan on the novelist. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Andrew O’Hagan · Omelettes and Whisky: Anita Brookner’s Edge

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become...

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Took some records I no longer wanted to the shop; came back with one I never, ever, dreamt of owning.

Scott Engel - Scott 4 LP

(peeking out from behind it: Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground LP)

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Guy having a loud speakerphone conversation on the bus just reminded his interlocutor ‘you’re in public, by the way’. If only there were a solution to that.

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🎶 I wish I could sell / Some nice rugs as well / But I can’t 🎶

A shop sign reading Keith Harris Carpets & Flooring

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Am being reminded that there is no reason on earth why I should not be into pop music band The Clientele, other than that I just haven’t taken the time to become so immersed, and that this should change.

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sympathies to all my fellow Gen Xers who’ve also just gone “There’s a new movie of Sense & Sensibility? But they JUST DID one. They literally ONLY JUST made that into a movie, with Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant, it only came out (checks IMDB)… thirty… one… years… ago… … … oh.”

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Memorials were absolutely fantastic at Clwb Ifor Bach tonight; a real ‘like them a lot on record, but love them live’ and they were better then ever. Apply within, fans of heads-down multitasking motorik psych duos.

Two pictures of the duo Memorials, playing a multitude of instruments, pedals, and things that go bwomp/zzzt/whirrrr

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Has this made up for my Cardiff train being cancelled, after I got up egregiously early for a Saturday? Not quite, but mildly smug in any event. Parseword #233 ⚡️ 26s 💎 Perfect www.parseword.com/daily

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Parseword - A tricky wordplay game

Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles.

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Surprised that more of #TOTP BlueSky aren’t at this here Saint Etienne gig tbh #tbh

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

FINALLY I’m a podcast guest; it was inevitable.

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Have guitar, will travel. En route to ‘rock’ Devonshire Road Nature Reserve, with an offshoot of London’s beloved (it says here) Chaps Choir.

An idiot with a guitar on his back, on the platform at Norwood Jn station.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fiction is “the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease”, Edith Hope observes in Hotel du Lac. But which Anita Brookner novel should the ill-at-ease try first? My guide to her some of her best books, for @thebookerprizes.com:

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Where to start with Anita Brookner: a guide to her best books | The Booker Prizes

Anita Brookner was a prolific writer and a master of both comedy and tragedy. Over the course of 28 years, she wrote 24 novels, winning the Booker Prize in 1984 with Hotel du Lac. But where should you...

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The bass player of the Cure tribute band has had to borrow a bass from the Strokes tribute band. Presumably, he assumed that the next act, the Doors tribute band, wouldn’t be much use?

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A very successful post-work pop to Waterstones Croydon.

Two hardback books: Hermione Lee’s new Anita Brookner biog; and a half price copy of Sundog, the selected lyrics of Scott Walker.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

LESSONS IN HARMONY, my novel about the friendship between Ravel and Vaughan Williams, will be published in November. This thread is for anyone who's bought, or is thinking of buying, one of the signed editions available from Waterstones or an indie bookshop. (They won't be available from Amazon.)

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glastonbury? Let us get through LFF onsale day first, yeah?

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 07/09/2026

I can’t have been the only person to spend half an hour working out that LEGITIMATE CONCERNS is an anagram of EGOCENTRIC AILMENTS

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy ‘I’ve overpacked for @endoftheroadfestival.com as usual’ day to all who celebrate.

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The Seldom Seen Kid @seldom-seen-kid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They're all dead, Dave.

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Home now from Paris. Visited a fair few record shops, among much else, but managed to get away fairly lightly: Wilco’s self-titled LP (which doesn’t seem to turn up all that often), and a 1972 private press folk-rock-ish oddity…

LPs: Wilco (the album) and Illusions of the Maintenance Man by Virgin Insanity

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just held the door for Laura Dern. I’m not OK.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I say it again: "The Ploughman's Lunch" (1983) is a fine slice of post-imperial British soulsearching about both Suez and the Falklands, and the challenges of liberal journalists tempted by Right, starring Jonathan Pryce and Tim Curry, script by Ian McEwan www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir82...

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The Ploughman's lunch FULL MOVIE | Drama Movies | Jonathan Pryce | Movies to Watch

YouTube video by Movies to Watch

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Colleague didn't join a call but I had Gemini Notes switched on and it the transcript caught me talking to the cat.

Summary

Meeting logistics review addressed attendance verification and confirmed denial of additional catering requests.

Addressing Catering Request
Denial of secondary meal requests was finalized for shouting individuals. It was confirmed that participants had already consumed dinner.

Meeting Attendance Verification
Clarification regarding confirmed attendees occurred. Questions were raised about pending arrivals for the session.

Connection Status Check
Technical connection status was assessed. The presence of additional participants on the call remained under review.

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Lending some 🎸🎸🎸 to Silver Tears at this tonight, a warm-up for next month’s LP 2 launch. The Old Dispensary, Camberwell, 20.45-ish.

A gig poster:

scratchyrecords presents
SCRATHSTOCK
SAT
2208
The Old Dispensary 325, Camberwell New Rd

Simon Bromide and The Bromides
MEU Joe Wikes
Silver Tears

FREE

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Rewatched this recently and it *really* holds up, especially what with all the everything that’s going on. Verhoeven for kids except not just for kids.

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Interesting attitude to selling merch at this gig: merch is there, but there’s no one there to sell it, so is it really merch?

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Came to Brighton, in news that will not surprise regular viewers.

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I hate that I sang this, internally, reaffirming my belief that everyone involved in that advert should be in The Hague.

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Get behind me, Santana. This is fab - I’d forgotten all about this version, which I’m sure I used to have on a comp somewhere…

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tonight! (once I’d put all my layers on, slid an Anita Brookner up the back of my shirt, and shoved a tote and all my other possessions into this pack-a-mac-pack. I scoff at your draconian bag policy.)

The outside of the Apollo Hammersmith, bearing the name Wilco on its marquee.

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Having to get a cab home from Elephant & Castle because of melting train madness

The Dexter’s Laboratory/Martin Lewis ‘I have failed you’ meme

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

‘What did you do during the 2026 eclipse, Grandpa?’ ‘Well, I went to see Sharp Pins - yes, THE Sharp Pins - at the ICA. And anyway, how do you actually exist?’ ‘…’ *disappears*

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just saw a guy at Trafalgar Square proposing just as the eclipse hit. Big crowd, cheers, applause. Quite nice.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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