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There were about 20 mums and dads going "Whoa!" and 1,480 people just going "WTF?".

Proper loud rock renditions, none of your soft-voice-with-a-ukulele nonsense. Never seen so many utterly perplexed 5 year-olds.

I must have told you about the Jack and the Beanstalk production we took the kids to that was directed by Peter Duncan and featured "21st Century Schizoid Man" and "In the Court of the Crimson King". To this day I can only assume he did it for a bet.

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Exactly this. "It's the Who or someone else being bombastic for the sake of it."

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I don't do Amazon directly, but to borrow from Uncle Monty, I mean to have it, even if it must be burglary.

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Oh, in the right part, he's astonishing. This feels like he's hearing it for the first time. He's surprised by the conclusions he's reaching. Every other Hamlet I've seen, no matter how good, they still felt like words a man has learned from a page.

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It's weird, despite having heard it 43.85 million times, when I heard the chords from the middle in isolation, it took me a moment to place it.

Oh, I hadn't heard of this. I'm intrigued, nonetheless.

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How had I never heard of this? Tremendous stuff.

Oh, with the arse-covering proviso that sometimes the trailer giveth and the film taketh away, that looks properly correct for what it is. Very impressive indeed. Even if it means we have to hear Stairway to Heaven again.

Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 4h

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Gosh these Scottish UFO prints are nice. If only there was somewhere you could buy them for the very reasonable price of £15 each. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

"The Forth Rail Bridge" two ufos over the famous bridge

"Skye Scotland" a ship rising over a hill.

"Loch Carron" A spaceship that looks suspiciously like a cathedral flies over a loch.

"Inner Sound" a craft hovers over a sea loch at night.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 8h

What did you do in the Cheese Wars, Daddy?

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I love how Decadry decided that their futuristic computer font needed an Æ symbol. For all your retro-future medieval mainframe projects.

An old sheet of decadry letraset-style letter transfers. As part of the special characters it includes an ash Æ character.

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Tina @tinanotthewife.bsky.social · 5h

This. So much this.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 9h

Got an email from the host of a Dutch TV arts programme asking if I'd like to do a Q&A about my next novel. It read a bit differently from the usual AI con emails, so I did a quick bit of background checking in case there was anything in it. Found out the alleged sender of the email died in 2016.

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 6h

Good to hear from you. Was concerned.

This one would have me tossing the book aside in a heartbeat.

See also bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover.

Yeah. Not universal, but typical.

The devil is frequently in the assumptions, which generally assume commuting or other very frequent use of the car.

Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 12h

And this is before we even start on the sound of Hollywood frogs.

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All pedantic birders (= all birders) listen out for geographical/chronological birdsong mistakes. The commonest complaint is any period costume drama featuring the three-note song of the collared dove, which first bred in Britain in 1957.

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I remember now; I unfollowed because they were getting tedious and they blocked within *seconds*. I wouldn't normally notice immediately, if ever, but it broke a thread or something.

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Which was kind of my point.

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Trying to remember why they blocked me. It was something incredibly petty, whatever it was.

Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · 12h

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"I sometimes hear people of my generation describe yours as a generation of snowflakes, ... I find myself thinking almost exactly the opposite. I am astonished by the courage of many of the young people I meet," writes @pfonagy.bsky.social in a really beautiful letter to the rising generation.

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'You are not fragile. You are outnumbered.' | BPS

Professor Peter Fonagy, Chair of the Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism (2026), with his letter to a young person.

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 11h

OMG, yes! I'd completely forgotten her. An almost supernatural ability to not only make mountains out of molehills, but to generate a renewable supply of molehills in the process.

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I've mentioned this before but a book set in 1940s London where the protagonist bursts into a fire damaged room and is met by "...the smell of melting bakelite". I didn't finish it.

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I haven't, and I'm beginning to get concerned.

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I'd love to pretend the difference was more than luck, but...

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 13h

* runs round kitchen waving shirt * Wordle 1,942 2/6 ⬛🟨🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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That's an impressive list. Not just the body count, but the sheer range.

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 13h

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I'm getting really fed up with cars parked fully on the pavement. Not just a cheeky bump up, tee hee, room for a small one, but all four wheels on the pavement, leaving no space for pedestrians. Which is why today I'm announcing the National Aggressive Bollard Placement Fund. (I wish.)

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 22h

It's a mystery. We may never know.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 22h

Wireless, book, gramophone (virtually the same as wireless), TV pantomime, terrible film with all the jokes taken out.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 22h

My timeline seems almost united in favour of it. That might be me, though.

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 23h

Yeah, maybe. I was exactly the right age for the radio show, so...

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 23h

My unpopular opinion is that the book version was the last good version. The telly version is only fondly regarded because it was a little less terrible than the film we don't talk about.

Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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A Māori kiwi feather cloak, gifted in 1900 to Dr George Cleghorn by Hapareta Rore Pukekohatu and Mere te Hiko & loaned to the Pitt Rivers by Cleghorn’s widow, Helen, in 1913, is returning home after its transfer to the Ngāti Rārua o Te Wairau Society in Aotearoa New Zealand. tinyurl.com/4kyw7yjh

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

It's 1961, and you have no idea what a "supermarket" is. Luckily there's a film to help you. Maureen and her "plonker" is particular highlight. youtu.be/2kisf05A_T4

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1961: Working in a "Self-Service" Shop | Going to Work | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

This is one of the top ten things I didn't expect to read this evening.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My publishers have sent me some graphics for Wayfarers and they’ve basically said, if I’m reading this right, that if I don’t share them on social media they’ll send the boys round. Modern publishing is brutal.

The cover for Wayfarers: The Incredible Story of Animal Migration, by Lev Parikian. It’s predominantly blue, with swirling patterns representing migratory paths, and migrating animals interspersed across the design – terns, a whale, butterflies, dragonflies, penguins, bats, a wildebeest and an arctic fox. It’s superimposed on a graphic echoing the style of the cover, with the words “OUT 15 APRIL 2027” underneath it.

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Try to think very hard about Judith Hann.