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Rob Worth

@robworth.bsky.social
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A great philosopher once wrote, “Naughty, naughty, very naughty.” In a very particular order: publisher, editor, bass player, dad.

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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And the Nogel Crize goes to…
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I often deliberately ignore stories like this for a few days until enough actual facts have come out. Will be doing the same for the pilots fighting on a plane story.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m not exactly sure who you are. So by that logic . . .
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was always fascinated by those countdown clocks – the way the marks would slowly fade from view as the invisible hand swept past… youtu.be/9ygdAlbdcCs
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ITV Schools and Colleges Countdown - Late 1970s
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s no longer critical. Looks like it’s gonna pull through.🤞
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I know! I’d had the exact same thought.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We’re going to rename the “nonfiction” genre – as in books. It shouldn’t be named as “it’s *not* made up”. It’s much more important and interesting than that (no shade at all on fiction!) But what should it be callled?
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The other risk reporting crime is changing the base. Eg: “The risk increases from 1 in 20 to 1 in 7.” No. My brain can’t do the maths nor is it intuitive. Instead: “The risk increases from 50 in 1,000 to 143 in 1,000.” Same, but now it is easily digestible.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Could go harder and say that only baseline risk should be stated and compared. No multiples allowed. Eg: “People who do X in increase the chance of developing Y from 1 in 100 to 3 in 100.”
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Missed Down the Tube, which I enjoyed. I’ve also read Fire and Steam and The Subterranean Railway – both fab – and British Rail is on my bedside table in the queue. Looking forward to Fast Track.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
How much does having two titles for the same book in different countries or regions impact the marketing and word of mouth, especially now that social media, podcasts, etc. are global?
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Poem a day - Day 14 Wendsday from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t We stumble through swapping this for that, sometimes busy so we forget to read a poem *every* day, but we stumble and move on.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why don’t cash machines ever listen? Machine: Cash with receipt or cash only? Me: Cash only Machine: Do you want a receipt? Me: No. And I already said that. Machine: Please take your card and cash. And, of course, I printed a receipt for you. You’re welcome.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We had someone in the park playing Eclipse from Dark Side of the Moon.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Better than looking directly and doing mass-sieve damage to your eyes.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Poem a day - Day 12 Rolling my ‘R’s from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t Some can, some can’t
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
To Ithaca, and beyond!
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Poem a day - Day 12 The Pallets from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t I’m with the workmen
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Poem a day - Day 11 Carnet de conducir from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t Identity is often unthinking, until it isn’t
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Poem a day - Day 10 Driving lesson from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t Makes me wonder about everything becoming “automatic” and losing the spaces in between.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Poem a day - Day 9 Translator, Traitor from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t I don’t think I quite have the context to fully understand this one. If I’d have ever finished For Whom the Bell Tolls would that have helped?
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Poem a Day - Day 8 La Vendimia from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t The feeling of time, place, activity and senses but with so few words…
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
As the song goes: Oh give me a home / Where the buffalo roam / And I’ll show you a house with a very messy carpet © Late ’80s, The Old Joke Book, Allan and Janet Ahlberg
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Poem a day - Day 7 Calor from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t My scalp tingles just reading this
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Poem a day - Day 6 July Peas from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t About peas
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Poem a day - Day 5 Renovation Project from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t Some times you break a wall, sometimes the fourth wall.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Poem a day - Day 4 Hay ropa tendida from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t Funny because… and a useful parenting tip.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Poem a day – Day 3 Vámanos from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t I was in the room feeling the frustration. And made me rethink, and reread, yesterday’s poem.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Poem a Day – Day 2 Los Domingos from Whatever You Do, Just Don’t Drawn by the little details in this. Translating the title helped after my Spanish learned from Mexican westerns failed me. A mini ‘a-ha’ on the second reading.
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 22/07/2026
Please stop arguing about the historical accuracy of an adaptation of a book that has a cyclops and a couple of witches and some giants. I’m begging you.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I’m not going to post the poems or “review” them; I might make some amateur comment. This is just a public record that I did indeed read a poem a day. If you do join in, buy direct from Happenstance, like I did, since the publishers and authors keep more of the proceeds that way.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I’m going to read a poem a day out of Matthew Stewart’s collection Whatever You Do, Just Don’t. Mainly because as a parent with kids who are no longer little The Last Carry, spoke to me, and because I’ve been saying forever that I ought to read more poetry. Follow along or join me if you like.
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/07/2026
Seen in Philadelphia.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I also got it in five and along the way my fourth guess was a word that I’d never heard of.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“human” resources
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Can he be “inevitable” in the first half next time?
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It’s not the left, it’s the tech bros making AI generated music with their evil algae-rhythms.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Cartoon of two middle aged men looking at a large record setup with turntables, amplifier and floor-standing speakers. Caption says, “The two things that really drew me to vinyl were the expense and the inconvenience.”
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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In the Great Hall of the Doges Palace in Venice are portraits of the Doges. One is just painted black. That is the one who tried to stage a coup and wreck the Venetian System. I think about that a lot when thinking about how history will view Trump.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Is the topic the physics of Diablos?
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 25/06/2026
Cinemas are a ripoff
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
When does a joke become a dad joke? When it’s fully groan.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I never read Frederick Forsyth’s The Fourth Protocol because I couldn’t get hold of any copies of the first three in the series.
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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My kingdom for a UK leader who will say "immigrants are a key part of our communities, they are our neighbours, friends, colleagues, partners. We will not tolerate racist and fascist violence against them" and who is willing to walk the walk of defending us. Without "legitimate concerns"-ing it.
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
You can't "legitimate concerns" a pogrom.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The only “revolt” should be that we didn’t and _still_ haven’t switched over to labelling lightbulbs in lumens. To the point where bulbs are listed as “9.5W, 100W equivalent” with “1521 Lumen” way down the description. I’m not, and never was, buying power consumption. I’m buying light production!
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A Bridge Too Far from the Madding Crowd No Country for Old Men in Black
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Max Fosh Uno Reverse Card in Football
Alt: Max Fosh Uno Reverse Card in Football. Referee shows player a yellow card and the player shows the referee an Uno reverse card.
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Rob Worth @robworth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Why oh why do they sell kids clothes in ages?! They should invent some standardised, commonly accepted system of measures so you could compare your kid’s chest circumference, say, to that of the shirt you were buying. Too much to ask? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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