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Rodger Kibble

@rodgerkibble.bsky.social
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Recovering academic, former IT type, artist and printmaker, Brighton Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain - Schiller

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Boris Johnson, one for the "where are they now" files Used to be a big shot iirc
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Pissport to Piddington”
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Military age young men invading our coastal towns (Lifted from @privateeyenews.bsky.social )
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating watching the confusion in England as to why masked men are allowed to march wherever they want and intimidate whoever they feel like while the police and politicians do nothing. *waves from Northern Ireland*
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags!'"
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Jimmy Reid, the one-time Communist activist, trade union organiser and Scottish national treasure, once related that he was reading Catch-22 in hospital and was laughing so much that the nurses took it off him, fearing he could burst his stitches
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@secondmentions.com "vitamin C rich fruit"
Man hurls fruit at bus

AN angry man ran after a bus pelting it with oranges after a near miss in Camden Town. The man drew all six pieces of his vitamin C rich fruit from a Sainsbury's bag as he chased the 29 bus down Camden High Street on Friday.
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
After the sack of Nineveh in 612 BCE, the clay tablets making up the Epic of Gilgamesh lay scattered on the floors of the royal palaces for nearly 2,500 years
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
" ... and his name is remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it, and said 'I am the Mouth of Sauron'"
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𝖼𝗋𝗄Ⓥ @crk5.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Your favourite Oasis songs tells a lot about you.
For example, if you have a favourite Oasis song you probably have bad taste in music.
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Those left wing agitators at the Financial Times are at it again 🤣
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BBC news coverage of Trump's oil deal with the quisling Rodriguez fails to mention any impact on climate change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Remarkable US oil deal puzzles analysts - and angers many Venezuelans
Amounting to 65 billion barrels of crude, the deal is labelled by one ex-envoy as a colonialist "fever dream".
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🔴 Police Contradict Reform Council Over Claim Town Centres are ‘Unsafe’ Due to Asylum Seekers Force says Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford “are safe” and crime is down, as Reform-run county council launches £150,000 private security patrols over asylum seeker arrivals
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Police Contradict Reform Council Over Claim Town Centres are 'Unsafe' Due to Asylum Seekers
Force says Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford "are safe" and crime is down, as Reform-run county council launches £150,000 private security patrols over asylum seeker arrivals
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Maev MacCoille @msmaev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“We [the Irish] don’t do suave as a personality trait. Pierce Brosnan was a one-off, and no one really knows how it happened. And it seems to have come at the cost of his ability to sing.” Look, I said a mildly witty thing at dinner yesterday, and I want to extend its half-life. Just work with me.
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
So frustrating to read a non-fiction book without an index. I've noticed journalists are particularly prone to this sin of omission. I'm sure even periodicals used to regularly publish an index to their issues from the past year or so
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Grateful Dead Rolling Stones Jefferson Starship Country Joe Fairport Convention Waterson/Carthy Terry Riley Sonny Rollins Ravi Shankar Melanie Safka
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just watched #Superman (1979). Arch-villain Lex Luthor is depicted as a New York real estate hustler with a bouffant hairdo (ok wig) and a penchant for naming things after himself. Hmm
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Stars and Stripes retains its editorial independence and is congressionally mandated to be governed by First Amendment principles, but it is part of the Pentagon’s Defense Media Activity." Read more at: www.stripes.com/help/miscell... Source - Stars and Stripes
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Miscellaneous FAQ
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
TIL that M John Harrison used to write a Jerry Cornelius strip for the International Times
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
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Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Incidentally, if you aren't following @oispooky.bsky.social, you should be. She's one of the hardest working public historians out there, and her work on Victorian boxers and wrestlers is genuinely unique and thrilling! She has a new book coming out next year, too.
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 13/08/2026
REVIEW: Hookland Fragments – Volume One by David Southwell tasker.land/2026/08/13/r... CC @hookland.bsky.social
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REVIEW: Hookland Fragments – Volume One by David Southwell
I must admit that I was taken aback when I learned that David Southwell had decided to produce a book relating to the Hookland project. Hookland is a project that began on Twitter at a time when pe…
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
... plus it's the same month in 2002 that Blair is told that a 5 degree rise in average temperatures for south-east England is likely because of climate change:
Letter to Prime Minister 22 April 2002 about results of new study on impact of climate change. The study showed that impacts would be more extreme than the earlier predictions from 1998, and a five degree increase in average temperature for SE England was likely by 2080
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Datagraver @datagraver.com · 07/08/2026
"Maar in 1976 was het ook een warme zomer!" (Vrij naar Noah Karl post op X, maar dan voor NL en dan echt alleen voor de zomers). #Klimaat
Grafiek met de afwijking van de gemiddelde zomertemperatuur ten op zichte van het gemiddelde van de 20ste eeuw, per jaar vanaf 1901 voor De Bilt Nederland.
De meeste jaren onder het gemiddelde zitten begin vorige eeuw met laagste waarde -2. De laatste zomer onder gemiddelde was 1993.
De uitschieters in de vorige eeuw zijn 1947, 1976 en 1983. Die hebben een label "Dit waren zeer warme zomers".
Alle zomers na 1993 zitten hoog of soms hoger (tot +2,7) vergeleken met die zeer warme zomers en hebben het label "Dit is klimaatverandering".
Een zomer, die van 2011 met +0,15 is gelabeld "dit is nu een koude zomer".
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's "Short money" not "short money", named after Ted Short who introduced it when Leader of the HoC
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Madeleine Cuff @tinymaddie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Truly startling - across swathes of England and Wales, dozens weather stations recorded ZERO rainfall in July, for the first time in their history www.newscientist.com/article/2583...
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Parts of the UK endure first ever month without any rain | New Scientist
For the first time since records began, there was no rain at all for parts of southern England and Wales in July, in a “truly exceptional” month of heat and sunshine
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Is there no escape? I dutifully purchase Byline Times and find 8 pages of it taken up by an interview with my old Goldsmiths colleague Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
For anyone who looks forward to climate change bringing us a "Mediterranean lifestyle"
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
@inmice.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/eati...
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Eating less protein could help you live longer
While “protein maxxing” is all the rage, reducing your protein intake could add years to your life
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Gotta say it thrills me to see US production companies saving money by making The Price Is Right in Ireland using the S481 tax break that was designed to create an indigenous film industry while many Irish filmmakers (including me) don't have a fucking pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
RIP the man who meant so much to me in music and comedy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bill Oddie: The Goodies and Springwatch star dies at 85
His agent pays tribute to the "multi-talented" broadcaster, comedian and conservationist.
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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Before filmmaker Chris Nolan raised eyebrows with the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in his blockbuster The Odyssey, Orson Welles had cast Eartha Kitt in the same role in his 1950 stage production of Time Runs..." #FilmSky wellesnet.com/eartha-kitt-...
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Eartha Kitt was cast as Helen of Troy in 1950
Eartha Kitt co-starred with Orson Welles in "Time Runs."
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Some recommendations from my recent reading: Anne Irfan, A Short History of the Gaza Strip Zakia Sewell, Finding Albion Elizabeth Alker, Everything We Do Is Music Daniel Trilling, If We Tolerate This Dave Hutchinson, The Essence
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Prog Rock #Proms - essentially prog minus the rock. Thought the King Crimson medley was one of the more successful, perhaps because the original was itself self-consciously orchestral (using the Mellotron rather than an actual orchestra of course)
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
RIP 🏏
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Idly wondering: did any #SF authors predict that our #AI overlords would manifest as industrial-scale plagiarism machines and bullshit generators?
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 09/07/2026
The 1984 film "Threads" endures as the most devastating depiction of nuclear war in apocalyptic cinema, writes @dandrezner.bsky.social — and its scenario of escalation from a Middle Eastern crisis has acquired renewed relevance in the 21st century.
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The brutal, powerful legacy of Threads
Mick Jackson’s 1984 film Threads endures as the most devastating depiction of nuclear war in apocalyptic cinema. Its portrayal of societal collapse is unrelenting. Threads depicts nuclear war as a…
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 13/07/2026
Driven by pre-Cold War planning rather than a modern democratic mandate, the UK's shift toward first-use, non-strategic capabilities risks destabilizing the European balance and inviting escalation with Russia, write S.M. Amadae and Tom Stevenson.
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Is London shifting from nuclear deterrence to war-fighting?
After decades of gradual disarmament, London is quietly reversing course by expanding its warhead stockpile, altering its nuclear doctrine, and acquiring stealth F-35As to carry US tactical nuclear…
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm old enough to remember when Kinnock was a Tribunite firebrand
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mat48000.bsky.social @mat48000.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"It comes from a profound belief that re-enchantment is resistance" Reading David Southwell's despatches from the lost county of #Hookland on Brighton beach
Slim volume placed pages-down on a pebbled beach: front cover says HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS Volume One David Southwell
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Vandalism on a grand scale - a new book of Tish Murtha’s photographs. She was one of the best, taken before her time and never recognised by the photography establishment until after she died. www.huckmag.com/article/tish...
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Tish Murtha’s searing documentation of broken Britain
Vandalism on a Grand Scale — Capturing youth unemployment and poverty in north-east England during the ’80s, the photographer never lived to see her work…
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Cometh the hour, cometh the bin
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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Die neue Taktik? (Few will get this)
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