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Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵

@ross-hori.bsky.social

640 followers 233 following 2.8K posts

Photos of (mostly) Japan and odd bits of history, commentary and wit. I also write pulp fiction and sci-fi. All photos I post are taken by me unless I say otherwise. Home page: ross-hori.com * Typos are deliberate.

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Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 1h

The first "talkie" might not have been The Jazz Singer. Time for a history book rewrite? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #cinema #movies #history

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Scottish film could steal The Jazz Singer’s crown as ‘world’s first talkie’

Scots-written Till the Bells Ring premiered a year before the Hollywood film, which featured spoken words by Al Jolson

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Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 11h

Clearing up #photography #streetphoto #monochrome #blackandwhite

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 11h

A bit of Kobe #architecture #photography

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hideous and stupid. www.theguardian.com/business/202... #motoring #automobile #JaguarSetToGoBustAgain ?

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Jaguar targets young Americans with Type 01 EV – but it’s too long for UK parking spaces

Latest model is launching in New York to target rich US buyers – and is more than 5.2 metres long and 2 metres wide

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photowalkmyworld @bsky.photowalkmyworld.com · 04/10/2026

Spotted chilling in a tree today #photowalkmyworld #photography #squirrel #urbanexplorer

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JocelynH @jocelynhphoto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

seeing red. #streetphotography #photography #red #hongkong

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John Muir @johnmuir.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Quiet misty evening..

A residential street at night, with parked cars and a bright streetlamp shining through mist.

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Signs #photography #urban #streetfurniture #signs

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was a long way down #photography #civilengineering #hiking

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#photography #fungi #nature

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Chaaarge.... #photography #statue

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Berries #photography #nature

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I sense a need to dance around the kitchen coming on... www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o... #music #nostalgia

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‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring

Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about supporting one another through bereavement, being happily uncool and battling the resurgence of homophobia

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sushiro #photography #takeaway #sushi

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Panda's looking lovely today #photography #streetphoto

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Daley Thompson was one of my first "sports heroes". If he was on the telly, there was a good chance I was watching. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o... #athletics

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Daley Thompson: ‘I was happy to sleep on floors to do what I was doing. You know you have to earn it’

The double Olympic champion insists a knighthood wouldn’t change his life, still trains on Christmas day and explains why he got a video game and Seb Coe didn’t

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Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bits of Kobe up a mountain #photography

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a Japanese driver in the BTCC whose first contribution was to get in the pit lane so everyone could overtake him. youtu.be/dKysKmGFDZs

FULL RACES: Rd 25, 26 & 27 @ Silverstone | ITV Sport x BTCC 2026

YouTube video by ITV Sport Extra

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Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A bit of Kobe #photography #urban #architecture #cityliving

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Current project is to build a chat-like app for #Python. Two reasons: 1. makes regular tasks more fun if I'm chatting about how it's going. 2. the rule set could be used for old-fashioned text based games. #amCoding

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Harborland at night #photography #nighttime #urban

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A bit of the old Foreign Settlement in Kobe #photography #architecture #urban

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mint, Kobe. #photography #nightphoto #architecture #cityscape #urban

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lurve Hotel #photography #marketing #architecture

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look up #photography

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fun fact: 2 or 3 times a year we have rain at the front of the house and none at the back (or vice versa).

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kudos for both raising awareness and convincing someone to walk around like an arse. I'll get my coat....

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Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bits of Kobe #photography #cityscape #urbanism

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rust #photography

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A bit of art in Kobe #photography #streetart #streetphoto #statue

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hey, @bsky.app, any chance of a way to remove ourselves from lists?

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Parking. #photography #liminal #keicar

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reading up on the history of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was a ride... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lio... #copyright #music

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The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Wikipedia

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A marker #photography #OutWalking

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hope you haven't eaten recently... www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWlc...

Andy Burnham Meets Donald Trump - #BrokenNews

YouTube video by Larry & Paul

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Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is it weird to have a list of people whose voices are instantly calming and highly listenable? Or to surface clips of them when someone needs a moment of calm? #AskingForAFriend

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gigging in Meriken Park #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #urbangaze #streetphoto #iphonepics

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau @runflysmile.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Evening lights 😊 Baltic Sea Latvia 🇱🇻 #Latvia #Sea #BalticSea #Sunset

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Urban Realism Photography @arjan-harbers.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Amsterdam #amsterdam #mvrdv #peoplelookingatart #artwatchers #urbanism #landscape #urbanphotography #photography #urban #allcitiesarebeautiful #architecture #streets #architecture #photography #streetphotography #flashesphotography #urbangaze

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John Muir @johnmuir.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Autumnal arterial pleasures..

Close-up of a green sunflower leaf with yellow mottling, brown spots, and prominent branching veins.

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An old steam train in Kobe #photography #trains #railways #steamtrain

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bits of Kobe #photography #architecture #moorings

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Darren Needham @dneedham68.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

St Mary's Church, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. #Photography

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Back from seeing Belle & Sebastian in Osaka. Ah, brought back memories of the night Mrs H and I registered our marriage. We saw them in Osaka that night as well. #LiveMusic #Gigging

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Love this STARSKY & HUTCH tribute by a bunch of guys in Bradford.

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wrote a thing on my blog a while back about the awesome playground attached to a highway service stop. ross-hori.com/blog/2025/th... #thingstodo

The playground at Gongen Park - [Ross Hori]

This playground equipment makes me want to dive down a slide and scramble over a net like a big kid

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A bee #photography #nature #insect

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Old vector experiment #dickingabout

Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There's a #typhoon passing through and we've got some twat out in the valley burning their weeds. The smoke is literally blowing straight along the ground.

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Ross Hori 🇬🇧🇯🇵 @ross-hori.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's not a proper storm until there's footage of a British couple on a beach under an umbrella saying, "It's just a bit windy, I suppose."