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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 15/10/2026

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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The Nightingales @nightingalesuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

KING ROCKER - NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM King Rocker, the film by Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming about Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales, is now available to watch across a range of platforms, including YouTube (for a limited time only), Prime Video and Apple TV. filmhub.com/t/xwpg-8h3j/...

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King Rocker (2020) - Filmhub

Stewart Lee and Michael Cumming explore punk outsider Robert Lloyd, frontman of The Prefects and The Nightingales, in King Rocker, an anti-rockumentary linking his life to Birmingham’s forgotten King ...

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cute fact I found out while looking up how to repot my aloe vera this weekend: the baby plants are called pups! Here are three of the many I potted up today.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Heads up brummies - cherry reds is being review bombed by fascists as they refused service to some anti-immigrant protestors yesterday. If you’ve ever had a nice drink or meal there then maybe today’s a good day to leave your own review.

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Ell / A'ri @prismacoloured.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It's my birthday 🎂 I would really appreciate a share to help find work ❤️ I'm a costume maker for film, TV and theatre- specialising in hand embroidery and leatherwork. Based in London- happy to travel! I'd love to get back inside the workroom 📧 Elliotvenncostume@gmail.com 🔗 www.elliotvenn.co.uk

A piece of blackwork embroidery with geometric patterns within interlocking shapes. They are highlighted with blue, red and gold metallic threads.

A piece of hand embroidery and beaded floral patterns on pastel pink and cornflower blue silk. Gold trims and beading as been added between the diamonds cut panels of colour and decorated with little stars, pearls and other stones.

A piece of leather armour consisting of a skirt with hand dyed and individual scales sewn onto a belt and with overlaying tassets with brown, grey, black and white panels.

An 18th century frock coat, made with black lace and hand foiled with gold and decorated with black and gold feathers to make a more fantasy style costume.

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Got out litter picking this morning for the first time in ages. Thought this black curly wig hiding among the leaves was some sort of fungus at first glance

a lumpy black mass surrounded by wet brown leaf litter

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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 13/12/2025

Today would be a great day to sign up to become a Cosmic Shambles Patreon. No reason… patreon.com/cosmicshambles @robinince.bsky.social

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Independent Creators of Content for the Curious

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere). naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...

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November is for reading

or: a month of sheer luxurious intellectual pleasure

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

This weekend I finally finished the Factory dress by Merchant and Mills. The collar was FIDDLY, and there’s still a couple of little tucks left under it, so don’t look too close. But it’s comfy to wear and will do nicely as a light work dress, so a success. AND IT HAS POCKETS #garmentsewing

A dress hanging on a coat hanger against a golden brown wall. The dress is in sage green linen-look cotton, has a v-neck with a collar, and short, rolled-up sleeves.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I’m a MAJOR owl fan, but my favourite is the burrowing owl: ✔️v frowny & grumpy-they know what you did last Tuesday ✔️digs holes then peeps out of them ✔️EXPERTS at the wobbly head bendy neck owl thing ✔️long leggies ✔️does very silly running on said leggies 10/10 no owly notes HIGHLY recommended

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Got out early for a litter pick before the weather turns nasty. Nearly everyone I passed said good morning. Mood well and truly boosted.

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

We finished our cultural weekend in Oxford back at North Wall Arts Centre, for Rob Newman’s new show. It was a real tonic to see him. Live comedy is essential for my mental health. He’s on tour, go see him!

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

A photo of my book haul from a weekend in Oxford 📚💙

A pile of books: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers, The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman, Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore, Clown Town by Mick Herron, and Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Excited to catch Mick Herron talking about the new Slough House book at the North Wall Arts Centre in Oxford this evening 📚💙

a view of the stage and the audience at an arts venue. There are empty chairs on the stage and a backdrop showing the cover of the book Clown Town by Mick Herron

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

After seeing it a couple of times on here, I was inspired to make the Gladys top by Stitch Witch. First time doing princess seams, bagging out and little thin straps. Really pleased with it, a lovely little top for my daughter to go clubbing in

a little sleeveless top in a green floral fabric

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Not Space Karen @rowan68.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Idea for a future Sewing Bee recycle challenge: take 5 flags ripped down from lampposts and turn them into an outfit for the Notting Hill Carnival 😆

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The Bookcrossing site isn’t loading for me at all ☹️ Anyone else having problems?

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I’m loving this series so much. It’s providing much-needed comfort and escapism 📚💙

A copy of A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. The quote from The Guardian on the cover says “A charming story of love and friendship”, which is correct.

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

First attempt at princess seams. I think it’s turned out surprisingly well. Woo-hoo! New skill unlocked #garmentsewing

A couple of pieces of dark red fabric sewn together along a curved seam

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Reading now. It’s set in the summer of 1976 so has felt appropriate for the past few days 📚💙

A copy of Welcome to the Heady Heights by David F. Ross, a crime novel set in 1970s Glasgow

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Reading now. Mendelson has a real talent for writing monstrous, narcissistic characters. (I found the husband in The Exhibitionist enjoyably appalling too.) 📚💙

A library copy of Wife by Charlotte Mendelson

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Oh, and I had a trip out to Warwick Arts Centre at the weekend to watch The Ballad of Wallis Island but the only photo I took was of this weirdo in the shopping centre in Coventry

an effigy of a man in olden times clothes with an anguished expression, behind chicken wire, mounted in some sort of box high up on a shopping centre wall

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today I finished my third garment and my first with a zip: the Eve trousers by Merchant & Mills in a teal cotton twill. Struggled a bit with the sizing but pretty pleased with them overall #garmentsewing #sewsky

a pair of home-sewn trousers hanging from a rail

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The smallish library I volunteer in wants to put up a pride display of books next month but we don't have enough books to put out, let alone enough for people to borrow. Does anyone know of any publishers that have stuff they might donate? Doesn't matter how current or the condition.

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Now rereading this for my book club. Hope it’s as good as I remember because it was me who recommended it! 📚💙

A copy of The Master Key by Masako Togawa

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I know everyone has different circumstances but if you see a gig you think you'll go to and you have the means to do so: book a ticket. I see so many comedians having to cancel gigs because people keep waiting til the last minute to book.

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 29/05/2025

Clever of him to diversify into shoes

A pair of pale yellow trainers in a shop window with a label reading Les Tennis

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

What’s made of brass and sounds like Tom Jones? Trombones.

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Just finished reading this: a sad but lightly told story about a young refugee’s relationship with his flawed, feisty grandmother. German original borrowed from the Goethe-Institut e-library and English translation given to me by @heavenalibooks.bsky.social

a paper copy of My Grandmother’s Braid by Alina Bronsky overlapping an ipad on which German text is visible. The German version is called Der Zopf meiner Großmutter.

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Found a hole in the sleeve of my cardy so decided to try darning it. Don’t have a darning mushroom so used a tennis ball instead as suggested in #visiblemending book. Sewed the tennis ball to my cardy 🙈

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I borrowed this book from the library. Such beautiful clothes. Most of them are completely beyond me at present, but it’s nice to daydream about having the skills to make them one day #sewsky

A copy of Sweet Dress Book: 23 Stylish Outfits from Six Simple Patterns by Yoshiko Tsukiori

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Sunny, busy, fun day: litter-picking in the morning then down to Stirchley for the Swap Shop then back up to Kings Heath for Robin Ince talking about his new book.

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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Can I Have My Ball Back? in Wolverhampton tonight wolverhamptonartscentre.co.uk/events/richa... Northampton tomorrow, then Stevenage, Salisbury and Bristol and after that my ball stops rolling richardherring.com/ballback/tour

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Third comedy gig of the year: Richard Herring at the MAC

a view of the stage at Midlands Arts Centre. Screen shows Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Reading now: I can hear this in the author’s voice 📚💙

a library copy of Rabbits by Hugo Rifkind

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Reading now. I’m glad it’s short because the narrator’s head is not a fun place to be 📚💙

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

If you're diligent about ironing you might spend, say, 13 hours of this year ironing. You'll have neat clothes but keep in mind the cost: that's 13 hours you will no longer have to visit esoteric museums or befriend strange dogs.

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Reading now for my book club. I’m finding it a bit genteel after the murder and mayhem of my last two books 📚💙

A copy of The Camomile: An Invention by Catherine Carswell

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Botany lesson chalked on the pavement on Howard Road, Kings Heath

chalked arrows by plants growing out of the pavement and writing that says: hairy bittercress + a native wilflower + first food for bees, edible + has a peppery taste, a rich source of vitamin C #notaweed

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shnedwards 📚🧵🪡 @shnedwards.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Reading now. It’s dark but very readable and grimly humorous 📚💙

a copy of Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke

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