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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October Country by Ray Bradbury. (for @tomsbrown.bsky.social & all others who love this month)

OCTOBER COUNTRY
... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain....

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How the f- is any of this normal? Labour can choose to undo this immediately. Deproscribe Palestine Action. It was a disastrous decision by the Starmer admin and Burnham can undo it.

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Squirrels outside our chalet in St Ives 🐿🌳❤️

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the greatest lines in the show's history. Brilliant, and always relevant, dialogue by Chris Boucher 👏 #DoctorWho

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Top10Nathan @top10nathan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#AllThatJazz Today marks 100 years since John Coltrane was born. To celebrate, I'm listening to one of his great records every night this week. Tonight, it can't be anything other than the masterpiece that is A Love Supreme. What a joy and privilege it's been to see Coltrane all over the timeline.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you will inevitably get people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it came into common use? Asbestos.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia…” George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, April 1946

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes, it's #Friday. Yes, we made it. Well done us 👏

Richard Attenborough as a deceased soldier, carrying an angel's wing, seeing for the first time how groovy a B&W heaven is, in Powell & Pressburger's 1946 masterpiece A Matter of Life and Death

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's perhaps paradoxical that AI automata like these do not arouse our emotions, yet cartoon, puppet & game characters do. Why? Because there's 100% creative human control behind the latter, and unlike AI, animators aren't trying to 'fool us' into believing we're seeing something we're not...

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: La Llorona will no longer be opening for ed sheeran “He can get fucked” commented bassist Hopey Glass “If he was really hardcore he would have thrown… his full support behind Palestine” said lead singer Monica Zandinski

Jaime Hernandez’ cover to Love & Rockets #24 (iirc), showing a band (female guitarist and bassist, both with dark hair) rocking out onstage at a gig. Just by looking at them you can tell they have way better vibes than sheeran.

Also because it’s Xaimeh the spot blacks are so good they make other artists cry

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

‘We’ve gone on Ed Sheeran’s tour by mistake’

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Another support artist just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.”

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

thys nys no partye! thys nys no disco! thys nys no jestinge arounde! thys nys no taverne! nor roade-syde playhous! Ich ne have tyme for that nowe!

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We met Christopher Eccleston at an art gallery in the Cotswolds today! Fantastic! 💙

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This summer Britain burnt. 3000 people died from the heat. Yet this Government is drilling for more gas, despite scientist warnings & it won't make a difference to bills in the UK. We need to double down on renewables, not bend to the wishes of fossil fuel bosses. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say

The government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands.

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

A movie poster for Evil Dead 2 (1987)
A skull with living eyes looks out at you - yes, you! - from a black background. Behind is a cabin in the woods where shit will go down.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you are in London in October, or near enough to visit, i have good news! I am bloody THRILLED to announce ROGUE TROOPER will be part of the London Film Festival! whatson.bfi.org.uk/LFF/Online/d...

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Rogue Trooper | BFI London Film Festival 2026

Duncan Jones brings the beloved 2000 AD comic strip to life with an all-guns-blazing sci-fi animation, about a soldier in a dystopian future who is sent on an impossible mission.

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Post something random or you'll have an awful September.

A Golden Age comic book panel of a Satan-like figure saying "You are endowed with supreme power! Come - I will show you my kingdom of eternal pain!"
No thanks.
( Artist / writer unknown to me. )

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

10 bands I've seen live supporting other bands. 1. Flaming Lips 2. ABC 3. The Christians 4. Rialto 5. The Twilight Sad 6. The Undertones 7. Sugar 8. Baxter Dury 9. Girlschool 10. The Supernaturals

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ah, I see we're going to get *all* of the rain today. Cool ⛈️

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It ys trulye ynspiringe to see an outpouringe of love for a trulye goode person who did goode thinges and lyved a full and creatyve and free and lovinge lyfe. It ys a greate blessinge to be reminded of the love that love kan create.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I always knew it would be a rough day when Dolly left us; what I didn't expect was all the joy everyone is sharing about her life. It takes a special sort of light inside someone to do that.

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just rewatched the 1989 TV version of The Woman In Black, and can confirm it's as pants-wettingly creepy as ever. I think I'll be hearing the Eel Marsh causeway sound effects all night 😱

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Well done Feargal Sharkey for calling out the privatised water companies on #r4today 🔥 "They leak over a TRILLION litres of water per year" I think people are happy to be part of the solution - once they're not being ripped off by privatisation PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Tragic news. Such a sad loss at such an early age 😢

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I mean, yeah, thanks for the emergency alert, UK government... but it would have been better to actually mention the climate crisis and what you're going to do about it 🙄

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The world is on fire - if only the scientists had warned us about single use barbecues while there was still time.

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Gutted to hear that Derren 'Derry' Brownson of EMF has passed away. Derry was always the cheeky chap of the band, full of energy and enthusiasm, and was a keyboard wizard into the bargain. Here's EMF at the Gloucester Guildhall in 2012, easily one of my top 10 gigs ever. RIP Derry and thanks 🙏

EMF on stage at the Gloucester Guildhall, December 2012

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm plasmacytoma. Also, hi, I'm a large piece of steel on the end of a tractor's loading arm...

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

No proper eclipse photos, but I did get these shots of the clouds and a strange, streaky effect on the sky 🌤

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Our Prime Minister has had a lot to say today about subscriptions. Meanwhile, huge parts of the country are in drought. We're about to enter our fifth heatwave of the year, killing more people. Are we going to get anything from the Government? Literally anything?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it

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Simon Barton @simonbarton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Today I made friends with some goats and had a go on a rope swing. Today was a good day.

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Early Springsteen song: Ragtag Danny hit the highway late that summer With Mary riding shotgun right down Tornado Alley Late Springsteen song: We gotta be kind! Because I’m gonna die soon!

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

*a council tries to limit standing in pubs* Number 10: "We vow to stop this!" *droughts, wildfires, and crop failures, all driven by / made worse by climate change* Number 10:

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Tumbleweed Rolls Across Desert Highway

Alt: Tumbleweed Rolls Across Desert Highway

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