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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 29/09/2026

In the post today, following a recommendation from @iainamclaughlin.bsky.social - all part of the ongoing mission to check out all Who non-fiction for the @blackarchive.co.uk

The cover to THE DEATHS OF DOCTOR WHO: OLD AGE 1 by Frank O'Dowd.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine a distance far enough for Danny Thomas to fuck off to...

Text from the BBC report on Thomas rightly being refused bail.

'The defendant, wearing a grey t-shirt and holding a copy of the Bible'

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 28/09/2026

Afternoon listening - this and its two companion volumes of hard bop from the post war era in Britain is the reason cds were invented. Done on vinyl this would be a £100 box set, done on cd it's twenty quid or so the lot. deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/i-had-...

the cd of I Had The Craziest Dream: Modern Jazz And Hard-Bop In Post War London, Vol. 1 sitting on top of some Black Archives alongside a cd player whowing that track 4 has just started.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 26/09/2026

The goals (so nobody else has to go to the site full of Nazis)

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 25/09/2026

'majority' is doing some heavy lifting here.

Manchester City have been found guilty of breaking the majority of the 115 financial rules they were accused of breaching, sources have told BBC Sport.

The Athletic is reporting that the sanctions have not been decided but that the independent panel has reached its decision, finding them guilty of all but one count.

Sources have told BBC Sport a decision has been made in the case, and City have been found guilty of the majority of breaches.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 25/09/2026

It's only YouGov, I know, but I don't know a single regular attender at football games who thinks this is a good idea.

Poll showing only 15% of responders think the ban on drinking in the stands should be abolished.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 23/09/2026

There’s a good reason for that that, you hideous bigot.

Headline from BBC: Sandie Peggie says union did not take her case seriously

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 22/09/2026

This week’s cd listening #stackofcds Nice mix of stuff this week, including Suzanne Vega's best LP post-debut, the last Kinks LP I really loved, a Bowie boot full of stuff that's been released officially now - and an album by a US band called Larkin Poe, which is average except for one great song.

Two piles of cds, sitting on top of a vinyl copy of the Turtles Greatest Hits.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 19/09/2026

This is what happens when you presumably used ChatGPT to do your research... 'Secret Army', that byword for slapstick fun and games... [from 'This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich' by Daniel Rachel. Needless to say, I do not recommend it.]

A chunk of text from a book which suggests Secret Army belongs in a list alonside Allo Allo and Bilko and Dads Amry as shows which 'gloss over wartime atrocities in a thick varnish of fast humour and comic sketches'

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 17/09/2026

I call this one ‘CD rainbow with broken usb extender and hooky cdr’

A little rainbow caused by the sun hitting a very cheap cdr

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 11/09/2026

Why do so many wealthy middle-aged guys feel they have to double down on saying stupid things? Oh wait, it's because they're arseholes, isn't it?

Headline from the BBC reading 'Ryanair boss O'Leary defends 'high-fare rapists' airlines remarks'

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 10/09/2026

'This is embarrassing. A Scottish far-right group tried to copy what Danny Tommo did. They called it "Operation Standstill" and even apologised to the public beforehand, but only eight masked men turned up, and they were kettled in front of a kebab shop.'

A screenshot from Twitter posted by account I_Am_Mukhtar with the text included in this post above another screenshot, showing a post by the self-proclaimed 'Scottish Citizen's Army' apologising in advance for the inconvenience caued to drivers by their upcming protest in Glasgow, along side a phototgraph of 8 balaclava wearing men being kettled by about twenty police outside a Kebab shop (later video showed that at least some of the 8 were in fact not even Scots, but were in fact Englishmen).

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 10/09/2026

This week’s #stackofcds Includes a cheap Willie Nelson box set, a bit of Mingus, a double cd of various European buskers (which is nowhere near as interesting as I thought it sounded), Biggie Tembo's solo album and a very dull Stone Temple Pilots album.

Two stacks of cds, including a cheap Willie Nelson box set, a bit of Mingus, Biggie Tembo's solo album and a very dull Stone Temple Pilots album.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 08/09/2026

Very much not before time - and still not enough.

UK announces sanctions on Israeli settlements in West Bank and accuses settlers of 'ethnic cleansing'

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 07/09/2026

What's an example of perfect casting?

Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford as Charters and Caldicott.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 06/09/2026

Oh no, what a shame. Oh well. Never mind.

Livingston dismiss manager Whelan after nine games

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 02/09/2026

Episode 1 only! (you going to be in Derby at the weekend?)

Bender holding a sign reading 'APPLAUSE'

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 01/09/2026

The comps are here! Preorder your own copy of SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS MURDERS here: UK: titanbooks.com/73090-sherlo... US: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827988...

A box containing copies of my new novel, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS MURDERS!

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 30/08/2026

It’d be interesting to know what Americans see in Apple Maps

A screenshot of Lake Ontario in Apple Maps, with the lake continuing to be labelled as it has been for the maps couple of hundred years.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 24/08/2026

A walk from Broughty Ferry into Dundee.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 21/08/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Naunton Wayne as and Basil Radford as Charters in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 20/08/2026

A holdover from days of my youth and the thought of figures to be cut out on the back, no doubt, but there’s still something genuinely exciting about a family size box of Weetabix entering the house.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 18/08/2026

Did he announce that from inside the catering wagon or has he come out for a bit?

Trump threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it 'gets in the way' over Iran deal

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 17/08/2026

That wee neo-Nazi Ryan Ferguson swearing at a little kid for holding a sign - large policeman decides enough is enough. You love to see it.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 17/08/2026

Oh no. What a massive shame that would be.

Headline from the BBC noting that ‘Instagram and Facebook could change forever if Meta loses child privacy trial’

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 13/08/2026

#morninglistening Not as good as the later 'It Might as Well Be Swing' and really neither man's best work, but still a great record.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 13/08/2026

I can sort of understand why Trending on @bsky.app is headed by a claim that F4r4ge has won in Clacton (he hasn't yet) but I have no idea why, when you click on that Trending link, BS says 'Count Binface also stood' as though the original claim is true and it's merely adding detail.

A screen grab of the Trending section of Bluesky erroneously saying 'Farage wins Clacton seat'

Text from the top of the Bluesky page, displayed if you click on the 'F4r4ge wins Calcton' link in Trending.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 10/08/2026

Will not be missed by many fans. Always seemed far more interested in his cushy role among the blazers at the SFA than in doing his day job at Hearts.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 04/08/2026

Delighted to discover that my new Holmes book - SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS MURDERS - will be available in ASDA when it comes out in November.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 03/08/2026

Jimmy Cricket and Rod Liddle dying on the same day... I think we all know who'll be fondly remembered by people of all ages and classes, and who will only be fondly remembered by sex offenders and fascists.

A quote from an article in The Spectator in which Rod Liddle says he couldn't be a teacher because he 'could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids'.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 24/07/2026

To be fair, possibly they meant they know the aggregate figure not scanned in - but it still sounds like BS to me.

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Stuart Douglas @stuartdouglas.com · 21/07/2026

Forgot I even had a LinkedIn profile. Got an email about some nonsense, went to turn off notifications - and turned off this presumably Opt Out only AI BS at the same time.

LinkedIn's dubious Opt Out only AI training option.

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