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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Again I'm reminded of Samuel Butler, "I wish I liked Schumann's music more than I do. I daresay I could like it more if I tried. But I don't like things I have to try to like. I like things I like straight off, and no trying at all."

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Never bright confident Sheeran again.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Michael Moorcock would just love this thread.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I suppose the entirely wrong idea that there was something called *The Schlieffen Plan* is a dragon that will never be slain. Oh well!

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

*Erewhon* is a book that only SF writers (and EM Forster, who did write SF but isn't famous for that) have read.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I know! Let's elect Billy Mumy from *It's a Good Life*.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sure they were very bad in many ways, but Durham Cathedral absolutely rocks.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger. The Alabama 33

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If wizards can't nix gunpowder weapons they're no good.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It was in the reign of Hitler that these people lived and quarrelled. God or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

*Don't Look Now* remains an unusual film, in more ways than one.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Downplay a book or movie: There Are Many Tangoes Left In Paris

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

To boldly go where only - too - many Blueskyers have gone before.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Film directors are a bit like generals commanding armies. They have to deal with a great deal of friction and somehow make something coherent out of a lot of disparate elements.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'll carry on summer childing if that's ok with you.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Dracula: You do realise I've been signing autographs for well over 100 years now? It does seem a day too much.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It takes a lot to laugh, It takes a lift to cry.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Goodbye and thank you Sir Keir! You weren't very good but you carried on The King's Government...

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I rarely post about *the big issues of the day* because no one in particular will care what I think about them.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"They're going wild", the call came in, At early morning predawn then...

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the old Royal Navel College, which now houses @uniofgreenwich.bsky.social and Trinity Laban too Also used as a location in Thor: The Dark World If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a photograph of splendid neoclassical buildings on the Thames at Greenwich

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Penelope Keith. Ice Queen of my heart.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"The notion that all the evil in the world is down to individual wickedness is deeply buried in Left - wing thought." (Orwell). Maybe it's the lack of a tragic sense. I dunno.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

They were acting on exactly the same *no taxation without representation* principles as the American colonists a few years early. Go bolshy aristos!

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

TIL that the original *epigones* were the sons of the seven Argive champions who attacked seven - gated Thebes during a succession dispute following the death of Oedipus. The sons could think of nothing better to do with their lives than to attack Thebes again. Isn't that interesting?

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"You would be a peasant in ze gutter", as my father's old teacher used to say (he may have wished his class still were)

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I think we can be pretty certain that the guys at The Vatican aren't idiots.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Not to be confused with New Great Bulgaria or Old Not - so - great Bulgaria.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Free owls are out. Free ships in bottles are in.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Who would win, Behemoth or Puss - in - boots?

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"Suddenly the days before him and behind him seemed to stand, Bare and barren, fixed and fruitless, as those leagues of naked sand When St Michael's deep sinks outward to the bleak horizon bound..."

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I am certainly part of the *everyone*. This is simply the nature of social media.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

As though to speak shit dialogue were life...

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Days of Wine and Roses and Grogu.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I smoked in the 90s and it was divine Though other people sometimes called me a swine...

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

What if the gunman was one of us? Hates the press - pack like one of us...

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The worst Trek movie imo. Though some people would probably rate *Nemesis* or *Into Darkness* lower.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

One good thing to be said about the Soviets is that they sent the girls to school.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It's bad to throw ambassadors down wells and good children shouldn't copy this behaviour.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Easter tradition of writing *Claims that Easter was originally pagan are bullshit* articles. This respect for tradition is comforting.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Henceforth a series of new time began, The mighty years in long procession ran...

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Oh no! He typed *breaking*. Doing that seems to invite the death penalty this weekend.

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"It's The Garden of Eden just made for two, With no one to share our joy..."

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka, Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action."

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I was angry with my foe, I told it not my wrath did grow...

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I think Mandy Rice - Davies applies here. It's not called *Poverty Magazine* is it now?

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