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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Leslie Langston, who is criminally under-talked-about
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@bikeshare.bsky.social constantly disappointed by the lack of ebikes at Braddock road
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Virginia Power making AI slop adverts, if you wanted another reason to hate em
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Big emergency vehicle response rolling down Mt Vernon, wonder what that is about
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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hi friends, if you would like a lovely Strathclyde Always Antifascist t-shirt or jumper, today there is free UK shipping. All profits go to printing and distributing free antifascist stickers, zines and other resources. Please share! radical-glasgow-tours.teemill.com
Selection of 4 tshirts all with the same logo of a stylized outline of Scotland with "Strathclyde Always Antifascist" below.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026
Here's the thing about statistics: there are statistics you do BEFORE you have information and statistics you do AFTER you have information.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 22/08/2026
They will tell you it takes years of studies and millions of dollars to make a protected Bike lane… They’re lying
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Charlie Sweatpants @csweatpants.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Harpsichord music can be fun in short pieces, but when something starts pushing the 4m mark you and your ears begin to understand why people heard the piano and were like, "That's much better, I don't care how heavy it is."
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
40 years old 2 days ago. This may be my favourite record ever, it’s certainly in the conversation
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In Bogotá, and surprised by the provincial English feel of some of the buildings around here. I think it’s the brick.
A two storey brick building with a tile roof, chimney and small dormer.  It’s in Bogotá, but it would look right at home in an English town. It also has a gable end that’s been made to look reminiscent of half timbered construction.
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Do the Swiss say a little prayer or is it predestined
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Now get another one, Norway
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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Every game I put out gets "1" ratings on BGG before it is for sale. For funsies I'm gonna track the 1s on WS Pocket in real time. What are these people up to, who feel so strongly about a game they haven't even played? Game details were announced yesterday, and the first "1" is up. LET'S GO! 🧵
The number 1 in a red hexagon, as it appears on a game's ratings page for Board Game Geek
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I thought I was doing a small story on confusion over the sudden disappearance of water fountains on a popular South Mississippi biking and running trail. What I found was a bigger story about homelessness, the meaning people find in the things they love, public infrastructure and civic engagement.
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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
National Mall so blocked off today bicycle commuters can't even get across. This is only like this because emperor diaper pants wants to give a speech Real Presidents never make the 4th all about them
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
2/3 one of the delights of larger Church of Scotland churches is that they so often have good collections of 20th Century glass (ironically, it's because stained glass was largely frowned upon until the late 19th Century). Douglas Strachan's war memorial window, 1922 in St Machar's, Aberdeen.
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
New Zealand should just have kept on doing what they were doing
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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
As Irvine Welsh writes; "It's the hope that kills you". Doughty defence, but hee-haw in attack. Who have we got next? Oh, Jesus!
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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
True elegance in the kill: blue heron vs. baby alligator. An incredible photograph by Matthew Blake.
An incredible shot of a blue heron with a baby alligator dangling from its beak. Photographer Matthew Blake captured a once in a lifetime shot of the bird in mid-stride, wings raised, posed with grace of a famous matador.
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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I simply don't know what to do with how great the new Arab Strap single is. If it was a person, I'd want to stand near it and occasionally rest my head on its shoulder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VeB...
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Arab Strap - You You You (official video)
YouTube video by Arab Strap
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Tom Bridge @tombridge.com · 22/05/2026
DC friends, they've started up checkpoints again. There's a checkpoint at Rhode Island Ave NE and South Dakota Ave NE. And fuck ICE.
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Looks like my judgement last year that school board service was disqualifying for further office was the correct one.
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Delighted to see this place still around, it was a regular haunt of mine more than 40 years ago
Sign for a second hand book shop in Glasgow - apparently they have a website now, https://voltaireandrousseaubooks.com/
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Sad to be missing #BTWD. Instead I’m enjoying some UK carbrained street failures. I think these bollards and the kerb cut suggest a pedestrian crossing. And it would make sense given the steps on the other side of the road. Four lanes, 40 mph limit, bad sight lines you would surely die!
An unsafe street with some equipment that could be designed to tempt people to cross
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Awkward Egg @sleepwalkingdog.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Me, bleeding profusely from my balls: "Actually it's a herring gull" www.suffolkgazette.com/seagull-rips...
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Seagull rips off man's testicle as he sunbathes naked
A rogue seagull ripped off a man's right testicle as he sunbathed naked in his back garden, it has emerged.
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This is amazing. 460 pages of fantastic historical maps for free, you can spend spend hours geeking out about Scottish history now
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
NEW OPEN ACCESS E-BOOK: 'Atlas of Scottish History to 1707' Almost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts: books.socantscot.org/digital-book...
Black illustration on a blue background with overlaid text: New Open Access E-book
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Great news!
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Someone has parked a mid-nineties Honda Accord on my street and it has “classic car” plates. It seems premature
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henselpushers @henselpushers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Flyering in Berkeley
Dark blue poster on a pillar with a red heart spray painted on tattered old flyers 

Poster says: From Keyboard to Quartet a Fanny Hensel lecture-concert
Hensel's original works & modern arrangements featuring: The Town Quartet, Monica Chew & Henselpushers
April 4* 2026, 12 noon • $20
Berkeley Piano Club • 2724 Haste St, Berkeley
henselpushers.org/k2q
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Nice warm afternoon on Sunday as we try to save a vital transportation link
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Readinge complex textes not for ynformacioun but for understandinge, writinge nuanced argumentes, reasoninge criticallye and also beinge critical of reasoninge when needid -- these are the vital technologyes taught by humanityes disciplines lyke literarye studyes, historye, and philosophye.
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I kinda love how our induction cooker sounds like Star Trek (original series) sometimes
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Forecast is decent for Friday afternoon, I encourage everyone to attend
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It’s impossible to understate how important the 15th St bike lanes are to DC’s connected network, and they’re used by hundreds of people every day, commuters and tourists. This will be an enormous step back if it happens, and I encourage everyone affected to make a huge fuss
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Olympic curling
A curled up calico cat
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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Ted Leonsis in not just a bad team owner shock
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Catoctin Creek @catoctincreek.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Shenandoah Gin is now available on our website! Featuring the native flavors of strawberry and pawpaw, this gin is really one of an Appalachian kind! CatoctinCreek.com/Shenandoah #cheers
A beautiful pink gin in the bottle, next to a large wine glass full of ice,  strawberries, gin and tonic.
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Ryan Belmore @ryanbelmore.com · 04/02/2026
I don't have Washington Post money. But I do have a local news outlet and a belief that local sports journalism matters. If you're a WaPo sports writer looking at what's next, let's talk. Maybe we can figure something out together. DMs open.
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Ready to be educated!
A PowerPoint on a more interesting subject than usual
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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Most academic books have boring descriptive titles but occasionally...
Cover image of book entitled "Colonised by Wankers:
Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction" by Jessica Homberg-Schramm. Downloadable from https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30609
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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I was already a big fan of Frances Perkins for her work with the labor movement, but this is next-level awesomeness. Remember how hard it was to be a working professional woman in this era, and then read about what she accomplished. 💪
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Also queuing for the primary
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Love this bit of decorative stained glass in a Victorian villa on Queen's Drive in the Crosshill area of Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #stainedglasa #crosshill
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,046
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,046 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This is the grave of Candy Jim Taylor. Born in Anderson, South Carolina in 1884, James Taylor, better known as Candy Jim, played baseball. So did his brothers. This athletic family hoped to find a future that was not that of most of the Black working class of the late 19th century South. Baseball was […]
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This is lovely. Wish he was still around.
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Alzot @tho-alan.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Pizza and planet of the apes. Saturday evening shaping up
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