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Paul Whitelaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · 1h

Richard Marson's excellent book, Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television 1967-1997, contains some fascinating details about the making of Swap Shop and the Saturday morning TV revolution it spawned. You can read my @bigissue.com review here... www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

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Box of Delights by Richard Marson review

Box Of Delights examines the BBC at a time when the kids TV department was more or less left to its own ingenious devices.

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 9h

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 17h

What in god's name is going on here?

Screenshot of a FB Markeyplace ad for an 'interactive real life monkey doll' in a short-legged/armed baby grow for £80.

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Simon Love @simonloverules.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's #bandcampfriday today and yet again, I've not done anything new to promote my non-award nominated album "THE ONE TRUE PRINCE OF WALES (in exile after abdication)" so instead, I've knocked some money off the cost of buying the vinyl version for today only (unless I forget to put it back up)

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Burning Ferns @burningferns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Next show is a week tomorrow and a rare outing Cardiff. Supporting the wonderful Malgola, No at Porters. We have a lean and lithe set of new bangers. Tight as a drum and packed with tunes. Come on down and say hello x

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICYMI we released a Bandcamp only album this year #BandcampFriday damonandnaomi.bandcamp.com/album/whats-...

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What's Past is Prologue (Live at Café Oto), by Damon & Naomi

8 track album

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“What got cut was the reporting, which was the only part that cost anything” - NYTimes obit for BrooklynVegan www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...

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How BrooklynVegan Went From Indie Rock Blog to Ghost Site

It started as an internet outpost for die-hard music fans. Then came success. Then came corporate ownership.

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This little fuzzy nugget is NINETEEN today. We let this goofy tornado into our home when he was a few months old & 18something years later his destructive mark is everywhere. He will outlive us. Happy 19th, Newt x #Cat #CatSky

Photograph of my black cat Newt lounging on top of a row of records on a shelf

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Tiger-Fred @tiger-fred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lets not forget that Palestine is still undergoing a genocide. It's not gone away. The press has stopped talking about it and people are forgetting the horror of it all. That's how people become manipulated.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have tailored parts of this draft complaint to add in my experience and viewpoint. It's a good start for a template. I'm angry at thugs and politicians making cash and political points from people's vulnerability, even in my local town in Scotland.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Andy Burnham rules out giving workshy fops like Reeves the time of day

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Absolutely huge victory as the Green Party take on Labour and win in Brighton! Huge congratulations to Cllr Mark Strong and the entire team. Labour have tired old solutions and Burnham is more of the same. The Green Party is the change we need. Awesome win! 💚🎉

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really is high time we had a Red Button or something to turn off the commentary on Wales games. Even tinnitus would be better than this inane claptrap. #TheFootball

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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HighburyJD @highburyjd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Any London based people interested in supporting the Green Party, we’ve a massive by-election coming up. Genuinely believe it’s a huge opportunity to influence the direction our politics go in over the next few years. linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP

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ZACK 4 MP | Linktree

Everything you need to get involved! Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of Zack Polanski (The Green Party) c/o PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just had a rewatch of Jeff Feuerzeig's documentary, Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King. Thank you, insomnia. You do good sometimes.

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Has anyone ever watched The Vinyl Vault channel on the YouTubes? #Vinyl

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Simon Love @simonloverules.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've just updated the entry of my blog about the song "JE T'AIME, BABY" to include a bit about when it was almost in the film "Jumper" simonloverules.substack.com/p/21-je-taim... How did I forget this in the first place? It's the only time Sean from Fortuna POP! didn't talk sarcastically to me.

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21 JE T'AIME, BABY

Why the comma? I don't know...

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i see BBC Wales News are promoting Ai as a good thing. Never been an organisation to read the room.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Still watching old Doctor Who. Up to The Mask Of Mandragora. Really good and eloquent, but quite nasty for Saturday teatime viewing. I can slightly understand Mary Whitehouse's concerns at the time; especially when Tim Pigott-Smith drops the C-bomb, which I've had to edit out this clip.

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MP for Nature @mpfornature.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Data centres:how worried should we be?Here’s a handy comic explainer to use for local actions. Print from www.climatestorieslibrary.com/teaching @friends-earth.bsky.social @paulbernal.bsky.social @samillingworth.com @pinetencolin.bsky.social @charliejgardner.bsky.social

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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, Viz.

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Simon Love @simonloverules.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today’s Substack is about another awful b-side but I include an unpaid advertisement for @4hundredblows.bsky.social’s “The Umbrella Man And Other Stories” book

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Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sign up for THE campaign!📋 💚 Time for Londons 1st Green MP! Zack has what it takes! Do we? linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP @boldpolitics.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Green MP candidate Zack Polanski walking in front of street signage indicating routes to Central London Euston King's Cross and Camden Town. A bus has passed him. Image is taken from Bold Politics Youtube short film covering Zacks campaign in Holborn and St Pancras.in London.

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bit late for #Caturday, but Newt wanted to share his bum tongue to help lighten your load this weekend x

Photo of my black cat Newt, lounging on a multicoloured crocheted woollen blanket, which is covering my partner's legs. Newt is displaying his famous 'bum tongue' blep, which is around 1cm long on this occasion

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Latest from me: bit of proper journalism. A specialist in the industrial scale production of fake vinyl was jailed yesterday. This is the whole story www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...

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Deep cuts: how one Londoner’s fake vinyl empire sheds light on ‘industrial scale’ fraud

Thousands of knock-off records worth a fortune are being seized in the UK by anti-counterfeit police stings

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

M&i went to see Tim Key's glorious Loganberry show recently & encourage you to do so, also, if he makes it to your postcode x

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thoroughly enjoyed Ludwig & its fluffy zigzagging. Wonderful cast, too.

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Brings to mind the morons who protested/vandalised a pediatrician's home during the paedo-frenzy in 2000.

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the lawsuit, Universal asserts that, “The current digital music economy is no longer a healthy, functioning one. It has been co-opted by those trying to pass off mass AI-generated, SEO-optimized and copyright-infringing slop as music created and performed by a real human.” Meanwhile…

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My insomnia just put me through Fackham Hall. God Almighty.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#NowSpinning Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (US 1987 Reissue) Great album, piss-awful pressing. Muddy af. #NowPlaying #DimlyLitTurntableForOne #Vinyl

Photograph of the sleeve for Sonic Youth's LP Bad Moon Rising displayed next to the record spinning on a turntable in a dimly lit room

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore: "Murdering tens of thousands of children is wrong." Ed Sheeran: "I have no opinion on this matter. Also you're fired."

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

ChatGPT, how do I cook spaghetti?

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#NowSpinning Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out (UK 1982) Another Matthew (from Chepstow) - the bf of my gf's bff - introduced me to Bauhaus via a band tee + In The Flat Field, TSGO & Burning From The Inside at some party or other one amazing teen summer. #NowPlaying #DimlyLitTurntableForOne #Vinyl

Photograph of the sleeve for the Bauhaus LP The Sky's Gone Out displayed next to the record spinning on a turntable in a dimly lit room.

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#NowSpinning Tom Waits - Closing Time (UK Ri 1976) My school mate Mathew Ball's dad had Asylum Years in his collection & Mat introduced me to it after he discovered it. Next time i was in Newport i bought Closing Time & so began my love affair with Tom. #NowPlaying #DimlyLitTurntableForOne #Vinyl

Photograph of the sleeve for Tom Waits' LP Closing Time displayed next to the record spinning on a turntable in a dimly lit room

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Mythical Motors @mythicalmotors.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Dismantled Man Tells You" # 10 in the Tremolo On The Punchline collage series #collage #mythicalmotors #janglepop #handmadeart

Collage for "Dismantled Man Tells You" from Tremolo On The Punchline by Mythical Motors

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Mythical Motors @mythicalmotors.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Mass Attraction" # 9 in the Tremolo On The Punchline collage series #collage #handmadecollage #mythicalmotors

Collage for "Mass Attraction" from Tremolo On The Punchline by Mythical Motors

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Garret @garretmandalatea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Computer/graphic design types: My small biz has been using Publisher for decades for designing and printing our tea labels and such. For some reason, MS is retiring Pub and we are left wondering what on earth to do, what to switch to. Any recs/ideas greatly appreciated! TYIA!

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christopher brooke 🇵🇸 @twrhq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#NowSpinning Various - Surprise Your Pig (US 1992) Part of that '90s glut of fringe indie tribute LPs to leftfield grandees. Originally bought in '92 as a completist addition to anything containing/adjacent to Kramer/Shimmy Disc. Side2 just shades Side1 #NowPlaying #DimlyLitTurntableForOne #Vinyl

Photograph of the sleeve for the REM tribute akvum Surprise Your Pig displayed next to the record spinning on a turntable in a dimly lit room

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Kevin (Des) @jambodes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A volunteer service, who do nothing other than work to protect the lives of those at peril on the seas. They're having to figure out security to protect themselves from violent racist thugs. This fucking country, man.

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