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Jan Skakle

@vikingchild.bsky.social
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music obsessive, physicist, solid state chemist, emeritus professor, enjoyer of films & comedy, Twin Peaks, Hannibal. Old goth with sparkly electro-glam-pop tendencies.

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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am Tog
Tog and Pippin, two characters from Pogles Wood.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I had a Pogle’s Wood book and occasionally I find it in a clear out. I can’t part with it.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Absolutely hated it. Sat in a cinema waiting for it to get good… IIRC there was a BW mockumentary released the same time (which was a bit meta) that was WAY better and perhaps raised my expectations.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Especially with the audiences totally on board and singing along. Magical.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“Proud” Canadian citizen by all accounts but I’m not here to argue, he’s a prize twat and his legacy is smeared. All I was here to do was explain why Doofus loves him.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Insane reason for a Canadian. Hey let’s be taken over my a legit madman so I can get richer. Though I’ve got thoughts on rich dudes in any case.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Gretzky’s MAGA for some insane reason. torontolife.com/city/wayne-g...
torontolife.com
Wake up, Canada: Wayne Gretzky is MAGA - Toronto Life
How many friendly golf games will it take for us to accept the obvious?
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
media.tenor.com
a man is smiling in the dark with a woman in the background
ALT: a man is smiling in the dark with a woman in the background
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The rowies have enough salt in them to make them last for months *in theory* 🧐
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
physicsworld.com/a/nobel-priz...
physicsworld.com
Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how an obscure version of colour photography beat quantum theory to the most prestigious prize in physics – Physics World
Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why
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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
We're starting our countdown to next week's #nobelprize by looking at Nobel prizes you've definitely never heard of - starting with a curious from of colour photography that won in 1908. @drmlharris.bsky.social reveals all. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/nobel-priz...
physicsworld.com
Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how an obscure version of colour photography beat quantum theory to the most prestigious prize in physics – Physics World
Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for an interference-based method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
While in Starbuck. (S)
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Cindytalk. One of two I bought 35 or so years ago
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I’ve got that one, Prokofiev and Bowie together made it essential!
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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · 17/06/2025
Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted, sending ash and smoke into the sky. Authorities evacuated nearby villages as a precaution. Scientists are monitoring gas and seismic activity closely. #Volcano #Indonesia #DisasterPreparedness ⚒️🌋🧪 AP: apnews.com/article/indo...
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
European project to make web search more open and ethical The OpenWebSearch.eu consortium, which includes #CERN, has released a pilot of the first federated, pan-European Open Web Index, paving the way for a new generation of unbiased and ethical search engines. 🔗 home.cern/news/news/co...
📷Image: openwebsearch.eu / using images by NASA, Unsplash (Christopher Burns)
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Aberdeen FC @afc.co.uk · 25/05/2025
Our City.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
*me
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I wasn’t a Duran Duran fan as to be SLeB sounded like he was straining on the bog but man Nick Rhodes was everything 80s. In a good way. #totp
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The year of happy music about the impending nuclear apocalypse. And I loved it. #ultravox #totp
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
As a result I’ve seen them seven times. Seven. So i know what I’m talking about.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
(Even though my bestie loves them)
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The depth of my hatred of Deacon Blue knows no bounds and could sink that bloody ship called… #totp
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I never tire of this.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
It’s a great jigsaw!
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Blackburn cheese klaxon #totp
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Yesterday I was reading a list of “songs where the singer is out of tune” and it was basically my record collection so that’s obviously a thing for me. *cries in out of tune*
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I’d a great aunt that would always mutter (Aberdeen accent) “Nit anither waaar film” which, although she died when I was about 9, has remained with us along with many of her other joyous utterances.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Another thing is if I’m in a lift and it speaks and says “Ground floor” I will absolutely have to say “perfumery, stationery and leather goods”. One for the young folks there.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Coming out of the cinema one of us will always say “it was a bit far-fetched” in tribute to my FiL who would say that about any film not in B&W or about war. Unfortunately one time we were overheard and I died a little. More careful now (but we still say it).
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
In happier interesting news…
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Normally KJ would be up there but Jaz had abandoned them all and the drummer was lip syncing. The dancing during the outro is, erm, interesting.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Yet another cracking 80s #totp which leaves me questioning everything I ever knew. Nolans, Foster & Allan, Killing Joke, Goombay Dance Band, Chas & Dave… but here’s the Associates on the play out! For the win.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Scamp.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It was when he ran off, hence the weird performance I guess. Geordie went just after.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It was. Beautiful to look at, carefully paced and a plot you could spin your brain on.
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Newcastle United @newcastleunited.com · 18/03/2025
Writing our name in the history books.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Nice Faraday’s notebook news www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
theguardian.com
Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein
Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Watching Depeche Mode on BBC4 & remembering my mum’s alarm at this poster adorning my walls. If only she’d known what was to come 😂 #teammartin #always
Picture of Martin Gore wearing leather, pearls, lipstick
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ah, Master & Servant-era DM, terrifying parents who previously thought they were nice young men in suits. Fletch not quite getting the memo. Martin looking hawt. #depechemode
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Distinctly remember watching this DM performance at a friend’s house and all taking the mick out of Dave’s limping dance #depechemode
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I know, I know! 👩‍🎤
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I’m not sure what they were smoking when they came up with this dance routine. Interlaced with static pics of the Bee Gees. #tragedy #totp
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Not sure I was ready for the Cliff-Dooleys-Motörhead segue but I’m glad we got there in the end. #totp
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It’s a low bar, to be fair.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I’m going to do a rewatch of West Wing just to depress myself further. Let’s face it Harrison Ford in Captain America:BNW would be an improvement.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Strange Fruit hit hard. Notably and no doubt deliberately released the day before the US elections.
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Went to see them in Manchester last night and yes, there were parts where I wanted to cry because of the juxtaposition of their music, visuals, even merch and all *this* (gestures vaguely to the US) was too much. The declaration of human rights 🤔
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Jan Skakle @vikingchild.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I had that exact edition and loaned it to a friend. God’s honest. No, I’m neither Norwegian nor a stunt arranger, sadly.
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Pubs of Scotland: Radar's in Aberdeen, 1980s. American diner-style bar on Belmont Street. Pic: Press & Journal
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