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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 26/09/2026

Imagine Don Draper out of a job. For months. A year. Allen R. Dodd's memoir, The Job Hunter, recounts the humbling experience of a once-hailed ad man having—unsuccessfully—to find work. A white-collar classic that belongs on the shelf next to Heller's Something Happened. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I watched this last night. It's terrifying, but hopeful. I feel it's my duty, as a human, to share it. I'd appreciate it if you shared it too. It's specifically made for people in the UK, but it's about everyone, and, the more people see it, the better chance we'll have. www.nebriefing.org/the-film

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National Emergency Briefing

A 50-min film centred around the National Emergency Briefing. The frank facts, but also the huge opportunity if Government steps up and leads a WW2-scale response. Designed to be watched by communitie...

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Jon Dalgaard @jondalgaard.com · 24/09/2026

This is the first starter pack I ever made. It's full of writers! The best people in the world! (Not biased) It includes book ones, article ones, TV ones, film ones, poem ones and also other ones. go.bsky.app/4q1TDUK

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Paul Whitelaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's something: Dennis Potter's rarely seen Play for Today from 1974, Schmoedipus, will be repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 7th October at 10pm. It's their tribute to Tim Curry, who stars alongside Anna Cropper and Bob Hoskins. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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BBC One - Play for Today, Series 4, Schmoedipus

A strange young man turns up on Elizabeth’s doorstep and makes a frightening claim.

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Phil @philjbrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane born this day. 1936. Words like “genius”, “icon” “inspirational” and “influential” are nowadays bandied around like confetti, often to people who are quite the opposite; not so with Trane. He is all those things. And more. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_Z...

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Blue Train (Remastered 2003/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic

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Mik Duffy. @mikduffy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Being as it is Earth, Wind and Fire day, you really ought to celebrate it by watching Pablo Berger's astonishing dialogue-free animated film Robot Dreamd and marvel at its incredible use of EF&F's eternal banger September, www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Mq...

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Robot Dreams - Official Clip - September

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 14/09/2026

Marc Almond meets Patrick Clarke in Soho to discuss the death of Dave Ball, the final Soft Cell album Danceteria, his career as a shapeshifter, and why a tribute to the decadence of 80s New York marks a full circle moment Adapt or Don’t: #MarcAlmond Interviewed buff.ly/aVuB1oa

Dave Ball and Marc Almond, colour photograph by Mike Owen.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 12/09/2026

"Reform is leading in the polls" - well. it isn't, and hasn't been for quite a while.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Eleanor Powell + Buddy Rich (+ Bert Lahr) = magic. Watch right to the end. No AI here. From SHIP AHOY (1942)

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Best tap dancer and drummer in the world

YouTube video by eleanorpowell2007

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 09/09/2026

christ are AI bots writing the fesses now?

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 09/09/2026

The wonders of modern technology ensure you can watch both.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Not my experience, but never mind.

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Anna Twigg @annatwigg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BBC4 tonight, at 10.15...

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 07/09/2026

[1980] 2 Tone Records - Nationwide reports on the Coventry based record label that is at the heart of the second wave of ska music, promoting groups like The Selecter and The Specials, bands who blend Jamaican rocksteady, ska and reggae with British punk.

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm currently scheduling readings for 2027 and would be delighted to hear from any lit/book fests in the U.K. that might be able to offer me a slot. I've a decent track record and I don't require travel expenses from Spain. And I promise not to scare off audiences who think poetry's not for them!

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 06/09/2026

Room at the Top was released in 1959? So that has to be early 60s.

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We should be boycotting every company that uses slop shit technology to replace human beings in EVERY industry.

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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Worth noting that police in the UK have made over 2,700 arrests for peacefully protesting the banning of Palestine Action.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 06/09/2026

It is very close to that country, only now the poison is no longer hidden. Those blackshirts were muttering over their pints, the Farageists were peering through the net curtains, the racism was always there but now is amplified in media. They have (they think) permission. We need to unpermit them.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Boyle: “It doesn’t really matter what I think about AI. It matters what 20-year-olds think about it. Is the honest truth." Well Danny, my teenagers think it fucking sucks and they want nothing to do with it or anything made with it

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 04/09/2026

Some bastard nicked my belt last time.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Hey man, some of us are reading still. Well done.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Comforting Arm, Gorbals, Glasgow, 1968, photo by David Peat (1947-2012), award-winning Scottish documentary-maker, cinematographer and photographer.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 02/09/2026

For me, it was the performance by Rick Cluchey of the San Quentin Drama Workshop. Someone who'd had more time than most to reflect on past mistakes.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 31/08/2026

[1979] Something Else - BBC series targeted specifically at a youth audience and is an early example in British television of the genre known as "Youth TV". This episode features The Jam performing Eton Rifles, Tony Wilson, and Joy Division performing Transmission.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 30/08/2026

I remember avidly reading Ed V's war reports from the Balkans in the mid 1990s. It seemed incredible that such slaughter and horror was occurring so close to us in Europe. I went out there in the end, thought it was my job to bear witness at least. Have never forgotten what I saw and who I met.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 29/08/2026

Maybe don't read what it says online?

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 29/08/2026

Yup. I may have to put a jumper on.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 29/08/2026

Actually, the same thing happened today in Southern England.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 28/08/2026

The streets are being patrolled by identical twins, apparently.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Not now Irish whiskey black fungus.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 27/08/2026

I’ve been there, man. Do make that rocket a gentle one, as most of those social and health workers are really doing their very best. Wishing the best for your Mum.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Working in the arts is not “lost education”, it’s extra education. Also “fame” is very loosely intersected with working in the arts. As any arts worker will tell you.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 27/08/2026

I really poured my heart and soul into this piece. So read it. It won’t cost you a penny/dime/drachma

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 27/08/2026

When they started running radio drama into the floor it was clear to me where this was going. Cheap to produce, constantly stimulating and intelligent, an outlet for gifted creatives to develop their arts before an audience, the only reason to significantly reduce it was a deliberate dumbing down.

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