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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The byline left up there like a head on a spike outside a castle

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

September 29 is St. Michael’s Day, or Michaelmas. Read about the history of St. Michael in IHR Fellow Michael Carter’s blog blog.history.ac.uk/2026/09/mich... Find out more in the IHR Library’s Religious History Collections www.history.ac.uk/library/coll...

Stained glass window showing a golden-winged St Michael pinning down a defeated green-winged devil with a spear. The angel is dressed in golden armour.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Analysis of 200,000 films released between 1994 and 2023 found that on average, films written and directed by women make higher profits, even though their male counterparts are routinely awarded bigger production budgets www.thetimes.com/article/64f9...

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Show me the money? Films directed by women make the most profit

But research also finds every movie of the past 30 years with the biggest production budget was directed by a man, leading to renewed allegations of misogyny

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An AI-enhanced version of a grainy image that appears to be authentic and shows several men being arrested in relation to the ongoing incident at RAF Fairford is currently being shared on multiple platforms. A SynthID check reveals that the enhanced image was generated with OpenAI.

AI-enhanced version of an authentic image showing arrests at RAF Fairford

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Haha! Oh, you know me so well. Hope you clear your deadlines effortlessly x

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you so much for letting me know - I’ll have to visit!

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes! Scant lamb. (We thought ours was a faulty batch it was so lacking…). Their dark chocolate ginger thins, however, are excellent

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you! I don’t often see Monte Cassino mentioned outside the Polish diaspora and, as that generation passes out of view, it means a lot to see it remembered

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dave Gibbons making this point about Lichtenstein made me very happy.

A copy of Roy Lichtenstein’s “pop art” comic book panel painting where the text and sound effects make it clear that the work was not original nor created by Lichtenstein.

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Do you think there’s a reason why that award is so indicative? It’s such a striking statistic

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Look, I know you’re not interested in this stuff. But, for what it’s worth, LA BOLA NEGRA building on Cannes buzz as it takes TIFF People’s Choice. Only two winners in the last 19 years have failed to get a best picture nomination.

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m interested! And thank you - had no idea that TIFF People’s Choice correlated so strongly with Best Picture

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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

100% the vibe that Lanterns poster gives off

A two panel cartoon the first showing someone peeing at a urinal, and a second person walking past. Second panel shows rhe second person peeing at the Urinal next to the first. Underneath that is the Lanterns poster with Hal Jordan looking straight forward and John Stewart giving him the angry side eye, the ol’ hairy eyeball.

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Norwegian Consumer Council killing it again. (This time about product lifespans. Here’s the full version)

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whenever I meet someone who supports the Oxford comma, I find myself encouraged, delighted, and hopeful.

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That raises the bar for elevenses, doesn’t it?

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gailrenard.bsky.social @gailrenard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dolls house in Fortnum and Mason made entirely out of biscuits. Hold my cup of tea.

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ten years ago today I went to the Moscow gulag museum and saw a trip advisor review complaining it was too much about the victims and no torture rooms.

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trying to arrange a parcel redelivery and finally found the Royal Mail’s phone number. Felt like a level unlocked. Next level challenge: a 23 minute wait for an operator to be free.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rock Climbing Championships From the latest Private Eye, out now.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pasted a John Berger quote into Google, just to see. Gemini assured me it was from Downtown Abbey.

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Cam T. Mann @camc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not satisfied with simply mastering the Single Panel Comic, pants has now chosen to elevate alt text to its own art form

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys

A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house. A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it. It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Congratulations! Really looking forward to reading this

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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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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chefs kiss

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 26/08/2026

It's true, it says so on the poster

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t really hold with having heroes but my God, Dolly was one of mine. A woman of such extraordinary talent (Multi-instrumentalist! Her songwriting! Her voice!) who did such lasting, fundamental good with her success. And was funny, clever and canny with it. What a loss RIP Dolly, you superstar

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So much good! And to do it so quietly too. What a magnificent woman

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you haven’t heard it, this is a terrific series. The episode that looks at the nineteenth century murder ballad tradition and how Dolly placed the female experience at the centre of her work is testament to her songwriting genius

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

330 MILLION books what a legacy 😭

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Isn’t it? Using her art and success to change lives in such a fundamental way. What a magnificent act

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 07/08/2026

Like the time fires raged through Gatlinburg and she just gave the families impacted $1k/month for 5 months and $5k the 6th month. no means testing, no complicated hoops, just "your life is destroyed here's some cash" resulting in another UBI experiment gone right. www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...

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How Dolly Parton Gave $12.5 Million And Unprecedented Research To Sevier County

It’s been two years since wildfires burned Western North Carolina and devastated the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Country music superstar Dolly Parton…

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We know all the classic lines (“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap”), but I fondly remember her being on TFI Friday and someone in the audience shouting “I love you, Dolly”. An immaculate pause and: “Oh, honey. I told you to wait in the truck”

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What a wonderful woman and what a loss

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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

en esta economía??????

nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020

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Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Very happy with this result. Combination of #eclipse images (time lapse) with 35 mm lens, one image per 5 minutes, from #Leiden, the Netherlands. Old Leiden Observatory bottom right.

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hopes for tonight’s Perseid meteor shower remain high…

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s so frustrating - especially after the ignominious Panorama programme. And hope springs eternal, doesn’t it?

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well, one steamer, top of the cocktail shaker, half a tea infuser and nothing. Hope everyone else had better luck! #solareclipse

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The trick with the colander is to hold is as far away as you can from the surface it’s projecting on to.

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Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Thanks so much for posting that link. An excellent response, as you say. I hope Channel 4 will act on its requests.

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