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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com can’t reply on your post, but funnily enough I have a similar theory my friend Sam wrote about recently in his long piece on greatest hits albums - loudandquiet.substack.com/p/bring-back...

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean, on the bright side it’s just an old-school double-counting on a spreadsheet issue, rather than a new-fangled AI slop issue.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Walking in the rain. Because when does it ever rain?

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A proper skewering, but with pity in the eyes of the skewer-holder. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not now, Russian Plague Researchers. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/e...

Russian authorities have imposed "anti-epidemic measures" after a laboratory worker at an institute in Siberia dedicated
to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of a mysterious
illness.
The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia,
in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of
"unknown" origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yet another of those ‘get home and find a photo you didn’t realise you’d taken at the time’ moments. Goldfinches on the wing. #ukbirds

Goldfinches in silhouette against a grey sky

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yet another of those ‘get home and find a photo you didn’t realise you’d taken at the time’ moments. Goldfinches on the wing. #ukbirds

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, now you mention it, I am curious to see this new Time Machine you have in action…

RS
Royal Society of Arts
•●•
21h
Benjamin Franklin. Charles Dickens. Dame Judi Dench.
The Royal Society of Arts has always brought together people determined to leave their mark.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trying to work out if spotting a female brown hairstreak on a wetland in a new build estate in Sussex is a notable thing. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social ? #butterflies #ukwildlife

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Somewhere deep inside, a Glaswegian teenager in me stirs to proclaim that if you are prepared to pull out a #Meta #Muse Scamagotchi in front of me, you better be prepared to eat it too.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@flygirlnhm.bsky.social took some pictures of this, and thought ‘I know who’ll know…’ What’s this, and what is it eating?

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“I’m afraid the strain was more than he could bear….” Watching Tombstone with the boy for the first time. What a marvellously nineties movie.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

‘Creating a new silicon species’ is believing a rock is alive because you’ve drawn a face on it. I would like (hope) to think that what Suleyman is doing here is warning that we should stop drawing faces on rocks and believing they are alive and acting of their own accord. But that got lost.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can only imagine this was musical promo stuff.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I love woodpeckers. When growing up in central belt Scotland, I really don’t remember seeing many at all. Fairly abundant where we are in Sussex now. #sussex #wildlife #woodpecker (Cc @sussexwildlife.bsky.social)

A greater spotted woodpecker in flight, having just set off from a tree

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of the highlights of this week - organising a community Apple sample picking afternoon, to take the samples to RHS Wisley for identification. Keeningly awaiting the results! #sussex #orchard #apples

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A young reed bunting, looks like it has been born in the new wetland put up in the housing development at Walstead Park. (Cc @sussexwildlife.bsky.social)

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Spotted in the bookshop at the weekend, ‘The Dark Frontier’. This book cover design has definitely become *a thing* - I also have these two at home, and have seen more too. I wonder if it’s a style that’s got a name in the #publishing trade? #books

The Dark Frontier, another one of *those* book covers.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Weekend vibe: Henry Moore at Kew Wakehurst. #art #sculpture #wakehurst

Henry Moore sculpture at Kew Wakehurst, through a weird Hipstamatic filter

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wait… the Canadian Finance minister is *Mr Champagne*…? These writers are phoning it in.

In announcing the retaliatory measures, the finance minister, François-Philippe
Champagne, said the country was united in its…

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I tell you what, catching up on the summer’s hit movie, and Tom Holland is really knocking it out of the park as Telemachus. #theodyssey

Cartoon Tom Holland, with a near unrecognisable cartoon Matt Damon in a beard next to him…

(from the animation Ulysses 31)

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And now a message from our eyewear sponsor. Happy #solareclipse day, folks…

The Geordi Laforge meme - no to pervert glasses, yes to solar eclipse glasses.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Found myself making an ‘introduction to the music of Sea Power’ playlist for friends. So you lot might as well have it too. open.spotify.com/playlist/7E6... (What would you add..?) #seapower

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“My planet, Arrakis, is so beautiful when the sun is low. Rolling over the sands… You can see spice in the air. At nightfall, the spice harvesters land. The outsiders race against time to avoid the heat of the day.” #dune #heatwave

A tractor kicking up dust on the parched Salisbury plain

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I spent a good half hour yesterday evening practicing capturing these swallows at a fast shutter speed. As the sun got lower over the field, it started to make their wings seem as if they were glowing. #om5 #m43 (OM5 + Olympus M300 F 4.0 / f4.5 1/5000s)

Swallow feeding over a short harvested wheat field

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I love this picture, mainly because of the guy in the middle. It’s like he’s clocked the camera a second too late, and is instantly regretting asking for an afternoon off work.

A dude full of regret. No, not that one. Nor that other one.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“One would expect a translator, of all people, beholden to a text, in service to a text, to be just a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful of others who are acting in good faith just as (she would claim) she is.” This, again, etc etc

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Good stuff - they are particularly in need of it at the moment. We have a regular bigger one who visits, and a newer wee one.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A day to go to the full moon. Remember lads, we’re werewolves, not swearwolves.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Nice one, Sherlock. You might be on to something… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The summer that English cricket pitches turned Australian.

A brown, parched cricket pitch in Sussex

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The hedgehog is now coming through the hole in the wall about two minutes after I put the food out. He must be waiting like it’s the pub opening time. #hedgehog

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A week later, he’s finished both benches - cleaned, dried, blowtorched (!), and ready to put out. Now I wish we’d worn hi-vis jackets, to make it more official. Next time maybe.

New bench looking amazing, after Japanese Yakisugi

New bench looking amazing, after Japanese Yakisugi, in situ.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Then someone on a different WhatsApp said ‘we have these tired old benches if anyone wants them’. ‘We do’ I said. I went with a guy in the group who runs a gardening company to collect them. We weren’t expecting much. Another guy said ‘they’re alright - we could do Japanese yakisugi on them’

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Our quaint Sussex version, this evening. I ran a survey for the estate AGM. It’s like a homeowners association. But doesn’t work in the UK, doesn’t make sense. Anyway, we make do. The survey is mostly about nature watch and green spaces for wildlife. But several people wanted MOAR BENCH.

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There is a lot of #wingspan being played in this house at the moment. Seems to be the perfect balance between play preferences. 16 year old likes long, complex things (eg Scythe, Root). 14 yo likes fast turn based, social things (Quacks of Q, Exploding Kittens). Wingspan a really nice balance.

Wingspan, the awesome and best board game

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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Very disappointed with Gabriel Clarke - he skews Tuchel’s words to get a reaction from Bellingham. Shitty thing to do, rest of the press jump on it, now it’s the story that could, perhaps, derail England.

The English football press, doing some sowing, anticipating some reaping.

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