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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Chicken bones from lunch used as ballast, butterflies glimpsed at 5,000 feet — Travels in the Air (1871 edition) gathers remarkable tales from the early days of ballooning, accompanied by more than 100 beautiful illustrations: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t…

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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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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Herbie Hancock literally in the studio

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Alice Slater @aliceslater.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My mother (unburdened by the limitations of conventional thinking) was worried the cat might be too hot so she gave him a slice of bread from the freezer and we shared a private, knowing look

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Japanese prints from 1873 depicting famous Western inventors and scholars in times of trouble. Pictured: Audubon (work eaten by mice), Carlyle (papers burnt), and Arkwright (spinning machine smashed by wife). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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Dan Tappin @oitappin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Timid librarian in plea to save my workplace from making a huge mistake. A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books. Pls share x you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Save the second floor of Cardiff University's Arts and Social Studies Library (ASSL)

Dear current patrons, past patrons, and future patrons of Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL) at Cardiff University. On Friday 17th of May, library staff of the ASSL were informed by University Li...

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Do I know anyone in/near Cardiff who fosters cats and kittens? A neighbour has a young female called Minnie who needs rehoming. Black & white, quite small, very sweet but can also scratch - the neighbour has young kids and isn't sure Minnie is safe for them. Apparently local rescues are full.

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shiftcardiff.bsky.social @shiftcardiff.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Heno / Tonight! SHIFT Through the Floor radio goes live from the basement. DM @pixieglas.bsky.social if you want to join us in the basement for this 7pm-9.30pm. Or listen from wherever you are on the link below. shiftcardiff.org/through-the-...

Two figures stand in a dimly warehouse basement in front of a desk with wires, synths, electronic equipment and speakers.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

crazy etymology

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Meta trying to understand British humour will never not be funny.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Big HORSE MASSAGE FRAUD news here in Wales today, lads. (That's the news that's big, not the horses, though I suppose some of them might be. Let's just clear that up.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Horse massage firm warned after using Welsh government logo on fake diplomas

Companies selling fake diplomas showing the logo were among 10 cases of its use without permission.

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Lola Dupre @loladupre.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Iroquois after unknown 16 x 12 inches #collage #horse #horses

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Lola Dupre @loladupre.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Molly Long Legs after Stubbs 12 x 16 inches #collage #horse #horses #equine

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Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Hey pawb - SHIFT radio is GO! Weirdness for yer ears. Music for the people. shiftcardiff.org/through-the-...

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TTF RADIO – SHIFT

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Here are some of the scary jack o'lanterns I've made for our cats over the years. First: the cone.

Photo of a glowing jack o’lantern sitting in a dark room. It is illuminated from within so you can see that a cat wearing a surgical recovery collar also known as Elizabethan collar has been carved on the surface.

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Lola Dupre @loladupre.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Hexacorn after de Hamilton 12 x 16 inches #collage #horse #horses

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willsteeno.bsky.social @willsteeno.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Went to an experimental noise gig last night, in a church, with a PowerPoint presentation on Deleuze and Guattari as part of the set. That's living. Diolch @shiftcardiff.bsky.social for always providing 🙏

Two bearded men twiddle knobs on electrical devices in a church as people pull Serious Faces while watching

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

List of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)

"discontinued merit badges (boy scouts of America)" wikipedia page shows "nut culture", 1928-1954

stalker merit badge 1910-1922, stalking merit badge 1911-1952

invention merit badge 1911-1917. only 10 scouts achieved it, required that they obtained a federal patent

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Big congratulations to Chunk for taking the crown as this year's #FatBearWeek winner! Today feels like as good a day as any to tell you all about a little trick that bears have to ensure pregnancy takes place during OPTIMAL FATNESS.

A very fat bear standing in a river. He is brown and furry, with a broken jaw which makes his tongue stick out.

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Cate Le Bon is renewing my faith in flangers

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willsteeno.bsky.social @willsteeno.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Found a terrible Banksy painting in real life. DM me 50k for details

A landscape photo with trees and water, and a giant can of Red Bull and other rubbish in the foreground, a bit like when Bansky used to add flytipping to old paintings

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat" Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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willsteeno.bsky.social @willsteeno.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

There is also one, very grumpy, cat featured here

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willsteeno.bsky.social @willsteeno.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Who's more distracting at the Pet Shop Boys gig: woman in Katie Hopkins t-shirt or bloke who's the spit of Keir Starmer

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willsteeno.bsky.social @willsteeno.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Do you ever listen to breakcore while looking at a heron

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