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Ian Murphy
@ianmurphy.bsky.social
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He/him/his. Cat butler. Shuffling with a bovine grace 🐄
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Ian Murphy @ianmurphy.bsky.social · Jun 4
Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz were great but, for me, these two were crucial to the success of the Monkees.
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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · Jun 4
On set of the CUCKOO’S NEST.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 10h
Busy, busy, busy…

Get your Christmas cards and wrap here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...
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Penny Kiley @pennykiley.bsky.social · 8h
Just updated my @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social so all the books I recommend in mine are on it. So if you want books about Eric's (the Liverpool music club), books by women about music, or trustworthy books about autism you know where to look. uk.bookshop.org/shop/pennyki...
Penny Kiley Bookshop UK
Memoir Atypical Girl published 5th February 2026. Music archive on https://pennykiley.substack.com/
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Penny Kiley @pennykiley.bsky.social · 6h
I just saw an advert for a bookseller with the strapline "POV: Your dream shelf is finally full". Apart from the nonsense use of POV, do they really not understand what booklovers' houses are actually like?
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 5h
Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.
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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d
Not just literary i suppose. Laurel & Hardy make me feel the same way. Those films are almost a century old. Two long dead men who loved one another, punching through time to make us laugh. That's beautiful.
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Ian Murphy @ianmurphy.bsky.social · 1d
Don't forget Bowie's 1977 classic from his Berlin era

"Herpes"
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Professor Stanley OooOOoonwin @professorunwin.bsky.social · 1d
Change a letter, ruin a song.

Lazy Madonna
Smoke on the Wafer
Gove Story
Litter Sweet Symphony
A Shiter Shade of Pale
The Dinner Takes It All
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d
It’s a Tin
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 1d
These little nice arts were added to my shop earlier, I thought you cool customers in the evening crowd might want to know
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 1d
Yuss, I have added these four small but perfectly formed drawings (original) to my art store so that someone may buy them. Phew, it is done, please share!

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Work Monkey Realises, a sensitive monkey drawing with vermillion in my sensitive monkey drawing with vermillion series, poignant Henry VIII with a strange wig and if you look really carefully, a cockerel, delicate and scratchy textury Slightly smug tilted clown, colourful, warm agfacolor type colours Tiger in the rain, pink ink cloud, deft small drawing
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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 1d
Our dog found an actual string of sausages today! I thought that only happened in The Beano 😆
Dog with bin bag and string of sausages
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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 1d
✅ 6 month HIV check up done!

✅ Viral load remains undetectable, which means HIV cannot be sexually transmitted to others while on effective antiretroviral treatment. In short, undetectable equals untransmittable (U=U).

💊 One pill a day keeps me rocking and rolling.

💪 Onwards!

#HIVAdvocacy
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Ian Murphy @ianmurphy.bsky.social · 1d
That's a proper portrait, isn't it? Wonderful
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Penny Kiley @pennykiley.bsky.social · 1d
So, I wrote a book. It's out in February but there's an offer on this week if you pre-order it from Waterstones. www.waterstones.com/book/atypica...
Waterstones advert saying "25% off on upcoming books. 14-17 October. Online only. Pre-order now with code OCTOBER25"
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 2d
Professional Monkey making a Realisation at Work
A sort of half alive half toy half person monkey, delicate reddish drawing. Mouth open in a sort of realisation expression, wiggly explory lines
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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 2d
“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”
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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3d
pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat
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Ian Murphy @ianmurphy.bsky.social · 3d
The label fell off
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d
"The chancellor approved it"
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Katie @vimtotime.bsky.social · 3d
Stuffe & things! 🛒👾
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A bracelet reading OVERSTIMULATED A birthday card reading A BIRTHDAY TOAST with a waving piece of toast A drawing of a heart with legs and it says CAN I COME OVER AND STARE AT YOU LIKE THIS? Little friendos in bobble hats
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Katie @vimtotime.bsky.social · 4d
Please come and have a rummage in my emporium and spend some coinz 👾💘

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A card with a sad Moon wearing socks. It says IT’S JUST A PHASE Bracelets with letter beads. One says OVERSTIMULATED and the other says ADHD AF. Another is made of flowers beads Dollies in packaging costumes Little friendos in bobble hats
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 4d
I might as well mention this again, I’ve got a new gallery of work for sale that’s called ‘Rodents’ because it’s rodents. Mostly squirrels, some rabbits, watch this space for, in fact, more rodents. www.chloecumming.com/rodents

Share if possible, thank you
Scratch oil pastel drawing of a squirrel with an orange du band soft blueness, expressive and interesting Ink drawing of a squirrel, green in the bottom right corner, and red poppies, semi abstracted, busy and moody, drawn in a time of intense crisis but determination A soft side facing greyish brown rabbit with green background, interesting expressive Markmaking Vibrant explosive oil pastel drawing of a long rabbit/hare/jackrabbit jumping in side profile over a skull, with deep viridian type greens and large red eyes
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 4d
I’m going to have to keep trying! A disconcerting dry spell re sales, I’ll calm down when I’ve had a couple. Thank you guys for being supportive
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 10d
I’ll try again. All of these original artworks are still available on my website, there are some spooky things and some nice textures and lines that you won’t find anywhere else. Thank you for looking. 🖼️ and if you share this that would be super

www.chloecumming.com
A vivid bendy oil pastel deer Sweep in undulating charcoal and graphite, an ancient puppet A green skull with scratchy eye holes Paul McCartney all neat and monochrome in 1969, a drawing
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 4d
12 Episodes of Screen Two are on iPlayer atm. Don’t fuck about, no excuses, get it together and watch them.

Some of the best cinema you’ll ever see x
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Kristin Hersh @kristinhersh.bsky.social · 4d
my son Wyatt (@chimaera_sight on Instagram) is an environmental mapper and data analyst who organizes information into beautiful, graspable images…please reach out if this interests you, it’s truly amazing stuff
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 5d
It’s friday. I like to think, a good day for buying art, to perhaps look at while ignoring bad things
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 7d
Oh go on then. I’ve also added the skull and Corbett. These are a bloody bargain, there’s 45 years of wisdom infused and contained within them

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A squiggly wibbly skull in oil pastels on grey paper, slightly collapsed Oil pastel drawing of Matthew Corbett, a white man with reddish brown hair, Sooty Sweep and Soo, three hand puppets, part of a 1980s tv programme that’s fondly remembered by some
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Ian Murphy @ianmurphy.bsky.social · 6d
Er...
Actor Bob Grant from On The Buses looking just like John Lennon
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · Sep 12
Deer (oil pastel)
A scribbly colourful energetic drawing of the front half of a small young deer, with effortful strokes
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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 7d
This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.
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