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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 8h

I have told my friend who lives next to the stadium that the house prices there just dropped 10K and his cat is a lazy bastard.

What a great photo though! Little dude's probably using that as his profile pic.

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 10h

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 10h

From my favourite poetry collection, Emily Berry's debut, Dear Boy.

The last line here stings like TCP on a cut, always.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Emily Berry.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 12h

I know a couple in their early 30s who in the last two years have moved country, had a baby, moved country again and are now having another baby.

In the same period I have..... got a PS5?

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone else struggling with the deep grey today?

Flat too. Flat and deep, simultaneously. A 60s concrete car park of a day.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

oh god no he hoovered up his own brain

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 1d

I shall never get to heaven.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 2d

I'd read a bit about Tyler Ballgame but not heard him until Jools Holland tonight and... I hope for his sake that he sounds better on record. That really was quite shit.

Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 2d

I miss adding bacon lardons or chorizo to stews, having cut down on those things.

Anyone have any cheats to replace some of that delicious salty, fatty goodness in, for example, a tomatoey chicken stew?

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

We have an important Gil update

Gil, a big tabby cat, looking up over the back of a porch chair. He is in the middle of meowing and is raising one paw.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2d

Tag yourself, I'm Goldfish-catcher

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 5d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 4d

I've seen this a couple of times today, and while we're all a bit bored of the 'former gifted child' thing, I'll say one thing directly: knowing that you peaked at nine years old is not a fun thing. It's genuinely sad.

Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 5d

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A Spirit Halloween costume called "Former Gifted Child." It's empty. Nothing included. When people ask, "What are you supposed to be?" Just Reply, "I was supposed to be a lot of things."

Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 5d

Guys, I've got my stage name! I'm calling myself.... twst.

All lower case. Just those four letters: T, W, another letter, and T again - what we might call a familiar sort of configuration.

Nothing can go wrong.

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 5d

Rising Welsh pop artist twst will represent both Wales and the UK at the Osaka Expo 2025 in Japan this weekend, joining broadcaster and BBC Radio 1 DJ Sian Eleri for a celebration of the UK’s most forward-thinking electronic music

Welsh pop artist to represent the UK in Japan this weekend

Stephen Price Rising Welsh pop artist twst will represent both Wales and the UK at the Osaka Expo 2025 in Japan this weekend, joining broadcaster and BBC Radio 1 DJ Sian Eleri for a celebration of the...

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Spooky Scary Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 5d

I know it’s *supposed* to say Trick or Treat, but that’s really not a great font choice from Lidl

A neon sign which appears to read fuck or treat

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 6d

My cat, who never sits on my lap, actually sat on my lap this morning. And is still there right now. I had to call in sick to work so he can sit on me as long as he wants.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 5d

How did you not go for 'so here's to you / little Robin, son". You were so close! 😄😊

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so glad that someone else remembers 'HAGUE'. On a baseball cap. At a theme park.

And imagine being only the third best Hague, after 'Stephen' and 'The'.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 6d

So, is there a photo of yourself that you feel defines you as a person?

Me: Well, it's not actually a photo of *me*...

White cat next to drinks bottles in close up, looking scared

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 6d

Come to this, Cardiff fans of storytelling! ⬇️⬇️

Cathays Library is an old building next to a Victorian cemetery, so the PERFECT goth-by-default place to hear chilling tales on Halloween (for zero pounds). Link below!

Cardiff Hubs & Libraries @cdflibraries.bsky.social · 6d

We’re at Cathays Library this Halloween for Dark Winter Tales – spooky stories for the dark half of the year, featuring Mat Troy and a host of great storytellers.

Book a free ticket today!
➡️ tinyurl.com/3tj86nt2

@mattroy.bsky.social

You are invited to join us for... Dark Winter Tales - Spooky stories for the dark half of the year. Featuring Mat Troy, Rachael Llewellyn, George Sandifer-Smith and Gavin Murray-Miller. Cathays Library, Friday 31 October, 6pm.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 6d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 6d

Well, as a very small palate cleanser, yourself and Mr AM are some of my favourite people on here (and I am, perhaps sadly, real).

A large 'yay' for everyone being civil, funny and intellectually curious, if that's not too wanky a phrase, in the face of bots & bullshit.

Wishing you a good day.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sure the content is fabulous (time before first harpsichord appears is __?), but you're kind to overlook the awfulness of the cover. It's like staring at a pub carpet with a bad headache.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 7d

Consider me as being in the pub car park cheering you on as you wrestle your assailant to the dirty ground and administer a few awkward punches. You will be winded, blowing somewhat, but victorious. Solidarity.

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