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@ashcroftethics.bsky.social

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Bookhoarder. Soi-disant intellectual of the outer suburbs.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · Apr 15

PSA: this is a personal account. None of my posts are official, few are academic, and you will learn little if anything of value here. I have LinkedIn for that. Here I - rather infrequently - witter on about music, books and people who annoy me on my commute. TYVM. Carry on.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 1d

www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/naming...

Henry Reed - "Naming of Parts"

To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 1d

Can you strip down a method and reassemble it blindfold? Can you? (Yes, you probably can).

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 1d

BRB, just lighting a candle in my shrine to Lord Reith.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 1d

This is the kind of gameshow, along with Call My Bluff, that I miss. That said, Only Connect is in the Great Tradition of entertaining difficult things. I always feel somewhat amazed when I can work a question out.

Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 1d

Now it’s the even posher quiz of which only 10 people know the answers #FaceTheMusic

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 4d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 3d

It’s the new What’s your Myers-Briggs type which is the old new What’s your star sign.

Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 3d

I enjoyed this review of an album by someone whose name is eerily familiar somehow.

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 5d

'Let’s be honest for at least a sentence. The first single ‘Lover’ couldn’t be any more dogshit if it had been squeezed from the lampshade-wide and bright crimson sphincter of Clifford himself.'

#RichardAshcroft - Lovin’ You

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Richard Ashcroft - Lovin’ You album cover. Ashcroft holds up his guitar during sunset at the beach, but the revellers would rather walk into the ocean than listen to his nonsense.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 3d

I enjoyed it. I think I first came across WRNTDP in your feed, so thank you.

Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 4d

Very fine!

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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to be donating a signed copy of Wildly Different as part of this year's Children in Read auction, with all proceeds going to BBC Children in Need. Bid for an author-signed copy of your favourite books. Something for everyone here:

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Children in Read 2025

'The Largest Signed Book Auction In The World'Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign, dedicate, and send their books to their successful bidders.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds a...

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Today is National Coming Out Day!

Here's a collection of my drawings and paintings of famous LGBTQ+ folk. If you do decide to take the plunge, these are part of your new family!

barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...

#NationalComingOutDay

Barnaby Edwards | ART (LGBTQ HEROES)

LGBTQ HEROES Portraits of queer icons (10% of all sales from this gallery goes to LGBTQ+ charities)

barnabyedwards.co.uk

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 4d

I need more Holger Czukay in my life.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 6d

I am a Dean, and I am allowed to make this truly awful joke. And if you want a Dean who makes truly awful jokes…

Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 6d

<sings> “Hello? Is it Dean you’re looking for?”

Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 6d

I'm co-chairing the search committee for the new Dean. Anybody want to be Dean?

In all seriousness, to anybody who has done this before, got any advice?

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 6d

I'm co-chairing the search committee for the new Dean. Anybody want to be Dean?

In all seriousness, to anybody who has done this before, got any advice?

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 7d

Which circle?

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 13d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 19d

The Man always works hard but this weekend he is working MEGA hard, so please check out what he's up to on our account @lonelytower.bsky.social and give it a follow if you're feeling kind 😇

a woman in a yellow shirt wipes her forehead with a towel and the words it 's hard work are on the bottom

Alt: a woman in a yellow shirt wipes her forehead with a towel and the words it 's hard work are on the bottom

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Lonely Tower Film & Media @lonelytower.bsky.social · 17d

Ta dah! 😃😃😃

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 17d

I can't stop thinking about this @lrb.co.uk piece, thinking about how satisfying nuance in criticism is for readers and revisiting Another Green World. Mostly, I wonder what Eno makes of it.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ian Penman · Infinite Wibble: Brian v. Eno

At his best, Eno is a model of how to inhabit this role with verve and mischief; at other times you may wonder how...

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 18d

The sadness of the end of the season. #cricket

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 18d

Schumpeterian meme.

Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 18d

Happy 200th birthday to the modern locomotive railway!

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 22d

Struck by this saying of Goethe: “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

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