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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 9h

same, buddy, same

Google translation of the graffiti, reads: I want to live without doing anything

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 16h

some upsetting graffiti by the river in Battersea

Google translation of the graffiti, which reads: teacher, what about those who have no talent? are their lives wasted from the beginning?

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 18h

Wonder if Ian Watkins and Charlie Kirk are hanging out right now

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sydnkr.bsky.social @sydnkr.bsky.social · 20h

This map was actually used by the Psychic Workers Union to situate their attack on the G7 in St Ives back in 2021

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 21h

fuuuuuck, hope you're ok & not too shaken

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, portraits in mirrors

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like a really interesting day!

Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

This was it, ran '84-'85 redparsley.blogspot.com/2016/08/inpu...

INPUT Magazine - A Retrospective

Oh hey, RetroKingSimon here. Since I started Red Parsley I've been the only person ever to write or post anything here, but today I'm happy ...

redparsley.blogspot.com

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

I used to subscribe to a weekly partwork magazine that gave you the code for games to type in so you had to keep getting the magazine to finish it

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

.... and what did you make with that lot?

Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

Do wasps work sixfold, in hexagons, like bees?

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 2d

If they could make a girl out of wasps, she would be faithful.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 2d

"Great idea! A fake serial killer storyline would both showcase a new side of McNulty's character and create challenging moral dilemmas for other officers. It would enhance The Wire's reputation for gritty realism — and the fans would love it."

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

What did you think of Ithell's tarot?

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

What does 'vril' mean in contemporary fash thinking?

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

The Didion/Babitz book got me curious again, but reading The White Album truly made me a hater

Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

Michelle Tea👍
Maggie Nelson👍
Alison Bechdel👍
Bhanu Kapil👍
Virginie Despentes 👊👊👊
Jessica J Lee👍
Chloe Aridjis👍
Nell Zink👍
Sam Mills👍
Muriel Spark 👍👍
Andrée Blouin✊

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

Admiration isn't really how I approach reading, but here's 20 female authors I've read this year and enjoyed (and some I didn't)

Joan Didion👎
Asako Yuzuki👎
Cecilia Knapp👍
Houria Bouteldja✊
Samantha Harvey👎
Anna Sulan Masing👍
Samanta Schweblin👍
Donna Stonecipher 👍
Sylvia Plath👍
(contd...)

Liberal Buddhist @liberalbuddhist.bsky.social · 19d

"Name 20 female authors you admire 1 per day"

Day 3: Ruth Rendell

#BookChallenge
#Booksky #writers
📚
#nightflight

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

Little stabs at, cheers

Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

these days I don't even wonder if anyone has a spare frieze ticket for me any more

Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

actually a Nobel Prize dig!

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

gotta say it's a relief that the power of art has been reaffirmed!

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 3d

New indie band called ‘The 1974 Energy Crisis’ who specialise in barbed satire of British life and exclusively play children’s toy instruments. Debut single ‘Southwold Pier Suicide’ has received a rave review in The Quietus.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 4d

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 4d

" ... one of the founders of antifa"

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