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🎃It was a Hotblack night🦇 @invalid-handle.com · 4h

Listening to the Live in Stockholm bootleg seems a fitting tribute to his artistry and work. An absolutely amazing performance

I think it may be available officially and on streaming platforms now too?

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 6h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 4h

In this interview, Farage said, "Brexit is the best thing to happen to..." and the first country that came to his mind was Russia.

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 6h

Loads of book covers are absolute dog shit these days.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6h

V.S. Naipaul was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and I would be entirely unsurprised if it was ever revealed he was a serial killer.

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 11h

A thing on old phone books, as an aside: my etching class would love some as they’re very good for cleaning excess ink off a plate

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 12h

And where does this reverence end? Must we faithfully preserve all crumbling copies of old travel guides? Phone books? The Highway Code? Of course archives should hold a few copies, but all of them?

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 15h

I review the new Utopia Strong lp for @thequietus.com - it’s a nice trip!

thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

The Utopia Strong – Doperider | The Quietus

The British trio's fourth album suggests equal parts journey into space and a scrabbling around in the undergrowth, finds Richard Foster

thequietus.com

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details:
[email protected]

Image shows a box of cards / a tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Sean Bonney and listening to Coil, IN BED! Beat that, aesthetes!

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. And - related - Farage being the Titus Oates of our time…

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Read this, playmates! Sounds fantastic.

Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 1d

My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 1d

My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Something I think about a lot. C17th pamphlets. 1930s radio. Technology as a midwife to human madness.

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, it was bad in, say, 2015 and almost every development since has made it worse.

I compare the information enviroment quite a bit to the pamphlet era of the 1770s or so and, well, that lead to huge social unheval

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 2d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 2d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Made a hot dash from my Bristol - Amsterdam flight to Paradiso to see Black Country, New Road play. They are such a fascinating band. They really hit a note with people, an open secret sort of band. (Delighted to call them friends, too.)

Interior of Paradiso Amsterdam taken just before Black Country, New Road gig, October 2025

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Up my straße, I’ll hunt that down over here in NL.

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 1d

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! 🌟⭐️💫 I’m very happy to see Voices of Thunder going out into the world 📚

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FrankenSnodes @mrsnodes.bsky.social · 1d

Your in advance reminder that the worst thing about “Movember” is that nobody, in the history of mankind, across centuries and continents has ever, ever, referred to a moustache as a “Mo”.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 2d

"I wanted to write about Shropshire for a long time. And because I was living there from a very young age, I felt so strongly and so sensitively about just the place itself, the nature of it. The forests, the landscapes, the nature of light there, and the animals."

Jerskin Fendrix: Beth's Farm

Jerskin Fendrix (AKA Joscelin Dent-Pooley) is an English composer and musician best known for his film music. Beth's Farm is a track from hi...

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting high level piece looking at Spain in the 50 years since Franco's death.

www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/work-docu...

Fifty years after Franco: Spain’s profound transformation, 1975-2025

General Franco died 50 years ago, but Spain bore no resemblance to the country he took over after winning the 1936-39 Civil War.

www.realinstitutoelcano.org

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 3d

Still fucking crying at this.

AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 3d

"He even went for a carvery on the third day, before finishing the bag for dessert.

The next day - Monday - the HGV driver was sweating profusely and "did not feel right", but put it down to the pork he ate."

I love him, just the most diabolical himbo energy.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 3d

Bloke who grew up in apartheid-era South Africa reckons UK childhoods were weird and dysfunctional.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 3d

This is just to say

I have eaten
3kg
Of cola bottles

Which was
Medically
Ill advised
And bunged me up
Completely
With gelatin

Forgive me
I had a hankering
And also
Ate a carvery

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AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 3d

"He even went for a carvery on the third day, before finishing the bag for dessert.

The next day - Monday - the HGV driver was sweating profusely and "did not feel right", but put it down to the pork he ate."

I love him, just the most diabolical himbo energy.

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