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Alan Nobleman
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Keen on places.

Marshall of the Pomeranian Voivodship manqué.
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duneslack.bsky.social
The car showroom in Portobello is treating late night walkers to Cronenberg’s “The Dead Zone” on their enormous TV.
A large TV displays a picture of Christopher Walken, in bed with medical equipment around his head. It is dark around the TV.
January 15, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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mrdissent.bsky.social
@sstatradeunion.bsky.social
If you want to reduce workload,...
January 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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kosmi.bsky.social
Today's view of Etna with recent lava flow.

Image taken by Sentinel-2.
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
duneslack.bsky.social
I would certainly have wasted a couple of hundred days this way.
robinallender.bsky.social Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 2d
I concede this probably says more about me than her but why doesn’t Tara in On the Calculation of Volume just go to the pub
January 13, 2026 at 7:39 PM
duneslack.bsky.social
I would certainly have wasted a couple of hundred days this way.
robinallender.bsky.social Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 2d
I concede this probably says more about me than her but why doesn’t Tara in On the Calculation of Volume just go to the pub
January 13, 2026 at 7:39 PM
duneslack.bsky.social
#EdTravCyc
Innocent Railway tunnel and path closed by Police Tuesday afternoon. Possibly Duddingston Low Road too. “Ongoing incident”.
January 13, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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brislen.nz
I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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snufkinlib.bsky.social
Quite a thing to put in the free commuter newspaper
January 8, 2026 at 8:47 AM
duneslack.bsky.social
Found a pair of my pants on the pavement outside my house this morning and I really can’t account for that unless they were in the Christmas tree I put out for collection last night.
January 7, 2026 at 12:46 PM
duneslack.bsky.social
Cliff Burton
Kim Deal
Mike Watt
Alan Hake
Leslie Langston
Kim Gordon
Simon Shaw
Lou Barlow
Jack Cassady
Percy Heath
ericdouglas999.bsky.social Eric Douglas @ericdouglas999.bsky.social · 8d
Who are your top 10 all time favourite bassists? Real quick off the top of my head…

Kira Roessler
Jah Wobble
Peter Hook
Steve Hanley
Andrew Weiss
Mike Watt
Mike Dean
Mani
Paul Ryder
Shane Embury
January 7, 2026 at 11:59 AM
duneslack.bsky.social
Me trying all the beers of mitteleuropa endorsed by Švejk.
quoproquid.bsky.social QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 8d
reading moby-dick and getting brainwashed by Big Spermaceti
"I like reading because there are no ads in books" Oh, my sweet summer child. There's plenty of ads in them. Brands pay good money to popular authors for product placement.
January 7, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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theonion.com
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Pictures that explain things.
Trees in Winter (back endpapers)
Artist: SR Badmin, 1963
12 common British trees shown with their winter silhouette to facilitate identification
January 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
duneslack.bsky.social
Snow at last! ❄️❄️❄️
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
duneslack.bsky.social
This is the year I’ll get round to finally finishing Oblomov.
January 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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asls.org.uk
“I can’t begin to convey to you the power of Lindsay’s vision; I found it overwhelming when I first read the book, thirty years ago, & I’ve seldom seen its equal outside Blake.”
—Philip Pullman

David Lindsay’s A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS (1920) is a major influence on much of modern #fantasy
#BookWormSat
A battered paperback book cover, spread out to show front, back, and spine. The book title is A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS, by David Lindsay. A puff quote reads, “One of the most brilliant flights of pure fantasy ever recorded” – London Times. The cover shows a dark purple-black cliff-face. In front of it, from the back to the front cover, a slender dragonish creature coils. It has multiple green wings, and is covered in multi-hued scales: blue and blue-green on top, and yellow and orange beneath. Two slim, androgynous figures are mounted on the dragon's back. Both are dressed in loose robes. The leading figure sits upright, holding reins and directing the dragon; they are wearing a large, flowing red headdress. The figure behind is darker, with their arms wrapped around the leading figure's chest, and their head resting on the other's shoulder.
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
oh yeah? well, could a dying sex criminal do THIS? [bombs venezuela]
January 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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edinburghminute.com
🌤️  Happy new year Edinburgh. Today’s headlines: Hogmanay bounces back, Grassmarket pubs hit by 'crippling' power cuts, penguin parade paused + three free Sprogmanay family ceilidhs today

⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...

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Fireworks above a castle. Text over reads: The Edinburgh Minute - Thursday 1 January 2026: Hogmanay bounces back, Grassmarket pubs hit by 'crippling' power cuts, penguin parade paused over flu outbreak fears + three free Sprogmanay family ceilidhs today
January 1, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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nndroid.bsky.social
Go round the outside.
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
duneslack.bsky.social
After passing by for many years I find myself in Wilkie’s Bar and Lounge in Leith.
What a great pub. Quiet (it’s Sunday night) but the ideal layout for a tenement corner.
A pub bar with Christmas lights and a screen above the door showing the darts.
December 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
You, before bass: fucking shit everything I touch is glass, meaningless glass surfaces that are a metaphor for the prison that is modern life. I feel ennui brother

You, after bass: woo hell yeah my bones are shaking brother.
December 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
duneslack.bsky.social
A screen grab that says “Stranger things music supervisor says finale lands a needle drop fans won’t expect (exclusive) The music supervisor says the finale secured a song almost no one ever gets permission to use.” The sleeve of hit 1985 single “Eastenders” by Dunfermline Athletic FC featuring club badge and the words “centenary season”. The sleeve is white with thin black stripes.
December 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
duneslack.bsky.social
At least this makes me feel like a young person.
prospectmagazine.co.uk Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 19d
Night after night, children, adolescents and young adults took the mic to ask the same thing: “How do I make friends?” Malala Yousafzai writes in the Prospect diary on the loneliness epidemic among young people.
Why are young people struggling to make friends?
Plus, the perils of writing a memoir, and how to find your gang
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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asls.org.uk
A shepherd in Kintail was settling in for the night, when about twenty cats came & sat round the fire, holding up their paws to warm themselves…

—from John Gregorson Campbell’s Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland (1902)
#BookologyThursday
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58894
A shepherd in Kintail, living alone in a bothy, far from other houses, after kindling in the evening a bright cheerful fire, threw himself on a heather bed on the opposite side of the house. About twenty cats entered and sat round the fire, holding up their paws and warming themselves. One went to the window, put a black cap on its head, cried “Hurrah for London!” and vanished. The other cats, one by one, did the same. The cap of the last fell off, and the shepherd caught it, put it on his own head, cried “Hurrah for London!” and followed. He reached London in a twinkling, and with his companions went to drink wine in a cellar. He got drunk and fell asleep. In the morning he was caught, taken before a judge, and sentenced to be hanged. At the gallows he entreated to be allowed to wear the cap he had on in the cellar; it was a present from his mother, and he would like to die with it on. When it came the rope was round his neck. He clapped the cap on his head, and cried “Hurrah for Kintail!” He disappeared with the gallows about his neck, and his friends in Kintail, having by this time missed him, and being assembled in the bothy prior to searching the hills, were much surprised at his strange appearance.
December 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM