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Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · Oct 5
Old stuff for a Bluesky Video age (Rpt).
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fasttunesltd.bsky.social
PRICES SLASHED IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! SURPRISE YOUR LOVED ONES ON CHRISTMAS MORNING WITH A BLAST OF THE SWEENEY!

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The Next Programme Follows Shortly, by The Fast Tunes Orchestra arranged and conducted by Gavin Sutherland
50 track album
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November 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
parhodes.bsky.social
Great, more Dr Who pareidolia.
A still from The Invasion of Time that looks almost nothing like the quoted image, but only *almost* nothing like it.
December 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
parhodes.bsky.social
"Post a favourite work of art from the year exactly 50 years before you were born."
Artwork for sheet music of the song "After You've Gone."
December 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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swansonian.bsky.social
A reminder I do phone wallpapers. Titles in the alt text marswasrubbish.etsy.com
Ghosts of Scottish graveyards on a phone screen showing the time as 21:48 Hashtag visit Scotland on a phone screen showing the time as 17:01 I would destroy you if I weren’t so tired on a phone screen showing the time as 16:49 It’s too unsettling thanks though. On a phone screen showing the time as 13:07
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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ianmartin.bsky.social
25 'MOST BLUESKY' POSTS OF 2025

Here's my selection of the 25 Bluesky posts that most impressed me this year. They're quite varied, but doesn't that reflect the thriving, harmonious site this really is? Yes. It does. They've been anonymised anyway, who cares?
December 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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titanbooks.bsky.social
Have you picked up a copy of LIES AND DOLLS by Nev Fountain yet? 💛

A pacy, laugh-out-loud funny whodunnit set in the world of cult sci-fi fandom, this novel sees the return of sleuth Kit Pelham as she investigates a murder at a rare toy museum.

https://tinyurl.com/4uzhh8m9
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
parhodes.bsky.social
PLUS The automatic bottle opener you saw us using at the Christmas party, *with* its instructions.
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4d
Look, I know things aren’t great at the moment for (a) anyone, and (b) the Labour Party, but fuck me that’s bleak
Screenshot of part of Labour East email about their winter raffle: “Here is the list of the fantastic prizes you could win: A Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves signed copy of the 2025 Budget House of Commons fudge and shortbread Bottle of House of Commons champagne signed by Angela Rayner UK Parliament calendar signed by David Burton-Sampson MP Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves signed Labour Party tote bag The famous House of Commons jerk seasoning A bottle of wine signed by Keir Starmer And more!”
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
parhodes.bsky.social
Truth. Also - that set (which presumably has been erected in many less interestingly decorated venues) could have been made for Brixton Academy.
A stage set within a proscenium arch within Brixton Academy's... well, whatever it is, some sort of Renaissance garden cum Portmeirion affair.
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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excelpope.net
I haven't blogged for ages, so I wrote far too many words about something that happened 40 years ago, and which nobody outside of America cares about.
New Coke: A Warning from History
If, like me, you’re British then your knowledge of New Coke is likely to be (a) it was a massive failure, (b) everyone hated it, (c) it was a terrible business decision, and, if your go-to re…
excelpope.net
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
parhodes.bsky.social
Maybe...
An old tin - probably from a decade or two before Quality Street - that once contained Mackintosh's Golden Pats.
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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cameronyardejnr.bsky.social
Christmas Ident Calendar Day 5 extra. BBC TV channels almost didn't broadcast over Christmas in 1978 because of strike action. It was resolved at the very last minute. Here's a BBC news report on what happened, with behind the scenes footage of the BBC1 symbol being put together.
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
parhodes.bsky.social
Field of Dreamscape
andreworton.bsky.social Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 8d
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Blade Runner
edsalt.bsky.social Edward Salt @edsalt.bsky.social · 8d
Inser a movie into another movie:

DR. NO AND THE DALEKS

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December 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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alic.bsky.social
Here you go! #ChristmasSongBingo
Whammageddon is for losers!!!
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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bfletcherwatson.bsky.social
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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darrenhayman.bsky.social
Birds painted on beer mats.

A new hardback book with my first 50 beer mats.

darrenhaymanart.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
parhodes.bsky.social
Honestly never occurred to me that it could be *worn*.
Kit Williams' Masquerade hare, which is after all a fine jewellery pendant on a chain, being modelled as a necklace.
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
parhodes.bsky.social
Damn, already slightly over my budget. Anyone want to lend me, say, forty grand? www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
The Masquerade Hare | Fine Jewelry | 2025 | Sotheby's
<p>Set with a ruby eye, the body of pierced design with foliate scrolls, stars and five flowerhead motifs, each set with a cabochon turquoise, suspending five tinkling bells, a mouse, a frog, a bird a...
www.sothebys.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
parhodes.bsky.social
Ah, now it makes sense. GPUs are made of Electrons. Each containing a single 1MHz 6502A CPU, so it probably does need quite a lot of them.
Acorn Electron
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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apiln.bsky.social
Tell me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo without telling me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo. Breeds musnuey, indeed.
Bournemouth Echo From The Archives feature: Bournemouth's Wessex Way was fought tooth and nail by the people of Springbourne. Image is a colourised version of an archive photo of protesters. Their placards have been rendered into nonsense.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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b1nbag.bsky.social
I have finished a three year long project. Original Doctor Who theme remade from the ground up. Going to take a very long nap.😴

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Doctor Who - Derbyshire-ish 1963 #60thAnniversary #DoctorWho
YouTube video by Peter Miles
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November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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thequietus.com
As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller

Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025

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November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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andromedadurham.bsky.social
The Airbnb left us a sewing kit. Someone's put biscuits in it. Bit weird.
Danish biscuit tin. Unusually containing biscuits.
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
parhodes.bsky.social
Well, it might seem a bit of an unlikely 'holy grail' but at one point, having not even found a picture of it, I did wonder if this issue even existed.
Puffin Post vol 1 no. 3, Autumn 1967
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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bourgwick.bsky.social
just learned about the delightful 1940s.nyc, which matches tax assessment photos with old maps for maximum street-view time travel. here's the almanac house, where pete seeger & woody guthrie threw basement gigs & partied with dashiell hammett & nicholas ray, among others.
small building at 130 w. 10th
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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jonnymorris.bsky.social
Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes, I've produced two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN.

Extremely proud of this. It will make your Christmas 100% more Christmassy!

Order here: averageromp.com
The cover shows the haunted man being haunted by a shadow.
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM