Another Iain
@anotheriain.bsky.social
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Not *the* Iain MacDonald: just another Iain MacDonald. Outer Hebridean Inner Londoner. Harmonising with The Everly Brothers. One man's civilisation is another man's jungle. You might as well laugh - you won't get your money back. Also @ukcovidghostsigns
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anotheriain.bsky.social
My longest-serving pinned tweet on Twitter was: "No, I don't have 'an extra i'. I have the full complement of 'i's. Those other people are lacking an 'i'. Thank you, that will be all."

(I quite liked it, but you can't pin posts here (yet).)
anotheriain.bsky.social
Having a coffee before choir.
"We've only got oat milk, is that alright?"
"I'll give it a go."
It's alright.
A cup of coffee
anotheriain.bsky.social
I can still at will hear in my head my granny answering the phone with "Port of Ness 535".
anotheriain.bsky.social
Always annoying when the driver doesn't let you know that the next bus stop is closed until they've pulled away from this bus stop.
anotheriain.bsky.social
You are right to feel proud of yourself. You are still a big man, in all good ways. x
anotheriain.bsky.social
I was so with Maisie! So if it doesn't say on the task I can't get Alex (or anyone) to do it for me, then I can? Great!
anotheriain.bsky.social
Very interesting.
timbale.bsky.social
"People who attend church or identify with a Christian tradition are not systematically more (or less) nativist, authoritarian or populist than their secular counterparts. Conversely, people who hold nativist and authoritarian views are often also Islamophobes, and vice versa." 👏 @kai-arzheimer.com
Islamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosity
Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
anotheriain.bsky.social
Whenever a politician is asked by a journalist a question whose obvious answer they agree with but have to avoid giving for political/electorate reasons, I wonder why they don't reply, 'You're an intelligent observer and analyst of the political scene in this country - what do /you/ think?'
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aliceolilly.bsky.social
Really interesting- and, I think, welcome- to see MPs sharing this kind of data about casework.

Casework is largely invisible (other than to the constituents it helps!) compared to what MPs do in the Commons chamber but is a huge part of MPs’ workload, and it’s really hard to get robust data on it
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jsinclair.bsky.social
Anyway, my most N London story is when son went to new friend's house for primary school playdate he said there was a Nobel Peace Prize for the mum framed in the bathroom and I said "haha that's because she has four kids and they're making a joke" but it turned out she'd won the Nobel Peace Prize.
anotheriain.bsky.social
I had always wondered about 'lede', since I first saw it written down.
gralefrit.bsky.social
Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
I love that Beckett is still confounding people after all these years. It’s like “I went to see The Rite of Spring. I don’t know what the hell that was but it sure wasn’t music. I felt like rioting. One star”
luxalptraum.com
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.
anotheriain.bsky.social
Confirming my twitter-using friends' views of Bluesky, 'most Bluesky reply' posts with a screenshot of something humourlessly right-on are a regular feature of my feed. I do prefer it here, but wish all official/useful/interesting a/cs would move here off X. eg Govt doing so could be transformative.
john-self.bsky.social
This was definitely the most Bluesky reply to my joke.
I don't want any dishwasher period. I want clean water with zero pollutants and toxins.
Priorities
We will never get them right?
October 9, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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folklondon.co.uk
This is a few years old and needs an update (coming soon...), but: we wrote a roundup of community choirs in London

folklondon.co.uk/2021/11/sing...
anotheriain.bsky.social
I don't think Kemi Badenoch 'claiming' her favourite author is Terry Pratchett is the vote-winning lie some people seem to think it is. People you don't like, despise even, can still love the same books, music etc as you do.
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scalzi.com
One of the reasons Crime and Punishment is so long, yet ends so abruptly, is that it was serialized, Dostoyevsky had gambling debts and strung it along to get paid, and finally his editor told him to wrap it up, already
lostshadows.bsky.social
The last time I saw someone pushing the idea, they claimed it would stop books becoming so padded with filler to make them longer.

As an owner of an unabridged copy of the Count of Monte Cristo, I don't think they really understood how this actually works.
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beardybanjo.bsky.social
Oh oh Bear! Oh! Oh Bear!
Won't you spare me over for another year!
radiobeartime.com
No, no… Oh god, no!!!! NO!!!!!

I’m too young to be taken!!!
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anotheriain.bsky.social
Whenever I hear a politician use the word graft, as I often seem to these days, I wonder if they do not know that as well as meaning hard work (which they mean) it also means corruption, particularly political corruption (which isn't what they meant, but is what I am thinking of now, well done).
anotheriain.bsky.social
The most surprising thing about Extraordinary (ITV2), even above the fact that we enjoy something aimed at people much younger than us, is that I like the musical stings it uses, also aimed at people much younger than me; I'd quite like to hear a playlist of the full songs, which I presume exists.
anotheriain.bsky.social
Not quite sure why Bluesky puts so many things in my Discover feed from people I already follow. Still, I guess it's an improvement on the kaleidoscopic social anthropology field trip my Discover feed used to be. 'Explore strange new worlds? No, just a nice cup of tea and a biscuit for me, thanks.'