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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 2d

Sleeping Shepherd, by Titian, 1500–10

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5d

you're wrapping up your meet-and-greet with Pope Leo XIV. as you shake his hand for the photo op, you surprise him with a Birminghamton Rumble Ponies Spicy Meatballs On-Field Cap. His Holiness accepts with grace, but you are struck with a bone-deep revelation he just asked God to send you to Hell

a red, white and green baseball hat with a meatball wearing a venetian gondolier's outfit with a big mustache. he's steering a boat of pasta in a river of marinara. this hat costs forty five dollars

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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 6d

AMERICA, I'm going to bed now. If you're doing baseball again tonight, can you please have it done by the time I wake up, the other morning was weird, cheers x

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · 9d

He’s one of them people you kid yourself is sound and you’re supposed to like but you see him and think ‘this guy seems a nob tbh’

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · 9d

Incredibly talented poet but a real drag as a fella. Find him totally unwatchable on telly as well. Very bristly.

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 14d

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · 16d

ROOFMAN - Hell of a fun time.

Channing Tatum is amazing and should be in everything. Kirsten Dunst magical as his foil.

Top, top film.

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Secret Base @secretbase.bsky.social · 17d

Welcome to Dorktown
Mayor, Shohei Ohtani

chart with title 10/17/25 dodgers-brewers

y-axis is total bases
x-axis is at-bats
shohei ohtani is plotted high and to the left with 12 total bases in 3 at-bats
the brewers (an entire mlb organization) against the opposing starting p;itcher, who happened to be shohei ohtani, are at bottom right with 3 hits in 19 at-bats

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · 17d

The GOAT.

Just absolutely ridiculous.

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · 18d

Needs to ring her Dad, Gaz Top and Carol Vorderman for an explanation

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · 19d

This is a very good list!

No Country definitely most traumatising here, but has an incredible stillness to it.

There Will Be Blood has the best top notes - Paul Dano and DDL both brilliant and the score incredible.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 23d

Living in UK has aspects that are way better than US (NHS, no guns) but on the flip side you can’t watch October baseball live and the sun sets at 2:30 in the afternoon in the winter.

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · 25d

The NZ one they also seem to just be themselves and not try to play the game as a game, which seems to make it really obvious who the Traitors are.

Like every trait you’re yelling ‘how have you missed that?’ in the UK, in NZ they go - ‘well Jeff was off yesterday’ and they are right.

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · 26d

In Cumbria we apparently just have goals and everyone wants to go in them.

Absolutely mad that all 3 came through Carlisle United at some point in their development.

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · 27d

I laughed at him for the whole episode. Just an incredibly naturally funny man. Perfect casting.

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · 27d

Laughed at him the whole way through. Absolute hoot. #CelebrityTraitors

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 27d

What a quote #CelebrityTraitors

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · Oct 4

A team ironically relegated to the National League last year in large part owing to the dogmatic inflexibility of head coach, Mike Williamson.

Who is now assisting Russell Martin at Rangers. These frauds belong together.

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · Sep 29

It's a pretty grand thing to talk about given it'll obviously never occur, but I sometimes think what I might play on 'Desert Island Discs'.

It changes a lot, but one track - specifically this recording; tape hiss and all - endures.

Totally transports me.
youtu.be/ooec4CAyq7Y?...

Rhine & Courtesan by Rachel's (1997 BBC Session)

YouTube video by TheCarsThatAteParis

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · Sep 29

Loved this piece on the enduring, singular brilliance of Rachel's from Alex Deller.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

‘People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world

The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersw...

www.theguardian.com

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Productive Outs @productiveouts.bsky.social · Sep 26

Baseball is the best because a guy who looks like this and wears this kinda tee can be the best player in the American League.

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · Sep 25

More colored liquid
No scent, no skin
More stained paper
More parts per million

Just an absolutely brilliant song.

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · Sep 25

Breakfast soundtrack

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · Sep 25

Our method:

1. Put cat bed in corner to be ignored for a year.

2. Live through global pandemic requiring home working.

3. Reluctantly install desk in said corner after 6 months of procrastinating.

4. Marvel as said bed and corner instantly become desirable territory.

5. Have feet scratched lots

James Ball @jamesrball.com · Sep 24

If you would like your cat to actually use the fancy designer cat bed you foolishly bought for him, I am pleased to confirm the trick is just to wait for slightly more than five years after buying it, when it will suddenly start being considered for use.

A black cat sits nonchalantly in a lovely pod shaped walnut wood cat bed that clearly cost too much money when it was bought by an idiot (me). It has evidently not been used much.

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · Sep 24

Fast bowlers from Ashington opening a road Ashes do bring particular flashbacks though!

And as a West Cumbrian - again of dubious skill on both sides of the ball - please let us claim Ben.

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · Sep 24

one of the more promising quotes when we signed him this summer was that he is 'just absolutely horrible'.

Good, more of it tbh.

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John @epouvantail.bsky.social · Sep 24

For your consideration. Sound on

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