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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1h

Sacrificing book space to make a cat nook.

An old Heals’ bookcase, with one shelf converted into a cat nook. A cat, a grumpy blue-grey Oriental, is distinctly visible.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 2h

Portland Frogsuit #PynchonName

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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ceej @ceej.online · 2h

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 2h

I was tempted to try it just to see what the moronic Connections Bot said.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, hats off NYT Connections person.

Create four groups of four!
THIRD
SISTER
LOVERS
MAGIC
BIG
STAR
SERIOUS
WONDER
NAKED
DEVIL
EVIL
MAJOR
MAGICIAN
CONTINENT
IMPORTANT
DEADLY SIN

Vinyl reissue of Big Star’s Third album aka Sister Lovers.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 8h

I'm entering my 60s and the one constant throughout my life has been the nasty, divisive influence of the Daily Mail on society. I think it has been a debilitating malady infecting our nation and should be dismantled.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 9h

That’s not Episode 2. Episode Two is the one where the chickens lay their first egg, where Jerry tries to get Tom his job back and Margo refers to T&B as “gypsies”. Margo’s *initial portrayal is as a snob and is very different from the one you describe.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 9h

Kate Garraway is the least convincing of the Traitors and she’s not even a Traitor. #TheCelebrityTraitors

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Nick Porthole To Hell @nportnell.bsky.social · 10h

We got an allotment a couple of years ago and I announced to Twitter that I would be just like Tom (I hadn't watched it for decades). Got called a cunt four times.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12h

I thought that the received opinion is that it’s a prophecy about middle class reactions to ecology and late stage capitalism, predicting the rise of organic status gaming and the realisation that all existential crisis are about thwarted desire?

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 11h

#NowPlaying

John Fahey - Days Have Gone By (Takoma, Mono, 1967)

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 12h

Living the dream.

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 12h

Writing this card at the Post Office Tower. We have just been up the top looking at a lovely view, you could see Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge & lots of other famous places. On Monday we went to the cinema and had dinner at a Wimpy Bar.

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 12h

The GOAT plus a goat.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 12h

Also, in modern parlance, Tom and Barbara definitely fuck.

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 12h

Thank for this necessary corrective to lazy secondhand bullshit. bsky.app/profile/iamm...

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 18d

PS. I really like The Good Life and I am sad about the whole ‘Tom Good is a portrait of toxic masculinity’ discourse, give it a rest, come up with your own opinions, ok thx bye!

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 12h

That’s a much better received opinion than the guff that tends to get trotted out on social media.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 12h

The self-sufficiency decision is mutual, Barbara is as adventurous and bored by life as Tom, and Jerry and Margo are appalling snobs who say that living next door to T&B will be like living “in a slum” “next to gypsies”. I’m sure it evolved over time but that’s how the show kicks off. 2/2

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 12h

Received opinion on The Good Life is that Tom has a nervous breakdown, behaves like a shit to Barbara and that the real heroes are Jerry and Margo. Might be worth rewatching the first two episodes now they’re up on iPlayer. 1/2

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 15h

What albums does everyone regret buying? Loads for me, but the one that really sticks in my mind is K by Kula Shaker, which I forced myself to listen to joylessly several times in the desperate attempt to convince myself I hadn’t wasted my money, and still get cringes of regret about 29 years later.

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 17h

It's one of the few albums I regret buying.
I'll Manage Somehow and Stardust are fine. The rest is mostly forgettable.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 14h

Is it too late to tell you that I wrote the first Kula Shaker feature for Select magazine? I went along to the photoshoot and they were listening to this, an album that has aged far better than K. youtu.be/Kwl10RRyXYE?...

The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Firmament Vacation

YouTube video by MrAlstec

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 15h

Just received a spam email from "Dayton Webre" informing me I 'may be eligible for Student-Load-Forgiveness under new 2025 guidelines". At the bottom of the email was the following piece of AI-generated text.
Do LLMs dream of composing that great hard-boiled American novel?

The text reads: "opened the door, and dropped quickly into the tangle hardest ordeal of all There was something weird and what the lads trouble was He could give him some comfort, and your eyes, and count five, laughed Max; now look, and see what I found"

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 15h

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 17h

In autumn light. #Hildy

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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 20h

"It's made of people, our Maurice!"

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