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@arn99.bsky.social
Books, LFC, AFX, ECGs, music/gigs, good beer, FPL, running, growing veg and cooking well, born in 1891. Avoiding news/politics - might be why I don't follow back.
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There's something that feels a bit dead about the world right now, but tens of thousands of people just came together to help us solve a 100 year old mystery about a little blue jelly, and I find that heartbreakingly hopeful:
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
There's something that feels a bit dead about the world right now, but tens of thousands of people just came together to help us solve a 100 year old mystery about a little blue jelly, and I find that heartbreakingly hopeful:
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Wolfsburg are in a hole, and things might be about to get worse before they get better. This week’s @sport.theguardian.com Bundesliga column about a club trying to find its place in the new order of German football www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Paul Simonis runs out of road and leaves Wolfsburg living off past glories | Andy Brassell
Werder Bremen inflicted a seventh defeat in eight games on a club that has struggled to build an identity since 2009 title
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Wolfsburg are in a hole, and things might be about to get worse before they get better. This week’s @sport.theguardian.com Bundesliga column about a club trying to find its place in the new order of German football www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
Just finished Dark Winds S3, very enjoyable series
a close up of a man 's face wearing a native american outfit .
Alt: a close up of a man 's face wearing a native american outfit .
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Just finished Dark Winds S3, very enjoyable series
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Did tonight a Prawn, Pumpkin and Coconut curry which was delicious, definitely do this again, onions garlic pumpkin chilli's all from the #allotment. More of a soup/stew than curry but bloody tasty.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Did tonight a Prawn, Pumpkin and Coconut curry which was delicious, definitely do this again, onions garlic pumpkin chilli's all from the #allotment. More of a soup/stew than curry but bloody tasty.
Given up on watching Liverpool disappoint, and back to sanding in the hallway.
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Given up on watching Liverpool disappoint, and back to sanding in the hallway.
I wonder if all the Arsenal conspiracy bots are in overdrive as to why Stockly park and PGMOL seem to want Man city to be their challangers this season.
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I wonder if all the Arsenal conspiracy bots are in overdrive as to why Stockly park and PGMOL seem to want Man city to be their challangers this season.
Fascinating essay, you should read (it).
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Fascinating essay, you should read (it).
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Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
After doing parkrun a morning spent digging over a good portion of the allotment, so legs feeling it now!
Love the colours of the rainbow chard.
Love the colours of the rainbow chard.
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
After doing parkrun a morning spent digging over a good portion of the allotment, so legs feeling it now!
Love the colours of the rainbow chard.
Love the colours of the rainbow chard.
Amazing you can get 4 goals in a game and it's still a terrible game 😂
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Amazing you can get 4 goals in a game and it's still a terrible game 😂
Nice fresh morning for #parkrun in #pontypridd today, possibly the last outing for current Asics, they've done well, 533k in them, looking to buy tomorrow a new pair. #running
November 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Nice fresh morning for #parkrun in #pontypridd today, possibly the last outing for current Asics, they've done well, 533k in them, looking to buy tomorrow a new pair. #running
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The hiatus is over, and the self-replicating machines are on the loose - this week's article and podcast ep cover John Sladek's anarchic, comic debut SF novel The Reproductive System, AKA Mechasm (1968).
Silicon and steel: The Reproductive System (1968) by John Sladek
Machines run amok in a comic disaster ahead of its time
www.andyjohnson.xyz
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The hiatus is over, and the self-replicating machines are on the loose - this week's article and podcast ep cover John Sladek's anarchic, comic debut SF novel The Reproductive System, AKA Mechasm (1968).
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Alfons/Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), “Medee” (1898), poster for a theatrical production of a play by Euripides, starring Sarah Bernhardt.
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Alfons/Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), “Medee” (1898), poster for a theatrical production of a play by Euripides, starring Sarah Bernhardt.
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In yet another (but final) change to the announced schedule, this week's article will be on John Sladek's "comic inferno" The Reproductive System (1968), and will be available shortly!
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In yet another (but final) change to the announced schedule, this week's article will be on John Sladek's "comic inferno" The Reproductive System (1968), and will be available shortly!
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What have I been up to? I take a look at what I've read this week, what's coming up, book buying, bunch of stuff. Check it out 👀!
🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
youtu.be/bcEAr5Z0uU8?...
🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
youtu.be/bcEAr5Z0uU8?...
Weekly Sci-Fi Reading Report | Stephen Baxter, Isaac Asimov | November 7th 2025
YouTube video by SciFiScavenger
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
What have I been up to? I take a look at what I've read this week, what's coming up, book buying, bunch of stuff. Check it out 👀!
🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
youtu.be/bcEAr5Z0uU8?...
🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube
youtu.be/bcEAr5Z0uU8?...
Was waiting in for my delivery of my #beersky advent calander from Fullers Brewery, only for DHL to knock and tell me it's leaking over the back of their van 😭😭
So of to my local the Pipeworks to salve my soul, with Deya's 10th birthday beers amongst others.
@rogerprotz.bsky.social
So of to my local the Pipeworks to salve my soul, with Deya's 10th birthday beers amongst others.
@rogerprotz.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Was waiting in for my delivery of my #beersky advent calander from Fullers Brewery, only for DHL to knock and tell me it's leaking over the back of their van 😭😭
So of to my local the Pipeworks to salve my soul, with Deya's 10th birthday beers amongst others.
@rogerprotz.bsky.social
So of to my local the Pipeworks to salve my soul, with Deya's 10th birthday beers amongst others.
@rogerprotz.bsky.social
New Midlake album today, sweet joy 😊
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
New Midlake album today, sweet joy 😊
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Nobody escapes the Dark Judges! The Judge Death Mega-Special is on shelves now! https://bit.ly/3V5LLvL
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Nobody escapes the Dark Judges! The Judge Death Mega-Special is on shelves now! https://bit.ly/3V5LLvL