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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 3h

First heard Gil Scott Heron in ‘74 on the Andy Peebles Piccadilly Radio Soul Train Show. In the Bottle.
What a musical lifeline of a show it was. I only just saw that Andy Peebles died earlier this year. RIP.
And Gil Scott Heron? Pure genius. As relevant today as ever.

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Gil Scott Heron - Running

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🦇The Abominable Dr Prunesquallor, PhD, JD, TLA 🦇 @drprunesquallor.bsky.social · 6h

Just look at that HELLHOLE

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 16h

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 6h

I too have ideas for essays on the topic of opinions that nobody but I, the author, has ever held.

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 6h

“Come, Brethren of the water, and let us all assemble,
To treat upon this matter, which makes us quake and tremble;
For we shall rue it if’t be true that Fenns be undertaken,
And where we feed in Fen and Reed thei’le feed both Beef and Bacon.”

Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 20h

On this day in 1677 Cornelius Vermuyden died in London, a Dutch-born engineer who had been tasked with draining the watery fens and levels of eastern England.

As I wrote last year, Vermuyden’s fenland exploits provide a cautionary tale for those wading into unfamiliar landscapes.

A cautionary tale from an unfamiliar landscape

Cornelius Vermuyden and the draining of the Fens

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 6h

It is not good at all.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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NPR @npr.org · 17h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 1d

#ClipOfTheDay: Watch the trailer for The Librarians, a documentary about the escalating book bans in public libraries and the harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing the work of librarians and how they are rallying and standing up for the freedom to read. at.pw.org/TheLibrarians

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, they’re all dripping with pearls on the Q100.
What an ass.

foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 1d

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Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social · 1d

Immodest I know, but a beautiful piece of work from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now know that thy right worship is defiance.

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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 1d

The awkward teenage years.

A Cygnet growing up fast at our local park.

#nature #photography #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay #ColorADay #BWFri #Ireland

A close cropped b/w photo of a cygnet mute swan swimming towards the camera in a park lake.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 5d

“When you had twelve boxes of kippers on your head, you knew you’d got it on,” quipped Billy, displaying his “brand new” hat, made only in the nineteen thirties.”

@thegentleauthor.bsky.social

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The Harvest Festival Of The Sea | Spitalfields Life

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EV Grieve @evgrieve.bsky.social · 5d

The randomness of a trombone serenade while on an early morning walk in the East Village.

A trombone player seen on an east village street corner, playing to passersby early in the morning.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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andrewrmarshall.bsky.social @andrewrmarshall.bsky.social · 6d

Brian Harris took wonderful pictures for the Independent and others. I am sad to hear he is gone, and so happy I knew him and the other photographers of the Independent for a while. This is from Prague in 1989. I wasn’t there; Brian made me wish I had been and feel that maybe I was. lnkd.in/eqgeDpay

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 7d

Harold Edgerton, Cows and Flare at Stonehenge, 1944

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 6d

Today is Brian O’Nolan’s (aka Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen et al) birthday.

With John Ryan, Anthony Cronin, Patrick Kavanagh & Tom Joyce (Bloomsday, Sandymount, 1954)

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 7d

Late afternoon. More yellows than reds.

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 7d

“In other words, Ms Levin is cut like a diamond in the rough, along the finest in the business. Her disc, Blackbird & Ancestors [Aldilá Records] is further proof of this fact. Listening to it over and over again is like dancing with genius.”

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 7d

Beth Levin: Blackbird & Ancestors - Jazz da Gama jazzdagama.com/music/beth-l...
a nice review yesterday....

Beth Levin: Blackbird & Ancestors - Jazz da Gama

Beth Levin is one of the most noble musicians to touch the piano. Not only is she one of the most prodigiously gifted, but she is also one of the best-trained, students in music [of course you have to...

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 7d

“It is a sort of family, a very strange family. Most of my staff have been with me a very long time and we are very close. Eighty per cent of my customers are regulars and we are all close to each other. We help each other through everything. To be honest, I do not know what I would do without it.”

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 7d

“On the road to the French house, Lesley performed with a python in cabaret before graduating to managing a strip club in Old Compton St in 1979, where admission cost 50p and senior customers brought sandwiches to stay all day.”

@thegentleauthor.bsky.social

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 7d

Oatcakes are very hard to find here, & insanely overpriced. So I order in bulk direct from Walker’s. I suppose the tariffs will kick the price up tho’.

But I really miss Lancashire cheese.

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