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I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 4d

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Joe Shooman - Anticulturalist Manifesto | Broken Sleep Books

Anticulturalist Manifesto by Joe Shooman is a volatile, confrontational tract that gleefully atomises authorship, culture and interpretation in favour of a self-cancelling absolutism. Written in scorc...

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 1d

Carry on Matron

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I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 1d

Who isn't

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

Charlotte Church is ace
I dunno man she's obviously lovely and lovely looking
I think she also seems to be in tune with the earth somehow, not in a hippy way but in a "this human is part of nature" kinda way
That's hippyish isn't it anyway shut up she's my favourite

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

He's teamed up with bean dad

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

whilst we're talking about music: josephshooman.blogspot.com/2025/10/cast...

Cast No Shadow

‘Bittersweet Symphony’ I one hundred percent understand this now. I mean. Fuck. It’s about his dad dying isn’t it. I think most of his son...

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I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

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The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

YouTube video by TheVerveVEVO

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I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

Playing Bittersweet Symphony is kinda ironic when you've lost half your vocal range and busking the guitar part a bit

but hey ho it's a cracker innit

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I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

it's a halloween scary display - EARLY XMAS

quite clever of them really

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

but there are cats

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome, Twitter people.

Here's my rules for bluesky:

-No smart alecks or know it alls
-No joshers, kidders or jokesters
-No hooligans or ruffians
-No ballyhoo and certainly no hullabaloo

Let's keep this place free from balderdash

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I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

the crappy graphics are ace. Defo got the feel of the (deliberately) more ramshackle earlier stuff

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

You should Amber cause you look fab

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

Pure fascism now

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

This is how to do it

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 2d

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 2d

Ace. I fuckin despise those nostalgia-for-never bastards

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote a lovely poem about the good old days, to go with the nice pink one off Facebook that's quoted below.

The Good Old Days

Tuberculosis, ricketts
Polio and smog
He kicked the wife for five days
On weekends kicked the dog
The choir boys were fiddled with
The priest put round the plate
And then those lads went off to war
And mental health was great.
My gran made broth with only bone
She couldn't afford cheese
And several of her kids died
From preventable disease
Wasn't allowed a bank account
Couldn't get a job
Tuberculosis, ricketts
Polio and smog.

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I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 3d

Have cracked. Heaters are on. Damnit

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 3d

This true

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 4d

Hi, it’s me, an author and librarian-in-progress, here to tell you, yes, YOU, that every form of reading is valid. Ebooks, audiobooks, physical books, graphic novels, romance, old pulp books, the back of the cereal box, whatever. If it gets narrative to your brain, that’s good.

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Steve Inskeep @steveinskeep.bsky.social · 3d

A few weeks ago, as the military imposed the policy that eventually caused almost all reporters to turn in their press passes and leave the Pentagon, I wrote “Censorship Makes You Dumber.”

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 3d

No to the second but yes to the first

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 3d

The new #SpinalTapMovie is pretty good - don't expect it to be anywhere near the magic of the first one but there's loads of funny shit in it.

Best punchline delivery goes to Paul McCartney :)

Defo worth a watch, particularly if you're a fan of the first one

I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 3d

Billie Shears?

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 3d

I think we have a window of opportunity to stop AI from ruining us that is slowly closing

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers

www.theguardian.com

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I am the Persian stitch @joeshoo.bsky.social · 4d