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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 21m

New comic: "Super-smile beat combo" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

And a little nod to @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social

Have you ever seen the Beatles’ pop video for Help? It seemingly precedes all other pop videos by such a distance, and is so effortlessly good, that it’s very difficult to understand why they weren’t ...

badmachinery.com

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 9h

Lost in music www.flickr.com/photos/woola...

Busking on the Mound

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #Music #Musique

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I was coming out of the Andy Goldsworthy exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy on the Mound, and heard music. I walked around from the front to find these guys, I think they were called King's Rans...

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Chris Kelso @chris88.bsky.social · 1d

I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 14h

Small, pet peeve: if you are going to post an interesting post with a link to the full story, but that link has a paywall or otherwise requires subscription before reading, please tell us in the post, instead of wasting our time clicking on links we can't bloody well read. Quite aggravating.

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 14h

Delighted there's a new Sylvain Chomet animated film coming, although a little sad this is one of his works I won't be able to chat to an old chum about, who hugely enjoyed Chomet's films.

#animation #film

French film poster for Sylvain Chomet's Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol

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Kamila (also known as Pigeon) @pigeonface.bsky.social · 15h

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 15h

Hey everyone! This amazing comic by @pigeonface.bsky.social really needs your help to get over the Kickstarter finish line. Kamila is one of the most exciting indie voices working in the UK and this totally deserves your support. Please back or spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pig...

The Ecstasy of Jenny D - New original comic by Pigeon!

Bridgerton meets the dancing plague in this surreal tale of sisterhood, repressed queerness and divine intervention.

www.kickstarter.com

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Sean Phillips @seanphillips.bsky.social · 15h

My son @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social did a graphic novel with Francis Ford Coppola!

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 15h

Me too

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 15h

Day off has so far entailed tidying flat, changing bedding, doing laundry, recycling and groceries. Think I have earned a beer and book break now ...

#books #livres #AmReading

Close up of an amber coloured pint of ale

Pint of amber coloured ale next to a hardback of Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 16h

Last week, Nova Scotia passed Bill 127, criminalizing Mi'kmaw protestors on Hunters Mountain who want to defend the land from clearcutting. And have a right to. Truth and Reconciliation means nothing to these people. www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/...

'Dismissing our Mi’kmaw voices': Passage of bill angers Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw leaders

Passage of Bill angers Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw leaders especially in Cape Breton where blockade continues at Hunters Mountain against logging.

www.saltwire.com

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 16h

Hanging around with some pillars of the community.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #architecture #RSA #RoyalScottishAcademy #pillars

Looking along between rows of Doric pillars on the front of the Royal Scottish Academy

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 16h

We get some delightful doggo visitors to the bookshop, but occasionally we also get some fabulous felines!

This handsome devil, with a splendid mane, is Atlas, who kindly brought his human servant in for a visit.

#cats #chats #gatto #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie

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National Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social · 20h

📢 WE ARE HIRING 📢

We are looking for a Producer to work as part of our Producing and Planning team to support a range of projects and productions!

Deadline: Monday 3 November

APPLY NOW
www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/jobs/producer

#ArtsJobs

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 20h

Universities monitored social media of students for possible protest at the behest of arms companies www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Absolutely shameful behaviour - @heriotwattuni.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social , what were you thinking??

#Scotland #Ecosse

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 21h

Episode 7 is live, and patrons can also catch us at patreon.com/StarshipAlexandria where we talk about The Mummy, as a Halloween treat.

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 1d

6 Canadians — including a First Nations woman — have been detained by Israel after their aid ship was intercepted in international waters while carrying medical supplies to Gaza.

Canada must demand their immediate release.

🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
#cdnpoli #HumanRights #SaveTheCBC

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

Exiting the cinema late after a post-work movie, catching Anderson's One Battle After Another, which was rather longer than I'd realised, but pretty damned excellent (didn't realise how long until I switched phone back on, quite engrossed)

#film #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #photography

Brightly lit signs and strings of lights outside a Pizza Hut next to the cinema at night

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen, your contenders! In the blue corner, The Roman Empire, in the red corner, Mighty Carthage!

We want a clean fight, no hitting below the belt, no sneaky salting each other's lands ...

#books #Livres #history #histoire

Blue coloured hardback of The Romans by Edward J Watts

Hardback of Carthage a New History by Eve MacDonald

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 1d

On Tuesday 28th October at 6pm, please join us at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge to celebrate the launch of Answerlands by Joseph Minden and The Banquet by Stav Poleg.

The event is free to attend, and tickets can be found here:⬇️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/stav-...

Stav Poleg & Joseph Minden: Carcanet Cambridge Book Launch - Carcanet Press

Join acclaimed poets Stav Poleg and Joseph Minden to celebrate their dual poetry launch! The event will feature readings and discussion by Stav and Joseph

www.carcanet.co.uk

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 1d

Your Vote for us could win you tickets! Final Shortlist closes 14-Oct.
🚨We have 3 NOMINATIONS in the @TVChoice AWARDS this year!
BEST ENTERTAINMENT SHOW for THE FOOTAGE DETECTIVES, BEST FACTUAL for THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS & #TPTV FAVOURITE CHANNEL. buff.ly/EOOAMIM

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

I like to think those kids are thinking waving is fine, but when will Russell tell us some of his famous jokes? 😋

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 1d

Remember the beautiful, sparkly Book Bench Trail Silver Darlings-inspired Book Bench we had out front all summer?

It's being auctioned TONIGHT to raise money for
Clan Cancer Support!

You can see all the benches, follow the auction live and bid for a bench at: clancancersupport.org/the-book-ben...

A white bench created to look like the open pages of a book, covered in reflective glass fish. Outside Orkney Library & Archive.

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 1d

We are alarmed at reports that photojournalist and writer Shahidul Alam and others have been detained following the interception of an aid flotilla bound for Gaza. We call for their immediate release and safe return.

Read his recent article ⬇️
en.prothomalo.com/opinion/5gzi...

Life on Conscience

This is not about those of us on this ship. It is about Palestinians, particularly Gazans. We have gone way past the time for words and gestures. It is time for action.

en.prothomalo.com

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 1d

#Edinburgh peeps, we have copies of that fine chap @bobmort.bsky.social 's new novel, The Long Shoe, signed by his own fair hand.

#Edimbourg #books #livres

A signed hardback of The Long Shoe in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 1d

This from a man who collaborated with Tories, then Zuckerberg. Why would we care what this sells-out thinks?

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