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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · Oct 23
Episode 1. A stolen gong, a dead cockapoo and a cutout of Dirk Bogarde. If you like your comedy silly and full of jokes, step inside...

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mattleys.bsky.social
Mate, come on. Of *course* she still believes in unicorns
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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A brilliant artist with a quite extraordinarily messy life
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Lawrence Stephen Lowry, Ships Near Cumberland Coast, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624
Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Honestly if I'd been given the Reith Lectures and one line got lawyered I'd shut up about it
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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“Laidlaw is the melancholy heir to Marlowe. Reads like a breathless scalpel cut through the bloody heart of a city’ – @damedenisemina.bsky.social

William McIlvanney at Dundee Literary Festival 2013, in conversation with @russeldmclean.bsky.social
#CrimeFiction 💙📚
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William McIlvanney at Dundee Literary Festival 2013
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November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Emanuel de Witte of Alkmaar. Painter of churches, markets, portraits. All-around great artist! Here, Nieuwe Kerk in Delft w/ tomb of William the Silent, 1656.
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
mattleys.bsky.social
Er, I'm good thanks, Duolingo
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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levparikian.bsky.social
Fond memories of the time on the old place when a guy called me a grifter “writing books for cash” for writing a book with an extremely loosely Japanese connection, before launching on a jaw-dropping racist rant about the Japanese (genuinely featured the words “cruel race” iirc)
cooperlund.online Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 22h
Gone, but not forgotten
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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roberthutton.co.uk
This s the one thing we didn't want to happen.

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Since then, Prescott has worked in public relations. He had the sleek looks and the gold-rimmed glasses and heavy watch that go with a quarter of a century in that line. Although for someone who has made his living advising on PR, he turns out to have been surprisingly naïve about what might happen to a long memo detailing the BBC’s failings on a series of hot news topics. “I never envisaged events playing out the way they did,” he confessed, a line that probably won’t be used in his company’s next promotional video. “This was conceived as a private memo to 14 people,” Prescott explained, an astonishing utterance from someone who worked even for four years as the political editor of a Sunday newspaper. When those people hadn’t responded, he sent it to people at Ofcom and the Department of Culture. What happened next will astonish you. “Six days after I sent the memo,” he said in a tone of shock, “there it was in the Telegraph!”
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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jamesomalley.co.uk
A strange choice to publish this… unverified… story on BBC Verify.
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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daisyowl.com
maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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trouteyes.bsky.social
Butternut Squash?
Tosh from Shetland
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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john-self.bsky.social
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
BOSTON—Prematurely assuming he had reached the end of the 1977 rock masterpiece, local man Peter Verran, who thought Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” was over, was reportedly in for the thrill of his fucki...
theonion.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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annebillson.bsky.social
Dan O’Bannon said: '“Fuck ’em. If I can’t make them laugh, I’ll scare the shit out of them.” And that was the seed for his screenplay for Alien.'
‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star
‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
Hope Dad has his motoring gloves on.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
mattleys.bsky.social
We featured this place in s4 of Bravo Two Charlies
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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quantick.bsky.social
DO VIRTUAL TOUR 1 !

www.madesnappy.co.uk/tour/1g2cbg2...
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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ianvisits.co.uk
What do you buy for the Londoner who probably has everything there is to do with London already? Here's a selection of what you might want to buy for them.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/14-...
14 gift ideas for Londonphilles this Christmas
What do you buy for the Londoner who probably has everything there is to do with London already? Here's a selection of what you might want to buy for them.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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petepaphides.bsky.social
Lots of artists have been great at B-sides but only The Teardrop Explodes and Julian Cope (albeit perhaps not beyond My Nation Underground) did enough to compile into a stone-cold, no notes, filler-free, ten-out-of-ten, sky-high all-time masterpiece. open.spotify.com/playlist/0ju...
East Of The Equator – The Other Side Of Julian Cope & The Teardrop Explodes
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November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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heawood.bsky.social
Stop whatever sensible thing you're doing and curl up with the Rightmove Roundup immediately. We've got a peeling old mansion flat in Bloomsbury, a shack by the river Douro in Portugal and a luxury Neapolitan mansion overlooking the sea: heawood.substack.com/p/its-a-cosy...
It's a cosy little Sunday evening Rightmove Roundup
Weeping over the dialectical nature of truth in Bloomsbury 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
heawood.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
mattleys.bsky.social
Prisoner 951, though. So calmly devastating. I doubt there's a better director than Philippa Lowthorpe working in TV anywhere at the moment.
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Tried The Death of Bunny Munro and...hmmmm. Feels like something from the 90s. Tortured self-loathing is just another way of romanticising wretched men as rock'n'roll outlaws, isn't it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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robpalk.bsky.social
When my wife left me it cured me of any fantasy that being "Left" was desirable
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
Even the term “progressive” makes Lord Glasman shudder. His mother died of progressive supranuclear palsy. “Every word of that condition is terrible. She lost all her bodily functions, yet her brain remained intact, leaving her a mute witness to her own demise. It took six years to kill her, and to cure me of any fantasy that ‘progressive’ is desirable.”
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM