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Nick Reed
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Southern type happily adopted by Masham (where I programme music and comedy at the Town Hall), by Yorkshire, and by @janrreed. Culture, quizzing, market town life, bit of sport, serendipity. He/him.
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nickinmasham.bsky.social
This is a good listen. Andy Murray is an engaging and thoughtful, and quite often funny, interviewee.

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The Big Andy Murray Interview
Podcast Episode · The Tennis Podcast · 01/12/2025 · 1h 34m
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December 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
Road sign for 'Skirmish Paintball'
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
16th time every batter in a men’s test innings has reached double figures. Doggett’s 13 is the highest lowest score of all those 😒
December 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
I found Jay Kelly pleasant enough, although it was uneven as a picaresque journey might tend to be, and the Italian scenes were verging on “when’s-a your Dolmio day”. But it was pretty insubstantial and it never occurred to me that anyone involved would be anywhere near Oscar consideration.
thehighsign.bsky.social Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 21h
Jay Kelly, which releases today on Netflix after a brief run in theaters (welcome to the future of all movies! 🙃), is Noah Baumbach's bittersweet tribute to Hollywood, w/ George Clooney & Adam Sandler as a movie star in a late-career tailspin & his long-suffering manager: slate.com/culture/2025...
It’s the Movie That Could Finally Get Adam Sandler His Oscar Nomination. It Left Me Teary.
George Clooney’s Netflix movie seems at first like autobiography, but it’s really about someone else.
slate.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
The ceilidh from Local Hero
emilystjams.bsky.social Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d
What's a fictional holiday party you would love to attend?

My answers:

--the Christmas party from Fanny and Alexander
--the Yule feast in Nicola Griffith's Hild
--the Baileys' "welcome home" party for Harry in It's a Wonderful Life
--the office party in Die Hard; I'm sure nothing will go wrong
December 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
I’ve just bought a couple of tickets for this splendid idea
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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thechiller.bsky.social
This is very good

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The news comes as the number of flu patients taking up hospital beds across England has risen by more than 50 per cent. Free flu jabs have been significantly limited by the government this year, along with those for Covid, despite a severe new strain being identified. Warnings have gone out begging the public not to go to A&E for hiccups, sore throats and ingrowing toenails. But yes – by all means, come after the disorders that, left untreated, have very real consequences both for the individual and for society. Streeting has blustered about assessments “pathologising feelings”, apparently missing the fact that his GPs have long doled out antidepressants as a sticking plaster for everything from grief to menopause. Indeed, the government’s health strategy appears to be putting its fingers in its ears and collectively going “la la la.” The NHS estimates one in four adults has depression or anxiety, with 8.9 million people in England on antidepressants, up from 6.9 million a decade ago. Streeting has said this is “cause for concern”. You bet it is!
December 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
👏👏👏
December 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
Johann Lamont @JohannLamont• 1d X Girlguiding decision important yet it all makes me sad. The Guides meant so much to me but the announcement is so grudging, so reluctant, so concerned about the impact on boys, I wonder if it can ever again give girls the brilliant, confidence building space in which I thrived. • 93 {7 316 O3.1K I|41K •
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
In your face Matthew Hayden
#Roooooooooooooooooooooot
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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samadams.bsky.social
if I could only listen to one kind of music for the rest of my life, the answer would be Memphis soul. RIP Steve Cropper, whose guitar and production defined the Stax sound as much as Booker T’s organ or Otis Redding’s shout
Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84
Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.
variety.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
Day 3: A jolly holiday song that gives you the winter feels.

Great version of this song, which gets bonus nostalgia points because we sang it in school choir

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Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant
YouTube video by Siouxsie & The Banshees - Topic
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December 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
I haven’t seen any of the Avatar movies but I still hope that in the new one the humans finally manage to kill those awful blue monsters
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
Follow my handy lifestyle hint for being on Bluesky in early December 2025
Muting the words / phrases “Die Hard”, Nuzzi, and Lizzy
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
The trailer for Marty Supreme already left me cold, but this opening paragraph (of a rave review) confirms that I don’t want to go anywhere near it.
This new film from Josh Safdie has the fanatical energy of a 149-minute ping pong rally carried out by a single player running round and round the table. It’s a marathon sprint of gonzo calamities and uproar, a sociopath-screwball nightmare like something by Mel Brooks – only in place of gags, there are detonations of bad taste, cinephile allusions, alpha cameos, frantic deal-making, racism and antisemitism, sentimental yearning and erotic adventures. It’s a farcical race against time where no one needs to eat or sleep.
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
Masham (and nearby) folk, you don’t want to miss this captivating evening of seasonal delights!
johnspiers.co.uk Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 5d
In a couple of days I’ll be hitting the road again with @jackieoates.bsky.social for our festive shows playing the music of our album “A Midwinters Night”. Some are already selling out, so make sure to get your tickets.
December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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davidbeech.bsky.social
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!

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December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
Well this has cheered me right up on a dismal Monday. And the new songs hold their own against (Nothing But) Flowers and even Life During Flippin Wartime!

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David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
www.npr.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
As an arts programmer, a pretty reliable rule of thumb is that the more famous someone is, the nicer they are to venue staff. It’s the one hit wonders and poets on their second collection who are the divas.
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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"We all like a bit of cringe now though, don't we?" "Yeah, not the unironic use of John Lennon's Imagine though, Chris."
November 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦
Okay bear with me. My amazing friend Robyn (@haykebyr.bsky.social) did this amazing image based on my stupid ass joke. It's Miss Piggy photoshopped into some Sister of Battle armour, with the white bob haircut and a fleur de lys tattoo on her cheek and everything. Except she's got pink satin gloves on. The caption is "In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future there is Only Moi" because that's the whole joke. Thank you.
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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politicanimal.bsky.social
Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
The @lrb.co.uk has been doing some really interesting podcasts recently. This on the BBC is an invigorating / depressing listen.
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On Politics: The Bust-up at the BBC
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 26/11/2025 · 1h 5m
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November 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
nickinmasham.bsky.social
When I was (?) 15 I went to the Reading Hexagon on two consecutive nights to see Oxford Stage’s linked productions of The Importance of Being Earnest and Travesties. I already liked wordplay but those evenings made me fall in love with theatre. RIP and thank you Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM