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Richard James Foster

@richardjamesfoster.bsky.social

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Artist, author & culture writer. History & art buff. The Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. My 2nd book, The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club is now out. All stuff here. https://linktr.ee/richardfoster

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · Aug 27

BEYOND delighted to announce that @weare1of100.bsky.social is making a Punk Rock Birdwatching Club teeshirt! You can successfully hide in scrub near a cycle path and not look dodgy! In fact, you’re better dressed than Beau Brummell with this on, phwoar! Details soon, add this in your spotter book.

The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club teeshirt, in grey with white lettering and olive, tan & scarlet design. Made by We Are 1 of 100, Glasgow.

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PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 39m

If you're #Bristol way for BOP at the weekend, this is well worth your Friday night...

#booksky

Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 11h

In Bristol for a reading with the mighty Joshua Jones at the marvelous East Bristol Books tomorrow, yes, Friday 10 October, doors 18.30. Come & say hello!

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 9h

Attention, @fugitiveink.bsky.social ! Seen in the church of St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol.

Wooden plaque showing the carved coat of arms of Charles I. Dated 1637.

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 11h

In Bristol for a reading with the mighty Joshua Jones at the marvelous East Bristol Books tomorrow, yes, Friday 10 October, doors 18.30. Come & say hello!

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 12h

Doing alright for me!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Aug 12

I have been made very aware that perhaps the least commercially sensible move an author can make in this day and age - particularly a writer unpaid by his ex-publisher - is to write a collection of short stories so of late I've been devoting my time to writing a collection of short stories.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12h

feels quite Guardian that this piece doesn't present the move as good news or even neutral news but instead spends about two thirds of its copy running through every single possible reason why a maybe fun thing will be TERRIBLE and AWFUL www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 15h

But what could Antifa have been opposing in Weimar Ger…. Oh. Oh!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 45th birthday to one of the greatest albums of all time. Talking Heads released Remain in Light on this day in 1980
▶️🎧 open.spotify.com/album/3AQgdw...

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 1d

Only 5 places left for Writing From Rage with @markabowles.bsky.social!

Our events really do sell out fast, so don't delay if you want to come to this or the salon after.

(Paris and Madrid fully sold out)

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 2d

✨EWS DOUBLE BILLING✨

Writing From Rage: Turning Fury Into Form
with Mark Bowles
26 November 2025
6-7:30pm GMT

&

Pop-up Salon: London with Insurgent Press
26 November 2025
8-10pm GMT

Both at:
The Queens Larder, 1 Queen Square WC1N 3AR

🎟️Tickets together or separate – see below

Black text. Top half is peach background, bottom half is teal
All copy is event details repeated in post

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 1d

Come write about the body!

Praise for Julie - 'I am usually not one to choose the highest scores across the board, but I was really impressed by the tutor, the diverse examples, the exercises and the 'spirit' and depth of our discussions.'

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-body-i...

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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 1d

LANCASHIRE COAST (1957)

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MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social · 1d

“I think I’m going to be a huge rock star…”

In this feature from MOJO’s new deluxe special, Bowie Changes 1947-2016, Kris Needs recalls being backstage with David Bowie the night he played live for the first time with Mick Ronson and his new band, the soon-to-be Spiders From Mars…

David Bowie And The Spiders From Mars’ First Show

On September 25, 1971, MOJO was there as Bowie played live for the first time with Mick Ronson and his new band, the soon-to-be Spiders From Mars.

www.mojo4music.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

god damn this is brutal defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 1d

"People don’t give a damn about your macro level." - said Belarusian President Lukashenko, who has banned price increases across the country — because, as he noted, things should be done so that people feel good.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1d

KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED.

Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it.

#BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚

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Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social · 1d

Having followed Richard’s brilliant PINS newsletter, this should be great, and may have found the perfect medium in Radio!

Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to announce that a radio adaptation of my project, PINS, (taken from my late dad’s never finished game) airs tomorrow. Episode 1: Weds 8th October. 20.00 CEST. God help you all.

radio.worm.org

A colour photograph of Accrington, taken from a train. Advertising PINS, a radio broadcast at Radio WORM in Rotterdam, episodes every month.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Good piece , clever name btw and re students burning books, always worth reading Rex Warner’s The Professor…

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Iikka Korhonen @iikkakorhonen.bsky.social · 1d

[Belgium] has spent three years saying Euroclear is Belgian and so are the benefits,” said one senior EU diplomat involved in talks on the matter. “Now, when it wants to share the risks, it claims Euroclear is European.”
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