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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 14h

Just saw an ad for the new Nigel Slater book A Thousand Feasts and thought it said A Thousand Fears. Might be time to give the Aickman a break.

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 23h

Was this prompted by playing Connections this morning?

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Brian Libby @brianlibby.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more interesting Beatles covers I’ve heard, which I was introduced to on KMHD tonight. youtu.be/Kp0n-461fg8?...

Counter Points Come Together

YouTube video by wilt234

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 2d

Ah great I don’t know that story, will check. Aickman is great, have a go on The Hospice

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve started reading Robert Aickman’s ghastly little stories

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 2d

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲 Militant Centrist, Bill Maher aligned @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 3d

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 3d

How is it possible to do anything when there are simply so many word games to play each morning

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 3d

The End of an Earring – Pam St Clement

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 5d

I decided to take my first album off the streaming services (because I think it’s awful!), but it is still on Bandcamp if anyone wants to listen to it

robinallender.bandcamp.com/album/the-bi...

The Bird and the Word, by Robin Allender

11 track album

robinallender.bandcamp.com

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 5d

Why does Dolly Parton spoonerised sound like someone you went to primary school with

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 6d

Just dropped ‘rich as Croesus’ into a conversation for the first time, think it went well, and I really enjoyed it. Would recommend!

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 6d

"My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you."

RIP Patricia Routledge.

Patricia Routledge Kitty

YouTube video by ukcomedy

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 7d

Fascinating cover of Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room on the new Taylor Swift album

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 7d

Was listening to the new Joanne Robertson album on the bus this morning when my bluetooth headphones stopped working, which meant that I gave my fellow travellers on the number 40 a quick blast of some of the vaguest music ever recorded

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 8d

Ah yes, I love this album! I love a lot of their stuff. Also really like This Is Lorelei, the guitarist’s solo project, my fave album of last year. Really interesting band.

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 8d

Sometimes I put an apostrophe in an Excel spreadsheet just to watch it disappear

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 8d

A simple, haunting poetry in this information from a medical musuem website.

The museum’s floor has a gradual slope. Our displays reference life and death. There are mannequins.

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 9d

What is a door prize

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 9d

Incredible book. I gave my copy to Cass McCombs. I wonder if he read it.

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 9d

I bought a remaindered copy of All the Devils Are Here ('local interest') in 2005, recommended it to my editor at Penguin, who in turn recommended it to Rachel Cooke, who wrote about it and made a podcast with us, which led to it being republished, which led to this. open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlW...

All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2

open.spotify.com

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 9d

Has a bloke ever managed to take off their jumper without also pulling up their T-shirt to reveal their bare midriff

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 9d

Whenever I think the new Patricia Lockwood book is possibly veering towards something a bit twee or arch, she drops a sentence like this: ‘Whenever her mother was gone more than two days her father died of a Popsicle deficiency and called her back to identify his body in the morgue.’ I love it.

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 10d

I loved and love this x

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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 11d

If I was an allegedly centrist Prime Minister of the UK who is facing being wiped out by fascists in a few years, I probably wouldn’t be building them infrastructure with which they can track & surveil citizens.

But that’s probably just me.

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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 12d

Damn is that the Domino one? So annoyed I didn’t get that at the time

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